Korea Tour ~ 09 to 16 May

Back from korea trip yesterday. Is a 8 days trip to seoul and Jeju island, with my parents, bro, anne and her mum. initiatelly expected the trip to be boring cos expect to visit the drama location most of the time. However, surprising it turns out to be quite fun. The trip itnerary is changed accordingly with the initative of our pretty tour guide as the weather changes. I have a few "first time" in this trip, e.g. visit the open zoo which the bear and lion are just beside our bus, submarine ride and horse riding by myself...ha scare by fun! And weather at Jeju island is really cool and the trip there is fully filled with fun, like it :) Oh, the stay in JW Marriot hotel in Seoul is highly recommended ~ 6 stars, bedroom and restroom is super big..hmm restroom is almost the size of my own smaller bedroom. Also, the TV for all the hotels is 42inch LCD, thks to Samsung. Photos taken...hmm too many, got to sort it out first.

09 May ~ Take flight
10 May ~ Histortical Place Visit, Da Chang Jin village, Palace, Dong Da Meng shopping
11 May ~ Everland theme park which have open zoo concept, theme park, flower park..etc
12 May ~ Wine Tunnel & travel to Jeju Isiand, own time shopping
13 May ~ Visit the dagon rock by the sea, Mountain climbing, submarine ride, horse riding, mysterious road visit, visit bear museum, nanta show
14 May ~ Strawberry picking, water theme park, Spa.
15 May ~ Shopping at street, Lotte world theme park
16 May ~ Kimchi making, culture experience, last purchase of local food & home sweet home.

Tampines One

Today ~ 2nd May, went to shop @ Tampine One, good that the parking is ok. There is a few interesting shops & Japanese concept clothing, eatery & saka Inn, bakery. At least there is some diff for this mall compared to the rest, like it. Buy a nice pair of earring for myself & zq also get himself an accessory, some clothing from Uniqlo which interesting u have to remove your shoes before entering the fitting room cubicles, bought my fav red tea from a Jap store (i drank it in jap once...ex here) & makan @ the Jap mache kind of eatery place called Manpuku. Tried out some food there, I try the soba but is jus diff from the one i tried in Japan..not nice, wat i like best is the fruit paradise tart & the tea! Ramen is not bad also, chasiao is soft & almost melt in my mouth.














Aoba Hokkaido Ramen












Kitsune soba











Food Paradise Tart










Oriental rose tea















Interesting stationary shop @ basement.

BBQ ~ Badminton Grp

On 1st of May, the badminton grp have our annual bbq again. Manage to find a good spot with unoccupied bbq pit for us to place our things. As always we have our portable pits, table, chairs, cooler box all prepared by our handy man ~ Desmond, thus we can hv our bbq anytime, anywhere without worrying abt the pit. Surprising for this round, we finish almost all the food prepared. All the food are nice, like the chicken wing, roasted pork & otah.

The grp is slightly smaller compared to prev 3 years, a few cannot make it, thus feel some difference, hope everyone can get together to hv fun again.

Mid Apr of 2009.

Busy in early part of the week and even on holiday and sat...cos trying to coordinate some offsite work to be held on sat nite by my colleague. Learn something from the job. Sometime, saying or explaining too much might not help , so only said what is necessary.

Hmm...Thurs evening ~ 7 Apr, go ktv with ex colleagues and half the grp left early. Left the 4 of us and quite fun for the last song cos we singing "Jin4 Ge1 Jing1 Qu3"..15mins songs that consists of many songs that only sing a part of it. Each of us take turn to sing and try to figure whats song coming, enjoy the fun of it and hv a gd laugh.

On 8 Apr ~ public holiday, met up ea and cf...too bad im late so the starting of the gathering is spoiled. Dinner is nice as ea brings us to nice eatery place and hv nice ice cream too.

On 9 apr (Sat) ~ first or maybe the second time i played bumper car. Is located @ those pasar malam and i think quite ex, $6 for 10mins ride! But is really fun, i dun know how to control at first and keep bumping into station car and the side...screaming all the way. Finally, i managed and have a great fun. This is something i wan to do all along but dare not =D Glad i get to play it. Thanks zq!! Haa...he said i'm simple to be pleased.

On 10 Apr (Sun), finish the badminton game earlier, cos needed to go tomb sweeping. Instead of taking zq's car ride, i told him i wan to take the walk to sembawang mrt. Cos i wan to enjoy the cooling weather with a bit drizzling rain. And i like it :) It feels so good, i decided not to take out my umbrella. Some thoughts on the way...nowadays, people prefer to take car ride or on the aircon, if they will just to come out and take a walk beside the trees, they will discover the beauty of it..& also one might live longer if will to enjoy the nature more often.