Category: Going Places

My travelogue.

PKNU Cultural Exchange – 13.1.2012 (Part 1)

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The long awaited day is here! We went to Gyeongju. It was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla (57 BC – 935 AD).

Left: Some of the snacks given to us for the road trip.
Right: Love the view! On the way…


Bulguksa Temple is the head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism in the North Gyeongsang province in South Korea.


Frozen lake at the temple.


Toilets for gentleman and lady.


Another frozen lake.


Statues at one of the entrances. Scary looking!


It’s winter, even the river and stream were frozen.


Heading to the main building. To be continued…

Getting Cultured - Busan, Going Places

Orientation Week SP2

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Was busy last week with Orientation Week for study period 2.

Did not take any photo of myself in the bright red Business Mate uniform ;p I didn’t bring my camera with me, always forgot about it.



Anyway, we had series of activities going on for the whole week. Daily free lunches too! Nando’s, pizza, rice, fruits, shave ice with various flavoured syrup, and slush. Was also the “tour guide” and as one of the student panels. Even got myself free henna drawing. My first time having it.

It was tiring but was fun and fulfilling. Starting tomorrow, it’s U-week, I’ll be in all 4 campuses, it’s gonna be one hell of busy week!

Finding Myself - Adelaide, Public Events

Fringe 2012 (Part 1)

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Fringe is on! One of the grandest events in Adelaide when almost all the Adelaide comes out to play ;p Some would go away because can’t stand the madness. I’m part of the marketing street team for the newest Fringe venue in 2012, had been helping out a bit.

The uni is going to be a fun place for the coming weeks! People will be everywhere! Theaters, exhibitions, music and non-stop every day starting from 3pm till late! This section of the uni has now turned into a party place! How fun! Those who bought the t-shirt for the pub crawl can enjoy discount on booze at 20 drinking locations around Adelaide. Imagine, going to 20 places in one night in one HUGE group!

Today is the big day! Grand opening of the new student lounge, The Grand Academy of Lagado.

2nd March will be another big day for us! The start of the World Biggest Pub Crawl.


There’s a parade just now. I was supposed to be in it but I had to go to work so didn’t join and miss the grand opening of the Grand Academy of Lagado (former student lounge of UniSA City West Campus). Didn’t bring my camera so I used my phone, couldn’t take any decent photo and there’s too many people, I couldn’t really see the parade ;p

Will be busy with this event until it ends. This might likely to be my first and my last Fringe.

Finding Myself - Adelaide, Public Events

PKNU Cultural Exchange – 12.1.2012 (Part 2)

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After caligraphy class, we had to go to do our next mission. We need to produce a video on our assignedd location.

We need to go to somewhere quite far, if I recall correctly, it’s almost 1 hour subway ride. As usual, we took our subway from this station (left picture).

We arrived at Dongnae and started filming.


We walked to the market.


The girls from Norway and Ireland were the centre of attention throughout the market because they’re so fair and so pretty! Kept hearing 예쁘다 (yeppuda). It means “pretty” in Korean.


After that, got some street food. I don’t remember the food name ;p 3 for KRW1000, so cheap! It’s so yummy!


For dinner, we went to Mr. Pizza. It’s so popular here! There tagline sure makes women feel happy, “Love for Women”. According to our Korean buddy, this pizza outlet is designed with women in mind. This is the only place we found English version menu! How exciting! At least we can order something without looking like an ultimate fool ;p The salad bar provide unlimited salad for each table. Don’t remember how much to pay to be entitled for this. We did not order this but our Korean buddies said that they normally will order the salad with pizza.


Left: The interior.
Right: With 2 Korean group members 😉


Left: Cheese sticks (KRW3900 for 4 sticks, KRW6900 for 8 sticks), oh gosh! Heavenly!! Make it even more sinful, it came with cheese sauce for dipping.

Right: Your Special, make your own pizza. Large one is KRW14600 and for the topping is KRW1500 each. If I’m not mistaken, it’s pepperoni and ham.


Left: Mr. Pizza Combo (large,KRW21500), pepperoni, bacon, mushroom, and 9 more toppings. That sure sounds a lot!

Right: Bulgogi Pizza (large, KRW20500), fusion style pizza, very straight forward ;p

We called it a night after that, was so tired. I took the leftover back and placed it under my bed’s drawer instead of the fridge because the floor was heated. In the morning, I got hot pizza for breakfast instead of stone cold pizza from the fridge. How nice! It sounds gross but seriously it’s a great way to store the leftover pizza.

By the way, since out laundry got no dryer (very weird, don’t understand), we dried our clothes on the floor and in the drawer under our bed, guess what?!?! It dried! WOW! Also, the laundry was so high-tech! We had
to scan our blood vessel to go in! However… I just found it redundant, didn’t even need to do it, I kept forgetting my password ;p there’s a staircase to go back up to the dormitory lobby area. The scannig was actually meant to avoid the guys go to the girls’ dormitory or vice versa via the lift.

That’s the end of part 2.

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