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.

my friend got into an accident. I was in the car. in the car, there’s yeecow’s 5D, my friends D90 and his macbook pro.

that grey Myvi DIDN’T put signal and he was driving very quickly. worst was, he was going on an illegal turning. HECK. instead, he blamed it all on my friend who was parking in the so called “illegal” parking. okay, he wasn’t right, but EVERYBODY does that, if you take a look at the rows in front and behind. it’s a normal thing to do.

the dent on his car was merely a 50cent coin. and he was making the biggest fuss in the whole wide world saying the cost to fix it will be 700 and he only wanted 500. saying that it was a DISCOUNT. he told us to give him whatever we have (if we must, our phone.) because he didn’t want more of “our people” to come. he kept telling us not for FORCE him to call over his gang of friends who will very unlikely talk to us nicely. which indirectly mean fight.

he even said that he is a gentleman for talking nicely to us and if he wasn’t nice, he would have taken all our cameras and all. but in reality, he was practically yelling at us, and to have the idea of taking our stuff, have he had not THOUGHT of doing it?

JEEZ. so we told him we had to rush an assignment (which is true. but we didn’t go back into Jusco to do it.) so we had to get outta there. my friend was also worried that that man will harm us, so he told us to leave along with all his stuff. me and another girl was afraid that he might bash our friend up because he looked like some sort of samseng. he have also been consistently criticizing my friend indirectly for saying his car is new and my friend’s car is just a proton bla bla bla, calling my friend a girl for staying inside the car and calling him a minor. so we went inside Jusco (the one in Balakong) and approached the guards working there. they gathered a big group of guards including the police officer over.

that Malay guy with his Myvi was at first saying stuff like “hey we are both Malay’s we should help each other” (@#&*(@&$*)@$)@ GO DIE LAH. at first the guards was believing in what he blabbed but later on the police that had listened to what I said explained to them and they were all on my friend’s side. THANK GOODNESS THEY BELIEVED IN JUSTICE. they were not racist. and I am proud to have such officers working in Malaysia though there are many like that Malay guy in Myvi. UGH.

heck. that took us two hours. my friend’s older buddy finally came and got the thing settled. phew. let’s hope they don’t seek for revenge. that guy didn’t look too sane.

there was this thing he kept saying.. ” I don’t want your money.. but you have to pay for the bengkok thing lah…”

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WTH?

this is not a recent picture. 1 year back? =D. but my eyebags look somewhat like that now.

and I am as pale as that too. my teacher calls me a ghost wuwuwuwuu.

college is madness. =(.

I did assignments till 4am and I still have a crazy load of it. most people told me to ENJOY MY LIFE now, but it is no difference from when I was facing SPM. except it wasn’t assignments I had, it was tuition, which is a little bit easier to handle for lazy people like me. T_T.

I had my first accident a few days ago. my car’s bumper got loose. but it wasn’t scratched or anything. thank goodness the other person’s car was alright. was reversing and her car was on that particular blind spot. pfft. T_T. tuition fees. sigh.

my camera’s focus died too. SIGHHHHHHH.

anybody going to Korea/ will be in Korea during the mid-end of November? =D.

I am very very very busy. I hope I could blog more. =(.

they’re like a kopitiam actually. =D.

I don’t really look like my mom =X. but we both love the chee cheong fun very much. we both had two BIG plate EACH!

TADA! the Ha Kou Chee Cheong Fun! <3. the best thing I’ve ever tried. but if you hate ha kou, then don’t try it haha.

after being hit by the hazard caused by my chopsticks!

okay the shop is not only famous for these.

their Char Kuey Teow is very famous as well. but the thing is, 90% of the kuey teow you can get will satisfy you. it isn’t the best, but it’s GREATTT.

their menu. I had Omelette B, C was sold out T_T. trust me, it spells D_E_L_I_C_I_O_U_S. I thought it was just normal omelette at first so I didn’t take any picture of it. they didn’t use normal cheese. they used CREAM CHEESE. oh nom nom nom nom!

otak-otak. I prefer the ones here compared to the ones in Muar, I’m weird. >=(. I like how they have those vegetables in it. YUMM. but the one sold at this coffee shop ain’t as good. go buy it from the “neighbour”.

here’s the neighbour’s contact. not sure if it’s RM2.50 or what. somewhere there. it’s seriously damn good. T_T. I wanted more but we only went there once. sigh.

and on the ferry, I thought I was going to face the most tragic situation of my life. the PETROL factory (Shell) was in that state. lucky it didn’t blow up or something. I was literally scared. T_T.

the most famous Satay Celup Restaurant in Malacca, Capitol Satay Celup. EVERYBODY in Malacca knows about it. so to find it, just ask around =D. we reached the shop at approximately 6pm, and there was already a long queue. so we rushed over and look.

this is what’s behind us after 3 minutes? of waiting. it’s longer than what the picture shows actually, my bad estimation =(.

and we left at about 8pm. ate for about an hour plus hahahha. it was GREAT. and as a person so new to it, eating almost everything is a MUST. you need to TRY! =D

the inside seats. there are at most 10 tables from what I see, and their business is SO GOOD. pfft. look at the walls, most of them are singaporean celebrities.

they soon later brought a bucket of satay sauce. about the hygiene, I am not really sure about if they REUSE the satay sauces. but we usually just dip in it and take it out anyways, not like we lick it and put it back inside. what’s disgusting in my opinion is, IF they really reuse it, what if somebody coughed into the pot =X. or tercough or something. don’t know lah! but I guess there are no complaints since it’s so “laku”. =P.

I have NO IDEA what they kept adding into the sauce, but it was AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS. peanuts and sugar was one of the things I spotted. and something else.. it’s like those fragrant stuff which could be found in rendangs. I don’t really know how to describe it but it’s those long thin thingys =X. very delicious when eaten =D. chewy too.

like the normal lok-lok, they charge by stick too =D. and they standardize it to 80cents each! =D. yum.

what I heard is so great about this place compared to the others, their seafood quality is really good.

quote from Natalie about delicious prawns : those prawns were literally bouncing! (haha she’s so cute and that is one good quote!)

and what she said could be applied to the prawns here. they are HUGE. I am allergic to them but I ate 3. to the lazy people out there : the prawns are skinned, don’t worry =D.

my choice. exclude the vegetables, those are fatty Darren’s! =P.

those taiwan lapcheongs were awesome. they are like the number 1 thing I’d look for in pasar malam but who knows what chunks are in there to make it so tasty. =X. sometimes certain lapcheong I ate in china tasted lik intestines. ew. T_T. this is awesome too though =P.

and intestines are awesome too I just said ew for fun. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.

bread is a MUST order. it is SO DAMN GOOD. especially with the satay celup sauce. but then do be careful because dipping bread into the sauce is very different from dipping meat or cucumber in it. the bread soaked all the sauce in it, making it extra hot. watch out from burning your tongue!

hello. =D.

and hi Wei Zhong. you need a haircut. he hates appearing in my blog. but this one is rare okay Zhong? pfft.

aiyah I must take a picture with the food to prove that I was actually really there. =P.

PROVEN!