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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hongdae Hongdae might well be my favourite place in Seoul. It’s a college town so there’s alot happening in one place – it actually reminds me of Shanghai’s tianzifang and Singapore’s Haji Lane except Hongdae is sprawling. the main street spreads out like a fan, creeping into the alleys. It’s a very laidback place, with …
Am currently at T2 of Shanghai Pudong Airport waiting to take SQ home. have four hours of waiting time to kill but it could be worse. i am a master of creating self-induced boredom. thankfully the waiting time is offset by my junk food bag. i am rather impressed and pleased with myself as i …
shanghai’s weather is killer in the month of july. everytime i step out of the house or an airconditioned location (with much reluctance) it’s like stepping into the gobi desert, except there would be less people in the gobi desert. plus, sucks to be sick here i feel like my legs are plodding through sludge. …
in two weeks, i will have finished exactly eight weeks of internships. i think that’s quite enough for a long long time. and after this, i will have a long one month holiday to look forward to. i’m leaving for my first leg to penang the very first day after i end work, and then …