Hope everyone had a great cny. i for one didnt realllly enjoy it. :( First day of cny. High fever with lots and lots of vomitting :( first and second day actually. SUCKY. but more info l8rs dalings.
trip was from the 27 of january to the 5 of february 2006.
warning: very long blog.
27th JANUARY 2006
sat on an aeroplane and reached spore arnd 3. went shopping for winter clothes at takashimaya till 9 because flight to korean(incheon airport) was at 11. Bought a jacket, scarves, gloves and boots. =D. Sat on the plane at 9.50. Flight was for 6 hours and 15 minutes.
28th JANUARY 2006
Reached incheon at around 7am korean time(one hour ahead our time). Waited for the tour bus which came at 8.30. while waiting, met up with other tour fellows and the guide. straightaway we went for a kimchi making session. was fun and drank ginseng milk (Y). made my kimchi and the instructor (this old korean lady) said i was a natural in wrapping up the kimchi. LOL. :D hahahs. we got to bring home the kimchi we made. lol. after that right we allll, took pictures wearing the traditional korean dresses and the guys wore the korean guy dress. lol. took pictures and all :D. after that we proceeded to dongdaemun(sp?) for shopping. very bigass place but sell mostly the same stuffs but was ok lor. bought a cap, stockings and lots of strawberrys because the straberrys were very bigassed and sweet :D. After that, went to our first hotel, the holiday inn seoul. Ohya. our lunch was bbq pork (Y)(Y). yummmmy. :D for dinner we had steamboat. =) after dinner, went to lotteworld. this very big indooor playworld with rides and all. actually theres the shopping centres and etc but we didnt have time for that. stayed at lotteworld for 3 hours. and only sat on 2 rides :( because the lines are so damn long. went back to the hotel BUT, my brother was feeling hungry so we ventured out of the hotel to some place further to look for bibimbap this korean rice which apparently my brother likes oh so very much :) found a place where lots of ppl was eating and we went in. HEHE sat on floors without our shoes. fun eh. :D brother ate his much loved bibimbap with love lol. and my parents ordered this spicy somethinglike steamboat porkribs. yummy but damn hot ok. and we drank. spirit and beer. was okla. -.- got abit drunk lol. thenw e bought korean kuihs. :) the guy so nice give us free ones again :D. lol then we walked abit more then only went bk to the hotel.
29th JANUARY 2006
CNY. CNY CNY CNY CNY CNY CNY CNY CNY CNY!!! :) was feeling alright in the morning and all. wakeup call was at 6. and had breakfast in this place. ate buns and drank fresh soyabean. abit of porridge too :) there were more people today on the tour :).then we went to coex mall. one of the biggest mall in south korea.then we also visited the palace in which the jewel in the palace was shot. nice place. then.. Had a 4 hour busdrive to EVERLAND. this themepark. its like the korean disneyland man. but before that had lunch but i didnt feel good with the lunch and so i didnt eat but instead vomitted :( and to think my brother was thinking i was only doing it for attention. PFFT. watever anyway. everland is a reallllly beautiful place but too bad i was SO sick and kept vomitting. i must have like vomitted 8 times? yeh. and i had no freaking appitite and i didnt have the energy to sit on rides and to walk around. so i ddint take pictures there. boohoo. everytime my brother and mom sat on the rides my poor dad would sit out with me. and i wud fall asleep. cos so tired ok. he was so worried and kept asking me to eat. but i didnt have any appetite bah :S. then we finished around 6.30? went for dinner. ate abit of rice to keep my dad satisfied and we had a half an hour drive before reaching the ski rental thingy. reached it. rushed to the toilet and blech. anyhoos. rented snow pants and jackets and goggles. had to buy the gloves apparently i cant fit into an adult S. i had to fit into a kids M. -.- it was winnie the pooh, red colour mind you. snow clothes were yellow :D goggles were white. Reached the ski resort around 9 pm. :| went up to the room to find out, we were sleeping traditional style on the floor with rolled up mattresses and all. was kinda fun but very back aching. :S went to the stores below the resort. and to the supermarket. and i vomitted in there. dad rushed me back to the room. felt extra cold. and sleeeept. -.-
30th JANUARY 2006
Woke up feeling alright. stood up and fell down. mom touched forehead apparently very high fever. but, still made myself go down for breakfast and ate abit of cereal. had the biggest urge to vomit but tried not to. took medicine some kind lady gave and it made me go all sleeppy -.- was very cold. then, we all walked to the ice carving place. very nice. there were carvings of disney cartoons, dinosaurs, and other stuffs like great wall of china, the leaning tower of pisa, that tower in paris and all. went out and popped two extra panadols. went to a heated room to defrost myself. came out feeling better and proceeded to a cafeteria. bleched somemore stuffs out came out daddy bought me plum juice. :) felt loads better and started sweating ALOT. :) good sign so my bro bought me chestnuts cos he sed it was goood for me. got onto a bus and proceeded to get our snow shoes and ski boards :) i picked the pink sticks HEHE. my shoes were black. and yeh. one hour of tutorial and damn. the shoes are shit heavy ok. oh wait, before that we went high high high and took loads of photos are the expert slope lol. ok anyway. started off with easy stuffs and all. then had lunch. Ate pork chops. (good to be able to eat again). daddy and koko ate burger king. mommy shared with me. :) then we went down and a group of people from the tour wanted to sit on the cablecar to go higher and i told my dad i wanted to. alot of them didnt want to go because they charged per head about 80 bucks our money :S so only four of us went. me, 2 uncles and an aunty :) i was the youngest :D they're all very nice people/ we talked alot and we must have been on the slope at least 8 times! :D by then i was feeling all better. Then we went back to the hotel and took showers and changed. went out for dinner but i didnt feel like eating so daddy bought waffles with whipped cream and apple sauce for me. YUMMY OK. and i played videogames with my brother that night. was fun!. went back to sleep at arnd 1.
31th JANUARY 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMMMMY <3 and AUNTY IRIS (beckys mom) did i tell you the slopes we went on? were all man made ice because at some parts there were snow and others there werent. but guess what? ON M MOTHERS BIRTHDAY IT FREAKING SNOWED MAN. i was like so lazy to get out of *koff* bed right. but i saw something white outside and i walked toward the balcony opened the curtains and i screamed. damn right. i blooody screamed my ass off. my dad jumped up and was like WHAT HAPPEN??? and i was speechless i just kept on pointing outside. and my mom came up and see and she was like OHMYGOAT IT SNOWED. :D hahahs and my daddy was like quick la get change and go down SO I DID(very quickly i must add ;)) lol. and when i got down it was STILl snowing. and i was the biggest sakai in the world. a couple of korean guys were like staring with weird facial expressions like thinking, my goat is this girl sakai or what never see snow. BUT ITS TRUE this is the FIRST TIME its actually snowing on me. the last time in england there was just snow. it wasnt snowing :P :D:D:D:D::D TOOk like alot of pictures man. and i SO did NOT want to leave the place ok. but sadly we had to :(. the bus then took us to Daegu(another city) where we went to Spa Valley. which is er, a water park. kinda la. the simming pool was indoor but there was an outdoor one too. SO COOL the water was warm water and yeh. very nice place (Y). there so many kinds of massaging thingy in the pool you know :) finished off the swim with yummy icekweam :D hahahs. then we had dinnnner. stayed at daegu park hotel that night. was not bad the hotel :)
01th FEBRUARY 2006
breakfast at hotel and then we went sightseeing at this temple called donghwa temple. climbed ALOT of stairs but it was worth it. the scenery was breathtaking. very prettyful. had fun with my brother walking up and down the slopes :) hahahs then we proceeded to Pusan (another city). had lunch before tho. at pusan, went on the tower and we saw the whole freaking city. VERY NICEEEE :) hahahs. went shopping after that. alot of things to see. alot of branded stuffs lor. bought a shirt :) and ate alot of strawberrys again. cuden buy much stuffs cos its like so expensive and, theyre mostly seelllling winter clothes so yeh. not much to buy :S but yeh. walked around aloooooot . and went back to the bus. but not before i fed the pigeons. THEYRE SO CUTE . so fat fat one :P i fed them corns my daddy buy. then i gave some to these little boy and little girl. they were SO happy you know. the boy was like saying thankew and bowing. SO CUTE. :) hahahahs. took fotos with the pigeons and yeh boarded the bus. :) Went to pusan airport to get a flight to cheju(jeju) island around 7. flight was for 45 minutes only. verry fast leh. Reached and all. stayed at cheju oriental hotel (the best i think in the trip) and the hotel hade HEATED toilet seats and trust me, its the best ok. because all the toilets i went too had cold toilet seats. =p . Went to the supermarket nearby and bought lots of FOOD :D. hahahah
02th FEBRUARY 2006
Breakfast at hotel. Morning went sightseeing at the tangerine farm where we got to pick 2 oranges each. were abit sour but they were very big la. :P went to the Cheju folk village. its sumthing like a open air museum and apparently the jewel in the palace also was shot there. you know the part where janguem was exiled to cheju island. yes thats the one.=p my moms a fan of the show so yah. then we had lunch. which i cuden eat cos it was fish. very spicy fish so the tour guide got me and the other kids fried egg and fish. which was very fishy i dont kno why. but was ok lor. :) then we went for ATV ride. you know that big 4 wheel drive they use in deserts and all? the one that can go over rocky mountains and all? yes. i RODE ON ONE. muahahahhaha. was fun altho my bbutttt hurted alot. then we went for sightseeing at this place where the volcano formation was shaped as tho a dragon was reaching up to the sky. Lots of ppl were there :S. then we were on the bus right. and the slope was going upwards. the bus totally switched off its engine like nothing ok. and the bus moved upwards by itself. thats the mysterious road. The truth is right, actually, our eyes, we see the road as tho its going upwards when reality, the slope is going downwards. it was kinda cool actually. =p bought sausages to eat there and i saw the cutest little chihuahua in the WORLD. :P then we caught a flight back to seoul. this time the aeroride took an hour and 15 minutes. Reached seoul and stayed at Seoul Grand Hilton Hotel. was ok la. reached quite late so we went to 7eleven only. bought more food to eat that night. Mygoodness, the instant noodles in korea. wahlieeeeuu. the best ok. too bad most of them are spicy so i cuden take much. AND, .. i only drink EINSTEIN milk in korea. best tasting the the world. when you go korea next time TRY. its in a green packaging ok. :P very yummy i must have drank 3 cartons a day man.
03th FEBRUARY 2006
The COLDEST day, -14 degrees celcius. :S the rest were what. -5 to 10 dc.
had breakfast(dont remember what) and then we went to the ginseng showroom. mom bought a couple of stuffs from there. then we went to the presidential house. SO FREAKING COLD MAN. -.- lol and then we went to the amethyst factory. was keen on one necklace but i dont like amethyst you see. i like diamonds :) hahahahs. after that we went to this herb facytory also. mom bought stuffs from there too. :) then ITS GOODBYE KOREA :'( not before we did some last minute shopping. hahahs. BoUGHT all the stufffs(food and all). and then on the plane and reached spore around 10pm. stayed at novotel. :S near the mos(ministry of sound) there? yeh ended day.
04th FEBRUARY 2006
Morning WOke up at arnd 9. went to shangrila hotel for dimsum. lol was OK only la. then afternoon went visiting at my aunty's house. stayed there for a freaking 4 hours. but was cool la. :) thenw ent shopping at suntech. but not much time. managed to buy a taka earring and a shirt only. BOOHOO. so dumass man cos my bro got a timberland boot, hush puppy slippers and a raoul belt. felt unfair :( anyway. at night went to kinokuniya and bought two books and a pencilcase that says girls rules and had dinner with aunt and uncle and cuzzens. ate the yearly yee sang (sp?) was nice la. dinner was good except there were SO many people so the food came slow. sad.ate finish and we went back to te hotel with the whole lot and we went jalaning around. :) talked alot with my cuzzenin law. she so cool man. we talked abt everything actually. then around 11 everyone went bk home respectively and we went to sleep.
05th FEBRUARY 2006
Woke up early and had breakfast with my dad's friend at the hawker stores. good food man. then yeh. went to the airport early to do more shopping in there. got a keychain for nes and myself :P and my mom bought me a levis bag, shirt and jean. :D hahahah so i cant complain no more =p. sat on the flight and came home. it was kinda good to be home but sad at the same time...
... cos korea was reallly thumbs up man. the weather, abit cold but fun. the food, mostly spicy but yummmy and the people, not much who can speak english but who cares? the guys are hot and the girls are pretty. (not that im trying to saw im bi or whatever). AND HOT CHOCO rules korea cos theres no milo :( lol. and lotte rules korea because theres very little nestle and, Samsung rules korea cos theres NO nokia. really. =p and the vending machines, everywhere you go. and yeh. all the coldness in the world and the naked trees. heck, im missing the bus i spent all my days in :P and the people in it. =) ok..
Today, back to school. practised for national day. :S bleh so hot ok marchpast.(sp?) lol. knsssss. and homework lots. and had chem pracs and yeh. end now ok. long blog :)
<3,
Amelia.
querida.
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