//...strike!...\\

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

the last full day in korea had finally arrived.. the least enjoyable day, it's either sight-seeing or buying stuffs, with lots of conspiracy theories flying here and there..

manx, day6 couldnt had be more boring,all i could remember is that we visited a ginseng shop and a gem factory.. funny thing is, the salespeople there speak Chinese! adding to the point that the whole shop was sealed and covered from the eyes of the public! as in, u cant look in from outside.. wads the secretive about, manz? then the teens group came up with the conspiracy theory... blahblahblah i dont know who to believe.. not that i care except that i heard my mum spent over US$2000 on ginseng itself!! WTH!! US$2000+!!! someone pls do cpr on me thx... but its nt confirmed, so i have to hope the currency is wrong XD if its in won it's only S$3.40 hahaha...

ugh the ginseng look like some spinal cord system or something... BIO STUDENTS tell me wad it look like... but when i got a closer look at it i saw a strand of hair XD oh ya and i got warned by the salesperson there when i took this photo... whats the fuss about?

the shop name...

oh OH yes i forgot about the kimchi making and the hambok wearing... basically just teach u how to make a kimchi... eh cant be bothered to type out the details of this event.. i didnt take home to try though, maybe its world class? haha...

there! our tour guide translating korean to chinese...

then it's time for hambok wearing! just wearing costumes of ancient korean officials, like.... i dont know, maybe the da chang jing will give u a clue of what is it...

kawaii!! no lah hahaha...

still got one more... but i'm nt uploading xP

the gem factory... nono that ahjumah is not part of it... also another sealed up shop and chinese-speaking koreans, and more conspiracy theories (-_-) i cant wait for lunch...

BB rice again! except that both my parents managed to eat it the right way this time XD quite nice actually, but i still prefered the one at crystal jade express, wisma atria (did i spell correctly??)...

i think we went to the cheong wa dae, equivalent to the White House of south korea, nothing much there as i've said earlier.. the president's working area is located there cuz of one reason

the mountain behind it.. susposedly it has got something to do with dragons again but oh well, show me a bone and i'll believe there's dragons in the past...

somehow we ventured into a palace, change of plan different palace from the itinerary.. dont know what palace though.. just go in there and took lots of photos

this the main entrance of the gate.. the name? donhwamun

u know the da chang jing show? it's based on historical records, and this is the rank that she got back then in the palace, which is nt bad for a woman..

throne of the king, not frozen throne -_- brrr cooollldddd lammmmmeeee...

manx, i dont know what happened but somehow the resolutions got smaller, dont know what buttons i pressed :S wasted many good shots manz...

and so we left...

there were susposed to be a cruise down the Han river but something happened and it was called off.. i groaned when i heard a performance was chosen as a replacement, it'd better be good... thus we went shopping at a street...

who would have thought this kind of vegetables would be found growing under trees along the streets of korea! too bad the resolution is small...

looked cool to me, just that we had to wait for one hour for the show to start -_-

there! our tour guide acting cute... she's damn funny lah, telling us all the funny stuffs in korea...

my mom n my bro.. enough said

the nanta show is really damn nice! the performers are super talented, using culinary tools to make fantastic music, even joining in the crowd as part of their performances.. for example, the starting part is some sort of a ppt slide show, telling us that that day is the birthday of the head chef, and we were to sing a birthday song... the crowd really did!! something like this wont happen in singapore... the show also encourages us to shout and cheer for them anytime during the show, and the crowd really did!! something like this wont happen in singapore lolx... the female peformer looks abit like jasmine tye though... nope no photos thesman, sorry hahaha...

the day ended with us checking in to hilton hotel, with a casino beside it ($_$) too bad i'm under 19... anyway me and my bro walked to the nandaemun market for shopping, plannin to walk until around midnite... tried looking for seaweeds but the price was super ex! trying to cheat us eh? not so easy... my bro bought a korean national soccer team tshirt, not jersey, tshirt for juz 8000 won :S before we leave we saw some familiar faces... oh the girls in the tour group also ventured to nandaemun! lolx...

//Brandon struck at 1:05 PM\\