Hot summer!

HELLO. I shall blog about my trip to Korea with Chia Li :)

Day 1.

Our flight was at 11.30PM. So basically we had to spend the night in the plane. Which TOTALLY sucked because if you're stuck in economy class, you'd barely have space to sit comfortably, what more sleep. Really envy those people who usually travel by first class or business class. :(

Fortunately for me, I got the window seat. Unfortunately for Chia Li, she had to sit beside this korean uncle who brought a stupid big ass map, which he put on the floor. So the map laid across the floor, beneath his, Chia Li's and my seat. =___= damn dulan. I tried pushing the end of the map out, so it goes out to the aisle. As a sign that he shouldn't put his map across our seats. But wth, he pushed it back in. The least he could do is put it in the overhead compartment what lol =.=

Yeah, ANYWAYS, after much tosses and turns, we finally arrived!

Didn't take any pics in the airport though. Here's one vain self-shot in the bus! :D

With Chia Li. I like my hair here! So ang ang LOL.

Our first destination - the Gyeongbokgung Palace. Honestly, there's nothing much there. It's really empty cuz apparently the Japanese demolished parts of it and yada yada. So they rebuilt it. Which, in my opinion, meant much less because this isn't the original.

The main entrance + me





Some (wannabe) artsy-fartsy shot of the interior of the main hall.



Reddish hair again! :D I LIKE!

Basically we just bummed around and very semangat-tedly took pics around the palace. First day what, of course semangat.

It was scorching hot that afternoon btw. And we had this for lunch:

Self-pan-fry Korean pancake and veggies.

And the restaurant didn't have air conditioners! :( I guess it's not common there. Most of the restaurants weren't air conditioned. Oh me, pampered Malaysian. Hahah :D

After lunch, we went shopping down the street. Didn't take any pics cuz shopping > all. :) Also we were given only one hour to shop. We managed to buy clothes though! :) I kinda forgot the shopping area name but it's near Ewha University if I'm not mistaken. The clothes are nice and considerably cheap! I bought a pair of stockings for RM9. :D :D :D

Next stop, Jeju island! TWO freaking flights in a day, damn. :( It was horrible. I started to feel nauseous and sick because of the turbulence.

The first destination was Teseum. Short for Teddy bear Museum. It's really nice. Like as if you're in a world of soft toys! Wish it was bigger though. :(

Pretty mer..bear?



Me with teddieeeess

Okay lah, enough with teddies.

Due to the rain, we couldn't do much that day. So we went for dinner right after visiting Teseum.
On the way there, the tour guide gave us free gifts in courtesy of Teseum! Too bad the bears look cacat. Must be from the rejected batch :x

Dinner! Tofu+tauge soup and side dishes. Grilled mackerel, pan friend spicy pork, kimchi, etcetc.

Credits to Chia Li for the food pics. I was so hungry I didn't have the energy to take out my camera. It always happens when it's meal time. So, all of the food pics except the rice cake one, are and will be taken from Chia Li's. :D

The hotel we stayed at in Jeju was fabulous. Although the room was small, it was nonetheless cozy, modern, clean, and most importantly, not creepy. It has yellow light! Can't stand hotels with florescent lights, seriously creepy.

Didn't take pics of the rooms though :( AIH. Regret regret.

So.. I googled the pics! Smart or what!

It's tiny, I know. Bear with me.



Don't know why the room looks so small here. It's more spacious, I swear.



Clean and bright toilet!

If I'm ever going to Jeju island again, I think I'm gonna choose this hotel once more :)
Okay, this is the end of my first day in Korea. Blog next time!

HI

I'd love to blog about Pangkor and Korea.

But.. I'm too lazy hahah maybe next time.

BYE.

Random.

I've done this twice and I'm doing it again. :D

a) Answer the questions below, do a Google Image Search with your answer, take a picture from the first page of results, do it with minimal words of explanation.
b) Tag 5 other people to do the same once you've finished answering every question.

1. The age you'll be on your next birthday:



2. A place you'll like to travel to:



Hokkaido again, please! :D

3. Your favourite place:



4. Your favourite food:



Katong laksa! (without the cockles)

5. Your favourite pet:



6. Your favourite colour combination:



Third one.

7. Your favourite piece of clothing:

This is hard. So I'll just skip. :P


8. Your all-time favourite song:



LOL. Yup.

9. Your favourite tv-show:



Loyal viewer! *points at self*

10. First name of your significant other/crush:



11. The town in which you live in:




12. Your screen/nickname:



14. Your dream job:



High fashion magazine editor. Without the white hair.

15. A habit you have:



16. Your worst fear:

I'm not gonna search an image of my worst fear, wtf -_-

17. The one thing you'd like to do before you die:



Meet a mermaid.

18. The first thing you'll buy if you get $1,000,000:

Old couples.

I really respect old couples. I mean the loving ones. It's amazing how they've been with each other for so long, and yet still so loving. Waking up beside each other every morning, feeling blessed that they've gone through life thus far. Counting down the days that they have left to spend together. Wishing the day that either one of them leaves, to not come so soon. Reminiscing and talking about the times they've had together. Their first date, the proposal, the wedding day, birth of their firstborn.

I respect them because I think nowadays, the typical old Asian couples aren't like that. Well, at least the couples around me aren't.

An example, my grandparents. They've stopped showing love ever since this issue about money happened, when my mom was still a child. Since then my grandmother stopped trusting my grandfather. I hate how money is almost always the cause of arguments. But oh well, like they say, money is the root of all evil.

Isn't love about forgiveness? I don't understand how my grandmother can be so cold towards him, even when he was dying. When he was still healthy, they'd either argue or not talk at all. It got worse when he got ill, because he couldn't argue back. Everyday I'd hear my grandmother shouting at him. And my grandpa who suffered stroke, just sat there, defenseless.

When his condition got worse, my mom asked my grandmother to sleep with him at night, to supervise him or help him up when he needs to go to the toilet or something. She was SO reluctant and she even asked for my mom to buy an extra bed (note that he already had a queen sized bed) if she really has to take care of him.

But why? He's her husband. He used to be the one she slept next to. He was the one she fell in love with, the one she's married to, the one she had kids with. I just didn't understand.

Perhaps love faded. They changed. After so long living together, they got tired.

Another example, my aunt and uncle. My aunt would always scold my uncle for the littlest mistakes he had done. She'd even do it in public. Sometimes she'd do it in such a manner that even I'd cringe. Has she lost respect for him? To even humiliate him like that in front of the younger ones. What will their grandchildren think of their grandpa?

To me, it is not a cowardly act to just keep quiet and refrain from arguing back when my aunt scolds him like that. I think it's just an act of love. Tolerance. Because he knows that things will only go from bad to worse if he argues back. He'd rather take it all in, and suffer alone.

I just don't get it. Shouldn't older couples appreciate each other instead of taking things for granted like that? Shouldn't they show more love instead of showing less? Shouldn't they cherish the remaining days they have left as a couple?

Will they regret when it's all too late?

Maybe it's an Asian thing. To not express love and care like the westerners do. Even children (like me) are too shy/embarrassed to go up to their parents and say 'I love you'. It's the culture I guess. Which isn't a good thing, IMO.

One big question mark.

I'm going through a rather difficult part of my life right now. In the midst of my exams, especially right before the most dreaded paper, I decided to worry about what I wanna do in uni. And in life. It sucks to not know what you're passionate about.

I've tried asking myself. Am I passionate in fashion? I don't know. Compared to others, those who are really into it, I definitely know a lot lesser. So this just goes to show how "passionate" I am.

Then I ask myself. Do I really wanna do Economics in university? Like I've been telling everyone since I was in high school?
HELL NO.
I don't know if it was my A-levels lecturer's fault or what, but it's definitely not my thing right now.

I've been telling people that I wanna work in a bank. And I aspired to be like my aunt, who earns big bucks, working at UBS. But then again, I ask myself; do I really wanna spend the rest of my life living under stress, looking at figures everyday, looking at black and white papers, talking about money, money, AND money?

No, I don't.

Some of my friends are taking up Accounting & Finance in uni, cuz it's the safest job, recession-proof. It's true. There are always jobs available for graduates of that course. They wouldn't have to worry about being jobless after graduation. Some say they'll earn the money first, then only do what they wanna do after that.

I don't know if I can handle that. I'm the type of person who just walks out if I'm sick of something. I don't do well with things that I don't really like. Accounting is mehhh, I don't find it boring but I don't find it interesting either. And again, it involves numbers. I just don't wanna take up a course that I'd despise, then end up skipping classes every chance I get. Cuz that was what I did with Econs.

These days I've been thinking of taking up journalism. Or like media & communications and creative writing. I like writing, although I may not be so good at it, and my vocab is very VERY limited. But hey, with practice I'm sure I can improve!

But will I be able to get a decent job? Will I be able to earn a lot of money? I know writing is supposed to be a passion but realistically, I NEED MONEY. And the investment banking side can give me lots of that.

Sigh.