Learning new things!

hmm, after the photobucket incident, i'm still contemplating on whether i should continue this blog. years of writing is wasted because stupid photobucket decide to suck money from their users and deactivate all my photo links. so if i do continue i'll have to upload a mess of photos to blogger, which doesn't seem to have any folder organisation. pwah..

but i do need somewhere to jot my memories, even if i do become lazy these days XD

but short update - i'm learning piano (started just 2 days ago) and golf (starting next week). i'm so excited!! here's my first golfing shoes and gloves. i would have loved to spend a longer time glossing over the products but i was kinda forced to pick one out in less than 10mins from our country club T_T love the shoe bag though lolol

 

i'm just scared that i'll do badly and then start to waste all the money there. having stayed near a golf course for well over 2 years, i had really wanted to swing those clubs at least once but since it's such an expensive sport, it's pretty hard to start it. i really like all those golfing bags i see at departmental stores though but the prices are too extravagant for a beginner like me!??!? if you're interested golf lessons are around 300k won a month for twice a week, for about 20min teaching each time and the rest of the 50mins as practice. however you need to rent the practice area for about 100k won/10times, with 70min duration each. you can however choose to pay an extra 40k for unlimited practice, but i'm not even sure if i'll come over on days without lessons since the place is a inaccessible to people without cars. it is said that you'll need to come at least 3 mths to fully know and play the game. so basically over 1k to learn golfing... @_@

and then i'm hopping over to piano later. it's a bit embarrassing to be one of the oldest there playing Mary had a Little Lamb while the young ones are on Mozart and Bach but nevermind, i can do it! nampyeon wanted to start a hobby together but we ended up taking lessons separately so i'm not sure if this still counts as doing something together.

the lessons i'm taking is about 150k won/mth, for a short 10-15mins teaching twice a week. but you can just come into the practice area anytime, any day for no extra charges. again, not that i'm likely to visit myself at any other times... i wish that it is within walking distance but i have no car! pwahhhh. i used to learn organ when i was little (like 4 or 5?!) but now my hands are no longer coordinated so it takes a bit of time to get used to playing with both hands. saddddd.

another 3 hours till my lesson later on so i'll probably start to organise all my trip photos and hopefully i'll be able to upload slowly to my blog... soon... x_x

190526 Jungang Sijang

The next day was mainly a shop and eat day. We went over to the terminal first to deposit our bags which we shouldn't have... the stalls selling the dried seafood doubles up as locker providers but they charged like 3k won a day!!! we headed to homefix near the central (jungang) sijang to find that homefix was renting lockers at 100 won a day........ what a HUGE difference.

we met up with osung who was also there too and hung out with him~

anyways, on with the food. we randomly ate at stalls that has loooong queue because that has to signify that the food is good right? and this omuk corokke is goooood!

we ordered cheese, kimchi and 2x sweet potato and it seems that sweet potato tasted the best, next to cheese! the layer of omuk around the filling was niceeeee.

i keep seeing the squid ink ice cream everywhere but we eventually didn't try it. perhaps next time.

tried the hoddeok ice cream as well. it's kinda like prata hurhur. it's another must-eat as well!

walked around homefix and it seems it's selling all the BTS blankets that laogong wants. so there goes her moneh! it was all sold out in seoul so she was eggstatic when she saw this. lol.

we went for a little shopping and then decided to go for ktv! got so many 100pts but didn't get any extra free songs. sad.

we ended our KTV session around 5 and decided to go to the sundufu town since it was pretty nearby. it took only 20mins by bus. the rest of the gang had already left around 3pm so there was only me and laogong left.

we kinda just randomly chose a sundufu place because there was like at least 10 restaurants selling the same thing around. this place sort of had some people so it wouldn't be bad to follow the crowd right?

wanted the seafood jangppong sundufu but was told that it will be too spicy for us so we ordered the normal one instead. it tastes so vastly different from the normal sundufu that we had but it's still not too bad, though i preferred our default version.

the catch was really the gelato outside. since i was having diarrhea for 2 days straight i was apprehensive about eating it so we just bought one to share. but since it's gelato, there's no milk and my diarrhea wasn't triggered. heheh.

we went back to homefix to get laogong's blanket and did my last shopping before leaving for yongin via the last bus at 8pm.

190525 Jumunjin Beach

Went to Gangneung with laogong and 2 of her friends from the language school. laogong booked a super nice place!!

it's so clean and biggggg and well-decorated. but we're off to the main point of the whole trip next. took a taxi down to...

 

bwhahhwa it's the bus stop that appeared in BTS album cover and the beach in their Spring Day MV! see around 0.44, but seriously cos all beaches look about the same.....

but actually this bus stop is quite significant because of the beachy background - so probably there's no other bus stops that looks like this..? and here we are!

and of cos we can't just take 1 photo here right....

and then since we're at a beach... time for some beach pictures~

 Sang bi asked to help take her photo but the filter was so food i had to do a selca on her phone lolol

but anyway there's quite some props strewn around for photo-taking

we taxi-ed to the Goblin photoshoot location after that!! it was pretty nearby but not really walkable.

 and uh so we tried to imitate the scene with the drink that laogong bought

aside from all the color processing.......... it's not too bad isn't it hahahaahah

took enough photos and it's time to gooo. oh btw there were like cranes at the little river flow. cute.

i took this bridge because of the funny thumb like statues on both sides of the bridge. lolol.

we went to a nearby place for seafood later on. there were several stalls and we kinda asked about 3 places for the average crab prices and finally just decided to eat 3 red crabs at around 115k won for the 4 of us. the auntie kinda weighed it for us and threw it in the steam machine just next to the tanks. kinda cruel................

the side dishes were a little bad (not very fresh) but the crabs were yummy. there was the rice that came in to fill the crab shells later on (if you asked) which was awesome too. we were so full we had to tabao leftover crabs.

and to make use of the lovely kitchen in our airbnb...cheers for the night~!!!!