Korean bbq

剩下的是

时光匆匆，年尾了。
花开花落，一年了。
人聚人散，何时了。
悲欢离合，自嘲了。

带不走的，留下了。
留不了的，记下了。
记不起的，忘掉了。
忘不了的，放下了。

带走的，留下的，
记得的，忘记的，
和那些, 已经放下的，
还剩下的是，
站在你们面前的我。

Still Alive

Yes, I am still alive.

After these few months of hiatus, I decided to take 30 minutes of my life, making it a little it more productive and informative.

It's been almost five months since I started my internship, and it's coming to an end next week. I am glad I did go  through this internship experience despite that it did taken a toll on me. The whole travelling-to-KL-back-and-forth thingy, it's really frustrating and irritating.

Apart from that, I am pretty glad that I chose G2 to execute my internship program.

Life is full of surprises, especially when you decided to allow yourself open to those possibilities. Upon completion of my internship, I am able to identify  my weaknesses. What's being surprising to me is that, I have problems when it comes to verbal communication.

And the usual weaknesses, that I have to work on.

I guess I'll have to work harder.

邂逅

你把忧伤画在眼角
我将流浪抹上额头
你用思念添几缕白发
我让岁月雕刻我憔悴的手
然后在街角我们擦身而过
漠然地不再相识

啊 亲爱的朋友
请别错怪那韶光改人容颜
我们自己才是那个化装师.

Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me

Eat

I like to eat.

But now, I'm broke, all because of food.

=)

Working

I guess when my time is completely occupied, there is nothing left for me to think about anymore. I realize that I cannot stop or rest for a moment, once there are time for me to do nothing, my brain will start to do unnecessary thinking. I suppose I prefer it to be like this, being occupied, being utilized, most of all, being purposeful. I survived, without internet for a timespan of two weeks. I realize that internet, ultimately is important but it doesn't mean as much anymore.

Because the purpose is not there anymore.

Until now, so many years down the road I came to realize that it was the people who make me want to go online, making me feel that going online is meaningful, because there will be people waiting for you and you are going to be a part of something.

But I guess it's not happening now.

Surprisingly, I took it quite well. And maybe it is all because of the internship or supervised work experience thing. For the 5 months duration, despite the fact that I am not liking this due to the whole fact that I have to wake up at 7am, and make sure I arrive there at 9am, and also the fact that Malaysia's public transportation's efficiency, which require me to be extremely patience with everything that is revolving around me, I think I have to get use to this "Working Zombie" lifestyle.

Oh well...

Shopping

It's been a long long while since I went shopping.

The fact that I am going for internship made me went for this shopping trip anyway. Luckily it's currently the Mega Sales period, which allows me to take advantage of those 70% discounts (almost) everywhere. Button down shirts and slacks, certainly not my style, after I looked into my closet and realize I don't have all those stuff at all. This shows how casual am I, eh-heh-heh.

Subang Parade, check.
Sunway Pyramid, check.

Oh shit, shoes!

LOL Moment

Million Dollars Photo

Taekwondo Teacher / Funny Friend - Korea

Genting

Genting don't excite me as much already. Either it is because I am getting old, or maybe because I had been to better ones.

Woke up in awkward hours this morning to get ready for this day trip to Genting with Sharon, Calvin and Esther. Probably the last random long distance outings for now until my internship officially ends first. 6am and I felt like hell, got on to Sharon's car which was driven by Calvin. We attempted to go on LDP but the traffic jam would not allow us to do so. Then, we revert to NPE, paid toll, went through KL, and Wangsa Maju before entering the Gombak then Genting Highland's road.

We stopped at some mamak and ate breakfast. I ended with a VERY big plate of chicken fried rice and a VERY sweet Milo. Then, it was sugar rush all the way till we reach the final destination.

We headed to the outdoor theme park straightaway to avoid human jam which usually occur right after lunch. Finally get to play the go-kart, even though I got the slowest car that cannot accelerate properly. Then it was all the ones that will have a long queue later, like Cockscrew. After playing all those, we went and ate Pizza Hut. RM77 for 4 people set, talk about inflation and then we went to Ripley's Believe it or Not.

After that were Flume Ride and The Mining Train, then it was time to go.

We went for dinner at Sushi King, Sunway Pyramid after going through the traffic jam again at Federal Highway and now here I am, going to bed.

Good night, world.

Hello, G2

I made it.

At least into G2. The next 5 months is completely new to me though. Apparently during the interview, one of senior, Lee Tien saw me. I guess this internship ain't going to be that bad.

Well, because of the interview this morning, I can't sleep again. Went to bed at 1am, it seems like telling myself that "I need to sleep." doesn't help at all. Finally slept around 2am and woke up at 5.30am.

I left the house at 7am, thinking KTM and Monorail going to give me hell, it did, but at least I arrived 2 hours before I suppose to meet up with the HR department. The monorail station is right outside Wisma Genting, and I thought I would need to spend time to find it.

So, I spend those extra time at KFC eating some weird breakfast wrap.

Around 10am, I went back to the company and met the HR department. Then, the head of that department. Then, the person that I will work under for the next 5 months. I thought that it would be very difficult to enter, since this is a big company after all. I was surprised that all of them ask so specific questions and then granted me this opportunity to intern inside.

Yeah, and they were so surprised to see me interning for 5 months.

Do you smoke?
No.
Do you drink?
No.
Do you mind working under alcohol and tobacco?
No.

Most direct and specific interview ever.

Hello, G2.
See you next week.

Durian Buffet

I always wanted to go for one durian buffet.

And I did, just now, along with Sharon, Calvin and Esther. RM10 for kampung durians, eat all you can. According to the market survey analysts, they say in order to gain profit out of this, we need to eat 3 durians each and anything beyond that is pure profit.

So we ate 14. I think I would not want to see durian anymore until the next season.

Oh, tomorrow I have 2 interviews in a row. One in KL and one in Kelana Jaya. I hope I don't start to nose bleed in the interview room tomorrow.

*Cross Fingers*

Internship Interview

Got three calls from my internship coordinator today. After shifting here and there, the companies that I applied for just said that they will get back to me and apparently that didn't even happen at all, despite I was so desperate to just confirm and get over this as quickly as I could. My internship is going to start next week and I still haven't got accepted in any company yet. 

My coordinator told me to attend an interview next Tuesday at 3.00pm, even though that wasn't the company I applied for. I just want to get over and done with it.


Please.

Bumpy

Guess that when you get back into life, things might be a little bumpy until you get used to it again.The whole internship thing wasn't going as smooth as I thought it will. I wish it could all end up okay, if it weren't that case, then I am screwed. I need all the luck I could get, at least for the next 6 months. Since I came back, I had my share of fun and food. Until then, I will keep on crossing out the to-eat list that I pre-planned at Korea. It is almost complete, not until I finally get to go to Ipoh and Penang. Oh ya, my mum is going to Miri tomorrow for three days, need to take care of my sisters and wash the clothes. My fingers are painful because I cannot press the chords right on the guitar, I guess I have to keep on trying. I think my life is on track again.

Hopefully.

Going Home

Going home had never been exciting for me, never. Not once in my 20 years of life you would hear me telling you that I am glad that I am going home. Not even in National Service, since the period was not as long as this. But I had been happy for three days now.

And it's all because I am going home.

No, I am not saying that Korea is boring or I cannot adapt to the lifestyle over here or what not. I suppose what other people say is always true, you only know how to appreciate things when you lost them. Now, I miss every single thing that my home has to offer. Surprisingly, I even miss that Proton Saga that is even older than me. I miss my mum's cooking, my sisters' laughter and above all I miss the sense of belonging the most.

Malaysia might not be a perfect place to live, but it's sufficient. I might not know what will happen to me or where would I be in the next 20 years, but I would be really glad to say, I'm from Malaysia. There's no place like Malaysia, especially when we talk about the food. Fate might bring me to various places around the world, but I would definitely come back occasionally just for the food.

Oh yes, the food.

Where on earth would you find a place that sell Wanton Noodles, Roti Canai and Ramly Burger at the same time? I personally think that it is very possible that Malaysia market as a food tourism country along with the whole eco-tourism hype now. I doubt any country could have so many types of food in one place anyway.

I am happy.

I am going home, in less than a month. Being in Korea for the almost-one-year period of time had truly let me reflect on myself, thoroughly. I am quite sure I know what to do, what I want and where am I heading to after this getaway from reality. Things that I seen, people that I met, stuff that I experience, would make me a better person. I don't hope for a lot of things, I just wish that I would have the time to achieve what I want before my time comes.

The year was blank, I would say. Blank enough which allows you to paint it yourself, by your way. I did a lot, I experience a lot, and I understand a lot more. I did the first video here in Korea, I went for a night hiking trip for the first time, I met a lot of Chinese friends, and most of all I lost 4kgs! Not much for a list of achievements, but it definitely prove that if there's a will, there's a possibility for it to happen.

My canvas might not be perfect, but I am dead sure that it is very colorful. For that, I am truly glad. The deadline for the canvas submission is here. I had to hand it in and continue painting the canvas of my life, embracing my future and make sure that I would not regret any moment of my life. Not for the things I had done, but the things that I did not do.

I cannot afford to waste any moment of my life.

The time is too fast, suddenly it's been a full academic year and I have to go back and finish what I started, of course, what I'm referring to is my diploma. If things would go on well, after a degree with the second year entrance, hopefully Korea would want to take me back for Master program.

Meanwhile, I have to do what I have to do.

But for now, it's almost time for me to go back. I really miss every single thing back there. I miss random supper with Stephanie, random Pyramid outing with Jane, random badminton session with Soon Queen, random trip with Esther, Calvin and Sharon. I miss my event management classmates. I miss every single on of them. Don't worry guys, I would make it up for the whole year while I'm not there.

I am coming home.

Are you at home?

飞吧！

飞吧！  去找寻自己的幸福。飞吧！  去寻觅自己的未来。飞吧！  去开辟自己的道路。

飞吧！

当你抵达那里的时候，请记得要回头告诉我，你一定会过得好好的。

The Bet

And so I on top of the bet that I already got myself into, I had another bet with Adrian.

Well, both of us will do something positively to the personal development of ourselves within a year and by that time whoever that did not do it will have to suffer the consequences stated. Adrian is always on the thin side while I am always on the other side. Let's just say we are going to make the weight difference lesser. By the coming May when he comes back from America, he needs to gain 7kg while I need to drop my excessive love handles. Along with respective amendments which he needs to attain muscle mass instead of just fat, and I need to be able to do 50 push-ups by that stated deadline. If he did it, and I did not, I would have to play badminton for 4 hours straight and if I did it and he did not, he would have to swim 100 laps of freestyle straight. The bonus amendment is a meal decided by the winning bet fully paid by the losing bet. So if you did not do anything and the deadline is up, you are going to end up exhausted and broke. Aiks.

The duration we both have is 11 months.

I have 5 months of internship coming along. Well, I hope I can do it alright, if not I would need to pay for someone's travel expenses PLUS this 4 hours of badminton madness.

Oh gosh, wish me luck. =)

Bye, Teacher.

It's been a year, teacher. Thank you for teaching us Korean and looking at our ridiculous final test paper today. All of us would return to where we come from, but how we all ended up in one class makes it all the more beautiful. Malaysia, Cambodia, Japan, China and Korea. Hopefully ten years from now, we would sit together just like today with you and laugh about the same thing we wrote on the test paper.

Junction, Turn Left, Turn Right and Go Straight.

Good bye, teacher.
We have no choice but to keep on going.
Thank you, teacher.
We will miss you, I promise.

Chinese Character

The most difficult Chinese word. Aiks.

因为，我一直相信着。

走吧！

往未来的路上走吧！

如果在路上再次相遇的话，就再一次拥抱问好。我不知道明天的我，会在哪里，会遇见什么人，会经历着什么事情，但是我还是一直相信着。相信这来临的明天，这条前往未来道路的尽头，会有我和你都期待的风景。“明天会更好"，我常常这样告诉自己。明天，应该会更好吧！

路上保重了，我的朋友。又或许路上会遇见什么问题，又或许路上遇见不对的人，笑一下吧！我会一直在这里，给你我的肩膀，借你我的耳朵，让你我的双手，拍一拍身上的灰尘，站起来！加油吧，我的朋友。能的，什么都可以办到的。你一定要坚持，一定要一直相信着你的梦想。

因为，我一直相信着。

Tell Me

I feel detached but I am not lost.

Now, when everything runs on track, I am still standing at the side wondering whether I should take that train or not. I don't want to rush, rushing to somewhere I would never know what am I chasing after at the end of the day. I don't want to run, run to the direction where everyone else are running towards because not everyone knows why they are running, they just wouldn't want to be left behind.

And the rest just kept on going, somewhere.

I followed, once. Realizing that it is so redundant, trapped inside an endless loop, doing things that what others expect you to do. Life is not just like this. It is not framed by others, not defined by others. Life is about being different isn't it? No, I don't want to get married, have kids and then grow old without doing something else or just being what people think life is. Life is more than that, much much more than that.

Life is being special, isn't it?

I want to see the world. I want to learn, I want to experience and I want to know. What is wrong being like this? If the things follow the "order" of the nature, that probably placed us under the animal category. It might be unfair for me to judge, and it's nothing wrong following others because of insecurity and the ultimate marriage dream but please don't give me the look when you hear someone with a different idea about life.

Don't define how my life should be.

I will not be like you, accept it. I might be wrong, I might be right. You don't have to worry about me, I wish you all the best, and I hope you will do the same. I know where am I heading to, maybe I will be the same, but I will not be stagnant. Who I am to judge upon fate, but I would attempt to make my life memorable with my own ways.

Tell me, whether the grass is greener at the other side, whether the moon is brighter at the other side, or whether the air is fresher on the other side. Whether this is the life you had always wanted.

Tell me, when you get there.

Happiness

幸福，我要的幸福。

在，不远处。

Night Hiking

Went for the very first night hiking and realized that none of us has a proper torchlight. I learnt that in Korea, torchlight is pronounced as fu-re-shi (flash). It was a sudden decision, and yes, it was absolutely random. I adore randomness, I love minimal planning which only applies on outings, not anything major that will effect my future, my finance and my social lifestyle.

There were 4 of us, took the trail right behind over dormitory.

Wanted to go higher, but did not happen. There we were, sitting beside the big electric thingy and ate ramen and soba on top of one of the not-so-high hill. Discussed issues on the international aspect and then we head back down.

Total time taken, 4 hours max.

Happy birthday, Yazhou.

Traditional Chinese Attire

Finally I get to wear it, with jeans. Lol.

华语古文吓死人！

1：季姬击鸡记

【原文】

季姬寂，集鸡，鸡即棘鸡。

棘鸡饥叽，季姬及箕稷济鸡。

鸡既济，跻姬笈，季姬忌，急咭鸡，

鸡急，继圾几，季姬急，即籍箕击鸡，

箕疾击几 伎，伎即齑，鸡叽集几基，

季姬急极屐击鸡，鸡既殛，季姬激，

即记《季姬击鸡记》。

【翻译】

季姬感到寂寞，罗集了一些鸡来养，是那种出自荆棘丛中的野鸡。

野鸡饿了叫叽叽，季姬就拿竹箕中的小米喂它们。

鸡吃饱了，跳到季姬的书箱上，季姬怕脏，忙叱 赶鸡，鸡吓急了，

就接着跳到几桌上，季姬更着急了，就借竹箕为赶鸡的工具，投击野鸡，

竹箕的投速很快，却打中了几桌上的陶伎俑，那陶伎俑掉到地下，竟粉碎 了。

季姬争眼一瞧，鸡躲在几桌下乱叫，季姬一怒之下，脱下木屐鞋来打鸡， 把鸡打死了。

想着养鸡的经过，季姬激动起来，就写了这篇《 季 姬 击 鸡 记》。

2：《施氏食狮史》

【原文】

石室诗士施氏，嗜狮，誓食十狮。

施氏时时适市视狮。

十时，适十狮适市。

是时，适施氏适市。

氏视是十狮，恃矢势，使是十狮逝世。

氏拾是十狮尸，适石室。

石室湿，氏使侍拭石室。

石室拭，氏始试食是十狮。

食时，始识是十狮，实十石狮尸。

试释是事。

【翻译】

《施氏吃狮子的故事》

石室里住着一位诗人姓施，爱吃狮子，决心要吃十只狮子。

他常常去市场看狮子。

十点钟，刚好有十只狮子到了市场。

那时候，刚好施氏也到了市场。

他看见那十只狮子，便放箭，把那十只狮子杀死了。

他拾起那十只狮子的尸体，带到石室。

石室湿了水，施氏叫侍从把石室擦干。

石室擦干了，他才试试吃那十只狮子。

吃的时候，才发现那十只狮子，原来是十只石头的狮子尸体。

试试解释这件事吧。

3《羿裔熠邑彝》

羿裔熠①，邑②彝，义医，艺诣。

熠姨遗一裔伊③，伊仪迤，衣旖，异奕矣。

熠意④伊矣，易衣以贻伊，伊遗衣，衣异衣以意异熠，熠抑矣。

伊驿邑，弋一翳⑤，弈毅⑥。

毅仪奕，诣弈，衣异，意逸。

毅诣伊，益伊，伊怡，已臆⑦毅矣，毅亦怡伊。

翌，伊亦弈毅。毅以蜴贻伊，伊亦贻衣以毅。

伊疫，呓毅，癔异矣，倚椅咿咿，毅亦咿咿。

毅诣熠，意以熠，议熠医伊，熠懿⑧毅，意役毅逸。

毅以熠宜伊，翼逸。

熠驿邑以医伊，疑伊胰痍⑨，以蚁医伊，伊遗异，溢，伊咦。

熠移伊，刈薏⑩以医，伊益矣。

伊忆毅，亦呓毅矣，熠意伊毅已逸，熠意役伊。

伊异，噫，缢。

熠癔，亦缢。

注解：

①熠：医生，据说为后羿的后裔。

②邑：以彝为邑，指居住在一个彝族聚居的地方。

③伊：绝世佳丽，仪态万方，神采奕奕。

④意：对伊有意思，指熠爱上了伊。

⑤翳：有遮蔽的地方，指伊游弋到了一个阴凉的地方。

⑥毅：逍遥不羁的浪人，善于下棋，神情坚毅，目光飘逸。

⑦臆：主观的感觉，通“意”，指对毅有好感。

⑧懿：原意为“懿旨”，此处引申为要挟，命令。

⑨胰痍：胰脏出现了疮痍。

⑩刈：割下草或者谷物一类。薏：薏米，白色，可供食用，也可入药。

4:《于瑜欲渔》

于瑜欲渔，遇余于寓。

语余：“余欲渔于渝淤，与余渔渝欤？”

余语于瑜：“余欲鬻玉，

俞禹欲玉，余欲遇俞于俞寓。”

余与于瑜遇俞禹于俞寓，逾俞隅，

欲鬻玉于俞，遇雨，雨逾俞宇。

余语于瑜：“余欲渔于渝淤，遇雨俞寓，

雨逾俞宇，欲渔欤？鬻玉欤？”

于瑜与余御雨于俞寓，俞鬻玉于余禹，

雨愈，余与于瑜踽踽逾俞宇，渔于渝淤。

5、《易姨医胰》

易姨悒悒，依议诣夷医。

医疑胰疫，遗意易姨倚椅，

以异仪移姨胰，弋异蚁一亿，

胰液溢，蚁殪，胰以医。

易胰怡怡，贻医一夷衣。

医衣夷衣，怡怡奕奕。

噫！以蚁医胰，异矣！

以夷衣贻夷医亦宜矣！

6：《熙戏犀》

西溪犀，喜嬉戏。

席熙夕夕携犀徙，

席熙细细习洗犀。

犀吸溪，戏袭熙。

席熙嘻嘻希息戏。

惜犀嘶嘶喜袭熙。

P/S：来自互联网。

What Love Can Do?

So, what real love can do anyway?

Accompaniment, Sex, Marriage, Responsibility, Kids and Death?

Silla Festival

They had K.Will for the university's annual festival this year around.

When will the event industry in Malaysia be able to achieve this?

So Seoul!

And so I went to Seoul again for 4 days and came back on a Monday morning. Went to Seoul, Yongin and also Suwon. Nothing too rush, nothing too planned, just a random trip.

Pre-depature preparation.

It was a Mugunghwa train to Seoul, which is the slowest and the cheapest train to travel far. This cost 25k won. Depart from Busan at 11.15pm and arrived at Seoul 4am the next day. Sat at the Mcd for breakfast and then proceed outside for a walk. It was 8am and we went to the bus station outside and wait for the bus number 5000. 1 hour later, exit at Gangnam University intersection and transferred to bus number 66.

7% discount for foreigners!

It was Everland for the first day right after another 30 minutes on the bus. Everland is a theme park and this cost 31k Won per person. Everland has a lot of turning and looping rides and the world's largest wooden roller coaster, which is also the place I lost my glasses. Spent almost 2 hours waiting for the ride, the ride is awesome, losing your glasses is not. Sat the a bus to go to Jamsil station and transferred to subway train and went to Myeongdong for dinner. Moved to Jongno 3-ga and stayed at a motel. One room - 40k won, public holiday eve was to blame.

Dongpo Meat!!

Woke up late next morning, walked to Myeongdong and went to eat Chinese lunch at Din Tai Fung. The cost, 20k won per person. The dishes, fried rice, Dongpo meat, Xiaolong Paos and dumplings. Attempted to walk to Itaewon but get lost in the Namsan area. Sat subway train at Chungmunro and proceeded to Itaewon. Realized Hard Rock Cafe at Itaewon is a lie and then went to Cafe Nescafe for refreshments.

Never knew Nescafe has a cafe.

Went to Dongdae Ibgu to go to Welcomm theater to see David Choi. The ticket, 35k won. Participated in the dancing competition, lost and see other people took the prize - a guitar and went home happily. Melissa bought his two album and had him autographed and we all took picture with him.

Finally got a chance to meet David Choi in person.

David uploading pictures to Facebook.

Went back to Myeongdong after that to meet some friends and then went to Anam station to find motel with a help of a Chinese friend. That motel that day allows 3 people in one room and the cost is 25k won. Played cards and went to bed after that.

Caribbean Bay entrance.

Woke up early the next morning and went to the same direction as the first day - Everland to go to the water theme park, Caribbean Bay. The cost, 30k won. It was fun, the water slides are very exciting, especially the Raft Boomerang. It started raining when we were queuing and it became very cold and windy. Luckily there is indoor part of the water theme park fully furnished with sauna and steam sauna. Stayed inside there for a while and took the bus and went to Suwon city after an hour in the bus.

On the bus for an hour or so doing practically nothing and the bus was surprisingly crowded.

The thing I depend on to get around Seoul.

Suwon city has this very big train station which enable us to go back Busan for here. Decided to stay here and went to find motel in this area. Found one 40k for 3 people in one room. Went out and had Pizza Hut for dinner. Cream Chicken Pizza and some fried chicken and a refillable drink, 20k won per person. Took money from the bank due to insufficient fund. Went back to motel and played card then slept.

Interior of Han's Deli.

The next morning woke up at 11am and went to eat lunch at Han's Deli. Ordered 4 dishes and it cost 8k won per person. Then went to train station and realized the train ticket to go back is all sold out except the midnight train, and we bought that. 24k won for one way ticket. Have to hang around at Suwon for 9 more hours. Went to the tourist center of Suwon and found out Suwon is boring, Went to walk around in the shopping complex and went to a bookstore, bought a bilingual book for The Little Prince, 7.5k won.

Feels like Sungei Wang + Low Yat, the whole row selling the same thing. 

Found a pc room / cyber cafe and took the 3 hours package for 4k won per person and by the time we finished we went to eat Vietnamese for dinner. 20k won per person, Cashew Nut and Chicken, Noodle & Rice Set, Chicken Fried Rice and Pad Thai. Went to Dunkin Donut and bought some doughnuts to hang around there till 11pm.

We were so bored until we started folding paper planes. >_>

And of course, we played cards again...

Sat on the train and proceed back to Busan. It was 4am went we arrived at Busan. Took a taxi to go back to Sasang because the subway is not functioning just yet. 5k won for 4 people. Ate Pork Rice Soup at Sasang for 5.5k won per person and realized that it wasn't 5am yet. The dormitory's curfew is from 1am to 5am. Went to the arcade at Sasang and played drum. Walked back to the dormitory from Sasang.

Went online at once.

Slept at 7am, woke up at 3pm.

So Seoul?

So I'm currently ended up at Suwon all the way from Seoul -> Yongin -> Suwon.

Amazing and random trip anyway, not to mention that we finaly met David Choi. We are suppose to be back tonight but apparently the train tickets are all sold out and the only last resort was the midnight train. I will upload photos and write a better blog post on this when I get back tomorrow.

Stay tuned! XD

Adult Day

The third Monday of May is Adult Day in Korea.

In Korea, when a person reaches the age of 20, internationally or the age of 21, Korean age, they will be given roses, perfume and kisses on this day. When I came back from outside, the dormitory committees were kind enough to give a rose and a congratulation card to me when I thought nobody will know about this.

I became an adult at Korea, officially.

Sports Day

I didn't expect myself to ended up going for a sports event over here in Korea. The venue was all the way at Busan National University, which is like 30 minutes bus ride from our school.

"Silla University Foreign Students Association"

I wasn't well enough to participate any one of them anyway. So, I was doing literally nothing under the big hot sun for a few hours and I am "red" right now. Felt like a walking corpse waking up at 7.30am on a Sunday morning. Not to mention the only breakfast that we got on the bus was choco pie, a small piece of cake and a box of milk.

Busan National University is separated into 7 sections and labelled with rainbow colour. Guess what? The venue is at the end of the campus, the biggest purple box on the picture. 

I didn't bring and umbrella nor a cap. FML.

Well, I didn't expect it to be this sunny and this hot, so I was baked under the sunlight for the rest of the games. The games are very different from the usual sports day, this sports event had snooker under one of the competition, of course with the other normal typical games like basketball, soccer and table tennis. The running event is not the usual 800m run, but 3000m run. Talk about extreme endurance.

When all participants went to gather at the center of the field, basically nothing much left over here.

There was probably only 15 of us from various university around Busan as viewers.

Some of us. Oh, it's the Silla University FSA T-shirt anyway, damn friggin' ugly.

Lunch time when things are suppose to be better did not turn out to be the way I was expecting it to be. Walked down the hill and make several turns and we reached the huge canteen. I thought I am going to enjoy the lunch, apparently it had to be a complete-my-disaster set of the day.

I swear, this meat is sweet.

And so, after that, hanged out at the torturous place for a couple more hours and off I went back to dormitory  to give my partially disabled leg a break.


P/S: I'm not going to post the rest of the random pictures I took, I would probably ended up being murdered.

My Eyes

I never realized how scary my eyes can be.

Baseball Game

We went to a baseball game.

Korea's national sports, highly impossible to not go to one while I am here anyway. It was free, so I am not going to complain about the fact that I didn't quite understand what's going on for the entire 2 hours. Anyway, baseball match? Crazy crowd. Koreans watch baseball, all of them.

Suddenly all of them would do Mexican Wave or started singing at random times. Then there was this kissing time where you are suppose to kiss each other when you are on the screen and also the sexy dance time where you are suppose to dance sexy dances and it will win you some vouchers for westerns restaurants.

Some guy proposed in the baseball game. To me, it looked so awkward. What make it even worse is that you only have 30 seconds to finish your propose. The guy appear with a bunch of roses, the guy kneel down, the guy kiss the girl, the girl cry. Done, 30 seconds. I wonder how much he paid to be in front of so many people.

Eui Hyeon said she forgot to bring newspaper. We didn't know what for until we were inside the stadium. Apparently, newspapers were made to pom-poms and everyone had it on their hands. Orange plastic bags are then distributed for people to expel rubbish and food waste but all of them went up everyone's head at the end of the day. Oh well.

After that we went back to Sasang and finally be able to eat our dinner at 11pm. The walk back to the dormitory was like the hike. =P And tomorrow is a weekend!

Colourful Alley

Beyond these colourful alley 
is a monotonous life of another person.
我怀疑，
在这彩色的门后面，
那些黑白交叉的人生。

Hiking

I can't believe I went hiking when my leg is not even fully recovered yet.

We were bored, probably. Since today was the Children's Day at Korea, it is a public holiday. So, some random friend of mine suggested that it was fun to go hiking early in the morning. Thus, we ended up doing something so out of the blue.

Baekyang Mountain - Highest Peak

Me, Melissa, Zhang Xin, Su Sheng, Jia Wen, Wen Yu and Ya Zhou

The hill behind our dormitory is not as small as I thought it was. We started hiking at 9am and came down from the other side of the hill at 3pm. The route is maintained well thus not much of the problem going up, the moment we are moving downhill, it was like small rocks everywhere and our normal sports shoes are not helping at this kind of scenario.

Too tired to take too many pictures anyway.

We were half dead when we reached back to Mora. Yes, the place we departed from is Mora, went pass the hill, go to the highest peak and reached the other side of the hill which is the Children Grand Park, near Seomyeon. No lunch, my stomach almost started to sing already. I don't even want to know how Melissa can make it without breakfast and lunch.

It was very tired but we did had fun. When we reached the Children Grand Park, it was packed. There were so many people running all around with balloons and cotton candy. Talk about the perfect day to be here. So we finally exit the park and sat the bus back to Mora.

Couples, families, and even pets are all here in the park during Children's Day.

Wen Yu knew some Korean uncle and he was nice enough to buy all of us lunch (fried chicken and noodles) at Mora, after that we can't wait to get back to the dorm, the legs was killing me by then.

After a nice shower and it's already night time. 

Tomorrow, everything will resume back to normal.

My Table

I need to clean my table.

Typography - Niama

Typography trial on Photoshop. 

Played around with the transformation a lot. 

Just a random practice that's all. =)

Creative Output - It's Spring Again.

It's spring. Boy meets girl and they fell in love.
It's summer. Boy and girl is madly in love and think forever everything.
It's fall. Boy and girl don't feel the same anymore and the relationship cold down.
It's winter. Boy and girl decided to move on and not wasting each others' time then they broke up.

It's spring again.

What now?

P/S: Please excuse the cliche-ness of the short film.

韩语发表的草稿

在韩国当交换学生的时间过得特别快，不知不觉我就要回家了。来了那么久，我经历的，我看过的，我尝试的，我觉得我这一生都不会忘记。就让我想你解说，我最喜欢韩国的五件事。

一，天气。我记得当我第一次抵达韩国的时候，给我们这些从热带国家来的人们最深的印象是这里的天气。整年都活在摄氏三十五度的我们，很喜欢四季的变化。我很喜欢春天的雨点，夏天的海边，秋天的落叶和冬天的雪花。也可能是因为这个原因，韩国人都比较浪漫吧！

二，情歌。说到浪漫，不可能没有韩国的情歌。没有人不知道韩国情歌的浪漫，没有人不知道韩国连续剧的伤感。在这情歌盛产的国家，不管在哪里都可以听到情歌。但是我注意到韩国情歌里，常见的单词排行榜有的是：“怎么办？”，“谎言”，“眼泪”，“疯了”，“痛苦”，“心脏”，“等待”，“幸福”，“忘记”，“笨蛋”，“为什么？”，“离开”，“时间"，”对不起“，还有“爱”。马上就可以来造句，不管怎么造都会有伤心的效果。

三，科技。没了科技，情歌该怎么样与世界分享呢？网速，决定你能做的一切。来到韩国，我可以上网看视频，我在马来西亚完全不可能做得到。马来西亚的平均网速为50kb/s，来到韩国我竟然可以看到宿舍里看到3mb/s的网速。对于一个常常用电脑的人，这是一件很幸福的事情。

四，韩语。韩语的文字很简单，结果到现在我们都能读懂韩语，但是完完全全都不知道我们正在读着什么。确实，不像其他的语言，韩语的构造分部分来读，只要把全部念出来就当作是会读了。

五，韩国人。韩国人的热情让我们感到很舒服。很友善，很有趣。特别是和他们一起生活了一年以后，明白了他们生活上的习惯等等，发现他们都很亲切。也可能是因为我好运吧！

Bubble

Kite

I flew a kite today, for the first time.

For some reasons, I saw the same resemblance on me.

I might be up there having fun,

but there's still a string,

I will want to go home, eventually.

你，过得还好吗？

不知不觉地，我已经在这里过着我第八将近第九个月了。
第一次在异地一个人生活，我应该觉得快乐吗？
可能我快乐，可能我没有。
我休息了那么久，是时候再次出发了。
我在这里过得蛮好的。

不知道，你过得好不好。

你没有上网的习惯，我不是不知道的。
我常常望着msn发呆，我也觉得很傻。
等待着你上网的机会毕竟不是零。
这不代表我过得不好，而是我又开始怀恋了。
看着你的facebook的status，一起跟着那些情绪的起伏。
这比一般的电影情节来的好，至少我们还有facebook和msn。
听说科技可以拉近彼此的距离，但他们忘了说：科技也可以让人更遥远。

不知道，你在那里过得好不好。

不是我不能适应，只是在现实的摧残下，我还在寻找着那遗失的美好。
以前简单的相处方式，以前直接的坦诚相对。
面对这新的世界，新的人，新的事情，新的选择，有时还真的很累呢。
我想你也应该是这样想的吧。
在这里可能是因为语言，我从来没有那份融入的感觉。
常常很像个路人，看着人家的忙忙碌碌和人家的风风雨雨。
听说这就叫做停滞在一个地方，看着时间的流逝，但他们忘了说：停滞的人们不想停下来，他们只是怀恋过去。

不知道，你在那里和他们过得好不好。

Depression Factors

I can get depressed. Yes, I can. Fortunately, it does not appear rather frequently and does not induce me to a suicidal attempt.

After I came to Korea, I finally pinpointed what are the reasons that cause these negative feelings built-ups. There are exactly 3 reasons that could very likely results in crankiness, irritation and ultimate sarcasm which exclude all the other probabilities which yet to be explored. This 3 factors mentioned below have to work closely to each other to produce the best result.

1. Bad Dinner
Dormitory food is filled with surprises. Sometimes it could be good and sometimes you just feel like dying just by looking at the menu. About Korean food, I am not sure whether it only apply to the dormitory scope or not but I realize that they bear the following conditions:

A) Any food will have the "R" probability.
Here refers to the fact that any kind of ingredients from vegetables to meat and all the way to soup too can be prepared in a way that it is entirely red. Red food usually taste spicy in a very salty and sweet way. The Worst Case Scenario: The entire food tray for that night is red.
(Dish1*A)+(Dish2*B)+(Dish3*A)+(Soup*A)+(Kimchi*A)+(Rice)

B) All vegetables are cold.
Here refers to only vegetables regardless whether it is taugeh or a weird leaf thing that does not look edible at all. Vegetables are suppose to be eaten cold so that the nutrient values in the vegetable could be retained, but excuse my Chinese-ness, cold dishes other than appetizers and desserts are unacceptable. The Worst Case Scenario: Bibimbap. (Rice + A + B) - Meat

The only way to temporarily relieve this sorrow is this if and only if Factor #2 allows.

2. Money (Lack of)
It is a fact that $200 in Korea is never going to be enough, even when the food and accommodation had been covered. To move to one place and come back easily cost $4 and one meal might be $5 and above. For a Malaysian, this is very painful. After the currency exchange, out meal back in Malaysia is $3 comes with lots of meat, lots of rice, a bowl of soup and a beverage like sugar cane drink. So, being an underpaid exchange student working in the university while studying, I am constantly broke. This condition is much more bearable if it is one sole problem without the influence of the Factor #1.

3. Undesired Physical Conditions
Immobility is something that I personally cannot tolerate. Being stationary at a spot bore me to the point where I will pull out all my hair and whine for 24 + hours. Undesired physical conditions here refer to any kind of sickness which result in utter tiredness or a hole on the sole of the leg.

There you go, 3 depression factors especially when you are overseas.

FML.

8eight - Sing to the Lost of Love.

Remember to breathe sometimes, don't drown.

Remember to remember sometimes, don't forget.

Remember to appreciate sometimes, don't lose it.

Summer Monster

One thing that I am annoyed about summer is the insects, 
especially flies and mosquitoes.

No, summer, 
don't come so soon, please.

A Cup of Coffee

Sitting at the cafe in front of the dormitory with a bunch of them. The entire night. Sunday night, just a bunch of us, occupied the cafe till they all started to mop, signalling us to leave. For the entire time, only one cup of coffee is purchased. A cup of coffee for 3 hours of chatting moments.

I adore randomness, I just realized.

The topic ran from getting married to where do people go after they die, discussed with an international aspect, which triggers my brain cells after I hadn't utilized them wisely for the past 6 months already.

"Life is a cup of coffee," I told him. Depending how much sugar you are willing to add in so that it will be better. "Life is a cup of bitter tea." He told me. It might be bitter for a while, but it will not be bitter forever. "Life is a cup of coffee." I told her. You get to decide how your coffee would taste like, when will you taste your coffee, and how you will remember your cup of coffee, forever. "But some people like it bitter." She told me.

"And I don't like coffee."

What if I don't like coffee, it's not like I can change to a cup of hot chocolate anytime soon. Choices are expensive, even changing your flight date cost money. Making changes require cost, nothing is ever easy in life.

Can I have my cup of hot chocolate?

What if hot chocolate is too expensive and I can only get a cup of Earl's Grey instead? What will I do then? Maybe I should feel content with what I have, I wouldn't want to risk. Even if life is a cup of coffee, I wouldn't want to miss the hidden greatness in the coffee will still wandering what I would choose other than coffee.

Perhaps a cup of Caffe Latte will do?

Someone told me I don't have a clear stand, usually standing in the center wandering left and right. It's a personality, I guess, although I didn't quite like it. Indecisive should be my middle name, despite that I didn't quite like it. It's not going to bring me anywhere.

Should I just bloody drink that coffee already?

What if I regret for the rest of my life? I still have to do something. Probably buy a cup of milk to standby. Whatever that I would choose, I have to do it fast. My sister is next in line, and my dad is thinking how to pay for the coffee for both of us.

I might need a waiter or a menu now.

Hello Spring

Hello spring, nice to meet you for the first time. 

Such beautiful cherry blossoms you have there.

Skipped

Skipped the class for 2 weeks already.

I really did felt the love, especially when you wake up and you say to yourself, "It's okay to skip it." Last week for me to do this, I guess. Have to attend the class before the lecturer remove me from the attendance list.

Permanently.

Such a dreadful class. Seriously, major subjects conducted in English is difficult to understand and I did not mean the subject. So, unless you are sponsored by the government or are a native Korean born and raised at Korea, if not you are going to suffer.

The other class that I enrolled was Linear Algebra 1 which was suppose to be taught in English but I have to drop it after the first class because the class was taught in Korean due to the fact that the teacher trying to make it easier for the majority of the class to understand regardless whether we understand at the end of the day or not.

Well, I am glad I'm only an exchange student and my credit hours doesn't count over here. So I told myself that it's okay to do bad things once in a while far away from home, repeatedly.

Probably too much.

It ain't good.

But I felt the love, the love of peace and quiet. =)

LOL Moment

I miss you guys, so much. It was so much fun and random moments. 

By the time I go back to reality, it will not be the same anymore.

 Live well, my friends. But don't forget that I'll still be there, always.
P.S: William's pose is so damn funny.

小幸福

空闲的下午，幸福。

无聊的下午，搬了电脑下去和Melissa一起坐在咖啡厅里玩电脑。

两个无聊的人，一个慵懒的午后，简单的小幸福。

不需要管什么东西，不需要在意任何问题。

外面的阳光好灿烂。

Twenty

Twenty.

I'll be twenty by tomorrow. But I still feel so dependent towards my family, causing so many problems, financially. I don't like this feeling, not at all. My sister is going to graduate and enter college by the time I finish my diploma, and I have no idea what am I going to do.

I call this, irresponsible. Me, that is.

Well, I have four choices. I can go to cheap university but might not learn something, I can go to good university bearing the cost by applying for loan, I can apply for Korean Government Scholarship and come to Korea to study degree for 5 years(provided they take me) or I can go to work and save some money before I proceed to my degree.

I don't know where will I end up at.

Insecurity makes me uncomfortable. My mum is not able to assure me. The only thing she said is "Wait until you come back first then see." Life is way too interesting with all these choices. All the responsibilities upon those choices you make. All the unknown ahead that you never know until it hit you right in the face. At that very moment, probably everything is way too late already.

Happy birthday, I wish myself.

Despite how much I didn't want to do it. I don't want to grow up, I really don't want to. All the problems, all the choices, all the responsibilities. Apparently I don't have a choice but to do it anyway. Growing up is harsh, I have to agree on that.

Here am I, saying it once again.

Happy Birthday, to me.

LOL Moment

William + Ham = PWNED!

Earth Hour

I wasn't expecting to celebrate it. Hell, I didn't even know that today was the day for the Earth Hour thing. Not to mention my stupid immobility condition, going out is highly unlikely to happen. I was in the room sitting in front of the computer planning to do nothing at all.

Suddenly, I was in the dark corner right next to the gymnasium playing candles, scented candles.

It was all Sarah Chai's fault. Melissa tiba-tiba told me that they are going to celebrate Earth Hour in the cafe in front of the dormitory. So, I thought since it was only in front of the dormitory and I had nothing to do, I might as well just sit down there for an hour and chit-chat. I was bored to death anyway.

Sarah picked up his brother who was only here for three days and bring him to the dorm.

Then I realized that no, they are not celebrating it there. THEY WERE GOING TO THE POND, which it didn't happen later due to the lightings and all. And so, we found ourselves a very dark spot next to the gymnasium then we sat down and....

We lighted our CANDLES!

Yeah, basically that's about it.

P.S: We ate chicken for supper!

P.S.S: We refers to Melissa, Sarah, Ashley, Sarah's brother, James, and I.

Break Time

Probably a very long break time for me. 

Of Chicken, Pizza and Delivery in Korea

I always wonder why am I constantly hungry at Korea. Especially now, when I'm temporarily disabled. I want to eat chicken. There's something in Korea's chicken, maybe. But we don't really do this in Malaysia, at least we don't go to the hypermarket grab the box of chicken then run back to the dormitory then put it in the microwave, look at it spin for 3 minutes and finish the entire box of chicken in 10 minutes.

Amazing speed.

Oh yes, we are like wolves in Korea. Chicken is sort of like a consolation prize, making up for our lack of ability when it comes to adapting the Korean food culture. Maybe it's just me, but I miss Malaysia's food, a lot. At least our vegetables are hot, and we don't randomly add chili paste into any of our dishes of the day.

Then there's also this delivery thing, so-bloody-awesome. "Chicken Delivery" is what we call it. It's like KFC delivery, except this may come with noodles or pizza. The price is around RM60 for a big piece of pizza, a whole fried chicken and a 1.5 L Pepsi. Another method of self-pampering when dorm food sucks.

Well, the best thing is that he will deliver the food straight to your doorstep. You know those lazy and hungry nights? Prefect. Ordering it wasn't a problem at all, apparently. Maybe the owner already familiar with those foreigners with sudden cravings for chicken, We greet, we say what we want (E.g Bu go gi pi za seh te), we tell him where are we (E.g Dormitory of XX Uni) and we pay him when he calls you again and tell you that he is outside already. Done.

Malaysia don't have lor.

I guess I'll settle it with Ramly's when I get back to Malaysia then.

P.S: I miss Ramly Burger. (Still the best in the world)
P.S.S: Melissa is another chicken addict.