LOVE. EAT. PLAY. : January 2012

Happy New Year! My first post for the year!

Okay, I have been back for like for 3 weeks already and have been having lots of fun celebrating for Christmas & New Year. And now I'm back to work like officially. Seem kind of not use to it but fight for the new year! Before I think of my new year resolutions which I haven't done so, maybe I do some recap of my trip to Korea & Shanghai and my last few weeks!

On 7 Dec 2011, at around 9.30pm, we reached Changi Airport Terminal 3.

We had a flight transition at China Airport.

After taking two "roller coaster rides" on this China Eastern planes, we finally touched down in Korea during lunch time the following day which is 8 Dec 2011 and had our first meal there!

First meal is BBQ pork. Is like make my whole clothes stink probably because I did most of the BBQ-ing. Overall, it tasted not too bad as the meat is well-marinated.

We saw some souvenirs at the restaurant. I did not buy as I was told that they were more expensive. But anyway, I didn't buy back any souvenirs in the end.

A peek at Korea's convenient store.

Here I am standing on the street in a very cold weather!

Me & my mum enjoying the little snow while we were at the ski clothing rental shop.

Alright after a long journey and choosing of our ski clothes and enjoying the little snow with excitement, we had our dinner.

The snow got heavier after we had our dinner! Me & auntie enjoying the snow!

After dinner, we went to the hotel to rest.

The name of the hotel is High Castle.

A little peek into the room that me & my mum stayed!

If you have noticed there are no beds in our room! Yap, we need to use these to lay on the floor and sleep. & the floor has hot water running underneath so it sort of act like a heater in this cool weather. I quite like this as it is clean and warm. But my mum doesn't really like as she had backache the next day.

A peek of our room's balcony at night!

And in the morning the next day on 9 Dec 2011!

Seemed like it was snowing the whole night, see how much the snow filled the place!

We had breakfast at the hotel & the breakfast the hotel provided is pretty decent.

We spent the whole day at this ski resort which in my opinion is super boring. Firstly, there is no experienced coach to teach us as most of us are like beginners like me. Secondly, only a small area is provided to us and I got seriously bored after that. Third, the shoes are seriously heavy. Damn them! Fourth, it became pretty cold after that.

That is me in the freaking pinky ski clothings. Like seriously, totally not my style.

My cousin accidentally skied to another ski resort so he pretty much enjoy the ski.

Our little tea break!

We had our dinner here.

I had cup noodles. I really like their cup noodles is like cheap and nice!

And there soya bean drinks too! That comes in different flavors. It is from the heater.

I love this cup noodles! This got the rice cake inside! Super nice! :)

That is like pretty much for our ski-ing day.

10 Dec 2011, the next day, we had the same breakfast at the hotel.

We headed off to the theme park, Lotte World.

We had only like two hours in the theme park. It was a Saturday and the theme park was super crowded like seriously. Some sort the same as Singapore USS, I mean the crowd. Obviously Lotte World has many more rides. They have indoor and outdoor ones as well. We didn't manage to take any rides as it takes at least an hour to queue for a ride. So ya, me, my mum & my aunt went to see shows, some shows are like in Korean so I just sit there and take photos and relax. We went to look at museums as well.

There are some of the photos that I took in Lotte World theme park.

Finally it is time for us to meet the group but we had difficulty of finding the meeting place and we asked for directions from the Korean stuffs there. But they are not well-versed in communicating English and Chinese. And kept giving the wrong directions to us. And I was separated from my mum and my auntie while I was trying to look at the map. We looked for the direction for like more than 1hour. When I finally found the meeting place, I only saw my mum, our Singapore tour Guide and my auntie came back from looking for me. The rest of the people in the tour including my uncle and two of my cousins already left for the next destination. I was like nice one. But it is a good lost I think as we have 4 hours of shopping in Dong Da Mun! Guess where they went? They were struck in the jam for like 1 hour to 2 hours. They supposed to have a proper facial and guess what. The stuffs were too busy packing home and they asked the tour people please take off their masks themselves. When I heard the story I was kind of surprised and laughing at the same time. Like seriously? They went to factory outlet! And had Ginseng Chicken for dinner. My uncle said we didn't miss much and we had a good "lost."

Here are some happenings when we are shopping!