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.