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Korea in August 2

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Jhui

on September 12, 2010 6:12 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Was at Apgujeong when we saw this! It was called 'Tent in the City' or something.

At Bongeunsa! Across the temple is the COEX hotel and shopping mall, so it was really weird(and ugly to me). It's like past meets present but in a weird way.

Pupae for dinner! OMG! Luckily it was just a side dish...

With Hyosun at Gwanghwamun!

Went to this place called Junko and they kept giving us free food. In fact, they gave us so much free food to the extent that we had to reject them...lol. Tried Kiwi soju for the first time and it was GREAT!

At Daegu!!!

At Kyungpook National University. Seriously, why are all Korean universities so pretty???

At Keimyung University.

Breakfast at Hwisang's house. Yes, this was breakfast!

:D

Korea in August 1

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Jhui

on September 11, 2010 2:06 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Went to Korea 2 weeks back!!!

I usually fly to Korea but this time round, I took a ferry there from Fukuoka! Clement came to see us off at 8am although his flight back home was at 10am! ^^

The ferry! It was smaller than expected and it shook a little. Easier to fall asleep though. Sucks if you get seasick though. :D

Reached Busan and went to Haeundae, this really famous beach in Busan!!! As it was summer, there were lots of people swimming there!! Great for guys who want to look at bikini babes...lol

Took the KTX for 3 hours to Seoul and met up with Lukas' friends for karaoke. The karaoke rooms in Korea are seriously really pretty but I still prefer Japanese karaoke.

Lukas and Jinsuk at Gyeongbok Palace!

wtf.

Neoprints outfit! I still prefer taking neoprints in Japan because you can send the soft copy to your cellphone.

wtf no. 2.

At Suwon! So glad that we decided to join a day tour because it involved a lot of walking even though we went on a tour.

Hwaseong Fortress!

Suwon was really pretty!!!

5000won to try out archery but I was too stingy to pay...lol

Went back to the hostel and saw Olle by chance! He was touring around Korea and we ended up staying at the same hostel!!! So coincidental!

"Holiday"

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Jhui

on July 14, 2010 10:43 AM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

No classes today because the rain's too strong. Never had this in Singapore lor!

Triple Birthday Party

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Jhui

on July 11, 2010 12:11 AM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Went over to the girls' dorm on Monday night to give my friend, Anastasia, a surprise birthday party~.

She was pleasantly surprised and we had a great time eating chocolate cake and chit-chatting. We actually talked too loudly and some Japanese girls came over to shush us :( Party pooper(just kidding...we were totally at fault though)...

Trying to be Sadako...wtf.

The following day, we had a all-you-can-drink session to celebrate three birthdays. Why so many people born in July one??!
Peony, Anastasia and me with Anastasia's present.

Note I found in class and I stuck it onto one of the guy's presents...Lol. It reads, "I'm sorry but you are not my friend."

Clement with his birthday present(a porn DVD) and birthday card(few pieces of paper taped together).

Anastasia with her Hitler book...Lol.

Bought 3 porn/hentai comics for Randall and his reaction was hilarious!

The other guys enjoying Randall's presents -_-.

Double Andrew. Double Monkey-faces.

Omar went around making people drink beer+whisky with a straw. Needless to say, many people got fucking drunk that night.

Attempting to kiss Peony...first sign of getting drunk.

I was lying on the floor for some reason(cant remember exactly why) and I started kicking one of my friends. He decided to retaliate by roping in help to lift me up...wtf.

They seriously picked me up and threw me out of the place...wtf. So evil lor! There was this other group of Japanese people who starting whipping out their cameras to take pictures. No one helped me can! Wait...then again...everyone else was probably too drunk to care. Had to crawl back into the place...wtf.

I have no idea how I walked out of the place and this is probably how I managed to do so. People had to drag me out...lol. My friends apparently determined that I wasnt in a state to ride my bicycle home so 4 of them decided to walk me home. One of them had to hold onto me the whole time because according to them, I "couldnt walk straight". These are actually the better pictures and there are tons of fugly pictures from that day on facebook...my reputation!!!

That saying, it was a really fun birthday party though :D

Yukata Matsuri 2010

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Jhui

on July 9, 2010 3:29 AM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

There was a Yukata Festival in school last Sunday. The festival started from 10am but it was too hot to go out and I had part-time job at 4pm so I only went there after my job ended at 6pm. Seriously, Yukata Festival is just like the School Festival except that people are clad in yukata(obviously) this time and the scale is much smaller. The programme schedule was pretty much the same so to tell the truth, it was pretty boring. Somemore so fucking hot lor!

I already have 2 yukatas back in Singapore so I didnt want to waste money buying another one. So yup, I was the only girl among my friends who wasnt wearing a yukata.

With Leeming from Malaysia. Together we form "SM"(Singapore, Malaysia)...wtf.

The yakitori queue was really long but I'm glad that we did queue up. It was fucking awesome!

Finally decided to try out wearing the fake eyelashes I got from the neoprint machine. First time putting on fake eyelashes and it was pretty alright. My eyes did get kinda tired at the end of the day though...but in exchange, I had crazy lashes for the whole day. :D

What's a festival without people dressed up in strange costumes??

Was originally sitting around doing nothing and waiting for the fireworks when my friend asked if I wanted to go karaoke. So from the picture, I obviously ditched fireworks and went for karaoke. There were only 3 of us but we got the freaking big party room!!! So cool~

Celebrated Omar's birthday at the lake after karaoke and he basically got caked in the face 15minutes after we got there. :D

I never fail to take ugly photos of myself...wtf

Kyushu Roadtrip Part 2

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Jhui

on June 22, 2010 11:33 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Went to Kumamoto Castle the following day~! One of the guy's shorts kept falling down, thus revealing his boxers. He got so irritated with us commenting on that so he pulled them all the way up and tucked in his shirt in the end. It was so hilarious that we made the other guys do it as well. :D

All of us in front of Kumamoto Castle.

The girls who went on the trip~

Stopped by a sushi place and we were so hungry that we just kept eating and eating once we sat down. The 4 of us gobbled down a grand total of 45 plates while there.

At Kura-zushi, you get a free lucky draw chance whenever you eat 5 plates of sushi. We had 9 chances but only managed to get 2 prizes :( That thing on the left is called "Buri-suri" btw. Pun on "Buru-suri"(Bruce Lee)...wtf

Pretty~

At Mt.Aso. The fog was pretty thick that day but luckily it wasnt as thick as the previous time when I went there so I got to see stuff~

English translation rocks XD

At the minshuku in Beppu! The room was really wide and pretty~!!

Onsen in the minshuku.

The owner of the minshuku was really nice to us! She prepared all this alcohol for us...free-of-charge!!! Awww~

Back in Fukuoka's Canal City~Trying on sunnies but not buying them!

Whale meat!!! I really wanted to try this but it's too expensive and I dont know how to prepare it so I didnt buy it.

Pumping petrol at the petrol kiosk. I am an expert at this now!!!

Kyushu Roadtrip Part 1

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Jhui

on June 21, 2010 4:56 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Went on a roadtrip to Kyushu last weekend~!
First stop was Fukuoka where we ate ramen at this place called Ichiran. They serve the best ramen I've ever tasted! I usually dont finish my ramen when I eat at other places but I always finish up the noodles and soup at Ichiran.(I sound like I've been there shitloads of times but I've only been there twice...too far away :()

Next stop was Nagasaki's Confucius Temple~

Trying on the costumes in the temple. We look like vampires from a Hong Kong movie...lol

Bought a 525yen huge-ass mooncake and shared it among my friends. I've no idea what they added into the mooncake but I've never tasted anything like it before. Not a compliment btw.

Sakamoto Ryoma cutouts/souveniers/places of attractions are EVEYWHERE because of the NHK drama...seriously, too much is too much!!!

Behind the fountain located in the Peace Memorial Park.

I suggested doing this pose and made everyone stand there for like 5 mintues or so to get the best pose. The people around us were seriously laughing at us, especially since when we have non-Asian-looking people in our group. This ojisan actually took photos of them as well! Lol.

At the cabin! The cabin was small but really cosy~Although my foot was injured, I still demanded that I get to sleep on the top bunk. Kinda re- injured myself while climbing up and down.

After entering the onsen at the cabin/hotel. The onsen was really cool! They had a onsen shaped like a boat and another shaped like some European-eque pavillion. Sucked that it was raining though...

What's the best beverage after coming out of an onsen besides milk? BEER!!! Got so sleepy after the onsen that I fell asleep in the middle of the drinking/football session.

Bye Bye Steve :(

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Jhui

on June 15, 2010 12:00 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Had a farewell party last Thursday for one of the exchange students because he's going back soon.
A horse from Nevada showed up...lol. He actually put a headlight on his head over that mask and it was so hilarious when he came. Lol.

With Steve, the guy who's returning home.

The guy in the shirt showed up really drunk and started hugging Steve. Lol, who shows up at a party DRUNK??!

Brought soju to the party!.

My new "family"! wtf...

I also drank a tad too much during the party. Okay, I didnt actually drink too much but I probably drank too fast so I was really high for like 90% of the night.

I started stealing people's shirts/glasses...

...and squeezing people's faces.

Sorry!!! I dont actually remember doing this!

Kung-fu showdown.

Aftermath of drinking too much alcohol. I ran out of the room after this and my friends starting chasing after me. While running, I accidentally tripped and fell and grazed my toes and knee...ouch. Have no idea why but I always manage to trip while wearing slippers but I've never ever fallen down while wearing heels...-_-.
I was so drunk(according to my friends) that when I fell, I didnt even use my hands to break my fall. Luckily I was hugging onto my friend's stuffed toy and it sorta broke my fall. Phew!!!

Lesson of the day: Never drink too much again.

Trip to Mitarai

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Jhui

on June 9, 2010 11:11 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Went to Mitarai on Sunday for a day trip!

Drove all the way up a mountain to have a little picnic while looking at the beautiful scenery~
Singaporean+Malaysian...lol

Peony, Sun Yi, Anastasia, Yee Sin, Tsugiharu-san

Breathtaking scenery!

What's a picnic without random worms?? Lol.

The Japanese characters for Mitarai is the same as the characters for "Otearai", which is the Japanese word for toilet...wtf. It must suck to have the surname "Mitarai" because I'm sure people will mis-pronounce it...sometimes on purpose.

At Otome-za. Pretending that I'm a spectator.

Trying to do my best impression of that thing next to me.

Running away from school.

It was really hot that day so we all had matcha ice-cream.

After ice-cream, we went to this place to help harvest lemons~.

I actually did manual labour!!! There were lots of mosquitoes and freaking hot but it was really fun!!!

Harvested 3 crates of lemons~. Initially we harvested only 1 crate and the guy was like "Okay, let's head back" and we were like "Already???!"...So they let us harvest more in the end.

Kanten jelly as dessert number 2.

Group photo.

Got to take oranges and lemons back! The oranges were humongous! Had to ask 2 other people to help me eat them...lol.

Stopped by the beach on the way home and took random pictures there.

Found a dead starfish. Peony's expression rocks~

Kanjani 8 was here??! WHAT!!!!

Toukasan 2010

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Jhui

on June 8, 2010 2:14 AM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Went for Toukasan last Saturday. Toukasan is this yukata festival that's held in Hiroshima City every June. I actually went for Toukasan once 3 years back when I was here on internship.
There were lots of girls in yukatas but not guys...WHY???! Where's my eye candy?!

Sleeping on the job.

At Enryuji! There was a freaking queue to enter the temple and seriously you cant really do anything in there unless you're willing to spend money(1000yen for an uchiwa) or willing to go into the huge sea of people.

Mango-ame, or candy-coated mango. Wanted to get candy-coated apples but it was like 300yen for a freaking small apple and it's difficult to share an apple between two people so we got the mango one instead. Still expensive but at least we could each get a piece.

Went to this really cool restaurant for dinner! I couldnt figure out how to use the tap in the bathroom and had to ask for help...wtf.

Motsu-nabe! Motsu-nabe is like pig/cow intestines nabe. I've never liked eating intestines before coming to Japan but now I love it so much~! So oily but delicious~Finished everything...including the soup!

The parade started while we were eating and it was people mountain people sea!!!

Really wanted to drink something after dinner so we got beer(The most popular drink in Japan no matter when...lol)! Were too cheapo to get the overpriced beer at the stalls so we decided to queue up at Family Mart.
Drank while waiting for Caity to come and we basically made lots of noise outside Parco. Luckily it was Toukasan so everyone else was noisy too :D

In the queue for purikura! Had to queue for around half-an-hour for purikura...wtf.

Bon-odori!

Asked my friend to buy me something from the yatai and he said yes provided that I was willing to take photos. I was like "Huh?" at first and finally realised what he meant when I saw the strawberry-chocolate banana. All these for a 200yen overpriced banana.