October 24, 2012
Posted in Uncategorized tagged 2012, 26, annoying, b, b2st, block, blockbuster, christmas, coming, dong, dvd, frustrations, generations, grandma, happy, korea, MT, myeong, myeong-dong, namsan, october, palace, personal, present, presents, seoul, south, three, to, together, travel, travelling, visit at 1:02 pm by Kirti
Hey guys,
I know the last time I wrote anything, I wasn’t feeling quite alright. Sadly, I still am not. My mother arrived a few days ago, and before you’re like screaming building parties everywhere. It’s not all ponies and rainbows. Of course, I love them, but at times I feel really burdened because I am not sure how to plan or go about certain things.
Anyways, leaving my personal frustrations somewhere else.. The first day I took them out for food and went home. The second day we visited one of the palaces, and the other palace I wanted to visit, did not have any tickets to the ‘secret garden’ instead we visited the Han River; which is and still will be one of my favorite places in Seoul.
Yesterday we went back to the palace to visit the ‘Secret garden’ again, and this time we managed to get in. After this, we visited Mt. Namsan. It was .. decent this time. Today? Today I visited my morning class and then went to ‘Gangnam’ because there was apparently a picture moment there. After this we went to Myeong-dong and shopped just a very little (this is nothing compared to what I usually do); and moved on to Cheonyagni to eat.
As usual, there was a lot of commentary on the food. I love the food here, so sorry to say; you won’t see me looking for bread anytime soon. Not when I know that there are things that are at least five times more delicious out there ;). I am glad to see my little sister’s face though, and to share certain things with her.
Sometimes it’s really hard to listen to what three generations want and need, and of course there is always one or two people that will not be pleased with the plan. It can be a bit overwhelming sometimes. I just wish they remember one thing, that food is just a side dish on the big plate that life is. It’s not the main dish!
Furthermore, I do hope that they enjoyed the things I’ve tried to show them within this short period, and that they remember that complaining about whatever, won’t help anyone. It’ll just make me feel bad (for no good reason -.-).
On a happier note: I am going to chillax and just go to work tomorrow, and work a lot on my essay. It’s due in a few days and I don’t want to dissapoint my teacher by handing in something I don’t suppport.
We should have a special theme song for this, but; Block B’s new CD is coming out the 26th of this month (the normal version, yes) and so is B2st’s new DVD. Early Christmas present, anyone?
That’s all for me from now.
Hope you enjoyed the reading 😉
Love,
-Kirti
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October 17, 2012
Posted in Uncategorized tagged alone, dokdo, east, east asia, essay, getting, ill, korea, koreans, library, presentation, seoul, south, study, studying, together, was, weather at 7:31 am by Kirti
Hey everyone ^^
This week has been reasonably relaxed for now. I just managed to finish my first Korean test, and now I am still working on the Dokdo presentation (and hating Prezi more by the second) but It’ll end up fine I think. The weather in Seoul suddenly took another 180 spin so I might be getting sick this time. There’s not enough hot food to keep me from not getting ill :/. I did wear warm clothes today, but I don’t think it did me any good for now. (Who knows, I might be 100% tomorrow :D)
So tomorrow I will just do my presentation and hope I don’t fall asleep at work (I don’t think there will be much traffic from people coming in) it’s kinda sad really. Since even though I have kimbap in the morning, I manage to be starving by the time my shift ends XD.
I still have to work on my East Asian History essay, which I will do as soon as this presentation is over. There’s just not enough time for me to finish everything before Saturday. So I think I am just going to relax and do everything next week at the times that I make it to the dorm. Like, one hour a day instead of 7 hours in one day ^^. The library is incredibly crowded right now.
The Korean students (even the ones that have a study room at home) are going to the library to study. It’s not like ours though, where there are constant sounds and chit chatter from other people, so I generally think it’s a scary place to be. The silence is something I’d prefer in my room, and not outside. Cultural preference I guess?
That’s all I’ve got to say for now.
Hope you enjoyed the reading ^^. If there’s anything you’d want to ask, just ask :D.
Love,
Kirti
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October 1, 2012
Posted in Uncategorized tagged 1988, bed, birds, budgies, cubs, cute, enclosure, entertaining, everland, friends, fun, ghost, grabbing, halloween, having, horror maze, hospital, korea, kroea, lion, park, people, polar bear, rolling, scary, south, stalking, t-express, theme, tiger, together, walking, water, wet at 3:31 pm by Kirti
Hey everyone 😀
Yesterday I went to Everland ^^. And as usual when we’re doing something fun.. I had to get up really early. So again, the alarm clock wanted to sing me a song at 6 am again. I luckily bought myself some noms before going back from Sinchon the day before. I had two croissants for breakfast, and it was really cold outside!
We made it to Everland at around 9.20 in the morning, we had to take one bus to Gangnam station, and from there another bus to get to Everland, finally there was the shuttle bus. So we waited.. the gates first opened at 10:07 while the official park opening time is actually 10 am. There were a lot of people queuing for some reason (I’m not really used to it) . Because Halloween will be soon, the park was decorated in some sort of ‘Halloween style’
After this we went on our first water ride, roughly.. twenty minutes after we entered the park. My biggest nightmare would be my bag getting wet, so I had another plastic bag (in my bag) to save them. The water ride was much like the ‘splash’ ride we have in Duinrell at home, just less wet. I also went on the Rolling X-train, it’s been operating since 1988 (The Olympics in South Korea) doesn’t make it less intense though. My head was still spinning after I came out of the ride (frontal flips in the morning syndrome?).
After this our group split up, because I didn’t feel like going to this rollercoaster:
Instead I went to the petting zoo. I prefer cuddly and cute any time! I also managed to see a white tiger cub, and white tigers and a (bengal?) tiger which were all sleeping. I also fed some budgies, it was like being at home for a few seconds. They were all over the place ^^. Also, there were a lot of fennec’s. For the people who don’t know what those are, they are incredibly cute (or at least I’d like to think so) :
Furthermore it surprised me that some of the enclosures didn’t feel like an enclosure at all. Like, things that would have had fences and glass in Europe, were ‘just’ out in the open. Sometimes for the good, and sometimes I’d worry a little bit as to whether this was a good idea or not. But that’s just me ^^.
We met up again, and after going to the Amazon express together (another water ride) some of us decided to go to the ‘dangerous’ rollercoaster (T-express), while we took the horror maze. The point of the attraction was to scare the hell out of people, which it did for me; not at first but as the tour progressed I did feel some changes in breathing and the beating of my heart. The people up front weren’t bothered by anything because hey, they had the flashlight! But for the people like me, who were in the middle and in the back, stuff was ten times scarier. (I forgot that true Asian horror is in fact.. scary)
We had been to the kids version earlier that day, so I didn’t expect much of it to be scary. Furthermore, someone in the back freaked me out by not staying in line at all times, I mean.. if the shoulder on your hand is removed (inconsistently) while you are walking, wouldn’t that freak anyone out? There was the usual rattling and scaring of people, but it got freaky when they started honestly stalking us near the end. Like.. touching and actually chasing. I guess everyone had their own way of dealing with all of this. One of the things was particulary scary..
You know those things they have in a room before surgery? Someone was lying on such a bed, and at first glance, you think.. alright. The person up front moves his flashlight over it and nothing moves; so you assume you’re safe. AND THEN the person either jumps up from behind the table, gets up from the table or there is a lot of rattling and random leg-grabbing going on. Anyways, the video that you’re shown when you’re queuing is more funny than scary, but it’s a little more different when you’re past the halfway point inside.
It’s a new ride, and I guess that in the case that you’re up for some funny stuff (which I usually am) you should try it ^^. Only there is one thing that is written at the entrance ‘To retreat, sit on the floor and make an X with your arms, help will arrive’. At least the last part of the sentence is somewhat comforting :D.
Finally, after all of this; we decided to go home again.
Until (probably) tomorrow!
– Kirti
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