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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Day 4 going out with Mr Kim

Well now, Mr kim who is my Uncle's contact arranged to take me out to look around Korea. so He and his daughter picked me up outside of my school and basically drove me for lunch and a trip to one of the tall towers to catch a panaromic view of Korea. Our first stop was at a place calledYongsan electronic market. The place was mind blogging and truely deserved the name of market. Forgot to take a picture of it though. sigh. but u can just try to visualise a big area whereby people hawk all kinds of electronic goods. You name it, they have it.

Next stop was a korean BBQ. IT was good. as you can see from the picture. and the numerous numbers of small dishes was like woah. its too many for me (-_-") but i guess its the culture. I mean with the no. of side dishes available, I doubt even the haviest eater could finish eating it. There was even a type of i think it was winter kimchi is soup that left the most simply refreshing feeling in the mouth. it was hmmmm i can't really discribe it. sorta mildy sour soup but totally relieves the oil of the BBQ from your mouth.

Next was the building that hmm i forgot the name. but it offered a very nice view from the 60th floor. You have to pay to go up the building though. But the view is magnificient. as you can see form the pictures, the whole of Seoul is available. Seoul is a very very very densely populated place though so its always full of buildings..... :P

Went back to my hostel after that. Mr Kim drove me back. very kind of him I thought. He was very friendly but his daughter was rather shy so didn't speak much to her. Maybe she was still very young. Any i love being driven back to my hostel..... at least today i wouldn't have to brave the slopes............... groans. Found out one very intersting thing. Koreans count age as measure from the mother's womb. so Once you're born you're 1 yr old! :P so like Mr kim's daughter, she's 16 in korea but 15 in international terms. it doesn't affect the birthday though. at least i think it doesn't :)

I arranged to meet Maxwell at 6pm for dinner. but me being me, my short map turned out to be a long one and i woke up only at 730pm, and it was already very dark. oh man. Sorry Max..... but anyway he was still waiting for me so we went out to eat. Randomly picked a resturant, couldn't read the menu it had no pictures too, so just picked the first dish off the menu on the wall. Turned out to be Spicy beef stew with rice and the standard 3 side dishes. cost us 4000 won but it was well worth it. 1 SGD=600-650Won. Just in case you think i really lucked out, i didn't. I mean if i ordered a dish for 4000won, its unlikely to be soup or water right? lol. Max was rather shocked though. lol he was like, oh man what r u doing, you don't even know what u just ordered...... (I ordered for him too) lol. haha its exciting to eat in korea.

Can't really walk around tonite though. its a 5 day working week in seoul so many shops are closed. In addition, its numbingly cold here. Especially with the big wind. So i guess thats it for today. Tomorrow will be my first time in a Korean church so pray that i will manage to make it there intact? yeah? Amen to that! :P

Goodnight everybody and God Bless! :P

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