yet another mortifying toilet incident to kickstart the 2010/2011 academic year. thankfully this one happened at home. had a close call with gravity when i was showering. for the uninformed, i am in baika state (my foot is bandaged with smelly chinese medicine thanks to the fall, but i only went to the sinseh (another …
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i really need to stop obsessing. in other news, the story of my life -
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this time last year, we were on the dusty rooftops having one last hurrah before you left. we were so full from drink and satiated with life. the drink made your angles soft and your words tumble over each other like falling dominoes. under the cover of the night and the pretense of the dark, …
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UPDATED. I’m back and i’ve blogged about Korea in the Korea Kronicles Here be the kronicles updated until day 9!
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Day 1: 2 August First time travelling alone! left the house really early and now i have another two hours to kill before my flight at 1110 am. the irony is that i decided to pay a few dollars more to take the Korean Air flight but it seems that I am now on a …
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We wake up at 9am to check out by 1030 and have breakfast at Insadong. Leave for Gimpo Airport via Subway and arrive in jeju at 1630 via Eastar Jet. We are supposed to go and look at the sunset at the beach but it’s too late for that now. The hostel is very ulu …
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First stop today is the O’Sulloc Green Tea Museum. I’ve been on a green tea binge for awhile now so going to the museum is an excellent idea. Not a big fan of the fields though since i can barely identify the crops as green tea (if at all). Roy says that Jeju soil is …
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Mt. Hallasan Terrible night of sleep – barely get an hour in before we have to wake up at 5am to wash up and catch the 640 am bus to Mt. Hallasan (NB: This is a true mountain, not the pansy ones i climbed in Nanjing). There was a brief thunderstorm in the early morning …
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Slack last day at Jeju. We go for a mandatory visit at the supposedly famous Teddy Bear Museum – I appear to be the only one genuinely interested in the bears playing dress-up and acting out the different historical scenes (my favourite one being the Terracotta soldiers). We are supposed to go to the Ghost …
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We decide to sleep in after the gruelling night of kbox. We have samgaeta (ginseng chicken) for brunch across the street from the hostel. the place has a line that extends to the back of the parking lots. thankfully i am travelling with foodie friends and we all agree that the line must surely signal …
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