NYPsit Hallym 2016!: Train to Busan (Week 5)

Warning, long post ahead.

Hello hello hello everyone!

As you (might or might not have) know, we have Friday off.
Again, We had the weekend WITH Monday off and again, we didn't want to spend all of it up in the mountains.

We went to Busan!

Ocean!

Yes, we survived the train to Busan.

We were there from 30th September to 3rd October (4 days).

Why Busan?
We just wanted to try, you know, the zombies.

Just kidding. No, really, we were expecting zombies.

Anyway, when we touched down, we lugged our bags around the Jalgachi fish market.

We have no idea what some of the seafood that are on sale is. We just know that they have a lot of seafood in Busan.

lot is probably an understatement. The market was just right in front (or behind) a huge sea, which they probably caught their seafood from.
It's definitely the freshest seafood you'll ever get.

They display their fresh fishes on flat baskets, lined out in a heap, selling per bunch. Their octopuses are sold upside down, with their tentacles opened. It was weird but really pretty.

When we walked further down, we came across the dry section of the market where they sold vegetables and fruits. Like Melons, persimmon, broccoli, pumpkin and more.

There was also this other side where they sold dried fish and spicy sauce. Their dried fishes ranges from size. Unlike Singapore's, their silver fishes are medium sized (and super delicious) and can be as small as the ones we fry and eat with our porridge. It was really interesting to see so many different size!

There were shops that sold the spicy Korean sauce, they were super red and when the Ajuma opened the pot, oh the smell of the spiciness!

After that, we went to Lotte Mall, which is only a road away from the fish market.

13 floors guys. 13.

What is Lotte Mall?

It's basically our Ngee Ann City, or rather, Takashimaya. If you havn't been to Takashimaya, then it's like the Isetan in Orchard. They sell food on the lowest floor, ranging from Chocolates to sweets to Noodles for lunch. In which, we ate noodles for lunch there aha.

The shops there weren't very different from the ones we have in the two malls mentioned above. But their cake shops, goodness me, we don't have these in Singapore! Their cakes are very beautifully decorated. We think they're local bakeries.

Also, in Lotte Mall, there's an aqua show where the water falls from the ceiling of the mall to the bottom, in sync with the music!

It was really magical and beautiful. We didn't know of the show until it started. Luckily, we managed to find a seat on the second floor, just outside the Line Shop.

Yeah, we kinda chanced upon the Aquatique show while shopping.

It was really nice and felt that it was a great family bonding time. Families brought their children to the mall to enjoy the shopping and stopped to watch the show with their children.
The children liked it too!
One little girl on the seat beside us was going ":( it ended" or something.

Here is a photo of us at Busan tower.
We're very ready to tackle all the towers in Korea.

The tower is less popular than Seoul tower, and much smaller in space. However, we felt it was enough to view all of Busan. We could see the two bridges, in which we visited one of them on the next day!

The night view from the tower was just too eye catching. The glowing lights from the shops reminded us of Singapore.

Rows and rows of street lights lit up the night scene like stars in the sky.

There after, we went back to the shopping district to look at their stores and then back to our Hotel for the day.

The next day, we went to the Aquarium.
We just wanted to be as tourist-y as we could. I mean, going to Busan from Seoul probably costs a kidney. The trip to Busan was expensive, but was totally worth it. We got to experience the beach and the feeling was just really different from what we had in Singapore.

Anyway, back to the Aquarium. Like Sentosa, it's situated just right in front of a beach.

Here are some of the animals we saw in the Aquarium. Axyotol, the image on the left, is called a Mexican Salamander. It's the closest little creature we have to a dragon. They're cute.

snuggle time!

The one on the right are Jackass penguins. It was really hard to take pictures of them as their "land" was really above our eye level. We had to join the little children in climbing on to the ledge to get a better view of them. Ha.

The sea turtles on the right were on quarantine and they. are. huge. They were brought back from the sea to be monitored so they can be re-released!

._. dont you just want to sambal this stingray?
Please Fedex sambal stingray over for us. With lots of love and appreciation.

After the aquarium trip, we went to the beach just outside.

Belle and her stingray.
She wanted sambal stingray so bad
she bought a stingray (lol)

Here's a picture of Belle and Shi Jia ontop of a sand heap and Liang Jing being the photographer.

The beach was really clean and litter free, or at least the area we were in was litter free.
The sand threatened to enter our shoes but we were alright with it. It was all about fun in Busan.

here's a Singray :D

After that, it was starting to get dark so we decided to head back to our hotel for the day.

We slept that night, thinking about sambal stingray and satay.

On the 3rd day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, K pop idols in Bexco expo hall.
Haha, yeah.

Okay, so Bexco is like our Expo Hall. They have different halls and different exhibitions available. When we went, it so happened to be showcasing K-Pop things. They had a walk in gallery of artist's pictures. Idol photo booth (no, there was no Kpop idols), 3D Super Junior concert.

It was funny because we were betting on whether we needed a ticket to enter the convention. SO, like the tourists we are, we *ahem* watched as other people entered the hall. When it felt like we didn't had to get any tickets, we walked right in

and got stopped by the door man. haha.
But just before we turned around and laughed at our silliness, a man handed us the supposed ticket(?) and asked us to enter the convention. It was a sample pack of face essence. Yeah, that was the ticket.
So we were like "Kamsahamnida" and entered the convention ahahaha, it was a great experience.

Say no more. We know you're excited. Let the pictures speak for themselves.

Bexco hall from across
the street

Vixx costume

B1A4 costume

T-ARA's costume

Psy guys. PSY. OPPA GANGNAM STYLE

Block B's costume

I.O.I(?)'s costume

GOT-7 costume

Super Junior in 3D guys, ohmygod. Can you believe it?
I hope this technology will be available to us soon!!!!

BTS photo

More BTS

IDOL'S SIGNATURE OHMYGOD

We probably entered this convention ahaha

You see those people queuing up on the last photo? They are probably waiting for SE7EN to arrive. When we left, they were entering row by row. They must be excited to meet their oppas.

After that, we went opposite to the mall to take a break from all the walking. We ate Dunkin Donuts. They had pac-man donuts on sale and their hot drinks come with pac-man caps.

Ahhh, cute.

We also visited another beach, on the other side of Busan. This time, we bought some firecrackers to put out! They were selling them at the near by convenience store and thought, it wouldn't hurt to buy some to pop.

We HAD to celebrate the end of Summer!
There after, Autumn will come and the wind will start to turn cold.
Summer 2016 will never come by again and this is the time I want to remember what we did together. The next summer wouldn't be the same as the one we had that day. ;__;