The Weather

Hello and welcome to Part 1 of the series of South Korea-related posts from my recent trip to the country. As I joined a tour group, so the places I went to were generic tourist spots but still, they were pretty and interesting in their own way.

Let’s get started shall we? =]

South Korea is currently experiencing winter, with freezing temperatures that can drop to -19°C. The temperature at Incheon International Airport was at about -4°C when I landed on the 10^th of February, 7am+ KST (Korean Std Time). We were told by the Korean tour guide (who from now on will be referred to as Guide unnie if she ever comes up again) that it had snowed a couple of hours before we landed so the snow is still fresh and we can go play in it if we wanted to and also spring normally starts in April for them.

freshly fallen snow, view from the airport

Snow, this would be my first time experiencing the winter climate and thus my first hand look at what is snow. Snow is, surprisingly, powdery to the touch. Soft, cold and brittle unless compacted into a ball, one must be careful not to hold on to the white form for too long because it will numb your hand to the point where it will hurt as the cold pierce into your flesh and stings your palm.

As though the cold isn’t enough, the wind made it a gazillion times worse. Coming from a tropical country, it’s pretty hard for any of us who have not experienced winter to imagine the sort of chill it sends to the human body. The wind is just as piercing as the cold of the snow. One doesn’t really feel the cold, unless the wind is blowing. The wind was strong and sent all of us zipping up our jackets, wrapping our necks with scarves, putting on our beanies and stuffing our hands into the closest pockets. Taking photos soon became a chore as it was really hard trying to take good pictures with gloved hands, especially when the gloves made it hard to push any buttons on the camera. The harsh, cold wind will not hesitate and trust me; the skin of 

your hands will crack, starting from your knuckles. Yes it is that unforgiving.

The wind was even stronger in Jeju than it was on the mainland. According to Guide unnie, Jeju should be warmer than Seoul in the sense that the temperature will not drop below zero. It was actually +6°C when we were there but the wind was so freaking strong it didn’t felt like +6 at all. My ears hurt and my nose felt like it would just drop off because I didn’t had my cap and scarf with me when I was climbing the volcano.

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Next time: The Sights

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Hello

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Moshi

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Ciao

Ciao

Busy

Busy!!

hey ya'll! here to say Hello and wishing all of you guys a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year and i shall see you when i see you.

busy busy next week

p/s: please try not to call me ya. i wouldn't want to waste your phone credits because i won't be picking up.

p/s 的 p/s: i'll be out of town for the whole week too

Personality Tests

as the title suggests, i went and took a personality test to kill some time haha!!

these are my results

1. ISTJ

2. Spontaneous Idealist

they're pretty accurate for me..what about you guys? =]

Song Rec

Ayo! I think we’re due for a post of such sorts haha

So I’ve been listening to some new/old stuff lately and so here we go =]

1.       Tooku Made by Do As Infinity

this song..i have searched for the title since forever ago. i bought an anime's dvd years ago and it came with a random OST cd and it had no tracklisting for it. this was track number 10 and i've only recently discovered it's title. the title can be translated as Far Away

2.        愛來過 by S.H.E

Heard this song over the radio the other day and it’s really nice

3.       金鐘罩鐵布衫 by S.H.E

The mv for this song is so cute I tell you! Don’t believe? Check it out yourself :D

4.       Gone Not Around Any Longer by Sistar 19

The title track of their new mini album. I’ve always liked Sistar 19’s songs. This one is no exception

5.       A Girl In Love by Sistar 19

Another song from their new mini album! I like this more than the one previously mentioned!!

6.       Merry Go Round by Tanner Patrick

A friend of mine recommended this song to me and I loved it on the first listen so now I am recommending it to you guys :D

hope you guys like it =]

Endless Ramblings

Hey, yes I know it’s been almost two weeks since my last post and I’m sorry. I got really busy over the long weekend and it didn’t seem like a good time to be writing a blog post when you have your mother calling for you to either go help out in the kitchen or your sister driving you off the Great Wall of China.

This weekend will mark my first weekend here in Kampar for the year. Honestly I prefer spending the weekend here though it’s pretty mundane. Weekends here are actually very relaxing.

Why? Well, for starters you’re alone in your dorm room, you get to wake up whatever time you want without having an irritating sibling wake you up when it’s nearing lunch, you get to do whatever you want at your own pace without having a mother to dictate your daily schedule for you, you get to plan and actually execute whatever things you have planned for the day instead of having a mother assume that you will be ever so willing to do trivial things for her like looking after her swimming kids and most of all, you get to enjoy some quality “me time” without being interrupted.

The list can go on and on as to why I prefer to stay in the dorms for the weekend. To be very honest I’m not a very big fan of going home the end of every week. Yes I can already see you guys yelling at me

“YE WHO GETS TO GO HOME EVERY WEEK SHOULD APPRECIATE THY CHANCE!!!!!!”

But please, if you know how my family functions beneath the exterior that you see, you would understand why I say so. For years I have dreamed of leaving that house and now that I’m actually out I would like to stay out for as long as I can before I go back.

I know, I’m weird but hey, I’ve long accepted the fact that I am..slightly queer because there’s this concept that I came up with myself

“if I turned out the same as everybody else, the world would be a very boring place”

So why be like everybody else when you can be yourself?

“If you compare yourself to anyone in this world, you are insulting yourself”

Sheetal Sheth

So enough about that, let’s move on.

The annual pre-CNY heat wave is here and I don’t know about you guys but I do not like it at all. Every single year we, students here in Kampar, toil under the hot sun for almost a whole semester before it gradually starts to cool when reaching the second half of the year and I hate it every single time.

It eats away our driving force to work and it makes us lazy. We don’t want to move because it’s hot and it’ll make up sweaty and sticky. We just want to stay indoors and not move, like seriously. Even moving about in my dorm room is becoming a chore. Well, at least now that I’ve cleaned the fan it’s actually more cooling.

We’re working on our Final Year Project now and I’m pretty happy to be in a group with laid back but willing to work people. They make things less stressful than it is. We laugh and joke but we sort of manage to get things done. I really like them a lot. They put my mind at ease but not after they unofficially announced that I was the leader. Haha well then if I’m going to be the leader then I’ll just be the undisputed one. 

Hopefully it would not cause a mutiny or else out grades will literally go down the drain.

Anyway, I think this post is long enough now ey?

Thanks for reading and I’ll see you guys next time. Oh and I would like to suggest following me on twitter to keep up with regular updates about me queer life. 140 characters can say a lot about a person. Ever consider starting a twitter account? =]

Enjoy your weekend!