Korea, the land of possibilities.....

An nyoung ha seh yo,

I stepped my foot on the land of Korea, on the 5th August 2010. All these while, I've been like crazing for going overseas. Not sure what is the crazyness about, new places, new experiences et cetera. However, as I'm in the plane, I was like, hmm, yes, it's a fun trip, but what's the crazyness about actually? I'm not sure.

I say so because, okay, I reached there and so? Hmm, maybe I still haven found a good reason for it.

The purpose of this trip was to attend ASEAN-Korea Frontier Forum, aka AKFF. Reached there around morning in Incheon Airport where the volunteers met us there.

Ah.. less words, more pictures & captions. Let's get it on!

 

The volunteers who greeted us as we reached

All of them were very friendly, don't ever ask me to list down their names, their names are more complicated than chinese names! hahaha.



Wow? Rays
This shot was just at the right place, right time. Everything was right.


  

The arches you see, inside is a tunnel road.
Above are some examples of houses present


 

Konkuk University

Konkuk University, the place where 70% of my time is when I'm in Korea.

It's in Seoul! I stayed there, makan there, everything there. It's a 6 star rating from me. Everything inside was perfect.

Psst- they have room service for your hostel!!!



Roomie...



This was my room, 206 if not mistaken. The chair was superb comfortable, twin-sharing basis, attached bathroom, room service every 2 days, towels provided, everything was in tact!

The air cond was power saving, because after 9am, you basically can't on it. They control it from somewhere. Door light which turns on/off by itself when you reach. Very nice!



Apa ini? The gate to accomodation block



Touch and go. You have a room card (similar to hotels) touch it and zeeeezzzt, the gate opens, and go!

The first day nothing much, we were taken for an orientation and divided into 2 groups, country group and mixed group. Then we went orientation and at night games.

Country group consisted of 5persons, but ours was 6. Special eh?

Malaysia Group, 3 Malaysians, 3 Koreans (girls) *twink twink*

This was my other group where we do 'Friendship' stuffs

In this session, what you see is domino (not the pizza.. wahahahahaha!), we have to use that and create something related to AKFF.

What I designed... Not bad? however, others were all not bad too! (you know to compete with the other brilliants', awww.. hard!)

First night in Korea, what you will do? Of course wander around right? We didn't able to get the permission to go 'out of campus', so we did it on campus! Bought quite a number of stuffs, biscuits etc.

Instant noodles, biscuits, yogurt drinks, makan-makan lah!

I'm not going to talk much, just highlights of what I did there. Basically, we went there and were asked to do a research paper for the topic globalization. 
The highlight was? Highlight was of course cultural experiences. We went to the GyeongBokGung Palace, whereby we see traditional buildings etc.

Kesian (pity) them, stand there whole day

Don't ask me why I did so. ^^

Don't ask me why they did so. ^^

Typical building shot. slanting towards the sky.

Ah.. My rest area in my garden. 'MY GARDEN'

Street view

This is a very beautiful place. It's a place where Art enthusiasts meet. Everything in there were 'ART'.

See how 'ART' it was.

This is what chinese say 'People mountain people sea', the crowd never ends. It's busy the whole time.

Errr... Halley, I was just taking pictures with them. Hehe ^^

Halley, just another picture... Hehe ^^
*notice the few people at the back, they are observing!*

Ern, I'd complain, I think too much pictures isn't it? Hehe. 
We went to don't know what river, which was very dirty last time and they'd transformed it into a tourist attraction area.

OMG, I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!!

Nanta, don't miss them when they come over to Malaysia.

Can I praise the photographer for this shot? Oh Kok Soon, you're a great photographer. Haha!

Enough of playing, back to serious matter, from the research paper, we have to present it in front of those professors etc. 1 person present, 2 person answer questions. Myself as the question answerer. Hehe.

The smiling president. Oh my my. This was a fake shot. Haha

Wahaha, My dream place. I meant, I love all these kind of streets with neon lights and people. Love it!

What I watch in TV, where people is sitting at the road side vomiting, a guy consoling a girl who is drunk, girls walking around looking drunk, guys walking around doing the drunken fist walking, and all. I usually see this on TV, perhaps I think Malaysia don't have those (Maybe there's but I don't see it because I don't go clubbing), Hehe.

I saw all those live in Korea street. A new experience for me. 

ooooo.... sorry, no tripod and time available for a better shot.

Hostel fridges

Malaysian culture vs. Korean culture.

What Malaysians always do is they hope for the better but don't actually cherish it. Yes, Malaysians can have this and that, but, it'll be gone if there're no protection of it.

Above is the example of fridge for hostel rooms in Konkuk Uni. Each compartment is labeled with room numbers. No locks, no stealing.

Can Malaysians do this? It's near impossible. If we have this, the fridge will either be vandalized or stealing will happen. If so, why do Malaysians complaint and complaint? It's because we don't see the reason why the thing is not there.

Wow! Innovative petrol station, save space. Pull down to refill.

Shabu-shabu lover... Pure beef.

Spot me!

In samsung D'light. 

Love this!

Omg. hahaha, Wrong post with the wrong suit

Goodbye Korea!

Food?

Korean food, the main dish is rice. Everything is rice. Note that, breakfast, they eat rice too. Kimchi is the second accompaniment. It's a MUST have dish.

Beef? Not so much, because it's expensive there.

Pork? Yes, a lot, a substitute for beef.

Lamb? Not eaten one yet.

Chicken? Yes.

Fish? Not so much.

Ooooo.. A very very long post. It's okay, I'll stop here, for more pictures, visit my Facebook albums below

Album 1

Album 2

Album 3

Roger and out!

Tribute to him....

I see.. since June eh?? hahaha...

I'm writing this because basically I'm too free on holiday now. Too free and yet doing unnecessary stuffs and I forced myself to do something good.

I love blogging, just too lazy.

To my grandpa,
I've been told by my dad about how you survive a living during the hard times. You worked so hard in your bread factory to put meals on the table for us. You've to wake up early in the morning just to deliver bread to the hospital and everywhere. Dad told me, during the down turns of the business where you have to break the wooden fence of the house and use it to bake breads. I was like.. OMG? breaking the house fence for wood and to bake bread? I'm not sure how serious was it but when I heard, I know you'd worked hard.

No matter how small or big the contribution is, whatever is it, as long as it comes from the heart.