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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

ok did i forgot to mention in the previous posting that it was going to be the last night we spend in jeju?

woke up darn early to catch the morning flight, but not without any last min sight-seeing. for example, we headed down to Yongduam Rock

uh it was still dark, so quite hard to see any meaningful stuffs down there, but anyway we did make our way down to the rocky shores on foot and look at some of the most amazing rock formations sculptured yet by Mother Nature's very own hands. there used to be one particular rock which looked like a dragon but after years of erosion, what's left now is uh.... ???

UGH! in case u r wondering wth is this, it's their abalone porridge, accompanied with the usual few appetisers (not so for most of us but not me XD)

*oh sheeeeeet i just realised i had no photos for the next few days! ok only a few =( neither do the digi cam too....*

so we left jeju and returned to seoul, not much things happened cos i was knocked out during the whole flight! i literally slept through the whole thing cos didnt really sleep well for the whole phase at jeju... at seoul we met up with the assistant, a student waiting for entry to uni and hence attached to us as the tour's photographer. his job is really quite sai kang in s'poreans' standards.. so the teens tried interacting with him so that not to make him feel left out. korean guys are fine, but sometimes i think they get too physical for my liking. i mean, it's ok if he just pat shoulders and stuffs like that, but when it travels further down to my *uh* butt? ya butt... i dont know, maybe it's their culture or what...

uh anyway we are susposed to spend 4+ hours in lotte world, an indoor and outdoor amusement park.. eh cold weather + roller coaster anyone?

1) a super fast roller coaster which zoom from the start to the end with no braking or whatsoever
2) a rotating wheel connected perpendicularly to a metallic hand that swings you like a pendulum up to 60m high!
3) french revolution: a high speed indoor roller coaster that goes up down left right until u lose your sense of balance...
4) bumper car!

there one more i didnt dare to take is the gyro drop, basically bringing you 70m up and droppping you, free fall... yucks! i would only go if you point a gun to my head... another one, the bungee drop... i didnt take, but my bro took it

eh walau quite high can? i dont dare to try it loh... my mum hold the digi cam and den took some photos inside the park, which includes ice-skating!

actually not much photos loh *sigh* nothing worth displaying here...

finally we can go shopping! it's nearby, a place called Dongdaemun, but shopping in korea in this timing is well, not suitable for us.... their stuffs are all winter clothing! and quite expensive also :S only their jeans are acceptable, bought one for 37000won, which translated into sing 50+ bucks... haha the bargaining process also quite funny la, we literally communicated through a calculator! he show me it's original 45k, after his discount it's 38k... after selecting what i wan to buy, i decided to press 3,6,0,0,0 on his calculator and gave him a thumb-up.. he stared at the calculator, frowned for a while, and decided 37k =_=

time for dinner! it was korean ginseng chicken, which uses a 90day old chicken, stuff it with rice and ginseng and some other herbs, and steam it for long hours. they also served ginseng wine, which... well, let's just say the alcohol level is quite low, i cant taste any of it... maybe cos after trying the rum of 43% level, i'm much immune to weaker ones...

next day we gonna spend the whole day ski-ing! u shld have seen how excited i'm in the ski resort

uh ok the tissue paper wasnt susposed to be there... the night view of the ski ground was fantastic!

manx, cant wait to feel the first snow i ever touched... oh ya and i finally saw what is a tatami room

basically just take out the beds and spread them on the ground and sleep.. furthermore the ground has undersoil heating!

manx, so exciting! or so it seems....

//Brandon struck at 11:20 AM\\