i guess the first to celebrate my birthday would be my mum who came down to KL. got a pretty bag and a few pairs of earrings for my birthday presents. heeeh.


Jill surprised me with a cake at 12am. hehe. ^^ and so coincidentally, it was the same cake that Mei Kei told me was delicious. haha. it even matches my birthday card. 고마워!

 with CG in Kimchi Haru. the cake was delicious, so were the company! thank youuuuu *hearts*

celebrated with Chareessa and Mei Kei too but no pics. D:

and a one-month belated one with the boys.

all in all, i was very glad to be able to celebrate my 22nd with people i love. ah, here goes another year. i can only promise to continue doing my best and to strive to be the best person i could be. its gonna be another adventure. ^^

I don't know about you
But I'm feeling 22

on to part 2! 

there was a week in October where i traveled back to Ipoh to attend a friend's wedding. is he considered friend ah? lol. he was my officer when i was in Boys' Brigade. really happy that he tied the knot. ^^

i'm looking forward to all the weddings i'll be attending next year. :D

and then, early before that, there was graduation. supposed to be my graduation too but yea, Korea and everything moved the plan back a little. still, i'm very happy for my batchmates! they've done it, they've completed another part of their journey and now ready to move on to bigger better things (i hope haha)!

with the proud graduates, Alice and Andrea. 

with Charles.

with Nurul.

one day, it will be my turn (in 2015 ><)!

and earlier that day before heading to the graduation ceremony, i had a photoshoot with my group members for our Leadership magazine. its an assignment for our Leadership class where we design and make a magazine based on leadership stuff. yea yea, leadership? really? but still, kinda fun because its not the usual research paper assignment. plus we get to take pretty pictures of ourselves!

i can't help but put all my fav pics here. they're so pretty! we're so pretty! :D

and a random day where i helped my friend act in her advertisement which was also a class assignment.

with Charlie, my co-actor.

i think there is a part 3 coming up. lol. this is the update for now.

more coming soon! ^^

이 눈물이 잠들 때까지 더 있어줄래요?

안녕! here to do a little recap on some stuff that i have not blogged about in Korea. two trips/outings that i went on before coming back. first one was to Gimhae, my buddy, Olivia's hometown. she promised to bring me to visit since the beginning of the semester. so, after her exams ended, i took the bus over and she brought me around. 

for lunch, we went to a famous 돼지국밥 (dweji gukbap) place in Gimhae. we had to take a number and wait for our turn. yea, that's how famous it was. thankfully, we didn't have to wait long.

introducing the lunch we waited for. its technically pork slices and rice in soup. its special because it can only be found in Busan. so if you go to Seoul or other places, you won't find it. i like it because it isn't spicy, it has meat and rice, my two favorite food and its the best thing to eat during winter.

 

after lunch, we took the bus and ended up at a museum. it was quite a small place and it was showcasing the history of Korea.

this is Korean hopscotch. :D

we had a drink in a coffee shop nearby because it was so hot! and then, we headed over to a park which i think is one of the famous tourist attraction in Gimhae. 

this mirror makes us look thin! haha. we loved it so much. i had to leave in the evening as i had another appointment. was really glad to have spent the day with her in her hometown. it was a very good experience and another good memory. *^^*

and about two weekends before i was supposed to leave, i took another trip down to Gyeongju. this time for the sole purpose of visiting the Sex Museum/Love Castle. hehehe. look, its not everyday and everywhere that a sex museum is within my vicinity. might be a bit NSFW, so yea. 

yes, i'm hugging a large colorful penis. *go me!*

and sitting on a penis swing.

whoa! double the fun! hahahahaha.

i might have hugged one, sat on one, had one in each hand but still, taking picture with a ginormous one was a bit too much. (;-_-)/ btw, that 'ejaculation' is activated by sitting on a seat near when i'm standing. you sit on it long enough, he will spray. （￣～￣;）

if you are interested in this kind of thing, the fee to go in is pretty reasonable. i heard they have reduced it as it was more pricey before this. its not that big but there were quite a lot of things to see. they showcased artifacts from long ago that were sexually related. very cool! i don't know, i personally enjoyed it. would have been better if i understood Korean as there were quite a lot of information and i couldn't understand a single bit. (∩︵∩)

other than the sex museum, i went cycling around. that is the thing to do in Gyeongju. i really wanted to go to the water theme park but it wasn't exactly in the plan.

 

that's about it so far. everything bloggable in Korea has been blogged. i miss the place so much but it will remain as a beautiful and amazing experience for now. because i will return again. count on it.（○゜ε＾○）

  

have a great week ahead. ^^ God bless!

the program i went not only brought me to Korea but introduced me to so many other cultures, people and countries. it was really one stone and many birds. ヾ(*´∇`)ﾉ my colleagues/friends in English Cafe were from Cambodia. there were Nay, Sopheak and Audourm. Nay is kinda the boss/supervisor/manager of English Cafe; a really awesome guy, super kind and fun to dance with. haha. 

I wasn't very close to Sopheak unfortunately. i could tell that she was a very nice person but something was wrong with me, i think. face problem? >< haha, not really. i think i was intimidated by her because she was the better version of the person i wanted to be. does that make sense? anyway, my own pride got in the way of making a possibly good friend. ＜(。_。)＞ i am reflecting and learning from this.

Audourm is very motivated and passionate person. he is a very admirable person who has big dreams and means to achieve them. seriously, he is a great guy and i'm very proud and glad to have made his acquaintance. i'll vote for you if you run for president! (●´∀｀●)

during the second semester, English Cafe hired two new students since Sopheak and Audourm left and thus, we have Henry from Ecuador and Victor from Ghana. God was good because without them, i would have been friendless, sad, alone and depressed. so when they came to work, i spent a lot of time with them as our shifts were almost always the same. we had dinner together most days and i went to church with Victor and drinking with Henry. (*´・ｖ・) i am really really grateful for them because going through that time on my own was just not feasible nor advisable. they really were my saviors and 오빠 or is it ahjusshis? ㅋㅋㅋ

this is Jody from Jamaica, doing her masters on family psychology in Silla. it seems i have no other adjective to describe people other than nice. haha. in Jody, i see a confidence i wish i have. she's also fun to be with. (●⌒∇⌒●)

Alex from Romania. i will always remember her as my dance partner. 〜(￣▽￣〜) the fact that we danced to a Lee Hom song is amazing. who would have thought that Cockney Girl will play in Korea and danced to by two foreign girls? 대박! and she's so pweeetty too!

푸푸. i think its super cute that people call him Pu Pu cus Koreans can't pronounce the F sound. his name is Fuad but he had to improvise and ended up being called Pu Pu. i think he's a lady killer, the way he plays the guitar and all the girls that he's always hanging out with.ㅋㅋㅋ

Yan Yee! i cannot forget her, also i am forever indebted to her. 언니 was so so kind and so so nice to me especially after the break up. she was a friend when i had none and i am so so grateful for all the times she teman me to the hospital and helped out by translating. plus she bought me lots of food and even helped me with my make up. i hope she gets married to a super nice and good looking guy soon! hehe.

 i think this is about it. there's still some things that i have not blogged about Korea yet. will get to that soon but now the bed calls out to me. (∪｡∪)｡｡｡zzz

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves 

i realized i never got to blog about the friends i made over there, so i'm gonna do that now. ^^ disclaimer: long post is long.

it wasn't very easy making and keeping friends because of the language barrier and the culture difference but i think i did manage to make some good friends. i am very very glad and blessed to have met them. unfortunately, i only managed to make friends in my second semester there which meant we only had time to hang out for about 3 months. such a short time, 아쉽다. D:

most of my Korean friends were also my 'buddies' from the Buddy Program in English Cafe.

this was my Monday buddy, 충희 and if i'm not mistaken, he studies food and nutrition. he's really tall, i think about a head and a half taller. haha. whenever we went out together, he had to bend down to listen because i was speaking so softly and i had to tilt my head up whenever he spoke. :D


we managed to hang out about two times before i came back. my most memorable time with him would be when he brought me to this awesome place in Seomyeon to have supper and 막걸리. we had pineapple 막걸리 (makgeolli/rice wine) and this pork dish (bacon?) which was the best thing i've ever eaten over there. i finished the entire plate by myself and also a salad that had apple mayonnaise dressing. very special and super yummy. 

he's really cute because he would come late to our buddy time sometimes and he'd buy me drinks to make up for it. there were also some random times where he'd just drop in and pass me a bottle of drink that he bought. he's a really nice and kind guy. his English was passable and i think he kinda saw me a younger sister. heeeh. （＾_＾）

this is my other Monday buddy; Olivia or 재민. she's my age if i remember clearly. i think we really connected because we had quite a lot of similar interests (aka Korean actors or in general, fine-looking guys) and we would flail over them. she was the one who introduced A Gentleman's Dignity to me, one of the best Korean dramas i've watched. we didn't really get to hang out much because Korean students doesn't seem to have a lot of time but before i left and after her final exams, i managed to visit her hometown, Gimhae which i'll blog about soon. 
 

there are just some people that you meet and feel that "hey, here's a good person and a good friend." and that's what i felt with her. she's the optimistic, bubbly kind that made me feel comfortable to be with. plus her English was good since she majors in English literature. oh, i miss her. (≧∇≦)

introducing my Tuesday buddy; Jin. this is unfortunate to say but i think as of right now, he is the most handsome friend i've had. he's yea, pretty much the best looking guy friend i have. oops, don't be offended okay. i love you all the same! ^^


he's 4 years younger than me which makes him 19. just started his degree course and majoring in tourism. his was also the best English among my other buddies which made becoming friends much easier. we hung out quite often and we went visiting places around Busan together too. the best time i've had has to be the time we went to Songjeong beach. everything about that day was so perfect and so beautiful; the memory like a painting to me. i'm really glad to have met him. (◕‿◕✿)

 and now, my Thursday buddy, Lina or 경린. i love this girl, she's crazy, drinks alcohol like its water and wears her heart on her sleeve. she's one of those who feels everything, laughs loudly, gets super excited about stuff and grabs your hand when you walk together. she is exactly the kind of friend i wish i had here in Malaysia. i think all girls need a friend like her. i wish i could have brought her back with me. but more than that, i wish i can be more like her. she was the only one who cried during our final farewell. that girl ah.


 every time we met up for the buddy sessions, it'd involve lots of laughing and giggling and her hitting the guy sitting next to her. she's the mood maker and i think i knew what it meant to brighten up a room through her because that's exactly what she does. i really wished we had more time to build a more meaningful relationship but still, i'm very grateful to have met her. ｡◕‿◕｡

my second Thursday buddy, 재빈 오빠 or Jebi. ^^ here's another fun person to be with. you can't blame me for liking Korean guys when they're like him. you know, the sweet talker, the ladies man, the kind that says things that makes you blush and your heart warm. okay, so maybe not your cup of tea but so mine. ♡＾▽＾♡


Thursdays were my favorite day then. and they were the ones that made staying in Busan so worthwhile especially after the break up. if it weren't for friends like them, i wouldn't have been able to face going to English Cafe or going about as if life was okay.

well, these are all my English buddies. there are others who i don't have pictures with, 주연/Ju Yeon, 유미/Chloe and Ellen. Ju Yeon was another girl who was really nice and made me feel like we're close despite the language barrier. When we were in Korea, she couldn't express herself in English and so she'd lapse into Korean but she was so excited about whatever she's talking that i would let her. i met up with her while she was here in Sunway for an exchange program. her English has greatly improved. haha.

Ellen taught me perseverance, patience and hard work will pay off or at least, that's how you should approach learning. she would come see me everyday to go over her English or correct the work she's done in the textbooks. she was so persistent with it and i felt bad looking at her work so hard whereas English came so easy for me. i really wish her all the success in world, i know she will do great things.

Chloe is another girl who was really nice and friendly and made the effort to be friends. we weren't very close but idk, i just like her. but i guess they can be different people when they aren't with me. being a foreigner tends to bring the nice out of other people. lol. oh well.

and now introducing, 동수 or Jun who is in the same gang as Lina and Jebi. he's a really nice guy but for some reason, he's not the kind of guy i would date. Lina and I actually discussed this because he's really quite a good catch but both of us just don't feel it. ( ・◇・)


there's also 미현/ Mi Hyeon who is in the same gang. they call her the chic girl and i agree. she's super cool about stuff and very kind too.

L to R: Jebi, Mi Hyeon, Lina, me, Jun