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SKS Outing at SU

Jhui

on September 2, 2008 2:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Will blog about my Hiroshima trip some other time because I'm still sorting out pictures. I think I took way too many pictures...(*_*)

Anyway, met up with my fellow SKS classmates yesterday at SU Korean restaurant. As usual, everyone was late. Normally I dont really mind if people are late but yesterday was kind of bad because I needed to leave early and Felie was going to reach like after I leave. In fact, she did arrive after I left. -_-. The reason why I left early was to go watch Hanayori Dango Final(HYDF) with Li Ming. HYDF was interesting throughout the whole movie(like Cyborg She) and why are Japanese guys(e.g. Oguri Shun and Matsuda Shota) so cute one ar?! I felt that they didnt give Oguri Shun, Matsuda Shota and Abe Tsuyoshi enough screen time. They came out for like only a few minutes in total lor! So disappointing...I was anticipating more Hanazawa Rui initially. =( Although HYDF was interesting, the storyline was so predictable(guessed the plot like 20minutes into the movie) and unreal...like seriously, it's never going to happen in real life! Okay, I think that nobody's going to understand what I just wrote but whatever la, like as if anyone understands what I wrote in my previous entries anyway. Lalala, I talk nonsense and I'm proud of it.

After the 130minutes movies, I rushed back to SU to continue eating. Yes, they were still eating there after like 3 hours. Whee~ Ordered cold noodles there and were happily eating it until the waiter came over, saw that we didnt add the vinegar and mustard, and proceeded to exclaim out loud, "You didnt add these?!" He then helped us to add the vinegar and mustard in and asked us to try how it tasted like. All of us agreed that it tasted better without adding anything. (^_^) I guess we have different tastebuds from the Koreans. When he saw our expressions, he thought that he added too much vinegar or something and proceeded to taste his masterpiece. "It's good, but we add more mustard in Korea." Erm, okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Then again, it was nice of him to teach us the right way of eating cold noodles. =D

After eating, we started to take weird photos in the restaurant and I think that we seriously scared the people eating/working there. Paiseh lo, when four crazy people get together, they tend to get a bit rowdy and crazy. Too bad Ann's still in Australia otherwise I think that SU would've probably ban us from the restaurant for the rest of our lives. When I say weird photos, I really mean weird photos...ta-da~

Us again, with Eileen trying to "attract" the waiter who mixed the cold noodles for us. Peggy and Eileen thought that he was kind of cute and was trying to take his photos the whole time but only managed to take photos of his back. Eh---------lousy photographers. Should've had asked me to take...confirm can take face one. Had enough training back in my JC paparazzi days. Heh.

Another siao(crazy) group photo. Then again, looking at all the pictures that we took, I'm like the only one giving weird facial expressions. Oh no!!! Am I the only siao one?!

After a very filling 3+ hours meal, we continued our "Get Fat" mission at Gelare. Ordered this wonderfully chocolatey double-scoop Cookies and Cream ice-cream topped with Koko Krunch and Oreo biscuits...

...chocolate brownie topped with vanilla ice-cream and a outside-crispy-inside-chewy waffle with 2 scoops of ice- cream. In total, we ate like 5 scoops of ice-cream...how not to get fat?!

Why do I look scared of Peggy here? Hmm...

Cant stand it...why are there so many strange photos of me?! Come to think of it, I havent taken weird photos like this in a long long la la time. Whee~

Eileen with her True Yoga bag and waterbottle. Eh, you think that you're True Yoga spokesperson ar?! -_-

Group photo minus Eileen because I aimed the camera at the wrong direction. See, told you that my photography skills are superb!

Whee~

Anyway, went karaoke-ing with hy, Eugene and Kevin today. Cash Studios is like my favourite karaoke place right now. We sang for more than 4 hours and they didnt charge us extra. Somemore can bring in your own food and drinks....seriously, how do they earn money?! They even offered to change our rooms for us because the next group of people who booked the room that we were using were coming soon. Damn nice =D The waitress kept smiling at us somemore. Normally at places like Kbox, the waitresses have this "I-cant-be-bothered-about-you" look plastered across their faces. Surprisingly, Kevin was like damn good at singing. He can sing songs by both male and female artistes and his rap was damn cool. Eh, isnt that like my sister? Heh.

Ate at Ajitei for dinner with hy. Ordered lots of food and dessert as well!!! Had substandard yomogi dango for dessert. The shape of the dango reminded me more of a lemon than a dango...wtf.

Had pizza for supper. Damn cool la the shape! The pizza tasted wonderful too by the way.

Okay, shall end this post abruptly because I got nothing else to write. More pictures of the crazy four of us here: http://mizu- kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=200.

Singapore Korean School - A2

Jhui

on June 19, 2008 2:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Yesterday marked the end of my Korean A2 class. Received my results and I was surprised to see that my teacher gave me 19 out of 20 marks for my oral test. The reason's because during the free response question where she asked how the course was, I replied "It was good." My answer was freaking short compared to the rest of my classmates where they answered stuff like "It was difficult but I learnt a lot of new stuff. Also, it was pretty interesting...." and so on. Also, I only made 2 mistakes on my written paper. Whee~ The highest mark I've ever gotten since erm...Elementary 1 where I scored full marks. Heh.

Enough of my haolian-ing, I shall proceed to write about the cultural night that happened after class yesterday. Each class had to perform a skit(or song if there's not enough time to prepare). One of the classes actually ran off after taking their result slips, leaving their poor teacher behind to clear up the mess they left behind, i.e., explain to the emcee why her class wasn't able to perform. That class' so fucking irresponsible and childish, considering that most of the students are working adults.

The event started off with a skit put up by Elementary 1 Class 1, where they did...erm...Snow Prince. The guy in the picture acted as the prince. Sometimes it kind of sucks to be the only guy in the class because he'll always get bullied by the girls to do whatever they dont want to do. =P

Next up was a song performance by Advanced 1. They did this fox song and they were quite good~

Loved the cute hats that they made. Seriously, almost all of the classes made props and costumes for their skits. I say almost because our class did not. In fact, our class only came together to rehearse on that day itself and even so, only half the class attended the rehearsal.

Elementary 2 went next with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The woman in grey played the role of the magic mirror and the one in black played Snow White's evil stepmother. The actors weren't very audible(considering that the judge sat way behind me, if I couldn't hear already, how could he have heard anything?!) but that didn't stop them from getting first prize...but I think that it's because they're from Elementary 2, i.e., Min-seonsaengnim's class. Her class always win something during cultural night. Predictable. I overheard one of the staff saying that the class who did Coffee Prince was better.

Next up was Intermediate 1 but I didn't take any pictures because my Felie arrived at that time and I was briefing her on our skit and...Intermediate 1 was basically too soft so yup, couldn't hear anything. Elementary 3 went next with Coffee Prince where they had puppets to introduce their skit. See what I meant when I said about bringing props.

Meet-the-Parents session. The lady who acted as the mum was so freaking bitchy, and I mean it in a good way. I like. Haha.

Elementary 1 Class 2 performed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They too, had lots of props. Second prize went to them.

Last but not least, my class performed My Name is Kim Sam Soon. The youngest person in my class, i.e. me, played the role of Sam Soon's mother...wtf. I initially volunteered for the role because I thought that the mother would have very little lines. I mean, look at the title of the show! Sam Soon's the main character lor. In the end, the mother had the most lines and I had to use a freaking mike throughout my performance otherwise I'll probably go dumb by the end of the skit.

Oh, and this is me hitting Hak Pang, the guy who acted as Samshik. Everyone laughed when they heard that he was Samshik and went crazy laughing when I started hitting him. He's quite well-known among the students by the way. Oh, and the audience burst out in laughter again when Samshik started winking at Sam Soon so as to ask her to lie about her being pregnant. -____-

One reason why you shouldn't mess with me. I'll hit you with a broom till you faint. Hahaha, wtf.

I forgot my lines in the middle of the performance and luckily my teacher was there to prompt me. Paiseh. Hak Pang and Aileen are like damn good actors can! They seem damn scared of me here...haha. I was basically telling Sam Soon(Aileen) to keep queit and questioning Samshik(Hak Pang) about his family background here.

The principal announcing the winners. It was quite funny when he said "For those classes who do not win anything today, please continue to join our classes next term".

Aileen and Hwang Jung Hee seonsaengnim.

We ended up getting 3rd prize, which was quite good considering we didnt really prepare much.
Hak Pang, Hwang seonsaengnim, Aileen, Felie, Me...and my "dog" who guest starred as Ocheonmanwon in our skit. So sad, I won't be seeing them again in class because I might not be taking the next level. Boo.

We basically divided up our prize before attacking the buffet table where there was kimbap, chap chae, ddeok and kimchi. Ta-da~ Settled dinner.

My teacher commented that I looked very tired that day and I did not believe her until I saw this picture. My eyes look damn slity can!!! I should stop staying up to 3~4am.

Anyway, I guess I was too nervous or something that day and got too relaxed after the performance that I developed a pretty bad case of stomachache. Couldn't even walk straight. Couldn't even stuff my face with ddeok and kimbap. Boo.

20/03/08 - Korean school cultural festival: ddeok cutting

Jhui

on March 21, 2008 4:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Yesterday was the day where we received our Korean test results. While waiting for the class to start, I starting doodling on the whiteboard. I seriously think that I'm artistic. :D

We spent the first hour of the lesson going through the test paper, learning how to make my favourite ddeokppokki and learning how to play Go-Stop. The cultural festival was held in the second hour of the lesson where we learnt how to cut ddeok (Korean rice cake).

The new principal, Mr Kwon Byung Jin, giving a speech.

Min seonsaengnim giving the necessary instructions.

Before cutting the ddeok, we were treated to ddeokguk, Korean rice cake soup that the Koreans usually eat on New Year's Day.

We also had the representative of Korean food, kimchi! This was like the best kimchi I ever had. Aileen said that it was not spicy enough and a tad too sweet but for people who cant take spicy food like me, this was good enough. I basically finished the whole plate, right down to the last piece of cabbage. I had no idea that we could go for second helpings or else...hee~

Felie gave our A1 teacher, Jang seonsaengnim, a photo frame with DBSK's Mickey's photo in it. As far as I know, our teacher is not planning to replace that photo at all. :D

We basically let Hak Pang do the cutting of the ddeok~while we just sat there and watched/took photos.

My class' masterpiece!

E1's masterpiece. The most creative entry amongst all the others but sadly, they didnt win the first prize. Guess the new principal's not up for creativity.

I2's masterpiece and also the winner of the ddeok cutting competition.

My A1 class, sans Wendy who had to leave early. A1 was really difficult but our teacher was really nice and dedicated in her teaching.

Min seonsaengnim, Me. She was my teacher for E2 and she has this aura around her that makes you afraid of her in class for every single lesson. Outside class, however, she's really nice and fun.

Yoon seonsaengnim, Me. My teacher for I2 and I think that she's really pretty in real life.

Freaking.bigass.jackfruit.

Went to eat durians at Geylang after the cultural festival. Seonsaengnim's second time eating durians and she really liked it. I fail lar, even a Korean likes to eat durian and me, a Singaporean, hates durian. What is wrong with me?!

Tried our hands at Go-Stop. Damn difficult game but I guess with more practice, we might be able to get the hang of it. Hmm...this means that we should organise more outings to play Go-Stop! Sekali later get caught by the police.

Anyway, yesterday was my first time visiting Geylang and it seriously didnt feel like Singapore to me with all the flashing neon lights, big-ass condom shop signboard, roadside stalls and a police raid on those people selling contraband cigarettes. Really big open eyes world (Da Kai Yan Jie/eyeopener)!

Valentine's Day

Jhui

on February 18, 2008 2:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Had a really sucky Valentine's Day for the first half of the day. Kept getting scolded and pissed off by people in school. Really bad day. :(

The later half of the day was better because I finally got to meet up with my long-time-no-see ex Korean classmates! I think we havent had a full gathering like this for like what...8 months or so? Great to see that everyone's still as kee siao as ever. :D Ate at this Korean restaurant called Togi which is located at East Coast. I think that they have another branch at Chinatown. As usual, we were like the noisiest bunch of people there, laughing at volumes enough to deafen the whole of Singapore (obviously exaggerating here).

(Top Left) Chicken Ramyun. Okay, it was actually served in a stone hot pot but we divided it into 5 portions so just try to imagine how it originally looked like. Just x5 and add in a stone hot pot to your imagination. :D
(Top Right) My favourite Korean food, ddeokppeoki!!! I've never tasted ddeokppeoki like this before and it's super-duper nice. Can someone teach me how to make ddeokppeoki so I can make it every single day? Haha.
(Bottom Left) Chapchae. This chapchae looked different from the chapchae they normally serve at the Singapore Korean School when there are functions going on but it still tasted good too. Although chapchae is like the favourite Korean dish for like many Singaporeans I know who eat Korean food, I dont really chapchae that much.
(Bottom Right) Pork Bibimbap. Doesnt bibimbap normally have an egg in it? Anyway, delicious but could've been more delicious if we did not forget to mix in gochujang. The pork was also very tender and juicy. :D

(Top Left) Kimchi Jigae with tuna. First time I tasted Kimchi Jigae with tuna. The tuna made the soup more palatable than the normal ones that have beef/chicken/pork in them. As this was placed right in front of me, I was in charge of dividing it into 5 equal portions. Everyone basically laughed at my lousy dividing skills. :(
(Top Right) Kimchi pancake and Potato pancake. Didnt really eat the Kimchi pancake because I was already damn full by that time but the Potato pancake was great. Tasted like french fries. Whee~
(Bottom) Chicken Bibimbap. This time, Ann remembered to add in gochujang so it was wonderlicious~!

Proof that the food was great. We rock man.

Since it was Valentine's Day, Felie gave each of us a flower and a packet of chocolates. Gomapda! Tried to stick the flower behind Eileen's ear but to no avail. Why is she trying to eat the flower anyway?! Hahaha.

(Back) Ann, Felie, Peggy
(Front) Me, Eileen

Halfway through eating, I felt a little tug on my hair and as I turned back, I realised that it was the lady boss who was tugging at my hair playfully. -_- Haha, so cute~! Apparently Ann and the lady boss are damn friendly with each other and it was quite funny seeing Ann trying to explain to her what 'pai ti kong'(Praying to the Jade Emperor, something that the Hokkiens do during CNY) meant.

Me and the lady boss. :D

Teachers from Singapore Korean School

Jhui

on January 26, 2008 4:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Elementary 1. With the ever-so-cute Ms Hong Eun Joo. Miss her so much!

Elementary 2. With Ms Yeon Hyeon. Was seriously frightened of her when I was under her. Strict but good teacher. Still afraid of her though. :D

Elementary 3. Me with Ms Ryu Hye Jin. Cant believe that I lost the picture we took with her as a class. :(

Intermediate 1. With Ms Kim Bo Yeon. A really dedicated teacher and it's really sad that she's not teaching anymore.

Intermediate 2. With the pretty Ms Laena Yoon Mi Jin who doesnt seem to have a temper at all :D

Felt a little nostalgic so I decided to upload the photos taken with the Korean teachers who taught me before. Out of these 5 teachers, only 2 of them are still teaching in SKS. :( The others have either gone back to Korea or are currently teaching somewhere else.

Random Pictures

Jhui

on November 15, 2007 4:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Went out with Donna last Saturday to get her MCR queue jumpers and to have lunch. Ate at Takashimaya and I had chawanmushi and oyster toji.

The oh-my-god-so-freaking-good chawanmushi. Not that cheap(as compared to the lousy Sakae Sushi one) but not that expensive as well.

Oyster toji. I should've ordered fried oyster curry or something because the oysters in this dish was almost non-existent. They were so pathetically small and I was like eating the batter the whole time. Donna ordered the hire katsu toji set and it was so much more worth it. Maybe because pork is cheaper? Hmmmn...

Walking around Orchard on a Saturday sucks because the people traffic there is seriously bad and the trains are always crowded till the extent that you feel that you cannot breathe at all. Then again, becuase Christmas is nearing, Orchard is like crowded on almost everyday now. Hate it. Hate it even more when irresponsible parents let their whiny kids shout and run about like no ones business. I hope their kids accidentally run off the MRT platform when the train is approaching. :D Okay, too evil but seriously, I really hate kids who cannot sit still and cannot stand not letting the whole world know of their existence. Talking about irritating kids, I was working at my father's place one day and there was one who came for a dental check-up. He was running all over the place and kept opening doors that had the 'NO ENTRY' sign on them. However, when it was finally his turn, he started wailing and ran out of the clinic and refused to come back till his father lured him back with a toy. Sometimes, I pity primary school teachers who have kids like that in their classes.

Li Ming came back from Taiwan and Hong Kong the day before and she got me a cute bookmark and a pair of chopsticks from Disneyland~

Li Ming's brother came back from Japan and he got me this sweet called Tokyo Banana. The English on the wrapper is like really bad and makes no sense at all but the sweet was delicious.

Received the recording of the Korean Speech Contest. OMG, I dont even know if I want to watch it again or not. I'm damn scared of looking at myself deliver the speech. I think I sucked. :D

Went Karaoke with hy yesterday. Although I basically hate Orchard because it's the holiday season right now, I'm totally loving the number of high school students who go to Orchard during this period. There were like quite a few cute Japanese high school boys at the karaoke place. OMG~! Almost died of happiness. Lalalala. I was seated at a strategic position where I could basically see everyone who were there. Slit eyes are like damn sexy~ I should really stop now because if I continue, I'm scared that I might be arrested for being a potential paedophile. :P

Saw two girls who were wearing kigurumis. One Stitch and one Winnie the Pooh. In Japan, that's probably normal but in oh-so-freaking-hot Singapore?! Then again, the weather has been kind of cold recently so I'm guessing that they wore it for warmth. ~_~

Ate sukiyaki yesterday. It was so freaking worth it. I paid around $15~17 and got to eat this!!! The only disadvantage of this dish was that by the time I got through 90% (didnt finish it) of it, I was too full to order the dessert that I was eyeing. At Sakae Sushi, you basically get the hotpot only for this price. No rice included.

hy gave me my early Christmas present yesterday because she was lazy to bring it home and wrap it up. -_-. Haha, thanks anyway! I promise I will read it and will also find the CDs you want in Taiwan :D

TOPIK Test

Jhui

on November 14, 2007 4:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

In September, I took the Test of Proficiency in Korean, or better known as TOPIK. On the 1st of November, results were released via the TOPIK website so I went to check. No matter how many times I tried to log in, I couldnt. The reason being that there was no such registration number. WTF? I'm sure I took the test and that I wrote my registration number correctly. A little chat on MSN revealed that some of my other friends couldnt log in also, hence, I decided to phone the Singapore Korean School for help. The day I phoned them was a Friday and they told me that it was already 6pm in Korea so no one was working already and they could only get back to me on Monday. They then asked me for my phone number and my registration number before ending the call.

On Monday, I phoned the school. The lady who picked up the phone was seriously fucking rude to me.

Lady : You cannot log in? Have you added another 0?
Me : Yes, I did.
The reason why she asked this was because on that day of the exam, they realised that they forgot to add in one more zero to everyone's registration number. WTF? So unprofessional!
Lady : STILL CANNOT LOG IN?!
Me : Yes..(What the...of course la! If not why I call for what?!)
Lady : Okay okay, I'll check again, what's your registration number?
Me : xxxxxxxxxx

With that, she ended the call. I then decided to try my luck at logging into the website and holy smokes! I could log in! No wonder she was so angry. Then again, she had absolutely no right to bark at me. First of all, why ask for my phone number and registration number on Friday when they weren't intending to inform me that they rectified the problem on Monday and that it was okay to log in?! Next, why ask for my registration number again when...up till now, nobody has informed me that I'm able to log in le?! What's wrong man, seriously...

Anyway, logged in. Scrolled down for results. OMFG. Results were like fucking bad.
Vocabulary/Grammer : 50~60 marks (Cant remember the exact results.)
Composition : Cant remember exactly but it was a failing mark.
Listening : 51
Reading : 50+ or something like that.
I logged out and re-logged in. Nope, I didnt type anything wrongly. If I really got such lousy marks for composition, I understand because my composition skills are seriously bad, be it composition in English, Chinese, Japanese or Korean. All of my writing ability got sucked by my sister, explaining why she writes damn well. However, I cant believe that I got 51 marks for listening and 50+ for reading because I thought that these two parts were damn easy during the test. I even left early lor. I'm not boasting here but my listening is good ok! I was so disappointed and pissed at the same time when my friend told me online that she couldnt believe her marks because she got 100 marks for both listening and reading. Thanks, that helped me SO much. My total marks reached the passing mark for Elementary Level 1 but not Level 2 and my aim was actually Level 2. In fact, everyone else who took the test did damn well, according to that friend. Feeling damn pissed, I decided to email the people in Korea to ask if I can do a review on my marks. I'll quote exactly what transpired in the emails.

Me : Hi, I was wondering if I could have a review of my TOPIK test for the 12th TOPIK test? The reason is because I felt that I did quite well for listening and the reading part. Thanks.
Korea : Hello, I supposed that there is no doubt about the result. However if you would like to check your answer sheets, visit our office. You may check only your marking for the mutiple choices, not the statement and composition part. Best Regards.
Me : Where's the office? I live in Singapore.

And...ta-da! No reply up till now. I mean, seriously, if I cant do a review because I live in Singapore, kindly please at least give me a reply. A short 'NO' will suffice...but no reply at all?! That's intolerable! Firstly, I had to pay $50 for the test and I dont even get a letter saying whether I pass or fail. Even when I pass, I dont even get a certificate. Everything is on the website, softcopy. $50 is a lot of money lo, at least to me. JLPT cost me $36 and I got both the results slip and certificate, in hardcopy. Furthermore, the website sucks because so many people couldnt log in the first time. Anyway, I decided that it was my bad luck or I probably really shaded my answers wrongly so I decided to let it go.

Then yesterday, while walking towards the MRT with another classmate, she raised the topic of TOPIK. (Hee, rhyming sentence~) I told her that my results suck damn bad. She then told me to check again because the first time she checked, her results were bad too. However, when she checked a few days later, the results were better. WTF? The results can change? So, I decided to check my results again today. Amazingly, my results improved by leaps and bounds!

Okay, composition still sucks but at least it's a pass and listening marks were good. Reading also. The total marks meant that I passed Elementary Level 2 and not Level 1. WTF? Results really can change man. Scarely tomorrow I check the results change again. Then again, why the people in Korea didnt reply my email if they did a review for me?!

Digressing a little, the main toilet in my house is under renovation and because of that, I have to bathe in the other toilet as if there's water rationing like that. Will blog about it another day because this post is damn long.

The 3rd Korean Language Speech Contest

Jhui

on November 7, 2007 5:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Joined the 3rd Korean Language Speech Contest held at RELC Hotel today.

Was damn happy to see that the auditorium was freaking empty because it meant that there would be lesser people to face later on when I do my speech. Then again, contestants were supposed to arrive half an hour earlier so probably that's why the auditorium was still empty at that time.

I was contestant number 19 and since there were only 20 participants, it meant that I would be the second last person to give my speech. Great because I can have more time to do some last minute memorisation. Bad because it meant that I will just get more nervous along the way.

Aileen giving her speech on her short stay in Korea.

Weilan giving her speech on the two months that she spent in Korea. OMG, I was damn shocked to see her there cuz the last time I saw her was in Japanese 4 class, or rather, the actual last time was at JCS when we were taking JLPT.

Kit giving her speech on her experience with Korea's culture.

After Kit was me. Every contestant was damn tall so they could just stand in front of the rostrum and they can speak into the mike normally. Only I had to stand on a wooden block to increase my height so I can even reach the mike. Wah lau eh...damn paiseh can! I wonder how many people were giggling downstage. I wasnt wearing spectacles during my speech so basically everyone in the audience was invisible to me but my legs were still shaking like no one's business. I seriously thought that I was going to fall off the block. Then again, my friend commented that I didnt look nervous at all. -_-. Anyway, while I was doing my speech, this guy in the audience kept nodding his head. Either he was agreeing with my speech or he was dozing off. Then again, he wasnt one of the judges.

The soprano who gave a wonderful rendition of 3 songs.

Kids from the Singapore Korean School giving a traditional Korean performance. OMG, one of them was so cute! Ala Tarepanda because he was practically leaning against the drum that was like as big as him.

Ten lucky winners of the $100 Korean food voucher. All the way up till the lucky draw, I was under the impression that contestants were going to get the vouchers because my teacher said so. In the end, turned out that it was the audience who got it. Wah!!! However, luckily one of my friends got it, so we had a oh-my-god-so-freaking-wonderful dinner.

The rest of the lucky draw winners.

Finally, the announcement of results came. This is Ryu Hye Jin Seonsaengnim in hanbok. So pretty!!

The three second runner-ups. The lady in red really gave a wonderful speech!

By the way, I won the second prize and I got a Korean Air air ticket to Korea~! Yippee! Anyway, here's a photo of me and Ryu Seonsaengnim.

Me and Kim Bo Yeon Seonsaengnim, the teacher who helped me edit my script even though she was on a holiday at that time. :D The teacher who helped me practise my speech, Yoon Mi Jin Seonsaengnim, wasn't there but I would still like to say thanks to her here!

Since my friend, Shirley, got the $100 voucher, we went to eat at Ju Shin Jang on that day itself. Yes, we are that kiasu.
(From left) Shirley, Wendy, Aileen, Me.

Wet towels. The suaku us didnt know what these were at first and I seriously thought that it was sugar, till I asked the waitress. When we added water in the bowl and the towels started absorbing, we were like 'OMG, so fascinating!'. Ok, all the people there are probably scared of us now.

The spread.

Some kind of Korean wine that was cold and soothing on the throat, especially when one's eating BBQ.

The meat and mushroom.

Seafood pancheon that was omfg good.

The pork.

Pork No.2

Chicken.

Yup, I totally understood a pregnant woman's feelings when she's in her third trimester after I finished dinner. :D Anyway, I'll end off with a picture of me doing my speech. Photo taken from the blog of the winner of the speech contest. :D

Mid-Autumn Festival

Jhui

on September 29, 2007 5:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Had a songpyeon making contest yesterday to celebrate the mid-autumn festival during Korean class. First of all, our teacher showed us how to make one.

Step 1 : Roll the dough into a ball.

Step 2 : Make a hole in it and add in the ingredients(sesame).

Step 3 : Seal the openings and shape it into a crescent-moon. Lastly, steam it and eat~!The songpyeon I made.

Songpyeon by my friend. OMG, so cute~! Goldfish-shaped and heart-shaped ones~ No wonder they they won the first prize.

Catherine, the maker of the cute songpyeon.

TOPIK 1 class.

The principal giving a speech.

My class got the 2nd prize.

The champions.

My class.

My class again~

Korean Buffet

Jhui

on July 30, 2007 4:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Went for a Korean buffet at Suntec City 2 weeks ago. Cant say that the selection was that wonderful but it was worth the money for the amount that we ate.