hi. I would like to first tell you that this does not apply to all. but a huge portion of them. and it is just my own culture shock on it.
lets start with being careful on going out with a Korean guy one on one. my Korean friends told me that it is UNUSUAL for people who have no interest in each other here to go out one on one. I don’t understand much but I hang out with my guy friends who I am very sure that I have no interest in and vice versa a lot.
it’s no doubt that this country is filled with tradition and manners. but it does NOT mean that they are not open. in fact, they’ve adapted to the open mind set of the American society and turned it into what everyone do (in a bad way) because they think it’s cool. which will just normally end up to one thing.. that these Korean guys are only nice to you because they want “IT”. they do not take things slowly, play the game of courting but instead jump right into it. I don’t play games but for me, I guess dating a person I just got to know is pretty disgusting.
well, if you’re here for a while. just keep in mind. if a Korean guy is nice to you. they probably don’t JUST WANNA BE FRIENDS.
and you should really get to know them well. unless you are okay with dating an ugly man whom should just be fine. most importantly, you should know how they do “introduce-dating” as in, a group of guys whom one of them know a girl from this other group of single girls as well and they would set up a meeting. and it’s called sogaeting. sogae from “introducing” and ting from “dating”. on these events, if you didn’t meet someone you like, it’s okay to just walk away. but if you did……….. and he feels the same for you. he’d probably bring you to a love motel before you even realize. ON THE SAME DAY. this had happened to some foreign student as well.
next, in clubs. ALWAYS GO WITH MALE FRIENDS. you think just going with a girlfriend is fine? well, unless you’re rich/capable enough to get into the VIP zones of a quite prestigious club. if not? you’d get touched everywhere you go (but that doesn’t apply to all clubs. I went to Cacoon yesterday and guys there raise their hands up like as if a gun’s pointing their way. I guess there were too many molest cases there haha). and what happened to me earlier this month was a caucasian guy whose THING raised up to where I could feel it. he was cute no doubt and could speak Korean pretty well. but definitely horny. I ran away right away and just chilled at my seat after that. which later a group of Jap/Korean gangster looking guys came to the table in a VERY aggressive way. straight putting their hands on our shoulders and sat realllly close to us. which I then left right away. >_>”.
also, if you walk around in Hongdae (the club workers lost our bags the night before so we had to go there in the morn at 7 fml) in the Morning, you’d find guys who aren’t drunk anymore come chasing you around asking you to have a drink with them (like wth. seriously? 7 in the morning?). my experience earlier was 2 guys in a nice car just stopped in the middle of the road, wind down their window and said “you look very familiar. did I meet you yesterday?” very corny pick up line. can’t believe they still use it. but they were hot U_U. but never ever let their handsomeness fool you. it’s probably just their plastic surgeon that’s good. just be straight forward and say “gwenchanayo” (it’s okay) and walk away. I seriously wonder if any girls would fall for it though. but there must be since they kept doing it (my friend told me these stories since years ago) and as you walk along Hongdae you’d get EVEN MORE guys approaching you asking you if you would like to have a drink with them. I am not saying this because I think I am oh so beautiful and there are a bunch of guys flocking around me. I have heard that even the huger girls get these a lot. my friend described the huger girls like girls that nobody would want to date in Malaysia based on appearance. the conclusion is that, they will just approach ANY girl in my opinion.
and I am telling you these for you girls to be careful and so that you wouldn’t get some really bad experience here in Korea =).
as for making friends, the thing you MUST remember at ALL TIMES as a foreigner is that. in their brain, it’s already set that FOREIGNERS ARE EASY. so I just wish nobody would get any sort of traumatizing experience like me and do not think that “oh I love Kpop/Kdrama hence I must get a romantic Korean boyfriend”. because if it really happens, it’s one in a ten thousand.
also, guys approach girls OPENLY here. it doesn’t matter if they are hot or not. if you’re their style, they will approach you and try to get your number. normally, you can just give them a fake one. but they since are very persuasive and persistent sometimes you might give up to them. but my advice is, DON’T. since you don’t know them anyway, let them get hurt and just step on their ego if you have to. for your own safely. it might sound like a fun experience but I am telling you, hearing about is it more than enough. I have heard many stories about how even housemates can keep bugging and stalking a person. it’s sad.
truthfully, I just wanted more Korean friends because my classmates who have a lot of Korean friends improve REALLY FAST. but it’s probably better to have a friend introduce them to you than to blindly look for one. it didn’t turn out that well for me but at least I quit. it’s pretty disgusting I have to say. so girls, if you think Korea is a safe place for you to just hang around knowing new friends, think twice.
but I must say, there are also the nicer ones (and usually the less fashionable ones) which are very very nice. and what I have learnt from these nicer Koreans (they told me) are that if you avoid a guy’s touch it means you “want” more in a way like you’re “acting” shy. doesn’t apply for Malaysian girls like me but I’m in Korea so now it does matter. if you don’t like the person you have to tell him straight on the face with no mercy because it’s not a rude thing to do in Korea.
so this is my 2 cents for you about Korean guys =D. hope it helped.
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or my 21st, like how they say it here. in Korea, you are 1 years old as soon as you’re born =D. because they count the 9 months of you being in your mom’s womb. I was already so devastated to know that I am no longer a teenager and the next thing they told me is that I am 21. haha. it’s like as if I skipped 20 years old haha. oh well.
hence there were 3 candles on my cake. =P.
so shall we start on how I celebrated my birthday (for the first time overseas and without my mom’s famous pasta) here?
but traditions will always be traditions, I MUST HAVE PASTAS ON MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WITH FRIENDS!
went to CM’s Box AGAIN! sad birthday girl had to wait for seats as well because CM’s Box is just too popular. and you cannot pre-book places here.
you guys have already met Wai Kit, now meet Igor. born Russian. with a Korean mom if you were wondering why he look a little Asian =P. and also our MANGNAE! because he deserves the title for always disturbing us “ajumma’s/halmoni’s”.
mangnae = youngest of a group/family
ajumma = aunt
halmoni = grandma
and meet SATO! she’s fluent in Korean. like, fluent. it is surprising how she can be in the same level as me anyway. she’s very very good spoken as her BF’s Korean xD. so it’s an advantage. she told me to date a Korean guy so that I can improve my Korean quickly but errrrrrr. no thanks U_U.
bolognese. ah. I forgot what was it but well, one of the bolognese pastas. haha.
super adorable mangnae. but very annoying. hahaha. he messes my hair ALMOST every single day PFFT.
cheese salad. those white chunks are huge chunks of cheese yo. yum. it comes with the 4 person set. so not enough.
cream sauced pizza with bacon!
golden prawn pizza! this is that pita bread one where it has more cheese than bread and you just dig them out from the pan rather than eating it like a real pizza haha.
all of it sums up to almost 50,000won if I am not wrong. the salad comes with honey too! so. good.
and after we almost finished our meal, Sally made it here! she came all the way from the airport. like, right after the airport T_T. super touched. she’s from Austria! Korean blood though =D.
Wai Kit looked so boss. hahhaha. lol at the mangnae.
I bet you noticed the plus. who came really late haha. that’s Andre from Brazil =D.
and lol at myself @w@. me and my stupid faces. all the time. I just seldom post them on my blog =S.
and a real family picture!
holding the choco ball because mr. mangnae was playing with the cake long before we started taking pictures and had to drop the choco ball.
happy family with people all over the world. haha.
this is what you’d get for celebrating your birthday with two dorks. =P. pictures which are never serious. le sigh. haha.
here’s an awkward picture of me D=. just to make my face look less photostatted in all pictures. haha.
happy 21st birthday to myself! it’s supposed to be a very huge thing in Chinese I think. but I think celebrating with these few new close friends I’ve made here is more than enough. I’ve always had parties and for a change, I think this is great.
candles in Korea are so long haha. and they do not melt too fast either. (Y).
=D.
I was told to make a wish.
blowing my candles in 1 shot! (1 shot is very famous here in Korea. especially when you drink haha.)
my awesome girlfriends. ah. it’s so great to get to know these awesome people. which is why I always think that studying overseas give you an experience you can never buy.
ready? set? go!
thank you Wai Kit =3. it was delicious. Baskin Robbin’s cake. I think I ate like 40% of it though. D=. I’M BECOMING SO FAR NAOOOOOOO.
and that’s our mangnae in a Russian music video. and he is so young. le sigh I feel old. hahah.
here’s the link to the video : http://youtu.be/6LJKlE1BQ3U
I don’t think I know how to appreciate Russian music much but I thought the way they recorded the video was pretty awesome. it was self produced by the way. not under any company haha.
and then Margaretti joined in! <3. (lol at the guy on the far right. shocked face. still looked into the camera.)
Round 2.
the 2 Mangnae’s haha. they are both the same age. except Igor isn’t really sane haha.
he was swinging her around hahaha it was so fun to watch but she became really dizzy =(.
we then went for some ALCOHOL!
now that’s one huge beer mug.
2000cc. not too bad when we share among so many of us haha.
with our ddalgi soju cocktail. ddalgi = strawberry =3. absolutely love it. but because it’s so easy to drink, you’d get drunk easily. but I wasn’t at all wasted haha.
cheers?
finally, Tom came with his sister and brother in law =D. his sister really looked like Arden Cho. no kidding. like the older version of her.
anyways, round 3! KARAOKE!
Sally do love the noraebang! she’s an awesome singer too.
and the last friend finally joined in! meet Leo! from MALAYSIA! yes lahhhhhh Malaysia boleh! he’s the same age as me and is already doing his degree hahaha. why does he and Tom look so brotherly here. D=.
classmates. =D.
giving him the V-shaped face.
hahaha. Andre Y U NO FOLLOW OUR EYES!
giving myself the V-line. =P.
and on the day of my Birthday, (the 3 rounds was my Birthday countdown. we went home at 3:30 and I slept at 4:40. still managed to wake up at 7am for my class! except I entered class like a zombie.) I got the best surprise I’ve ever had U_U.
totally unexpected.
there are these 2 really really sweet Japanese girls in my class which I have always thought were cute and pretty (now now, please continue reading and not scroll down to their pictures.) they did not wish me and totally pretended that they did not know. I didn’t expect anyone to know since I didn’t go around telling people about it but…….. they saw it on facebook and decided to give me a surprise……..
they had actually told the teacher to end our first period 10 minutes earlier just so that they could give me the surprise! U________U!!! bought me a lovely heart shaped cake. and I felt so blessed. I had such sweet classmates. where I felt bad for not asking them along for the day before because I thought it would be weird since everyone speaks in English =(.
but they are such sweethearts and I still love them T________T. I promised myself to be even nicer to them for their birthday!
in our class. =3.
some were absent but oh well, these are MOST of my classmates!
take 2!
and the 2 lovely girls, Chisa and Megumi. they are very pretty. much prettier in real life too.
because we love jeans! .\../
what he calls the “aegyo”. my goodness. more like gwisin.
aegyo = acting cute
gwisin = ghost
haahahah.
then, Wai Kit and I went for a Jap lunch!
I had to spend my birthday with a fellow Malaysian for at least a little while where I can truly speak Manglish and not have to hide my lahs.
went to the Okonomiyaki shop nearby CM’s Box. on the same row actually. pretty famous it’s frequently filled but lucky it wasn’t that filled on that day.
that’s one small teppan utensil. don’t know what you call it. super cute. haha. they only give you that and chopsticks!
look at that amount of bonita flakes! MMMM.
and MOREEEE BONITA FLAKES!
they have unlimited okonomiyaki sauce, mayo and chilli flakes! so awesome. but unlike Malaysia, they do not put the noodles IN the egg omelette. instead, they separate them. what’s in the egg okonomiyaki is just egg with onions. but still, sooooooooo good.
you don’t get many candid pictures of me. heh.
in addition to the lovely cake, my Japanese friends bought me a whole tube of chuppa chups alongside with other sweets and chocolates like Hersheys and Ferrero until the whole thing is fully filled!
you know that vibrator notificator you get when you order Snowflakes in KL? well, this is the same. except it’s shaped like an iPhone and you can watch advertisements while waiting for your food. awesome ey?
nothing can express how touched I was U_U. it wasn’t about the quality or quantity of the gifts, but the sincerity. I felt it from every one of them here. #thebestfeeling.
and Sally got this adorable Hello Kitty mirror for me from Japan. eventhough I am not a big fan of Hello Kitty, I suddenly felt that Hello Kitty’s are really cute. love it mucho. next stop? HELLO KITTY CAFE!
AHH!! even the card is so adorable. nicely decorated with cute stickers =3.
they wrote “beautiful princess Jamie, Happy Birthday, we love you~!” not very much of a princess (more like tomboy haha) but awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…..!
the portion of Patbingsu in Paris Baguette. madness. but just right for 2 people haha.
and AT NIGHT? (I know, it was like as if it’s never ending.)
there’s this Gopchang (intestines) shop in Sinchon which smelled VERY GOOD each time I passed by. but the queue was very very long. but this time, I was determined and insisted on waiting for it.
verdict?
absolutely worth the wait.
everything above’s raw. and those chunks of red gooey cubes are blood. raw. clotted raw blood. I know, I know. I only had one. wasn’t very pleasant haha. I guess I’m just new to it.
my date for the night, you can address him as mr. Mun. =D.
I actually went home to sleep for a while, hence the fresh face!
but it didn’t last long with this……….. it’s called the Mae-Hwa-Su. some sweet alcohol for the ladies. it tastes like the Japanese Umeishu.
right before drinking.
and after a few shots.
he has horrible alcohol tolerance. I think I drank twice of what he did.
spam.
after our very “aromatic” dinner, we headed on for more drinks since the night was young and my intentions for the night is to get wasted.
which failed because raspberry vodka is too light for me *nyahahhaha* we went to this place called M12 if I’m not wrong. in Hongdae. they kept refilling those super addictive Gim (seaweed) for us and I was reluctant to leave because of that.
now this is one funny picture =P.
even though blur, I still think I am a good photographer.
instead of getting even more drunk, I think we got a little bit more sober here. hahaha.
that is why, we had our 3rd round at Warawara, a famous HOF. HOF is apparently German(?) which stands for House of Beer or something. you can find HOFs everywhere here. especially in Sinchon. they’d write something like HOF and Chicken. or just HOF, which usually serves chicken as well. chickens are really expensive here in Korea. don’t know if it’s because Malaysian gov subsidies for our chicken. but one chicken here can cost around 20-30,000won+++. that’s RM60-90+++ ringgit!
gyeranmari! cheese egg omelette with a crazy amount of cheese.
that’s not just strawberrry juice. Warawara’s famous for mixing freshly blended juices with soju/makgeolli. mr. Moon actually thought we could finish 1000cc worth of ddalgi soju with an addition of one more bottle of soju to make it even stronger.
I drank 70% of it. and there were no more pictures taken after I got absolutely wasted. I insisted on walking home.. drunk. and that’s the longest but yet the most awesome walk hahaha. I am the happy drunk so you should get what I mean. =D.
I couldn’t remembered what happened from halfway home till how I get onto my bed with my make up and socks still on and I am surprised how I could wake up and still get to class. but I walked to class drunk. it was that bad. I hadn’t actually gotten so wasted from Soju before and didn’t know how it felt like. it gives you a massive headache and keeps you drunk for like 10 hours. but at least I didn’t puke =3.
When I reach there is like ZOMG the University is so huge along the road before we reach the University there are full of shops selling korean cosmetic, clothes and even cafe's too.
This is Ehwa Women University ZOMG is so Huge............. U can find all the pretty gals in this university I guess hahah..
We have our lunch at porridge shop called "Bon Juk" is super delicious and expensive!! one bowl cost RM30.00 if not mistaken! but is worth it hahaha wanted to try it out ever since.
From the left is their famous pumpkin porridge it taste like dessert! Sweet as well and they have the glutinous rice ball in it and the right one is seafood porridge. The porridge has the freshness of seafood~
My bro order a fusion style of porridge where is a corn bun porridge its basically "Jagung" taste lolzzzz
Malaysia Baskin Robbin Y U NO Sell this type of pretty ice cream cake ehh?? I wish i can have all of it!!
Order 3 pints their almond pon pon super nice and is cheaper than Malaysia
My fren's set came with waffle , brownie and a cup of black coffee. Their waffer very "keras" so hard to bite.
Korean fashion trend ~~~ Wearing specs with the frame like this huge!! Seriously all of them are wearing spec look like the above!! I mean all of them is their trend! OMG!
I look cool on this hahaha~~ never bought them tho coz I look like very 3D specs walking aorund lolzzz...
End of my Ehwa post will continue more~~
Hey dblchinis!!!
Look What I'm holding in my hands!
yay Lip Glosses from Hello Kitty~
Ok actually I used to be a hater to Hello kitty, I can't wait to dismembered its neck pull out the cotton fill and jump on it a million times.
I can't explain y I didn't like this kitty, probabaly is puke inducing cute, I duno y.
However, I have learn to kinda accept the little kitty eversince my Japan trip to Sanrio Puro Land.
Is a place that time stops and I get to reminisce my childhood days thinking about how NOT cute(fml)I used to be.
Not much of a fan still but Loving the gloss indeed.
The shimmer in this little tube is gg stain my lips in a short while
Roller applicator that doesn't really glides that easily, probably because the gloss tends to be sticky after a few applications.
To avoid that problem, I'll wipe clean the roller everytime I use it.
Time for a delicious looking lips, want some hunny?
even if I'm not wearing any lipstick here it kinda jazz up my kawaii look a little with the gloss.
I think my eye makeup here is Oh so Awesome.
Applauding is not necessary.
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A home is what everyone should have. Like me, being away from home since 18 years old make me yearns to build and create a lovely home for myself. Last year, I bought a small place that I can call home...
From surveying the house, paying deposits, getting bank and legal matters sorted, I went through the whole process with a totally new experience.
I also get to choose my desired paint colours, furniture and light fittings... At that point, it was the happiest shopping spree EVER!
It's even happier when the TV reception is clear and all is well! Even rainbow shines upon my new home.The slap to reality is when the UNIFI guy came to fix my internet. He said HyppTV have a few HD channels.
*turns to my tv*
"Oh, It's OK, You can't see the difference here," he said with a smile.
And hey, whats wrong with my TV?
***Sorry this is the only photo of my TV that i have ****
Then it hit me... Everytime when the TV is ON, people will doze off and eventually turn it off and go to bed! NONE of my family members would turn the TV on for more than 2hours!WHY?
When we watch action packed film, no excitement
When we see National Geographic, no expression. Not even intimidated by snakes or sharks.
When we watch horror movie, THE BLOODY GHOST DONT EVEN LOOK SCARY! Even a flying cockroach frightens me more than that!
That's why I have to seek help in the LG Cinema 3D Smart TV Party for Nuffnangers!!
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14th and 15th of May is where you’d find people walking around with bouquets of flowers. or at least a stalk of it. so if you’re single on the 14th you might just wanna hide at home as here in Seoul, almost all attached girls would be walking around proudly with their beautiful roses.
but to me, rose day is just another day for them to make money as the prices will jack up. it costs like 35,000won for a bouquet of flowers sold in THE SCHOOL. mm hmm. actually I’m not sure if flowers are really just that expensive haha. but during the last day of class with our previous teacher(you change your teacher every half a term) we shared among 12 of us for 2 bouquet and it costs about 40,000won.
beautiful bouquets of flowers selling at the tunnel outside the main gate of my Uni. they are so pretty T_T. I’ve always dream of these type of beautiful bouquet of red roses clumped up together and wrapped with a simple brown paper wrap (because it’s rare in Malaysia, and abundant here! don’t know why but most bouquets in Malaysia are really ugly yet expensive.) but I guess I would be equally as happy if I get an angpau with the same amount of money used for the bouquet of roses. haha.
and today, we saw students buying flowers and still didn’t understand the occasion until Tom (my classmate) gave our teacher a bar of choco and said “Happy Teachers Day” where I embarrassingly corrected him “it’s tomorrow!” to know that teachers day is actually different in every country. in Malaysia it’s May 16th =S. it’s May 15th here because it’s King Sejong’s Birthday and since he is the founder of Hangeul (Korean writing) so he is like the master mentor or all education in Korea.
This mall main entrance is the place where Fashion King actress "Lee Ga Yeong" walking around outside the mall street out there.<3 <3
So sad that I did not take the main entrance picture T_T
