Day 1
Arrived in Seoul last night - cold, cold, cold. -2deg to -6deg I think.
Dinner with Ingle, a Dutch girl that I coincidentally met at the bus stop whilst we were both feeling lost and finding the same hostel. Dinner was good - grilled korean bbq with lettuce and kimchi, and a sweet sukiyaki-like beef stew with tanghoon.
Korean Air stewardesses are pretty - very much the idea of the Korean beauty - and their uniforms are a very smart beige formal blazer skirt type. Nice.
Day 2
Ming arrives. Nandaemun window shopping (everything is really so cheap! and nice!) and tried alot of food. Fried chewy dough balls in sugar, roadside kimchi soup noodles, meat patty with tteok in the middle, then bimbimbap for lunch and got canned sikkhae and seujeounghwa from the supermarket to try as well. Interesting!
Will be watching Nanta - a nonverbal comic performance with kitchen tools - with Ming and Ingle soon! Then probably dinner/supper. I like Seoul =)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Spring spring -boing!-
Just a short post to say I'm doing okay - more than okay actually... I'm doing great for some reason! Every day has been a pretty good day so far with many great moments and surprisingly quite abit of interaction with Japanese, Koreans and Norwegians.
Last Friday went to the Studio Ghibli Museum with Seunghee and co, then got called in last minute for my first ever part-time-job.
Saturday was floorball training in the morning then cooked phad thai for a few friends that night.
Sunday was Chofu Recreational League in the evening and a quick curry dinner with Sissel - floorball goalkeeper from Norway who used to be on exchange here at Waseda just up till last August before I came!
Monday was Karaoke with Seunghee and Paddy members (as a sort of farewell since she was leaving on 10th), followed by floorball training which turned out to be one of the best I've had since starting last October. Timely too - the last training before our first Japan Cup match this Sunday 14th Feb. Came back that night and managed to book my ticket to Korea for the cheapest price and the perfect flight timings! How lucky am I really...
Tuesday was spent sleeping late and weather was so good at 20deg that I dragged Isabel out to go randomly walk around for 3-4 hours with me. Exploring is fun - just grab a friend, a random direction and a Mister Donut (popular donut chain here)!
Wednesday was spent meeting Donna (a Singaporean friend studying at Monash, who came here to travel with her cousins) and Donna's Japanese friends and my friends. The "party" grew to be pretty big towards the afternoon, with 2 Japanese, 3 Singaporeans and 1 Canadian. Went to Ueno for a stroll, then to a calligraphy exhibition and a small art exhibition, followed by a walk to Akihabara (electronics place), then went to see the Imperial Palace and even visited the "entrance examination" deity shrine en route. Finished up with warm cuppa cocoa at Starbucks at Tokyo Station. Really comfortable company for some reason. Rushed back to near the dorm to meet my Norwegian floorball friend Sissel. Took her to try the new Chanpon (a Nagasaki Chinese-origin dish reminiscent of Hokkien Mee!!) place near the dorm, then she took me to a bar where she used to frequent and we got a drink called Sugar and Spice. Pretty name and delicious drink. Dropped by Picasso for a while for her to reminisce about staying at Hoshien just last year.
Today was spent with 6 Japanese friends from Paddy (my english conversation circle at Waseda) and Isabel - and the 8 of us went to Yokohama to play the arcade (cuz it just HAD to rain ugh) then did 2 rides in the cold, feathery rain; took purikura (neoprint) and found out how well Sou knew how to use those machines; then went down to Chinatown - biggest one in Japan - for dinner to 'celebrate' an early CNY.
A spring break travel report: I'll be going to Korea next Tuesday 16th Feb till following Monday 22nd since one of my friends from hall was free to travel too!
At this rate, I just know I'm going to have to work hard and find a stable part-time-job (not like now) once school semester 2 starts again in April >.< May not actually be bad at all - just the searching part is so tiresome.
But till then life is great =) Good night world.
Last Friday went to the Studio Ghibli Museum with Seunghee and co, then got called in last minute for my first ever part-time-job.
Saturday was floorball training in the morning then cooked phad thai for a few friends that night.
Sunday was Chofu Recreational League in the evening and a quick curry dinner with Sissel - floorball goalkeeper from Norway who used to be on exchange here at Waseda just up till last August before I came!
Monday was Karaoke with Seunghee and Paddy members (as a sort of farewell since she was leaving on 10th), followed by floorball training which turned out to be one of the best I've had since starting last October. Timely too - the last training before our first Japan Cup match this Sunday 14th Feb. Came back that night and managed to book my ticket to Korea for the cheapest price and the perfect flight timings! How lucky am I really...
Tuesday was spent sleeping late and weather was so good at 20deg that I dragged Isabel out to go randomly walk around for 3-4 hours with me. Exploring is fun - just grab a friend, a random direction and a Mister Donut (popular donut chain here)!
Wednesday was spent meeting Donna (a Singaporean friend studying at Monash, who came here to travel with her cousins) and Donna's Japanese friends and my friends. The "party" grew to be pretty big towards the afternoon, with 2 Japanese, 3 Singaporeans and 1 Canadian. Went to Ueno for a stroll, then to a calligraphy exhibition and a small art exhibition, followed by a walk to Akihabara (electronics place), then went to see the Imperial Palace and even visited the "entrance examination" deity shrine en route. Finished up with warm cuppa cocoa at Starbucks at Tokyo Station. Really comfortable company for some reason. Rushed back to near the dorm to meet my Norwegian floorball friend Sissel. Took her to try the new Chanpon (a Nagasaki Chinese-origin dish reminiscent of Hokkien Mee!!) place near the dorm, then she took me to a bar where she used to frequent and we got a drink called Sugar and Spice. Pretty name and delicious drink. Dropped by Picasso for a while for her to reminisce about staying at Hoshien just last year.
Today was spent with 6 Japanese friends from Paddy (my english conversation circle at Waseda) and Isabel - and the 8 of us went to Yokohama to play the arcade (cuz it just HAD to rain ugh) then did 2 rides in the cold, feathery rain; took purikura (neoprint) and found out how well Sou knew how to use those machines; then went down to Chinatown - biggest one in Japan - for dinner to 'celebrate' an early CNY.
A spring break travel report: I'll be going to Korea next Tuesday 16th Feb till following Monday 22nd since one of my friends from hall was free to travel too!
At this rate, I just know I'm going to have to work hard and find a stable part-time-job (not like now) once school semester 2 starts again in April >.< May not actually be bad at all - just the searching part is so tiresome.
But till then life is great =) Good night world.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Spring break and... Snow!
Last final today! A 5-minute oral presentation of your answer to a question that everyone gets - Was/Has Japan (been) a victim? So nerve-wrecking to present in front of the class and with a time limit too. Need to work on my public-speaking huh. But oh well. Last exam = Spring break is here! Funny how the 3rd of Feb is supposed to mark the start of spring, yet February is supposedly the coldest coldest month. Speaking of which...
...雪が降ってるよ！= It's snowing!! In Tokyo! And not the half snow half rain type but actual snow that piles up white on sidewalks and falls magically like white fluff from the sky! Supposed to have 5cm by tomorrow but probably will all melt by morning. SO pretty! Didn't think I'd see any snow in Tokyo actually, since they predicted a warm winter this season. Yet it's been surprisingly warm at times too this winter. What a see-saw. Only thing about snow is the difficulty to walk on the pavements when everyone else has walked the same way and turned the white magical fluff into dirty, ice-water that is so slippery!
Pictures!
(On the way back: it's not rain; it's snow!)
(And nope, not flowers but snow!)
...雪が降ってるよ！= It's snowing!! In Tokyo! And not the half snow half rain type but actual snow that piles up white on sidewalks and falls magically like white fluff from the sky! Supposed to have 5cm by tomorrow but probably will all melt by morning. SO pretty! Didn't think I'd see any snow in Tokyo actually, since they predicted a warm winter this season. Yet it's been surprisingly warm at times too this winter. What a see-saw. Only thing about snow is the difficulty to walk on the pavements when everyone else has walked the same way and turned the white magical fluff into dirty, ice-water that is so slippery!
Pictures!
(On the way back: it's not rain; it's snow!)
(And nope, not flowers but snow!)
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