160101-160103 Yongin

the last few days in korea was spent at a lazy speed. we would wake up at like 2-3pm... sit around the office then have dinner/movie. and the day repeats.

so for the first day of the year, it was like that. we had my favourite roe rice, visited the supermarket and sat around the office.

bought this cute avengers drink that's called Super Power Choco Cheese. not recommended for the non-adventurous. ahahahha.

and that day i remembered i we were whacking each other like mad because he wouldn't give in and neither would i. jeez, what kind of man whacks a lady!??!?!!?!? asshole! look at my battle marks.

the next day we made our instant breakfast using instant gravy/sauce from the supermarket. at night we watched hotel transylvania 2 and goosebumps with the team.

and my last day, we woke up at 3pm again to have instant brunch.

my flight was at 620 so actually we were supposed to have moved off by then but we were slow and only managed to catch our bus at 4pm. it was so misty too!!! couldn't see anything in the distance at all.

reached around 530pm at the airport and there was a huuuuuuge crowd. luckily we managed to cut all the queues since my flight was in less than an hour. as it turned out my plane was delayed to 640 so i didn't need to rush that much.

after checking in, i got a really bad case of stomachache and quickly choped the toilet as soon as i boarded. i was so afraid the plane wouldn't be able to take off because of me, and several people kept knocking on my door to check if i was ok (i accidentally pressed the help button too). i stayed inside for about 1.5hrs and i didn't see the plane take off at all!!!!

as it turned out, there was yet another delay and the plane eventually took off close to 9pm. phew, guess i wasn't causing the delay. hahahahaah. jeez, constipation always kill me... i swear that shit i had is 0.5m long and a helluva pain to squeeze out. bwahhhhhhhhhhh............. and i guess because i was distracted i wasn't so as upset about leaving as the other times i had.

and it's back to singapore..... plane food on korean airlines is awesome. love the beef dish!

i reached around 2am and took a cab back to home. lots of stuff to unpack.

also saw saerom's christmas package for me. wheeee~!!!! it is such a HUGE fruitcake from italy.

thank you my friend!!!! *muacks*

151231 Go to DMZ!

i had been trying to make 00 go on a trip because everytime we're stuck around his house, we do nothing but sleep for a long time and hang out at the office. even though it's relaxing and all, everyday was spent in the same way. since he looked like he ran out of ideas on where to go, i said if he could go to DMZ, then we won't need to go on a trip.

so he signed up for the half-day tour after some persuasion (he felt that it was full of mines there and there's nothing to see).

...and we woke up at 6am to get off. he's the anxious one cos he paid 120k won for each person and we can't possibly miss the bus and waste the money. wheeheeheee. how to make one ganjeong!

we went to near central to catch our bus (at 9am) and ended up with some time for breakfast at dunkin. dunkin had these new waffle burgers that i really wanted to try. but THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT in the morning. suckers. we still ate there anyway. then grabbed starbucks! and then we only set off around 10am or so.

we passed by this place with a highway bridge that's apparently the shooting scene for avengers. it was blocked off for a week due to the shooting previously.

and then we are hereeeeeeeeeeeee

 short trip around the museum first to learn about the history

and then we're off to the tunnel...!!

unfortunately you can't really take any pictures of the tunnel but this is an illustration of the tunnel we went to...

it was just about 1.6-1.65m in height so i had to bend some of the time. you walk about 300-500m down a really long slope then another 500m bending all the way to the end, which has a small little window.

and then you walk back.

like right up that 300-500m you went down from.

well, it sounds like a short distance but the slope is a killer. mr kong almost died when he went up. there were people who actually got claustrophobic or fainted inside cos it was so hot and small, and we PERSPIRED in the middle of winter. and looked for ice cream to eat once we came out. hahahahha.

well anyway moving on to some pictures of the surrounding! hahahha i like this pic!

and off we went to this place where you can see almost the whole of n.korea from. had to go up this little hill, which is prohibited when the weather is misty or rainy.

well... i don't know but it doesn't look like a place i wanna live in.

the last stop is the train station. apparently you can get here from the seoul station, and the train runs twice a day. too bad if you miss it...

this piano has strings made of barbed wire to signify the division between the 2 korea.

and outside, there's a huge panel of names for those who contributed to the construction of the station.

and that was the end of our trip.

we went to itaewon to have a quick lunch that was included in the package - bibimbap.
in order to catch the joseon magician show, we took a cab over to yongsan, but the seats were all taken except for the first row =_=

no way am i going to watch from there. so in the end we shopped a little at yongsan and went over to myeongdong to get all my cosmetics, then joined up with lumen & aryeong for dinner.

pion and skasha came along to chill at osulloc cafe, and we all took off for yongin around 9pm, before the countdown crowd comes in.

we stopped at a supermarket to get some snacks and stuff so that we can end our year with this...

goodbye 2015 and hellllllo 2016!

151230 Tonkatsu KINGGGGG

nope, i forgot the name of this place but for lunch we had the biggest tonkatsu ever. it should be deemed, king.

it's like 6x a normal phone.

there's normal tonkatsu of course, that skasha had.

and i had udon.

around 5pm, i took a bus out to meet angeline, lucy and mong. we were supposed to go jamsil but halfway through my bus seemed to keep getting stuck on the way and i thought i wasn't ever going to make it. so i changed the meeting place to gangnam instead.

turned out i arrived pretty much on time... around 7. haha.

we had jajangmyeon for dinner since angeline hasn't tried it, then we went to nua at ann's cafe.

i ordered matcha but the color was an odd green (kinda like apple green). it doesn't show in the pictures but it was really weird. i guess for themed cafes, it's really best to go for safe options, like chocolate. can't imagine anything to go wrong for chocolate......

trying to catch the bus a little before 11... i took 5001-1 which doesn't stop at yongin terminal but myeongji-dae. but it's ok, i got a little lost, walked around and asked some passerbys, and in the end it turns out yong-in terminal was just 4 stops away. pretty near, so no worries at all! hahhahaha.

151229 Lotte World 2

we got up so late (3+pm) and i managed to do some work before getting out. took a bus to lotte world since the tower was already supposed to be completed. but the place still looks quite the same. we ate some funny waffles made out of ddok and i got cheated by this drink called red velvet. it was just a mixture of fruits that resulted in a reddish blend. =_=

had the very nice hoddog there as well.

we saw this occulus-imitation demonstration by hyundai and couldn't resist trying out. it was paragliding after all!!

after a little more walking around, we decided there was nothing much left to do so we left for home. i think we spent only around 3hrs or so there (6-9pm).

and at home, my little whale mist parcel was waiting!

you can get this at 6k if you buy a set meal from lotteria. but no one wants to eat lotteria here so we just bought it online for 7-8k.

watched martian at night. better than expected!

151228 Dokboggi Buffet

we had dokboggi buffet for lunch, but actually we didn't have that much dokboggi. they have oden, rice, noodles and a lot of other things and it only costs around 7.5k per person. (that's a little less than $10). you can mix your own sauce and cook the things however you like.

we added one round of cheese for additional 2-3k won. whee~

and of cos there's always the fried rice at the end. every korean seems to know how to do that without help..

Went back to work the rest of the day and watched little prince at night.
after that mr kong had to do some work so i ended up doing some zalora shopping... year-end sale.. couldn't resist!!