met the group at the airport at 0855pm (singapore time) for check-in upon checking in, we roughly walked around the dufry shops at t1 den we took the skytrain to t2 to find shimin, who is working there walked around t2 also me, joy and lou got a shock when some guy at the dufry shop shouted "annyeong haseyo" to us apparently, shimin told him that we were going to korea so much for being secretly happy that we looked like koreans. haha anw time passed super fast, it was time to go back to t1 for departure took skytrain back and ran to our gate upon stepping onto the plane, korea airlines it was the start of korean language bombarbment haha, even joy and lou couldn't understand what they were talking, so i am out of the picture
pictures before taking off
it was a night flight there slept abit but not much although i felt extremely tired from the week's work and all i guess it was all the hidden excitement and anxiety in addition the flight there was FROUGHT with turbulences the fasten your seatbelt sign flashed on and off zillion times during our flight there anw korea airlines didnt have a small tv for you so i just listened to the music watched abit of happy together on joy's viewty stoned here and there ok, shall move on to our arrival at korea
DAY 2 17062008
arrived at the land of korea! wasnt feeling very upbeat since i slept minimal on the plane but still the excitement was there we landed at incheon airport, which is a top ranking airport in the world
the plane that took us to korea
anw i felt that incheon airport was greyish and dull changi airport is still better to me because its more colourful i am seriously honest
we took our baggage and met our tour guide outside he looks like a typical korean guy, standing at 1.63m tall name was Chang Yuan Chang SUPER FUNNY NAME PLS he wanted us to call him xiao zhang, in an attempt to feel young himself anw, throughout our trip he was extremely hilarious and irritating at times. haha
a bad picture at incheon airport due to wrong position and then wrong lighting
the weather was quite cold when we landed, 18 degrees i seriously wondered whether it was summer at all. haha we got onto our tour bus and then xiao zhang started to blabber nonstop there was another guy who accompanied us during the trip his name was Oh Jong Wook i think, nt very sure but we called him xiao wu. haha his job was to help with miscellaneous stuff and to take photgraphs of us he was a super nice guy and we had like many funny moments with him anw back to xiao zhang blabbering nonstop he talked like some things we need to take note of and all and let us sleep, while we head to yongin everland which is the place where the filmed "hong dou nu zhi lian", the show that jang nara acted in yongin everland was situated on a mountain, xiao zhang said tha in the past, the theme park was a place where only the rich people could go since there was no transportation up there only the rich who had cars could make their way there
arrived at yongin everland weather was freezing cold too but xiao zhang said noon time will be 30 degrees so i took off my jacket and brought along my scarf only
entrance at yongin everland
we went inside at 0930 am (korea timing) and took a cable car ride down the hill basically the theme park is divided into 2 parts down hill and up hill
pictures on the cable car ride
upon reaching down hill, xiao zhang took us to the safari world we got onto a bus that was enclosed and drove into the jungle where all the tigers, lions, elephants, giraffees and bears were
some pictures that i attempted to take of the animals on the bus
i like the above picture alot, mr lion looks so friendly i think the bear has super nice fur the bird looks so small in comparison the bear was saying "annyeong" back to the bus driver "annyeong" is like hi in a cute way in korean CUTENESS OVERLOAD
after that we went for this amazon express ride its a water ride which bring you through a 580m long jungle the whole ride was damn funny because some parts you will get splashed with water we were like trying to hide inside the canvas sheet so as to not get wet we screamed and laughed throughout. haha. we totally enjoyed the ride ALOT
after which we went around seeing some other animals more animal pictures can you see joey? i think he looks super sad all caged up but nonetheless, still cute gosh, sleep until like that! he posed for me to take a picture, i'm serious lazy pok
then it was lunch time seriously speaking we were all quite hungry since only ate a feeble meal on the plane
place where we had our lunch
our first meal in korea it was SUPERB (:
after lunch we made our way to the very lovely gardens in yongin it was totally paradise
love all the pictures! they are so pretty (:
then it was our own free time we decided to go challenge the new ride that was only opened this year in march it was called T Express Korea's First WOODEN Coaster " Inclination of 77 Degrees, the highest in the world" "Tremendous speed of 104km/h" no words can describe how scared we actually felt seriously, you will only know when you are at the actual scene the queue was super long, we waited for like 30mins, hearing a zillion koreans screaming their lungs off and then finally it was our turn
on the way up the incline i was seriously slapping myself silently, like why did i subject myslef to this and you realise that except for going down that almost 90 degress incline and screaming your lungs off, you pretty have nothing much to do and i found the following video extremely amusing how did the person fliming this stayed so CALM and didnt scream at all
it a whole video of the ride of t express this is the closest i can get to letting you experiencing the fear i had bascially i screamed so much that when the ride was over, i couldnt close my mouth because my mouth was open and we were travelling on the coaster at such a high speed the wind was blowing fiercely at me my whole lips just dried or more like it froze so i had a hard time closing my mouth after that also when i got off the ride my legs were SERIOUSLY wobbly please couldnt walk straight at all but we all felt proud that we conquered a monster. haha
a picture of the t express
after that we took the cable car back uphill den we went for another ride which is famous in yongin everland it was called eagle fortress an ultra high-speed roller coaster it was not as scary as t express of course it was just super fast and twisty just screamed normally but i enjoyed the thrillness of the ride
den we headed to the gift shops i bought a deer hairband, will show you later and then time was up, we had to get back to the tour bus and head to gimpo airport for our flight to jeju
arrived at gimpo airport with a slight hope that i may see dbsk/suju there but NO haha our flight was 0555pm korea time
super cool right, we actually got to climb up to the airplane!
arrived at jeju at around 6plus korea time the hotel shuttle bus came and picked us up we arrived at Jeju Oriental Hotel put down our stuff and took a walk to a restaurant for dinner
seriously the weather at jeju was SUPER CHILLY i really wonder whether its summer at all and how cold it would be during winter and it rained for the 2 days we were in jeju
dinner was steamboat but no pictures because i was extremely tired from the long day but nonetheless it was super nice and eat until damn full den we took a walk back to our hotel and stopped by a mart to buy water and tidbits for the night we bathed and did the misc stuff and turned in early that night
DAY 3 17062008
we woke up super early like 6am korea time didnt have breakfast at the hotel we went to some restaurant by bus for abalone porridge quite nice but it was quite different from my expectations
after breakfast we took a walk to the yongduam rock basically xiao zhang said that jeju island was formed by a volcanic eruption so what's so special about the yongduam rock is that it resembles a roaring dragon rising from the sea must use a bit of your imagination to see that is resembles a dragon
on the way down does it look like a dragon head to you? the nice sea group photo MA SIWON! haha the cute little statues are supposedly to be the "tu di gong" of jeju. haha i think if womean touch their noses they will bear a son, according to xiao zhang
then we headed to sungsan ilchulbong peak when we got out from the bus, the wind was blowing so strong and weather was extemely misty that it looked like it was raining but actually it was not and we began climbing the peak seriously, its damn tiring to climb when the weather is cold we resembles kim sam soon when she was climbing some mountain. haha we were panting like mad after climbing for some time, we saw some shelter and though that it was the peak alr i was damn happy, climb super fast there only to realise that it was only a pit stop
pictures at the pit stop
and we looked up to see that there was another long flight of stairs up me and lou decided to stop because we were panting MADLY and we were tired
but joy decided to continue climbing up so we waited at the pit stop for her in the meanwhile we spied at countless of koreans and there was like a hoard of school boys i think in korea schools they have excursion for the school kids to climb mountains in order to train their determination actually i kind of like the way they educate the children although it will be quite tiring to climb the mountain its seriously so much better than the fixed education here in singapore but then again, the only mountain available in singapore is like the bukit timah hill? haha
after a very long time, joy finally came down den we went down the mountain together and went to the shops on impulse i bought like 7 packs of chocolates HAHA, i bought those special chocolates that were only available in jeju will try to let everybody i know try them
after that we went for ATV motor car ride we did the ATV ride in the quite heavy rain we were wrapped up from head to toe and i think the ATV ride was more fun in the rain due to the mud splashing and the thrill you get from accelerating your vehicle anw i liked the ATV ride alot like it convinced me that i will be a good driver! haha, secretly praising myself here
pictures! yes that's me all geared up
then it was lunch, KOREAN BBQ!
we ate black pork. my first time eating it but it was extremely delicious basically you wrap the meat inside the vegetables with the sauce plus garlic and any other stuff u want to put and you put the whole thing at a go into your mouth the feeling you get is DAMN SHIOK pls i think this was our most favourite meal throughout the trip we ate ALOT until we were damn full man haha
after lunch we went to Jeju Folk Village, a folk and history museum it is also the filming site of Dae Jang Geum where Jang Geum spends her exile in Jeju learning medicine personally i didnt watch Dae Jang Geum so i was not particularly fascinated with it furthermore it was raining quite heavily so pictures here are minimal
performers there, waved at us heart shape focus of the below pictures is the person in the middle and the building of course. haha
next we visited the Teddy Bear Museum i am sure many of you who have watched Goong will know what this place is so i shant explain further anw the place is SUPER NICE teddy bears overload man we didnt manage to explore finish the place cos it was kind of big and we were given a limited time anw i tried to take as many pictures as possible so here it will be quite image heavy
the time where there was automobiles titanic the first tv broadcast einstein family charlie chaplin snow white & 7 dwarfs tarzan & jane NORMANDY. MY FAVE :D parchuting down on d-day HOHO. we will fight all wars! disneyland elvis presley marilyn monroe the beatles bing ma yong knocking down of the berlin wall many bears more bears and more return of hongkong to china 1997 the futuristic world super happy bear don't you all agree? haha poker bears upclose mona lisa dunnoe who, forgot a korean helped us took this! haha many care bears winnie the pooh! EXPENSIVE LV BEAR. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE MUSEUM! it costs like approx S$308,021. GOSH the various diff weddings around the world above traditional korean bears (: fashionista bears olden times bears traditional folk village another korean helped us! :D goong bears mr bear says "i'm going to school!" love is all around angelic bear place that sells teddy bears oh, we each bought for ourselves a bear, will show you the pictures later
and then we visited the Magic Road we experienced the strange phenomenon of going uphill when the bus engine was turned off seriously fascinating we also came down and did an experiment we tried rolling a bottle down hill but after rolling for awhile, it rolled uphill by itself HAHA i know why but i wont tell you why you must go and see for yourself :D
dinner was Ginseng Chicken VERY VERY overwhelming cos its like a WHOLE chicken served to you i ate until i almost wanted to puke and i couldn't the chicken tooo much i think guys who can eat alot will lovee the portion that they gave
after dinner we headed back to the hotel visited the E-Mart there, something like our singapore's Giant or Carrefour but seriously much bigger and more neatly arranged bought some stuff there checked out the haptic phone and the previous anycall phone that junsu/anyband endorsed SUPER PRETTTY PLS seriously if the phones are usable in singapore i will seriously consider getting one for myself they have so many colours la and the price wise is quite reasonable too but sadly to say, korean phones used CDMA instead of GPRS so they cannot be used in singapore
went back to the hotel it was kind of early so we decided to camwhore with our animal hairbands and teddy bears that we bought
the bear that i bought! SO CUTE RIGHT! with the deer hairband that i bought from yongin with our hairbands and bear bear family, lou bought the other brown bear, joy bought the goong bear and yes. it was time to sleep!
DAY 4 18062008
ate breakfast at the hotel den we headed to the jeju airport to prepare to fly to Busan the wind that day was super strong we had EXTREME difficulty walking straight towards the airplane seriously i zonked out before the airplane took off anw the flight was suppose to just be 50mins so i slept and then what feels like a VERY LONG TIME to be exact, around 1 and a half hrs later i woke up and found myself still on the plane i was SHOCKED and den i realise that due to STRONG WINDS, we couldnt land in Busan so the pilot is trying to land us in Daegu GOSH, first time in my entire life did i experience this so we headed towards daegu and due to BAD WEATHER again, we couldnt land OHMYGOD. TERRIFYING PLS so the pilot took us back to gimpo airport which is in seoul the flight took FOREVER PLS i was super scared that what if the plane ran out of oil we went to more places den we were suppose to go and the flight was SERIOUSLY bumpy thank god we landed safely in gimpo and our plans were disrupted we were supposed to land in busan and go sightseeing at the donghwa temple plus some shopping at jung angro street but we were back in seoul
and to sidetrack awhile the tour group that we went with consisted of 30 people initially our tour only had like 19 people but last min they decided to merge 2 tour groups tgt, forming 30 the 19 of us took korean airlines the other 11 took asiana airlines so the 11 who took asiana airlines left jeju airport half an hour before us they managed to land in Busan and went shopping at jung angro street while for the 19 of us, we got through an extremely long and terrifying plane ride and we were back in seoul while the other group was in daegu luckily xiao zhang arranged for us to have our lunch first, which was bibimbap and then take the KTS to daegu since there is no more flights available that day for us to fly to daegu KTS is like korean bullet train ok, look at the bright side, at least we got to sit the bullet train not exactly very exciting because i zonked out on the train too. haha some pictures at the train station
reached daegu in the afternoon den we headed to the daegu spa valley which was the highlight of the day but not exciting for me because i was bleeding which according to the schedule i was not suppose to so i didnt get to enjoy the spas except for the doctor fish spa so while the rest of the tour group went up to enjoy i sat at the doctor fish spa pool myself and let those little fishies eat my dead skin SERIOUSLY IT WAS DAMN ITCHY CAN! and you carnt move or else the fishies will go away almost wanted to faint there because there was only my leg and all the fishies just started attacking my leg like free enough said, pictures will tell the whole story
so cute la the icon of the spa valley. haha the doctor fish pond. looks deceivingly friendly attack of the doctor fish LOOK AT THEM ROAR! ITCHY!
in case u think i was exaggerating. you should see lou and joy's feet they came down after they had their spa and there was people with their feet inside the pnd so the fishes were more spread out so their feet was less attacked
SEE THIS so minimal the fishes but still itchy. haha
ok, after all the hooohaaa we had dinner there which was steamboat then after that we also had icecream there buying icecream was quite a hilarious experience because i made my order in korean to the guy and i think the guy wanted to show me that he could talk in english too so he replied me back in english HAHAHA but his english was limited he said SOME english and continued in korean which of course i didnt understand so in the end we did sign language. HAHAHA
and that day was our tour guide xiao zhang's birthday he said that he wanted to feel happy so changed our initial hotel which was 5 stars to a six star hotel which is Daegu Inter-Burgo Hotel the hotel was GOOOOOOD defnitely 6 stars man! enjoyed the night there
DAY 5 19062008
had breakfast at the hotel took some random pictures before we left
then we headed to the donghwa temple which we missed yesterday due to the terrible flight
i dunnnoe whether you all can see this but can you all see that the stones are stacked? koreans like to stack stones, if you take a random stone and stack on the pile i think it will bring you good luck or good results so of course i stacked :D
donghwa temple pictures below haha, you see that little boy wearing all black in the picture? he's in our tour group, 7 yrs old and super cute! you will see him later anw his name was jeremy but lou, joy and me secretly calls him dongdong! HAHA suppose to be 3 eggs but i doubt u can see it washing our hands! hoho! can you see the cute monk a picture before leaving
next we went to the traditional wine museum shan't explain, pictures will do the job
then we walked to our restaurant where we had lunch lunch was hanjeonsik, traditional korean meal on our way there jeremy with heidi! heidi is like a 2 year old baby girl who is super active and cute. haha they look so cute tgt!
little kids! extremely cute too and got 1 kid dye hair one sia different generation alr
pictures of our lunch!
after lunch we headed to maisan provincial park/tapsa temple
a happy picture before we started climbing the mountain
pictures on our way up like this picture! maisan in chinese is ma er san, means horse mountain in english can u see that the mountain resembles the head of a horse? use your imagination pls some big fishes we saw. haha reaching soon! couldnt resist taking picture taking picture with the lion cute little random animals. haha
can you guys see those stone made peaks? they were made manually with stones and they have survived the harshest weather! that is what so special about them super cool right. even typhoon didnt blow them away i was kind of infatuated with washing hand pictures jeremy helps heidi to wash hands. haha can you see the stones stacked up there? i wonder how they did it seriously YAY! finally reached the top. hoho! picture with jeremy :D the dog again on our way down
anw on our way down we were secretly high we blasted korean music and walked down haha. lots of fun having a sing along session in the nature
den we visited the ginseng farm not ginseng, but wheat plants real ginseng plants of course u carnt see the ginseng, they are buried underground
after that we headed to the muju tirol resort where we enjoyed grass sledding and we will be staying at the hotel for the night grass sledding is extremely fun and addictive!
we got like extremely wet so we got to our rooms and change first before we headed for dinner
our room was so nice right! i love hotel tirol! and because during winter people will come and ski the toilet bowl is not an ordinary toilet bowl i forgot to take picture. rah but it has like functions that keep the seat hot so during winter you can bake ur cake on a warmth seat HAHAHA
our nice dinner! lou swallowed like 90% of the jeon herself seriously haha
and i know i was crazy we were on top of a mountain and the weather there wasnt exactly very hot but rather chilly and we just had grass sledding which made ourselves wet so we had to change right but i didnt have clothes to change into so i changed into t-shirt and fbts yes UNDER THAT WEATHER i was reallly freezing
hello kitty shop wasnt open. so sad la went back hotel to put down some of the stuff we bought at the mart anw i forgot to mention that korea is an environmental friendly country when you buy things at the mart right, they dont give you plastic bags one if you want it, you have to pay for them and then u can return the plastic bag to them and get back ur money later the money they collect is actually the cost of burying the plastic bags and all so cool right but sometimes it can be troublesome when you buy alot of stuff
it was the place where they filmed summer scent i think. haha
and more camwhoring at the hotel
and then we bathed and turned in
DAY 6 20062008
breakfast at the hotel itself and some more pictures before we leave to go down the mountain
during winter the mountain will be covered in snow and you can ski! haha
we headed to Sangsoo Herb Land
HAHAHA. do you see what i seee yes. this is the rock as like penis touch different parts got different effects side is wealth, front is baby boy, back is baby girl and so on. haha thousand year old pine tree kind of small for an old tree upclose of the pine tree i think i look so angelic here nice picture lovely couple SARANGHAE!
after herbland we went to Nami Island, the place where they filmed Winter Sonata on our boat ride there took much pains to capture that bird. haha
finally we reached! nobody knows why there was a row of shirt. SERIOUS. even the tour guide nami island was having a book fair there, hence those funny things ard i like this picture. haha SO CUTE! ABCDEFG! GOSH WE SAW A LIVING OSTRICH! nice picture cute little 2-year old also on our tour. she loves me alot la. i am serious. joy and lou can vouch for that. everyday wave to me. haha heidi! nice jump shot take by our photographer. on his first try can! the below photos shows how NOOOB i am the below again taken by our photographer the series of jump shots photo landed us with FANTASTIC nicknames by xiao wu seriously SLAP SLAP in case u were wondering, the sun was BLAZING i was feeling goofy mr elephant looks like he wants to eat up lou or sth leaving nami island
headed to Dongdaemun Market! it's Korea's largest wholesale and retail shopping district the picture below was the closest i can get to Mnet. haha
anw i went bersek at dongdaemun i landed myself with 10 shirts and 1 skirt with the 2 hours time we got to shop there pls applaud me of course there are no shopping pictures didnt even have time to stop and eat or go toilet alr of course no pictures la! haha after shopping at dongdaemun we went for shabu shabu dinner on our way there to the dinner place, saw some car accident/strike. i have no idea
see the bus there? its actually the buses mobilized to control the crowd from a strike
after dinner we checked in at seoul garden hotel me and joy went out again to buy some groceries i drank starbucks green tea frapp which was much more expensive than singapore but i decided to give it a try and see the taste and arrived at the conclusion that it tastes the same so don't drink starbucks in korea pls. ahha den we had some crazy idea of calling up junsu's father pizza shop but didnt work out in the end slept quite late was awoken at around 4am joy vomitted so i gave her some pills den continued sleeping till morning
DAY 7 21062008
it was a super busy day in seoul morning we had traditional chinese breakfast of porridge and side dishes very normal after breakfast we headed to the Ginseng Monopoly Showroom xiao zhang manage to get us to the main outlet which he says is much better than the chain outlets but nah wasn't interested in getting ginsengs no pictures allowed at the showroom so haha, carnt show you any of the good ginsengs i bought like 5 boxes of citrus tea and 6 big packs of seaweed there haha, yes i was insane i bought so much until it was enough to pack it up in a box pls applaud me once again
after that we went down the building for kimchi-making session
in our aprons all ready to make kimchi that's xiaozhang btw. and sidenote. he only wore that nice that day because we had to go to the ginseng monopoly showroom. its some rule or sth la. other days he was in polo's and khakis pls. haha joy doesnt look sick at all. if i were here, i dont think i can even force a smile. lol ok i know this picture doesnt look like me but well. i dunnoe what happened
after that we got to wear hanbok, traditional korean clothing
i think i look suagu-fied with the hat/cap or whatever u call it yes, i was mischevious. i wore the guy's hat i really think i look demure here? haha
after that we drove past the presidential blue house where the korean president resided in but sorry no pictures allowed so let's move on
we then went to the Changdukgong Palace
the weather was blazing hot that i didnt even felt like taking a picture
BLAZING HOT! i couldnt even open my eyes for the photo. anw with our zodiac signs. DRAGON BABIES (: see that poky stuff there? try to guess what's that for! haha ask me if you want to know. lol it was damn hilarious, she kept picking stones from the ground and giving it to lou a proceeding showing how an emperor moves from one place to another i was like amused by their fake beards
yes no photos of me with the palace at all. TOO HOT
den we had lunch i just rmbed i loved the bamboo rice and we drank some weird drink that taste like ribena haha
after lunch we went to like this place which is like the "orchard road" of korea went bersek there despite being allowed like 1 hr plus to shop landed myself with many cosmetics products 3 leggings 4 tees from BANC, i just couldnt resist myself you see, dbsk and suju endorsed this brand before
den we headed to COEX Mall, an underground shopping complex went BERSEK there AGAIN we were only allowed 50mins this time but guess what i got myself 2 shirts from Polham the 1 of the shirt yunho wore before and the 2 shirts are in the movement to support eco friendly you should know the shit but they are super cute and then i got myself a tee from Buckaroo, since its like minnie's fave brand now i must get myself something from there too right! and then i got myself a logo tee from Evisu, a brand that siwon endorsed before i even helped myself to a magazine of siwon. hahaha once again applaud me for being able to buy 4 shirts when allowed with 50mins only
i was quite sad that there was not enough time cos apparently i think there was a CD shop and i would have bought some albums there if i had more time SIGHS
then we went to Lotte World, the filming site of Stairway to Heaven
can you see the date? so nice! and some pictures of the parade below we manage to catch the parade! xiaozhang told us where to stand and we had a good view. haha
anw dinner was by ourselves i had jajeoungmyoung for dinner. sorry dunnoe how to speel in korean. haha
after that we went to sit the monorail that goes one round around lotte world lotte is split into indoor and outdoor parks actually
ONLY 13. oh yes. haha. only suju fans will know what it means. took this scribbling while queuing for the monorail.
pictures i took on the monorail
another random scribbling picture
we left lotte world at like 9plus at night headed to our hotel which is the Seoul Grand Hilton Hotel GOSH, damn pretty pls. it's definitely worth the 6 stars but sadly enough we didnt get to enjoy the hotel much because a few of us on the tour group went for more late night shopping and yes we took our first taxi ride in Seoul xiaozhang said that taxi rides in seoul is not for the faint hearted and HE WAS RIGHT the meter jumped like nobody business and we hopped on the high end cab, like ther merz cab in spore so it was more expensive than the normal ones and me joy lou and another guy called min thought that the cab driver drove like a turtle although i did ask the cab driver to drive fast in korean HMMMMMMM haha, anw we went back to dongdaemun to shop
2nd time at dongdaemun wasnt really that fascinating din buy as much stuff i splurged on an expensive hairband one top that is quite expensive but it looks unique face rollers, hope that using them will make my face smaller. haha and a pair of sneakers that i like alot anw the sneakers range in korea is like WOW everlast there is damn pretty la, spore's designs are too boring seriously but its also bloody expensive i cannnot afford so i bought this pair of sneakers with star designs, cost around $40+ quite worth the deal
took cab back at around 2+ this time we hopped onto a normal cab and then we realise why there is a price difference firstly, the normal cab didnt on the aircon it was natural aircon secondly, the normal cab was blasting techno music the merz cab we took played like slow music thirdly, the normal cabdriver broke almost all the traffic rules as possible and drove SUPER recklessly lou was like complaining that she was having a headache from the techno music and unstable driving
anw on our way back to the hotel we encountered a strike so we had to take a detour eye opener like saw some people protesting far away or sth
ok back to lou and the techno music the cab driver is like in love w techno so he kept blasting den we came to this traffic red light and the music stop lou was like "let me enjoy this moment of peace" haha, so i kind of closed my eyes since i was super tired den after what seems forever, i opened my eyes and find us to be at the same traffic light surprised, i said " dont you think that the traffic light is taking FORVERE?" and at the same time i finished my sentence, the techno music began AGAIN lou was like blaming me for starting the techno music again i laugh until i die la. haha i dont think u will find this funny but if u were that at that moment, it is damn funny la pls
reached back hotel bathed and pack slept at like 345am
DAY 8 22062008
was woken up by Summer Dream we had a nightmare of dunnoe how many rounds of Summer Dream (song by dbsk) cos apparently joy forgot to off her alarm and went to the toilet, instead she snoozed or sth me and lou were still in bed and imagine some song ringing for dunnoe how many times at like 6plus in the morning we seriously had a nightmare from the song
anw we dragged ourselves out of bed, got dressed and den went for breakfast at the breakfast place we bought the korean utensils
den we went to the amethyst factory place where they sell purple gems i was seriously tempted BUT I DIDN'T BUY pls applaud me for resisting the temptation even when the person offered me a SUPER GOOOD discount
den xiaozhang brought us to the faceshop again where i splurged on MORE cosmetics bought like 30 packets of masks 10 packets of eye masks 1 purple mascara 1 purple stick eyeshadow if we stayed longer i may buy down the whole shop
den we went to Sincheon market which is nu ren jie, place where u find mostly women shopping again i bought myself stuff 2 bags, 1 fake longchamp haversack and 1 plain bag for next sem use 1 pair of suspenders and a dress anw the dresses at korea are all damn expensive all like $90 and above i saw this dress that was quite unique and going for $30+ so i immediately bought it haha wanted to get albums but sigh there wasnt the ones i wanted
anw some more fangirlism here, something i saw at sincheon suju endorsed skinfood! eunhyukie's signature!
after that we went to this big grocery store supposedly to buy tidbits but i didnt see anyone that i fancy there was free service of packing ur stuff into boxes so i packed all my loot into one huge box u will be surprised at how big the box was and it contained all my loot but sorry no picture
den finally it was time to say goodbye to korea we left for Incheon airport
RAH, really i was reluctant to leave korea
we took a photo with xiao wu, our photographer before we left see how conveniently we ignored xiaozhang xiao wu was way nicer anw, he took photos for us and made it nicely into albums i bought from him my photos for like S$120 VERY EXP I KNOW i even had to borrow money because i didnt have enough but he did a super good job on the photos and he was super nice to us so i bought them
ok, last picture of Incheon airport before we leave
pictures on our plane ride back she's damn adorable! seriously she made me love kids during the trip but somehow i think once i'm back in spore, i will go back to my "kids sucks" mode we shall see my cute bear! he was kind of tortured by thr 2 little babies during the plane ride so he looks kind of sad here pictures before landing at singapore
and yes, that pretty much concludes our korea trip and guess what, when we came back, joy told me on monday that actually dbsk had a flight at Incheon airport THE SAME DAY WE LANDED at 840am SO THEY WERE ALSO AT THE SAME PLACE AT AROUND THE SAME TIME! i was damn sad la so near yet so far seriously RAH RAH RAH nvm, i believe we have more chances of seeing them next time
in conclusion korea was damn good loved the food alot alot people got sick of korean food towards the end but i didnt haha and i manged to converse in korean! there were some funny episoides but still i enjoyed talking in korean to the koreans! haha haha and if you manage to read till here thanks alot for being so patient with this picture and word heavy post! will update about the week another day!
