Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts

Korea Day 10: Home Sweet Home

null
I know I’m short alright.

Left – Right: That’s Sam, Me, Elaine and NK.

That day was the hardest day for me to say goodbye to Seoul and to the people I knew there. We packed our rooms a little before heading to Holly’s Coffee for breakfast. We got tired of eggs and bread even though it was provided there for us.

null
Morning Breakfast Set.

Our flight was at 4pm ish? So we had the morning free to ourselves. We visited Hostel Korea as well, which was another hostel run by the same boss and 2 guys above. This hostel was much bigger but it doesn’t have en suite rooms. I like my personal room and toilets but shared living room, so there’s interaction and life around the place. I dislike it a lot when I have to stay shut inside the room for the night before I sleep. I want to know new people.

It’s my first backpackers stay… well, maybe not. But it’s my first backpackers stay in a family sort of rooming. I love the environment when I arrived. Everybody was talking to each other and there was so much life and interaction going on in the tiny kitchen area. It’s crazy fun for me! We know the Sam & NK have been working hard to run the place and they did a fantastic job on it. One day if they ever read my blog, I hope this will be an encouragement for them.
null
Bossom! Or rather that’s what Sam calls it.


null
I love the Kimchi that comes with it.

We wanted to try out Sam’s favourite food before we left Seoul. So we asked him if he was free to join us for lunch and to bring us there as well. I didn’t know they could do takeaways with so many things! I knew they could do it with Jajangmyeon and fried Chicken (something like KFC). Anyways, we were kinda too early for takeaways so we had to wait for him to clear his work before we headed down to this traditional restaurant for our last meal in Seoul. It was the only time we had to sit on the floor and eat!! It was a short walk behind backpackers Korea. You can ask Sam or NK if any of you are going to stay there.

Sam helped us with our luggage and sent us to the Airport limousine bus stop that was 3 mins away from the backpackers Korea. That’s where I felt kinda sad about going home because reality hits home to me at that point.
So that’s bye Korea and bye Seoul…

For almost 5 hours in the airplane I was sad until I saw him.
null
Jang Keunsuk aka Jang Geun Seok

Didn’t I mentioned that if he was in the same airplane as me, I’ll be the happiest person around? I was happy at that point of time. I didn’t recognise him as first and I was thinking “Gosh, what a girly hairstyle for a man! Is he gay?!”. Lol! Then I was hit with the fact that he DOES look like Keunsuk and GAWD… it was him alright. He was 2 seats in front of me and it was only the last 30 mins of the flight that he came to the economy class to talk to his crew members. He could have come earlier then I would probably have asked for a photo or something.

Elaine saw him and didn’t tell me. Horrible right! I like 3 guys from Korea. Kim Bum, Keunsuk and Junsu. I saw 2 out of 3 in 10 days when my chances are less than 0.1%. Elaine said it’s because I’m bringing a “Heng” person around. Maybe… haha!

Junsu came like on the following Thursday which was a week after I returned from Korea. If I delayed a little more, I might have seen Junsu instead of Keunsuk. hahahaha! Oh well. I’m happy with whom I’m met. No complains!

Korea Day 9: Nami Island (Namiseon)

null

Our last full day before leaving Seoul the following noon. It’s almost heart wrenching to be back to reality again. I guess it’s the same for most people… almost normal. We wanted to be a little more ambitious to go to Morning Calm and Nami Island but guess what? We asked NK if it was possible and he did a research for us in Korean… and said it’s not possible unless we have a car. Geez. If not, I would have headed to the place where they shot “You’re Beautiful” there. Nevermind! I saw my handsome Keunsuk up close in the end, so it doesn’t matter anymore.

We took a KO Rail from at this station that was 2 stops down from Sinseol-dong and the journey was so long. I thought I won’t be able to sit in this train as I did sat a lot of it while I was in Japan but only once in Seoul. Shows that we didn’t move out of Seoul a lot. haha! Well, there’s a lot of stuff to look at in Seoul itself.

null
null
null

Nami Island? Ring any bells?
That’s right… There’s where Winter Sonata was filmed and ever since, loads of couples come here to enjoy scenery. Ajumma(s) as well. haha! We rented bicycles to cycle around the island and guess what? We completed it in about 3o mins? Good thing we didn’t rent it for 2 hours, else we would have been very bored! Their max limit was 1 hour.

null
null
That’s our cute bikes but they’re EXTREMELY hard to ride on.
I like mountain bikes better.
null
I liked this picture I took.
null
I love this much!
null
Awesome Elaine walking on air!
I wonder if it’s the boots!

null
Loads of walking can really make people like us HUNGRY!!

And… that’s when I saw Kim Bum too!! Omgosh!! I thought if I could see Keunsuk on the same plane it would have been awesome! Or Junsu somewhere too. I nearly saw all three… nearly… They caught me taking a photo but it was too late cos I snapped it with my DSLR. I appreciate my fast speed camera for once.

null
That’s Kim Bum on the tram!

I did something really naughty too… and it’s been a while since I did it.

 null

Vandalism!! Haha! It’s our trademark left at the entrance of one of the female toliet on Nami Island. If you see it one day, say “hi” to it for me.

null
Toddles Folks!!

Korea Day 8: Everland

Close to getting all the post up. I’m getting lazier already and it’s been one week plus since I’ve been back from Korea.

null

And for this day… I regret not bringing my camera with me because it was really beautiful at Everland. There where having some tulip event and I love tulip. Makes me really happy and crazy (like above). As usual, I’m stealing pictures from Elaine again and Arthur’s too. She want royalties for using her pictures. Tsk tsk. After so many years of friendship, this is what I get. Sad!!!

Getting to Everland was slightly trickier compared to Lotte world because it was a little off Seoul and we have Arthur with us that day too. Good thing he came along else I won’t be playing any of the scary rides because Elaine was off her limits already… from Lotte world.

null
null
null
null
Everland is over at the mountain areas. 1hr from Seoul by bus.

It was actually big enough to store like a zoo in there?
The weather that day was really good because we didn’t need our wind breaker of any sort. Just a slightly thick jacket for me.
null
Check out the blue faced monkey.
null
Or maybe your gramps? haha!
null
T Express (My favourite)


null
That’s right. I sat on that wooden roller coaster.
It was an experience sitting on the wooden one.
null
Probably the only group photo we have. Awww…

I’m quite amazed at how big Everland was. I actually enjoyed the place much more. So what's my recommendation? Everland was the winner for this one.

null
null

Sorry but I don’t have much to write on this one as it’s more on pictures and nothing much to talk about. Everybody knows about rides anyways. haha! We spent our whole day at Everland and back to Seoul for dinner before heading back to backpackers Korea for the day.

null
Chef Arthur
null
Yummy bbq porky for dinner.
null
Another street food before calling it a day. Haha!
We eat alot somehow and still lost weight. Amazing.

Korea Day 7: Lotte World

null

I didn't bring my camera for Lotte World as I figured that there wouldn't be anything to take. So thanks to Elaine's handy good camera, we still have some awesome pictures in it. Elaine was up for the challange. Not all but she was definitely braver then before!! :) Check out below what she rode one. She's awesome. I dare to do scary stuff, so it wasn't so much for a dare for me... hehe.

null

My boyfriend criteria number one? Must be able to dare play scary rides with me and not puke. :) Lotte world was split into two parts, indoor and outdoor. Guess which one I liked better? For those who knows me, I'll definitely like the outdoor one better. Why? Simply because the rides are much more thrilling and... the scenary was awesome from high high above. :)


See how small the indoor is?
Sorry, it's child's play for me. :)

Anyways, Check out the outdoor ones.
null
null
Can you see my feets?
I guess not cos I can't tell which ones are mine too.

It was an awesome view up there for that few seconds before we were dropped to our "death"
.

and oh yes... I played that... alone sadly. I'm one of the many people up there at that point and Elaine was down there taking photos of me. Compared to this and Everland, I'm actually liking everland more. Because it's more beautiful and the rides are wilder. hahahaha! I'm sorry, I'm such a sucker for thrilling stuff as long as I don't die and it's legal.

null
Oh yes...

Poor Elaine scared badly on that day with the scary rides. I think she probably will never suggest going on amusement parks with me anymore unless it's Disneyland. One ride I really hate so much was the indoor rollar coaster. It's horrible cos it's so fast and it bangs your head so hard that it hurts. By then the ride was no longer fun but a horrible one. Never bother to ride on that, period. You can try and get the same results as I do.

After all the crazy fun, we had an interesting dinner at this resturant. I think it was more like a snack or something? I don't really know. It's near the hostel where we stayed and we decided to give it a try and it was good. Yummy-licious.

null
One of the hot favourites! Spicy chicken something. haha!

Before I close for the day, we headed to star avenue as well since it's near Lotte. Plus it was free since we bought a one day ticket for Lotte World. Ha! It's a really small place and we did some role acting thing. It was silly fun... I wonder why she didn't upload the video. It's so funny that we were laughing our butts off that night in the room. I hope nobody heard it... and that's all for now.
Till then, Folks!

Korea Day 6: Changdeokgung Palace, Huwon, Picasso Street & HanGang River

null
null

After being chased out the day before at the first coffee prince shop, we've decided to head back there again and this time... it was empty. I was like "you're kidding right?" Anyways, we ordered coffee and a cake. My coffee was horrible cos I ordered something and assumed it would be just coffee black but it turned out that it was coffee black and lemons. Ewwww... It's like coffee turned sour and I didn't like it. Oh! I saw the rude waiter and I stared at him. I think he remembered us. ha!
null
null
null
null

After that we headed to Changdeokgung Palace and Huwon. It's a really pretty place to be for family and friends on a nice Sunday morning. Really peaceful and quiet. We took a good long stroll till we reach to the other side of the entrance. We didn't know where we were exactly but I didn't want to walk back the same place as it was pretty far. So we walk and walk until we passed by this street food stall that was selling rice cakes and maggots soup?! You read it right, it was maggot soup. Should have taken a picture down. It was like in this huge metal pot and inside was maggots and black soup. Yuck. I didn't want to try it. It was the only stall that I've seen so far selling maggots.

null

While we were eating and figuring out way out, suddenly an uncle popped by from beside us while we were looking at the map. Elaine got a shock. haha! Poor girl. I just felt that there was somebody else closed behind me. I presume he was like a tour guide somewhere as he was wearing KTO clothes. I told him we were looking for the nearest subway and he pointed us to where it was. We weren't lost, just looking for the subway till he popped up beside us. Then it's flea market time! We headed to Picasso street and that's where I finally see the true flea market style. I loved it till it started drizzling and people where closing up their stores. It's surprising that I didn't buy anything from there. Oh! Elaine and I saw a cute guy tending to one of the stalls. haha! :bk_love: No pictures, sorry!
null

We had ummm... bbq pork for dinner! I don't know what is it called exactly but it was yummy. :) There was some language drama going on there before we finally ordered our food. hahaha!
null
null 

Our final stop of the day was at HanGang River. We took the magical boat and it was actually a showcase of magic. If I knew early, I'll probably chose the live one cos I prefer a live band. It was so cold that I decided to have a beer on boat. I think it was a pretty bad choice cos after half a can, my face was red and burning like a lobster. Hmmm... I can't lie when I drink. Tsk tsk. We definitely saw beautiful Cherry Blossom trees. We got semi-lost and passed by this street stall. The uncle was watching porn openly and it was a total turn off. I was grossed out, period. We headed back quite late and that was day 6 for us.