Day 36 - 29 July

Today's weather is super good! There isn't rain throughout the whole day!!

We went Myeong-Dong today. Met yanzhi and joel at 11am at the kitchen before setting off. We went to Lotte Mart at Euljiro 1-ga. Initially we thought the Hypermart would sell some powdered form of ginseng chicken, but apparently it doesn't. They sell the whole chicken with the soup in it. Should I get that back home? Feel like eating that though. I think I should get 2 of that. LOL.

Ok. After a futile trip to Lotte Mart, we walked to Myeong-Dong to have our lunch. We finally had some Chinese food! And it tastes superbly nice! It's been a long time since I ate Chinese cuisine! But the price is a bit steep.

 Decoration of the restaurant.

 Getting ready to eat!

First comes the side dishes..

The appetizer. 凉面.

小笼包. Steamed pork dumplings! Dip it in the vinegar and it tastes fantastic!

Check this out! Mayonnaise shrimp!!! OMG!! NICE!! 

and... Garlic Chicken!!!! BEST!!!

Are you salivating already!?

Lastly, the noodles.

A happy complete meal!! YUM!!

After the wonderful meal, my level of happiness shot up! We then went to shop around. We went a lot of places that I totally have no idea where we went. Myeong-Dong is quite big, so it's no easy to locate a particular shop because there are millions of Faceshop, Etude House, Tony Moly, Skinfood around! I bought a few shirts and pants from SPAO. The quality is quite good. It looks like Korea's uniqlo.

As we shop, we saw Bee Cheng Hiang!

The 1,500won super worth it ice cream in Myeong-Dong. I had the green tea with vanilla yogurt flavor. I find it not bad for the money paid. Nice. Just that it melts quickly under the hot weather! I'm going to eat it again!

Then we went to meet Kenny at SPAO at around 630pm. It feels very uncomfortable when I have a phone but cannot call the other person. And even if there's wifi, I can't be sure that the other person has wifi. So it's like living in an era with no cell-phone. Went to the top of SPAO and saw the SM artistes products.

Super Junior

SNSD

SNSD

TVXQ

Super Junior

Kenny, Joel, Yz and I then went to shop around for masks. Kenny is seriously a big spender. He spent a lot on masks already. I pale in comparison. HAHA! But that's a good thing!! Luggage do not have so much space. I think I need to buy more apparels. At 730pm, Kenny left and we were supposed to meet Audrey and Co. but then we were too late for the meet up. Hence, we went to dinner on our own. Found this mega big pork katsu place.

This cheese pork cutlet is bigger than my face! Though it's quite thin, you will feel super filled after eating it (well, at least for me). Jun and Kenny probably wouldn't feel that. LOL!

This is the normal pork cutlet.

After a long day outside, I broke my record of going out from 11am till 11pm and walking around the whole day, only sitting down to rest during meal times. BEST! I'm so tired. And I need to revise for social psych soon. Maybe tomorrow evening after Insa-Dong-ing.

Time passes super quickly for me. Next week would be the last week of Summer. I've not visited every part of Seoul yet though. It's a bit ambitious to do that with so many lessons and work. Oh and I have not take much photos with people. HAHA. Almost all of my photos are food and scenery. I need to at least visit some  tourists visiting areas. And I hope to come Korea with my family and Rebel! I wish to master/ at least understand and be able to speak Korean before the next trip to Korea.

Day 30 - 23 July

Had a day of fun yesterday. And today yz, kenny, Minjung and I went to Myeong-Dong for some shopping spree. We went to Lotte Youth Plaza to shop for some clothes. And I bought another shirt for my mum from Zara cos it's on mega sales! As we shopped and shopped, time just flew past so quickly and it was time for lunch. We walked all the way back to Myeong-Dong and went to the main streets. Found some great chicken place to eat. Look at the photos!

저는 하고 민정씨 (Minjung and I) 

 Slighty rare to see to not stainless steel chopsticks and spoon.

 Pickled radish.

 This is the 4 person share! Humongous!! There's the glass noodles hidden under the chicken and a lot of potato hidden in it! We didn't know that there's glass noodles so we ordered rice as well! OMG. Felt so bloated after the meal! Kenny must be happy cause he can eat a lot!

 It was a feat trying to complete it. But it was very delicious!! 아주 맜있어요!!

 The name of the restaurant? I think it's something phoenix. Can't remember.

 Oh! Mola. I saw this hello kitty shoes! But don't worry it's still in Korea, and will not be flying back to Singapore with me. LOL!

My dinner. Kimbap! Nice!!

I did a lot of walking today. I feel so tired now. ARGH. Though I bought quite a few stuff. But I think my friends got more! Roll eyes! Sigh. This is teh 4th week and the Summer Program will be ending soon. So sad!

I'll be meeting Jiamin tomorrow at some cafe to study. She is feeling super bored now. Anyone from Rebel wants to come Korea and accompany her?

Day 29 - 22 July (DMZ, Namsam Tower, Teddy Bear Museum)

SUPER TIRING DAY!! Early in the morning at 820am, we assembled at WooDang Hall and headed to DMZ/JSA Tour. I didn't regret going to DMZ because it allowed me to know more about the place and the price is cheaper compared to other tours conducted outside. Furthermore, transport was provided and the lunch was splendid! Just that there weren't enough time to eat. KU provided breakfast for us, ChocoPie and Bread. Good enough to fill my stomach. The trip to DMZ took us 2.5hour in the morning and 1.5 hour back due to traffic jam.

Breakfast on the bus. 

I was quite shocked at the number of photos I took today, so i just randomly posted some here. At the DMZ/JSA, one has to follow strictly to the rules, and the place is quite solemn. Everything seem so serious that it freak me out a little. It's quite an eye opener to see such sensitive stuff up close. Oh. And the tunnel was really omg I don't know how to describe.

I've climbed enough slopes today. And it's time to rest my legs soon.

 Here is a friendly South Korean guard. He knows Singapore!

 Lunching here. Nice bulgogi!! And the side dishes as well!

 Look at this!! Nice!! The beef is really good!

 At the exhibition hall.

 Outside of it.

 DMZ Tour about to end.

 Ended at the Dora Observatory Tower.

The weather was too foggy to really see anything over the DMZ area. Because DMZ is quite a sensitive topic, I don't know how much I can say, so it's better not to talk much. If you want to know more, maybe just  join any tour to that area.

We were back in Korea University ahead of schedule. Then we decided to go to Namsam Tower!! Emma, Olivia, yz and I went up buy bus. Quite fast and cheap!

Yellow Bus 02. Boarded the bus at Daehan Complex Exit 2.

 Namsam Tower in the Daylight.

The lion which I forgot about its name.

 A christmas tree made out of locks. The locks signifies the love of each couple.

We bought the packaged tickets for the teddy bear museum and observatory tower. 14,000 Won. It's worth it I think given that I like to visit such places. And I took over 200 photos. We met Zhi Hui and Wai San at Namsam Tower and we went as a group.

 Teddy Bear Museum!

I like this bear!!!

After millions of photo taking session in the Teddy Bear Museum, we went on to the Observatory Tower. Took some photos there, but again the weather was rather foggy, hence, the photos took were not very nice.

Found some hat in some shop and took it for fun.

 As Namsam Tower is famous for couples, there were a lot of things meant for couples. So the love word is almost everywhere.

Jiamin's JaeJong.

 

The symbols of love from all the couples thus far. This is only one side of the fence. There are many many more of it!

This was taken inside the lift.

Night view of some model.

 

Namsam Tower night view!

DEAD BEAT. Took the lousy cable car down from Namsam Tower and it's freaking dumb. The cable car was so squeezy that we couldn't take much photos. And there were no scenery to view at night. Fail. Then we walked to Myeong Dong and ate Lotteria for dinner. It was already 11pm plus then. 

Oh ya. the funny thing was that we were trying to capture the Namsam Tower full view with our faces in the photo that we took turns to take it. From then on, we were in a photo taking spree. We saw this fountain that was changing colour and we went to take every colour of it. Really crazy. But it was fun. A great day spent!

Dead tired now. If I have the time. Maybe I will update this post. If not this would be it. So tired that I just brisked through this post.

Day 22 - 15 July (Cooking Nanta Performance!)

Weather: Rainy again.

I finally met my buddy today. Initially we wanted to have Pancakes for brunch. But the stores were not opened! So we headed back to KU, to Cine Cafe and had our brunch there. She just had a cup of coffee while I had tuna bread and kiwi juice.

Tuna panini (I think that's what it's called) and kiwi juice from Cine Cafe.

My KU Buddy - Miss Kwak Mingjung!

The below photos are for people who wants to know how long do you have to walk/climb/crawl to C-J International Dorm from the entrance.

 This is the entrance.

 From the hump onwards.

Continuing from the photo above.

Carrying on.. 

 Reaching soon..

Almost there. 

 Last lap..

 Steepest part of the slope and you'll reach your dorm!

When I returned to my dorm, I couldn't contact yanzhi and Joel. So I went lunch with Mr Kenny Choo at the school cafe. Budget. Reached the cafe at around 1225. Was taken aback by the long queue but we still got in to the line in the end.

 Calamari today!

After lunch it was 1250pm. I thought I will miss the bus or something, so I just flew out of the canteen. It was raining madly! Gross! Got on the school bus heading for Nanta show!!! Was quite shocked when I didn't see yz and Joel on the bus. But luckily they showed up in the end!

 Nanta show brochure.

 The stage.

They use real food while performing! It's really worth to watch it!! MUST WATCH!! Both JUMP and Nanta are of equal standards I think. Oh! In my opinion, I think that the head chef of the Nanta show looks like Lin Jun Jie. HAHA! He's damn funny. Plus the small little rookie guy, hilarious! There were times I think the head chef were so amused by us, the audience, that he 笑场. He's damn funny! OMG!!

 Highly recommended to watch!!

 Cute cartoon board!

I feel so sad when the 2 hours show just zoomed pass like that. Shall find other similar shows to watch! Bet it'll be damn nice! And on our way out we saw this!

 It's a walnut cookie making machine!!

 Something like what Jun offered me.

 My favourite red bean inside!!!!

We stood outside the theater and discussed where to go. Actually we already have an idea of where to go, at least for Joel, Yz and I. But we stayed on for their discussion, asking who else wanted to watch Harry Potter. In the end only the 3 of us went. We need to thank Peiquan's buddy HungSik who led us the way to Myeong Dong area, Lotte Mart where the cinema was. 

 We arrived at Lotte mart, and like typical lost sheeps, we wandered around the departmental store to find the Lotte Cinema! The lift system in Korea is different from those in Singapore, their elevator only served certain levels and some served B1, some served odd and even levels.

We went to purchase the tickets for Harry Potter! Then we went to shop around for a while, and came across this event hall where they are having some mega sale! But not much to buy though, cos mostly are those extremely big sizes or extremely small sizes. Need to practice some digging before you can find your sizes.

 Harry Potter ticket!

I thought the movie was not very exciting. It was rather boring though. Could have more fighting scenes.

This was our dinner. Lotteria. I think it's Korean style McDonald. Lol.

After the movie, we went to shop at the same place again cos there were more stores at the top few levels. But because it's a bit late, so we didn't walk around much. Will be returning to Myeong Dong/ City Hall soon.

It's time to go to bed.