going home, au revior kimchiland

Time passes by so fast...

Before I knew it, 

Its already time to go home.

And It felt like as if it was yesterday when I first arrive.

It was the end of winter when I came

and the beginning of winter when I leave...

Remember the time how much i disliked this country,

probably because of the food when I was a kid.

And see now how much affection I have towards this country 

and I am starting to miss the taste of kalbitang. 

In Korea, 

I experienced the change of seasons

the beauty of this country

the kindness of the people

and the independence I have to hold onto

and perhaps....

a closer relationship to God.

Thank you very much people,

for treating my very well in Korea...

you know who you are and.....

I will miss you all so bad...

and probably very very bad 

winter is very cold in Korea.

But all your love and care warms me up inside.

thank you very much.

I love you all so...

au revior. 

I shall take all these memories and cherish it 

in my little box

hidden in my hearts core. 

♥♥♥♥♥

♣Hi Filipinos ~ Lets head to the mall maybe?♣

September 15,
cloudy

Other than transferring Schools, 

3 students from Philippines came to Korea in a student exchange program for 4 months, 

and they were assigned to live in the same dorm with me. 

Jin Sun was asked to leave the room to make room for the Filipino students, 

which leaves me and Ka bin left in the room to live with the rest of the other 3 Filipino students.

The Filipino students were respectively named Ivana, Tamara and Abigail (shall call her abby for now). 

They were all younger than me, around 14 and 15 years old –ish. 

Around the same age with Kristen and Lydia (my beloved sisters), 

and OH GOSH HOW THEY REMIND ME OF THEM SO MUCH 

THE WAY THEY SPEAK AND ACT!!!! 

Tamara and Ivana are like Lydia in halves and Abby totally reminds me of my moe anti-social sis Kristen which has the smile I totally adore in the whole wide world. 

The Filipino part reminds me of Marissa and Genma. 

Walao eh, I miss home just looking at them and relating them to the people I know.

♣♣♣♣♣

After a week, I discovered how much they enjoyed books and offered them a tour to Coex, just to go to the book store there. Oh Coex is such a sinful place in deed! 

Lots of evil temptations such as 3ds and pokemon Plushes and that bookstore!!! 

Oh gosh so sinful just staring at all the English pokemon mangas and Japanese mangas!!!! 

Everytime I go Coex, for sure will pokkai wan!!!

But this time I went with some English speaking pals that could really speak English with me without boundaries.

 Okay if it were Malaysian it will be even better because I can spam all the LAHHHHHHHHHHHH and YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and APAHALLLLLLLL hahhahah! 

But its really good enough lah.

We umm, rode the bus to seoul and the you know all those routines ok we can skip that.

In coex, we shop till we drop , ok maybe that’s just me because I had to scout for gifts all around for my besties and sisters and October was a month were everyone JUST HAVE TO BE BORNED DURING THAT TIME PERIOD DAMNNNNN.

 PIZZA FOR LUNCH 

(from left ： abby, tamara and ivana)

Its okay, I love my friends so there goes my pocket money you people better love me okay? //bricked.

And of course, I in the end managed to get a snivy from the professor the toy shop next to the aquarium. Yay! Now I has all 3 bw starters! 

Still find my Char Char the best though HAHAHHAHHA.  

And yes also the sinful dreadful coex bookstore where I bought my BW BABIES AND PDP MANGAS  (the super shota version of koki which ok I can tahan quite moe //shotacon).

found the original howls moving castle novel WHICH IS SO GOOD TOTALLY BETTER THAN THE MOVIE OMG SOHPIE U ARE JUST SO AWESOME TvT AND HOWL U HANSEM LITTLE BEAST.

I also managed to try the ice cream from cream stone creamery that I really wanted to try for some time AND O AM GEE IT WAS GOOD I AM COMING HERE AGAIN NEXT MONTH PLEASEEEEEEEEEE .*A*

Anyway we came to an agreement to go the Coex of doom each month, because of the short stay in Korea. Below Is the loots I got, I am just crazyyyyyyy.

all the shopping bagssssssssssss

DongDaemun is cosplayers heaven no objections!

25 August

Rainy/cloudy

Me and Hasen have been always wanting to go on an outing together

Because we both was so busy, we had to keep delaying it.

But today we finally decided to go to dongaemun and otaku heaven searching in korea!  ( ´∀`)

Okay, It was my idea to go to dongdaemun fabric market just because I wanted to find some cloth for my future plans. Lucky hasen was around to help me translate my korean with the seller. 

I LOVE THE FABRICS HERE SO MUCH!!! 

ITS LIKE THE IDEAL CLOTH I WANT AND THE COLOR IS LIKE 90 SIMILIAR TO THE ACTUAL DESIGN!!!!　

ｷﾀ━━━ヽ(∀ﾟ )人(ﾟ∀ﾟ)人( ﾟ∀)人(∀ﾟ )人(ﾟ∀ﾟ)人( ﾟ∀)ノ━━━ !!!

Its very very much a cosplayer heaven in korea! 

There is so many choices and shops and one could really get lost in a labyrinth of fabrics @w@ |||

different floors sell different stuff, you can get diy necklace goods on the highest floor and then zippers/ lace/ furr etc. on the lowest. 

They are so friggin blessed ! So many cloth can do so many nice characters and props!!!  

but because there is soooo many choices, one would get confused on what they really want (´ﾍ｀；)

Anyway buying some fabric in dongdaemun fabric market! 

After that, We had lunch at lotteria together oh yeahhh

 hasen nim (she can really eat ! )　( ; ﾟДﾟ)

After lunch, we hurried back to dongdaemun because i realized I forgotten to get touyas bag cloth as well as kyouheis bag cloth so that i can modify. 

Sadly, most of the fabric shops close by 3pm =(

So we gave up, 

but she brought me to this famous wig shop in korea (which is also located in dongdaemun) , 

the name is Twins

where most cosplayers in Korea get their wigs from !

EVEN EKI HOLIC GETS HER WIG HERE!!!!

The quality is categorized into two different types which is normal and high quality

high quality wigs feels smoother and the price ranges from 30,000 won onwards. 

When you buy the wig, they come with a free trimming and styling service =D

what more is the ajuma and ajushi is very friendly!!!

they treat me to free apple juice Q//w//Q

One thing good about wig shops than internet is that you can compare color in reality =D 

you will not have to worry about the oclor differences of the actual item and the one on the net !

They also accept premade wigs as well. 

Address :

서울시 중구 신당동 773번지 맥스타일 지하2층 21호,22호

official website (in korean only)

 look at all those coscards and pctures given to the ajuma and ajushi XD

 the shop name

look its kagami's wig!

 hahahha COUPLE

 LOOK ITS EKI HOLIC'S COSCARD!!

 free aple juice <3

after that we took the subway all the way to hongik uni station. 

We went to the manga /manhwa shop located at a basement (which is not very far away from the station)

my bad for not taking down the address and taking photos, will update this blog post in the future. 

Most of the mangas here and manhwas here is obviously in korean.

They sell webtoons here published in books and very little doujinshis and official japanese/american art books around. 

Manhwas in korea are authentic....TAKE A LOOK AT THIS BL |D

(cough i kind of snap this secretly cough)

R18!!! COME SEME H UKE IN HANBOK 

(ok I admit i did not buy the book because....just too lol to process at that moment (；・∀・)) 

 streets in hongik 

 TONYYYY

 after that we went for some milk tea, 

HEY I DID NOT KNOW GONG CHA OPENED IN KOREA !!!!

I WAS SUPPRISED! 

okay the taste was pretty fine, i still prefer chatime in msia orz

okiadmitiamachatimefanorz

 we got ourselves milk tea hehehhehhhh

hasenim! 

 after our milk tea, we decided to part and go home heheheh, it was a fun and tiring day indeed. 

she treated me donuts! she is as sweet as usual 

anyway hauls today!!!!

i got myself two authentic manhwas that were published in korea and in korean so that i can improve my korean as i read hopefully sobs. 

i love fabrics <3

  GUESS WHATS MY NEXT PLAN (ok very obvious lol)

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━( ﾟ∀)━( 　ﾟ)━(　　)━(　　)━(ﾟ 　)━(∀ﾟ )━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

comic world 110 seoul day 1 report and doujin hauls

Saturday,

Cloudy and fucking hot

 (OH NOES IT MIGHT RAIN but whatever i was inside the hall PFFT)

July 27

★★★★★★★★★

This time I did not go to seoul alone but my host family instead brought me there.

Because I told them that i wanted to go cw on saturday so that they can cancel whatever plans they have with me hahahha orz

But yeah after some awkward persuading they finally let me off on my own |D;; I seriously cannot imagine myself going to an event with someone that has no interest with the thing i have lol!

Summer is really hot, I actually considered coslaying Jafar for comic world again but I decided not to because I was lazy to put on makeup and carry my stuff there. 

Summer in korea somewhat makes me want to roll on bed more and refuse to get up lol!

 cw this time was held in setec! 

ti oh oh beloho! GOING TO RAIN LIAOOO

hurray for refills on the vending machines =D

During this comic world, because of the release of bw 2 a month ago, the ticket had BW2's kyouhei and mei chan on top!!! I WAS HIGH OVER A FRIGGIN TICKET LOL . 

 entrence into the center

The halls were friggin crowded as usual and the venue was actually smaller than the one in yang jae sobs. 

There were 3 halls. 2 halls for doujinshis and 1 hall for cosplayers. 

The doujin halls were really really hot. 

The only place that I can seriously feel the air conditioning is the cosplayers hall orz. 

 doujin hall 3

cosplayers hall were the comps are held, and where the cosplayers change and register.

HAHHAHAHAHA so yeah I went to stock up all the doujinshis in all the halls one by one >D

As usual there was alot of inazuma 11 doujinshis and recently fate/zero and kuroko no basuke ones around!!!! 

Okay, lucky I not big fan of knb or else pokkai like shit hahaha. 

There was pokemon ones around too!

 demo ne! I only managed to get 1 ISSHUSHIPPY DOUJINSHI!!! 

NOOOOO MY N TOUYA!!!!!!! 

sobs i le no satisfied. 

Due to the release of bw 2 which happened a month ago, suddenly all the bw cosplayers popped up! 

HEY MAN IDM STALKING ALL THE TOUYAS /me hentai oneechan 

whenever i see a touya pass by I give them intense stares that I think they are scared of me oops 

there were around 3 touyas around, this is one of the best ones.

 she really gives me the touya feel （*´▽｀*）

so cute and quiet that i want to push her

 touko and N! TOUKO SO TALL AND N IS A MALE /legasp! 

 magi cosplayers hahahhaha not much in the event this time, sadly. =(

 i think she is cosplaying a nico nico douga singer but.....she reminds me of molly lol

And well, similiar to yangjae, setec also has a place outside the convention center that the cosplayers can linger to.

 look!!!! that sea of cosplayers!

 nyek nyek nyek ! And i found pisti! (well not pisti anymore since she is cosplaying fate/zero)

We kind of hanged out for....a short while and yeah we had some camwhores together!

So this time I went back early and had some early din dins with my host family.

Overall cw this time was okay,

 but it was so hot and somewhat i end up loosing my lens cover in the event =(

ALL MY HAULSSSSSSSSSSSSS 

I RABU RABU MY POKEMON CUP!!!!

★Tomato festival and lotte world experience★

HEYYYY SUMMERRRRRRRRRRRR

Oh hey there readers! 

Sorry for not updating my blog in a few months o-am-gee!!!

Well, first off, I will combine my experince in tomato festival and lotte world together and keep it sweet and short.  

Tomato festival :

It first started out as a conversation between a foreign English teacher and me regarding things to do in Korea. As we talk, she mentioned about a tomato festival in Korea, and it kinda caught my curiosity.

And hey! since I usually have nothing to do in the weekends...visiting won't hurt would it ? 

besides, I can eat all the korean traditional road snacks there ! <--main point (?)

At first, I agreed to go with my teacher since i thought my host parents would be leaving me at the dorm for the weekend.

But then my host parents decided to bring me there so I followed my host family instead.

Its overall interesting but very hot (summer what else can one expect?). 

Everything in tomato festival is obviously revolves around tomatoes.<<mainly

There are games like break the ice to get the tomato out and tomato pool and diy some bibimbap sauce etc. 

but yeah since its a small village festival, there are korean snacks everywhere to eat! 

The tomato pool takes a long wait hahahha and besides...its mainly kids in the pool |D but sureeeeeeeeee its a nice to place to cool down. 

more info: http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=1307084

The tomato festival took place at Gwang Ju Teochon : 

 grand entrence ?

 village festivals are so lively FOOOD 

 bbq in korea how authentic can it get hahah

 me and oma XD

tomato pool hahha

 ajushi pour boxes of tomatoes into the pool while kids step over it and...have fun |D

 summerrrrrrrrrrrr

 festivals with kids alright

Lotte World

I went to lotte world once, that 10 years ago when i was still 8 with my grandparents. 

And 10 years later, little did I know I will be stepping on kimchi land again, and the the same park again. 

All, I can say its a dramatically change within these 10 years.

I went to lotte world right after my exams, which was a week away from comic world with my host family.

And yeah , they have both an indoor park and an outdoor park. 

Well, since its ....so hot, my host familly decided to only buy the indoor park ticket.

There was lots of people in the theme park (well its a sunday after all) 

We only got to ride a few rides. 

One of the rides was pretty absurd.. 

You need to wait for 2 and a half hour >_> 

what the....heck, AND IT WAS NOT EVEN HALF FUN.

but well yeah the sinbad ride, I remember riding it 10 years ago LOL.

Riding it again with my family....yay arabian /me bricked

feels nostalgic that it made me home sick oTL

I feel feeling abit tired that day so I kind of just silently enjoyed it by sitting on a bench pedo-ing at lolis and shotas  watching my "dong saeng" having fun on the rides hahahha. 

 lotte world on top 

 lotteria for lunch!!! BULGOGI BURGER TIEMS 

 two things i love in lotteria, 1st is the small bulgogi burger, 2nd is vanilla milk shake

 le ticket....HEY OMA WHY AM I A JUNIOR!!!!

knvmcheapticketmeh

 and another reason why i remember lotte world quite well, 

its because of the kdrama stairways to heaven (i actually only recognized the triceratops part LOL)

 summer samba snow