South Korea Part 2 - National Park, Fish Market, Teddy Bear Farm, Korean BBQ

The next day journey began with a temperature of -18 degree celcius... I guess not much people crazy like me go out and take photos of sunrise...


We had our breakfast at a restaurant just a block away from the hotel. Then we move to Seoraksan National Park. The wind was very strong there... If possible, prepare mask or buy one from the stalls there... it's really useful here...



There is a very big buddha not long after we enter the park...

Then there's a bridge called 洗心桥 - Wash Heart Bridge which brings the meaning wash away all the evils before going into the temple.
The same bridge we use is called 极乐桥 - Most Happiness Bridge when we leaving



Next we went to the Daepohaeng Fish Market... Beside the fish market there is a very beautiful place...

You might seen this before in some korean drama...
The tour guide suggest that we don't buy anything here... There are a lot of deep sea fish, squid, octopus and stalls selling tempura and kuih here...

After a short walk at the market, we move to the Teddy Bear Farm. This is a place with a lots of teddy bears... really a lot... many forms of teddy bears... Got Santa, army, traditional, u name it...


At night, we had Korean BBQ... This is the most delicious food I had in South Korea... Hahaha... What to do... other food was too healthy for Carnivore like me... LOL


The meat that we cooked was cut and wrapped in the vegetable with some sort of special sauce.

We also tried some korean liquor... They called one of them as 0 years and the other as 100 years. One drink till u old and one drink till u die...

Our boss mixed them together and called it 50 years... it taste a bit like whiskey and I think mixed together was better than drink individually... coz individually it taste like medicine... -.-'''
Stay tune for next post on my experience at ski resort and more about South Korea!!!

South Korea Part 1 - Seoraksan Daemyung

If you wonder why I had been missing for a few days didn't online and didn't update my blog... and you don't know where I've been... It's time to tell you where I've been...

I've been to South Korea for a few days from 15th to 20th December. It was a winter trip to South Korea to experience what they call COLD...

Before I left to Korea, I took a photo of KLIA
This airport is much nicer compare to LCCT of course... Haha

When we reach Korea, we prepared ourselves with jackets, sweater, long john, etc
When we walk out the Incheon International Airport of Korea, we felt so cold... It was about -8 degree celcius...
Because of too cold, we rushed to the bus
Next, we had our breakfast at a local restaurant nearby... It was Udon...

The taste was great... I think is much nicer than the soup noodles in Malaysia...
I didn't know what is the name of the restaurant as it was written in Korean...
All I remember is there is a lot of "Remember Korea" all around the restaurant and there's a message "Recommended to tourists"
Yeah... I did remember the taste of the noodle till now =P

After finish our breakfast, we move to the Seagull Watching Ship... The bus went onto the ship and we unboard to talk a short walk around to see seagulls

Didn't take much photos here as I still not used to the cold weather...

Then we moved to the Greenland Spa... This place is divided to 3 sections... Male Only, Female Only and both... For both, we MUST wear clothes... and for others, we MUST NOT wear anything...



At first we discussed among the guys that we will use the towel to cover important parts and when reach the pool straight jump into the pool... But the towel given was a face towel WTF... Just enough to cover our face LOL...
So we gave up and only go to the sharing pool...
We went outdoor where the weather is very cold and jump into hot pools...
There are many types of hot pools... as I can remember there are Medicated Tea, Rice Wine, Red Wine, etc...
Next we went to the lavender farm... As you know, it is winter... so we only managed to see a few pots of lavender...

Then we had our lunch at a quite isolated wooden/glass restaurant


The mushroom hot pot seems delicious but too healthy for me... Haha
What I'm thinking now is a fried egg will save my day... LOL
After lunch... we start moving to hotel... it was a quite long journey and we had a stop on the way...
The photo below was taken outside the rest

Me and Eric was like risking our life to take photos outside because it was super cold with wind blowing...
For dinner... we had Shabu-Shabu

The seafood are fresh and delicious...
Night at the Daemyung hotel was very beautiful...
People say that Malaysia's lights are beautiful but I think South Korea's is much nicer...

Good night and more to come the next day in South Korea (",)

Sony Alpha Flash Workshop + Model Shoot (Andante)

Sony are always generous to give away free workshops every month... and this is the second workshop I attended... the 1st was Basic Workshop and this time is flash workshop. You might think that "Cheh... I can learn everything from the manual"...

But those are not the only thing I learned from this workshop... The best part of the workshop was during the Model Shoot... The trainer taught us how to make a photo not like an ordinary photo... How to make use of the flash other than only Bounce it...

Below were the shots I took during that day... Keep in mind that no special equipments are used other than F56/F58 flash that we put in wireless mode...





I personally like the last one most... because the tones and details really attracts me... (",)

PC Fair (III) 2009 Photo Spam

Yeah it's time for me to spam photos from my last PC Fair visit... hehe...
Not much game cosplayers this time... not like last time
Renee's smile was so sweet that day posing for people to shoot...

Amanda's beauty of course will attracts a lot of attentions...

I believe that most of the guys couldn't forget Monique's smile (",)

Nurse outfit this time ^^

Yvonne were there too...

And I guess Yumi is more than enough to make everyone nose bleed... =P


That's all for my post... feel free to visit my flickr (",)

Italianese @ Midvalley

Went to Midvalley last week to have a dinner with ex-uni mates...Suggested there as some of them never try it... Bread was served while we looking at what we want to order...
 
Bread was dipped into a mixture of olive oil and soy sauce. Some might not like the smell / taste of olive oil but that is what makes it great and Italians...
We ordered Mussels Fra Diavolo (Mussels in spicy tomato broth) and Sicilian Chicken Salad (Diced chicken breast, mangoes, red grapes and pine nuts, tosed in Lemon-dijon dressing on crispy romaine lettuce) as starter


The Mussels didn't turn out to be as delicious as I expected. Because of the Mussels used I think... It was not as tasty as the one I ate on my previous visit. But the salad is quite nice... (",)
Then for main course, we had Seafood Cioppino (Mussels, calamari, clams, and shrimp sauteed in white wine and tossed in a spicy marinara sauce. Served with fettuccine pasta) and also Shrimp Linguine (Sauteed shrimp served with marinara sauce).
The Shrimp Linguine was great... With fresh and big shrimp as you can see in the photo... (",)


As for desserts, we had their famous New York Strawberry Cheese Cake and Tiramisu


Yummy Yummy... total damage is RM210 for 6pax

MYEG has Superb Good Service

Why I say so? This is from my own experience of 1st time using the portal. For those who never go to MYEG, you should try it. You can check your summons, renew car insurance, pay road tax, etc from there.

Last few weeks when my road tax just expired, I was thinking to renew it online after I heard the ads about it. Explore around and I submitted the 1st page of my details for renewing my car insurance and road tax. Then when reach 2nd page, I saw there are details regarding my car loan and the card. Since I didn't bring anything with me that day, I decided to leave the registration for the next day.

But to my surprise, I got a call from MYEG and they say they will quote me the price for insurance and road tax. Then I just say OK... They only asked for a few basic details. Then they send the price to my email. Since everything is fine, I just make the payment. Another surprise was... the road tax was delivered the next working day.

I was like... "Walao eh... Malaysia also got so effecient de service one meh?"... But seriously... This service really helps me a lot and as an appreciation, I write this post, just to thank them for their great service or whatever... Cheers

Christmas 2009 @ Berjaya Times Square

After visiting Stella's snowing blog... I can feel that Xmas is so near... It's already Dec!!! Yeah Yeah... I like Christmas so much and start listening to Xmas songs... Hehe...

Went to Berjaya Times Square last week and it's decorated with lots of Xmas stuffs... Big difference from past years...

This year's giant Xmas Tree is turning one! Out of my expectation... Haha... I thought it would be like last year's still one...


Below the tree, they have a shop and it's S+J gift shop... Lots of people went in to take a look because it's very special, under the Xmas Tree (",)

Besides there are a lot of Xmas Decoration all around... and below is the one I like most, snowing effects:


We can also see presents...

And snow man...

And wow... ANGELS...


I hope that they can GRANT all my WISHES this Xmas... HOHOHO...
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!