Sunday, December 6, 2009

First touch of Korea's soil (Day 3)

ANNYEONG HASEYO!!This is what we always said when we met anyone in Korea. I meant they say "Annyeong Haseyo" to everyone no matter during morning, afternoon or night. Easy to remember huh?So we always shouted Annyeong haseyo to the driver and everyone else in our group. Had lots of fun on the 3rd day as we visited most places on this day due to the delayed of our plane. We are suppose to land on Jeju Island early in the morning which is the day before. But due to the delay, we have to rush to most places today (28/11/2009).

We had American Style breakfast early in the morning which is 7am(6am in Malaysia). This time, we get to know some members from our group. A pair of cute Aunty and Uncle.First, we headed to Seongsan Sunrise Peak where we were suppose to see the beautiful sunrise. But we were a bit late, so we can only see a most amazing sceneries(The whole Jeju Island). To my astonishment, we have to climb a small peak. Normally i would have given up halfway.....but i kept on saying to myself that "THIS WAS MY DREAM!!I WANTED SO MUCH TO COME TO KOREA!SO I MUSN'T GIVE UP SO EASILY!!' Fortunately, i made it. I manage to climb till the top. Give me a big clap pleaseee....and three cheers for me....
Yeah....we made it...

I felt so touched that i got to stand there, gazing and gazing at the beautiful scene..

Isn't it beautiful.....??I could have shouted out load that "I AM THE KING OF PIRATES!".hahah...i am just too engrossed with ONE PIECE.


The volcanic holes..

The feeling was great One more look at the scene...(PS:I did not upload all the pictures here.For more, you can go to my FACEBOOK account.That is the purpose for me to upload all my photo's there. Description will be in my blog.) I did not feel tired at all but i was just too excited and happy and as well as freezing cold. But who cares?I wanna try out their ice-cream. I think you can only buy this ice-cream in Jeju Island. Yes...everywhere in Jeju Island. I thought we could only eat this at Seongsan Sunrise Peak but who knows we see the same label everywhere in Jeju Island. The taste was pricess. Really good to eat it during cold days and as well as summer time. I meant to order a greentea one as i was pointing it to the lady and said "I Geo Ju Se Yo!". She said okay okay but gave me a grape flavour. Hahaha..but it was nice. Kelnice's chocolate ice-cream was great too...
We then headed to Seopjikoji, a famous shooting site for all Famous Korean Dramas (All-In, Lee Jun Ki's drama, and etc). Before i walked up the slope, i took a picture of the sea. I love the sea....especially the splashing sound of it As i go higher, i can see the rocks.... And a beautiful church..... I love Mother Mary as she looks so holy and peace...
I had chicken stick as the weather is too cold for us to jump around. Oh...by the way people, i took up jumping skill during my 8 days in Korea. It was freezing cold and i just need to jump. No wonder people said i looks like a KIDDO. hahahaah.....i'll tell you more on that later...
We went to Seongeup Folk Village, shooting site for "Da Cheong Geum".The place was great!!Very old and historical but cool....!I love the folks and everything there... This room belongs to a 90 years old grandpa.He is still very healthy and to them 90 years old is consider VERY YOUNG. Oh dear..i am reaching 20 soon and i was thinking that i don't wanna grow so old.But this grandpa is really healthy.He still can climb up the roof to do mendings and hammering.You know why he did that?Because there are some irresponsible tourist who threw a ciggarette to one of the roof and causing it to burn. I would have curse that fellow deeply... There...i did not lie. Da Cheong Geum really did filmed there.. This house was more than 300 years old. But what puzzle me the most is that i couldn't find even a door or hole that i could look through.So i can only took some pictures of it.But i really wanted to go inside...so tempting... The black pig. I saw this little black pig when i was strolling outside. Our tourguide said in a joking tone that this pig is gonna be our lunch for today. But i don't eat pigs.. Look what i was carrying??A big basket with a big bottle of wine. It was heavy even without the wine. Every Girls or ladies in olden days needed to carry this. But BOYS are not allowed to carry this. There is a saying that said if a boy(not married) carried this basket, then they won't be able to find their spouses forever. But for Married men who wanted a DIVORCE, they are welcome to carry this basket. I forgot the names to address girls, boys, married men and women. It was funny... Touch the left nose if you wanted a boy. See my ways of touching carefully. It was a sign to wish all our family members in a good health and peace to our family..!For your information, this statue is the guardian angel of Jeju Island. You can see it everywhere and anywhere in Jeju Island. True enough, we are having porks for lunch..
We went to watch a 2D,3D and 4D movie right after lunch which was exciting. But secretly, i much prefer the 4D movie in our Genting Highland.Maybe because of the story.It was not as exciting as the one we had in Malaysia. We tried out Go Kart.At first, i was like "Huh?I don't wanna play that. I am scare!" But LUCKILY, i did and i had lots of fun......!I ve given my first time to KOREA......!I drove more and more fast..........half afraid that i might fly off.....!We drove for 10 minutes.I did not buy pictures of me driving a Go Kart because i don't like the look of it. But who knows, our tourguide bought it as a present for us during our last day in Korea. I will try to show you guys the picture if possible.
Then we headed to TEDDY BEAR MUSEUM. Yes...finally.....at last i get to visit the Teddy Bear Museum. I just loved everything there. The bears are so cute. Some are branded bears.....!It was the same museum where Princess Hours was filmed there...!But mind you, the bears are seriously nice....
Me with the bear... See that Einstein bear....can you spot it?? As stated, in chinese, it is called "BING MA YONG" I meant to get my friends something from the souvenirs shop, but a bear can cost a bomb. So me and Kelnice decided to take a stroll outside and i am glad we did. There were so many creative bear statue outside.One of it was this huge bear...so dirty, so huge, so cute and so fluffy.How can they leave such bear standing outside? One of my favourite ones... BBQ-ING
Then, we headed to the GLASS CITY. I thought it would all be about making ceramics but i was wrong. This glass city is totally amazing and caught my breathe......!Everything is made of glasses.. Jack and the beanstall A korean uncle was kind enough to help us to take a picture.Actually we didn't want to take any picture but he suddenly came and took our camera, and asked us to pose. Anyway, Kamsahamnida....i did love this picture. I am dreaming to become Cinderella. Annyeong haseyo and welcome to the glass city. This smashing glass stood outside the entrance...so attractive. The Glass City
The sun says Annyeong hi gye seyo and the moon started shouting ANNYEONG....!Still, we got to travel around. We went to the Butterfly World, which once again makes our mouth open wide. I personally thought that it would be just some butterflies displaying there in a bookmark form.But who knows, there are stories through every window glasses we see...

How creative they are? I love this the best of all.....!BUGS LAND....in a theme park form.Salute and three cheers to those who created these. There is a superb mini zoo in the Butterfly World. We had this little birdie on our fingers which tickles a lot...
Before we had our dinner, we headed to Ghost Road where we learnt some physics. On this road, your car can still roll uphill even when you turned off your engine. We finds it weird and unbelievable. So we use a bottle of water to do the experiment. And it works......
We headed to our last destination in Jeju Island, which is the Halla Natural Forest. We should have come during day time because it is a place for us to enjoy the nature forest and some flower species. It is only suitable for couples to come during the night time. So we were like shouting "Mi An Hamnida" to every couples from our group. It was fun and enjoyable....

We had abalone for our dinner. Each person should have three but i only had one because i don't like the taste of ABALONE. Stupid of me right?To NOT like the taste of an abalone. But i did have their noodles and side dishes.
ONE thing i noticed about A korean during meal time is that, they must have at least 4 side dishes with a bowl of rice filling up in a tin tupperware. And they have spinach soup every night.....which is much to my liking's....
Still....I love KOREA....SARANGHEYO HAN GUK....
Do be patient with me and check out my facebook for all those pictures........Thanks and Kamsa Hamnida for sharing my journey with me....


































Saturday, December 5, 2009

First touch of Korea's soil (Day 1 & 2)

Aloha people, NAWA SEYO...i am back to update my journal.It is called "The first touch of Korea's soil".The title will be the same for these few days until i ve finished updating my journey to Korea.Once again ANNYEONG HASEYO.......!

Before i update, let me just wish our star of today-Kelnice Yeow a very happy 15th birthday!Saengil chuka hamnida. I had fun with this girl in Korea. We planned to go travelling together again.It was nice to travel with her. Let's travel again someday......!May all her dreams come true.I am so gonna missed her when i flew to Perth next year..
Kelnice
We were meant to be bestfriend.hahaha

Okay.....Annyeong.....we gathered at Pelangi Plaza sharp at 5.30pm on 26th November 2009.Felt surprised because our group consist of so little people.But all thanks to the Ngo's family which fills up nearly half of our group.We headed to Changi Airport as we got to reach there 2 hours before the boarding time. We were told that there are five more people joining us.They are from KL.Yes....the Datin's family.....

Our luggages.Boarding time is 9.30pm.korea's time is one hour faster than Malaysia's time. Kelnice is drinking her coke from Burger King
We are starting our journey soon.Girls from Taman Molek rocks.. with my silly and fugly spec....
Yeah...we reaches Korea....Annyeong Got rid of my spec....tee hee hee
We met our tourguide(A korean man who knows how to speak chinese perfectly).He was saying that he is very young but when he told us he was 38 years old,we felt like vomitting.Actually he is only 28 but he said it wrongly.We headed straight to Namsan Park after a short break of cleaning up.For your information,we don't have time to wash ourselves and we need to change our clothe in the airport toilet.Ewww....the weather was freezing cold.The description of Namsan Park

The entrance beautiful view
Namsan Park is like a small palace.The more i see it,the more i felt like i was in the place where the filming of Princess Hours took place. Everything looks nice there...i felt really happy even if it was just the first day i landed in Korea.
Can you see the rope?According to the olden days regulation, men or women have to hold on to the rope while they took off their shoes.It was to prevent them from being "Not gentle" Sauces are made from these jars It was a normal well actually but it has become a wishing well when people started throwing coins in it.I didn't throw any coins of course.I merely just stood there to pose around,pretending that i am wishingMe with my piggy face.This gentle lady has showed her true colours...

besides dressing up in their traditional costumes,there were also bows and arrows. I don't know the right way to hold the bow and arrows.....but i think i am right.hahaha See saw see saw or SEA SAW (I was told that this was palyed by the people of olden days!So canggih man.....)
Serve me right for not preparing a nice pair of shoes when i knew i have to travel.And the pair of shoes i was wearing is giving me lots of trouble.The bottom lid came off while i landed on InnCheong Airport.I have to buy a small bottle of Superglue to stick on it.I did manage to stick it at first but it came off again.Eww...how i hate that!My hands are all sticky and disgusting. It came off again while we were in Namsan Park.I have to begged Alice,Our tour leader to unpack my luggage.She told me to unpack it at Gimpo AIrport as we are flying off to Jeju Island.But in order to avoid any troublesome's,i didn't allow them to take out my luggage.Oh dear...what to do??We still have another place to go to Myeong Dong before flying off to Jeju Island... The view is nice isn't it??This was taken by Xiao Pu, our photographer... We loved this too......but my face is too small to be seen...
We headed to Myeong Dong where i didn't know it was a shopping street.Great...i bought lots of stuffs.And i saw so many Korean's band thingy selling on the street.Serve me right for not buying it at first.I didn't know that i won't have the chance to drop by Myeong Dong again.But luckily, i didnt manage to buy a Jae Joong's clock!!!Wanna see it??Wait till i have updated my last post of "First TOuch of Korea's soil".....


Eating fried rice cake,gyoza and chicken stick is uberly normal in Korea.We don't mind to eat by the roadside.It was fun though....!Although we had language barrier, but we did really try to communicate with those A Jun Ma.There goes the same with buying things while shopping.Eul Ma Ye Yo??(HOw much??)And when they answered you, we don't know what are they talking about!Funny right??


The taste was priceless.... Fried rice cake...much better to eat it in Korea then to eat at a Korean Restaurant.... So lucky of little Ella and Luffy to be able to come with me to Korea.They don't even have to pay any air tickets.....and every entrance is free for them... Kamsa Hamnida A jun Ma for the nice services.Ma Si So YO.....
Alright...now, my shoes are really in a bad state right now. The bottom lid is like coming off(the whole bottom lid).I found it really difficult to continue walking. BUt who knows,i can't even find a shop that sells shoes.So i have to walk all over the street in order to find one. Kelnice walked with me whilst i was half bending to apply more superglue and half limping....!I found my a place that sold shoes at last but it was at the highest floor.I ve almost given up....but i did bought a pair at last.So expensive...that fellow knew that i couldn't speak Korean so he charged me a pair of normal sport shoes at over rm150++ Malaysia Ringgit which is about 58 000 won. Lesson One to be learnt-Must be well-prepared while you go travelling.
Then some Japanese stopped us by the way to ask for direction. With my limited Japanese, i found it hard to communicate with them.All i told them was "Komenasai...wakarimasen!!Sumimasen!!"
So funny!!
Although we bought a lot, but we were also the earliest to gather at our given time.I meant we are the FIRST to gather.People were laughing at us for buying so much on the first day itselfs.WHo knows this is only the starting of our journey? Great views at Myeong Dong We had our lunch right after the shopping session-Ginseng Chicken.Good to eat during cold days.Forgot to mention that, i was freezing cold while i was shopping.My jacket doesn't keep me warm...Me and Kelnice....
Okay i didn't get to see the real Hyun Joong or Jae Joong, but i did see their advertising board at Gimpo Airport just ourside our departure place. We are flying to Jeju Island, the island of romance....
Good bye Seoul and WELCOME TO JEJU ISLAND.......
Our schedule is different from the one we planned due to flight's problem.So we were all tired and don't really have the mood to travel around.We visited Dragon Head Rock before dinner.....The palce was beautiful.Not everyone can see the dragon head. You need to see it with a really creative mind...

The night view is so beautiful... Both me and KELNICE...so romantice for us...
Dinner was AWESOME.SASHIMI tasted soo good.It was a comfort dinner for us for we are feeling so tired by that time and we needed a real bath...
We slept very early that night which i think it is only 9pm at Malaysia, for we are having a real long journey the next day.I didn't upload all the pictures here....for more, please check it out at my FACEBOOK account. Kamsa Hamnida......Ive fallen deeply in love with KOREA as soon as i landed on it.I met some nice people from our group.
Oh ya...not to be forgotten, Korean's culture is very organised.You can only have four people at a table no matter during breakfast time, lunch time or dinner time.Plus...there are more stories between Korean men and women.I'll stick more to that in my next post.Ciaozzz..and enjoy our journey with us......


































Thursday, December 3, 2009

广阔的天空

Hey people...i am missing you right now. I am finally back from KOREAAAAAAAA..........Annyeong haseyo!Wait wait wait.i am not suppose to update anything about my trip until i have sort out all those pictures. But i PROMISED, i will update real soon. Just be patient and kind enough to give me a few days time. I will update days by days.Korea was fun though...and shockingly beautiful...

Taken on the plane. I was trying to sleep when i suddenly looked out.I simply love the view....
原来,天空真的真的很阔。。。。让人看了,会不仅产生一种莫名的感动。我才不知觉的发现,我已经完成了我第一个梦想-去韩国旅游!你问我感觉如何??我只能说,“一极棒”。我不
在呼天长地久,我只相信曾经拥有。这句话好熟好熟,也是我们常听见的。但,我不能不相信它,因为这一切都将会是我生命中最“珍贵”的回忆!!!生名是短暂的,我一定要活得精彩。我不会为了我所决定的事而感到后悔!!

看着天空的感觉很棒,,,因为云儿们都好可爱!!白白圆圆的,感觉很轻松很自在。。。。更何况,我现在不是死名的抬头望着天空而是努力的往下看。真的很美。。。。。
很快的,太阳就要下山了。。。。。。我也想了很多。自己出国的感觉真的很美好。没有家人在身边反而不是件坏事。听着那些uncle 和aunty所说的人生经验
真的让我和阿宣了解了很多。旅游真的能够让人学的很多。也很庆幸我们遇见的都是好人。我们是幸福的。。。因为我们得到了父母的信任。谢谢你,爸爸和妈妈。我们学会如何照顾自己。也懂得要礼让。我也明白了我自己一直想往的方向。虽然很遥远,但我相信我做得到。没有一个梦想是不真实的。


原来,我一直想追求的是一个更广阔的世界!我想要更了解这个世界。能够实现我的梦想真的太好了。我还有更多的梦想。我已经不会在像以前那样,只能默默的发梦。我要更努力的实现我为自己所设定的梦。我要创造属于我自己的“新世界”。。。。。。

Blabbering for so long.....please be patient dude....and WAIT FOR ME.....stay tuned....^.^