The last time I updated this blog was last year. And its already into April 2011.

In line with the negligence of this blog, I've updated the header with cobwebs to portray the state of disuse its in.

Since the last time, I've:
- Travelled Korea with my gf
- Started IA at Pratt and Whitney (SPRO)
- Rooted my phone, its now running oxygenmod 2.01, and i've made it up to look like my Macbook.

Time is flying past too fast. Weeks just end with a snap. Soon my IA will end, as will the last foresee-able slack period in my life. 

Year four is gonna be killer, work is not gonna be slack too. Oh well. Life.
10:15 AM
Sitting at an internet cafe now. spending the night here. I think i'll update on Japan after all this is over.
Too tired. Good night.


*edit/update*


Still at internet cafe, but too lazy to really blog now.
Here's a rough itinerary before i forgot what i did.


*edit/update*
At home now. With nothing to do. But still too lazy to blog.


21/12/10 
Train to busan, taxi to airport. Came back the way we came

22/12/10 
Nearly missed plane, slept in closed airport, reached fukuoka. Visited canal city, Tenjin, walked around red light district, found out convinence store sold porno-like mags(i think they are just normal manga mags). stayed in 2500yen japan style guesthouse

23/12/10
Woke up late, train to dazaifu. Walked a lot, visited quite a few temples. Train to Nagasaki, slept in internet cafe Cybac Nagasaki

24/12/10 
JR train to visit nagasaki atomic bomb site, cathedral, museum. Deposit bag in nagasaki station locker. JR train to Fukuoka. Visited Yatai dinner, met friendly japanese man, Brought us to bar, rather smokey, treated us to drinks. Nice guy. Stayed in Cybac Tenjin

25/12/10 
JR Train to Beppu. checked in Beppu guest house. Bought bus pass. visited Hoyoland mud spa, some lame normal salt onsen. Ate toriten lunch. Ate tempura dinner. Guesthouse had wifi, shiok.

26/12/10 
Takegawa sand onsen. Fell asleep inside. Ate tonkatsu ramen lunch, cashier girl could speak good english. Shopped at JR train station. JR train to Kagoshima, transferring at Kumamoto and Yatsoshiro. Deposit luggage at Kagoshima station. Snowed while we were on train, rained like shit at kagoshima. Sucks balls. Left change of socks at station. Wandered kagoshima tenmonjin. Dinner at some super ex but yet not nice place. Went to Cybac Kagoshima rather early. Slept late again, bathed twice. Not enough cash left. What a Christmas.

27/12/10 
Ferry to Sakurajima. Nearly missed tour bus. Tour in Japanese, boring till nearly slept a few times. Sakurajima was underwhelming. Never even get near to crater. Drew 7k at post office. Shopped at JR station. Ate a rather cui KFC for lunch. JR train to Fukuoka. Another 4 hours. Walked around Canal City, had a tough time finding dinner. Ended up eating omelette rice instead of tonkatsu ramen, because thats the only shop that accepts credit cards, and we were pretty much out of cash. Sitting at Cybac Hakata now thinking about the past 6 days, and the next 10 days. 


28/12/10
Flight back to Busan. Collected Luggage. Taxi to KTX station. No time for lunch. Train to Seoul, 5hrs30min. Bored to death. Stayed in cheap hotel near airport waiting for Dear to arrive.
10:10 AM
Well, its a new month, and i'm back from Jirisan, so its no excuse for not blogging. I'm kinda lazy, so here's a short one.

Went to Jeonju like ages ago, like 3 weeks ago? Its a pretty small city below Daejeon. Nothing much there.

The more interesting one would be Jirisan, the highest mountain in mainland South Korea. I didn't take any decent pictures with my phone though. Its hard enough taking pics with a camera with gloves on, try taking pics with a capacitive touchscreen phone with gloves. I'm thinking of investing in a good rugged waterproof camera. Don't know if i should. Especially since exchange is almost over.
And so the pics from Jirisan are from Rusty's camera, so credits to him.



Pics below!
9:51 AM
Damn. I hit my 1GB photo upload limit.
I'm kinda lagging by 2 weeks to blog. Sorry!

All pictures are on facebook though.

Trying to use Flickr, but i can only upload a max 100mb a month, which is kinda pathetic.
So here's an update on Sokcho and Seoraksan, which i visited last last weekend.
12:30 AM
Damn. I hit my 1GB photo upload limit. Anyone knows how else i can upload photos?
I'm kinda lagging by 2 weeks to blog. Sorry!

Pictures are on facebook though.
8:46 AM
Spent the weekend at Seoul to catch the bboy battle of the year 2010 korea elimination. And since korea is kinda the country of breakdancing, its enough to say it was AWESOME.

Headed to Hongdae after to check out the halloween scene.
Was pretty cool, with quite afew people dressing up. And a crazy silent party where we got sennheiser wireless headphones, and partied to a DJ and Emcee which only we could hear. Haha. Trouped around the area, and pretty much stunned everyone else. Haha. It was probably quite hilarious to see a whole big group of people jumping and dancing around in silence. And shouting in unison too.

Went with a group of 'not really party' kinda people, so while Rusty and me were having fun at the silent party, they sat at Baskin Robbins and chilled. So we kinda felt guilty and returned the headsets soon, and walked around, and spent the night chilling at a cafe, people watching, and then a restaurant. Not exactly fun, but oh wells, the BOTY, people watching and silent party kinda made it a rather unique bday celebration already.

Pictures below, and i did up a rough trailer using iMovie '11. Basically threw in the vids, and see what came out. Wasn't good, but still watchable. Haha.



9:33 PM
Spent the weekend/birthday in Seoul. Pictures, updates and videos soon!
11:42 AM
So, studying for the midterms, on exchange. Despite the oxymoron.
Andddd..... abit laggy, but i started watching the Big Bang Theory. Its really quite nice. Haha.
On to season 2 now. :)

Random pics around school after the break. oh, and i decided to upload the pics from my phone to facebook. Much easier. Time to sleep, and hopefully dream of the answers to tuesday's exams.
9:59 AM
Spent the saturday at some International hot air balloon fiesta/food festival/beerfest/rockconcert.
Disappointingly though, they said the weather was too hot, so the balloons can't go up.
And the 300beer vendors, turned out to be one vendor, with international beers. -.-
The rock concert was okkkkkk..... but mostly in korean.
The naan at the food festival was ok though.

Pictures after 'Readmore'
6:53 AM
Midterms are next week.
And i'm studying everyday.
Why oh why, do i have to do homework and study everyday on exchange? Maybe i should have went to the US, since Zhihong says all the tests are so easy. Haha.

Going to visit a HotAirBalloon Exhibition, and Rocktober fest tomorrow though. :)

Anyways, random pictures after the link.
10:26 AM
Warning! Boring post.

Spent my 2nd weekend in Korea not travelling. The workload is getting intensive. Hai.

Random pics around school after the break.
11:00 PM
The pictures are piling up, so i thought i'ld do an update about the recent activities first, and mayyyybbbbeeee i'll update about the chuseok trip. Hopefully before the semester ends. :D
Its been one week back at school, and i pretty much spent the first half of it catching up on tutorials, chionging them last minute.

Went out to celebrate a friend's birthday. We hung a pair of underwear stained with 'shit' on his door as a present. The video is on facebook: Facebook Luiz's bday present

I fixed up a bike i found.

Now i'm spending the weekend slacking in the dorm. What a waste of a weekend on exchange. But oh wells, i'm too lazy to plan.

So, below are the random images from the past few days.
10:06 AM
Hey guys, i'm sorry for the lack of updates even after the trip. There's too much to update, and i'm too my neck in shitloads of work.

Seriously, i think it may be more stressful here than in NTU. Just finished all my last minute tutorials.

So before i plunge into the update, here's a summary of what we did the 9 day holidays.

18th Sept 2010. Day 1
-Travelling to Seoul on Mugunghwa
-Myeongdong shopping!
-Dog meat stew, Busengtang
-Bungalow Pub $4 Jagerbombs

19th Sept 2010. Day 2
-Changyeonggong Temple
-Seoul tower, Teddy Bear Museum
-Myeongdong Noreabang

20th Sept 2010. Day 3
-Everland! :D

21st Sept 2010. Day 4
-Sleep
-IA application
-Wasted day

22nd Sept 2010. Day 5
-Train to Busan
-Gwangalli Beach at night

23rd Sept 2010. Day 6
-Beomeosa Temple
-Haeundae Beach
-APEC House

24th Sept 2010. Day 7
-Jagalchi Fish Market
-PIFF square
-Seomyeon Underground
-Busan Electronics Wholesale Street

25th Sept 2010. Day 8
-Haedong Yonggungsa Temple
-Lotte Town, Uniqlo!
-Shanghai Street

The pictures will come another day, actually they're on facebook already, but yea. And the specific stories too.

Just celebrated Luiz's birthday(pics soon!), gonna try to stick to my word and start sleeping early. Good night!
9:18 AM
Its going to be the Chuseok holidays from next tuesday to thursday.
Classes are cancelled next friday, and i'm skipping classes next monday.
Which means..... 9 day holiday! :D

Seoul from Saturday morning, to Tuesday night.
Busan from Wednesday morning to Sunday night.

I'll be bringing my laptop along, but i don't think i'll get much time to post. I'll update when i can, and maybe after the trip is done.

For now, back to trying to finish the ton of homework each lecturer gave, assuming that no one is going to travel/play/relax for the holidays. -.- Are teachers taught to give alot of homework for holidays when they are in NIE? Even though we experienced the shittiness of homework during holidays when we were studying ourselves.

Random pics after the break.
8:39 PM
Went on our third hike since I came to Seoul. A place called Songnisan National Park. 1.5hrs bus ride from Daejeon. 7300won.

Woke up damn early, and missed the bus. Ended up waiting for 1hr for the next bus. -.-
The start of the trek was flat drivable road for like 3km. Walk until sian man. But the trek started getting more decent after that. Pictures and vids after the break!
3:30 AM
Friday was a rather slack day, with only one lesson. Went to 2 korean classes, to try and see if i can take it w/o the exams, but got rejected twice. Sad.
Saw quite a few interesting sights around school though.
Headed to a NoRaeBang 노래방 or karaoke in the night. Was rather cheap at 1300won a head. Which is like SGD$2. And the room is damn huge too. :)
Oh ya. cut my hair too!
Pics below. :D

10:15 AM
Well, school days, nothing much to update about.
But i still managed to take some pictures, so here they are. :)
5:39 AM
Nothing much today, since we're pretty much settled into school.
I still have homework due tomorrow which i haven't done.
Had an Orientation thingy today by some International Students Organisation in Kaist. Went out to eat, and paid 20 000 won. Which is like SGD$24.
I feel totally ripped off. Because the live octopus was only like 7000won i think, for 5 people. -.-
Videos and pictures after the 'Read More'.
9:20 AM
Ahhh, have been back pretty late the past 2 nights, so i've got quite abit to upload.
A total of 64 pics, so click to view after the break!

9:05 AM
Well, its the 2nd day of school, and i'm going for new lectures again.
The lecture groups are really small, and all my lectures are pretty centralised. Looks like i'm not going to walk around much in Kaist.
I still managed to snap some pics though. See them after the 'ReadMore'
6:27 AM
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