Day 4

I woke up around 730 to get ready to leave, and shopped around myeongdong, dongdaemon flea market and a bit of namdaemon before I went back tothe hostel. I guess I didn't really sleep well because I was still clueless as to what we will be doing, and guilty at having cancelled all the previous plans made with Mk, Byeolyi, Daeyoung, Shawn and Eric (T . T) I'm so sorry, 미안해... I really want to go lotte world (and many other reasons)

took the bus schedule down when i passed by it just in case. yes i don't plan everything in advance hahahah



I passed by the flea market and chanced upon a seaweed shop, and thought I'll just get them here and the aunties were so friendly to me and gave me honey drink, but i realized later that the price ere is almost twice that you can get at supermarket, and I got cheated! Pui. And the next store I entered selling jackets was even worse, a random jacket that I picked costs about 530,000won, and I almost fainted (that's 600+sgd mind you) although the store owners were fantastically friendly and I really like the jacket, I definitely couldn't afford that much... I did come across other stores selling cheaper products for the cosmetic range and immediately grabbed them (must have been in a rampage to complete my unfinished shopping list) when i finished shopping it was around 11plus and I climbed the tall hilly back to see the couple leaving house.

Collected yesterday's spoils and started to pack them, before I went out to meet 0 and gogi dinosaur around 12plus, where I sort of made a wrong turn and end up at the wrong place, and went to the wrong exit and didn't know how to get to the correct exit. 0 called and spoke Korean to me and I was just stunned there (ok I knew he was asking me if I've eaten and all but I think I was temporarily bewitched). Then I proceeded to find exit 3 where they were supposed to be at but I couldn't find! Called for help, and they came over in less than a minute. Baka! I was just that close only!!! ！(◎_◎;) 我好失败. To think I walked this place just jn the morning only ugh

So anyway we went to lotte world - It was about half an hour ride with a single transfer, and Jimin gave me a coffee baba! Wahahahahaha just what I have been craving for since I came Korea. French vanilla flavor was awesome.



When we were at lotte they told me that they were going to be paying for everything today - holy cow wth!? Seriously, over hospitality is making me more embarrassed by the minute... I understand like a treat or what but the whole day is... Too extreme... And actually I didn't want to be treated like a guest, because I thought I was gonna be visiting Korea pretty often, and it's just not right for them to spend like this if I'm gonna be here all the time. Sighs... Guess I'm gonna have to think of ways to return this huge favor... I somehow get the feeling they are returning the hospitality shown by Tkh and steph when they were in Singapore and I felt like I shouldn't be the one deserving it...

Well since I tried about 15,000 times to say no and was rejected, go figure I should just indulge in being treated like a princess then!





i like this mask statue



didn't take this because it kept going round and round, think i'll puke



We started off with the inner theme park but there was a halloween parade going on so we stood to watch for a while.



hey i realised i took a row of heads! didn't mean to lol



more halloween parade





nothing to do, so pictures! jimin took this and he said very nice! (not nice la, look at the sunlight, aiyoh. bishh)



i think this photo that 0 took is nicer. whatever it is i look sucky in both. T___T



before we went for the first stop - sinbad's adventure. Both of them agreed that it was going to be a boring ride but they said we should start with something gentle before we move to the scarier ones. Hmmm, worried I'll puke at the start maybe!





nothing to do during the ride, it was slow and unsurprising so i snapped lots of photos instead







look, kong yong!



Anyway they told me that they used to come here almost everyday when they were back studying since they had some kinda pass but after that didn't frequent that often anymore. The whole place actually looks pretty familiar to me and I realize that o actually came here before about 10 yeas ago!! I can't believe I forgot about here so fast though...
After we took the Viking, we headed out to magic island to take the gyro swing (which was suppose to be a bigger version of Viking).



i took a creepy and cool photo of them while queuing, look at the darkness in their looks...



The wind was super cold but the feeling was so super shiok when you ride the swing!!



Since dino was feeling hungry we stopped for some hotdogs. I had a bulgolgi dog which is sweet and tasted damn nice ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆



I noticed that 0 didn't sit down, and he said it's cos it's so cold, but when he sat down he spilled the cider and Dino kept laughing at him. While laughing Dino dropped his hotdog toppings twice (it went like plop... Plop...!) ad 0 laughed back at him because Dino got his retribution!! And I prayed I wouldn't drop mine because I laughed at both of them (＞人＜;)

Had a cinnamon pancake on our way in too. lovely...!



and queued for the indoor roller coaster finally whole eying some fry-like squid sticks (I think both of them are kong yongs actually) - and 0 joked about how dino's head and upper body is all made up of stomach 위 and he has no brains since he ate so much, while Dino got back at him by saying 0 is an uncle since he's almost 30 years old. 0 then say that Dino will be uncle too 'next next next year' hahahah gosh and dino just gave a 'next next next year!? Wth you're still the uncle' look ＿|￣|○ oh, and we saw a very funny graffiti here saying 'Seulgi I love you!' and someone replied 'get out' at the bottom. Rocks!!

I sat with 0 for the ride (hmm somehow Jimin made him do it!?) and we caught 0's priceless expression camera. they all knew where the cameras were to prepare for their expression anyway!!



Went on a lot of other rides (the water rides were awesome, no queue for one of them!). we were just trying to avoid the water splashing on us and made a lot of noise when it kept turning and turning. wth...



and oh, this place was where the staircase to heaven was filmed!! this was the skating rink



and there's a memorabilia stand here too



as well as the merry go round the lovers rode in. i don't like merry go rounds, didn't take it



lotte world from 2nd floor here



passed by a photo attraction where you could climb in the bendy bars. after taking the photo 0 walked out, and then he walked back in.. because he left his bag inside!!! so blur. hahahahah. and he thought we didn't notice. lol.



we waited until Taeyang came to join us. Somehow I think they were sort of relieved because now we have someone much better at Japanese and English to help (^^;; Taeyang gave me a dongbangshinki poster and natural republic lipgloss (#^.^#) 감사해!! Group picture before we went to queue for gyro drop



because the passer by didn't take the full tower, taeyoung helped take it again



We then went for gyro drop



and boohoohoo I can't believe I deleted the video I took when we were high up there!!! The view was so nice from up there (~_~;) Arghhhh I'm so 먼천.. 난바보야 Grrrr oh well, there's one picture at least. Oh by the way if you're afraid of drops it's good to bring your camera up because I was sort of so distracted with videoing that I forgot we were dropping and totally didn't feel anything at all... Ooh and 0 didn't like this either haha. Ojisan already...! (＾ｰ^)ノ



And little dinosaur is hungry again. Seems like Taeyang had biscuits with her, but 0 took I away an guess where he hid it?

The 'I'm so hungry' expression on Dino is so cute... And when he realized the biscuits were just in his hood! Lol!!



Next we dashed for Atlantis because the queue got shorter! We ate this corn and some yakitori while waiting and the corn we ate tasted like Mochi! 맜시개다! I want to eat it again... It was so super cold out here, and the guys started talking about having cold hands and a warm heart. Dino claims that guys with cold hands have a warm heart and 0 went to put his hands on the wooden panel to make it cold Σ(￣。￣ﾉ)ﾉ eyrshhhh what are you doing!! I do prefer guys with warm hands because mine is always so bloody cold, and it was seriously like ice that day.



And Atlantis was a recommendation by Saerom, I'm glad we got to ride it!! Best ride ever!!! Wheeeheeee!!!!

Done with the ride and saw a statue which they stopped to imitate, and Taeyang got called a be pan sha because she didn't do the expression - 0 looks terribly funny hurhur



we stopped briefly for a performance which i didn't really understand... i think it was a very visual based performance. snapped pictures eventhough i don't know what was going on lol







fires!!



and an angel dropped down...



and there's the finale...



video of a part of the performance... but not very interesting



Next up was the mirror maze, that Taeyang treated us separately to ((´･_･`) I'm so sorry, I can't pay for anything ww and thank you all so much... T-T) before we entered, 0 went to swoon over this poster of a cute little anime girl pasted atthe entrance and i totally gave a shocked face, and finally understood dino when he said 'hentai jiji'. Sorry, the innocent face came too late, your true colors are revealed! Lol. (at least now i know he's 'normal')



We went in the maze and you were suppose to feel around for the path (too many reflected images...) and there was this mirror Towards the end where you could stick your head in and it sort of capture a moment of your face. Damn the guys for having such nice captures (even when 0 was doing a very shitty look why is the face captured so nice!?) mine sucked and taeyang's was cute!!

(oh! i spot a mongolian!)



guess who's who



We then crossed a swirling bridge and the next funniest event of the day happened - there was a burst of smoke when 0 tried to cross and he totally jumped!!! I think the cool, tough, unapproachable and manly perception of 0 just vanished. I was laughing so hard (we were all laughing so hard) then I practically bowled over and squatted there for quite some time while he gave the 'Omg there goes my image' face. It's nice to know that mr #2 most dangerous man in Korea can be surprised like this as well!!! The rest of us safely crossed the bridge soon after.



Since it was so bloody cold we hurried back indoor and queued for pharaoh's fury, which took less than 15 mins to enter - lucky! While we waited I was looking at the graffitis while the guys talked, and I burst out laughing at the same time 0 was striking a pose! Taeyoumg asked why i was laughing at him... And it was because i saw the words 'i am hot' written just above him and it fitted so well with his pose!!!

Pharaoh' fury was a rockety ride and as 0 was in the driver seat, he pretended to be the driver and said '미안해' when the car swerved while we all blamed him for the poor driving...theme parks really make people feel like kids again... Haha...





Our last ride of the day was the flume, and we wanted to take the photos and even prepared all the poses! I told Dino to do the Mongolian hair for 0 and I think 0 realized what I was up to and took off his hat. Well, of cos there's other ways to disturb him, so on the first drop, Dino flipped all his hair!!! We didn't detect the flash sadly and thought maybe it was on the second drop, so 0 put his hat on and we decide to do the Mongolian hair for the next drop. However it seems that the ride was closing and no pictures were taken!!! (；´Д`A 웨?!안돼!!!



passed by some live performance by indonesians. not bad! no video.. oops



Oh well, dinner next since taeyoung was hungry (and so was gogi dinosaur, surprise surprise!?) it was about 9 plus and we ate at lotteria before we departed to meet Lopez and the rest. Seems that they have been waiting for us at chunmuro for quite some time, and we were sort of supposed to have dinner together... But oops played too much... （´-`）

Taeyang didn't accompany us to chunmuro since it was pretty late already, but we managed to meet manyong and Lopez while we were grabbing hot milk tea from a nearby conbini when we reached. 미안미안!! We will have dinner together next time... Promise! And manyong told me lee jun ki will go korea 80% confirmed in dec... Oh man so do i go there for the 3rd time in a year!?!? I think I will go till they are sick of me (｀_´)ゞで、 Manyong left soon after, while the rest sent us back to the hostel. Ww thank you so much!! 고맙다!!

It was the end of our last day in Korea... And we all hugged each other goodbyes... (Ｔ＿Ｔ) I will miss you guys so much...

And I realized I forgot to return gogi his jacket, which Lopez told me to bring back to Singapore and he will collect it when he's there for acm... Oops 지민 고기 미안해, I will take good care of it!! 신가버 에서 기다리고...

DAY 3

Me and aya woke up early to start ff our shopping trip for monday at myeongdong (명동/明洞）. We practically chionged all the beauty shops there before we headed back to put our stuff and went out again to meet Seulgi at 1pm fr PVC shopping.

saw some interesting beauty shops with kwon sang woo model!!





and the pig rabbit! bought 2 mini ones for myself (lost one.. sad)



saw FT island poster stand and thought he looks like shizuo!



met the osaka guy while we were going back... so qiao! and we went by a different route back and saw an animation museum. guess what statues were there!!!



MIN JEONG HO!!!



ur hostel was located on top of a mountain and we were breathless just going up and down the slopes zzz

Next up, cloth /lace/ accessories shopping at dongdaemon! I think I just about spammed whatever I got my eyes on, bit I didn't really buy that much or bought spare, just enough for my planned coses. The PVC variety was just too much an I didn't really know what to get - all the texture thickness color patterns - you really need to decide on the character to fit...

We met up with jimin, hyunjin and 0 and shopped together (though it seems they were already done by the time we met them) and hill we waited for our orders to be delivered over from the warehouse, we had a lovely fishy Korean meal in one of the shops! 맜이갰다 delicious!! And I realized Jimin eats a lot!! He keeps claiming no, he's not a pig so I gave him the nickname dinosaur instead. Coincidentally dinosaur is kong Yong in Korean, and it was what 0's mom called him, so now we have 2 kong yongs there lol (#^.^#)



took a photo while exiting because the ceiling was so low! very interesting! 0, you're cheating!



We then met up with frank to continue more lace shopping. Since I didn't have any lace to buy I waited outside with jimin hyunjin and 0. Saw a lot of foam outside and started saying 'foam! Foam!' 0 heard wrongly and thought I was saying 'boam boam' (their f=b somehow) and he started singing 'foam Seon lee' （ーー；）err I hope lee San didn't sneeze too much that day, we seem to be reminded of him everywhere we go! Seulgi came out an informed us that she will be accompanying the couple upstairs to get other things, so since we had time to spare, we went to get a hot drink.

When they were finally done, we walked to this shop that has the shiny car sticker.



It was so cold along the way that I kept hiding behind the guys to use them as wind breaker. Thank goodness jimin had an extra jacket with him so I sorta of borrowed it 'temporarily' (and I have brought it back to Singapore because I forgot to return him （ーー；）)

Parted ways with frank after that, an kyungmin drove us to eat haagen daaz near saerom's house. saw a gandalf statue along the way...



and a watsons!



at haagen daaz, we got like 3 tubs of ice cream to share and it was on seulgi's tab (they seem to be taking turns treating... Omg... I feel so paiseh). And Jimin dinosaur don't seem to be full at all, he just kept eating and eating... Wuah... Bottomless pit... snapped lots of group pics here!



kyungmin is tilting so funnily gosh (he's the one pressing the timer that's why!)



i love seulgi's expression here



and a wacky one!!



kyungmin is irritated with all the self-poses... lol



and laruto drew a picture of miku for us. i still cannot believe he's a guy. check our his cosplays here



It turned out that Saerom was too busy in the end to come meet us （泣）so went for purikura without her (and Seulgi didn't take with us! Why!). Its actually called sticker photos in korea, and it didn't seem to be a popular activity. whatever it is we took many and picked 4 shots in the end and spent unlimited time for decorations hee you could also transfer the original resolution to your phone, which kyungmin sent later on. There was a final option to coat it with Kira Kira protection layer, nice!





we even have a full res sent to keitais!!!

It was then karaoke time! We walked to a nearby karaoke-kan and had the funniest karaoke session ever...

laruto started the session with cantarella vocaloid song - his voice can really change drastically omggg <3



seulgi and seungyong joined up in this awesome duet!!! his voice is so bon jovi!!! seulgi's voice is so sweet <3 anyone knows what the song name is....!!??!



kyungmin's abracadabra rocks!! he can really shake!!!



he did a cute dance for yatta too



km and 0 performed a slow duet... i fell in love!! the song is awesome!!!



Halfway through 0 fell asleep and we went to disturb him - the scandal unfolds!!



and I chose that time to take a group photo lol



0 started some swinging thing and chanted 'seulgi! Seulgi!' and forced jimin to swing too - gosh he's hilarious!!!



Towards the end the guys sort of went crazy with japan's x and screamed like mad





i really have no idea what they are singing anymore...



and kyungmin just went nuts. the woes of working men...



The night was still not over yet - we went for supper and ate dokbokgi, some youtiao-like thingy where you coat soy sauce on and dip into the soup, and a plate of weird looking sausage rolls with stuffed noodles and pig intestines (which I totally didn't like). Halfway through Seulgi and 0 swapped seats and I thought it was because I wasn't eating the weird plate, so 0 came to finish it up - but it turns out that he didn't finish it too - dinosaur jimin did! (whatever, he's beside me is all that matters ♥)



Seulgi parted with us here, and we walked back to the car. thank you so much for the hospitality and touring us around dongdaemon!!!



On the way, we stopped at 'buy the way' (me and Val kept laughing at the very cute shop name while the rest remained positively puzzled) for a hot drink.



Oooh I absolutely adore the hot packet drinks here!! (but why did I not buy them back in the end Grrrr - hmm I guess he 'feel' is there when you drink it there!?)

Mr muscle kyungmin drove us back to our hostel, and 0 and jimin tried to hack in the hostel to stay unsuccessfully. I still don get why they cant ask the reception for a bed there, there were so many empty beds! (￣▽￣) In the end I think they stayed at some other places around the shopping area.

and this wraps up our day...

Day 2

Actual performance day! Wow! Woke up around 7 and thought we were gonna be late since the gathering time was 9am (930with the leeway Lopez gave?!) but in the end, everyone was late and we only started around 10+am. ms just got up, and his hair looked like the guy in the arigato gojaimasu mv person - i couldn't stop laughing. lol. helped style his hair a bit before we went to the rehearsal area.

yurineが褒められて嬉しいです。 err but maybe it was probably only positive greetings?! lol I was so scared I wouldn't be up to standard :( the wig was heavy to wear because it was made up of 1 main wig, 2 ponytails and 2 extensions, but my back hair kept moving to front, making my extensions seem very bulky urghhhh and the goggles keep falling down, covering my eyes. didn't really have other ideas on how to keep them up except to spam pins. (I hardly full test my costumes oops)

at the rehearsal place, only karas team was there, aiyoh! there was a little taokaka there, and she was pretty cute. i was very shocked to hear all the guys talk about the color of underwear she should be wearing though... and when she helped arrange sephiroth's hair... sephiroth buried his face in her boobs!!! he then told me 'namja ya' - and what?! he's a guy?!?!? what the!!!! and gosh he/she talks like a girl too!!! x_x omg i just got screwed. LOOK AT HOW CUTE S/HE IS!!!


since there was nothing to do i went around taking pictures :D

first with my idol! this is my most favourite picture taken!! *_*



bwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhh rain was otoha (eh these guys seriously don't put in any effort to look like their characters... x_x) and ok i know you have big chest, but don't need to stick it out right... ehyrrrshhh



he threw his sunglasses to me and i became rain for a while.



when the glasses were on ms, he totally became neo.

and then with Neo, from matrix. joked about me being trinity, and 0 to do morpheus. LOLLLLLLLLL agent smith leh?!



anyway, ms wanted ice cream, and as we were still considered pretty early even when it was already 1030 or so and there don't seem to be any rehearsal taking place, we went to walk around the park to get dippin dots. It's actually where he worked at, and he kept saying that he felt very embarrassed to go back since it was his day off. Haha. Chocolate dipping dots on him, yay!



We then went back to see everyone nua-ing there in half armour lol. jimin was sleeping in his armour...



and 0 was just sitting there switching his armour lights on and off...



=.= wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moved all our stuff to the performance area and followed up with photo taking session at the garden.

0 was like the main attraction there because his armor was so freaking awesome although he was called kamen rider robot monster and whatnots by the little kids lol, and jimin's white armor was also popular too. Ww feels very honored to be standing with them for photos! Ww (was feeling fat and too big to be yurine even with all their praises) the only disappointment was we didn't much get a full team photo because when rain was there ms wasn't and the other way round, and it seemed like rain went off to take care of luggage and ms wasn't interested in taking photos as he looked like he wasn't cosplaying.

i managed to get these from saerom on 18th nov!!! LOVE HER!

photos with random kids!



the 2 armoured extradinaire



and finally an almost complete group photo T_T



We wrapped the whole session with a group photo at 12, before we walked to the performance area.



Karas was the 4th to perform, but I was too damn nervous even though it wasn't even a competition. Rain was the emcee and he joked about emphasizing on karas when announcing the performance. 다섯,내,새,둘,하나 , Aja karas! And i managed to get the video from Arsene! All credits to WonderCosplay.

WCF Korea 2010 October - Karas Cosplay Performance from 비.田中 on Vimeo.

was too bored and made a slideshow on it lol



And a finish hugs! お疲れさん!
Realised i didn't coordinate too well with rain T___T i'm sorry...
but still, I got an armor hug ♥

0's armor totally got destroyed by jimin, one of the plates fell out when jimin flipped over 0, but whatever it is, everyone was just awesome!!! Whee~~!!!

0 took off his whole costume since it was pretty tattered and we went over to the other side to find Saerom. There was a long sailormoon performance going on and we waited till everything was over before we all gathered on stage for the results and group photo. 0 stayed behind because he didn't want to appear in his retro shining purple inner costume ( I thought it looked pretty cool though!) There wasn't much deliberation - the results were announced immediately by rain.

And last but not least, there was also the best costumes award going to the persona team. Very unique costumes (even though I prefer saerom's) I'd say this team would be the next best to get the award - I think they probably didn't want duplicates in the seeds so everyone gets a prize.

The best performance went to saerom's rg Veda (sorry I'm skipping a lot of teams) - I love their costumes!!! We looked at it in closer proximity an it was just very intricate. All I can say is their performance was as beautiful as them - and I'm glad they got the best performance award in the end, even though I rooted for them to be the representatives.

The representatives this year was monster hunter, their costumes were freaking awesome, though I've never seen it in game. Saerom's right, in the end it's hard to triumph over a monster Cosplay, especially if the monster gorilla is as well done as this one - it's huge!! And they even have wing activation for the final strike... Woo! Definitely waaaay better than our monster hunter.

thanks to val for the group picture :D:D



After the whole thing, we packed an moved our things back to the rehearsal area, where there was a short introduction of all the overseas cosplayers and Korean wcs representatives. There was even a Q&A session for the attendants and they asked about our age... Zzz it wrapped up with a short social interaction before we went off to change out and get ready for dinner at 6pm.

some more pics before we left~!

team singapore hurhur



and with shizuoooooooooooooooooooo



Dinner was BBQ!! Haha! Seriously they really attended to or every requests, and I felt so embarrassed and overwhelmed by their hospitality. took some last minute photos before we departed. got this video from caruto!!



rain becomes jungu for a while without his glasses



ms~



and jimin, the gogi dinosaur, who helped us finish almost ALL our 3rd batch of meat. gosh... the things he can stuff in that frame of his...



we then said farewell to everyone and left to take our return bus to seoul's hostel. while waiting for the bus... hee~~
ommm manyong-lee is so cute!!!!!!!!! thank you so much for the trip and you know what, even if it didn't happen, i'm still very very happy for the thought *_* 감사감사



and the 2 translators, hyun jin and yong jin (his english sounds so much like shawn, i was mistaken when he called the next day. booboo...)



Yong jin accompanied us all the way, and even helped us find our hostel as well as bought us a dozen of krispy kremes (which became my breakfast for the next few days). 。・°°・(＞_＜)・°°・。he lent me his jacket over the past 2 days when I was at everland and I almost lost it, I'm such a scatterbrain and I don't take care of people's things properly (/ _ ; ) thank goodness it was found in the end (if nit I was considering making one for him when I go back) hmmm. Yes more bakwas for you guys next time ok!?

and time to hug our farewell/welcome gift from lopez to sleep.

err no, no secret formula
found this by chance, interesting!!
brings back a lot of memories.



and i haven't forgotten about korea posting, will update sloowwwllyyyy