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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Day 5 - S Stands for Seoul & Shopping

19th Nov,

Had to wake up early again at 6 or 7am because we had to get back to town (seoul) to continue our journey. Picture taken by mum from our window ! Does the sea leads to DPRK?





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Taken by me !




The breakfast buffet's located at 9th floor or something, okay seriously don't remember but it reminded me of Berjaya Time Square hotel too cause the breakfast buffet's also at the 14th floor. Auntie miaolin and uncle were already there so we sat with them again ! ^^


YAKULT FTW.



Maybe I miss yakult too much, cause I drink it almost everyday..........
so have to replenish :
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I brought like 3 of the vita yogu back to seoul so that I can drink it on the 3 hours-bus-ride HEHE.



Didn't eat much cause 70% of the choices were all breads and some puffs, I can't even finish 1 slice of bread in the morning, stupid appetite. My mum can eat at least 1 slice of the toast bread with butter or jam for all her breakfast meals. :( My appetite will only be back when it's lunch or dinner time cause that's when I can eat ALOT WOOOOOO ALMOST x2 OF WHAT MY MUM EATS.


Went back to our room for last minutes-packing !


Assembled at 8am again, Leo was helping all of us with the luggages so we had like 3minutes of free time, OFC IS TAKE PICTURES.

Went down the bus to play with the door !


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On the bus again and goodbye to the hotel ! That's the head of our bus driver at the bottom of the picture, I think he look like those mafia boss that trades white powder or guns or those wash black money type.



 So we're on our journey back to seoul city, then mum started ransacking for her handphone in her bag then she got anxious and asked me to check mine too. Then I found my own and showed her,

me : 我的在这边~
her : -.- 不是叫你找你自己的,check 你的 bag 看有没有我的!!!!


Sometimes parents can really be so unreasonable.

In the end she still couldn't find it so she told XiaoLi and then XiaoLi told the bus driver to make a U-turn at the Round-About and then just when the bus's about to head back to the hotel, mum found her handphone so XiaoLi told the bus driver again and then just like that, the bus went like 2 rounds around the Round-About thing and even I got dizzy -_-''


uncle quek : yvonne ah, Everland 还玩不够啊,还带我们绕圈圈, aiyo kiang dio ho mai kei kiang mah


AHAHA he got his revenge cause mum kept using the kiang dio ho mai kei kiang to suan him ~ XiaoLi played a movie on the bus, a comedy-version movie about the korean war, so diferent from the 71-into the fire I watched on the plane.


Watched like half of it and dozed off in the end.............



Woke up because the bus stopped at a rest stop for us to go toilet and also to buy like a hot coffee and some snacks. And the place was so god damn cold too. So cold that we had to stand in front of a heater in the toilet before we step out to the cold air again.

Just outside the toilet, there are shops selling mountain gloves, boots and all. And almost our entire group were at there, having a mini shopping spree or something. Uncle quek and the other old heroes bought extra gloves, auntie miaolin bought 1 for uncle too.


mum : sieh li hai, highway also can go shopping.


Couldn't stand the cold anymore so I ran back to the bus. Yanping bought sourcream and onion pringles and she gave me some, auntie miaolin bought like a packet of mini redbean pancakes, tried 1 too ^^ So they tempted me to eat and I was kinda hungry since I didn't eat much for breakfast.

Mum then gave me some marble cake she bought from terminal 2, she thought it was bengawan solo at first but when she's done with buying, we realized the shop name was some Kueh Kueh or something. Quite nice though, the marble cake fluffy fluffy kind ~



Watched the movie on the bus, missed like 1/3 of it cause I was sleeping just now. Ending also they die wtf. Saw the Han River and realized we're finally back to seoul ~


Went to this Ice Gallery where we have to alight fast cause it's some 1 way road and the bus couldn't park there.

Went to like B3 to walk in the ''maze'' and we got out cause it's -2degree and the ice around us didn't help at all so we went to find the exit.


There are ice sculptures like Cai Shen Ye, statue of liberty, eiffel tower..... didn't want to waste the space of my memory card so I didn't take pictures of them, but I took a picture of mum with (I totally forget what it is, probably eiffel tower since she dreams to go paris like I do) 's ice sculpture ^^



Exit already when the boy from the 3-family-1brother told her mum there's a slide in there. My eyes totally O_O YOU BETTER BRING ME THERE.


Slippery slide but my coat ruined it, if not can slide until shiok.


Mum was freezing so she chased me out to the exit then I told the 3 kids from the 7-family and their reaction was just like me, O_O YOU BETTER BRING US THERE ~



Walked up to B2 to learn how to do an ice sculpture. We were supposed to make a cup, or a trophy or a beer mug. I totally failzzzzzzzzzzzzzz at it and I even wanted to make a wine glass -__________- Luckily one of the staff there saved my failed sculpture and made a heart shape mug out of it w/o the holder.



Washed it before they poured the orange juice ~


Went up to B1's Coffeebean for the toilet, finally all chiong up the bus and we headed for lunch !



Finally tried the Ginseng chicken soup !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I didn't like it very much cause the soup wasn't nice and the chicken got like more bones than the meat.




Bought some korea long spoons at a small souvenir shop there, regretted not buying the cute metal bowls BUT NVMMMMMMMMMM. Mum wanted to buy their flat chopsticks and I reminded her how tough it was to actually kiap something easy like a idk maggie mee(?) with their flat chopsticks. I was hoping that my mum actually brought our wooden round chopsticks from home to korea but aiyah she didn't.




NEXT
WAS
WHAT
OUR
WHOLE
TOUR
GROUP
WAS
LOOKING
FORWARD
TO.



FINALLY
SOMEWHERE
TO
SHOP
OMG
SCREAMMMMM.


It's like their Women Street 女人街 and there were many girls there in uniform cause it's close to a girl school or something. SO COOL, AFTER SCHOOL STRAIGHT AWAY CAN GO SHOPPING SHIOKZ OR WHAT.


This place is actually better than DongDaeMun and Myeongdong cause we bought the most here and it's also the place where mum and I officially spend our won WEEEEEEEEE


Took this outside a shop,TOP&GD WOOOOO


some korean school girls were looking at me with this o.O look. OF COURSE LAH, YOU ALL CAN SEE IT EVERYDAY, YOU THINK MY COUNTRY HAVE THESE POSTERS??????? Over-reacting me.


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Whenever I asked the shop ladyboss or worker '' olma eh yo '', they'll reply like a bunch of words in korean to me then I'll just go dumbfounded and point to their calculators. Seems like I sound local to them, asking for the price like a typical korean girl AHAHAHA ME LIKE ^^

Regretted not buying the braided headband, 1000won only OMGWTF WAS I THINKING AT THAT TIME.




Me sucks at bargaining the price. I bought 2 winged rings and a ribbon pin and it's 9400won so I pressed on the calculator 9000won and the shop keeper nodded her head so I thought I was so damn smart.


9400-9000 = 400 won.
400 won divided by 835 = 47cents.


ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 47 CENTS ONLY T______________________T


Mum's really good at bargaining. I ask for the price while she's in charge of cutting down the price. From 80000 won to like 50000, which is the knitwear cloak ! Another was 50000 won to 20000 won, the orangey-brown striped oversized ~


Bought a maroon jacket for 15000 won. Didn't dare to walk far cause we only had 1 hour 30minutes and we already had no time to shop, so definitely no time for us to get lost and ask directions. 

We were rushing all the way lor, buy finish from this shop quickly walk along to other shops, then see nice stuff must quickly bargain then quickly buy. :( Missed out quite a lot of shops we wanted to enter along the way...... but seriously no timezzzzzzzzzzzzz.


just from this picture, I already spotted something I want to buy, the maroon oversized >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WHY AT THAT TIME NEVER SEE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Evisu was playing My Heaven - Big Bang and mum had to push me to walk further for more shops cause I stood there for like 10seconds to enjoy the song.

Bought a necklace from this shop that we walked passed but I went back to the shop again cause I liked the necklace very much but it's 9000won which is around SGD10 which is not cheap. The lady boss there was so nice cause she gave me a lace rubberband for free after seeing me pondering for so long whether to buy her necklace or not and in the end I decided to buy it !

But the necklace wasn't what I wanted at first, I liked the 12000won one, got a letter and a key or something, so in the end mum chose the eiffel tower one with a key and a lace ribbon, for 9000won !
We were like the only ones who returned to the bus with 3 big bags and Angela and the rest were so interested in what we bought, so we showed them and told them how my mum actually bargained and they were like WAH, THIS ONE'S NICE, HMM THAT ONE ALSO NOT BAD, WAH CUT UNTIL SO CHEAP AH O_O
  



Took a picture of the train station at the bus, hopefully I can find my way here if I ever fly to korea again :(


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Another 20minutes bus ride to DongDaeMun !


By the time we reached DongDaeMun, it was already 5 or 6pm. There's like 3 major shopping centres there and we only managed to shop like 1 out of the 3 ?!?! 


We had 2 hours to shop which is again, insufficient for us.


Doota ~

Walked to another shopping centre which has like 7 or 8 stories cause the going up escalators' like never-ending, we stopped at the 7th and walked back down. 
Didn't manage to buy anything there even though it's pretty nice to shop but there's too many things to see, so many pretty winterwear T____________________T Saw a necklace with JM on a key so I wanted to buy it for jiamin but the shopkeeper told me it's not for sale, sad. 

never saw that shop again cause all the shops looked the same to us, just like Bugis Street. Too many shops and too many similar things that they sell.


Walked back to Doota and mum bought a dress there for 57000 won by a brand called Timosi Roompacker and both mum and I like the shop a lot, like almost everything there's nice, got the designer feel ^^ Not like forever21, forever the same, forever so many stocks. I will not go crazy over their accessories again cause I can make similar ones from now on WAHAHAHAHA



Met the rest at 8pm and there's this mini concert or something, new group ? 3rd generation of FT island and CN blue I guess.


My mum was like '' oi 去看是不是 SHINee, 还是你的 Big Bang. '' Then I was shaking my head and she '' 去看啦,怕什么!? '' Anyway the world will turn the other way round if it's either one of them.



We were in korea when the moon wasn't full yet and we were leaving korea when the moon's full. Across the Han River which have 23 bridges above it ~



Went for a dinner buffet !!!!!!!!!!! One of my fav dinner cause NO KIMCHI WEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Always want/need maggie mee when they provide it~ Who don't love maggie mee !? ^^

The lalas wasn't nice, no sweet taste one.



I'm not an ice-cream fan but looking at kids queuing to scoop for ice cream actually tempted me to, AHAHA scooped strawberry, vanilla and chocolate into the ice cream bowl and shared with mum. 

Whenever it comes to ice cream, vanilla will always be my favourite then chocolate then finally strawberry. But idk why the strawberry ice cream there like so nice, not too sweet but a lil sour ME LIKE!!!!

So when we're about to leave, I queued again and scooped the strawberry flavor one ~


Mum asked yanping which hotel we're staying the next following day  by that timeand she told mum we'll be heading home. LOL


mum : 我们玩到忘记家了,都忘记家里那个死老头子
uncle quek : 你妈妈很坏 hor,丢她老公一个人在家.

another uncle quek : next following stay and go where? Sembawang Hotel and Takashimaya lah !



Doesn't sound funny but we laughed so much there, miss those happy memories with all of them RAWRRRRRRRRRR


I'm always wondering how eating ice cream during winter will feel like since it's the right temperature for ice cream so it wouldn't melt righttttttttt, and it seriously didn't !




Normally when I eat ice cream it'll always drip on my hands, or the floor but this time it didn't WOOOOOO



Took pictures with Lee Seung Gi, the face that appears almost everywhere in korea ! Trying to give the same expression :


Definitely wanna try eating ice cream in cold weather again, I always think people who eat ice cream in genting are nuts but I didn't expect it to be so cool !


On the way back to the hotel, they spotted a shopping centre with LV, Chanel, Salvatore Ferragamo, and other labels then the old heroes were like '' WE NEED TO ALIGHT THE BUS NOW, RIGHT NOW. '' They even asked us in a joking manner whether want hire cab together go anot, AHAHA HYUNDAI DEPARTMENTAL STORE.




Finally reached Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, the casino hotel on a small hill along the han river.


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XiaoLi : 你几岁啊
me : 18岁
XiaoLi : HUH 一点也不像 ,你几年出生的
me : 1992
XiaoLi *ponder awhile* : 好像也不行,要21岁才可以进.


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Went to the dutyfree shop downstairs and spotted mr kim hyun joong. Haven't watch the playful kiss yetzzzz.




XiaoLi told us not to be late tomorrow cause he's going back home to sleep then come meet us the next morning. So he told us to put on make up and wear everything necessary before we go to sleep. Bad tour guide ah.



met mr lee min ho next, gu jun pyo every night 11.30pm !




Not very much to fill the entire bed but there wasn't enough space to stuff all of them in our 2 luggages so mum started to panick and said we needed to buy a luggage the next day in order to get back home with all these.


6.03pm, I DON'T SEE THE LUNAR ECLIPSE AT ALLLLLLLLL.
4 more days left.

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