Day 85 in Korea.

Countdown: 30 days.
Currency exchange: SGD 1 to 919 won.
Temperature reading: 10 degree celsius.

Today for Movie and Soc, we watched a movie again, featuring Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry. It is based on a true story about a biologically borned female, who prefer to be a male and enter a new town to hang out with a new group of people. He/she eventually falls in love with the hometown beauty, but subsequently his/her secret was discovered and his/her life is being ripped apart. As usual, this show is filled with sex scenes and for those who haven't seen Hilary's boyish side, PLEASE GO WATCH THE MOVIE.

Anyway, the same old usual routine (needless to explain) but today we had a last minute training session in preparation of tomorrow's game against KAIST (sister university). I was so immersed in the training that I totally lost count of the time and I have a lecture @ 4pm. Fortunately Miss Lee is an understanding person and she let me joined in the class even though I was half an hour late. Today Dong Hyun is doing the presentation on Problem Solving in group. I totally look up to this guy cuz his english is not proficient @ all, but he still gives his best shot. Awesome effort.

San-In ain't free today, so I had to have dinner on my own and after that, I went to look for Emma to loan her bf's bicycle to go Jeonmin-dong buy a cuppa hot Latte before going to L409 to do my Animation project. I am quite happy with my progress and I should be able to finish the entire complete project before end of the month. As planned, I have a futsal friendly with the IT Tech Program dudes after their Taekwondo lesson and today, we have got a rare guest - Malaz. To be honest, I am totally worn out from the noon soccer training and this and tomorrow got match. My body is gonna collapse soon.

We came back to Hwaam, showered and cleaned before gathering @ the kitchen to cook supper. Akmal and Malaz prepared tuna with potatoes (one with onions and the other without). Vioreh (not sure if it is the correct spelling of his name) the Moldovan guy prepared mushroom soup. I cooked eggs with little bit of tuna and pepper. Malaz cooked yellow rice too and we all had our fill. Pem made us some nice fragrant tea.

What a wonderful night.

Day 84 in Korea.

Countdown: 31 days.
Currency exchange: SGD 1 to 919.483 won.
Temperature reading: 9 degree celsius.

I hate Thursday cuz I got 3 lessons - Game Theory, Computer Animation lecture and laboratory. What a busy day for me and my lecturer announced next Thursday got class quiz and an assignment coming up!! Like WTH!!

My lecturer for Computer Animation is not feeling well, so I got early dismissal and so I sneak back to Hwaam dormitory and steal some winks. I left with the 4:40pm shuttle bus to go back to ICU and helped the ICF out with guitar playing since the worship leader personally asked me to play :) After ICF worship session, I went for dinner with San-In and Steve (again) and had ice cream @ the snack bar before I leave for my lab lesson. Today we did wonderful effects with paint brush and made trees, flowers and loads of stuffs. Woohoo!! The lecture was about half an hour and the remaining time we are off on our own to do our animation project. My Bomberman still looks very 'cui' but I will properly model and animate that bugger before the end of the month, which means I only got about 2 weeks to do it. Good luck!!

I meet up with Fawaz and Akmal after class to go Isaac's Toast for a warm supper. The weather is getting chillier each day and I can feel the cold wind slapping my face over and over again. Darn. I need a pair of gloves and probably a face mask to shield from the crazy weather. We took the 12am bus back to Hwaam and I just got showered and I am going to the kitchen to cram alil. Ciao.

Day 83 in Korea.

Countdown: 32 days.
Currency exchange: SGD 1 to 880.83 won.
Temperature reading: 16 degree celsius.

Today I met 2 female friends, Narae and Sohyan for lunch @ Jeonmin-dong. We are supposed to meet like 2 weeks ago, but because of studies and personal commitment, we had to postpone week after week till today. Finally they gonna bring me to eat "Sung Gate Tongue" (not some animal's tongue, just the hanyu pinyin of the name of the dish), otherwise known as Herbal Chicken Soup with delicious rice stuffed inside this poor little bugger. I heard that it is supposed to keep your body warm in the cold season (which is like now) and they loaded some cheap ginseng into the soup. Awesome stuff!!

After that, we went to Vero Espresso for Caramel Latte and then come back to ICU cuz Sohyan has a class @ 2:30pm. I went to computer room to do my review while Narae hits her comfort zone on level 3. Time striks 4 and I chiong to the field to train soccer with the IVP team. Somehow or rather, I am quite comfortable with playing right wing back position. You know in a soccer team (in Singapore context), not many people wanna be a defender. They just wanna stand @ the front line and be scoring goals. I find defending a very interesting job, but trust me, it ain't an easy job. Defenders usually get the blame if things go wrong because they are like your last line of hope. Okie I babble too much, so my point is, this Saturday we gonna play against KAIST (a sister university) and hopefully I will get fielded in the first 11. Considering my consistency in skill, strength and stamina, it shouldn't be a problem *lol*

After training, I washed up a little and had dinner with San-In and Steve and then come back to computer room again to do my review + watch Youtube + listen to music + slacking. Gotta catch the 9:30pm bus back to Hwaam. Ciao.

Day 82 in Korea.

Countdown: 33 days.
Currency exchange: SGD 1 to 899.57 won.
Temperature reading: 11 degree celsius.

Hmm, boring day in school. Game Theory class in the morning, followed by Introduction to Multimedia quiz in the noon. Talking about which, I don't even know there is a quiz today. Jialat, I think I will flunk badly, but it is only a quiz so chill :)

I had dinner with San-In in the cafeteria and played some table tennis after the meal before he made his way to his night lecture and I came back to computer room to do my Game Theory review + watch Heroes Season 3 Episode 8 (like finally) - http://www.sidereel.com/Heroes/_watchlinkviewer/22961#

Then, I met Dong Hyun (my classmate from Intro to Communication) and Enazi and we all went to Jeonmin-dong, Dasarang bar to eat pizza and drink some bar. Dong Hyun taught us some Korean and we taught his some English and Chinese, played number game and drank a whole lotta mixture of weird juices with beer and pickles *lol*

After that, I took the shuttle bus and come back to Hwaam sweet Hwaam.

Day 81 in Korea.

Countdown: 34 days.
Currency exchange: SGD 1 to 890 won.
Temperature reading: 11 degree celsius.

Today is the beginning of week 12 in ICU. I had lunch @ Jeonmin-dong and went to school to do some revision for Computer Graphics. I made an appointment with James to have dinner. We ate Jajangmuen and fried Gyoza + pork before coming back to ICU again. I need to rush my project proposal for Introduction to Multimedia, which has to be submitted on Thursday.

Damn sad, now the Heroes Season 3 like never update, so cannot watch newer episodes. Anyway, I am going back to Hwaam kitchen to hunt for more foodies. Take care peepz.

Day 80 in Korea.

Countdown: 35 days.
Currency exchange: SGD 1 to 884 won.
Temperature reading: 13 degree celsius.

Sian, today I slept in too late and missed the church service in the morning. I woke up @ about 2pm and had to walk to school since we got a soccer match @ 3pm and there ain't any shuttle bus. Fortunately Emma was heading to school too so we walked to Jeonmin-dong together and had short chats about ICU life. We parted ways in Jeonmin-dong because I was late for the soccer game and I couldn't have lunch with Emma and her bf, but next week we will meet for coffee @ some cafe in Dunsan area.

Due to lack of players, we started 1st half with 9 on 9. We were badly beaten due to lack of coordination between players. Everybody just want to score, but nobody wants to come back to defend. Stupid graduate students and also, the Vietnamese, though they are small in size, but they are large on attack. I was taken down twice by this shorties and one of them shouldered my chest ultra heavily. It is just a friendly match, but they treated it like death match. I was literally man handled on the pitch. What a bad day for me.

Malaz, Akmal and I went to shower and head to Jeonmin-dong for Duc-Khal-Be. We were joined by Pem and Mongista (not sure if that is the correct spelling for his name). After that, we packed our stuffs and head back to Hwaam sweet Hwaam dormitory. Chelsea versus Blackburn coming up~

Day 79 in Korea.

Countdown: 36 days.
Currency exchange: SGD 1 to 884.34 won.
Temperature reading: 11 degree celsius.

Saturday is a super good day to sleep in and today was no exception. I woke up @ around 2:30pm and had my lunch in the dormitory kitchen, warming up the pizza leftover from yesterday.

Today I went to Yong Mun area with Yong Han to go explore the area. The whole area is mostly food places, so in the end, we settled @ Lotte shopping centre. We shopped in the Young Plaza department and I got myself a pink tee + a light grey cardigan. Yong Han bought a fleece for himself. We then went back to E Mart @ Dunsan-dong to do groceries shopping for tonight dinner (I am cooking yay~). Fawaz, Enazi and Akmal joined me in the shopping. We went back to Hwaam and I started cooking shortly after. I whipped up macaroni with carbonara sauce + fried eggs with onion. Surprizingly it turned out fine :) It may be a motivation to cook in the future. I wanna try new recipes out. While eating, we are eagerly watching the much anticipated match of Arsenal versus Manchester. It was a tough game, but I am glad Arsenal pulled it through, with the help of 2 goals from French man, Samir Nasri.

After the game, there were some macaroni left and so I used the remaining Prego sauce to cook something and thanks Malaz, Hussain and Azzudin for helping me finish the food. Now we are awaiting dessert from Enazi - Custards!!