To Be A supErwoMAN

o crap... still cant get into msn... wad's the deal man? hm... i just came back from cruise actually... finally, have time to blog... hm... let's start reflecting back about my trip to korea...

well, spent the first nite on the plane... tt was 28th dec... i wonder... should i call the travel agency a cheat or wad? the nite one the plane is counted as one of the 5 days of my trip.. crap... now it makes the holiday a bit too expensive... hm... i had a hard time trying to sleep on the plane... we travelled for like 6 hours? sit till my butt ache... it wasnt SIA.. tt's y... SIA is the best seah... e korean airplane i took has nth! no video games to play, no choice of movies to watch.. yuck yuck! but the air stewardess were surprisingly pretty... 2nd to SIA's... i wouldnt want to mention the rest tt i've been onto...

let's see... made little notes about my trip... hm... alright... We reached Ichoen Airport at around 7 plus if i didnt recall wrongly.. After clearing customs, I ran out of the airport to have a feel of how cold it is with only a thin long sleeves top on... It didnt feel as cold as I thought it would. We were welcomed by a local tour guide and a part-time photographer. I have to say the tour guide was good... He's the boss himself... business was so good that he had to stand in himself... Later in the trip, I actually learnt that the young photographer was a baseballer.. too bad we weren't able to communicate well since he couldnt speak English and i couldn't speak the Korean language.

Alright.. our first trip was to Everland. It's a gigantic park owned by LG. didnt't realise that LG is that rich. It has theme parks, a safari zoo, boat rides, big beauitful gardens, etc. Our first stop was the safari zoo. in there, animals were allowed to move around in the park specially made to look like their natural habitats... it was ironical because the animals were taught to do little tricks like shaking hands and all.. it's not all that "natural" after all..

den, we took the sky scraper... it's kinda scary if there weren't nets just right below us. it's like this metal seats long enough for 4 pple to sit on, which are hooked on these thick cables... there weren't any other forms of protection except this movable metal bar in front of u, preventing u from falling forward. the sky scraper took us to another part of the park... it's where we took this so called boat ride. our "boat" was circular, made up of 5 parts of a pie, joined up in the middle. i knew we were going to get wet when we saw pple coming back with their heads and clothes all wet. lucky me.. i onli got my legs wet... O, i took the Suspended roller coaster with my brother, stanley... tot it's the most trilling ride in the park. but we were wrong... it onli turned like 90 degrees, mostly left and right... i give it 2 out of 5 stars.. i've taken better ones...

Hm.. den comes lunch... yummy yum yum... We were served with the best pork I've ever eaten in my life... so delicious... barbecued pork... not oily... and kinda healthy considering that we were taught to wrap the piece of pork in a piece of lettuce and applying this special red sauce before sending them into our mouth...

After lunch, we went to Carribean Bay. The outdoor park was closed since it was early winter. The indoor one was fun. Singapore should have sth like this.. there were lsides and blackholes like those we used to have in Sentosa's Fantasy Island... There was this jetty jump thingy.. way too cool... o and wave pool... o ya.. and i tried swimming out in the cold. think the temperature out there was around ice point.. haha i have to admit tt it was pretty cold.. but as long as you dun come out from the pool, it's ok.. after all tt tiring running and fooling around, we head to the spa and sauna section. I was amused by the no. of spas they have. I tried the Apple, Lemon and Jade one... nice... water was realli hot... the hottest one was the Jade one... at 40 plus degrees celsius. i was red like bbq pork when i came out.. lol.. it was probably too relaxing coz by the time, i was out, my legs were pretty wobbly.. eye lids felt heavy... felt sleepy.. haha...

Then the highlight of my entire trip sort of alerted me.. it happened in the toilet.. i was walking into the bathing section when i saw a woman and her daughter standing in front of two long mirrors naked! the woman was drying and combing her daughter's hair as if no one was looking. i was so astonished.. probabaly have blushed when i walked past them, trying to keep my eyes straight in front.. later, i found out that it's a norm in korea. but of coz, i didnt follow... i was too shy to expose myself... had a hard time changing in my own cubicle... since all the koreans do that, the cubicles onli have metal shelves big enought for u to put ur shampoo bottles.

The next day, we went for snow skiing.. it's great! think it;s pretty easy to learn the basics... skiing downhill was easy... the higher i went, the faster i came down... u could feel the cold air pushing u back when u're skiing down the slope.. the sucky thing is that u have to climb all the way up. tt's the tiring part... after skiing for a few hours, i was too tired and reluctant to move myself up tt slope again...

the later part of the trip was more of sightseeing and shopping... if u wanna go for a shopping spree, i suggest u go to other countires like HK and Thailand.. korea is not the place. things there are so much more expensive... o ya... the tour guide told us that onli the rich could afford having beef during winter. pork cost 4000 won. beef cost 100 times mroe if i'm not wrong. hence, we had nth els but pork for the rest of our trip. so now.. ya.. i'm sick of pork.. miss all the fish and chicken... the onli time i had chicken was our feast in the gingseng chicken soup restaurant. wo.. tt was nice... had this gingseng chicken stew... one whole chicken just for me.. yummy..

I came back on 2nd dec. it was pretty late.. 11pm or later... had to sleep early since i hd debtak appointment on the next morning.. so ya... extracted my other 2 teeth.. so now i have 4 holes! trying not to show my teeth like usual when i smile... realli tough for me... but i think i look ok.. not as bad as i tot... haha so means i can still go out... lol.. cruise wasnt as bad as i tot too... went to the casino for the first time... won $350 the first time i placed my bet... yippee... so cool..

now tt i'm back in sinagpore, it's time to study for SAT and look for job... anyone got lobang? i realli realli wanna work ina pet shop!!!! keith gotten a job there! i'm so jealous!!!

frens? any party? come jio me?