No water?!?!

Yes. You read correctly, my house is out of water :S

I'm beginning to think that I've gone back in time to the era where water was not available through taps but have to be drawn from a common well in the centre of the village.

Apparently some pipe burst and it's raining down into my neighbour's house downstairs, so my water supply to my house has been SHUT OFF.

If you don't realise what that literally means...it means, having to get water from a hose outside of my house for simple things like washing my hands, brushing teeth, bathing, drinking, flushing toilet!!!!!!

OMG. How can this be happening. :(

I hope it gets fixed....FAST. pllllssssssssss....................

Oh wellz, have to live with it no matter what. Am just psychoing myself that I'm like camping...where in the good ol' days, we used pails and scoops to get our bath done..haha..

Anyway, I've decided to put up some pics that I've taken over the last 2 weeks with my hp, before I procrastinate so long that I decide to not put them up (like I've done many times in the past) :P

Korea

Just thought it's very interesting how they stick a bar of soap onto this metal rod at this particular toilet instead of having soap dispensers.. :P

We went for an early trek in Jeju....

...this is the view from halfway up the hill :)

They actually have a TEDDY BEAR MUSUEM

Does this look familiar? (*hint: Goong...)
Aaaawwwww..... :)
It was 0.4 degrees celcius the night we reached our ski resort! And if you read my previous posts, it started snowing that night :)

And this is the view from my window the next morning :):):)

Nice right??? The ski slopes are at the back...that's where we'd be skiing a while later...

After skiing...a cable car ride to the top of the mountain...

The view on the way up on one side....

And this is how thick the snow was at the mountain top!! Apparently it was at this mountain top that they filmed the popular Korean drama Winter Sonata by Baey Yong Jun.

Doesn't this feel like the path would lead you into another magical world? :)

In this theme park called Everland, they had this cool safari ride. RREALLY cool coz, some lions, tigers and bears are just sleeping or walking right beside the bus...so we get to see them SUPER close range :P

Displaying an action that was pre-taught in order to get a biscuit from the safari bus driver...

See how close they are to us???

Right in front of my face!!! :)

OK, getting bored of uploading photos. Shall do it some other time....tmw tmw...tmw.... :P

International citizen

Hello everyone....

I'm currently in....................HONG KONG :)
Haha....8 days in Korea zipped by me...reached Singapore at 2 am in the morning on 2 Dec..and then went to the airport again at 6.30am on 3 Dec to fly over to HK :P Heh...really makes me feel like an international citizen...hee.

Korea was.....well..pretty interesting :) I think the best part of it was...that we actually saw snow coming down from the sky! SO COOL. It started snowing the night before we reached the ski resort.....and then by the next morning when we woke up, EVERYTHING was white :) Woah...you must be there to experience it....it's just....so niiiiiice.....
Skiing was pretty fun! Heh, am proud to say that I didn't fall at all :P (also because the slope we were on wasn't THAT steep...keke)

Oh and and....we had a REEEEAALLY sumptous sashimi meal....my abalone sashimi was actually ALIVE when I ate it!!!!!!!! EEKS. Haha...at first I didn't realise it when I plucked it out of it's shell...and then it started squirming...ON MY SPOON. I almost jumped! Hahah...I thought that it was perhaps just uncurling because I scooped it out..and that it was already dead. BUT, it CONTINUED squirming. OMG lor. :P

The only disappointment I felt about the trip was that we didn't do any sight-seeing in Seoul itself. It was ALL shopping and duty-free blah blah. Ginseng shop.....cosmetics shop....this shop that shop..... hmph. I really really wanted to visit the palace that was there...but it wasn't in our itinerary :( Oh wellz...will talk more about the trip when I've got time to post photos ;)


Some interesting facts that I noticed about Korea....
1. All the people involved in the tourism industry speaks average to FANTASTIC mandarin. I'ts amazing how well they can speak mandarin...pei fu pei fu :)

2. Kimchii is included in EVERY single meal of the day. EVERY.

3. The Koreans are really proud of their country, and are pretty welcoming towards foreigners. We had people ask us where we were from, and then ended off with "welcome to korea :) "... shows how much they like to play host to us.

4. The country is not foreigner-friendly, in the sense that, most signages and instructions are TOTALLY in korean. It's almost impossible to do a free-and-easy trip there unless you've got a korean speaking friend amongst the group.

5. Koreans eat very simple meals. Mostly made up of vegetables..and at most ONE meat per meal. (apparently the meat is added in coz we're foreigners...the locals only eat meat once a week!)

6. Eerrrr...can't remember anymore....if I do I'll continue next time =)


Okie, enough updates, I'm gonna watch HK drama now :P
Looking forward to my dim sum over the next few days!! :)