★Chuseok, omg why the heck holidays pass so fast and so soon?★

Whats Chuseok( 추석)?

Well the Koreans called it thanks giving day 

and apparently is one of the biggest important traditional Korean holidays ever held. 

Most Koreans would go back to their hometown and visit their relatives and gather all together for a meal.

***the hanja (chinese character) for chuseok is 秋夕

also see wikipedia

During Chuseok there is many types of traditional delicacies such as songpyeon (송편), a type of Korean rice cake (also known as tteok in korea ) that has fillings inside.

Songpyeon reminds me of tangyuen and mocchi somehow but taste far harder (and a lil' saltier?) than it orz.

The dorm is closed during chuseok , 

so I had to move back to my host families house for 6 days and 5 nights. 

My chuseok holiday was pretty interesting, we didn’t go all the way to taebek to visit Aboji’s family, but instead we stayed put in Gwang Ju and just cooked all the Chuseok Korean Food. 

OAMGEEE KOREAN CHUSEOK FOOD TASTE SO GOOOOOD 

ok I hate Korean food but ....

HNGHHHH CHUSEOK FEWD 

AWMAHGAHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!! 

They had this satay (?) thingy that has meat, and mushroom and cucumber and it 

LOOKS SO COLORFUL 

then they dip it in the egg batter and then cook it over the grill (?)

 AND OMAGAHHHHH SOOOOO GOOOOOD SCREW THE CALLORIESSSS OMAGAHHHHHHHHHH . 

ok I am totally overreacting lmao. 

★★★★★

I met up with Hasen eonni on Monday to celebrate her birthday (?), 

and went back to that manga shop were they sell the Korean gay pron. 

see this post for flashback on the gay porn

HAHHAHAHHA and I bought two reference book in kimchi language, on prospective and posing 

  I will buy that kino no tabi artbook next time I SWEARS. 

As usual Hasen is so nice to me, she knows my Korean is worse than my grandmothers English not very good so she talked to me in English. TwT

I totally want to meet up with you in comic world next!!!! 

I WANT TO TALK TO YOU MORE BUT WHY MY BRAIN FAILS TO REVERT TO KIMCHI LANGUAGE WHEN I HAVE TO!!!! 

I had a great time with her even though it was a 5 hour meet up.

 the manga shop

hasen eoni opening her bday pressie >w<

 omiyao udon is the best!!! can request from small size to medium to LARGE for the same price !!!（8000won)

 ebi bentou!

tried a frozen yogurt and lovin it 

★★★★★

On Tuesday, my host family brought me to another sinful place, 

CALLED DONGADAEMUN!!! 

Aka the heaven for all kimchiland cosplayers.

 I felt so bad because I bought so much things in Dongdaemun and my host parents payed it for me because I forgotten to take the money out of the atm earlier on.

 After that she said :

" CHUSEOK SEONG MUL (chuseok present) "

 and I was like 

NOOOOOO OMG I WASTED SO MUCH MONEY !!!! 

ITS LIKE I BOUGHT A PAIR OF NICE BOOTS AND SUNCAP AND A SHIRT AND SHE EVEN BELANJA ME CREPE BECAUSE I WAS SOO HUNGRY AND I WAS CRAVING FOR SWEETS WHY U SO SWEET MAMI TvT </3.

yay! nadeko boots and you know whoo's hat LOL

 Sadly le fabric market wasn’t open because I really had to buy cloth to sew for my cw plans.

 At night, we went to this Korean old band concert called Delgukhwa (들국화). 

Apparently they are also known as the Korean Beatles back in the old generations.

here some information to feed the curious little YOU

I had to admit that their songs are pretty good, especially ‘Jeju island blue night’, 

which was written by Choi SungWon whom is one of the members in Delgukhwa. 

This song is really chill and the melody is really relaxing and beautiful.

Till today that song still remains as one of the famous classic Korean rock songs and could sometimes heard covered by many k-pop singers and used in drama shows.

 dongseng, oma, me and aba! 

Sadly no photos, during the concert 

so I only took photos outside the location where to concert were held at.

The rest of my holidays when we did not go out was spend at home where I had time to draw and sleep HAHAHHAHA like a very lifeless otaku as usual. 

But overall  my holidays were awesome!! 

★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

♥ Another weekend in Seoul (co-ex, deongdaemun and grand children park) ♥

16 June 2012. 

My host families went to Malaysia to visit their dear daughters during their holiday together,

so I was placed into another graduated student's house for a home stay. 

Her name is Seo Won Yeong and apparently she is studying in Malaysia and she is on a holiday :D

We stayed in Seoul, at her Aunts house which is located in yang jae for the weekend.

On Saturday Morning we went out together to grab some breakfast! 

Some so called famous and fancy cafe in korea and apparently their breakfast was pretty good. 

or maybe its just me being deprived from eating all the good food ever since I came to korea 

Did not mean to forget the name of the cafe ._.

 me and Won Yeong

 me and Won Yeong's Aunt

Won Yeong and her aunt!

Bagel!!! I admit I Bagel deprived. 

Their Bagel taste really good,

 I mean for me yes since I am deprived from eating other types of food lol.

So like after Breakfast, me and Won Yeong left her aunt and we headed to Coex. 

Coex

Coex is sure a big mall and there is many foodie places to go to. Its definitely one of a shopping place to head to in Seoul.

 A picture of Coex after getting out of the subway station.

 hey look its a familiar face :P 

When we reached Coex, Won Yeong wanted to bring me to the Aquarium in Coex, But on our way there we keep getting strayed away and attracted to different shops. So I got attracted to this plush shop which was right next to the nintendo shop (okay i admit i was actually more attracted to the nintendo shop HAHAHAHHA)

MAN I LOVE THIS T-REX!!!

 T-REX HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY MOST FAVORITE DINOSAUR WHEN I WAS A CHILD ;W; ITS SO POWERFUL AND BIG!!!!

And apparently I have the hobby of collecting T-Rex related plushes and figures XD. 

This baby was not cheap ;w; besides he would take up my whole closet in my dorm so I had to drop him down.

 I was pretty sad since he was the last one left. HE IS SO LONELY!!!!!

The nintendo shop obviously sold alot of korean translated games to cater the market. There were several side merches though, I admit I was tempted to get the pokemon related side merches but then I thought it was pretty useless so I dropped it. The other reason I went into the shop is so that i can check the nintendo 3ds price. It was around rm 600++ almost same marketing price with Malaysia so I had to reconsider. 

 So we arrived at the Coex Aquarium.

The Coex Aquarium was pretty old, it existed for maybe more than 10 years already.

All Aquariums are the same to me, whenever I see fish...I really want to eat fish lol.

In Coex what kept it interesting was the creativity of the different tanks. It was more of an art museum just that there is fish inside the masterpiece.

 interesting to see fihses swimming in a vending machine.....SHIZU CHAN DROP THAT NOW U WILL KILL THE FISHES

this was another interesting concept.

hahhahhhaa one of my favs there!
fishes in the fridge =D
so fresh!!! XD

me at the aquarium

*drools*

So at the very end of the aquarium, we saw this love testing machine of sorts...
And I don't now why but to only think of gakuen version of N and touya!
OMG SO MOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 Okay I admit my imagination too win. My N/touya poison very deep oTL

Think about it, N and Touya going to the aquarium for a research project.
While N was ranting how sad these so called water pokemon is confined, Touya just looked over at this machine curiously. and the story continues down 8D

 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MOE!!!!!

okay sorry I pokemon BW deprived.

Anyway after the aquarium tour we went for lunch, it was a norm to eat fish after a tour at the aquarium but I was craving for some tonkatsu instead so we ate at the opposite of the aquarium.

 yums! but abit too big for a girl like me to finish. I was not hungry (?)


After that we stopped by Dong Dae Mun fabric market just to check it out.
The fabric market was really big!!!! OMGOSH LOOK AT ALL THE LACES AT THE DOOR!!!
This is one small shop of all of them only!!! So many varieties!!!
 Because there was so many varieties, I actually did not know what to buy T_T

But yeah I got myself a zip for touya's jacket. 

I might come back for more after the exam period.  

Grand Childrens Park 

 We had time so we decided to head to the grand childrens park after Dong Dae Mun.
The grand childrens park ferris wheel has been often seen in Cosplayers shoot so I was wondering how did it looked like.
I was really curious. Besides Malaysia did not have a very pretty ferris wheel so I decided maybe to have at least one photoshoot in Korea before heading back to Malaysia =)
The grand childrens park was big and it was quite a long walk just to get to the theme park section from the entrance. 

 the actual ferris wheel,
ok the couples....i did not know that they were there LOL

the ferris wheel from a distance. 

Personal response after seeing the actual thing was..

It was not as grand as I thought it would be lol. 

ALLTHEPHOTOSINCOSPLAYSHOOTSWERELIESHAHAHHAA

But maybe its alright to take photos but need play around with angles

I heard that there was a prettier one in Everland. Maybe I should check that out then only decide . 

 Outside the grandchildren park there was pet vendors.
They sold rabbits, hamsters AD DUCKLINGS AS PETS!!!!
THE DUCKLING ONLY COST RM 15 EACH TO BRING HOME ;/////;
So friggin cute!!! *duck lover*

 guess what this is a plastic surgery advertisement in the Korean subway station.
Pretty interesting and creative XD

 we ended the day by going back to coex (on the way back) to grab dinner.

Below is my Hauls of the day ♥♥♥♥

 GUESS WHAT I FOUND!!! POKEMON BW MANGAS IN ENGLISH SOLD AT THE BOOKSTORE♥♥♥♥♥♥

Actually I have been reading BW special manga online for some time already, the stories were pretty incomplete online and I was really confused.
After buying the books, it pretty much tells me everything and what actually happened.

And yeah Special Black (aka. speacial touya) 's personality is abit ....shounen but he is pretty cute later on! I kind of support him and white later on in the manga, white tends to be better and nicer after she got rejected pushed by N.
AND I ONLY SUPPORT THEM ONLY IN THE SPECIAL MANGA!!!!
BUT INCEST IS STILL EWW TO ME !!!!

 N ah....He is such a lovable asshole in the comic, and very ooc comparing from the N in the game.  |D
I still prefer touya as a gentle and kind kid while N as the supposedly ouji and gentle and abit kichiku seme HAHAHAHA.

yay ♥♥♥♥ n/touya fangirl day completed with imaginations, ferris wheels and MANGA!!!