New post in slightly more than a week..~
I totally forgot to blog on the first day of school.. today's the second then.. oh well.. yesterday was busy with all the timetabling and scheduling stuff... eeww.
our design studio is split into two projects this time... first 5 weeks is a group project for site analysis.. then the next 11 weeks will be spent on the individual project which has to do with the future developmental plans of a chosen bldg or grp of bldgs.. I donno it sounds complicated to me... hopefully we'll get enlightened along the way...
The others in my studio are ernest, junliang and jeremy... heng heng we got the same studio as jiwon, daedo and chungyeon... so at least there were familiar faces...=P Professor's name is Han Jin Taek.. kenn says he's quite easygoing.. so that's good sia..=P
Wondering about Spacegrp's team workshop next week... if they really do invite me.. then have to see whether ponning class is an option... *heehee*
oh yess... and I have a wacky roommate (her name is suching btw) who just sang this... I have no idea why...
"the sky is high
the birds are blind
the wind sighs
wei lin is fine
singing a line from
michael "bubl-i" (suppose to rhyme with 'lie')"
and ends off with sc saying... "hey I really think I'm good!"
yep. life in the day with a wacky roomie..=)
On the net finally!
Currently at Kim's Guesthouse which is near Hapjeong Station.. on the 2nd night of my travel alone.. it's just two days.. but seems like I had a lot of time to think things over.. good things and bad things... and I guess things are more peaceful in my mind now...
Just came back from Yongsan!! wahhaa.. where I bought my MP3 player and my webcam!!! the MP3 player got reduced from 433sgd to 230 sgd!!! wahhaaaaa.. cos 3 of us bought it in the end.. it's only a 1gb player.. so it's actually not cheap.. but I really do like how it looks... the shopkeeper said we were robbers without knives.. heh.. and I replied that we were innocent and poor students.. *guffaws*
and I got a damn cool looking webcam for 15000W! it's about 25sgd I think... when I get back to ansan.. I'll take a photo of both to show... heeheeh.. very happy now.. will be gg back early tom morning.. hope I can wake up.. so that can go out for the rest of the day.. haven't decided where to go yet.. but maybe we should visit woojung tomorrow.. either that or on friday.. have to find out which hospital he is in though.. he said he'll be there for about 2 weeks.. so it kinda sounds serious.. quite worried... =(
I'll write more about the past two days when i get back to ansan.. will go drink my pear juice and watch Friends season 1 now... tata~
Packing to set off ~ a lone traveller~
So it's Monday afternoon.. and sokcho plans are scrapped.. due to finances and arrangemnents... talked to kenn last night and he helped me come to the conclusion that it might not be rewarding going sokcho alone either..
So change of plans.. going to slowly go through Seoul.. which I realised is a headache too.. cos there are so many different places to go.. hahaa. Kim's Guesthouse is full when I called.. but the lady told me to go try anyhow..~ hopefully budget holds..=)
So I've got to pack super quick now.. and go for lunch.. and then it's off for my lone journey... ~may there be nice surprises in store for me... Maybe I should just take it slow today and go hangang-ing and seoul tower-ing...=)
I hope there's a LAN point at the guesthouse!! then I can at least use MSN...=) tata now~~
Last day 'and' night of work...
18th of August... last day at work... it was great that everyone in my division was present that day... at least I could say thank you and bye to everyone... So I finished the detailing stuff... the revit model.. did some wire binding.. grin.. and checked out sokcho for the rest of the time there...~ grinz.
Went to main space building at about 4pm.. to get our certs and our salary... woohoo~~ went to bank it in immediately.. carry so much cash not safe sia.. heh. Then went back and bought ice cream for my colleagues... there are 10 of us in total in the team.. then it was wait for 6pm.. meanwhile team jang whipped out a camera and asked teresa to donno do what with it.. but when i saw her taking pics of everyone.. and me included.. i guessed it was something for me.. haha.. so just pretend donno loh.. so cute.. kept chasing me away from her workstation..=) and then it was team dinner.. aka farewell party for me too.. was so touched..
we had spicy pork bbq for dinner... and washed it all down with amarula, a african liqour that mr ahn bought from angola i think... and it tasted much like bailey's.. but it was even nicer... and then there was beer... and then there was soju.. omg.. almost K.Oed.. then we went on some drinking place for round 2... *faints* I honestly thought there wasn't round two!! then it was more beer... and more beer.. but Cass beer rocks la.. but the lightly battered fish fillets were fantastic with the beer.. and then out comes the red wine... 2002 Bourdeaux... I think i drank it before.. cos I saw "Camus" on the label too.. 2 glasses of red.. all thanks to Lito.. and I had to leave to meet ttt, jl and hj... cos hj was leaving on sat for busan.. and then US on 1st sept... Bon Voyage buddy!!! Have a great and rewarding time in the States!!!
Met them outside dunkins' and we decided to go somewhere near hj's place to drink and then stay overnight.. not that we had much of a choice after we finished drinking... and it was more drinking.. cass and soju... and we played hilarious games like indian poker... and a new korean game called "pabo" game.. which was literally quite pabo.. haahaa foolish in korean... ttt simply couldn't match his hands to his brain.. so haha.. drink drink then... muahhahaha...
I think I neared my limit bah.. good thing I didn't KO totally... yep.. so now woke up in hj's house.. waiting for the rest of wake up too.. tired but happy.. so it was a great day afterall~~!!
3rd last day @ Space and I'm sick...
Sigh.. it's the 3rd last day of work.. and I'm out for the count with a bad throat.. fever, and flu..=( Went home early from work.. and slept all the way till sc came home at about ten..
I was quite surprised when she told me geoffrey bought me a burger and she bought me cream puffs.. good dinner..=P Thank god for good friends especially when you're away from home... thanks all~
I haven't blogged about Incheon yet I think... and the pics are all still not up.. lazy lazy me.. =( But Incheon beaches were more like mud fight opportunities.. which was great fun..=) STH house was a letdown though.. since the house wasn't maintained very well, nor were visitors allowed to go in.. and the parasols on the stretch of beach more or less ruined the scenery!! At least we got to see Muuido at night and played with firecrackers... otherwise it would have been quite a sianz time to see the beach in the daytime... Talking about Muuido... we were so damn lucky... haha... we were supposed to go there from yeongjongdo island... and we thought the last ferry was at 8pm.. by the time we got near the ferry terminal.. it was already 8pm.. but we decided to just walk to the ferry terminal to try our luck... and we were walking quite slowly... but I made the comment that if we miss the ferry by a few minutes.. we would be very *dui*.. and wah seh.. as we were approaching the ferry terminal.. we saw cars gg in the direction of the ferry... our hopes got up and we sort of dashed to the ticketing booth.. and we really got the last ferry at 8:28pm.. when the departure was supposed to be 8:30pm!! wahaaaahaa. Then when we got to the island.. there was this last bus there.. and a young couple who could speak english.. who was also gg to hanagae resort... AND.. the ticketing guy at the resort also could speak english!! haahaa.. and tho our accom was super duper expensive.. it was the *last* one available for the night... grin... lady luck must have been looking after us that night...=)
Playing with firecrackers that night was really memorable... tho we were doing a lot of stupid stuff.. haha.. but that's what memories are made of I guess.. The next day we went to Incheon Chinatown and I shared seafood fried rice and "shredded chicken noodles" with sc... the latter is in inverted commas cos there was more seafood and mushrooms than chicken.. haha.. but the fried rice was really good!! sigh.. if there was white pepper at the table.. life would have been complete.. grinz.
Roystern and Geoffrey went off earlier cos Geoffrey wasn't feeling quite well.. probably because of the clam dinner the previous night... poor thing~~ And the 3 of us went in search of chinese confectionery.. heh.. we found this "bing" called "tao su bing" i think.. which tasted like walnut biscuit.. quite nice.. and the greatest find of the day was the BAO!! dou sha bao and cai rou bao!! haha... and soybean milk and youtiao! haha... altho the youtiao is not the freshly made kind.. to see something from home is still a great feeling.. we were goofing off in the shop.. and I think a MTV featuring mike and sc's eating faces to the tune of lin jun jie's doujiangyoutiao is in order.. hahaha.
Yesterday night talked to clarence on skype.. he was at daniel's house leeching wireless... talked for about 1 hour... haha.. made me realise 2 things.. I really want a webcam.. haha.. and I really miss the CTC gang... our jokes.. our crap and all the things we can talk about freely... yep.. 1 year will go by quite fast... the next time we can all gather together again will be in June 07...~
It's about 11:41pm now.. I should be going to sleep and praying hard tomorrow my throat will be better... and it's a horrible headache trying to plan the coming week holiday.. can't decide where to go.. but the east coast is a high possibility..=)
Dying to go Busan again.. but shall wait for the film fest in October then..~
I shall just try to fix my lousy photos.. I think the transfer hanged.. argh.. then it's off to bed!~~
Division Dinner!
woah.. was supposed to go with the rest to dongdaemun this evening.. but I found out later from Theresa that there was division dinner @ the Hilton Hotel... so paiseh to have made the rest wait for me.. but Hilton Hotel!! how to not go? *heehee*
The food was alright.. not much variety.. but all tasted great.. wah seh.. the galbi!!! omg the galbi!!! heh... alcohol was free flow as usual... drank white wine the whole night with Lito constantly asking for refills.. *faints* ended drinking about 5 glasses.. which is about as much wine I've ever drunk at 1 sitting.. then still had to navigate my way to Seoul Station... I just kept looking for the light blue sign for Line 4... haven't been so happy to see 한대압 역 before.. taxi fare was 2800W which isn't that bad considering...~ feeling rather groggy now... tomorrow going incheon!!! wahaahaahaa~ muuido here I come!! stairway to heaven!!! woohoo~~~
Going to shower now.. hopefully more pple come online later then can chit chat.. or perhaps I'll just conk out. haa. sounds like a brilliant idea...=)
Another day has passed~
Happy Birthday Singapore!!! haahaa.. like real I am so patriotic... it's just an excuse to have another gathering and a good meal outside.. muahahaha. din tai fung!! kaching kaching!! yea yea..~
about 1 hour more before I start packing up... lalala. Just been niao-ing christine about the busan trip and everything else... heehee. *self satisfied smirk* I must be too free.. ~
incheon this weekend.. lalala...~ STH house!!! Beach!!
hangang/yeouido next week? maybe maybe...~
and I wonder if we really end work on the 18th..? if so must really start to plan that break part... otherwise wasted sia..=)
5 mins to 5pm.. 1 hour 5 mins to pack up.. pity I cant load the settlers' game page.. oh well... youtube is calling... heh.
Back from Busan=)
and so we're finally back... haha.. I think we're finally getting used to the travelling time... it was 3 hours by ktx... then 1 hour plus by subway... and i didn't really feel the time.. haa. donno if that's good or not.. haahaaha.
Got some of the pics from ttt but I realise we dont have a lot from the beach.. so sad... given that we spent so much time there.. haha.. should have at least taken a picture of ttt's "burial mound"..=)
I didn't manage to get stuff for my colleagues back from Busan.. so feel quite bad about it..=( tomorrow will buy them dunkin donuts and drinks for breakfast.. hope that's okie..
but honestly.. you win some you lose some... I had a great time in Busan... but still have some misunderstandings left behind.. hopefully everything gets better with time..~ and wah biang.. hengz like mad... i thot i did something wrong to roystern's mp3 player.. thank god it's just that the batt is totally flat.. phew~ I wanna go yongsan to buy mp3 player!! soon soon!! hiakz hiakz.
anyway.. gotta go sleep now.. tomorrow is a workday..=) haahaa. 4 days to another weekend!!! heeheehee. muahhaha.~
Success!~
heeheehee.. now i remember liao.. "submit post" is the orange button... ha. And now I have 17 mins left of internet time.. omg.. donno what to do with it... cos basically blogged most of the stuff that happend... so donno what to write in my journal now....~ heh. just write.. "busan refer to blog.. post no.. etcetc" haahaa.
I wonder how the rest are doing in seoul.. hope they had a good time this weekend too.. I know that there was some friction about why only 4 of us went to busan.. but i still think some things cannot be helped~ it's not as if busan cannot go again bah.. so hopefully things will smooth over..
I'm starting to feel sleepy now..~ heh. looking forward to the soak in the pool tommorrow.. =) immune to the sights liao. heh. bet mom will be tramatised when i tell her about it.. heehee.
I think i'm really getting used to life here already... besides the language problem.. which can be overcomed if we have cellphones and if we can use charades.. haahaa. So all is good and right with the world now...~ can't remember the last time I had such a relaxing trip... no need to worry etcetc. everyone is anything goes one.. fantastic travel buddies..!
left 7 mins! grin. gg to get pillow and blankets now.. then go nightnight liao.. next time i blog will be back in ansan liao! lalala...~ muackz all around~~XXX
In Busan!!!~
I'm in Busan now!! heh.. last night liao. =( The beaches here are really nice.. heh. and I didn't burn! wonders of wonders.. haahaa. but maybe that's cos of the 130 spf sunblock i used.. heh.. after hallasan.. learn lesson already..=)
On Friday night, there was team dinner at work.. grin.. work is getting much much better now.. everyone suddenly so friendly.. I abit taken aback.. I wonder why.. heh. but anyhow... everyone keep refilling my beer.. *faints* then mixed with B-52s.. yikes.. but too bad had to leave early cos meeting ttt, jl and roystern at seoul station for our KTX ride to Busan... the original tix were priced at about 47000W... but we got our tix at 28000W! haahaa. 4 to go promotion... The train was at 920pm seoul time.. eta was ard 12midnight..=) teamjang kept saying "don't go busan tonight la.. ask my limo svc send you tom.." haahaa. but then the condition was that i had to work for space group for free for 3 years. haa.
Hyoung Jae met us at Busan with his car.. so grateful to him for the past few days.. we definitely wouldn't have been able to get our accom/food/tpt without him around..=) So we made our way to the first jinjilbang.. ie a public bath... we chose the one with the good view..=) Vesta Jinjilbang! the view of the beach and sea is fantastic.. We could only bathe at 3am tho.. so we sat in the "iceroom" and waited.. and waited.. and got to know some students from David Taekwando School.. they were darn cute... heh. the instructor was 29 yrs old.. but acted and looked just like one of them loh.. lolz.. the power of kimchiland..
The first trauma of the night was I couldn't bathe!! cos the girls' bath had cleaning time from 3am to 430am!! omg. so i rotted till 430 loh.. sigh. the guys were all sleeping soundly by then..=( The next morning.. cos I slept very little.. had to wait like forever for the rest to wake up.. roystern also woke up early.. so we tortured ourselves with watching food shows on tv.. heh.
We first went to Haeundae beach to walkwalk seesee.. the water was so tempting.. and the pple were super crowded... think Zouk Out kind of crowded.. heh. Then we went to eat a super huge bowl of pork stew.. yum!
Then it was time for the Daedapo Rock Fest!!! We made our way to Daedapo Beach and we couldn't tahan the temptation of the sand... cos it was white fine sand!! omg. haa. so we went in... the water was glorious.. but a bit weird.. haahaa. the top part was warm.. and the bottom was cold.. heh.
We couldn't take a lot of pics because we didn't want to risk our cameras near the water... which was a pity.. cos the weather and everything was so nice.. After that we went to eat ra-myeong for dinner.. it came in a large bowl.. like salad bowl like that.. shiok! Then off to the rock festival~ All in all... I liked 3 bands the most... Ska'shed Onions from Japan, Project Team & K2, and Delispice... they rock man! K2 especially... heh... but the lead singer for Ska'shed Onions damn cute..! heehee. reminds me of Jun Matsumoto from arashi.. hehe.=P There was a fire engine spraying us with water occasionally... so kept getting wet again.. heh. but it was great fun.. nv try stuff like this before mah... then towards the end there was also a great fireworks display.. of cos cannot compare to the one i saw in the states... at chicago.. but still felt real good~ the whole experience..
went to eat ramyeong for supper again.. i think ttt is addicted.. heh. then it was to another jinjilbang for the night... this one even better.. got aircon room one.. but u risk getting kicked by other pple loh... lolz. This one got gym.. haa. roystern was estatic... and internet!! haahaa. which is why we're here for the second night..=)
2006 Busan International Rock Festival
2006.8.5(Sat)~7(Mon)
Daedapo Beach, Democracy Park, etc.
heh.. copied the above from the programme sheet... hhe.. tomorrow must remember to try to get sand from the beaches... and to buy stuff for office pple..=) cannot get mr ahn his black seagull... =) haa. altho i really did see one i think.. should have taken picture of it..=)
Then sunday... we started off late.. cos we couldn't locate some of the guys.. heh.. ended up must use PA to make announcement for missing hyoungjae... heehee. quite funny... then we spent the day at Haeundae Beach.. the water was freaking cold and the beach was swamped with pple... it was a sight... we rented a float and jl "stole" 2 others.. haahaa. cos I was a bit bleagh about the water cos it was quite deep and got a lot of pple.. I got to sit in the float and get ferried ard.. haahaa. beyond the fact that the guys kept rocking the float and splashing me.. hmph~ then we went on the beach where roystern finally got his long awaited tanning time.. and meanwhile i tried to get rid of sleeve line, sock line blahblah. not quite successful.. but heading there.. =P
Dinner time!! yumyum!! bbq chicken and fried chicken!! at a restaurant called Buffalo.. ha. then played some game at the roadside with some korean sugar candy.. will post pics later... hard to describe..=) we walked ard looking for chinese noraebang.. but cannot find... sigh.. but we found arcade with KOF!! tho i got beaten flat by roystern... hmph. bleagh.~ but like i said got homely feeling.. *hiakz hiakz* Then hj got a call from wj.. apparently he just arrived in busan too.. heh~ we went to watch a midnight horror movie called "ghost train".. which was such a joke.. heh... jap movie with korean subs... haaah. and no why no how no what to the story... *guffaws* went back to Haeundae Leisure jinjilbang.. which is where i'm typing this in the very hot area.. biang the aircon is set at 32 degrees loh. *faints and scold bad word* heh. have to go now... left 3 mins of internet time nia.. will post pics when get back to ansan.. and i have to sort the mountain of jeju stuff too.. yikes.. hope tom last day will have a good time too...~ and that i can find stuff to buy back for colleagues! tata~
*damn* just had to put in another 500won for the internet.. cos i didn't know which word was 'save draft' and 'post' heh. try again now...=)
Good day at work today~
stayed up late last night watching tokyo juliet.. shouldn't have but did.. so quite a drowsy morning.. had to keep standing up to walk around etcetc... things started getting better about lunch time... finally had lunch with my colleagues! amanda came along and we got treated to bulgogi! yay! and there was ice cream after that too.. heh.
then i finally finished the cad printing for Mr park... now should continue doing the revit model... but i really think there's something wrong with the floor plans.. it dont match the elevations i tell you... tsktsk...
wonder if I should go ask if anyone has work for me..=) There is afterall about 4 more hours before we can go home...=)
going busan this weekend! yippee! haven't asked for leave yet... oopz.. hopefully won't have any trouble.. and I won tickets to watch Sa. Choom!!! It should be pair of tix... wonder who i should go with bah.. haiz. but anyhow it's worth 45K won a tix... so darn happy now...~ the confirmed email haven't come yet.. but it should be correct.. haahaa.
Stuck in Space.
first things first... hail to gareth~ my blog is officially korean music free.. hmph. so u can safely bring yourself here. so there. =P
2nd week of work... 2nd day of the week.. 3 more dreary days to go... Space Group might be the largest and best architectural firm in S. Korea... but if only the people were more friendly here? Hm.. I shouldn't complain since I'm getting both a salary and meal allowance to come here to revit a little... msn a lot... surf a lot and go toilet a lot... haahaaa.
I've a gazillion backlogged photos to upload and edit from jeju.. and my room's in a mess... laundry has to be done by tomorrow manz... Lunch is in half and hour's time.. heeheehee. going to watch MNIKSS with Yixiang.. lalala~
Hopefully tomorrow will be my lucky day and I'll win tickets to watch Sa. Choom, a korean musical.. the tickets are about 50,000W loh.. so if can win.. it'll be damn shiok..
so many places and things to do.. so little time... and so limited room to organise... not everyone can be happy la.. so guess just have to leave everything up to fate and providence..
