KOREA TRIP (17/11/2011 - 22/11/2011): LAST DAY

ok, i knew i took more than half a year to complete my entry on Korean trip. talk about laziness... hihihi!

finally, day 6 a.k.a last day! "pejam celik pejam celik", finally my korea trip has reached the final day ㅠㅠㅠ nothing much on final day, but managed to do a quick visit to certain places ;)

1. Hello Kitty Cafe & Coffee Prince

Both cafes located at Hongdae which our guesthouse located too. When Lumos was planning our itinerary, i told her to include Coffee Prince in the itinerary. As Hello Kitty Cafe, we didn't actually visited it, just it was nearby the Coffee Prince, so, stopped in front of it & took a pic... LOL

i didn't enter it tho... hihihi

Ok, as for Coffee Prince, the one that i visited was not the original cafe ㅠㅠㅠ the moment i entered it, i was wondering why it looks totally different from the drama, just to knew once i was back in Malaysia, that was their 2nd branch ㅠㅠㅠ well, at least managed to take a pic with Coffee Prince's banner.

I Love This Drama SFM!

2. Buchon Hanok Village

Since we still have a plenty of time before we gotta make a move to the airport, we decided to visit Buchon Hanok Village for fun. If you are a fan of 1N2D, the casts did cover this area which we can do a mission to search 7(?) photo spots.

Well, we managed to find only 1 spot before we gave up... hahahaha! Too much walking to do tho :p It's a traditional village yet still urban in this a modern era.

Ms. Timot pic! 1st Photo Spot, and the only spot we managed to find ㅋㅋㅋ

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Basically, we didn't do much on our final day! After these 2 places, we went back to our guesthouse, luncheon for the final time at our favourite ahjumma restaurant, and 'lepak-ing' at the guesthouse til 5pm before we make a move to airport.

Short trip yet memorable to me and i'll come back to Korea again!!!!

KOREA TRIP (17/11/2011 - 22/11/2011): DAY 5

Shop til i drop day ;)

1. Itaewon

We went here with one thing in mind: WE NEED TO EAT MEAT! Since Itaewon is known as the 'Muslim Hub' in Seoul, so, there're plenty of halal restaurants. We've been a non-meat eater for the past 4 days, so, we knew we gotta eat meat.

There were quite a lot of halal's restaurant, but none of it is korean halal food. Or maybe we didn't 'rajin' enough to search for it. So, we ended up at a turkish restaurant, Pasha. Menu? Kebab fosho~~~

Herm... I still prefer Malaysian Kebab? LOL~~~

2. Namdaemun

This place is much much better than Dongdaemun for me. Well, the main purpose was to buy brooches. At least for me coz mom has told me to 'borong' brooches as much as i can. I really 'borong' k! 

pic is owned by LumosNY coz i just realised i didn't take any pic at Namdaemun at all O.o

Bought few t-shirts of I ❤ Korea as souvenirs. The market was soooo big that we had quite a hard time to find where is brooch section located. But, once you are there, rambang mata is on mode... LOL

3. Hongdae

a walk in Hongdae with 'mom sweater' was so freaking cool

Our schedule of that day ended a lil earlier, but we were too tired so, once we had our dinner nearby our guesthouse, we decided to just walk around Hongdae. Well, it was more to stress-less walk coz Hongdae wasn't that crowded on Monday night. I bought hot chocolate while walking around Hongdae.

I wore 'mom sweater' which of coz i would not wear it in Malaysia & walk around KL City coz it is sooo not cool. But, 'mom sweater' is just a normal outfit there which i don't feel awkward or uncool... ㅋㅋㅋ

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This was the last night in Seoul City... How time flies fast ㅠㅠㅠ

KOREA TRIP (17/11/2011 - 22/11/2011): DAY 4

Sunday in Seoul... ^^

1. Trick Eye Museum, Hongdae

Don't kill me please!!!!

 This museum was located only 5 minutes from our guesthouse. It was a fun fun fun spending time at the museum with my friends. Basically it's an art museum, but the drawings are 3D effects. 

We were there for almost 2 hours, took a zillion pictures... Seriously, the pictures there were awesome!!!

2. Dongdaemun

It's all about souvenirs. We were wandering from the afternoon til evening. There's one famous shopping complex, which is called Doota. The mall is basically not that cheap, but there are 2 souvenir shops that sell plenty of stuffs that you can bring back home. Oh, the shop owners can even speak Malay/Indo. So, don't mengumpat ok... LOL

It is also famous of the Dongdaemun Market (DDM). Herm... I wasn't find interesting at the market, or maybe it was Sunday, so, there're a lot of shops were closed. But, I managed to grab 2 aprons as requested by my mom... hahahaha! she wanted me to buy after seeing a lot of nice aprons in k-drama...

Can you see me, or all you can see is Buck?

 Walked around Dongdaemun for a while, and found It's Skin... 2PM mode is freaking on! Bought the eye-liner (which it turns out good to me), and Timah was trying hard for the salesgirl to give us 2PM's posters. In the end, she gave us, after Lumos bought her stuff too. 1 poster for each of us... Yay!

3. Luxury, Hongdae

I'm sleepy O.o

It's a noraebang place, and........... it's a noraebang place that 2PM went in Wild Bunny Ep. 1. And what makes it so special, we requested for 2PM's room... YES! You can request it, by mentioning 2PM's room. LOL!

I had fun tho after 2 hours, i took a nap while my t-listeu were having fun karaoke-ing! kuikuikui

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That's all on my 4th day in Seoul ^^

KOREA TRIP (17/11/2011 - 22/11/2011): DAY 3

This entry is a long long long overdue... LOL. Anyway, on the 3rd day, we only been to 2 places, Nami Island & Lotte World.

1. Nami Island, Chuncheon

Beautiful Nami Island ^^

It's quite far from Seoul, but since with the super efficient public transport, i didn't feel it was quite far after all. We've decided to take the train, which we have to switch the train's lines twice, so it took us approximately 2 hours to reach our destination. Well, 2 hours including getting into a wrong train... LOL

For those who are not sure what is Nami Island, basically, it is famous coz of Winter Sonata. If you also don't know what is Winter Sonata, Mr. Google will help you to answer the question. Well, Nami Island is kinda famous during the winter, but when i went, it was already the end of autumn, so it was still as beautiful as it should be.

The trees there were beautiful, and of coz, there're a lot of things that related to Winter Sonata. My fangirling mode is on fosho, seeing all these thingy. And they only have 1 place to fill-in your stomach, and it is HALAL. Yewp, they even have a halal sign. What they have? Lunch Box a.k.a Dosirak... Nyum! Nyum!

By 2pm, we've decided to leave Nami Island, and we took a bus to the train station. Believe me, we became a lil jakun on the bus... ahahahaha.

It's a beautiful place seriously, and for 1st timer to Korea, this place have to be in the 'A PLACE YOU MUST GO' list.

2. Lotte World

Say Hey!!!

It's a theme park. Almost like our Sunway Lagoon, with indoor & outdoor theme park. Just, i'm not a theme park person, so, i paid the entrance fee to loitering while waiting for my friends playing. But i'm not alone since Kak Eton was with me... ehehehehehe

Well, i just don't play rollercoaster, or something similar to it, but i still play something not extreme, like Haunted House... HAHAHAHA. Anyway, it was fun tho ;)

KOREA TRIP (17/11/2011 - 22/11/2011): DAY 2

i didn't visited much on 2nd day but it was a fun fun fun day for me, especially i've visited a place that is very near to 2PM's heart.

1. JYP Entertainment Center, Cheongdam-dong

As a hardcore 2PM's fan, of coz, JYPE is a must for me to go for at least once. I wanna see the building where 2PM was always been ^^

To get to JYPE wasn't that hard actually but it wasn't that easy either. I'll post a direction how to get there in my next post k. Anyway, we had to walk for almost 45 minutes (?) from Apgujeong Station. It was a long long long walk k.

We gotta stop at a Dunkin' Donuts to get a direction to JYPE. Luckily because i went with my Hottest friends, so, all of us were not giving up til we found the building. The moment we found it, OMG! it was like we were seeing 2PM. Finally we were in front the precious building for 2PM's fan like me.

There's a Dunkin' Donuts right in front of the building. So, all of us decided to 'lepak' there and get a drink after a long walk. Seriously, i wasn't dare to get near to the building (silly me!), so i was just staring at it from Dunkin' Donuts. The waitress there even told us, if we have anything to pass to 2PM, we can give it to them, and they will help us to pass it to the staff... how sweets were them ♥♥♥ and they even told us that 2PM is not coming to the agency that day... LOL! of coz we knew... 2PM was already on their way to Singapore for their Hands Up Asia Tour.

Well, we stayed there bout 30 - 45 minutes, doing nothing except spazzing. hahaha! it was one of the most memorable moments for me ^^

Finally!!!!

2. Coex Mall, Gangnam-gu

We went to the mall since Lumos needs to find a new shoes badly. It just a normal mall (at least to me) and grab a lunch fosho. I did a lil shopping there: Belt & Compact Powder from Etude House. Sorry, no picture... LOL!

3. Seoul Lantern Festival, Cheonggyecheon Stream

Basically, this wasn't in our itinerary but since we visited Seoul during the time, so, after Coex Mall, we've decided to go there. 

It was beautiful to see a lot of lanterns, from superheroes (Superman, Batman etc.) and others too. But one thing for sure, they were a lot of lovey dovey couple went there. hihihi.

one of the lantern~~~

4. Myeongdong

So, we went to Myeondong again but this time we shopped! Timah bought a spectacle from Look Optical, while i bought a pink frame sunglasses from the market oppa... LOL. Oh, of coz we went to Evisu to buy nothing, except taking pic with TaecWoo. Evisu's stuffs are expensive k

Haiiiiii~~~

Then went to the subway station again to buy k-pop stuffs. This time i got myself GD's Heartbreaker album, 2PM's Star Card and few 2PM's stuffs...

That's all that we did on the 2nd day of our Korea trip ^^

KOREA TRIP (17/11/2011 - 22/11/2011): DAY 1

this is like overdue but i still need to blog about it. since i'm kinda lazy to write a long entry, so i'm gonna blog by places that i visited ;)

1. Incheon Airport

Well, of coz the moment you arrived in Seoul, Incheon Airport will be the first location in your trip. Just like other airports in the world, it just another airport but their WiFi was awesome to the max. The first thing me & my friends did were checking our handphone whether the roaming works... Luckily, my roaming works well ^^

from maxis to olleh

Since we reached early morning, 6.30am, so the first thing we did in Incheon was having breakfast. We decided to have our breakfast at a coffee shop at the airport but i can't remember the coffee shop's name... ihiks.

2. Hey Backpackers 1 & 2, Hongdae

Hahaha... the experience when we had to find our guesthouse was funny. We didn't have problem to get to Hongdae from airport. Once we reached Hongik University Station, we have to walk 10 minutes to get to our guesthouse.

FYI, Hey Backpackers have 2 guesthouses: 1 & 2 which located like 2 minutes away with each other. I remembered when i booked Hey Backpackers 1 & we didn't have problem to find it but when we reached HB1, no one were there to open the doors for us. Then this one kind ahjussi (he owns an electrical shop next to HB1) told us to go to HB2 instead to find the owner. So, with his minimal English, he explained to us the direction to HB2 and it was me & Lumos mission to find HB2, while Fatima & Mai waited for us in front of HB1. Since we can't really understood the direction well, both of us ended up wandering the whole Hongdae for more than 45 minutes. We did asked direction from the Watson's people, 7-eleven ahjussi & even a police, but none of them gave us a correct direction. LOL! it was kinda frustrating.

Then, when we were on our way to HB1, dang! We found HB2 like 2 minutes away from HB1... Well, it was quite a fun experience for us...

in front of Hey Backpackers 2!

 3. Pavarotti, Hongdae

After settling down with the guesthouse, it was already noon, so, we gotta eat. We went to a pasta restaurant, Pavarotti. I'm not a fan of pasta, so, i decided to order a Shrimp Salad.

Nyum! Nyum!

4. Namsan Tower

From Myeongdong Station, we decided to walk which just to realise after that we have to climb up the hill. The hill was freaking steep, NO JOKE!

Well, Namsan Tower is famous with their Love Locks. It was kinda amusing seeing those locks since we don't have it in Malaysia. We can see the view of Seoul City from the tower but since it was like 3pm - 4pm, we can't see the beautiful night of the Seoul City.

till death tear us apart

5. Myeongdong

Since Namsan Tower & Myeongdong are nearby, so, we headed to Myeongdong Market. It is like KL's Petaling Street just it was more fun than PS. Of coz i was more excited when we found Evisu & Look Optical's outlet (if you are a 2PM's fan like me, you'll know why).

I didn't buy anything (yet), except 2PM's 2nd single, Time For Change at the Myeongdong Subway Station.

1st day at Myeongdong, this is the only thing that i bought :p

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I'll end my 1st entry here. My entry kinda boring aite? I'll have a special post to paste interesting pictures during my trip k. I'll post my 2nd entry a.k.a 2nd day soon. It will be more interesting especially if you are a JYP Nation's fan ^^