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... (",)