hence there were 3 candles on my cake. =P.

so shall we start on how I celebrated my birthday (for the first time overseas and without my mom’s famous pasta) here?

but traditions will always be traditions, I MUST HAVE PASTAS ON MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WITH FRIENDS!

went to CM’s Box AGAIN! sad birthday girl had to wait for seats as well because CM’s Box is just too popular. and you cannot pre-book places here.

you guys have already met Wai Kit, now meet Igor. born Russian. with a Korean mom if you were wondering why he look a little Asian =P. and also our MANGNAE! because he deserves the title for always disturbing us “ajumma’s/halmoni’s”.

mangnae = youngest of a group/family
ajumma = aunt
halmoni = grandma

and meet SATO! she’s fluent in Korean. like, fluent. it is surprising how she can be in the same level as me anyway. she’s very very good spoken as her BF’s Korean xD. so it’s an advantage. she told me to date a Korean guy so that I can improve my Korean quickly but errrrrrr. no thanks U_U.

bolognese. ah. I forgot what was it but well, one of the bolognese pastas. haha.

super adorable mangnae. but very annoying. hahaha. he messes my hair ALMOST every single day PFFT.

cheese salad. those white chunks are huge chunks of cheese yo. yum. it comes with the 4 person set. so not enough.

cream sauced pizza with bacon!

golden prawn pizza! this is that pita bread one where it has more cheese than bread and you just dig them out from the pan rather than eating it like a real pizza haha.

all of it sums up to almost 50,000won if I am not wrong. the salad comes with honey too! so. good.

and after we almost finished our meal, Sally made it here! she came all the way from the airport. like, right after the airport T_T. super touched. she’s from Austria! Korean blood though =D.

Wai Kit looked so boss. hahhaha. lol at the mangnae.

I bet you noticed the plus. who came really late haha. that’s Andre from Brazil =D.

and lol at myself @w@. me and my stupid faces. all the time. I just seldom post them on my blog =S.

and a real family picture!

holding the choco ball because mr. mangnae was playing with the cake long before we started taking pictures and had to drop the choco ball.

happy family with people all over the world. haha.

this is what you’d get for celebrating your birthday with two dorks. =P. pictures which are never serious. le sigh. haha.

here’s an awkward picture of me D=. just to make my face look less photostatted in all pictures. haha.

happy 21st birthday to myself! it’s supposed to be a very huge thing in Chinese I think. but I think celebrating with these few new close friends I’ve made here is more than enough. I’ve always had parties and for a change, I think this is great.

candles in Korea are so long haha. and they do not melt too fast either. (Y).

=D.

I was told to make a wish.

blowing my candles in 1 shot!  (1 shot is very famous here in Korea. especially when you drink haha.)

my awesome girlfriends. ah. it’s so great to get to know these awesome people. which is why I always think that studying overseas give you an experience you can never buy.

ready? set? go!

thank you Wai Kit =3. it was delicious. Baskin Robbin’s cake. I think I ate like 40% of it though. D=. I’M BECOMING SO FAR NAOOOOOOO.

and that’s our mangnae in a Russian music video. and he is so young. le sigh I feel old. hahah.

here’s the link to the video : http://youtu.be/6LJKlE1BQ3U

I don’t think I know how to appreciate Russian music much but I thought the way they recorded the video was pretty awesome. it was self produced by the way. not under any company haha.

and then Margaretti joined in! <3. (lol at the guy on the far right. shocked face. still looked into the camera.)

Round 2.

the 2 Mangnae’s haha. they are both the same age. except Igor isn’t really sane haha.

he was swinging her around hahaha it was so fun to watch but she became really dizzy =(.

we then went for some ALCOHOL!

now that’s one huge beer mug.

2000cc. not too bad when we share among so many of us haha.

with our ddalgi soju cocktail. ddalgi = strawberry =3. absolutely love it. but because it’s so easy to drink, you’d get drunk easily. but I wasn’t at all wasted haha.

cheers?

finally, Tom came with his sister and brother in law =D. his sister really looked like Arden Cho. no kidding. like the older version of her.

anyways, round 3! KARAOKE!

Sally do love the noraebang! she’s an awesome singer too.

and the last friend finally joined in! meet Leo! from MALAYSIA! yes lahhhhhh Malaysia boleh! he’s the same age as me and is already doing his degree hahaha. why does he and Tom look so brotherly here. D=.

classmates. =D.

giving him the V-shaped face.

hahaha. Andre Y U NO FOLLOW OUR EYES!

giving myself the V-line. =P.

and on the day of my Birthday, (the 3 rounds was my Birthday countdown. we went home at 3:30 and I slept at 4:40. still managed to wake up at 7am for my class! except I entered class like a zombie.) I got the best surprise I’ve ever had U_U.

totally unexpected.

there are these 2 really really sweet Japanese girls in my class which I have always thought were cute and pretty (now now, please continue reading and not scroll down to their pictures.) they did not wish me and totally pretended that they did not know. I didn’t expect anyone to know since I didn’t go around telling people about it but…….. they saw it on facebook and decided to give me a surprise……..

they had actually told the teacher to end our first period 10 minutes earlier just so that they could give me the surprise! U________U!!! bought me a lovely heart shaped cake. and I felt so blessed. I had such sweet classmates. where I felt bad for not asking them along for the day before because I thought it would be weird since everyone speaks in English =(.

but they are such sweethearts and I still love them T________T. I promised myself to be even nicer to them for their birthday!

in our class. =3.

some were absent but oh well, these are MOST of my classmates!

take 2!

and the 2 lovely girls, Chisa and Megumi. they are very pretty. much prettier in real life too.

because we love jeans! .\../

what he calls the “aegyo”. my goodness. more like gwisin.

aegyo = acting cute
gwisin = ghost

haahahah.

then, Wai Kit and I went for a Jap lunch!

I had to spend my birthday with a fellow Malaysian for at least a little while where I can truly speak Manglish and not have to hide my lahs.

went to the Okonomiyaki shop nearby CM’s Box. on the same row actually. pretty famous it’s frequently filled but lucky it wasn’t that filled on that day.

that’s one small teppan utensil. don’t know what you call it. super cute. haha. they only give you that and chopsticks!

look at that amount of bonita flakes! MMMM.

and MOREEEE BONITA FLAKES!

they have unlimited okonomiyaki sauce, mayo and chilli flakes! so awesome. but unlike Malaysia, they do not put the noodles IN the egg omelette. instead, they separate them. what’s in the egg okonomiyaki is just egg with onions. but still, sooooooooo good.

you don’t get many candid pictures of me. heh.

in addition to the lovely cake, my Japanese friends bought me a whole tube of chuppa chups alongside with other sweets and chocolates like Hersheys and Ferrero until the whole thing is fully filled!

you know that vibrator notificator you get when you order Snowflakes in KL? well, this is the same. except it’s shaped like an iPhone and you can watch advertisements while waiting for your food. awesome ey?

nothing can express how touched I was U_U. it wasn’t about the quality or quantity of the gifts, but the sincerity. I felt it from every one of them here. #thebestfeeling.

and Sally got this adorable Hello Kitty mirror for me from Japan. eventhough I am not a big fan of Hello Kitty, I suddenly felt that Hello Kitty’s are really cute. love it mucho. next stop? HELLO KITTY CAFE!

AHH!! even the card is so adorable. nicely decorated with cute stickers =3.

they wrote “beautiful princess Jamie, Happy Birthday, we love you~!” not very much of a princess (more like tomboy haha) but awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…..!

the portion of Patbingsu in Paris Baguette. madness. but just right for 2 people haha.

and AT NIGHT? (I know, it was like as if it’s never ending.)

there’s this Gopchang (intestines) shop in Sinchon which smelled VERY GOOD each time I passed by. but the queue was very very long. but this time, I was determined and insisted on waiting for it.

verdict?

absolutely worth the wait.

everything above’s raw. and those chunks of red gooey cubes are blood. raw. clotted raw blood. I know, I know. I only had one. wasn’t very pleasant haha. I guess I’m just new to it.

my date for the night, you can address him as mr. Mun. =D.

I actually went home to sleep for a while, hence the fresh face!

but it didn’t last long with this……….. it’s called the Mae-Hwa-Su. some sweet alcohol for the ladies. it tastes like the Japanese Umeishu.

right before drinking.

and after a few shots.

he has horrible alcohol tolerance. I think I drank twice of what he did.

spam.

after our very “aromatic” dinner, we headed on for more drinks since the night was young and my intentions for the night is to get wasted.

which failed because raspberry vodka is too light for me *nyahahhaha* we went to this place called M12 if I’m not wrong. in Hongdae. they kept refilling those super addictive Gim (seaweed) for us and I was reluctant to leave because of that.

now this is one funny picture =P.

even though blur, I still think I am a good photographer.

instead of getting even more drunk, I think we got a little bit more sober here. hahaha.

that is why, we had our 3rd round at Warawara, a famous HOF. HOF is apparently German(?) which stands for House of Beer or something. you can find HOFs everywhere here. especially in Sinchon. they’d write something like HOF and Chicken. or just HOF, which usually serves chicken as well. chickens are really expensive here in Korea. don’t know if it’s because Malaysian gov subsidies for our chicken. but one chicken here can cost around 20-30,000won+++. that’s RM60-90+++ ringgit!

gyeranmari! cheese egg omelette with a crazy amount of cheese.

that’s not just strawberrry juice. Warawara’s famous for mixing freshly blended juices with soju/makgeolli. mr. Moon actually thought we could finish 1000cc worth of ddalgi soju with an addition of one more bottle of soju to make it even stronger.

I drank 70% of it. and there were no more pictures taken after I got absolutely wasted. I insisted on walking home.. drunk. and that’s the longest but yet the most awesome walk hahaha. I am the happy drunk so you should get what I mean. =D.

I couldn’t remembered what happened from halfway home till how I get onto my bed with my make up and socks still on and I am surprised how I could wake up and still get to class. but I walked to class drunk. it was that bad. I hadn’t actually gotten so wasted from Soju before and didn’t know how it felt like. it gives you a massive headache and keeps you drunk for like 10 hours. but at least I didn’t puke =3.

but to me, rose day is just another day for them to make money as the prices will jack up. it costs like 35,000won for a bouquet of flowers sold in THE SCHOOL. mm hmm. actually I’m not sure if flowers are really just that expensive haha. but during the last day of class with our previous teacher(you change your teacher every half a term) we shared among 12 of us for 2 bouquet and it costs about 40,000won.

beautiful bouquets of flowers selling at the tunnel outside the main gate of my Uni. they are so pretty T_T. I’ve always dream of these type of beautiful bouquet of red roses clumped up together and wrapped with a simple brown paper wrap (because it’s rare in Malaysia, and abundant here! don’t know why but most bouquets in Malaysia are really ugly yet expensive.) but I guess I would be equally as happy if I get an angpau with the same amount of money used for the bouquet of roses. haha.

and today, we saw students buying flowers and still didn’t understand the occasion until Tom (my classmate) gave our teacher a bar of choco and said “Happy Teachers Day” where I embarrassingly corrected him “it’s tomorrow!” to know that teachers day is actually different in every country. in Malaysia it’s May 16th =S. it’s May 15th here because it’s King Sejong’s Birthday and since he is the founder of Hangeul (Korean writing) so he is like the master mentor or all education in Korea.

I thought it would be fun to share how much effort they put in and also how fun it is for just singing along to the song!

so you can download the song here : [다운로드]

it’s from the main Akaraka website. the lyrics.

I would like to call it the “고대 못생겼어” by 연대 아카라카 song. since I have no idea what the title is haha. (okay checked, apparently its named “woo” hahaha.)

A) 자 이제 우리가 너희들을 깐다 여기 저기
ja-i-je woo-ri neo-huei-deu-reul ggan-da~ yeo-gi jeo-gi~
자 이제 우리가 너희들을 깐다 여기 저기
ja-i-je woo-ri neo-huei-deu-reul ggan-da~ yeo-gi jeo-gi~
자 이제 우리가 너희들을 깐다 여기 저기
ja-i-je woo-ri neo-huei-deu-reul ggan-da~ yeo-gi jeo-gi~

B) 고대 못생겼어 일단 못생겼어
ko-dae mot-saeng-gyeosseo il-dan mot-saeng-gyeosseo
그냥 못생겼어 고대 Shake it
geu-nyang mot-saeng-gyeosseo
고대 못생겼어 아직 못생겼어
ko-dae mot-saeng-gyeosseo a-jik mot-saeng-gyeosseo
계속 못생겼어 고대 Shake it
gye-suk mot-saeng-gyeosseo ko-dae Shake it!

C) 이대한테 차이고 숙대한테 차이고
e-dae-han-te cha-i-go suk-dae-han-te cha-i-go
여기저기 차이고 차이고 또 차이고
yeo-gi jeo-gi cha-i-go ddo cha-i-go

구성) 전주 – A – B – C – 간주 – A – B – C

basically the whole song is about how ugly Korea Univ (Ko Dae) is. very funny song hence I would like to share it out =P. the chorus sings :

Ko Dae is ugly, the most ugly,
just ugly, Ko Dae SHAKE IT!
Ko Dae is ugly, still ugly,
continuously ugly, Ko Dae SHAKE IT!”

it’s really really not a rivalry thing. just that they have fun in this way. Korea Univ students come here just to sing songs to diss Yonseians too haha. it’s fun how after Akaraka end Korea Univ students gather outside the theater and sing REALLY loud while stomping their way out of the school while some Yonseians would just sing that song above to counter back. =P.

can’t wait to tell you my Akaraka experience! was indeed super tiring though.

this is how the main building was like yesterday. haha. all Yonseians are in Sapphire Blue while Korea Univ students are all in bright Red! funny how out of the ocean of people in blue in the theater you can find a patch of red here and there hahaha.

random spring flowers. and now most trees turned green =S.

Sinchon. 신촌 벚꽃이 진짜 예쁘다고요!

this was probably about 10th of April or something. when it was fully bloomed and none of the petals were falling off.

upclose. I actually really like the cherry blossoms in Sinchon even though they are white. but they grow very close to each other making them special =3.

and like, the WHOLE street was filled with it.

later, I went to Yonsei. =D. because it’s really really pretty.

HELLO! let le tour guide show you the awesome Yonsei Univ. cherry blossoms! it was on the 17th (of April) and the cherry blossom petals were falling already. and the ones at Sinchon has leaves growing out from it already =(.

but at least in Yonsei it’s still perfect!

this is an illusion. don’t know how my hair could look this long when it isn’t haha.

the flowers were so prettttyyyyy <3.

(another optical illusion. my legs somehow look so long here hahaha.)

sulking. haha.

=D.

LOOK AT HOW PRETTY IT IS! they planted extra flowers =3. to make it even prettier.

when I say “fa” (flower in cantonese hehe).

=D.

from the other side.

the season where even more couples would visit the University.

and also where students picnic under the tree.

mad volume of cherry blossoms are mad.

unfortunately the cherry blossoms in Yonsei are just around the main building (abundantly). you can perhaps find one cherry blossom here and there but they stand alone.

=3.

and at the same time, the pinkish purplish flowers on the left bloomed too! just look at that cute couple on the bench <3.

taken with Wai Kit’s wide angle lens. =D. ahhhhhhh. pretty.

I was realllllllly close to the camera. wide angles~

absolutely love this view. hence I must pose with it!

being silly.

and sillier.

the view was just so breath taking I had to take this crazy amount of pictures hahaha.

the length you’d have to walk from the MAIN GATE just in order to get to the main building. madness.

spam

>_>.

=D.

matches my skirt. can’t help it. =P.

I still have my fake dimple hahahahha. stupid pimple ain’t going away pfft.

and then outside the church in front of Yonsei’s main gate. that’s where I took that picture of that nice wall from my previous post.

I honestly think that I look better when I don’t smile. hmm?

=D. typical photostated face haha.

the super mini “park” in Sinchon with a few benches has the best trees ever.

and this is how ugly it looks when the greens come out =(.

ah! le cherry blossoms are too pretty!

>______<.

=D.

they will eventually at one point seem like snow.

guess what?

I TURN 20 TODAY!!!

no longer a teen. and I have sorted the pictures taken during the sakura season (so good) I wanna post. so, wait up! crap just came back from my Pasta Dinner, Drinking Session and Noraebang (Karaoke) and I have class tomorrow AND I gotta wake up before 7. crap. I am not that sane now. I love ya all whom had been with me even though I am this far. thank you.

<3,

Jamie.