anyeonghaseyo. welcome to my blog-yo. I love Korea-yo. since adding a -yo means being polite in Korean =D.
I am so crazy I am actually counting down. in lesser than 3 months!
just so you know, I am not rich or whatsoever. because I bought the tickets on this really special promo. =D. and I will be staying at a budget place. no posh posh hotels =(. but that already satisfies me. it’s been 10 years. =3.
you might be among the fortunate group to have visit Korea already, and you’d think it’s nothing much. but I’ve wanted to go there since I’d watched Autumn in My Heart at 8. and is keen on visiting it first time on Autumn =X. November is an Autumn month! =D. AirAsia’s quite smart, they only have promo for autumn on November. pfft. and it was a very last minute thing because I only had a day to think if I could go. I spent hours on the net trying to persuade my friends to go with me (because my mom wouldn’t allow me going alone without a proper adult. EVEN I have friends there.) and well, when the tickets came out, my mom shocked herself by looking at the crazily cheap fare and said “ok lah, I’ll go with you.”
=D =D =D =D =D.
normally such cheap fares only comes out once in a blue moon. and this promo is because they are launching flights to Korea for the first time!
AirAsia made my dream possible. WHEE! <3. by the way, the statement above, is for TWO. and TWO ways.
will be going there for 6 days. I only had a week worth of holiday =(. and to prevent myself from splurging more, I booked 6 days only T_T. if I were to go on my own, I was planning on 2 weeks. skip a week of college, I don’t care. =D. yes you might say that I am lucky and all but please bare in mind that these type of “luck” only comes in when you check their site every freaking hour hahaha. and to make a last minute planning, it was pretty alright. 6 days wouldn’t be enough but I’m trying to cram 35 destination into 6 days.
call me mad, but I’ve even completed my itenary.
Day 1 – will arrive in the evening, shall walk around and explore Myeong Dong at night.
Day 2 – 63 Building and that area, Gangnam and later on meeting up with my Korean friends for Lotte World (wanted Everland but I heard many rides might close if the weather is too cold.)
Day 3 – Bongeunsa Temple, COEX mall + its Aquarium, Hongdae for coffee shops (SCREW MY ALLERGY! I shall find a way to overcome it! medication or something =/. did you know, most coffee shops in Korea are UNIQUE in their own way? =D.), Rainbow Fountain.
Day 4 – Hanoks, Insadong, Gyeongbokgung + all the other gungs + Cheong Wa Dae (Korean white house. except its BLUE.), samcheongdong. all walking distance.
Day 5 – Gwanjang Market, Edae, Deoksugung, City Plaza, Seoul Museum of Art (I’m an art student anyway, how can I go to a land of art without entering their museum?!), Dongdaemun Market (opens till 5am! =D)
Day 6 – Namsan, Myeong Dong
bare in mind that one spot have several destinations. they are all in walking distance! plus, my itenary isn’t full yet. =3. was thinking of visiting their noraebang(korean karaoke) and their jjimjilbang(sauna with practically EVERYTHING) too. sigh, unlike noraebangs in Msia, their’s look much more fun, plus, they charge per room. so if you have more people, your per person price will drop heh.
no visa is needed for such a short visit. =3. (and Japan’s one is soooo troublesome. needs letters and bank slips. it’s pretty difficult for a student to travel there alone. but couldn’t be helped. I heard many fellow Msians ‘jump plane’ there. haha.)
I was pestering my mom to buy those lonely planet books for Seoul as she’d go against her stingy self to buy it the last time we visited China and HK. it costs about rm88? =X. super expensive ugh. but she said there’s nothing about Korea that I don’t know, and we don’t need it. PFFTTT. >=(. so if anyone has it, pinjam boleh? =3 I take good care of books. plus, I do wrapping services, for FREE! =D!
I am a crazy girl. I’ve been preparing for the past one month already. like how my friend who is obsessed with Japan took 4 months to prepare his, which turned out perfect, I wanted to do the same =D.
PS : my mom had some very bad experience in Seoul and had never liked it since then. but I am slowly brainwashing her. >=). and she’s only going because I am so eager to go T______T. I told her ” you saved up on my college fees because of the full scholarship, and this trip will worth only one sem’s fees!” it’s unreasonably reasonable! =).
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some test shots of YeeCow’s Canon 5D + his 28mm f/2.8
it’s awesome.
but he called me an idiot yesterday because he lent me his camera because mine have some sort of problem. but he only noticed that it’s because of some silly setting I made, and my camera doesn’t need to be sent into the hospital >_<”.
so here’s some test shots =D. some of them are for my Photography assignment.
haha, noticed how biased I am? most of my make up products are from faceshop– a korean brand. =D. one from missha– another korean brand. and one each from etthusais and maybeline.
well, the faceshop is really cheap when there’s sale =/. couldn’t help it.
the black background’s only sugar paper! it does WONDERS. and there was no special lighting. it was home light.
the pair of heels I wear frequently nowadays.
the pictures were taken in RAW and only the colour temperature and the black intensity was adjusted. =). but it was only slight adjustments.
this is how I look when I go to college. Jeremy said I look like some ghost hmm. he’s being pretty honest hahha.
lets hope you don’t get nightmares from this picture taken in the morning.
I woke up early today and wanted to try camwhoring with a 28mm =D. a bit close, but at least it works!
+ the sunlight help in bluffing my skin HAHA.
