Stop Existing And Start Living: June 2008

Day 1

We took a night flight. Anyway.. airport terminal 3 was nice lol... I was still scared on the plane (: Couldn't sleep.

a speaker in the chair!

(at korea airport)

Day 2

So anyway, we reached korea and I was soo tired. My feet hurt, since it was the first time i wore that ballerina flats. So I changed into my shoes at the korea airport.. neither did I expect that I didn't wear it after camp or be filled with sand..okay not really FILLED .. (I wore those pair of shoes for the water activities in camp..which includes jetty jumping..so i wore it when i jumped into the lake thing) heh heh.. so I just dumped the sand on the floor.

I saw the tour guide and I thought she was from taiwan lol.. No la.. She's from korea la. She calls herself xiao yan zi..Haha. My first thought was O.O There's a tour leader too.. Nicole. From singapore but she's originally from malaysia or sth.

It was cool outside the airport! =D as in cold that cool. Haha it would form some white mist when you talk and blow.. I was hoping for a big bus.. and yippe a big bus! There's about 28 people in the tour I guess.

Once again, the tour guide starts blabering haha. She said that we fall asleep in not more than five minutes after we board the bus. And she said that Singaporeans are still polite when they are sleeping.. the nod their heads( like saying thank you) while sleeping. Oh I joined the chan brothers tour btw, but it works with the lotte company in korea.

First stop: MBC fliming studio ( the place where they flimed Da Chang Jing or dae jang geum)

The place looked uglier than in the show.. and the gates were so short la! The xiao yan zi said it was because the people last time were small. lol.

They sell strawberries there and ice cream and so on. But we didn't buy 'em. My mom was talking to the tour guide about me and my sister again .. The tour guide's 34 years old. lol she's got 2 sons..one of them is 2 and the other is 12. WOW. big gap. She wants to have a daughter.. My mom was like.. she likes daughters very much.. like diao.

Let the pictures do the talking.

Okay I slept on the bus on the way to the next stop.. my neck ached! I think it was lunch or something..steamboat. It was quite nice (: Ohh and the chopsticks were flat.

Next was..SHOPPING! lol. OKay only. We went to see some water fountain first. The socks were cheap. But didn't buy them that day. Bought'em another day. We went shopping.. Bought a top and some awful tasting bottled tea. I thought it was awful..my sis liked the smell. Anyway, you can taste many different tea in it..

We went to make kimchi and wear kimonos next. My kimchi looked... lol. okay lahs. It was cool making it.. anyway i wore some pink and yellow kimono.
Next was dinner..STEAMBOAT but with different ingredients. I prefered the lunch.

We went to seoul garden resort to spend the night. It's not a resort.. It's a hotel. But somehow they named it like that.. Went walking around the hotel area at night. There's this protest happening about US beef import... But we didn't see it. We bought berries that day.. It tasted horrible. I guess the fruits from that store ain't fresh.

The good thing is that the hotel has the channels AXN and Disney channel LOL. Watched both of them.. I could sleep that night.

Day 3
Heard the morning call and decided to ignore it.. haha. My sis ignored it too( I shared the room with my sis) I thought that it was too soft to be a phone call. But what else could it be? LOL. I dozed off.. and it rang again.. I woke my sis up for her to answer it (she was beside the phone) while I lie back down.. Okay I got up after a while..

Breakfast was some noodle soup and porridge. The noodle was quite nice and the porridge sucked. Oh and on the way up to the restaurant, I over heard this group of boys saying in chinese that we are probably from china.. whatta... anyway. I was eating half way and xiao yan zi came over and was saying why I don't pin up my hair.. blah my fringe's covering my face.blah . my face so nice why cover etc..and trying to push my fringe back.. THIS WAS WHEN THE WHOLE FRINGE THING STARTED! she kept talking about it and pushing back my fringe whenever she sees me..

I saw this Big hairy black dog chained to a tree. AND THIS STUPID PERSON TRIED TO KICK IT!!!!! >: ( The doggie was cute ;D Bunch of fur!

We proceeded to...*drumroll* (oh whatever) EVERLAND! haha!! IT'S A THEME PARK! IT WAS FUN (: It was cold in the morning. Oh ya xiao yan zi was also like copying my "pose".. cuz my fringe kept covering my face, so I kinda tilted my head. And i was putting my hands in my pocket (cuz it's cold mah ) we followed her and nicole and went to sit the cable car! Ohh then we went to some water ride..the tour guide said it was fun and it really was. It's those like 8 people sit on a big round float with seats and you go down the chompy river.. (man made river la) those kind.. and the water would sometimes splash in.. I was the only one who got wet in that boat la!!! My shirt , pants, jacket and hair got wet. I was wearing a grey shirt, so phew.. And it was quite sunny too so they dried fast.

Next we watched a 3-D show.. It's was freaky.. I hated it when they blew the air into my hair from the head rest. There's a fan right in front of us too.. and the chair moves. Lol while queuing up for the movie.. my mom got into a usual chat with other group ppl and nicole and xiao yan zi.. topic: me and my sis again.. since we were there. xiao yan zi suddenly say i piao liang.. but that's acceptable.. nicole said shen cai hao. LIKE wth. She's like claire! HAHA. I was super shocked that she said that!!

Then we went to see butterflies and birds! The butterflies aren't scared of humans! o.O I touched a few. =) one went on my mom's shirt. lol. The birds were furry.. feathery.. chubby! aww

Next was lunch.. I ate spaghetti and it was nice. Hmm..

After that our tour group went to sit on some bus.. to see animals.. lions, tigers, ligers(mix breed between lions and tigers), bears..etc.

Ate some grape ice cream and walked around (: the ice cream was soft!! heh heh..
Caught some seal show next..

Then went to see..MONKEYS! lol. baboons with the red butt.. I saw an orang gutan and it looked soo bored. It was like playing with the stone on the ground.. and digging stones out. so human-like. 4 hours wasn't enough. Didn't play some ghost shooting game!! aww. heh so sat the "Cable car" back down. Dinner was some squid steamboat. sians. Oh after dinner we went to buy fruits I think. With the whole group. Haha the tour guide was saying that the way we saw the fruits is like they way you see your savior. Bought champane grapes and some small sweet grapes!! The champagne grapes were super delicious and fresh. There weren't any strawberries!! ): Oh well.
We stayed at some tatami room that night. It was just renovated and it was huge. There was a kitchen, bedroom, yeah toilet and living room. SAD! I didn't take any photos of it!! AHH.. OH my dad bought beer. heh.. I got drunk! No la! joking.

Day 4
Cliped my hair up. Not really everything, just the back part. Aiya you'll see in the photos. It was buffet breakfast at a hotel. Hmm. I sat down. Xiao yan zi realised that I so called listened to her and cliped my hair up. She was like smiling and was like lai bao yi xia then she hugged me like diao.. I didn't really think of what she said when I clipped my hair haha! The buffet was okay I guess.

NEXT! We went to some gold mine thing. IT WAS SUPER COLD IN THE GOLD MINE I TELL YOU (it was the actual gold mine last time) AND I WAS WEARING SHORTS.... !!! So I was freezing there. Worse still... we had to climb many SLIPPERY steep steps and climb down them too. I slipped 5 times and tripped 3 times.. It was scary la. The stairs were so long... I was practically gripping on to the cold railing... My hands got numb too. OH and I had jelly legs then.. seriously jelly.. it was still trembling after I finished climbing down or up.

I was so happy to see the sun after we came out.

Then it was lunch..Yeah once again.. STEAMBOAT! -.- We went in the restaurant and settled down. We heard this tour guide of another chan brothers tour shouting angrilly. Apparently the place had been double booked. But they had to wait for us to finish.

Next up was some paddling thing.. We were supposed to paddle some.. some.. seat thing.. nvm. There were tunnels!! haha so fun.. My sis and I paddled quite fast ..but had to slow down in the end. cuz there were ppl in front. Loved it la! They played some korean folk song in the tunnel! HILLARIOUS. I laughed quite loud and the ppl in front turned around. Ate some nice ice cream there. Yeah, it was nice.

haha next was kinda fun..we went to the hot springs place at the hotel. (man made.. like a pool) =) 39 degree celsius. We are supposed to go to the hot spring then some "cold spring" (19 degree celsius) then the hot spring. lol.

Then went to the doctor fish place with another family with 1 son the same age as me. You are supposed to go into this pool of fishes. The fishes were supposed to eat your dead skin. Damn I freaked out for the first time..it was super itchy but cool (: my skin felt smoother.

Oh and it was tatami again. It was smaller than the other one but still big. with the kitchen, living room, bedroom and of course toilets. Talking about toilets, haha at every stop, xiao yan zi would always tell us where the toilet is. lol. Oh ya my dad bought some apple flavour beer..my sis wanted it. HEH once again I finished the beer the fastest. lol

Day 5

Breakfast was..buffet?? Whatever.

Went to some street shops place.. bought some things.

Then went to some erm war memorial thing??

Then was lunch I think.. followed by going to some ice bar place... OH. They were fliming that place.. It was gonna be shown on TV. Lol they were like fliming us touching the ice blah.. They interviewed someone from our tour too lol. Then was some ice world thing.. called duno what tiger world? yeah I didn't go in.. My family went to starbucks instead. I tried some dark mocha frappuccino..IT WAS SUPER NICE.. lol. In the end another family came in too. LOL. The one who brought one son( my age )there. My mom kept talking to the son's mom . Anyway. Guess what. They have like a lot of things in common. Both are of the same age. Both are born in september and both cant take scary rides cuz of some problems etc.

OKay so we went back to the bus. Oh ya xiao yan zi was like asking me if singapore's fashion was tights in chinese. I got what she said lol.. I didn't sometimes when she and nicole ask me things in chinese. =O Cuz nicole mumble! she talks loudly but mumble! LOL what an excuse for me. My sister gets it..I get it most of the times!

Then I think we went shopping then dinner . I think dinner was ren sheng ji tang and noodles (: OH YA. there's this chinese wine.. It's super strong..Xiao yan zi told us that when she brought the china tourist to drink, one of em was saying "why is it so hot" in chinese after she drank the wine in the bus and started stripping . Xiao yan zi even copied her accent!! haha super funny. My sis drank the wine..haha she felt warm after that. I poured some into my soup. Nothing happened. We stayed at seoul garden resort. AXN and DISNEY CHANNEL! haha

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DAY 6
We saw many policeman on the road. Lol cuz of the protest.. haha. We were like taking photos of em. Lol I was like looking then i saw one posing for the cam and waving at me. ahha. Ehh.. Next was the museum.. then it was some palace place. The old palace where the kings and queens stayed.. The queen got murdered. Yeah we went to the place where she got murdered! She got killed by the japanese. tsk tsk tsk.. The queen was smart.

Oh. My sis and I saw this woman dressed in some kimono thing and holding a small umbrella. Duno what umbrella it was and she walked behind the palace.. FREAKY LA. Didn't see her face lol... My sis was like.. later it's the queen. CHOY. TOUCH WOOD.

Then we saw this "parade" of how guards change duty in the past..It had to be so grand in the past! haha I saw this "official" in the parade almost laughing. I was laughing at him lol. Looked funny. I guess lunch was next. I forgot. Shopping. The place had rows of shops. It wasn't at a roadside. It was just rows of shops haha. Almost bought this pair of converse shoe. It had like 2 layers, 2 laces. Cool. But there was no size.. ): SAD!!! I liked the levis jeans too..

Anyway, we went to lotte world. And my mom ask the woman who was the same age as her and her son, who is the same age as me to follow us. Since her husband left on that day cuz he had to go to work overseas. Lol.

Xiao Yan zi told us to go to this sinbad ride.. You are supposed to sit on a boat.. It would go down like a roller coaster sometimes. I freaked out. OKay I sat in the boat with the other tour ppl and my sis and dad beside me (my mom didnt sit) Me: Ahh I'm SCARED! (when it started) I didn't realise I said it THAT loud. Lol the people in front all turned around..even the mother and son right in front. (the one my mom ask to follow us) haha they were like not scary one.. Hmm.. so we went. We saw xiao yan zi and the photographer.. The photographer took a picture of us! Lol I was already freaking out there. Anyway, the boat went into this dark tunnel (it's indoor btw) and they showed some sinbad characters blah.. the boat went up haha and the mom in front told everyone that the boat's gonna fall! It did. I screamed. like ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh till it stopped. The high pitched scream. haha!

When the boat was stable again (not dropping) haha like everyone in front turned around and was O.O wah. scream so loud haha.. I didn't know I screamed that loud. My sis screamed too and she heard me. I didn't hear her. I was too scared. But it wasn't that scary. hmm .. So the second drop. I TRIED not to scream.. But I screamed.. lol At least it wasn't so loud. I guess.

Yeah, next we sat the monorail.. We were queuing up and then the person asked us how many ppl. haah I forgot who was like 9..9. big family. haha!! cuz we wanted to go together. The person was like shocked. ;D haha!

Hmm.. next went to watch some water and fire show... You could feel the heat when the fire shot up.. oh and at one time, I thought the stage caught fire haha cuz the fire went like around the end of the stage.
we (me, sis, dad, mom, the mom and son)went to try the bumper car next.. It was kinda hard to drive the car. weird. My sis couldn't drive it!haha so she didn't move till ppl bump her.
Then walked out of the indoor themepark and went to the outdoor one..hmm. saw scary rides. haha..

Didn't go for any outdoor rides..then decided to have dinner indoors.. I tried the zha jiang mian that xiao yan zi recomanded.. It was okay. Lol she spotted us eating. haix. I didn't know there were prawns inside. (allergic to prawns) soo.. my lips were like itchy. And the side became red.

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There's a parade at 7.30 so we rushed down to level 2 to watch it. lol It was cool.

heh we got drinks next then walked around. haha we had 1 more ride to go. and the son's mom was like since she and my mom can't sit those heart dropping rides, they will go sit the merry go round. haha! the horse one. but of course they didn't.

Went to the "meeting" place and chatted..well. My mom and her chatted. we just listened and talk..

We stayed at seoul garden resort for the night..

Day 7

Sadly! the last day!! ):

buffet breakfast.. I wasted food =X

Then was some ginseng government place.. Bought ginseng tablets. I have to like eat 4 tablets every morning before breakfast.. IT TASTES SO DISGUSTING.

Then went shopping/ lunch at nu ren jie haha women street. Got down the bus. And xiao yan zi came over. I thought she was going to talk about my hair again! but she didn't lol. she was asking me what i wanted to have for lunch..phew. anyway went with the son and mom to eat some korean food.. I ate some chicken cutlet with rice etc.. nice. There was no time for shopping!
So went back up the bus. Next destination was some store that sells.. seaweed, sweets, chocolate etc . a little like a supermarket. bought seaweed. (:

After everyone got up the bus, kevin (photographer) sold the photos he took on the bus. My dad bought 6. It was in a nice album thing..one family had one each. and xiao yan zi was talking about every family on the bus.. like wishing them good health etc.. she said my dad won't look at other women but my mom(apparently cuz she's pretty--that's what she said)..-.-. Yeah she talked about my hair. She was saying I guai listen to her and clip up my hair blah..must listen to my parents or she come here and da wo (beat me) diaos. she said she was joking. duh. haha she was asking me to hui shou (wave my hand), don't hid heh. I hid behind the seat. The kids in front were like looking around to see who's she's talking about. ;D She said if we see one small person waving at us when we're in the plane, it's her haha. yeah she's petite. Xiao yan zi also said she'll be in Singapore on the 30th of august at the chan brothers booth.. for some "let's go korea" thing.

So went to the airport. ): sad. haha I kept saying I dun wanna go back to singapore to my sis on the plane. I watched movies on the plane! Juno , step up 2 and horton (watched less than halfway and decided to stop cuz i was sleepy)

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