rain rain rain... is hard to go out so I spend most of my time at home watching Baduk tv and trying to finish the anime MONSTER.

I just saw on news that there is a Harry Potter marathon in GV. If I am in Singapore I will sure attend! Is quite challenging, seating there for 25hours watching all 8 movies, 3 meals included and a harry potter goodie bag! Can you imagine how excited hardcore fans like me will feel if we were given a broom as part of the goode bag!! haha. But I wonder if i can "dong" until the latest movie after watching for so many hours...

There is this new pair go competition in baduk tv sponsor by a fashion company i think. And their concept is really interesting because the company designer will dress every pair up with their products according to their looks and style and in between the match they will show clips of the pair of pro player posing in their new outlook.

It is suppose to be summer now but it has been raining every single moment for the past few days and the following week according to weather forecast. I heard this is the so call raining season in Korea. Hope that the hot sun will be back after all these rain.

Just saw some of my results and I got a B for bridge, muhahahahah. But I dun think I will ever pick up bridge again unless someone can really convince me its interesting. Anyway I saw the bridge news in sina and Singapore actually got first in the U26 group in a bridge competition held in Malaysia recently, congrats!

I was surprise with my Baduk English result because it was a different story from what cindy and most people told me.

Went to Korea Baduk Association today to attend a forum where the objective is to mend the relationship between KBA (Korea Baduk Association) and KABA (Korea Amateur Baduk Association). Apparently the relationship between KBA and KABA (sorry guys, i know it looks similar, now u know where the conflict comes from, haha) is not good and each of them wants to be the association that leads Korea Baduk internationally. And the conclusion of the forum is.... no conclusion. I suspect that this forum is just an excuse to meet up with old friends and have a great dinner, haha.

There you go, DINNER!!! A good thing about Korea culture is that YOUNG people like ME gets to eat free food, muhahaha. This thing taste a lot better than I thought.

Went to Myeongdong and found the shooting club where you get to fire real pistol with real ammunition. I have to say is quite expensive but there are many different types of pistol and you get to choose the gun you like.

I choose this gun because it looks cute, MUHAHAHAHAHA. I get to shoot a total of 15 rounds i think.

WARNING! the following post is about me showing off, haha.

The most important picture of this post! Yes, actually I am from the national team, muhahahha!!! I know the "10 point" area look like I use pencil to poke those big holes. The instructor even asked me whether I was from military (well, i suspect this is one of the english lines he memorize to communicate with foreigners). The recoil of the gun is really strong and it was bloody loud even when I was wearing the ear protective cover. It makes me wonder how RAINBOW fire so many weapons at the same time and be able to have such good hearing....

I realize that most Korean guys are taller than Singapore guys. My height in Singapore is consider average but I feel super short in Korea, haha. Must be the kimchi... I shall eat more of it now.

Was looking at the lanke and quiping name list and saw that the number of players are declining yearly. I think swa should not just focus on children but on teenagers too. But i feel that the priority now is to fix the "blackhole" in swa. We can promote this game to many people and get people in, but how to make them stay is more important. Throughout the years in swa, I have seen many people fall into this "blackhole" maybe because there isnt enough activity or there are just too little new people coming in to spice up the place. Swa feels very different now compared to few years back when I started GO when it was livelier and with more people. Now is just a place for lesson.

Was having email exchange with a sch in Singapore and her reply really make me feel that she is not trying to help and she is thinking of various ways to push the idea away. I mean if is a NO, just explain why it cant be done instead of avoiding my questions and give different excuses after every email. I am starting to feel the dark side of the working world :(

I am now watching this anime call MONSTER. Is not about real monster but about this boy who has a gift of controlling people's mind and their fear. Is one psychology anime that I enjoy watching a lot.

The drama City Hunter showing now is really good!

Went to Myeongdong today to look for some stuff for my project but found nothing. Not able to search on local korea search engine makes it hard for me to look for the stuff I need. In the end I went to walk around Myeongdong and it started raining in the afternoon :(

Went to a japanese curry restaurant for my dinner. The price for majority of the dishes are below 10,000won. I dont think I can find such cheap japanese restaurant in Singapore.

I have to admit that I was kind of stunned when I saw my order because I ordered shrimp curry and I visualize it to be those japanese ebi (deep friend prawn). It turned out to be many cute little shrimp. Anyway it taste better than it looks.

Just when I was about to go home, I saw my first demonstration in Korea. Alright, lets be more positive, this is the Korean version of Chingay.

I think this is their leader (the one on the right). I can tell that he is one angry man and I think the rain make it worst because he has to wear the stupid raincoat.

I think they are now shouting.. "HUAT AH". I cant imagine what will happen if this is in Singapore? Do you think LKY will get an heart attack?

Seriously I cant believe the drama "AI" is still on channel 8. Dont the actor and actress in that show want to try a new role? Think by now my cousin Jei Kai can sing the whole opening song.

My sch website seems to be infected by some virus, not able to check results. Hope the virus erase our results too, muhahahahaha.

This coming week will be the start of summer vacation. Wah, I never thought I could use the word "summer vacation" in my life because it sounds dumb to use it in Singapore. Will be exploring korea more I hope.

My friendly neighbour Cindy has left Korea to China for 2 and a half months. She took cruise to China this morning and I think she is quite nervous about this 24h cruise trip. Hope she is still alive.

Went with Chaelim to Hongdae today before she goes US for exchange program. This is one of the best place I have been in Korea is a must visit place for foreigners. Pictures time!!!

The first place we went is this Korean style flea market which only happens on every saturday, march to november (dec to feb seems too cold for them). Is a really nice place and everything here is handmade product.

Using bottle caps and keyboard letters as keychain. The owner emphasis that I can only take picture from far. Haha, but earlier on I saw a lady pretending to look the keychains while snapping the products vigorously with her iphone.

I like this stall because the leather products are nice, Chaelim got me a leather coin pouch from here as a gift.

Not sure what is this but it looks Korean style voodoo dolls.

I like this stall too. Very korean style.

Ice cream stick stall. There are many other stalls but some of them dont allow photography because they are worried that I appear beside them selling stuff next week.

Very common in Korea, is everywhere! But I have not tried yet because I am worry about the hygiene (but many people told me is safe to eat) and communication with old people in Korean might be a problem, they are not really good in body language.

Saw this in a gift shop in some gallery building. These are all actually post-pad.

We went to a museum where they have very interesting pictures!

Yes, i look a bit dumb.

I remember very clearly that this is one of the topic we discuss in Baduk Psychology.

I have no idea why on earth we have to discuss this in Baduk Psychology but it is interesting. See the difference?

Not sure if you have seen these kind of diagram. It appears that one of the object in both pictures is longer but actually they are of the same length. Thanks to baduk psychology again, I think I have seen half of the gallery in the my mid-term psychology book.

Notice the difference? Perception is always relative, never absolute and it always depend on the surrounding context.

Went to the Coffee Prince cafe. I only watched this drama halfway and I gave up because is too much for me. Imagine the story is about a blind man and a girl who wants to be guy, cant understand why some of my friends (yes i am talking about you, minyi) and my sis like this show that much, haha.

Wanted to have a drink inside but is fully occupied by Thai tourist.

So we went to this cafe and guess who were beside us?

SHEEP!!!!!! This is the most unique cafe concept I have ever come across. Maybe they are here for a reason, should have see the menu clearly...

I think this is the first time I see a sheep. They look so innocent.

was reading swa emails and I really feel like laughing. This kind of small stuff can discuss as if is a national problem. Sometimes I have no comment for you-know-who. Swa is facing bigger problems yet he is still stuck in the years when he was president comparing stuff that happened donkey years ago. I just feel sad for swa. Hope the new exco will be good:)

Tmr is my last day of exam and it means holiday!!! I am a naughty boy for this final semester exam because I didnt study at all, was really busy doing up some stuff which is super time consuming and I think that is more important than exams. This is not an excuse not to study hard for my exams but I think the Koreans need the GPA more than I do because it is really important for them.

Someone in Baduk english said this to me one day "why are u in this class? Because of you I may not be able to get an A for this module." I know he was joking but I could sense the bu shuang, haha.

The mini project I am working on is good so far. However there were more problems than I expected, yes a lot more problems... But I think is good training for me on how to deal with unexpected problems. Wah, so positive of me :)

I was wearing slipper to school toady so that I dont have to wash many pair of socks and I realize alot of people in school look at me as if they just seen an Africian. I am serious... Maybe is just not the culture to wear slipper in korea. But I dont understand how they can accept the bathroom style slipper WITH SOCKS?

Learnt a new english term in Korea.

FASHION LEADER

I am quite sure is summer in Korea now but I still see people in my class wearing up to 3 layers of shirt. So when I was in class with Cindy, I asked her "the person in front of us dont feel hot?" she then turn her head slowly and give me the very calm (as usual) look and replied "he is a fashion leader"

Muhahahahhaha!!! I just find this term funny.

Had lunch in another canteen and the food is so much better!

One thing I dont like about my school is that there are no toilet paper in the cubicle. There is only one big toilet paper dispenser near the entrance of the toilet so whenever you see people start pulling the toilet paper, it means "hey look here, I am going to shit soon!"

This is the first week of final semester exam and it will be summer vacation 2 weeks later! Wah, time pass so fast!!!

Today is a bad bad day.... Went to Gimpo (sounds like alvin's favourite teacher in thailand)to check something so took an hour bus ride, an hour train, another one hour bus ride again and finally a 5 minutes cab to reach the damm freaky far place. Then when I enter the building no one was there. I called my korean friend and she told me today is a public holiday. First time in my life I wanna shout the F word out.

Anyway I did something that "save" my life today. When I alight from the cab before going into the building, I dunno why but I just took the call-a-cab card. This building is in some super deep ulu place with no one around (you can only see FARMERS in the field some distance away), if is not for that call cab card, I think I will die there. Calling a cab in Korea is easier than I thought, better than SG, haha.

Went to Ajisen for dinner few days ago. The taste is the same as SG and I think is slightly cheaper here.

I finally took a pic of this. I just feel very uncomfortable whenever I see this in Myeongdong. In the tent there will be a old man or old lady reading out stuff from the bible. I just feel sad for them.

Last bridge lesson and we have a mini competition in class. Please look at the amount of notes in front of Cindy, muhahahahahah!!!!

Our bridge teacher. She is a really classy women I think she is quite rich cause all her accessories are branded (LV etc...)

Is really really hard to believe but Cindy and her partner came in first in the competition, must be the massive amount of notes in front of her that distracted her opponents, hahaha. And I am really sorry teacher, your eyes!!!! I think my camera got some problem, look at this pic, it look like they are in heaven. Anyone has a solution?

When I finally found the one and only crumpler shop in Korea, I was stunned.

It is totally different from the cumpler shop I have seen in Singapore.

The shop was located under digital and electronics section (dun ask me y) and if you have seen what I saw you wont even consider that a crumpler shop. Because it was located IN a small stall that sells camera. No one on earth would be able to find that crumpler shop without the help of the information center. No wonder I spend freaking long looking for it....

Had dinner with sebas club member yesterday in the restaurant call Mother's Finger . I find the name of this restaurant real creepy. Can you imagine a group of old lady stirring food with their fingers?

Super big pot of meat and it taste really good (must be those fingers)

Rice will be put into the pot to fried with the remaining sauce. Looks like mash potato in this pic.

When to this I am not sure what is it call ... hmm... baseball court?? You put 500won and ball will start shooting out and you have to hit it with the bat. Good exercise to vent your angers.

First time seeing the sporty side of Cindy, hahahaha.

If there is one thing I want to complain about Korea, it will be the closing time of their shopping mall. Today I went to a place call Yongsan and when I reach the mall's information counter, the lady say "sorry we are closed" It was only 8.20pm.

It was a routine to eat at the toast shop almost every morning before attending class but I realize I didnt have toast the whole of last week because is either I woke up late or I was busy. Then the owner of the shop ask cindy..

"why your friend stop buying toast, is it because he hate the taste."

Muhahahahaha!!

Had a good chat with my sis on facebook yesterday. Her new haircut made her look so Korean, doesnt look like the sis i know anymore, haha.

My lunch today. Chinese style friend rice. Even though is chinese style, you wont be able to find this anywhere in China so is more of Korean style friend rice. The black sauce is really good, is one thing I will miss if i return to Singapore.

Went to Korea Baduk Association with Cindy and the chinese gang for the annual university team tournament. There are 3 group, the Strong group which consist of ex-insei and tygem 9d players, the Normal group for players who are as noob as me and the Freshmen group.

This competition is fast game. 10min with 3 times 20seconds byo-yomi. But not every table has a clock so I was wondering how are they going to make it on time cause it starts at 2pm and need to end around 6. So when the time for the next match is reaching and if people are still playing, professional player will stop the game and decide who wins or lose. I think is quite a good idea and swa can consider this if we want to end competition on time.

Pro player practicing their signature on the fan.

This is really like celebrity autograph session, haha. Everyone of us will get a free fan and we can queue up for their signature.

Plastic surgery advertisement on the train. I was really surprise to see people selling stuff in train. Like they pull a trolley of raincoat into the center of 1 cabin and starts to advertise the coat. When no one respond or buy, he will sadly move to the next cabin. If this happens in SMRT, I think those terrorist police will drag the person out once the train stop. Oh, he will appear in STOMP first.

Defects in the goods were in my calculation but this is way too off.

Is like your opponent secretly move your stone during endgame, something you will never expect.

Competition tomorrow, hope I wont die too badly. Aiming for at least 1 win, haha

Went hospital yesterday to visit student club president because he was in an accident. That hospital he is staying in is totally different from those I have seen in Korean drama. I think is a small hospital, even smaller than polyclinic. What really surprise me is that the toilet is smaller than the one in my house (which is quite small already).

We had dinner after that in a place call uncle tomato.

My dinner. It taste better than it looks.

Here are some of the people who went along to visit the president. I am so shocked to hear that the girl on the far left is 22 years old, gosh it must be a very powerful family secret to maintain the young look. And she is a pro.

Meet Mikyung one last time today before she flies back to Singapore. We had duck for lunch and this is one of the healthier food I had in Korea. Is like shabu-shabu (sorry dont know how to spell, look weird here) and I really like it.

This is how Lee ChangHo looks like when he is young (mikyung's bro) and Mikyung's mum.

Quack Quack...duck in pumpkin. Is my first time eating pumpkin and I think is nicer than I thought.

There is a bungee jump (the structure on the left of course) near the restaurant and it looks quite cool. I will never try though, haha.

Bought MIDAS ost and the songs are great! Love all the songs except for 2. I think the actress (the lady at the bottom) in this drama is really pretty! The drama is good too.