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Basketball Game

Basketball has been a game where we always enjoyed from back in secondary school, all the way until.. well, present day.

There was a time where after form 6, we would always go to Fair Park basketball court to play every morning. Even the girls like Yvonne and Michelle Soong would join us too!
And there was an occasion where we brought our then digital camera and filmed some of the games we played.. One of them involves a one-on-one game…

 

And as short as it is, Ian won Yee Weng easily…

Then up to present day, so happened that we are all in the same location and we still play basketball on weekends… This is where our friend wanted his glory again..

 

Will he win again?

Light & Easy at Seoul – Korea Day 3

After a night of clubbing, the 3rd day was pretty simple… It’s a free and easy to have a quick ‘recharge’ whilst enjoying the sights and sounds of Korea…

forever 21

The 2 girls went on their shopping spree at Forever 21 which is a very huge store here… It’s like the entire building is forever 21..  Apparently, the Forever 21 staffs would line up in straight lines and wish their patrons Good Morning! Talk about Customer Service..

lineup

While they do their shopping, Yee Weng, Yvonne and I wandered aimlessly around Myeong Dong.

We had a very peculiar lunch. Ginseng chicken with rice fillings!

ginseng rice chicken

At the centre of the chicken is glutinous rice! I liked the chicken.. and the soup… but the rice is a bit out of the ordinary for me..

And desserts was Ice Cream @ Cold Stones!

cold stone menu

There was a promotion outside where you speen the wheel to get coupons to be used inside!

 spin the wheel

We had some ‘size ups’, and ‘free waffles’ for our ice cream purchases. Yummyy.

Cold Stone Ice Cream

Oh, I also bought my first krispy kreme here!

Krispy Kreme

Okay.. enough about food.. As the girls were crazily shopping, to us guys, we just immersed ourselves into the Korean atmosphere.

towel red building

road korean girl hilly road

drink stall sausage stall

 

Did I mention that Korea has very very cheap cosmetic/facial products? There are so many different competitors around..We bought loads and loads of masks..

aritaum innisfree nature republic  Yin Sin asked me to buy a whole list of Skin Food Products which costs more than SGD$30 but only costs around SGD$10 here.

The one thing that’s “fun” is that they give free-gifts for you to just browse around the shop. And for every purchase, they’ll throw in a lot more freebies such as more masks, cotton pads, sample products, etc.

And the highlight for the day….

Charlie Brown Cafe!

charlie brown cafe

This was a request by one of my fellow travellers who is crazy over Snoopy..

The place is pretty interesting actually… Everything is really based on Charlie Brown.. The tables, the walls, the window frame…

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The plates, plastic wrappers, cakes, food…..

cake and mousse

The glass window, ceiling and floor..

 window1 floor glass

It also has a lot of miniature figurines..

 miniature figurine2

And the happiest girl of all…

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bishan4 bishan5 bishan6

She was happy and nice enough to treat us all at the cafe!

tea time

After Charlie Brown Cafe, we resumed shopping and sight-seeing…

And the next item of the night, groceries/souvenir shopping at Lotte!

We bought so much stuff we had 2 fully filled trolleys!

trolley snack

Ok la, basically it’s just me and bishan who bought a lot of things..

Chee Lim and Yee Weng only require two small baskets… :p

basket snack

From all the stuffs that we bought, we didn’t have enough luggage space… So, we packed them into boxes and check-in those boxes!

box

All these shopping made us forgot about dinner… The girls took the cab back to the hotel with all the boxes while Yee Weng and I hunt for food..

We wanted to head back to Namdaemun market for the pig throttles but alas, the market closed already by the time we reach there..
We managed to find something to eat at the street-side though.

street stall

We had Udon and Ramen.. And we tapau-ed back the Ramen for the girls.

udon ramen

By the time we returned to the hotel, it’s around 10 plus. Had to start packing and prepare for the following day’s early flight to Jeju Island!

Nami Island – Korea Day 2

With a very hectic first day, we woke up very late in the morning on the second day. Nami Island was supposed to be the itinerary for the 3rd day but the weather was alright and we were afraid it’ll rain on Sunday… So, last minute we swapped the plan for 3rd day and headed to Nami Island!

We made haste to the train station, bought the train tickets minutes before it leaves, which is a blessing cause the train interval is more than an hour…

railway station

We bought snacks in the train cause we didn’t even have time to grab anything to eat while on the way to the railway station. The train is very packed and there are sitting and standing tickets! We bought 1 sitting and 3 standing cause there are not more sitting tickets. The train ride is about 90min long and there were a lot of people there. Almost sardine-packed.

in the train

The destination station’s name is er.. this (in the picture below)

train track First thing we did when we reached there was to purchase return train ticket and also, lunch! Ate at a local shop where we had noodles, ramen and kim bab.

noodle ramen kim bab

Then, the jetty to Nami island! It’s quite funny though cause the jetty has its own ‘immigration’ centre but we don’t need to show any passports.. Just the tickets.

nami immigration

They call the Nami Island the Naminara Republic.. It’s like a Doraemon-pouch-shaped island.

nami map So, we set off to Nami Island! WIth a 15-min ferry rideferry We were greeted with a multitude language of welcome phrases..

welcome to nami island P1020544 And a sign-board which is rather unreadable…

signboard

The insides of Nami island is beautiful! It’s where the film the show ‘Winter Sonata’.. It’s a very romantic place and the scenic view in the island changes according to season. As it’s summer now, it’s filled with greeneries.

 scene1line trees

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pondbench

colour trees

The trees here are very nicely aligned in a very straight line…

tall trees There’s a nice railway track..

railway track 2 Large fields..

jump kungfu

Ponds..

fountain 2

Boardwalks..

boardwalk And mini chalets..

chalet tea table Even the toilet looks nicer than the average toilet..

toilart studio Of course.. this place is a lot about loveee…

 love back view

snow love

Not to mention about the many animals that inhabit the island…

duck 1 duck 2

squirrel duck 3

After spending 2-3 hours in the island, we took off and head back to Seoul..

Again, another simple dinner and went back to the hotel to change for the next item for the night..

dinner Clubbing! The clubbing place is around a university area, Hong’ik University. The area is filled with pubs, clubs and bars… The place we went to is called “noise basement”, which is a hiphop club..

noise basement The club there reminds me of Zouk Singapore. The people inside are squashed like sardine fishes..

P1020642 clubbing But the club is actually quite good.. Music is good, atmosphere is good… Just that, it’s teensy weensy bit too crowded.. Can barely able to move around the area.

And just when we thought the night is over after clubbing, we decided to go for supper with Beer & Fried Chicken!

two two fried chicken P1020648 fried chicken

The fried chicken is very very delicious and unhealthy.. haha.. The trend there is that people eat this while drinking beer… By the time we finished, it’s about 3-4am already.. Luckily we didn’t have much planned for the next day.. It’s free and easy roaming around Seoul..

May Babies Combined Birthday Celebration

Ahh.. May.. A month where there are many birthdays to be celebrated. A lot of people’s birthday is in May. I think there’s now gonna be a one-time birthday celebration for all the ‘babies’ of the month.

For the month of May, we had a steamboat buffet dinner at Chinatown @ Jins Deli!

steamboat

 

It’s a birthday combination for 4 people: Jit-Vern, Melanie, Yee Weng and Susan. birthday-babies 

Some quick facts of the day….

  1. We literally sang the birthday song VERY LOUDLY in Cantonese… Which made Susan embarrassed and she had to hide under cowers.
  2. Bishan is a Chinese Mafia
  3. The shop’s sauce is very nice.. They have their home-made special sauce

susan-shy

Oh, and you must be wondering why the cake is uneven.. The first half of the cake is a chocolate banana cake and it has Susan and Melanie’s name on it. The bottom half of the cake is an Oreo Cheesecake which has Jit-Vern and Yee Weng’s name on it.

birthday cake

I think the girls are trying to prove that they are ‘higher’ and therefore more ‘powerful’ since they are the ones that bought the cake. I just like to think that he guys are more down to earth.. haha

Anyway, here are some group pics! The guys and the girls.

the-guys the-girls

Was a simple and nice birthday celebration. After dinner, had a stroll around Chinatown and drinks at McD. There’s supposed to be another round of celebration this coming Friday but I won’t be there to blog about it. It’ll be Butter NIght! (Clubbing at Butter Factory). Or what Ian would call it, “boom boom” night.

Mei Yin’s Trip to Singapore

A lot of excitements and ‘preparations’ were being done for the arrival of our dear friend, miss aw mei yin… But most of the ‘preparations’ became impromptu decisions when it happened.. hahaha

Mei Yin touched down to Singapore on Friday night where yee weng is supposed to pick her up… But because he had to run some errands for chee lim; taking a teddy bear or something, he had to skip that and followed chee lim the whole night. Friday night was Chin Zwen’s birthday celebration. The few weeks before was her boyfriend’s birthday celebration. It’s just a small get-to-gether at her place in Buona Vista.

cz-friends

Had dominoes pizza, kfc, and some misc tid bits. Then, james (her bf) couldn’t be around to be with her, he requested us to get the cupcakes and the big bear for her.

 

cz-bear

Mei Yin came to Chin Zwen’s place straight away after her flight touched down. Just nice for the birthday cake-cutting.cz-cake 

cz-birthday

Next day on Saturday, we woke up for Thai-lunch at Kovan. Then, we headed to the Southern Ridges to bring mei yin to the ‘garden in the city’. Started off at Mount Faber Park and exited at Alexandra Road. About half of the whole stretch.

henderson waves

I didn’t take much pictures as have already done that the previous time. I think I’m getting lazier to take pictures… =/ Anyway, it was quite ‘torturing’ at times cause we were really under the scorching sun!

waves-sun

 

None of us were really prepared for this ‘hike’. You can see us with slippers and all. Probably the only ‘preparation’ was the sun glasses that mei yin has on.

forest-walk

After that, we went to orchard to shop! Accompanied our guest to get some stuff she wanted to buy. Oh, and came to know if this dessert wine place at Ion Orchard! Interesting concept to have. I bought one 100ml ‘sherry medium’ bottle for myself for $10.

At Japanese buffet for dinner at Kuishinbo. They served unlimited crab for dinner! Too bad I’m not a very big fan of crab… But this time round, I think I’m slightly smarter for buffets already. Have learnt my lesson not to stuff my stomach till I suffer for the rest of the day(or night).kuishinbo

Met up with the rest after dinner. Luckily they were all at Suntec too! We met outside Carrefoure and we just cam-whored the entire time there. Initially, we were supposed to go Bugis for some dessert but that plan didn’t materialize. So, we just snapped pics till all the shops were closed and headed back home.

bishanyeeweng  susan

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