Our last full day before leaving Seoul the following noon. It’s almost heart wrenching to be back to reality again. I guess it’s the same for most people… almost normal. We wanted to be a little more ambitious to go to Morning Calm and Nami Island but guess what? We asked NK if it was possible and he did a research for us in Korean… and said it’s not possible unless we have a car. Geez. If not, I would have headed to the place where they shot “You’re Beautiful” there. Nevermind! I saw my handsome Keunsuk up close in the end, so it doesn’t matter anymore.

We took a KO Rail from at this station that was 2 stops down from Sinseol-dong and the journey was so long. I thought I won’t be able to sit in this train as I did sat a lot of it while I was in Japan but only once in Seoul. Shows that we didn’t move out of Seoul a lot. haha! Well, there’s a lot of stuff to look at in Seoul itself.

Nami Island? Ring bell?
That’s right… There’s where Winter Sonata was filmed and ever since, loads of couples come here to enjoy scenery. Ajumma(s) as well. haha! We rented bicycles to cycle around the island and guess what? We completed it in about 3o mins? Good thing we didn’t rent it for 2 hours, else we would have been very bored! Their max limit was 1 hour.

That’s our cute bikes but they’re EXTREMELY hard to ride on.
I like mountain bikes better.

I liked this picture I took.

I love this much!

Awesome Elaine walking on air!
I wonder if it’s the boots!

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Loads of walking can really make people like us HUNGRY!!

And… that’s when I saw Kim Bum too!! Omgosh!! I thought if I could see Keunsuk on the same plane it would have been awesome! Or Junsu somewhere too. I nearly saw all three… nearly… They caught me taking a photo but it was too late cos I snapped it with my DSLR. I appreciate my fast speed camera for once.

That’s Kim Bum on the tram!

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I did something really naughty too… and it’s been a while since I did it.

Vandalism!! Haha! It’s our trademark left at the entrance of one of the female toliet on Nami Island. If you see it one day, say “hi” to it for me.

Toddles Folks!!

Close to getting all the post up. I’m getting lazier already and it’s been one week plus since I’ve been back from Korea.

And for this day… I regret not bringing my camera with me because it was really beautiful at Everland. There where having some tulip event and I love tulip. Makes me really happy and crazy (like above). As usual, I’m stealing pictures from Elaine again and Arthur’s too. She want royalties for using her pictures. Tsk tsk. After so many years of friendship, this is what I get. Sad!!!

Getting to Everland was slightly trickier compared to Lotte world because it was a little off Seoul and we have Arthur with us that day too. Good thing he came along else I won’t be playing any of the scary rides because Elaine was off her limits already… from Lotte world.

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Everland is over at the mountain areas. 1hr from Seoul by bus.

It was actually big enough to store like a zoo in there?
The weather that day was really good because we didn’t need our wind breaker of any sort. Just a slightly thick jacket for me.

Check out the blue faced monkey.

Or maybe your gramps? haha!

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That’s right. I sat on that wooden roller coaster.
It was an experience sitting on the wooden one.

Probably the only group photo we have. Awww…

I’m quite amazed at how big Everland was. I actually enjoyed the place a lot a lot more. So my recommendations? Everland is the winner for this one.

Sorry but I don’t have much to write on this one as it’s more on pictures and nothing much to talk about. Everybody knows about rides anyways. haha! We spent our whole day at Everland and back to Seoul for dinner before heading back to backpackers Korea for the day.

Chef Arthur

Yummy bbq porky for dinner.

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Another street food before calling it a day. Haha!
We eat alot somehow and still lost weight. Amazing.

I didn’t bring my camera for Lotte World as I figured that there wouldn’t be anything to take. So thanks to Elaine’s handy good camera, we still have some awesome pictures in it. Elaine was up for the challange. Not all but she was definitely braver then before!! Check out below what she rode one. She’s awesome. I dare to do scary stuff, so it wasn’t so much for a dare for me… hehe.

My boyfriend criteria number one? Must be able to dare play scary rides with me and not puke. Lotte world was split into two parts, indoor and outdoor. Guess which one I liked better? For those who knows me, I’ll definitely like the outdoor one better. Why? Simply because the rides are much more thrilling and… the scenary was awesome from high high above.

See how small the indoor is?
Sorry, it’s child’s play for me.

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Anyways, Check out the outdoor ones.

Can you see my feets?
I guess not cos I can’t tell which ones are mine too.
It was an awesome view up there for that few seconds before we were dropped to our “death”.

and oh yes… I played that… alone sadly. I’m one of the many people up there at that point and Elaine was down there taking photos of me. Compared to this and Everland, I’m actually liking everland more. Because it’s more beautiful and the rides are wilder. hahahaha! I’m sorry, I’m such a sucker for thrilling stuff as long as I don’t die and it’s legal.

Oh yes…

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Poor Elaine scared badly on that day with the scary rides. I think she probably will never suggest going on amusement parks with me anymore unless it’s Disneyland. One ride I really hate so much was the indoor rollar coaster. It’s horrible cos it’s so fast and it bangs your head so hard that it hurts. By then the ride was no longer fun but a horrible one. Never bother to ride on that, period. You can try and get the same results as I do.

After all the crazy fun, we had an interesting dinner at this resturant. I think it was more like a snack or something? I don’t really know. It’s near the hostel where we stayed and we decided to give it a try and it was good. Yummy-licious.

One of the hot favourites! Spicy chicken something. haha!

Before I close for the day, we headed to star avenue as well since it’s near Lotte. Plus it was free since we bought a one day ticket for Lotte World. Ha! It’s a really small place and we did some role acting thing. It was silly fun… I wonder why she didn’t upload the video. It’s so funny that we were laughing our butts off that night in the room. I hope nobody heard it… and that’s all for now.

Till then, Folks!

That was my failed attempt of a sad face.
I’m better at making silly faces (as proven above).

Yes, wake up! (Slaps self) I’m suppose to be in Singapore and working! *Sulks*
I just like to play, have fun and meet new people. Only possible if I married a rich godly man, else I’ll be sulking every year after my trip. Not nice.

I’m on medication and it makes it drowsy. I’m drugged literally. Cough be still and good, so that I can have fun again. It’s tiring to cough every night and it disrupt my sleep badly. Like I was almost going to sleep and suddenly my throat decided to get really itchy and I would just cough non-stop for that one min. It’s not nice at all. Your prayers will be deeply appreciated.

I have a tenancy to get attached to things/people/places easily and have a hard time getting out of it later. *Sigh* It’s going to take me a month before I can get over it. I’ll be having “Monday blues” for the whole month. haha!

Doodles!

After being chased out the day before at the first coffee prince shop, we’ve decided to head back there again and this time… it was empty. I was like “you’re kidding right?” Anyways, we ordered coffee and a cake. My coffee was horrible cos I ordered something and assumed it would be just coffee black but it turned out that it was coffee black and lemons. Ewwww… It’s like coffee turned sour and I didn’t like it. Oh! I saw the rude waiter and I stared at him. I think he remembered us. ha!

After that we headed to Changdeokgung Palace and Huwon. It’s a really pretty place to be for family and friends on a nice Sunday morning. Really peaceful and quiet. We took a good long stroll till we reach to the other side of the entrance. We didn’t know where we were exactly but I didn’t want to walk back the same place as it was pretty far. So we walk and walk until we passed by this street food stall that was selling rice cakes and maggots soup?! You read it right, it was maggot soup. Should have taken a picture down. It was like in this huge metal pot and inside was maggots and black soup. Yuck. I didn’t want to try it. It was the only stall that I’ve seen so far selling maggots.

While we were eating and figuring out way out, suddenly an uncle popped by from beside us while we were looking at the map. Elaine got a shock. haha! Poor girl. I just felt that there was somebody else closed behind me. I presume he was like a tour guide somewhere as he was wearing KTO clothes. I told him we were looking for the nearest subway and he pointed us to where it was. We weren’t lost, just looking for the subway till he popped up beside us. Then it’s flea market time! We headed to Picasso street and that’s where I finally see the true flea market style. I loved it till it started drizzling and people where closing up their stores. It’s surprising that I didn’t buy anything from there. Oh! Elaine and I saw a cute guy tending to one of the stalls. haha! No pictures, sorry!

We had ummm… bbq pork for dinner! I don’t know what is it called exactly but it was yummy. There was some language drama going on there before we finally ordered our food. hahaha!

Our final stop of the day was at HanGang River. We took the magical boat and it was actually a showcase of magic. If I knew early, I’ll probably chose the live one cos I prefer a live band. It was so cold that I decided to have a beer on boat. I think it was a pretty bad choice cos after half a can, my face was red and burning like a lobster. Hmmm… I can’t lie when I drink. Tsk tsk. We definitely saw beautiful Cherry Blossom trees. We got semi-lost and passed by this street stall. The uncle was watching porn openly and it was a total turn off. I was grossed out, period. We headed back quite late and that was day 6 for us.

More pictures of Seoul and us here!