Day 1
Met jc and mr kwa at airport on thursday night. Flight provided by the prime minister is korean airline and the sad thing is there is no individual tv like SQ flight:(
Look at how much i love NS.. Bringing my NS bag (with my name on it) for this trip. Good thing is this bag can really put lots of stuff.
I dunno is this dinner or breakfast... Our flight is from 11pm to 6am and i dun really like this kind of flight timing cause is super duper hard for me to sleep on plane. So just when i was about to enter the sleep mode they suddenly turn on all the lights on the plane to serve this meal -___-"...
Mr Kwa ate bibimbap.. look kind of troublesome compare to my dish. But i have to say my egg plus potato meal sux....
This is my first time on korean airline. The hair thingy (i think is either a hair clip or a deco) on the air stewardess hair is quite nice..
After reaching airport we had breakfast sponsored by the organizer. Everyone surround the picture menu but have no idea what isit..haha
In the end we end up in some cafe and i got this mushroom cheese pancake or something. But it look like a squid in this pic though...
We took a 3 hours bus before reaching our hotel. As expected this hotel is the same one as the Asia Baduk Championship last year.
Yup... Korea Prime Minister Cup.. I dunno why there isnt much news regarding this competition in TOM or sina weiqi...
The official poster....
You can also see competition banner around the hotel and competition area. The competition area is a 2 mins walk away from the hotel. So basically is beside the hotel..
They got this booth at the hotel lobby for registration and temperature taking. Korea is still taking H1n1 quite seriously. They also gave us a heavy goodie bag.
Content of goodie bag. English and korean weiqi book, cute weiqi board, cute weiqi badge and information on the representatives.
So after settling our stuff we went to the Mega mart nearby to get water and snacks. I have been to that mart last year with the singapore representatives(jc, karen, kay, yuxiang) for ABC tournament.
This is the MEGA MART. Trust me, this is the most exciting place or i should say the most entertaining thing around the hotel area. Most shops surrounding the hotel sells either traditional fan or painting.... Seriously not the place u wan to be for a holiday when you are at my age.
Saw a pet shop opposite the mega mart. The dogs look really sad:( I hope the shop owner wont consider them as snacks during winter...
We had lunch.... The one on the bottom is my lunch...some beef meal.. Jc eating chicken or pork cutlet with fried rice and Mr kwa had rice with kimchi soup.
Opening ceremony... Was a simple one with hip hop performance and a strange traditional performance whereby this lady keep screaming high-pitch korean language into her mike... I think all foreigners have the "my ears hurt" face during her performance...
They show all the first round pairing during the ceremony and Singapore vs Mexico.
Buffet style dinner... Dunno why i only took desert pictures..
The first thing that appear when we on the tv. Korea version of chinese chess??
Pls agree with me this is ridiculous!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I dun understand why must this guy dress this way. He is a PROFESSIONAL PLAYER giving handi games...
I was opening my mouth wide open when the camera zoom out. OH MY GOD.... CLOUDS surrounding them????Are they trying to feature that guy as the weiqi god? Oh my... looks like being a pro player in korea is not easy... haha. 心苦你了
The 3 of us roam around the area and most of the shops are either selling boring traditional stuff or closed down... Just when we thought there is nothing to shop around we saw this bookshop selling tons of weiqi equipment!!!! Is my first time seeing so many different kind of weiqi equipment for sale..
Will blog day 2 some other day...
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