2nd Dec 2009 [Wednesday]

Super last minute packing then headed to Changi Airport, T3 Row 9.

This time, the batch of people going for the trip was different from last year's.
Common interest: Fan-girling. AHAHAH.

Dad, Mum and Jon followed me to check-in @ 2320hrs and they left for dinner.
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The Journey begins...

Going onboard- EXCITING!

Things i did onboard:
- Revised Korean (game program)

- Played a bit of Mario

- Watched Gokusen The Movie (throughout the whole flight period):

Was practically watching Gokusen throughout the entire flight...watch & sleep & watch & sleep..

*Anticipating to land on SOUTH KOREA's GROUND!*



3rd Dec 2009 [Thursday]

YAY! Reached Incheon's Airport.

0822hrs: Hopped onto Coach, heading towards Yong Pyeong Ski Resort!


1020hrs: Stopped for toilet break...

...and we bought snacks [Redbean + Walnut was good!]...

Hello Nigel.

Didnt really sleep during the bus ride.

Was learning the songs for vocals for the trip... because back in Singapore...i didnt really have the time to =(.
I like Wheesung's ANDWAENAYO~~~

1330hrs:

Jessican, Ktyn, Kim are my room mates @ the Ski Resort.

We went to our room and changed to our skiing outfit.
When we reached downstairs, we realised it was SNOWING!

but we though it was drizzling at first..only to realise white droplets were falling from the sky...Seeing snow for the 1st time!!!

Laoshi's parents heard us screaming (if im not wrong) then they called us from their room's balcony... laoshi said she was going down too...and so..these were the pictures taken while waiting:

BUT laoshi didnt turn up! She actually went to another exit and couldnt find us as well.

Anyway... we met everyone esle at the meetup point and together with our yong pyong-tourguide/ski "instructor"...the skiing begins!

With Laoshi and Kim.

As amateurs, we didnt dare to go too high up.

Jessica was the dare-devil...it was just entertaining to watch her skiing for the 1st time. LOL!

Took a break and ate at Lotteria.

A Korean burger fastfood outlet. Yummy beef burger i must say.

Kim and her burger!

Kim's too-small-face.

Went back to Ski ground and had some fun before being "chased out"(T_T)..more like they had to do some maintenance work on ice/snow? yea.

...and the sky was dark by 5plus in the evening.

Walked around (still in our heavy ski suit), took random videos (in laoshi's cam), exploring in & out of the resort before we finally decided to go back to bathe and change.

Dinner @ laoshi's room!
Temperature: About 2 degrees.

XMAS-season!

Winter Sonata "exhibits".

Laoshi's umma cooked for us =D

Spicy & yummy~

Halfway through our dinner, Jessica came to check with us if Ktyn was with us. Kim and I last saw her sleeping when we left the room.

So...the madness begins:

we knocked on the door....or may i say...we BANGED on the door and called the room's phone but the only response we could get was *SILECE* from inside.

T__T!!!
We seek the last solution...which was to request for a hotel staff to help open the door..

Yes, k-tyn was inside the room....really dead asleep. LOL.

After dinner, some of us headed to the PC Room.
Laoshi was there to settle School's recital repertoire and i was msn-ing friends & emailing jon..to pass the msg to my parents about how exciting my day was! heehee.

Bought snacks....and went to "bed"..it was the traditional korean-style of sleeping...on mattres and the floor was heated.
Comfy!

4th Dec 2009 [Friday]
Woke up @ 0600hrs.

While making our way to the lobby..this was what we saw from the big windows:

Saw covering the trees, ground, cars...
YIPPPPYY!!! It snowed when we were asleep???

Breakfast:


Good Morning Kim!

Took more pictures after breakfast...

Kim.


Laoshi. [Told her to pose very abruptly while she was walking...that very much explains her slanted pose..LOL!]


K-tyn.


Myself.

Finally, hopped onto the coach...saying Byebye toYeong Pyeong & Hello to Seoul!

We[Kim, myself and the other fangirls] bought a can of coffee each, endorsed by 2PM during a break inbetween the long bus ride.

Sad thing... Back in Singapore, I filled the can with tap water and put it beside the basin...my dad then threw it away by mistake T_T...

Lunch was BBQ Pork [Mahn won Restaurant]- 10,000 won= $12.40.
Unlimited food servings!

After lunch, we went to the school where all our trainings were held at.

By the way, BIGBANG was everywhere!

and kim wanted me to take this:

...extra focus on her T.O.P!

The Coach that brought us ard since Day-1 from the airport...fetched us to the school and that was our last ride on the comfy coach!

Dance Skool Zero

Dance lessons:

Kim Young Jin- Cheoreographed to Akon's Dangerous.
and
I dont know our pretty instructor's name!! >.<>

Break-time:

After class:

Instructor wearing red beanie!

Instructor with "painter's hat?"

Took the subway back to hotel:

Kimbum...or..YiJung Sunbae! LOL!

Milton and Kim.

Back to hotel ..[look, Loteria is just on the ground level!!]

Had bibimbap for dinner at a nearby food outlet.

Kim just wants to pose with her name..haah!

Ktyn, Kim, Delia and myself started our 1st night "shopping".
- more like window shopping for me.

CUTE!

With BIG XMAN TREE...but cant see our faces =X

Whee, Khun!

More of 2PM!

Taadaah, like how we often see in Dramas...STREETSTALLS:


Back in room...

Slept @ 1:22am.

Amazing view from outside our room [window was just beside the bed]...

HAHAH, amazing to us... theres GD and TOP!

5th Dec 2009 [Saturday]

Again, woke up @ 0600hrs.

Kim and my bed.

Laoshi's bed.

Ranking [of who woke up 1st]: JOJO, LAOSHI, KIM.

lol!

Breakfast @ hotel/

At the hotel lobby...GOOD MORNING!

Hitting the Subway once again [1200won/ticket]!



K-tyn's unglam moment >.<...sorry!!

Started off with Vocals [Instructor: Sang Geo Jung]!

Each of us took turns to sing Gaseumapado.

A really patient teacher...going to us one by one to listen and give comments...
Because it is a crash course...teachign techniques would be a bit difficult...and not all took vocal classes back in Singapore..

Therefore, I felt that the stuffs he taught us were realistic and reall useful.

Headed for lunch after class and omg (AGAIN)...it SNOWED!
much heavier this time round. super cold and we were all so hyped-up!

Holding on to my camera to take pics was quite a torture...felt as though my fingers were gonna break!



What a moment to remember!

Lunch was GREAT. triple thumbs-up!

My FAVOURITE!!

Back to school for dance.

Good teachers, cool cheorography, fun moments, what esle can i ask for!



With COOL translator.

and DOPE instructre, Kim Young Jin.

Saying our final bye-byes to dance instructors, we moved on to the next destination- Lotte World.
BUT just before that, outside the subway station, there was this CD shop and most of us rushed in.....heehee~
I came out with 2PM and Shinee's album + FREE posters!
wooohoo~ the Shinee poster is super BIG!

Saw Beast on teevee in the public XD

Didnt went in the theme park at Lotteworld.

Am lousy at those scary...or "thrilling" rides..so I decided to walk around the shopping centre instead. With Laoshi, her parents and kim!
Bought big packets of cuttlefish home for parents [laoshi introduced], bought gummies to eat, had dinner [sausage chigae], had icecream!

The menu with hilarious.....erm...description. 0_0

Spotted Kimbum...so fangirl-ed again:


1000won icecream!

Interesting gummies [that laoshi was complaining how long I took to choose..LO!]..

taste alright only though....

Still in THICK winter wear...@ shopping mall:

Time passes so fast and we were back at Shinchon.

SNSD on train.HAHAH


With Jessica, like fools on train...eeks.

Like fools-on-train PART II.

Bought water @ Grand Mart (just beside out hotel)
..i 4got to bring my precious big water bottle for this trip.lol!

6th Dec 2009 [Sunday]

As usual, same time, same place...breakfast! [same food as well].

View from hotel..breakfast area!

Taking the subway every so often!

I LIKE THIS PIC!

The young ones!

K-tyn unglam take 2. lol!

Music school for our last vocal lesson!

Collecting certificate of completion!

Useful tips and wonderful memories.

I missed korea, missing the lessons and of course the teachers who brought fun to the lessons and motivated me more than ever.

CJ with Sang Geo Jung Son Saeng nim!
Gamsahamnida~

Okay, was abit sad that it was our last day @ the school...but than again, excited about the later programmes in the itinery.



Walking to the busstop..

Took a bus to EverySing:

Following the schedule given, we were a lill behind time thus, we grabbed lunch at a Bakery- Paros Croissant.

Breads with fanciful deco....and colourful taste!
hahah...yummy!

At Everysing:

We splitted into 2 groups and got settled really quickly.

Noraebang

I like the plain donuts!!

With Jessica's presence...the atmosphere was damn high la!
Oh...not forgetting Milton, the fanboy-rapper.LOL!!

Okie, afterthat...went down with laoshi to look @ stuffs to get.

Neon nareul Won hae..................WON HAE!
lalala......


Yo, Kimbum again!

Yunho!

Got AADBSK Season 3 =D, Yoochun's file from there....
Didnt get BoA's Bump Bump Single though.... =/

Taken by laoshi.
Laoshi: Cant see your face eh..
Jojo: OK OK! Take me like this laoshi...
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Chaajjjannngg~

X)

It was getting dark and outside Everysing...
we had quite a long discussion on where to head next...

Final decision was to split into groups and I followed the group intending to go to TIMEOUT GELATO!!!
I got the directional-description on how to go but 1st and foremost, we had to find Apgujeong Station... which from what we know...was of walking distance from EverySing.

On our way, our group has suju fans and so, they went to Kyochon Chicken.... endorsed by Suju..i think!


then i saw Shinhwa's stuffs too! [Took pictures for Tracy..LOL!]



Okay, we took quite a long while to get our way to TimeOut Gelato...
Asked for directions with our poor korean language skills..... and ended up realizing that quite a no. of them actually knows English [not bad!!].

How Embarrasing!

Finding and Finding in the super cold weather and FINALLY:

RUSHED in (after taking pics from outside) and felt the WARMTH inside..hahahah:

Choosing ice-cream:

but the greentea icecream was abit too bitter 0_0 for me uh.

Cabbed back with Simin, Milton and Chloe to hotel and i went to meet laoshi and kim @ Lotteria [just beside the hotel].

Walked around the streets near hotel and ate mandoo. hee.



Was getting late so we didnt went out too far as the shops were closed quite early.

Back in hotel room that night:

E-Dictionary!!!
Korean Language teacher introd us this brand back in Singapore before...thus, laoshi and a lady actually went to hunt for this dictionary while we were all having vocals in the afternoon.

After getting the dictionary, there was a "hole" in both laoshi's and my pocket.
Spent about $300+ in it!

Drank HITE at night! (Currently being endorsed by BIGBANG!)

Look @ the mess...

Kim & my bed!


Laoshi's bed!
She was super cold that she had to call for a heater...
and it was placed right beside her bed at night. HAHAH!

More MESS.

Kim

Mine Mine.. X)

Dont know what was laoshi doing then. LOL.

I stayed up late to pack my stuffs [couldnt stand the mess alr...] while laoshi and kim were sleeping awayyyyy~~
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7th Dec 2009 [Monday]

Last day in Korea. T__T.

Slept in a bit... woke up @ 0800hrs.

Attempt on being fashion police [Inspired by 2PM's Taecyeon..heeheehee]

Met up with Laoshi's parents, Simin and Chloe and we took a subway to Myung Dong.

Subway ticket.

We dont want to go hommmeeeee.....HELP~

Upon arrival at the station, snapping away like fangirls againnnnn:



Love Minzy+CL- Please Don't Go!!

Saw Yunho and thought of Sam Unnie in Singapore.. XD

From the moment we walked out of the station, a CD shop caught our attention and...there goes laoshi, kim and myself...
Stayed in the shop for quite some time mann..

Took this screenshot for Carmen Unnie.

And another screenshot for Weeteng!

Soulmate!

Really really "HIGH" having to see loads of dongbang's stuffs..
Waited so long to spot and feel dbsk's presence in Korea...all along the trip...we see 2PM, BIGBANG, 2NE1, SNSD....and was wondering....what about dongbang? Was rather disheartening then...until the day we went to Everysing and this day!!!

Alright, after some time...we left the shop....calculating the amount of $ left to shop....and we walked to i-cant-remember-which-street for lunch!
2nd level!

Menu.


Laoshi's parents...waiting for 밥

밥 먹어??

-BUrrrrRRRrrrp-

Here comes... Shopping Time!

Again, for Sam!

Passed by a store full of IDOL stuffs!

HOW COOL!

TVXQ umbrella...expensive

Empty stage with backdrop, no audience YET..
2PM appearing in the evening!!!!

Outside handphone shop.

Saw many Koreans eating this...

We bought it too!
Yum yum!

We walked and shopped...and learnt the art of bargaining...testing out our korean skills once again..lol!!
It was allll fun!

Then, just when we were about to leave the place and make our way to the women's university shopping district...we met jocelyn and gang....wooohh...from there, i followed them to fangirl!
So Kim followed laoshi and laoshi's parents back. [Heard they ate GOOD food for dinner!]

While me and the others went to the area where 2PM will be appearing in the late evening...
Waited for 2hours plus....LONG STORY man.
The worst was waiting in the COLD!
Omg, really was shivering......

Just for the sake of seeing 2PM...one by one...walking from their vehicle to the stage..
I was satisfied though!
Stood near the road [entrance] with Jocelyn and Nigel until 2PM got on stage, then we went to the back the "audience area" where it was pretty SPACIOUS because all the other fangirls were squeezing infront... hee...

Credits to Milton for helping to take the pics too..


Fans standing HIGH..lol!

Even though the pics quite bad... ... my view wasnt all that great...
But to be able to see them in real-life and to have a vid of taec talking.....am happy enough!

Ohyah, the 1st time i saw them was at the kpop concert in Singapore.
But during that time, I dont really know them...only heard that there was this group who can breakdance and theres this thailand guy, Nick Khun in the group.
After their performance in Singapore was when I really check them out and TADAAH, it's 2PM BABBAAYYEE!

Cool experience i must say!

After those crazy moments, we rushed to the women's university shopping district.
I sooo wanted to get a pair of new sneakers but couldnt find a pair i really like there =(
Saw 2NE1's FILA-endorsed high cuts earlier on @ myung dong but didnt get it. WASTED!

Anyway..got a pair of boots instead.lol

Just taking random shots in Korea before leaving the next day T__T

Last train ride in korea!

Went back to hotel...and started packinggg...

I hereby declare that I've got a super super bad memory...

My goldfish memory failed on me uncountable times in Singapore..

Even in Korea...was so frustrated with myself when i couldnt find the hotel room keys...[didnt lose it...just coouldnt remb where i put it]...

Did my daily "calculations" and recorded into my notebook then "Knock-out"!

잘자요!

8th Dec 2009 [Tuesday]

Good Morning~~~

Hopped on to a coach that will bring us specially from the hotel to Incheon airport.

Drinking 2PM-Endorsed Coffee!

Still dark... byebye seoul~

At the airport:

Checking in:

While waiting.........

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AND...just our last stop to buy stuffs..................................
YAYY!!!

Its 2PM!

Bidding our last goodbyeeeeeeee....

Onboard:

Sleepy us.

Breakfast

Bought the cheesecake for brothers back home...
Got the Taec picture for myself....hahahah

Sitting by the window =)

Lunch on board:

Laoshi taking pic of her own lunch set.

Laoshi's dad!..

Jessica and Weilin= The room-mates!

All caught unaware...wooh~

and...i like the icecream!~

BACK TO SG!

All dead tired...bought wine from duty-free shop.
Took taxi home...and started unpacking....showed-off to my dad the CDs i bought ...and the dictionary....HAHAH!
Bought dad a wallet and Mum a scarf.

Bought some snacks home too...

Didnt manage to get loads of stuffs...guess the fangirling took up plenty of time [that i could use to shop]...the $ spent on the dictionary was abit omg as well....

but..as i say... am happy...NO REGRETS!!!

Had a great time (that i so didnt want to go back home.......)

I'll keep going...
...heed the advices
...work to improve on the comments given
...아짜!!!


Thanks to Superb Laoshi, the approachable and helpful Guides for making this trip possible.
Not to forget, the very much professional teachers, the cool translator and the fun CJ students[fan-girls, fan boys as well] ...for making this trip packed with colourful memories...

감사합니다!