12 April 2006

Finally, after waking up and breakfast, we’re now in Korea.  The sky’s changing its colour.  I like this kind of moment.  I’m quite excited to see how this country’s like

still at the airport

After the immigration, we’re out in the airport hall.  There’s some flower there.  At first I thought it’s artificial, but then when I touched it… oh… it’s real! 

after immigration and everything, the nice yellow flower's waiting

 We wouldn’t spend the whole trip in the airport, right? so let’s go out there to see more of the country!  Here’s the first moment I saw Korea.  

from here, our trip will start

After a while, the traffic started to be crowder… but still kept moving… not too bad, huh?

crowded traffic

Long enough from the airport to the city, so we stopped  for lunch first.  This thing…. hum… it’s like frying all the ingredients you see, vegetable, meat, and… one kind of short and fat noodle which’s really chewy then mixed that with some chilli sauce.  I think that chewy short noodle is the main actor of the show.  It’s quite nice after frying.  I remember we bought some back to Thailand.

first meal in korea

After a while, the waitress came to mix some rice it in for us. 

after mixing

 Oh.. we can’t eat without things in the following pic, right?  It’s the first time I used the metal chopsticks.  My first impression was that it’s heavy. (In Thailand, we use wood or plastic chopsticks).  Now at home we used those chopsticks and spoon we bought as souvenirs.  Good points? They’ll last forever.  Bad points?  Once I ate some hot soup noodle and I left the chopsticks in the bowl for a while, then ouch!! hot!

we can't eat without these, right?

It’s time for all the side dishes 

The first one’s the seaweed soup.  I think the taste of the soup’s a lot softer than Chinese/Japanese/Thai soup.  

seaweed soup

After this trip, it’s the first time I found I could enjoy kimchi.  However, I don’t like the one in this pic that much.  It’s more spicy than what I hate in other restaurants later on, and the taste wasn’t well blended.  hum.. but the rest of the kimchi I ate in Korea, I’ll say I like it.  This one’s just the exceptional.   

first kimchi

This one’s my aunt’s favourite.  We can find this in Thailand as well, but it’s quite expensive.   

seaweed salad

Soft black beans with some taste 

black beans

soup for my aunt

After feeling full, it’s time for a short walk, so where else could we go? just walking around the restaurant and took the pic of that flower.   

flower in front of the restaurant

I like this duck… hum.. I think it’s cute..=)  Why don’t we have something cute like that in Bangkok?

cute duck

 Then, we moved to Nami island.  This pic’s taken while we’re crossing (on the furry) to the island.

on the furry to nami island

On the island, there’s nothing much there.  hum.. but it’s nice for a rest.  I could see some students coming together, couples, and so on. 

nami island scenery

 Then, we walked around and took some pics.  It’s hard to take a pic without people in it.

walking on the island

 After a while, we stopped to sit at this table to rest.

nice spot to sit

 New leaves coming out.  It’s my first time experiencing “Spring”

It's Spring after all

pink flower

I think when I see this type of flower (the baby one lol), I feel it’s well protected but quite fragile at the same time.  It’s waiting for its time to bloom ^ ^ 

baby flower

 This’s one part of the island near the pier.  I like the style and the colour of this building.

I like the style and colour

After that we were waiting for the furry to cross back to the main land.  I walked around for more pics like usual. 

yellow flower and the cloudy day

 This pic, I tried so hard to take.  It’s so high, so I climbed on something to take this pic.  People looked at me, I know. haha It might not look that special but I like it =)

mini flower

 This’s the girl statue near the pier.  I don’t know if there’s any meaning in it.. but.. hum… I feel a bit lonely seeing it since she’s alone forever on this island ^ ^;  However, I don’t think she looks sad though.. hum.. I think she’s kinda part of the water.

girl statue

 Did I make the right decision to start recording the trips I’ve had?  Now I started feeling tired since there’re so many pics – -;  

Anyway, another pic… You may start noticing I took lot of close up pics… hum… I like to use that macro function of my camera ^ ^

the tip

 From the nature of the island, now we’re back to the city again.  Yeah, along the roads, you can see some people selling stuff like this.  Of course, in Bangkok, there’re some people selling stuff on the road, but… hum… not something like this, and they don’t put the toys on the street.  Also, people will sell something small like some flower. 

selling stuff on the road

more toys on sales

the bus stop

Shops along the street.  So colourful =) 

along the street

 Then, we went to the place where they shoot the drama called Dae Jang Geum.   I think it’s one of the drama that sparked the Korean fever boom in Thailand (along with Full House).  (Before that it used to be American –>Japanese–> Taiwanese–>Korean)  For Chinese (I don’t know if it’s HK or main land.. perhaps more HK or some Taiwanese), it’s something on Thai TV all the time.   Still, now you can still see other dramas like Japanese on TV as well, but fewer than before.

and another flower

another pink flower

This pic… now I just feel it looks like the fireworks exploding in the sky ^ ^ 

another yellow flower

Since part of Dae Jang Geum drama’s about cooking, so…. let’s see some food related pics! and by the way, I don’t really know those ppl in the pics =p 

food-food-food

Kitchen

From watching the drama, I personally felt the food for Korean emperor was more down to earth than the Chinese one’s.   

eating set

I remember this room from the drama.  hum… but now my impression of this room’s that Dracula won’t wanna step in since there’s lot of garlic inside =p 

ingredients need to be kept somewhere, right?

My aunt asked me to take the pic of this flower since she loves purple colour 

flower

I like the feeling of this part of the setting.  I felt it’s like I was in the past.

old-town-setting

old-town-setting-2

This kind of flower.. it’s like the baby bird waiting for the day it can spread their wings and be able to fly into the sky =) 

i-will-bloom-someday

Oh… when we were standing here to take the pic, I remember Chinese tourists asked us in Chinese to take the pic for them.  My sister got the camera and spoke to them in Chinese a bit… I guess they thought we’re from China.  In fact, in Korea.. hum… we’re misunderstood as many nationalities.  Twice at the shops, I talked in English, but the sellers once replied in Chinese.  The other time, she brought us to the staff who could speak chinese.  Another time, around the entrace area of this place, one girl came to us and asked if we’re Japanese coz she wanted us to help her answering her questionaires.  Then, later on, once we were in the city, and one Korean guy stopped at us and started asking us something in Korean, and we looked at him with eyes full of question marks.. so he realized we didn’t understand what he said lol 

overview-scenery-of-the-setting

On the way again to the restaurant.  I took this photos because of the cloths of those two girls (not those two guys, by the way haha).  I wonder if they’re twins or something since they wore the same style of cloths, except the colour.  I think it’s pretty cute ^ ^ 

twins

I like this kind of scenery… hum… feel like wanna sit there and relax… enjoying the view of cherry blossom at the same time 

cherry-blossom

Before coming to Korea, I saw Korea only through drama.  I felt of Korea as somewhere quite similar to Japan.  Then, when I really visiting, I felt it’s different.  I feel Korea’s something in between China and Japan.  I feel it’s influenced by both cultures.   

buildings

Dinner time… it’s…. don’t ask the goldfish like me for the name of the food lol but I like it

first-dinner

Eating on process =p

Here, you always got those side dishes (which I like).  The white thing on the top left, I don’t really know what it is, but I like.   

side dishes

Here’s the area in front of the restaurant.  I quite like it.  Feel calm and quiet. 

night-time-street

street-at-night

I like the lamp.  I think it’s quite pretty especially with the yellow light shining from the insdie and contrasts with the dark night sky 

light-from-the-street-lamp

While I was walking along the main street, I noticed this small street which is connected to the main one.  I suddenly felt like I wanted to take the pic of this quiet street.  In a way, this kind of street, I personally think it shows more how local people live than those main streets with all the tourists.

small-street

After that, we stopped at the convenience store for some drink before heading back to the hotel.  The hotel we stayed was next to the park, and the hotel itself got the themepark inside.  

This pic’s taken from our room window.  You can see the glass dome.  Inside’s the themepark I was talking about, but it’s closed already by the time I took this pic, so it’s quite dark.

hotel-window

the-sofa

the-desk

hum… yeah… our bags on the beds…. so they’re not in the perfect condition =p

the-messy-bed-lol

Some of you may be wondering why did I take the pic below… well well… it’s just part of memory recording haha and… it’s hi-tech toilet haha  hum… it’s not widely used in Thailand, for this type of toilet.  However, in a way, I’m not familiar with all the fuctions it got lol  It sounds cool but felt a bit weird using it haha Ops… shouldn’t I talk about this topic?  

the-toilet-lol

wanna wash ur hands or face?

shower time

Wah!!! Finally I finished my post for the day 2 trip.  Never felt this tired writing a blog…. really too many photos.  

At first I thought of writing about the day 3 tmr, but not sure now… will see…