December is here (Week 14)

It's finally the month that everyone looks forward to, but don't want to let go.
December is here.
It's nearing the end of the year, also the end of our one Semester in Hallym University.

We attended a farewell party on 1st December, held by the Buddy program.
We are very grateful to all the buddies. Their buddy system is super awesome. We heard that they match us to our buddies according to our self introductions. How thoughtful is that!

The theme for this time's farewell party is "Black and Red", so we had to go shopping for clothes.
Students from various countries were at the party and they gave touching speech, stating that
"A farewell is necessary before meeting again.", and that "Goodbyes are not forever, they simply mean I'll miss you."

Ok, stopping with the sad quotes. Here are some memorable pictures we would like to remember.

Here is a picture of our buddy with her friend and Sam, the student that will be going to NYP for exchange in the coming semester.

It was the first time in awhile that we met up together and ate. We were all very busy with our school work and could only contact each other through Kakao talk.

We always laugh at how Sam needs to hang out with 3 of us but when he goes to Singapore, he will have 3 of us as his additional buddies.
How unfair haha!
We can't wait to bring him around the island!
There's just so many things we need to do in return and answer!

  

This girl on the left here is our classmate for International Business Analysis.
She's super bubbly and always say hello to us in class. She's really confident and a great English speaker. Her smile is very contagious and she's just really really crazy, just like us.

Here's a video of all the post cards our various buddy wrote to us ;__;

Here's a video of Sam dancing

We took this photo because it was the last finance lesson and we will be having our one and only written exam, THE Finance Exam next week. We have finance class with 2 other Germany guys and 1 other China guy. The class was really fun and our classmates are really friendly and nice! Remember that they brought us to eat FOOOOOOD?

We found this really delicious and filling dinner place! We randomly ordered 2 meals that were for 5 people but we had to try our best to finish our food! There were 2 pizza, 2 pork belly, a salad, a huge bowl of soup and 5 bowls of rice WITH SEAWEED!! It is totally worth the money, it was 11,600 won per person ONLYYYYY !!!!!!! Heh. The amount of food is equivalent to a buffet !


We had pizza with our buddy the next day.
Sam was supposed to join us but he wasn't feeling well.
We even waited for him >:(
The pizza store is called "Pizza No.1" and it's super cheap for a super huge plate of 18 inch pizza.
We only had to pay 5000Won per person!!

WE LOVE THE FOOD IN KOREA!

We spent the weekend in Fake Myeong Dong.
TarrTarr is a new pastry store that opened on 4th December!
They gave a free cup because they just opened. We all want the free cup. We're Asians.
aaaaand, Bingsu. Again.
We just can't stop eating bingsu!
We have to finish the entire menu before we go home. We can try.


The Rilakkuma was caught by Belle at a UFO catcher machine.
Koreans are really crazy over the machine and they're really really good at catching the toys inside. We saw one dude catching close to 10 of them in the same machine.
It was crazy!



Lotte mart is always as exciting. They were selling fruits. Korean fruits. Especially strawberries.

We each bought a box of strawberries back and finished it in a few days.
The pomegranates were also SUPER huge and cheap. Unlike Singapore.










Oh and, we went Skiing with Eileen and Estee.
We fell. Super a lot of times.
Please do not attempt to go to the highest hill, it might give you a concussion.
We fell so many times we don't even know if it hurts anymore. We went back with quite a few bruises HAHAHAHA PLEASE BE CAREFUL

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

Shopping!! (Week 1)

IS SATURDAY!!! That means its shopping day!!!

Before we go into shopping, let us tell you about what we did before Saturday.....

Here are our classrooms! 

They are much like tutorial rooms in NYP except they don't really have air-con in them... They're like fan-air-con. Not those huge centralised air-cons.

Management in IS

International Business

Finance

Tadah! Ajuma food!

We met up with our buddy after class and said hi to her. She was our senior's buddy as well last year!! She's super friendly.

She brought us to eat just right outside our school.

This is our first full Korean meal in Korea. 

It's exactly what you see in those drama where they sit on the floor and eat with their parents. 

Yes. 

100% Korean. 

Liang Jing's favourite was the spicy squid.

Belle and Shi Jia's favourite was the Soup Tofu! 

We would like to go back but the menu is in Korean. We only know how to say Soup Tofu in Korean - Soo Too Poo. 

We'll explain why it's "Poo" in awhile... 

We went to Chuncheon Myeongdong to splurge our money on Daiso. We bought a ton of daily necessities and materials for classes. After that, we went to a supermarket to buy a hairdryer. It was starting to get late so we went back to our dorm for the day.

Why Pie

In the early morning, we settled our dorm fee which cost us 1,202,000 Won (~SGD 1,380) and took our Wi-Fi (pronounced as Wi-Pie in Korean HAHA). 

Our finance professor mentioned that Korean doesnt have the letter "F" in their alphabets. Ho. Ho. Ho. 

Anyway, Here's an image of our Wi-Pie. 

There is ZERO CONNECTION in the room. We had to open our doors or stand outside of our room just to connect to the internet. It was terrible. 

< Until we met this life saver. We love TPLink. 

We managed to go back to the supermarket our buddy brought us to on our own! :D (We'll upload an image soon.) 

Tomato Volcano Sauce

Here's what we had for dinner on Friday. 

It's called "Tomato" and it's super delicious.

Thinking about it makes me hungry. 

Apparently, they close their shop at about 8.30 PM. It was hilarious how we were approached by the staff and told to like leave, but we didn't understand until they tried to hand sign the door closing. 

We ended up taking away our half eaten meal and finished it in the dorm HAHAHA. 

And now, to Saturday. SHOPPING TIME! 

Chuncheon Myeongdong @ night

We walked around aimlessly and spent half of our day shopping. Oops. 

A lot of the facial products are on 1 + 1 or 10 + 10. There is no in-between HAHA. 

Go big or go home. 

Pokemon craze!

We found KFC. We ate KFC for lunch. It was hard to order as we had to point at the menu or just try our luck by pointing at something that we felt was okay. Ordering was terrible. But the chicken was good so it didn't matter. 

This is for the OCD people >>

It felt like we were solving a jigsaw puzzle. 

They're so cute.

The art box in Korea has 3 floors. Gosh. How cool is that? We probably spent an hour in there or something. It's also much cheaper than in Singapore.

All these shoes but you still won't run to me.

We then continued walking around aimlessly and saw shoe shops on sale. We were extermely tempted by the shoes. Some of them were as cheap as 69000 Won! All the sport shoes we can buy....  

We went into 3 shops back to back that were having sale and they all had the same price. 

Can't tell if they were being friendly or what. 

Anyway, we managed to walk to a cinema and wanted to watch a movie but there wasn't much on show currently. We wanted to watch "Secret Life of Pets" but it was unavailable at the one we went to (I think it was CGV). 

Sassy... 

Here's Belle's loots for the day. omg.

SO, we ended up taking PICTURES! 

The Purika we went to was only 7000Won for those two pieces! 

Singapore's Purika costs about $10/12SGD for a miserly one piece. 

How nice of Korea. Tsk tsk. 

Anyway, we then walked around some more and managed to find a shopping mall called "M" that had Uniqlo in it. 

We are currently waiting for our clothes to dry as we sit down to type out this post. Here's a picture of the dorm's washing machine. 

Can you hear us scream as we jab on the buttons by random? HAHA It took us awhile to understand what each button does.
To our future juniors: 


First, put in the money.

Secondly, put in your (dirty) clothes and pour detergent at the box by the side.

Then, press the second button from the top. It means "Standard"

Then, press the last button. It (kinda) means "Start".

Lastly, watch your clothes swirl inside! 
No JK, type your blog post for that day. 

It takes about 35 minutes for the clothes to be done.



It's about time the dryer called for us. 
Here are some more images to end our post: 

View from the front door of our dorm

It's kinda like a market, like Chinatown

He's literally everywhere in Korea.

Good luck and cheers!