Snow! (Week 13)

Hello hello, it snowed on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!

We ate BBQ with Eileen and Estee again on that day.

That was when we saw snow for the first time in 19 years!
It's super cold but we picked up snow from the bench (in the picture above) and made them into snowball and threw it at each other's shoes hahaha!
The snow kind of felt annoying after while when it started to get heavier.

It's very much like raining, just that you don't get drenched in the water. 

It's week thirteen already. Time flew by so quickly, we were all being caught up in everything that we were doing. We're constantly busy with school work but the days we spent outside of school made us stop to appreciate the fact that we are in Korea, living and breathing in the culture. All the times that had passed were surreal and it was tears and joy everyday. We were sometimes frustrated at our school work but it disperse whenever we take the time to walk to Myeong Dong, or just around the school. There was always time for a breather, something to bring us back to appreciate the culture around us.

Ordering food was never easy. When we learn how to read the words, we were able to pronounce them and tried to order the food in Korean. We appreciate all the staffs and Ajumas for laughing at us, repeating our order again just so we could repeat what they said and learn the correct pronunciation.
We appreciate our teachers for understanding us when we tried to warm up to the school system at the start of the semester. It was not easy, but we managed to adapt to the system as quickly as we adapted to the environment.

Talking was not easy but we gradually learnt how to ask for things, or understood when they told us how much our meals costed. We are grateful to the people who had taught us all we needed to know when we were in Korea. 

Keeping the rest of the sentimental values to week 16, here is some cute cheese that Liang Jing bought in the convenient store.

TSUM TSUM CHEESE W FREE STICKER!!

Belle getting obviously ignored by the cat HAHAHA

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Peanut!

Greedy pigs eating snack from Liang Jing's hand

Premium Strawberry Bingsu

It's 12,000Won (SGD$14.60) ONLY!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHH

Here's a video of 5 of us eating Buffet

Belle: "每个礼拜吃Buffet"

See that? 

BBQ kimchi! Trust us! It's delicious!

Chill! (Week 11)

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Good day mate. 

We had fun on Friday where we went out with the same Korean boy that went to Nami Island with us!

We had the same BBQ as that day we went to the Big Bang exhibition. We didn't know we had the same buffet restaurant in ChunCheon MyeongDong! 

We kept our stomachs empty till lunch, where we just go full throttle! 

The sizzle of the meat on the hot plates were very nice to hear. 

Surprising enough, BBQ Kimchi tastes good. You might not believe us but trust us, it tastes heavenly. The meat were fresh in the freezer and were constantly being topped up by the staff. 

The meal only costs 11,900won per person! It's free flow with no time limit at all! How cool is that!!!!!

In the picture, we were cooking bacon and 삼겹살, which is pork belly in Korean. 

All these Korean pork is just SUPER DELICIOUS LA!

We then went to take pictures to keep as memories. With out stinking clothes, the 6 of us went to the arcade and squeezed into a small purika machine to snap photos. Luckily the scent can't be captured in the images. We would be hungry every time we look at the pictures. Then, we didn't know what to do for the rest of the day, so we decided to watch a movie. We won't tell you what we watched, not until you scroll down. Exciting. Try guessing. 

While waiting for time to pass, we went to grab some traditional Bingsu. 

This is 인절미 Bingsu.

인절미, injeolmi, means glutinous rice cakes coated with roasted soybean powder. IT IS SUPER DELICIOUS?????

This bowl of Bingsu only costs us about 12,000Won ($SGD 14.60). I can hear all the Bingsu fans in Singapore crying ahaha

We watched Ouija!!!! 

Did you guess it correctly? 

One thing that is different from our local movie theater is that their cinemas are smaller. BUT. They have bag hooks at the back of their chairs. We didn't had to put our bags on the floor! The leg space is also very wide. Chairs are large. 

In short, small but spacious. 

That week, we also went to a Cat Cafe to de-stress. 

Look at all these flurries ohmygod 

Say no more. 

not all cats are glam

Stu-Dying (Week 7)

Hello Hello everyone.
Week 7 is a busy week for us because we have mid-terms next week.
We received 2 of our tests and are preparing for them.

We were also informed by our friends that school starts next week. We hope everyone is(n't) looking forward to class. Ahaha.
Let's all do our best together!

Anyway, we met up with LiLing! She came to Korea for a trip and had free time that Saturday so we planned and met up with her!
It was just so crazy. We met LiLing at her hotel before walking all the way to MyeongDong(MD) to meet up with Alex and Debbie.

It is nice to be able to spend time with friends afterall.
Staying 24/7 up in the mountains is just.... hahaha

Here are some of the things we saw along the way to Li Ling's hotel........

Why is there an IV drip on the... tree? 

Send me sambal stingray. Over.

After meeting up, we walked to MD. We walked pass quite a number of cool(?) looking locations. They were quite amusing.

Ladder in the middle of...??

Animals in the middle of...??????

Peeking boy!

There was this shop across of Uniqlo in MD that was still building when we last visited in week 3. It was finally opened and we decided to visit it!

BB Lip Balm

Another Line store! 

We finally got the chance to try the famous Cheesy ribs! The one where you have to dip and turnturnturn the cheese around. Oh, the word is "wrap".
It was super delicious and we could even choose the level of spicyness! Of course, we went for the lowest number (ahahahaha, never again.)

Duffy and Shelly May!!!

We met up with Debbie in the restaurant for lunchie!

 We then walked around MD and did some shopping before meeting up with Alex and his friend.

It was just like a never ending shopping sensation whenever we are in Myeong Dong, even though we've been there so many times. So many times? Haha!

It feels like we've visited MD more than 10 times but we didn't.
There is just so many things to do in MD

When evening came, we said goodbye to Debbie and Alex as they went back to their dorm for dinner.
We decided to have dinner with LiLing and after walking around aimlessly not knowing what to eat, we chanced upon this store which sold Army Stew. 

It is like hot pot.
The ingredients are just dumped inside and the lid goes on top. It has cabbage, more vegetables, ramen, hotdog, meat inside. Thinking about it makes me hungry.

It is a very large pot and we were so close to finishing it. It was enough for 4 of us.
There after, we brought LiLing to DongDaeMun to meet up with her family members before saying goodbye
;___;


We miss our classmates very much and it is very exciting to think about the new semester with our classmates when we return to NYP.

Here are some of the group photos we took!

Thank you for spending your free time with us!
We can't wait to say hello back in Singapore again.

All the best to everyone and good luck!

Happenings (Week 6)

Week 6 is a very interesting week for all students in Hallym University. It is the week where there is the Hallym Festival!

Hallym Festival is a two-day school event where their students put up performances. They transformed their dance corner into a clubbing room which we saw from the outside when we were walking from our dorm to the main stage. It was really cute and a great idea. We couldn't stop giggling when we saw it.

The main stage had games for the audience during the afternoon. The games were in Korean but we didn't had to take part in all of them. The first one we saw was "True or False". The Emcee says a question and the players are to move left or right to answer. The players were given about five seconds to make their decision before time was up. It looked really fun!
The last player standing was the winner. They were giving out CGV movie tickets!

The next game we watched was "Guess that song". Players have to answer with the song's name and artist name.
It was really awesome and we were just staring at everyone with our eyes and mouth wide open.
The song wasn't even played for a full second and you get people mad screaming at the Emcee to answer the question.
There was this one song, where it was just a note. Like a piano note. "Deng". A bunch of the girls just started screaming and answering the questions. It was mad crazy. We were like "What is going on, how do they even do this?"
But it was really interesting.

Their principal

During the festival, there was also an international booth where students had games from their home country. We played Korean games like put the ring into the bottle, Korean Chapteh, Pick up sticks, Tongue twisters in Korean(Kirin Kurin Kirin Kurimu? It sounds something like this), five stones!

Here are some photos!

Belle is gone. Like the shadow.

That's our buddy Hyun Min! We finally have a photo with her!

During the festival, we had the opportunity to try Chicken heart. It sounds weird but the moment we popped one into our mouths, we couldn't stop. 

One stick is enough. It has too much cholesterol. 

There after, the next day, Belle and Shi Jia went to Insadong with the other NYP mates from SBM! 

Say hello

We rented a Hanbok and entered the palace FOR FREE!

Everyone wearing a Hanbok gets to enter the palace for free! 

The hanbok we rented was at 19,000 Won for 2 hours. I know. But it's worth it for the free entrance HAHAH.

Here's a picture of us in our Hanbok! 

It's really comfy to wear.

How I wish I have an Oppa to take me away into the Korean Drama scene. 

Anyway, the palace was BEAUTIFUL. Let me enlarge it's beauty for you. 

Emperor's seat?

The mountain and Palace together is just ohmygod

After the 2 hours was up, we walked to Anguk station, which was just one station away only. 

They sold lots of souvenirs there. 

There was also this round-about shopping centre we went to. It was really cute. You could just go to the second floor and keep walking along the shops. It's designed to bring you to the next level as you walk along. Great for lazy people. 

Poop cafe!

At the cafe, we had Oreo bingsu and Chocolate ice cream.
There was poop everywhere. Fake poop.
Even the plate that came with the waffle was shaped like a toilet bowl.

The bingsu was a little too over priced for it's taste.

hmmm.

  

We came across this tea cafe-shop called Osulloc. Their packaging were so beautiful and oh my goodness.

Don't you just want to buy them for the pretty packaging? 

They have a cafe on the second floor where they served green tea drinks!

Alright, that's all we have to share for week 6.

The mid terms are coming out the next week and we are very anxious for our mid term tests that are in week 8. 

We hope everything will be well.

All the best and good luck!