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Monday, October 7, 2013

心情

不知道为何,心情是挺复杂的。

我不知道呀
我不知道呀
我不知道呀
我不知道呀

。。。 我可能应该知道的。

加油呢。好好休息,好好学习。

Monday, September 30, 2013

那一天

下着大雨。嘀嗒,嘀嗒。

从图书馆内, 都能听到下雨的声音。已经接近凌晨12点了。

这么的一个小误会,都能够闹到这么大的一件事,至今脑海里还是感觉非常印象深刻。

本来我以为只有我和一位我非常喜欢的小妹说好星期三考试之后一起吃午饭的,也就没什么疑问。就吃饭贝,有什么大不了。但是心里会这么想 , 就突然间为什么会找我去吃饭呀。是什么风把她给吹来啦。就我们两个。

所以呢, 那天晚上她的简讯,就说再次确定我们明天的约会。我就说好啊,但是在我想问说只有我们两个人而已吗的时候,我旁边的朋友老从就翻给我看他的简讯。简讯里是她的简讯,说阿敏也想去。

中间发生了什么什么就不提了,总之因为个小误会,一通电话到了我的手机,我就很无辜的被骂了50分钟。 无能为力的我,也只能什么都不能做的,在那里静静的待在图书馆的大厅,坐在沙发,听那小妹的话语。

听完了之后,那一个晚上,别说学习了,简直就是无法集中。将近50分钟的电话,安慰了再次安慰。又不能反驳。非常敏感,都不知道自己说的话,每句话都可以被反驳。

当时的我,其实可以不必跟这么一位的小妹沟通,但我还是忍了。因为不想闹翻。就安慰着,她的每一句反驳,在我听起来,都非常的可笑,笑着回答她,也不行。慢慢的安慰着她,也不行。到底什么才行啊。什么都不行,因为她根本什么都听不进去。

听了朋友的分析,才知道她在乎的不是我,而是老从。因为她在乎的是在老从面前,保持着好的印象,所以就不顾一切的训我。因为我的这么一个举动,让她在老从的面前失去她的印象,所以就对我发飘了。就因为想老从哥哥请她吃一顿饭,那么简单。需要绕了一大圈。小妹啊,当初为何不直接让我知呢。那我还能与你一起演戏啊。

最让我印象深刻的是,她竟然对我说了,你外表看他是这样,但是你怎么能知道他心里是这么想的啊?!这让我愣住了。这,要我怎么解释呢?就是知道。 为什么------ 一看他的脸,就知道。我们都是很直接的人,从来不会说一套做一套。都到了这年龄了,如果我还不会看的话,我都可以去跳河了贝。每天一起接触的人,说我不懂?我就说,小妹啊,老从和我可能比小妹想的还要熟很多,很多,所以老从绝对不是说一套做一套的人,我们都非常爱你啊小妹,所以他也非常乐意的很想请你吃饭呀。 好不容易的挂了那电话。她也不想跟老从说话,什么都怪到我头上。当然,隔天她都跟我道歉。但是都已经太晚了。我明天考试,今晚你打电话影响我的读书情绪,这个,我大概很难忘记。对老从来说,看着无辜的我被骂,看着我对这电话发飘,却又无法做任何事情帮助我。在我和老从的回忆,也许都很难抹掉的回忆吧。

听了那电话后,读书的精神都被打断了。12-1点听了电话,继续读书1点到3点,那一晚我也不知道自己读了什么,吸收了什么。

3点了。回家了,心情真是感觉不好。我真的担心过不了考试呀。我根本不在乎那小妹说的什么什么,拜托。 我担心的是我自己,为何偏偏那个晚上呢。为何是要在我那么在乎的考试前一天呢。50分钟的通话,不管是谁,都会在莫个程度上受影响的。

从图书馆我们走出来, 下雨了。心里觉得非常难过,因为我在那电话之后都没办法集中读书。

任何人的错都不是,只是在年龄的成长,感觉大家都有落差。大家一起玩闹的时候,是感觉不到的,但是问题出现时, 就可以看得出,大家脑子的年龄是几岁了。

我的事例,有这重考过的经验,不是没有压力的。抓哪一位重读过同一级的学生,都在莫个程度都是会有恐惧的。说不出的恐惧感。

小汶就跟老从说,要他送我回家。我大概真的是有点心里不平衡了,觉得需要雨点来淋醒我。他就拿着他的伞,照着我。

走到我家前面的新巴克了。对非常为考试担心的我,老从就一直说,叫我不要那么担心。有谁会比我自己更加了解自己呢。自己的程度,自己会不知道吗。吸收不进去,就是不行啊。我仿佛自己就如同当时第一次考5级的考试,什么都不懂的态度一样。所以更加的紧张啊。

哭了,在他的面前,在那新巴克隔壁的巷子。我非常不要脸的在他的面前,泪渗透我的眼眶,洒满我的脸。这是我最不想要的,我却在他面前哭了。

 情绪就这么的,跟着眼泪一起流出来了。

他看着我哭,很无能为力的看着我,再看着我,安慰我。一手拿着我的书本,一手拿着他自己的伞, 突然间感觉我的脸,有一支莫名的手在擦我的眼泪。

你不要担心啊,我感觉嘛,不会那么难。老师肯定不会把考卷弄得那么难。你一定会及格的。

雨,一阵一阵。大又小,没湿的衣服,变湿了。

从新巴克的小巷,我们走上楼梯,到我的家了。一直看着我,安慰着我。他也说了,感觉世界上的东西还有好多要学习啊。根本就是嘛。

我说,我感觉,经过这次事件我真的不会处理和小妹的问题。智商差了那么一截。

从凌晨3点,他陪着我,站在我们家门口直到4点。看着我的不开心,我的担忧。他说了很多很多他的故事,只为了得到我的一个笑容,或许也盼望着能够除掉我的一个担忧。

我一整个晚上都没有好睡,他也如此。我们,都因该这么说,没有经历过这事情,都不知道原来在这世上还有别人会这么误解。因为我们都是成熟的人,根本不可能会发生的。回家了,5点多,传了简讯给他,说我睡不着, 早上去吃个好早餐吧。他叫我好好休息。那个时候,我才有好好的小睡一下下。那一天,我也就不必多说了,我们最后还跟了小妹一起吃饭,他付了午餐,我还买了新巴克的咖啡卡送给她。就这么完美的结束那一天。也一起去了图书馆念书,隔天还有多一个考试要准备。

我真的,真的没想到这种事会发生在我身上。也许以后还会有更多,更多呢。

现在回想了,我什么都可以忘记,但是那一幕,下着雨,在我家外面你安慰着我的那一幕。真的好感动。什么言语都不必说,心里那一块,会感到无比的温暖。

我呢,说真的,也从没想过,会结识到这么一位不错的异性朋友呢。

从来也没有想过。是我的福气,感恩。上一个学期,也是最后的一个学期,大家在一起的时间,非常长。差不多每天一起念书,一起吃饭,一起度过的日子,仿佛比自己度过的日子还要长。

非常感谢呢。因为有了你,我的最后的一个学期,非常的忙碌,活得非常的精彩。

那时候,你很凑巧的能和我们一块去旅行,虽然小汶不能来,非常的遗憾,你代替她来,我其实内心,也是非常高兴, 非常欢迎呢。就感觉,凡是有你,在我的周边有你的存在,都会非常舒服, 自在。

我必定,会有想念后遗症。现在也许就已经开始了。

哈哈哈哈。凡事都不要去想那么多。我的人生过得精彩就好。 噢耶!

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Jeong Dong Jin, SamCheok


上一个周末, 和斯斯, 丛刊去了正东津, 和三陆.

只想说, 我们都玩得非常开心.虽然大家都非常累, 也算熬过来了.

现在的我, 正在看着我们照得照片. 应该说, 丛刊照的照片.

一直在看, 一直在看..

都把我们照得好好看..

会是一个美好的回忆, 半年后的我, 一年后的我, 五年后的我.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

An Instagram Widget on the blog

I have just added an instagram widget on the blog, so my pictures I have uploaded on instagram can have a link back to the blog.

I have became busier when coming here, and not the other way round which I had thought initially. I'm constantly on the go in Korea, so the only way I could have ever taken photos was through my phone. For easier and simple photo changes, I have adopted to uploading to Instagram, and have been uploading via it ever since. *Faithfully* hahahahaha.

Thus, I don't have the time to upload the blog as I thought I would have. I have grown to accept the fact that I hate to be indoors when I'm in overseas. I just hate the feeling I have no idea why. I long to be outdoors, I yearn to head outside everyday. Doing something everyday was what I hope for everyday. Without plans when I woke up, and then to planning some activities when the school ends.

Then all these planning made me realise that I slowly lost touch with the internet. Not in that literal sense, but I'm more in touch with my phone, samsung s3. I don't deny that its actually more convenient with a smart phone around. I can't helping thanking myself for the decision I had made back in Singapore to trade in my samsung R series to purchase S3. Even though its painful for my purse. But I was very calm that night. My family was shocked that I just purchased that phone that night, and my brother immediately found alternatives to buy, but its all too late. I had spent 500 sgd to buy. But its still reasonable due to the trade in.

With s3, its really convenient. Fast, and clear pictures taken. Actually I highly recommend everyone to change their phone before they start their traveling if required.

Alright, anyways do enjoy my photos from my insta~ ^^ Feel free to leave any comments.

3 weeks more to end of semester

Note the title; I don't even dare to put 3 weeks more to graduation, I'm really afraid that I won't be able to graduate well. >.<

What is this kind of feeling man. Exactly a week ago, 7 days ago, its exactly a month away to the end of the semester. A week has passed. What have we all done?

I can only remember bits and pieces of it. Ling and Sylvia unnie came over last week, with Sylvia going to stay until this weekend, whereas Ling unnie left this tuesday. Time really flies.

I think I may have really mentioned this a lot of times in this blog. Whenever I get the chance to write on this blog, I always sigh that time flies. Like nobody's business.

After I sent Ling unnie off, my days for the rest of the week were spent mugging in the library and in cafes.

Weather in South Korea is on the rise. Now its about 35 degrees in the day, and only dropping to about 29 degrees at night. Everyone is complaining that its hot.

Today, I'm done with my finalization of the graduation debate speech. I am assigned as the leader of the opposition team. Our debate topic this time round was about early childhood education. Will be posting my speech up, once the debate is over next wednesday.

Now, upcoming next, is my graduation thesis. I have decided on my topic, but when I started to look up for information, I realized that the topic was too big, and a lot of articles were not referring to what I was looking for.

5 days more to graduation thesis presentation, I still have time... right?

Monday, July 15, 2013

Rushing the interview presentation at yonsei library at midnight.

15th July 2013 - 4am



Because my interview with feng jin unnie was so long, it took 26 mins, I spent a lot of time to listen to it and jot it down. I did a little and a little, but I believe the total time consumed was about maybe 10 hours? (lets see, today I spent how many hours at the café? From 12pm all the way till 10pm, then other days were about probably 4 hours (qn 1 to about 4) then now inputting them into words, took me .. from 12am to about now 4pm. 

The whole interview took about 7 pages of word. OMG so many. 

Anyways I’m gonna sleep now. But then I heard the big rain outside now! Which means I can’t get home now. AHHHHHH I’m so gonna get mad. 

Recently Korea has been raining like mad, thunderstorms. omgomg omg. 

And which may means that I may miss school tomorrow. Because now is already 4!! How am I supposed to wake up on time tomorrow if I can’t get home now!! 

Oh dear. 

All the best to me! My presentation day is on Tuesday! But I have yet to complete. Say cheers to myself. DX 

I still have to add in my own opinion, and edit the interview. And add in foreword and the introduction.

----- Now at this timing of 8pm, I'm posting up this entry.
 I realised when you stay up to four, you really don't know what you are writing. I totally have no idea that I wrote all these in front at four am!~! and my tone, is really a little pissed off. Hahahah thats the results of not sleeping I guess.

But the interview with Fengjin was very interesting. Its about her work life in Guang Zhou, China. Really interesting. I'm so lucky that I got to know her, and got to even conduct an interview with her! 

Really lucky me. Shan't complain because its my fortune to get this interview from her.  

What's my status of the interview presentation now, its about completed, I spent the whole afternoon editing the interview parts in word, thank goodness I inputted everything last midnight. And now I only left the motive and the conclusion of the interview to write. A little check again, should be alright, lest a little long.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Everyone is different

Yesterday just had a long talk with the xiao mei beside me. Her thoughts surprised me every time without fail. Every now and then she will have facts and stuff to of life to talk to me. And I'm embarrassed to say I don't even know half as much as her. Goodness me. We can't even talk as much as her.

It just makes me feel that I really need to read up more on books and seek more information. The days she has been at home, she will be looking at videos, those which she can seek lots of information. Unlike me, where we will just be wondering about what to do for the day.

The way of living is just so different. Is it because we haven't been very independent overseas? That we do not really know how to 充实我们的生活呢。这样一直跟她聊着,聊着, 真是让我感觉非常惭愧。

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Move on

Its time to move on.

What's wrong, and what's right. I don't know.

But I only know, its time to deal with my feelings and clear my feelings.

I have given chance. As all my friends said, give a chance. Just because I have good feelings, I gave a chance for us to know each other better.

But it all turns out that I could have mistaken. His values are way so different from mine.

Friends are all right to tell me that I should be careful. When they asked about my stuff,

I slowly realised that I know nothing of him.

Yesterday was the night I made my decision. Ladies' six sense is really right. The things he do and the way he acts are different. It answered all my question marks. Everything is clear now.

All and all, so much so. As I grow up and got to know more about this society and world

The more I wanna return back to Singapore, my home.

Friday, June 28, 2013

Nowadays

This world is so not innocent. Or is it because I live  in an innocent environment. I am naive. I'm still the naive me.

What has the society become?

I... don't know. Kids nowadays are so not innocent anymore.

I'm kind of afraid. I want to embrace. But I'm afraid. Afraid of what? People may say.

But, I don't know. I only know I'm grateful for the values that my family has instilled in me.

That has indeed helped me a lot in my own thinking. If not I could have strayed away easily.

Cheers.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Month of June schedule

I saw one of my classmates wrote that its already the first day of june. And time passed so fast.

Indeed, till now. Two semesters have passed. From jan to mar, it was cold. Mar till june, its spring. So much and so much has passed. I spent the first semester reminiscing my one sided liking. I was wondering when I can ever get over this. I was really afraid it would never go away.

The next semester, as though someone has heard my thoughts, a guy was 'sent to me' out of a sudden. And that has set my thoughts busy, thus forgetting the previous one.

Great, isnt it. But there are always bound to have a new set of problems when new stuff comes up.

Studies wise, for the two semesters I have been studying the same things. Yeah I failed my current level so for spring level I restudied the same contents. Its not a bad thing anyways, instead I got more free time to play around and solidify my knowledge haha. And got closer to my current classmates. But that doesnt mean I dont have to study this time round. I still do. Alright. ^^

Very fast, from september 2012 till now, it has been nine months. I havent get the chance to return home yet. Save monies.. missed home, but as compared to that my life and studies here are more important for now. My big homesick period was during march, the crazy feeling.

I really enjoyed my time here. Crazily cold, I cant wait for the season to end, yet now when its getting hot, I missed a little of the coldness.

I also went around in korea during my vacation. The school semester was so much more busy than what I had expected thus I have no time to go around during my semester. Most of my time were spent in school, cafes and around my neighbourhood. Haha. An additional fact: ahem we also need money to travel around.

I have been to gyeongju, andong, busan, jeju, jeonju, suwon, chuncheon, gapyeong, oido. Plus some other places like liz relatives home in chuncheongdo, and of course SEOUL. But seoul is nothing much to see though. Its just pure enjoyment, like drink, eat, shopping.

This vacation is no exception! Zt is coming over. I will be travelling with him! But he wanna go busan and jeju, which I have been before. Hope we will be visiting some other parts in busan or jeju.

Awesome life here, in south korea. A life that I will miss big time.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Study day

Its the last week to exams.

Im studying for today. With Ga mun (Jia wen).

At Goma - Hongdae, bought a cuppa mochachino.

The atmosphere at goma is fantastic. Its a book cafe.

Jiayou!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cant wait for my exams to finish. And spend more time with my current class who are all so fun.

Seriously I had a lot of class outings with my current class.

The outings we had:

- First lunch gathering
- Yeouido cherry blossom picnic
- Cultural experience lesson + lunch gathering after that
- Ashley lunch gathering
- Costco lunch outing
- Seoul zoo outing (upcoming)
- Hangang (?)

This semester I had the most gatherings with my current class.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Abortion debate - opinions on disagree

We have a few. But my part was on low birth rate and how other people perceive it.

저출산, 남의 시선

일본 신문기사에 의하면 지금 일본정부는 저출산때문에 낙태금지라는 정책을 제안하고 있답니다. 어떤 일본 국회의원에 따르면 일본현재의 상태는 해마다 200,000 명정도가 낙태를 할 것으로 예측하고 있습니다. 그래서 초고령화 사회의 일본은 저출산율을 높이려고 비록 원치 않는 아이라도 낙태해서는 안된다는 것을 국민에게 전달해 준듯싶습니다. 즉, 개인의 문제보다 지금 국가의 문제가 우선이라는 것입니다.

그래서 사회, 경제적으로 출산은 큰 영향을 끼칠 수 있으니까 저는 낙태에대해 반대 합니다.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Im a king for a day. lol

Wow. Thisis my first time uploadig a picture from my phone. Taken from instagram though. ^^ hmm its a little hard navigating around because the image is big and the screen issmall.

Does it look clear?

We went to mullae subway, to a mbc set centre, because of my jap classmate momo, we got to wear the costumes for free. It usually cost 15, 000won to try these clothes and take picture. But that day was free. So i went with current level classmate sasa, and we had so much fun!!

Debate test day

Yesterday I spent the whole night, figuring out how to write my speech for the debate test.

This semester the topic for the second debate was abortion. Agree or disagree?

I was initially on the agree side, but due to a 93 year england female classmate, I volunteered for the disagree side. Sometimes, when I see them arguing their way through, like aww teacher I was sick so I cant go to school that day and my class has already decided my part, so I didnt get participate in the decision making, if its possible I would like to change to the agree team, pleaseeeeee.

The teacher also gave her a look and changed for her reluctantly, but out of a sudden, the agree team has six people and the disagree has only four! It doesnt make sense, I think for easier sake, I volunteered to be transferred to the disagree side. To me, it doesnt make any difference.  Its just a matter of how well you speak and fight for your team. XD

If I have the time I would write my opinion our here. Unfortunately I didnt bring out the piece of note here.

After class today I went back home to take a nap. My god. I napped straight all the way to 8pm. Had a quick bath, ate dinner and wanted to make preparations to the library when selina called.

Selina is back in seoul ~ but apparently she had a lot of problems back in singapore. Awwwww.

She couldnt stay in the current boarding house as there were no rooms, so she was arranged to stay with my ahjumoni's sister boarding house. But unfortunately wifi wasnt available there, so I suggested her to borrow my router and use it first. She was amazed that I know such things lol. Im like. Erm. Nothing to say. Know a little bit before I came here, some basic stuff. But then actually I dont know much. Really. :-:

So now here I am, in the library, came at around 10.20pm and now just starting to settle down. Time to study! Tata ~

My dramatic life in korea. Never did I know such a situation will come to me. A friend once said, fall here, fall there,  its normal.

But now what do I really want? Its a lot of people's question too.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Improvement on blogging

I have just realised blogger have just made it easier for us to blog on the go!

Now I can write my posts, anywhere, on the go.

I am able to upload photos from my phone too, from gallery!!

Android rocks. Awesomeeeeee. ♥

Today. decided. me.

Hello. Writing this post during the break of the class.

A lot has happened during the week. A lot of realization,  a lot of self thoughts, and a lot of advices. A lot of good people around me, fortunately to help me along the way. Thankful.

A lot of things have to be taken slowly. People are all different, and I have realised what I want and need.

I need comfortability. Im a slow person. Im learning.

The guy is not what I want.

But thanks to him, Im moving on. I do not see this as a bad thing. Instead I feel its a good learning lesson.

On ahead to a good life !

Friday, May 24, 2013

Recovery of my korean exchange trip blog posts...

 A small peak of my Jeon ju photos
Thursday January 10th 2013
MY GOODNESS. ITS ALREADY 2:59AM KOREA TIME. WHAT AM I DOING HERE.

Hahaha. Yesss I know its kind of late now. But if I don't jot this post down, I know I will be busy from now. My school will be starting tomorrow <ahem sorry> today. 5th Level, its gonna be a challenge ahead and I know I won't have any spare time to think anything else except school work. Yes its that hectic, at Yonsei Korean Language Institute. But I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT~~!!! ^^ Because I'm happy to start school. I missed school. Having the second chance back at school; I cherish it a lot. So dear friends, if you have any idea how I had been through Level 4, my daily routine goes like this:

9am - 1pm : School
1pm - 2pm: Lunch
2pm - 6/7pm: Revision
7pm - 8pm: Go back home, bath and for dinner
8pm - 11pm: Starbucks for continued revision.
11pm - 7.30am: ZZZZZZZ, and there you go, the next day comes arriving.
7.30am - 9am: Prepare for school

I'm so glad I have a kaki friend with me for the previous level. She is really good and guided me a lot. Because I was not familiar with the exam formats and the method to study for language education, I failed 2 segments during my mid semester test, and with her guidance I pia up for an satisfactory pass for those segments I had failed.

Anyways, students who wish to come over to South Korea for language exchange, welcome! Teachers from the language institute are pretty well prepared and know what they want to teach and communicate to the students in general (from any university language institute, that is ;)). The objectives are very clear and there are assignments to achieve and do so I can say you will be very occupied throughout the semester not to worry.

I would say for Yonsei KLI Level 1 - 3 are fun levels, is more of an enjoyment while learning korean. Level 4 onwards, its pretty academic as they gear you up towards university admission goal normally for foreign students who wish to enter their university for a degree course or a MBA.

Anyways, some updates from me~ :) How did I spend my winter vacation for dec'12 till beg jan'13?

At first it was a long holiday vacation. I tried to keep myself occupied. Classmates were all preparing to fly back to their own countries as it was a long holiday break. Zijing was there till mid dec, we did some sightseeing around Seoul. As a foreigner, I have to admit, I felt the loneliness impact. What to do for the day, what am I gonna do for the rest of the vacation? I hadn't felt this when I was back in Singapore, I would be totally fine alone. But here I couldn't stand it. And I needed some 'getting used' to it, the need to overcome and to live with it. Its certainly not easy. The impact was bigger than I had imagined. Definitely not easy to be an overseas student; now I had totally understood the feeling. Never been through, would never feel it was what I had felt. No wonder Liz was totally emo over it and kept crying over that initial period. Because I did the same thing too. During the night, the feeling of loneliness would be even greater and tears would just fall subconsciously. These are all the thoughts when there is just nothing to do. Of course, some students will not miss as well; and some returned home thus won't experience the big break in overseas. This happens to students who are first timers to overseas I realized after chatting with some other overseas students. There was a thought that had slashed through my mind, shall I just immediately buy a ticket back home?

Hahaha obviously I didn't, no $! XD I MISSED HOME, BADLY. MISSED MY FRIENDS TOO.

There was a girl friend, Minnie who came over from Hong Kong, so I accompanied her around for two weeks after Zijing returned back to sg. Pictures will start flowing from here and I shall stop writing because a picture speaks a thousand words and will say how much I had enjoyed, living with the loneliness. ~~ Happy. I'm good. ^^

I went Jeonju with Minnie! Great place. First two pictures were from Gyeongbokgung, and one of them was taken in Lotte World. Rest were from Jeonju. I loved it. Peaceful and slow.

Absolutely loved my jumps!! More to come, after I process it~! Hehehehehehehehehehhehe nice right?? ^^

Jeonju. I will write more of Jeonju when I upload in detail in the next post, will describe more in that post. 
These are just.. teasers? Hahahaha.



Another one! XD


 The village of mural paintings~ So prettyyyy. 
In awe with them, after seeing this, others have not impressed me so far.

THANK YOU so much MINNIE!!! I had such a great time with you! ^^ 
Hope I can meet you up.. REAL soon. Loves.

Life. Absorbing it all here. Now. In South Korea. 
Love, Carrot.

 Well, life's been busy, school's stressed, but I'm immersing myself into the stress and fun simultaneously.
Sat, oct 20th 2012
Well, the above has explained clearly about what I'm doing now.

Time has passed fast; it has been a month since I've been here in Korea. 

School has been stressful. But its a reason for me to study hard. I had felt the big impact when I had been placed into level four. The stress level went up to my head, ringing a bell about how much improvement I needed to brush up. Furthermore, the language which I had studied in my leisure time previously has now become my main cause of concern; it certainly pushes me to work even harder. Time's precious; this kind of chance won't come again, I told myself again and again. And again. I treasure this very much.

The 8 hours of work, I had transitioned myself into studying 8 hours everyday. Liz couldn't stand it, she said I needed a balance of study and play. But what am I supposed to do if I don't study after class? The time is there for me to study. Not for me to play around when my objective is there to become a full time student. I've played enough last time during my poly times. I've wised up. Yet I still feel that time is insufficient. DX

Yonsei is a university full of vibrancy from the way I look at it. A library that provides a very conducive environment for students to hold their discussions and self study as well as for them to do their individual projects fully equipped with power sockets and computers if you don't have one. If given a chance again, I would like to go back to SIM and use their library facilities which, unfortunately I had failed to step inside for more than 30 times during my 2 years course of study. Nahh, but I'm satisfied with what I had achieved. And I move on, without looking back. That was such a good experience.

I've been enjoying life as well, amidst of school and studies. I'm heading to Dae Jeon via Yonsei for an expo event today.
I'M ENJOYING LIFE. :) Living life, without regrets.
One thing I had felt it deeply, THIS is the time to come for me.
Things would have drastically changed if I had came here two years ago.
I would not have been able to handle this study exchange as well as I am doing right now.
At present, my head is functioning twice as clear as the fountain water.
I know what I'm doing. I'm proud of myself.
Well done carrot. You have thought well.
Hope you can continue this attitude well.




 P.s. Sorry for the self praise to myself. I'm writing this for myself, not for anyone else. Sometimes people just have to compliment themselves for doing well. To motivate us to carry on. Study exchange isn't that easy. Especially when you have money budgets to adhere to, and learning to be independent. People who can afford to study abroad aren't easy. I feel. And for such a study exchange like this, a lot of people come here together bearing a lot of different objectives individually, thus its crucial that we come knowing clearly what we want to achieve during this study. If not, it would be easy to stray away.


 Our dinner after our visit to Namsamgol Hanok Village
Friday oct 12th 2012 published
30th Sept 2012, Sunday

Its chuseok!! Luckily some food shops were open for the day. After a day of visiting, and several hours of study-revision, we got our dinner fix. Fried chicken!! XD

This salad is worth it. Same price as compared to sg restaurant caesar salad, but the amount here is much more.
I can't live without vegetables in my life. Meat as well. Both!


Nagisa's satisfied expression. heheheh. XD

 The sundujjigae sold in school
Wednesday oct 10th 2012
28th Sept 2012, Friday

A friend of mine has commented why my blog has so many food photos, I think, when I come back to sg in future, my sides, would have expanded. Hahha. One thing I forgot to correct her though, yes I do take lots of food photos, but I also didn't take photos of all the hills here that we have to climb everytime! My boarding house (hasuks, they call it here, literally meaning homestay) here is situated on a hill, I practically have to go up and down the hill everyday. My school is located on a hill too. I hope to slim down!! Healthily.

The tofu is really soft and delicious. Ah. Something I wanted to mention. Koreans eat a lot of beans.
The oil that they used is also made of soy bean, they have a lot of soy beans products, and the food they eat is also beans-related too. i.e. tofu (either the soft one or the slightly rough texture), soy bean milk, bean sprout. My impression is that I keep eating a lot of beans-related products here.

Mr Pizza after school orientation
Tuesday oct 9th 2012
26th Sept 2012, Wednesday

Got to know which level I was placed in and met Lizzie for dinner. She recommended Mr Pizza which was yummy. Slightly cheaper than Pizza hut if I didn't remember wrongly. And there were more flavours.


It was delicious. No need for the salad bar, seriously here the salad bar is nothing as compared back to sg. Just order the pizza, its scrumptious, cheaper too. Why waste the stomach space for those stuff on the salad bar when this is the lead !!
^^
 Alien card registration at Omokyo, School recce
Thursday oct 4th 2012
20th Sept 2012, Thursday
Back in Seoul on Wednesday, right on thursday I went to register for Alien card. Nearest subway station from Sinchon was either Jongno or Omokyo, I chose Omokyo.

Exit 7 if I'm not wrong.

Then walk on straight till you see an intersection, turn right and you will see the immigration building clearly. Do head there earlier because there will always be a lot of people applying for alien card. The process only takes about 10 mins but the waiting time can get you quite bored, its about 2 hours wait.

Back to Sinchon, had some more spare time around and I thought it would be good to recce my school for a while before I start class next week. Seriously now that I had turned into a full time student, I hadn't managed to transition myself well. I missed work. Say me a workaholic, but I am not used to the do-nothing-all-day-long. Maybe when my school peaks, then I will have some work to do. I better make full use of this free time to sort out my photo backlog.

Its a long walk from the school, a 15 mins walk. Up the hill. The school is very big. Yonsei uni. Food is pretty okay in school at the language institute, costing about 2800 won minimal spend (treat it as 2.80 USD)

Sinchon, is a very happening place, once you get off the station and walk in the streets you can totally feel the vibrancy of the area. 3 universities are all in close vicinity (Yonsei, Ewha woman's, and Sogang), a lot of university students, for sure that's the reason. Enjoying the live band, that is quite frequent here.

Here in Korea, there is bubble tea too, makes me miss KOI Tea back at sg. Tried their green tea flavour, but is not what I like, its the matcha powder flavour, instead of our brewed green tea. I think I better choose their best seller taro flavour next time. And their pearls are not as chewy. The weather is turning cold, peeps~ am enjoying the aircon weather right now, albeit a little chilly when its at night.

Jeju trips blog posts recovery

*2. Gimpo -> Jeju-do 

 Monday Sept 17th 2012 published

Finally settled down yesterday. I arranged my room to the style I wanted and was deeply satisfied with it. I thoroughly cleaned up my room, as I had to switch my study desk position and found a lot of dust. Good gracious! Then I went with Zijing to Daiso which was 3 levels of stores big, and got some of our essentials. Came back and I still have to settle my clothes shelves, and there was still a problem. Supposedly to have two shelving, but then I only had one shelf. I still need ahjumma to settle when I come back I guess. Still a lot to settle when I come back from Jeju, but at least the room was okay to sleep in for the night already.
Then today! Headed with Zijing to Myeong Dong first to exchange monies. The rates were quite reasonable. But its better to exchange with the bank, which bank was it? I couldn't remember. Shinhan perhaps? The rates were pretty okay.
Then we were off to Jeju. Little did we know that the typhoon had hit Jeju. Which meant a lot of activities couldn't be done. And Jeju is well known for outdoor activities. Sharks.

 Literally it means espresso milk red tea. Hmmm so so.
Travelled by the subway and changed to the airport express train.

 We boarded by Jeju Air.

Touched down at 4 plus. I rented a phone and we took the limousine bus number 600 off to Seogwipo town. Note that this limousine number 600, actually will stop by some of the famous spots, like Lotte hotel, the Shilla, and the tourism places like Teddy bear museum and all the others situated around in the vicinity.

Dropped off at the Sunbeach Hotel, and a 5 minutes walk will reach our hostel Jeju Hiking Inn. Had a scrumptious dinner at the host's recommendation and the wind was quite chilly.


Very tasty fish that is quite famous in Jeju. The fish meat was so tender.


 Steamed egg! Niceeee.

This was sesame seed leaf. Has a nice fragrance to it.

I seriously don't really know what to do for this trip due to the lack of time. Hadn't had anything planned at all. The host was kind enough to introduce some places for us to head to, but he said it in such a way so fast that I couldn't really catch all. Even if I could have caught it all, a night's sleep would have made my brain forget it all.

Went to Cheon Ji Yeon water fall, but we didn't manage to go to see the proper one (the picture above was a small one only), because it was too dark, but I guess it should be quite lovely for couples since the lighting was so romantic. Heh.

On the way back, we bought this to try eating. Similar to cuttlefish, its delicious.

Go with what of course? Meishu. Ume Plum alco! Kyaaaa~
Its my first time travelling without a plan and I think I would just go along with the flow, what to do for the day. The typhoon was also something unexpected.
See how it goes!

*3. Korea Tourism Board vicinity in Jeju 

Tuesday, Sept 18th 2012 published

16th Sept 2012, Sunday

The weather wasn't getting any better, in fact it got worse, it was raining for the whole day since morning. Not a choice given though. We just decided to head to museums, the indoor activities to avoid the rain. Took the limousine bus 600 back to the Korea tourism board area, and chocolate factory was our first stop.

Breakky for this morning was.. Kimchi Jjiggae. Note that for it here, they assume if you are taking two servings, then they will serve you with a bigger portion of the side dishes and the main dish.

My Chocolate, Woohoo~ LOL.

Chocolate Land: First Stop. To be honest there is nothing much in the chocolate factory, except the interesting part was to make our own chocolate. In which we melt the chocolate and then pour it into the plastic mould and then when it hardens, its done! Pretty easy actually. I think the Cadbury factory in Australia would be more interesting.

Add captionAfter that we headed to Ripley's believe it or not. Quite okay, since this was their first outlet I had been to. After that we headed to the Korea tourism board office and asked for directions. According to them, Monday would be quite bad to travel around due to the typhoon. And the weather being like this, it was really difficult.





Went to the alive museum, oooh, this was really interesting! I think a lot of tourism companies bring their guests here. Saw quite a lot of photos on this. Hahaha some were really funny.

It was raining very heavily, plus my shoe had wear and tear; it was all wet.
Sigh, days like this how I hoped I had a good pair of walking shoes with me, that would never get wet.

Will only be posting some of the pictures, obviously its crazy to post it all.. there are so many paintings! The rest.. go visit it yourself!! ^^

























This is supposed to depict Provence. Is it the same? I LONG TO GO TO PROVENCE. BADLY. In future of course. ;) Skies started to darken. Winds were getting stronger. My umbrella broke due to the sudden gusts of wind. My original umbrella was lost in the bus. I took it out because I thought it was raining outside and we would need to use it, but then in the end I left it in the bus when we reached and moved our bags outside.

Went to the Emart to get our dinner fixed and then bought some food to prepare for tomorrow's hibernation... Night time the winds were so gusty. Could totally feel the typhoon. 

What's going to be like tomorrow??

 Hallasan, Jeju

Tuesday, Oct 2nd, 2012

18th Sept 2012, Tuesday
The typhoon was gone, in fact monday afternoon it was already gone. So our plans continued, either we go hallasan today, or we shall walk one of the olle trails. Final decision was to hike Hallasan.

 
Took a bus 516 from Seogwipo bus terminal to Seongpanak, which was the starting point to hike to the peak.
Bus ride took about 1 hour.


The whole course takes about 6 - 8 hours to finish. Its better if we reach earlier so we won't be so tired. And there are time limits to reach certain points, therefore its kinda better to start hiking early.


Proper footwear is highly recommended for these hiking courses, and obviously my shoe wasn't a proper hiking shoe. OMG and my shoes has holes in the soles, so I was afraid that it would get wet, and tried to avoid those muddy areas. Aigoo. The course after the typhoon was wet and more slippery to hike.




After two hours of constant hiking, I reached this spot where we could either walk towards the crater or go to the summit of Hallasan. I decided that my body could not hold on longer, I hadn't did any exercise back in SG and was terribly energy drained. I chose the crater route instead. Now to come think of it, perhaps I should have tried to go to the summit. Its all about the will and sheer determination, isn't it. But I figured out that I really need to have the energy to come down. My friend who frequently did marathons and jogging back in sg, went all the way to the summit!! Really gooood for her! But for the next week she couldn't walk at all..

It was a pity for me that the crater was flooded due to the typhoon and I could not progress through, it not it would have been an amazing experience.
Nevertheless I enjoyed the process of the hike. The water was so cold.



It was really flooded heavily and one of the uncles wanted to move through, but others were telling him, no there is no way you can pull it through!
See the middle wooden plank, its almost 80% flooded, meaning you will be covered in the icy water in no time.

Spring water on the way for us to fill up. It was sweet and refreshing to drink.

First sights of orange leaves.

A nice view of the routes. I like routes like this as compared to the rocks... Why don't they have routes like this all the way? Hahaha. But my friend said this route was relatively easier to hike as compared to other routes. She said that at least she could see the routes clearly ahead for her to hike.
There was once she hiked Mt Sorak and she couldn't even see the route in front! And she gave up because it was so difficult.
I took the crater route in the end and thus was able to finish my course faster. I finished the hike in 4 hours, my friend who went to the summit, took 8 hours to complete. By the time she came down, she was so utterly tired. The next day her leg pained so much, she really couldn't walk. Plus she had frequent exercise, I thought to myself what if its me, I don't think I would be able to walk at all...... >.<

But all in all, it was a good hike. Just that I really need to have more exercise to keep myself fit. The aunties and uncles were so fit. It could be due to their country climate and geographical location, there are so many hills to walk up and down. They walked a lot, in general. And they like to hike too. We lacked exercise, to be honest.


Something to reward us for the night, since we hiked so much... grilled chicken! And Jajjangmyun. Yum.

 Back to Seoul from Jeju

Wednesday, Oct 3rd, 2012

19th Sept 2012, Wednesday

We still agreed that the jeong shik (traditional korean dish, with lots of side dish, another term they call it baek ban) at this restaurant was better than the rest.
And thus we headed back here for breakfast again. It was near also, so Zijing won't have to walk so much.



I went out to walk a little outside after breakfast and Zijing went back to the hostel to rest.





Just to post where this bus goes to. It practically goes to the touristy places. And so we flew back to Gimpo International Airport at noon, and on the way back to Sinchon, I suggested to travel by the train instead of the subway, as I saw the Sinchon station by Gyeonggui train line was so much nearer to our boarding house as compared to the Sinchon subway station. Therefore, from Gimpo, we took the express airport train to Digital Media City station. From there we changed to the Gyeongui train line, which would fetch us straight to Sinchon. Little did I know that such a short distance would cause us so much inconvenience.

 

So when we have such bags like these.. be prepared to carry it up and down the stairs~ Backpacks are so much convenient to travel around in Korea.

Sg should implement this, this works two way.

When you near the exit, they sense it and blocks you until you tap your card.
The airport train was really fast. But do take note that not all Korea subway and train stations have escalators. For train stations, they still do not have escalators, even they do have, it may not be moving upwards, and could be downwards. All the way, stairs stairs and stairs. Walkways walkways and more walkways to come. So I dragged my luggage upwards and downwards, using up all my strength. I guess its also the reason why people take the coach bus from airport to their respective places because taking the subway is not as convenient. To take to Sinchon, its more recommended to take coach bus or change to subway, which would be the Honggik university and change to Sinchon.
Also the frequency of the train station is very slow, only 1 train per hour, so if we miss one timing, we would have to wait for the next hour to arrive. Not advisable to change to the train. Subways frequencies are so much faster.

 

* Some other photos, on one of the days.