Merry Christmas everyone ! I really didn't go anywhere today.. promised to just stay at home and not leave this peaceful Anam-dong-5-ga (the area i'm staying at currently) even a single step to avoid the crowd outside and i did it.. sometimes i feel so comfortable just hanging around this area not doing anything fantastic as though this area has become my hometown in korea. lol..

spent a quiet and peaceful christmas at home watching movie and eating adequately great food at affordable price at my favourite restaurant nearby..

pasta for lunch... they're all yummy!and shabu-shabu for dinner.. :Dlooks delicious eh? hehe... i'm so stuffed now but looking at this photo makes me feel like eating it again soon.. omg. i'm thankful that i'm going home in less than a week's time now. i can feel the sinful winter fats are getting on me -_-

one more thing left to complete the already perfect Christmas day.. ice-cream cake~ kenzie who is out guiding william around said he'll buy one and come over to my place with it later.. yoohooo! oh yea.. william is here for a week. will become his private tour guide from tomorrow onwards. hmm, instead of tour guide, i think i'll be a better food guide.. has a long list of good food planned out for him already, but seriously no idea where to go for sightseeing.. lol..

It's Christmas eve.. Merry early Christmas ppl~

Seoul is so packed and crowded with people. everywhere you go, you see people selling Christmas cake... it's so noisy. somehow, i feel the Christmas in Seoul is a little crooked. why is there so many people everywhere?? i really dont understand. i thought Christmas is supposed to be a day to be spent with your family and your loved ones, feasting the gigantic roasted turkey at home... hmm, no?

almost every restaurant is fully-booked, same goes to the situation at all the movie theatres... God knows how long the queue at the ticket counter is. at first, was planning to go for a movie, and then a nice dinner in coex mall but i felt so seriously sick pushing my way through the crowd at the subway station.. fine, it's impossible to have a nice Christmas eve like that. i gave up and headed home... hmmm at least some peace now. =)

i swear i'm not goin to go anywhere tomorrow.. will just stick at home and have lunch and dinner around campus... ohh, and also unwrapping my christmas presentsss which are piling up... and about to overflow under my tiny little tree now.

oh, also... i trimmed and dyed my hair today! feeling fresh *

The post-exams ski trip!

it was the morning right after the night we had our last paper- process control.. i woke up to a phone call from kana. we were supposed to meet at 7:15am but when i looked at the clock, it was already 7:20am.. shit! kana and the other guys are already waiting for me at the subway station.. -_- changed and washed up in less than 5 minutes, left the house in a hurry and ran all the way to the subway station.. (first lesson learnt. never plan a trip the day right after your exam no matter how eager you are to leave... )

(from left, manabu, me, kana and sho. zes was holding the camera..)

the journey to the ski resort took us about one and a half hour.. its not that far away from seoul. i slept all the way.. yeah, i can be quite a good sleeper when i'm on a bus. lol.. the two snowboarders. this two guys decided to take up the challenge. they chose to snowboard instead of skiing.. while me, i decided to join the two pro-skiers.. (with the ambitious thought that since i'd skied before, maybe this time i can ski better, or even more like a pro.. ) kana and sho came from some part of japan which has many ski resorts... so, they had started skiing since they were still toddlers i guess.. At first, all was good. We began from the beginner course.. I tried to recall what I learnt three years ago and yeaa, it all came back to me. I could ski on my own without falling.. great!, i thought. so, we moved on to the intermediate level where the course was longer and with more slopes. it was still good.. the three of us were having fun skiing together.. both of them thought i'm really a fast-learner because i was trying to speed up already.

I was kinda worried that both of them would be bored skiing at the intermediate course.. so I suggested why not we try out the advanced course.. kana and sho were surprised at how daring i am... having the courage to try out the advanced course only after a few practices.. well of course, they told me it wouldn't be any problem as long as i ski safely... so, we took the lift all the way up for the advanced course..

the minute i reached the peak of the course, i started to panic as i looked down. i was shocked.. i couldn't believe i'd came up this high. goshh. how am i going to ski down... no way. seriouslyy... i dont think i can do it. but.. but... i'm already up here. the only way to get down is to ski ... T_T no one could help me at that time. sho and kana were telling me to just go slow and steady... but, it was really scary. i couldn't get down at all but somehow i forced myself to.

.. halfway through, (still at the mountain top) the speed suddenly accelerated so much i started to lose control. my body was dashing down in high speed together with the ski. i tried to brake but it was to no avail... the only thing inside my head at that time was that i don't want to die.. and the only way to save myself is to stop the falling. so i gave up trying to brake, but try to make myself fall instead..

i fell.. my body rolled down a few metres together with the ski.. and finally stopped. pheww, still alive.. thank God. i thought. a staff came to my rescue. she helped me to stand up .. i told her that i'm afraid, and i can't ski down.. she's such an angel she told me that it's okay and she'll walk down together with me..

it took me more than half an hour to walk all the way down, step by step... it was really a horrible experience, also a precious lesson for myself i think... never try to be too ambitious. -_- i swear i'll never go up to any advanced course again in the near future..

this experience is not going to keep me away from ski though... i still love ski. still love winter sports.. =)

on the brighter side, here are some photos of the guys trying out snowboarding... it wasn't easy at all. it was funny at first looking at how hard they were trying to stand on the board (from that sitting position).. and they just kept falling and rolling and rolling... lol.by the end of the day, zes was able to snowboard smoothly at the beginner course. well done !

it was a great trip =)

And so, this is the time I've been looking forward so much to since the past two weeks. The final exam period was totally a whirlwind...

the night before my maths paper, i got food-poisoned.. i can't remember how many times did i actually go to the toilet that night but i know i could almost camp, or sleep, inside the toilet. vomited twice and so.. almost thought i was going to die.. yeahh, pulled an all-nigher that night but definitely not for the studies. hardly had any energy to prepare more for the paper the next morning..

just last week, one day before my thermodynamics paper, my flu became so serious i couldn't even breathe like a normal person.. had to breathe through the mouth which made me feel like a frog.. i hate that. went to see the doctor and he decided to give me an injection. ok, it wasn't VERY painful but still, it was painful ok.. i shouted till the whole clinic could hear me.. some people might have thought that me and the nurse had caught an elephant in the room. lol..

that was just the physical trauma i would say. maybe its just my body which is allergic to the exams.. adding in the exam horror and the constant stress, korea univ. engineering school is definitely not a place too fun for selamba people like me who only want to live life easily..

post-exams sure needs extreme celebration. coming up next, ski trip ...

FINALLY DONE! exam's over for now, which also marks the end of my 3rd year of university.. =) will officially be in my final year soon.. but let's save the story for two months later.
hmmm... so, what now?

for tomorrow...
SKI, here i comeeee!

Dear Santa,

Why is Christmas so near yet so far still...

I'm not asking for anything big or pricey from you this year.. I only need a break.

Yes, a good long break... that's all I need. .

On the brighter side, THIS is my Christmas tree this year.. I set it up few days ago in my room.. i love to watch the lights go blinking until i fall asleep.. Maybe the size is just one-tenth of Sharon's.. but i still love it anyway. deco it on my own.. no fancy ornaments though.. =) Jas, can you spot that 'believe in miracle' butterfly ?.. Aun, can you find that singing elephant? hehe...

Let it snow!

Christmas is just TEN days away. But the truth that I still have two more papers (thermodynamics and process control) to go is just so cruel...

A couple of my good friends here are going back to Japan soon.... :( I'm so sad. I wont get to see them in campus anymore ...

Hitting the farewell party now... leaving my thermo assignments behind for the moment.. friends always come first. heeee.

1. 小时候的理想是什么? 心理学家

2. 这辈子最快乐的是什么事 ? 有得吃好吃的。

3. 最喜欢的颜色 ? 红色。

4. 如果有机会的话，你最想对前男朋友说些什么? 我过得越来越好。

5. 你最想去哪个地方? 为什么? 台北。有很多好吃的。

6. 最受不了自己哪个缺点 ? 懒惰背书。（嗯，其实还不至于受不了…）

7. 如果有不开心的事情，你会怎么办 ? 不说话。

8. 最害怕失去的东西 ? 家人。

9. 五年内比较现实的目标是什么? 学爵士钢琴。

10. 目前为止,你亏欠最多的人是谁 ? 所有马来西亚缴税国民。

11.说出点你名的人3个优点: SHARON— 吃不胖。（想不到其他的，不好意思。还有，我才发现原来我不知道你的中文名字。—.— 本来想翻译，但是后来发现直接翻译会变成‘傻人’。对不起…哈哈。）

12. 你希望你的另一半具备的条件是 ? 有梦想。

13. 至今最令你后悔的事是什么 ? 小时候不看书。

14. 你最讨厌怎样的人 ? 怕肥而不吃。

15.如果有一天你爱的她/他离开你，你会..? 算了，然后再等。

16. 现在的你最想做些什么 ? 吃日本拉面。

17. 你认为遇到什么样的事情才会令你觉得人性很黑暗 ? 杀人放火。

18. 如果能让你实现一个愿望，会是什么 ? 秘密。

19.上帝会给你一样东西，也拿走了一样东西，你觉得会是什么? 一个算不笨的脑，但是忘了输入有关数学的软件。

20. 你找到你自己了么? 差不多。

kena tagged by ganyewnah. look, it's exam week and i'm doing this for you..

5 classes i would take to improve my life

1. ballet/yoga
i love ballet.. everything about it, from the soft pointe shoes, the music, the exercises, the movements to the studio, the sweat and the tears when you're dancing.. and they say yoga helps to relax your mind and you'll feel like you're in another world? i think i seriously need that now...

2. psychology class
some people seem to understand me better than i do.

3. baking class
from either my mum, or aunty jean (honeylicious' mummy) .. maybe both. i've decided to open a bakery shop or a cafe in the future instead of becoming an engineer... (i am serious.) today was the open lab day in school and i visited 8 labs out of 20.. i finally realized i've done the biggest mistake ever thinking that it might be fun working in a lab.. SO, to cut the long story short, i want to, AM GOING TO learn how to bake the best cheese cake in the world and i'll be selling them internationally in no time... big dream still.

4. spanish class
took the basic conversation course last semester, and got a chance to apply what i learned when i was in spain last summer.. it was fun but i regretted that i didn't spend more time on that course. should have studied and learned more so that i could have spoken more in spain.. anyway, my aim now is to sell my soon-to-be famous cake internationally... so, one of the most important steps to success would be to pick up the world's most widely spoken language and be able to communicate fluently in it...

5. jazz piano
maybe the cake plan will never work.... i don't know. we need a back up for everything, right? jazz piano is something i really really really want to learn. i want to be at the level where given any classical song, i can jazz-ify them right on the spot into a real blue tune.. or maybe playing some jazz carols in a pub or cafe would be a perfect job too...

i tag, i tag, i tag tag TAG...!
honeylicious
tvgirl
zester
ganyuyang
pohkhayinn

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