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Amandina’s elf just told me “Tokyo for S$460 on Malaysian Airline!”.
I hate working-adult’s life! I’m on probation till December. The industry’s peak period stretches from Christmas to after CNY. That means. I can only travel in March. Dang.
Ok. This may be old news. BUT you can now travel to Bangkok / Ho Chi Minh on Singapore Airlines for a mere S$198 (return, inclusive of airfare and taxes). Hmph. If only I am not broke. Sucks. To book by tomorrow and for travel before 31 Aug 2009. Sigh.
Here’s some design inspirations we found for our Loft during our trip!
Wooden Venetian Blinds with Light Bulbs
(We can probably put this in one of the rooms or bathroom.)
Concrete-Glass Window Divider
(This would be nice in our living room.)
A Tree with some fake Flowers
(We would love this in our living room or balcony.)
Rows of Flowers
(I want them in my planter box!)
Soft lighting beneath Silky Curtains
(This will look so good in my walk-in-wardrobe.)
If only our apartment is bigger than a mere 94 square feet. Pui.
Note: There will be one more post on the DMZ tour to complete the documentation of my trip but I’m just too lazy to start writing for that. I am hoping Mr Smiley (HINT) can contribute to that particular post but so far, he has yet to agree to it.
Too lazy and tired (after writing the 8th post for the day) to write anything else (also commonly known as Blogging Fatigue). In this post, I am going to let the pictures and Amandina’s previous post do the talking instead.
You can tour through this place by foot (running a total of 5.52 km with an average (beware!) time of 1.5 hours) or with the electric tram (which we obviously picked!).
Quoted from Amandina, “I love visiting UNESCO World Heritage sites – they are always breathtaking and never disappoint.”
Before the walking
Freak. The steps.
I lurve the Cheonggyecheon stream. But we didn’t take many pictures here. That’s because with my butter fingers, I dropped Jason’s lens cap into the cold water. Sorry baby!
The poor lens cap must be really cold and lonely now.
“Ssamziegil has been marked as the ‘Special Insa-dong within Insa-dong’. This unique area was designed in such a way by connecting its charming alleys in the form of a spiral-like stairway. As you do your window-shopping through the lovely, cozy stores all the way to the top, you will arrive at Haneulmadang where you can get a extraordinarily clear view of the sky.”
Visit Korea
I love the way the building is structured. At a florist there, we saw a pretty-white-plastic-caged-like-pot holding some flowers and we wanted to get it for our loft, but apparently, the owner does not sell the pot without the flowers.
Shucks. I have the tendency of taking ridiculous photos when all I want are sophisticated and charming looking ones.
Gyeongbokgung Palace is arguably the grandest and most beautiful among all the five palaces found in Seoul. The suave and mannish looking guards “protecting” the palace added an extra dimension to our experience there (they also caused a frantic picture taking scene among the girls and tourists).
I was supposed to be dressed like Da Chang Jing (from the show Daejanggeum or Jewel in the Palace) but ended up looking like Maria. Hmph.
Charming and quaint traditional houses, peaceful streams meandering through the garden, traditional folk games (which I failed to master -_-) and fascinating plants are some things you can find without spending a single dime or penny (or won).
The night view from the viewing platform below Busan Tower is charming.
Tip: Never get up the Busan Tower unless you enjoy breathing dusty and musky air or viewing things through badly scratched plastic lens.
Behaving as though we were 14, we headed to Lotte World! (Yes I know, what’s Lotte World when you’ve been to the ones in the states.) But it wasn’t too bad for a mere 35,000 won (approx SGD40~)!
Some of the rides were nerve-wreaking (Our favourite! Speedboat-like-ride running at 70km/h!), heart-stopping (Bungee-jump-like-ride) and hilarious (Simulated cowboy shooting game involving a plastic motion horse with a bunch of youth! The photos of the losers (those with the lowest scores) were shown at the end of the game! Thankfully (and surprisingly), I wasn’t at the bottom three!).
Initially, we were all excited and energetic.
At the end of the day, we were too worn-out for any more rides. Our age is definitely catching up with us! Hmph.
There was a LOT of seafood. Strange looking ones, amazingly huge mussels and live octopus.
My only regret. Failing to try the crabs. Sigh. The language barrier, shallow pocket and aggressive Ajimas didn’t help.
In Korea, the umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh you carry displays your fashion style and they are not limited by simple solid colour Giordano umbrella (their Giordano do not sell umbrella. -_- )
So. We got ourselves cute umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh …
Having bought 40 face masks myself and 20 face masks by my partner, how can we not treat ourselves to these cheap facial galore while we were there!
A perfect morning. A perfect breakfast. Hmmmm. Perfect.
“On the tip of Yeongdo Island, southwest of the downtown area. It is a very hilly and heavily forested area with rugged cliffs dropping straight down to the sea 150 m below.”
If not for the heavy mist and the unpleasantly cold weather that day, this place would be perfect.
I love the sea, the cliff, the lighthouse (not in picture) and the liberty of standing at the edge of the cliff. But the stupid drizzle ruined my chance of venturing further than where I stood. Oh. The walking sucks though. HAHA.
Note: By now, you will realize that my posts are not in chronological order but randomly organized thoughts. HAHA.
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