Day 42 - 04 August (Graduation Ceremony)

Today is the last official day in Korea University. And there was Korean test. Hmm.

While studying for Korean, we went down to Paul's recommended Beef Stew meal for lunch. It was pouring during the walk down but the hot soup made us more comfortable.

Beef Stew with noodles and porridge. It's not filling at all.

So I ate this sweet red bean donut bought from Paris Baguette.

The Korean test was rather difficult. There were a lot of sentences which puzzled me. Hence, I did the paper via guessing which is the odd one out from the 4 options available. I'm still hoping for a A so that I can be eligible for the scholarship!

After the test, we proceed to the graduation ceremony at LG Building (Supex). The place is quite grand. And robes were available for loaning! It's so unbelievable! 

Me in robe!

 Daniel, me, Ayden and Joel

Group photo! 

 PeiQuan and I

 Sarah and I

 Daniel and I.

Daniel, Emma and I

 At the end of the ceremony!

We proceeded to level 6 for the farewell dinner. The food was nice just that the number of seats were seriously insufficient!! It's very sickening actually to have to stand around. But the prawn is good. A pity I didn't take any photos of it, shall kapo from Audrey.

Salmon, Ham, Prawn kimchi etc..

 Farewell dinner speech

 Dance performance by the buddies.

 Traditional performance.

 Traditional performance.

 Singing by ISC Students, some of them.

Us with Hui Ting. 

Jun and I. My room mate!

On our way out to cafe, but stopping to take a photo first.

Korea University night view.

After walking around and searching for cafe, we went to Cafe Bene in the end. And I ordered my favourite Green Tea Latte.

After talking for a while, Joel, Yz and I went to find Audrey, Joanne and co. at some pub above Samsung chicken. When we went up, they were a bit dazed and hyunji (I don't know how to spell) came grabbing us and trying to force us to drink. I rejected it. Yz too. But Joel drank it. They were going almost high and we left. I went back to my dorm and did laundry so that everything could be packed in my luggage w/o much smell. It was around 515am when Jun left. Gave him the letter, bak kwa and packaged Laksa for him to bring back. It's quite sad to see everyone leaving. First it was Kevin, though I didn't see him leave, but it was strangely quiet after he left. Then followed by Jun.

I wonder when will be the next time I meet Jun and Paul. Sigh.

Day 41 - 03 August

Its almost the end. I have to maximize the time spent here, and I did that today.

I met up with my Buddy 곽민정씨 at 930am at Cold Stone. 

The road down to meet my buddy.

Then we went to some cafe nearby as I have lesson at 1050am. I'm not sure what that cafe is called, but the main purpose of the cafe is actually for people to study. They have lamps by the side of the cafe. It's quite cool to see such stuff. Singapore should have that too. We wanted to have pancakes but the pancake store is only open at 10am =( which is why we went to this study cafe.

 

The black board in the cafe.

Self service water.

These are the lamps which I mentioned.

민정씨 하고 저

 My breakfast. The bread is super nice!

We chatted about quite a lot of things. We exchanged some photos. I show her the photographs of some Singapore food and she showed me her family members photos. It's quite sad that we only met up for a few occasions. How I wished that we met up more often. Sigh. 너무슬퍼요!!

너무고마워요 민정씨!! 

Then, 민정씨 sent me to school while she went to meet her sister. Lesson with Prof Oishi Shige was fast as today was just the returning of the paper and review. I got an A for my social psych. Borderline A. Phew! It's now left with Korean language. I really hope that I can get an A! Then I would be eligible for the scholarship to recover some losses! Lunch was at school cafe, not the usual canteen which we always eat.

Prior to lunch, I went to take a photo with my developmental Psychology Professor! Interesting guy!

Fish cutlet.

Then we went to check out the shipment fees at the 우체국 (post office). 

 The fees for shipment. Look at the blue column.

After lunch, I went to get some Smoothie King to drink with Audrey and Joanne. Ayden and Joel didn't get it though. I saw Suli's poster and took a photo with it =)

 Sulli!

 I chose Jeju Green Tea Smoothie! SUPER NICE!! 너무 맛있어여요!!

 On our way back to CJ House. Wonder when will be the next time I walk this route..

Went back to dorm for a while before heading to the Ice Rink in Korea University. We met at 4pm before going over. It only cost 5700Won to ice skate!! Firstly because we were students from KU, so the entrace fee is 5000, but because we do not have gloves, so there's the other 700Won. Its really cheap! But please remember to bring jacket! I almost got frost bites! Damn cold. My fingers were red and almost had no feelings. 

 Up the hill to the Ice Rink

 KU Ice Rink

It's very difficult to ice skate!! I almost fell like ten thousand times, but didn't fall. Phew. I was trying to skate but when I almost got the hang of it, times up! Anyway we can skate for as long as you want. It closes at 6pm. But an hour inside the rink almost made me freeze to death! But we skate till it closes. It's very fun! I want to ice skate again!! But there's no more time already. Sigh. And it's too costly to skate in Singapore!!

 Super cold!!! 충워요!!!!!

After the eventful ice skating, we went out for dinner. Ate some jim dak? I think. It's the one we ate at Myeong-Dong with Minjung and Kenny.

 Menu.

 Tada! There's sweet potato, potatoes, egg, mandoo, glass noodles and of course the chicken!

Daniel joined us halfway through, so we ordered another portion of the dish (a different one) and shared. Daniel was upset over his test. Hmm. Seems like everyone is aiming for the scholarship. I shall study hard tonight also!

After you finish your meal, you can order seasoned rice and the staff will mix the rice in to the remaining sauce left on the plate. SUPER NICE!! Why didn't I notice this place before! 그럼데, the one we had in Myeong-Dong was nicer!

Then we walked back to our dorms. I bought the red bean donut from Paris Baguette, and the green tea ice cream which cost 700won only! I LOVE GREEN TEA AND RED BEAN!!! YUM!!

I shall upload more photos when Audrey sent me the photos.

Day 40 - 02 August (Ginseng Chicken)

The shuttle bus. I think Thursday will be the last day that I'm taking this bus. So sad.

Today's weather was fine just that it got super hot in the afternoon. 

There's only Social Psychology and Korean lesson today. So Audrey, Joanne, Yanzhi, Wai San and I went to Dongdaemun after the lesson to have lunch and shop. It wasn't really a shopping trip, more of a lunch trip cause we forgot to alight from the train and went to another stop, so we ended up spending some time navigating to Dongdaemun.

Prior to the trip to ddm, there was Social Psychology test. And though some of the questions were repeated, I think it wasn't all so easy, but not very difficult also. I hope I can maintain above 90. Then I will CHIONG all the way for my Korean language test.

 Took with this Tiger after Social Psych test. KU's symbol is a tiger.

This was the beef bone soup at DongDaeMun. 

 The marinated pork in DongDaeMun.

We were so hungry that we went to eat at the first stall we saw. And ended up the price there was quite ex. But it was nice! So we walked around dongdaemun and then returned back to school for Korean Lesson. Today was the last lesson for Korean Language. Audrey bought a cake for 선생님.

During the break, we decided to give 선생님 a cake. It was quite funny, we all decided to go out of the class together while she was using the computer. We stood outside of the classroom and was getting ready to bring in the cake. At that moment, 선생님 opened the door! HAHA! It was super hilarious! She was so shocked and surprised that her face was blushing! I thought she almost cried! Lol! We gave her cards too. There were 2 cards. Then when she opened and read it, she pointed out a mistake in the Korean word that one of my class mate wrote. lol. Then we took quite a lot of photos with her, and then she suddenly realised that too much of the lesson time was taken to do all these and settled us down before giving us a listening practice.

My 귀예워요  선생님!!

선생님 feels like a star here. Haha.

우리반

저는 하고 선생님!!

I will miss my 선생님! She's so cute and funny. She is very encouraging! Every time we were told to read, she will comment "good", I think she is trying to get us all to speak up more.

After lessons, I met up with Paul and Sam, together with yz and Joel, we went to eat the legendary famous 토속촌 사게탕!!! We met up at around 645pm at WooDang Hall before setting out to 경복궁 station. Once you reach the station, look for exit 2 and walk out of the station. Follow the streets, walk all the way down, past Baskin Robins. Look for the Neon sign that reads 토속촌 사게탕. It's not very far from the station, around 100m. The place is super super famous so you must and have to wait to try it. Not sure if there's reservation though.

Look at the queue!!

While waiting.. 

 And waiting..

 Finally we advanced to the entrance. Note the sky colour.

 And we finally get to go in!

 I suppose that's the number of the place.

You have to removed your shoes when you enter the eating place. The place is pretty well decorated. It looks like those traditional homes where people have different rooms for different activities. Here, the rooms were all for eating. And it's quite packed inside. Once we got a seat, they served us the Ginseng Shot and Ginseng Tea. Cool isn't it?

 Ginseng Shot.

Paul ordered 5 Ginseng Black Chicken soup for us.

 TADA!! Ginseng Black Chicken!!

It tastes better than the previous one that I tried.

The soup is awesome!!! The price is also awesome!! Black chicken is expensive! But I think it's worth a try cause you won't be eating it everyday. The ginseng chicken has a very large piece of ginseng stuffed inside it. The ginseng was very tender, I believed that it's been boiled with the soup for very long. Hence the essence of the ginseng resides in the glutinous rice inside the chicken and the soup! There were also chestnut, black sesame, sunflower seeds in it. SUPERB NICE! This time round, we didn't go for ice cream, cause I felt too full and most of us had not much money left.

After dinner, we went back to our dorms. Since Paul is leaving on Thursday morning, and he has plans on Wednesday, we decided to give him the souvenirs we bought from Singapore, the BBQ Pork (Bakkwa from Bee Cheng Hiang). LOL! Also, Singapore Curry by Joel. It's nice having Paul to show us around and do the translation. Thanks Paul!

Paul and I :)

Day 39 - 01 August

Woke up super early to go for a run today because I didn't get to run yesterday and I'm feeling very unhealthy. I went to the gym at 715am, and ran for 20mins. The treadmill stated that I burnt 200 plus calories, which is so little?! But nevermind, I shall do more running when I get back to Singapore!

I think it's because of the run this morning, I felt extremely sleepy throughout the day. I slept during the developmental psychology lecture, didn't have enough concentration for Korean Lesson. Oh my goodness! And I felt super hungry after Social Psychology! I think I spent too much energy trying to stay awake during lesson, and I bought this chocolate bar, which tastes a little like snickers. FAT!

 Snickers-taste-alike-chocolate.

Lunch was as usual, taken after developmental psychology lecture. I think I am eating more and more in Korea. Bad sign. Time to stop eating so much.

I still love the dessert! The hotcake taste alike yellow thing on the top left, it's decorated with hersey's chocolate sauce. YUM!

Dinner was with 용완씨at around Anam area. He brought me to a BBQ place. The pork tastes absolutely delicious!! Super tender!! He ordered a Soju too. It was quite awkward initially as there was a bit of communication problem. HAHA. But it was alright after a while. I don't really know how to eat the pork so I just followed what he did! HAHA! As learned from Social Psychology, this is called Informational Social Influence where you observe what others around you are doing and you think that it is the correct/ appropriate behaviour and follow suit.

Side dishes to go with the pork! 

 BBQ pork in the making!

The soju which he ordered. Tastes like vodka, a little.

Chef 용완!

Ok I have Social Psych test tomorrow! It's all the chapters at a go! Time to study!