Alrights, first and foremost, many thanks to my dearest brudders who bothered to find time to send me off! I love the mug (i hope there isnt any double meaning for giving me a mug, hahas) and the giant lollipop!! Love you guys so much! Yes, even without the giant lollipop and mug, I still do!

Hahas, I've added the da chang jin brochure to show that im in Seoul!!

Once again, thanks for sending me off! even if when im only gone for 6 weeks. hahas

I was really tired on the plane, but i just couldnt fall asleep. It's like my eyes are closed but my pea brain is wide awake, cos I damn hungry (the plane crew served breakfast only at 4 am!!!) And when im finally drifting off to sleep, they switched on the lights and began serving breakfast -_- rah!

So when I've finally touched down on Seoul after 6 long torturous hours on the plane, I feel so exhuasted. But luckily, the cooling weather makes me feel so much better! My brother warned me earlier that the weather will be very hot cos it's summer over here now. But no! It feels like genting over here, just that it's not that chilly, which is even better! It's slightly hotter only in the afternoon, but a little sun does no harm, hahas, i love vitamin D.

Cos' our luggage is damn heavy, we decided to take a jumbo taxi to our dorm, and this burns a big hole in our pocket, or purse, or wallet or whatever! it's like 90 sing dollars to get to our dorm!! and i think they're energy-saving folks, so there's like no air-con in the cab and it's seriously stuffy. The road to our dorm was terrible cos there were tons of erratic slopes so the driver had to make several sharp turns which makes me feel so nauseous. Luckily i didnt puke, it would have been so gross. hahas

I accompanied esther to check in to the cj-i room and here's a picture of the scenary outside her room.

Her room-mate was there already and she brought me the bad news. Her friend happened to be kicked to anam hall too, and she said the room condition was terrible. It was dirty and ancient, and there wasnt any lift or elevator around, so she had to carry her gigantic luggage up to 5th floor herself. Urgh, that sounds really bad, but im sort of mentally prepared so it didnt freak me out.

After esther settled down, she accompanied me to check in to the anam hall. The security guard didnt understand english at all and i had to make all sorts of hand actions to tell him that i want to check in. He gave me the keys, and directed me to this long flight of stairs. zzz! So yes, I carried my 14.4 kg luggage (luckily i didnt bring much stuffs, other girls' luggage was like 25 kg!) up the stairs. I feel so much stronger! hahas, girl power!!

Okays, as I was opening the door to the dorm, lots of frightening thoughts flooded my mind. Will I be greeted with cockroaches and lizards, and their beloved shits? Will the air-con be faulty and I'll just suffocate to death in my room? Will....?!

hahas, actually i wasnt thinking at all, was just trying to be drama earlier (though i think it failed, hahas, my english sucks). The only thought i have was that im damn tired, and i want to lie on the bed and nua the whole day long. hahas!

Okayys, the room wasnt that bad as what esther's room-mate had mentioned. In fact, it's much more spacious that the cj-i house and yes the air-con was working well, there werent any cockroaches and lizards sprawling around. I shall post a picture of the room, and me and my room-mate in the next entry. My room-mate is super nice! hahas, i think we clicked off pretty well! and she's the xian qi liang mu kind, which is good cos im a super spoilt brat who refused to do any housework. hahas

I didnt nua in my room though im freaking tired, cos esther's room-mate suggested for her to join her friends in touring seoul right away. well, it's kinda dumb to slack in the room so yes, off we go to explore Seoul!

Esther's room-mate and friends are super pro! They had arrived earlier than us by just a few days but they could communicate with the koreans and they were leading us in the train station. hahas, i think the 4 of us (me, peh, shaoming and jonathan) are pretty exhausted after the flight, so we were like following them blindly.

First stop! DaeJangGeum Theme Park! It's a place that showed all the scenes in Da Chang Jin! I used to be a major fan of Da Chang Jin, so im pretty excited! Pictures pictures pictures!

hahas, we forced shaoming to take this picture, he looks good lo! honestly!

peh and me! and da chang jin!

me! the empress! hahas.

yes, mugger chen in Seoul. mug mug mug!

We saw this cute korean ah-boy! super cute!!! here goes, prepare to scream please!! =)

i love his dimples!!

okayys, we wanted jonathan to have to same pose as the chio girl, but i think it's a failed attempt

okayys, here's the more exciting part! Just 7 sing dollars and we can choose any old korean costumes to wear, and take pictures everywhere! fun!!! hahas, but it's super thick, and we're like sweating all over. Plus for the female clothes, they're kinda long, so peh and i have to walk carefully. At first we tried to be demure, like walk slowly and carefully. after that we gave up and just pull the skirts and walk around. so ya, it's like the jeans underneath the long skirts. super unglam. hahas!

us, with the hong kong people!

peh! i told her to give a shu nu eating pose. but errr..hahas!

peh feeding the emperor! ahem, and with the guard, hahas, i didnt mean to cut off the head.

drunked peh, and hungry me!

me=maid, peh=empress. so ya, i have to feed her

see the toufu on the sword! hahas, supposed to be like some pro swordman i dont know what im doing. hahas, now then i realised that i have the animated look

woots! the palace people!

hahas, ugly!

looks like we are gossiping

massage for the emperor

bubbles! hahas, trying to have that chio romantic feeling

okayys! im damn tired now cos lessons have started and this blog entry seems to take forever cos i have to upload all these photos. and i dont know why, but the spacing and paragrahing keeps screwing up! so yes, i feel damn lazy to blog le. but i shall try!!

alrights, time for bed, 745 am tmr!

okays, im seriously bored at work. and that explains this entry. hahas!

Woah, I'm flying off to Korea pretty soon and I've decided to blog about my korea trip. Big or small, hilarious or lame, happy or sad, I shall try to note them down here. Hahas, hopefully I wont be too lazy, and yep, I should start right now. Shan't procrastinate!

Dormitory:

Originally, I would be staying in the CJ-I house (double) with esther and this room sharing thingy with peh makes me excited cos' we can cook together, whine and gossip within the four walls, and you know, girls' talk throughout the night. I remember there's a phrase which goes something like never count the eggs before they are hatched (i think) and yes, it applies to me totally! One fine day at work, I was checking my mail as usual (hahas, yes slacking away) and I received this urgent mail from IIE, telling me due to abrupt circumstances, they had to relocate me to Anam Hall. Luckily I was in the work place, if not I would definitely start screaming madly. Obviously, when I received this kinda crap explanation, I feel damn pissed, and yes, I want my NEW and CHIO dorm back! I mean, they didnt even bother to offer a better explanation. At least if they give something like ehh *oh! there's an abundance of cockroaches in the dorm suddenly and we had to moooove you!!!* I would be entertained and perhaps not get so pissed. But no! They had to throw me out for such a crap reason.

So I called them (waste money..zz) to demand a reasonable explanation. Apparently, they had to cut down the number (dont know why) and so they kicked out those who paid later, even though the payment is still made within the given time frame. Damn, there's nothing I can do, but perhaps blame my bad luck? Then images of ancient old dorm, with tons of hair clogging up the sewage filled my mind. With me, all alone, dodging those cockroaches, and maybe rats? URGH!

Luckily there's work, so I dont have much time to you know, wallow in self pity and start crying, poking my hamster blar blar. The most I've done is to whine to those people who are online. Which apparently is quite alot, cos the next day, i received quite a number of messages to ask if my dorm thingy is settled. hahas.

So before I have any time to self-destruct, peh told me that there's another unlucky soul who got kicked out, and yep, she managed to contact me! hahas, amazing power of communication. Coincidentally, she's also an li's friend and she went to anli's bday party and that means we should have seen each other already! hahas, but of cos, I have no recollection at all.

But yep! The housing thingy is finally settled, and we're both going to decompose in Anam Hall, and she's going to be my room-mate! Maybe this dorm thingy isnt that bad. Afterall, I can save on the dorm fees by 100USD, and yep! a new friend found! And maybe, just maybe, Anam Hall wouldnt be that bad!

I'm crossing my fingers. for now. hahas, too lazy to keep them crossed forever right?

Recent Updates:

1. Working!

Wake up at 715 am, take bus, squeeze, alight, work, msn, waiting impatiently for 6 pm to arrive. Knock off, go for tuition, if not go home, rest, sleep. Yep, that's about it. hahas

2. BBQ with uni people!

haha wait till i get my hands on the photographs taken. Picture paints a thousand words. Or rather, i'm too lazy to write.

3. Results!

Not good, not too bad either. A little disappointed in certain mods, and a pleasant surprise for other mods. I guess it's all about give and take.

But i think ive grown stronger this sem, much stronger. And perhaps next sem, ill take a different approach as to how i study. Hopefully it will be better!