24-12-2014

Its gonna be 2015 in 2 more weeks time !

And here comes day 4 of our Korea trip !

We are united !

Day 4 of my trip is the 1st day of the guys trip !

After we have gathered and off to Hongdae for dinner ~!

Of course for dinner, we have to go to Kongbul. One does not simply go to Hongdae and not eat Kongbul at least once !

Kongbul is pure awesome man seriously. Look at the bean sprouts, cuttlefish and pork meat. It may seem not tasty but looks are definitely deceiving. This is definitely one of the best food I've eaten in Korea !

After when you're gonna finish, they will drain away the gravy and mix them with rice and eat it through the metal plate.

This is how it looks when it's soaked in gravy. It's AWESOME ! ! ! ! !


After dinner we walked around Hongdae. For people who have watch Dream High 2 before, all these photos will remind you of how the Dream High 2 students performed on the streets of Hongdae.

After that we went to the Dongdaemun night shopping centre as the guys wanna shop around plus it's their first day here, making it to the fullest !

And of course for those like me who is not interested in shopping I will just stay outside and eat !

After all that shopping den we decided to go back for DRINKING !

But that will have to stay till the next time !

28-11-2014

Yup ! I'm back again to continue my Busan trip.

After we settled down at our hotel, we've decided to go walk around and look for food !

This is the entrance of Gukje market which is the place we decided to go look for food !

The Gukje Market is like those night market in Taiwan that you can shop and eat at the same time. There's quite a few street food stalls so whenever you see something u wanna eat u can just stop and have a bite and continue.

After that we are feeling more and more hungry and we decided to find a proper place to eat and we happen to walk past this fried chicken restaurant.

We walked past this restaurant as we see the person preparing the fried chicken outside the restaurant and it seems like its damm good and so we decided to GO FOR IT !

We ordered a plate of fried chicken and this plate came ! There's so much fried chicken and it only cost us 15000won which is around sgd18.

The 3 of us shared a plate and surprisingly it filled our stomach ! Although the chicken is fried but it's not very oily and the meat is not fried till very dry also. One of the best fried chicken I had in Korea.

After that we decided to go to the Busan Square to have a walk as it's one of the places to visit as it's like the Myeongdong of Busan.

The place looks so modernised compared to Gukje Market until that you will be mistaken as you're in Seoul.

The Busan Square looks so much like Seoul which also have all the famous brands there, and it's really crowded too !

There's also an area which teenagers will perform there, just like in Hongdae. It reminds me of DreamHigh.

Ok, I shall stop here, kinda lazy to blog also as I'm tired from working. I'm basically working almost everyday without rest.

Shall blog again soon !

16-11-2014

Its been more den a week since I've updated as I'm quite busy for the past one to two weeks.

Now back to posting.

On the 2nd and 3rd day of the Korea trip we decided to go to Busan for a 2D1N experience as 7days in Seoul maybe abit too long for us.

Actually I also duno why we went to Busan as I was the one who suggested we go to Busan for 2 days as its the hometown of one of my favourite girlgroup Apink's member, Jung Eunji's hometown so thats one of the reasons why I wanted to visit Busan.

We decided to stay at Elysee Motel which the reviews for the motel is like superb as everybody have good reviews and ratings for the motel and they say the price is reasonable and so I decided to choose that place.

The key to our room and off we go !

The room for Elysee Motel is a very very simple room.

From what you guys see from the pic, its just a queen size bed and a single bed as there's 3 of us together.

There's a fridge provided so that we can have cold drinks, there's an electric kettle that we can boil water if needed. There's wifi and a PC provided so that we can use to surf net but it's running on Win98 and its kinda slow and its in full korean.

The whole room can be operated with a remote control which controls the TV, the aircon and the lights in the room so its quite convinient.

And of course the toilet is very important for me as its a place we wash up and shit, and the toilet doesn't disappoint.

The toilet comes with a bathtub and a rainshower but it's not recommended if you guys are staying as friends of guys and girl as the toilet door is full transparent so there's no privacy if you're bathing.

Overall I find the Elysee Motel not bad as it's simple and cosy but it's not as fantastic and fabulous that everybody have said. But for the price its actually quite bang for the buck so if you're on a budget and its quite recommended. Oh, and I have to mention that it's doesn't have a wardrobe or cupboard so there's gonna be some problem if you're staying here for a few days.

Gonna logoff now and I'll post on the food I had at Busan on my next post.

03-11-2014

Its November already ! Oh my god ! Year 2014 is gonna end in 2 months !

LOL ! Ok, back to my blogging.

I'm gonna talk about the 1st day that I'm in Korea.

As a tourist, there are some places that is a must visit if you go Korea and I've decided to go to Myeongdong !

Myeongdong is a very tourist place as most of the shops staffs knows how to speak Korean, Chinese, limited english and limited japanese so that tourists are able to converse with the shop staffs.

We went to this restaurant call Two Two, which seems to be quite famous as I saw a few advertisment about them so we decided to try it when we saw it.

We ordered a Samgaetang ( Ginseng Chicken Soup ), Beancurd skin Soup and half a Fried Chicken. It doesn't look nice from the photo rite. And yes, it's overrated and expensive.

The Samgaetang and the Fried Chicken is like 16k Won each which is around SGD20 which I find is too overrated and overpriced in Korea.

After breakfast we went to walk and shopped around before we head off to Namsam Seoul Tower.

Seoul Tower is the place where lovers write their name on the locks and lock them on the fence which they say each other's love will be locked down forever .

Pardon for the lousy phototaking as there is really too many people there as its the Golden Week in China which tons of Ah Tiongs will go overseas and no offence to them, they really lack manners and rushing around and making tons of noise.

The amount of couples that had their love locked at this place is seriously over 9000. It's so damm alot that you won't be able to count the amount of locks there. ITS CRAZY !

After that when we have walked around and feeling abit tired, there is this lighting ceremony as it's the Hangul Day of Korea and there are performance.

There is this performance of people playing instruments and dancing around which is very impressive as their dance is like making the feather or the string on their hat turn and spin in a very nice way which I find it's damm difficult to do coz they have to play the instruments, walking around the square and moving their head AT THE SAME TIME which is damm impressive !

After that there is this martial arts performance which is damm impressive also as there is alot of weapons like the sword, the blade, the spear, double hand sword and it shows them chopping off straws and bamboo nicely and in style. Lucky we decided to come to Seoul Tower on this day but the amount of Cheena tourists here is kinda turn off seriously.

After that we decided to walk down the mountain which is damm tiring ! I seriously wonder how people can climb up and down this mountain ! We took like 20 minutes to travel down the mountain !

We decided to look for dinner at Myeongdong as it's around 7+ when we have walked down back to Myeongdong and I decide to go to the restaurant recommended by my friend who went to it before me.

The restaurant is call Wangjibib and I have to say their beef and pork is damm good ! The service of the restaurant is very good also but the price is more to the high side.

Even for the price, I'm willing to pay again to have a meal here ! Remember its Wangjibib !

After that we went back to our apartment to get ready for the next 2 days,

BUSAN !

That will have to wait till the next post !

28-10-2014

It has been a busy weekend as I'm working at Gamestart Asia 2014 helping the guys out at the Gamescore booth and it was really busy !

Gamestart Asia 2014 is one of the first gaming convention in Singapore which I feel is made from something like the Tokyo Game Show. I was very impressed with the amount of people who came for this convention as it's not a free convention. The tickets cost $8.50 for a day and $15 for both days.

This is the team who is in charge of all the operations and make sure everything is working and going as planned for this world convention. WELL DONE GUYS ! ALL YOUR EFFORTS IS BEING WELL APPRECIATED !

There are companies like Sony, Bandai Namco and Blizzard that participated with this game convention which they showcased their upcoming games and demos which allowed people to visit their booths and have first hand try outs at the new upcoming games.

There are of course other events like Cosplay competition and video game competitions. And of course my favourite event is definitely the Capcom Pro Tour Asia tournament as some of the big name players come to Singapore like MCZ.Daigo Umehara, CCG.Humanbomb, Poongko and AVM.Gamerbee.

And of course being a fan of the game, I''ve took photos with Daigo Umehara and Humanbomb !

Look at how happy I am ! Daigo Umehara is like a legend of fighting games and is named as one of the fighting game gods in Japan.

Humanbomb aka Johnny Cheng is one of my favourite player as he has a very amazing Sakura and of course he is also a Yang player which I main in the game. Sooooo happy to be able to have a photo with him !

And of course working with the peeps is also so fun as we slack together, busy together, joke and chitchat together during anytime possible.

It may be busy but all these are actually times that you will remember as they provide so much fun and laughter !

Look at how busy all of us were during that two days. Working for more den 10hrs everyday is actually physically and mentally draining but of course like what I've said it's also full of fun.

Anyway in my view I find this Game Convention is truly a success and of course I hope that there will be a next time and surely the next time will be an even more successful one !

22-10-2014

Hi guys, it's been a loing time since I've updated by blog as I'm too lazy and I'm cropped up with a few things on hand.

I've just came back from a holiday ! Ok, it's not just came back. I'm back to Singapore since last wednesday. As you can see from the picture, I've went to Korea again ! This time round it's a longer trip compared to last year as this time round I went there for 7 days.

I'm not someone that likes to go overseas as I feel it's a hassle to go voerseas as there's alot of procedures at the airport and of course the amount to things you have to pack when you're going to a foreign country. Not to forget the language barrier we have to face when it's a country that doesn't speak the language we know.

This time round I'm went there with 2 friends followed by 5 more friends who will join us midway during my trip.

This time round I started the trip is a different group for the first 3 days. Yes, my hair does look very dry which I do not know why.

We decided to go Korea as SQ have this promotion that if you buy more den 2 tickets, each ticket will be around $650 which is quite a bargain as it's SQ, but the timing is kinda fuck as we only arrive at around 1030pm at night.

As it's my 2nd time to Korea so I do have minimal knowledge to things I need to do there when I've reached ( and yes, I do not have any minimal knowledge to their language. ).

For people who is going there for the first time, I will suggest you guys spend some money and rent the wifi dongle which is call the Olleh Egg.

This item is the thing to have when you're in korea. Its a wifi dongle. This dongle allows you to connect up to 4 wireless device at the same time which gives you internet speed which is as fast or maybe faster den the internet connection that you have at home in Singapore.

Why do I say that this thing is important ? It's because our lifestyle now we're too used to having internet on the go and this thing definitely fits the needs that we want. You will be able to use Google Maps, Google Translate and of course you will be able to keep in contact with your friends.

This thing cost you around 8000won per day and you'll have to place a deposit of 150k Won with your credit card. It may seem abit pricey as it's like sgd10 per day but trust me, this thing is seriously important and worth the money.

And this is the first meal I had in Korea, Incheon Airport.

As when we landed, after all the procedures and renting the Olleh Egg, there's no more airport buses for us to take to our apartment, so we decided to have a meal first since we're gonna take cab from the airport to our apartment.

This may not be the best meal I had in Korea but still it's of a respectable standard.

Spicy beef soup with rice to fill the hungry stomach after a 7hr flight from Singapore to Korea.

It's a 24hr eating place at the airport but the people working there needs abit of customer service as their face is so pissed off and showing attitude when I'm trying to order my meal. But its ok as in the end the food is being served.

And after the meal it's time to go to the resting place, Brownsweet Residence ! ( Yup, its this place again )

But that I'll have to leave it to another post next time as I'm tired already. LOL !

Cya guys soon for the next post !