after only five days in korea, i'm already hating the weather here back in singapore. i don't even have to move. all i have to do is sit in my living room and already, i'm sweating like i've been exercising..
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and thus i am now in the room with my aircon on and the sun shining in throught the window. because my mother washed the curtains. gee, someone save my skin!!!
dead tired when i reached singapore yesterday.. i fell asleep in my father's car. he came to fetch me and was waiting for me at the arrival hall (awww thanks pop!)
all in all, this korean trip has been great. i love the weather (so i'm never going in summer haha) and all the people there, who had been so friendly and kind, be it showing us directions by bringing us there or chatted with us. i love the food, from the roadsides to the restaurants and i especially love my dear. haha oops that's digressing.
but pretty sure imma visit korea again.. and next time, i want to venture out of seoul to the neighbouring cities.
DAY 1
candy and qiaoyan came over to tiong bahru plaza where my father then drove us to the airport. we checked in early to get rid of our luggage. we wanted to have breakfast at macdonald's but couldn't find it anywhere. eventually we realized that it was in the departure terminal. it had a nice scenery, with a good view of the runways outside. i didn't eat much cuz i was going to have the inflight meal on the plane. time to board the plane after so long! first time on a cathay pacific flight… they’re actually quite good!! but the meal sucked. i forgot what it was but the bread was horrible.
the transit in hongkong was very bearable because we arrived in hongkong late, due to flight delay in singapore itself. candy and qiaoyan braided my hair too! haha can you tell? this time, the food was much much better. some Korean style beef with a freaking good piece of bread. haha. we thus decided that since cathay is a hongkong-based airline, they serve better food in flights of hongkong origin.
after the transit flight... we're finally in incheon!!! after we arrived, we set out to collect our rented phones. initially we thought we would have missed the airport buses because it was already almost ten by the time we settled everything.. but in good faith, the lady at the information counter told us it's still available!! yay! haha so we hurried to the bus stop and we were the very few passengers on it.
on the way to our destination, myeongdong
we reached sejong hotel, our designated stop at 10 plus in the evening. it was right beside the myeongdong subway station so there was lots of people around. we were supposed to locate a certain pacific hotel to get to our guesthouse. so we asked the bus driver where it was. he was already kind enough to help carry our bags down but then he brought it back up to the bus again and said he would drive us further to the hotel as a 'present'. awwwww. our first encounter with a friendly korean! hahaha.. well turned out it was only another 20 metres down the road but that was good enough!! thanks ajusshi!
we were greeted with a rude shock to know that nellie meant it when she said the guesthouse was on top of a hill. the directions on the guesthouse homepage made no mention about it being a 300 metres up a steep slope.
we felt a bit lost but we finally realized that the slope that we were facing was the one to our guesthouse. and so we preservered. our luggages went some noise in that quiet street and we seriously thought that someone would just throw something at us from their windows.
upon arrival.. even a ruder shock. our room is too small for the three of us!!!
our pathetic room
i kicked up a fuss at the counter and after much trouble, the owner told us he would confirm the next day if he could get us a bigger room. arghz. my mood was pretty spoiled because of the small room issue. so what if the bathroom is decently big?!
spent some time idling around with nellie, yuenling and my australian friend, mal who came here for the concert. after that, we went down the slope to the convenience store to get some groceries before making that painful ascending of that slope again...
we spent the night (and many nights following) watching the tv.. and there's almost like 50 over channels on cable to choose from. trust me, when you go to korea, watch OCN (the supposedly no 1 channel in korea as endorsed by various top artistes *wink*). watch it especially in the middle of the night. they undoubtedly play good movies that had us staying up til early morning.
listening to: shinhwa -- your man
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