Saturday, July 12, 2008

Seoul trip 1: Day 2

yeah.. this is the so overdued post.
since today is sat.. and i am so lazy to do any work..
i decide i shld take the opportunity to blog.
hopefully i can cover finish seoul trip 1.
for the rest of the trips..
please bear with me.

yeap.. so at tt time.. morning is cold de.. hurhur..
so i wore my jacket arnd.
but it bacame a tad hot in the afternoon.
so on that fateful day.
i am ever so glad that my buddy from ICU contacted me via email.
and we meet him in nandaemun in the afternoon and he brought us arnd!

but in the morn..
we decide to visit the famous gyeongbokgong!!

at the station gg for the exit.
they say this door will make u live longer..
haha..
but it is a replica. :p





tadah! will i have longevity?

we were excited when we saw the parade. they are mimicking the changing guards ceremony. it is only at certain time of the day. We were that lucky!! woohoo..
admission was actually 3000won. but somehow.. out of confusion n fascination.. we got in.. erm.. FREE. Opps! :p





we are inside the place already. this is weird.. hurhur.. cos there's modern machine. But this are for the disabled to tour the place. So nice right?!

inside the place.. it is bustled with students and tourists!




jieyin with japanese students! very kawaii..



ooh the most beautiful place.. :)



we are tired and we decide to rest. and also plan how to go to other places. hurhur. this is a posed pic. jieyin instructed us to do that! ahahah

we saw kids picnic-ing near the palace. so CUTE! all kindergartens!


more kids. we sneak a pic. the second girl from the right even snare at us for taking her pic. darn cute! wanna beat her up but she amused us all.

and we noticed someone taking pics with the guards standing. WE saw this guard! he is so like JAY chou! hurhur.. and we decide to take a pic with him. i was again.. shy.. hurhur

when to nandaemum.. and met up with my buddy, yongmin! nice guy. just came back from the states! woohoo! and first stop was to have lunch. went to a high class mall's food court. Goddamnit! the food is ex.. but come on.. the quality and quantity justify it all!!

this is for 2. hurhur. i do not know why.. my pic is rotated the other way.. shrugs.

the market.. big!! hurhur.. got alot of stuff here! woohoo


it was a hot day.. and we didnt realli want to walk that far. so we ask yongmin to suggest to us the places to go. so we decide to hide indoor.. hurhur.. and ipark is the next destination as it will be near the han river that we are going after dinner!!

ipark is a large complex. there's even a building for electronics. but we followed yongmin to a nice place for icecream or pak bing su!! hoohoo.. 6000won i think! and this is THAT big.

my buddy n jieyin.. see how big is it..


the end product!!

we decide to walk arnd the mall till dinner.. but in the end we slack at the cinema. quite cool!


this is a plastic surgery stall or smth. from the adcertisement. they will do a virtual "photoshop" where u will get yr end product and sent it to the doc all smth. hurhur..

slack arnd.. and dinner here we are!! FABOULOUS bbq. its beef. and its wonderful. each of us paid 11ooowon. the food is worth the price. we were so full after that k.
we decide to go back there and eat again when we go back to seoul for the THIRD time. hahaha




and we are off to han river.. it is such a nice place. very quiet. clean and good!
ppl are doing excercise and everything.. so nice.. and they place even provides free mats for ppl to picnic there and enjoy the scenary..






the famous 63 building..



we saw this along the way back. the only housing tt look like hdb.


we wanted to go for another place.. but dearie nose bleed. scare me sia! but he is well and ok when we are back in the hostel.. hee!! all is fine.. :)
a great day!!! and thanks yongmin!

day 3 will be up reeeeaaaalll..soon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

the kids are cute!! feel like squeezing their cheeks!!