Defining moments in 2009

What can I say? It will be 2010 in a few hours and at this period of time, people are penning down their new year’s resolutions. Instead of new year’s resolutions, I prefer taking a step back and review moments that have happened during the pass year. Especially for 2009, it has been one hell of an adventure ride with what seemed like endless of moments of life experiences that will be etched in my memory for a long long time.

1. Officially graduating from SP in May. It was something I had look forward to during my years in SP. Being in the course was torturous for so many reasons. I know that I have wasted 3 years studying Optometry in SP, but I graduated with a diploma successfully. It’s a step that took me to where I am today. Under certain circumstances, perhaps this diploma will even help me in the future.
   
2. Korea trip in March. Being able to step foot into my dream country for the first time was definitely one defining moment I will never forget. Experiencing the bit of life the Koreans led was awesome! We climbed mountains in Jeju-do, went to hotsprings in Gyeonggi-do, shopped till the wee hours in Dong Dae Mun, went to two of the most famous theme parks in Korea, Everland and Lotte World. Travelling with tour group provide these benefits of going to many sight-seeing places and other places where it would be difficult to go without tour guides. But I really want to go again without tour guide the next time, free and easy!
   
   
3. FT Island Showcase in Singapore held in June. It was the last Kpop event before I left for Aus. Had a blast, having attended FTI’s live performance! <3
   
4. Commencement of my study abroad in Brisbane, Aus in July. Most defining moment of all, hey? First time to Australia, first time to Brissie, first time to UQ, first time to do everything myself… So many first-times in Aus. Experiencing the life in Aus has definitely open up my eyes and made me realised that there is so much more out there than the little sunny island I grew up in. First semester of studies, although it can be stressful at times, was very interesting and enjoyable. For the first time (in my life thus far), I looked forward to studying! I looked forward to studying for my Korean oral/written exams. Guess that is sort of reflected from my results. :) Also, the friends I made in Aus come from all parts of the world and that really added colours to my life. :D
   
   
   For this… I want to send this message to my mum who made these possible (sounds like I just received an award huh? LOL):
   
5. Seoul’d Out Festival in Dec. One of the best evenings of the year! One could feel the intensity of Korean culture at fort canning that evening. Korean traditional performances, Korean B-Boys and best of all, Kpop artistes’ performances. Having to see FT Island for the 2nd time, watching Abracadabra “hip dance” live, seeing Kim Jun and T-Max rocked the stage was absolute craziness! :D
   

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Here comes 2010~

IRIS- epic drama with epic fail ending

SYNOPSIS: Assassin Kim Hyun Joon and psychological analyst Choi Seung Hee are lovers as well as colleagues at secret intelligence organization, NSS. Due to a friend’s betrayal, they go through hell with the unlucky fate of continually loving each other but unable to say or do anything about it. Jin Sa Woo is a secret agent who was at the top of his class. However, since meeting Hyun Joon and Seung Hee, he struggles to obey orders. He and Hyun Joon are friends in work but foes in love, as both care for Seung Hee.

The character played by T.O.P is an assassin for IRIS, a secret organization hidden the States. He has been assigned to kill Hyun Joon. Kim Sun Hwa is a North Korean security agent who follows her security team leader, Park Chul Yung, like a shadow. She is also ordered to chase after Hyun Joon, but falls in love with him after being discarded by her country.

The cast and crew will film in several different countries (Japan, U.S., China, Russia) with an astounding budget of approximately $15 million USD (based on March 17’s exchange rate).

While watching the drama, thoughts running through my mind were, “DAMN! This drama is AWESOME!” “This will probably be one of the few dramas which I’ve no complains about.”

But right till the end of the drama, the very end… comes with the most disappointing endings I’ve ever seen. :(

At the end, my thoughts were, “WHAT?! Is that it?! WTF?!” Actually I said those words out loud. I am so so so disappointed with the ending.

This drama is seriously one hell of a thrill ride with betrayal, conspiracies, heart-thumping action and romance. Everything is really awesome except the ending.

Why?!!! Such a large scale drama to end so pathetically…

I read that it was because the staff wanted to make way for a 2nd season but really, even so, the drama could have ended in a different way that will at least make audiences feel worth it. If you’ve watched it, you would know what I mean…

Anyways, there is another “special episode” that was released last week. I haven’t watched it yet… Will do so as soon as it’s available for DL. I hope this special will appease my extreme disappointment with the ending.

Without the ending, this drama is a 5 stars! But now… I don’t know, 3.5 or 4?

Been great so far

This week has been going great so far. Went for another round of K-session with LL and Error on Tuesday. I was able to sing to many Kpop songs due to the new system that Kbox has now. Impressively, they’ve added quite a number of Kpop songs from the last time I went. Sucha great time I had! But I still want to go to a noraebang (Korean KTV) with more Kpop choices for me to sing!

The following day I met up with Helek. It was funny and weird because we hung out so much in Aus (everyday, since we’re hsemates) and then we didn’t meet for almost a month when she came back to SG. But we finally meet again on Wednesday… We went shopping around Orchard Road for xmas presents for about 5 damn hours and went home EMPTY-HANDED. There were sooo many people, probably doing the same thing as us buying xmas presents, so we couldn’t really shop at ease. In the end, we just gave up. :x

Christmas eve night was spent with Error, Car and Peg. We went to watch the movie, Avatar.

 
May I say, Avatar is THE movie of the season or perhaps even movie of the year. I watched it trembling in my seat. Well, part of it is due to the cold but another part is due to how the story is turning out. It makes your hair stand and your goosebumps appear. It gives you the thrill… The twist of events and how human emotions are played on makes the movie top-notch. I feel like watching it again and again whenever I watch the movie trailer on TV.

Then came Xmas day. The day I finally drove on the road for the first time since I officially got my license. Drove from Woodlands to Bedok to fetch Chewz and Sowuwoh (Baby Sheryl). After that, switched driver to Chewz and she drove us to Yishun to fetch our Grandma, then to AMK. Haha, Chewz just passed TP not long ago, so she had fun driving on the road officially for the first time as well. So nice to have a car to drive around!

That day, all of us had dinner at Jumbo seafood restaurant. The food was not bad… But I prefer Seafood Paradise’s Chilli Crab. :D

The new year is just round the corner… and it’ll begin with another round of fantastic events with my family and friends. I’m gonna miss this terribly when I go back to Aus.

YEEEOOOW!!

Guess who’s going to Taiwan-wan-wan-wan-wan next month?! :) :) :)

K-ent is revived in this blog

Have been staying at home these few days, except Tues when I went to City Square in JB for a shopping day out with LY and MS. The clothes there ain’t that cheap, most of the time prices are over 50RM. ><

I think I’ll leave most of my shopping to the Bangkok trip in Feb 2010! The main reason why I’m heading there is because of…

The whole idea of going to their concert materialized in my head when I chanced upon the overseas fan package the Thai organisers were offering! This offer does not only include a pair of tickets to FTI’s concert, but also a night of accommodation in the hotel where FTI will be staying!! OOOYEAH!

Besides, during the Seoul’d Out concert, LL was asking me if I was interested in going to Thai for a shopping trip. Bringing them altogether, THIS is the perfect chance to go to Thai! Concert, shopping, same hotel as FTI. Life couldn’t be any sweeter! ;D

Within these few days, the package has been paid for, confirmation with the Thai organisers and flight tickets booked!

Yippee! Imma see Seung Hyun again and this time in their very own full-fledged concert! This time, I’m gonna make sure the banner for him will be awesome and pretty! Hehehehe.

Okay, that aside. I’ve finally finish watching “Take Care of the Young Lady” today! That’s my 2nd Kdrama completed after coming back from Brissie.

Drama starring Yoon Eun Hye (Goong, Coffee Prince) and Yoon Sang Hyun (Queen of Housewives).

Pretty good drama, but it got a little boring towards the end. I really liked Yoon Sang Hyun in “Queen of Housewives” that’s why I decided to give this drama a go. From a President of a company in QOH to a Butler in this drama… I prefer him as a President. And I have to say Eun Hye must have enjoyed filming this drama since she has got so many pretty dresses and accessories to wear! My god.

The 1st drama I watched when I came back was “You’re beautiful”.

Drama starring Jang Geun Seuk, Park Shin Hye, Jung Yong Hwa and Lee Hong Ki (FT Island). If you’re looking for a Kdrama to watch and have no idea what to watch, WATCH THIS. :)

But personally I find some of the characters a little irritating. For Park Shin Hye’s character, she’s weak and easily manipulated, as if she can’t think for herself or she’s always threatened by others even when there’s no reason for her to be. Sometimes I find Lee Hong Ki’s character a little irritating as well. Even though I’m a fan of FTI but in this drama, his character can be a little too overboard. And UEE’s character (the bad girl) is just… a bitch. :)

Generally the whole drama is worth-watching. Especially for people who likes looking at handsome guys! XD

Yahooo now I can start on epic Kdrama, IRIS! My kind of drama- action-packed and romance.

Snippets of Seoul’d Out 2009 and FT-I

 

Hehe SeungHyun is so cute! X)

Seoul’d Out! 2009 (with an extra special at the end)

Last Saturday was completely amazing, awesome, wonderful, exciting, magnificent and just whatever positive adjectives there are to describe the evening. Although throughout the day, we suffered quite a bit but in the end, it was all worth it when we finally got to see the Kpop artistes performing on stage.

Biggest performers of the night were the 3 Kpop groups, FT Island, T-Max and Brown Eyed Girls! They were so so so awesome! I got to say, T-Max was the group that left the most lasting impression on my mind that night. They were absolutely on FIRE and were very INTO their performances. They also had lots of interaction with audiences during the performances. While rest of the groups gave their best to perform, they didn’t really engage with the audiences. I thought T-Max was the most “HIGH” out of all the groups.

However, I got to say two awful things happened to me that day. Firstly, my stupid digicam ran out of battery BEFORE the Kpop groups performances. So I didn’t manage to take any photos of them. Although I did take a few photos of SeungHyun with my phone but it was too blur to make out his facial features.

Secondly, it was the incident of the fan banner I made for SeungHyun.

This was the banner I made for SH. The yellow Korean words stand for “Seung Hyun” while the orange word is “Jjang!” which is an equivalent to the english expression of “rocks!”. “Seung Hyun rocks!”

When FT-I came out, just like some other fans, I frantically waved my banner up. I waved, screamed and even jumped. Then when they started performing, I put down the banner (so that people at the back could see the perf) but waved again when it was SH’s turn to rap during the songs. After two FT-I perfs, I realised that one of the hangeul alphabet of SH’s name was dangling out from the banner! I was sooooo embarrassed at that time. To think I was standing right in his line of vision and frantically waving my stupid banner without realising that the words were dropping off! I felt so apologetic towards SH after that… I also noticed he didn’t smile a lot during the perfs that night, as compared to the FT-I showcase held in July this year. He was all smiles during their showcase…

Oh well, when I see FT-I again next year in Bangkok, I am going to make an awesome awesome fan banner for SH!! :)

Here are some photos of FT-I, T-Max and BEG. ALL THANKS TO JASMINE FOR THESE BEAUTIFULLY TAKE PHOTOS!!!!!!! :D :D 
 

FT Island

Seung Hyun (guitar, vocal, rap. my favouriiiiiiiiiiiiiite member!! <3)

HongKi (Lead vocal)

Jong Hoon (Leader, guitar, piano)

Jaejin (Bass, vocal)

Minhwan (Drums)

T-Max

Kim Jun (He’s one of the Korean F4, my favourite member in T-max!!)

 

 

Brown Eyed Girls

So damn nice to see Abracadabra hip dance LIVE! <3

 

LAST BUT NOT LEAST…

HAPPY 23RD/24TH BIRTHDAY,
XIAH JUNSU!

DBSK’s duck-butt, power vocal, oyajigag guy!

Tons of fun! :)

Last week was filled with awesome times! I didn’t have the mood to blog about the events that happened but now that I’ve changed the layout and read other blogs, I finally found my blogging spirit to talk about the wonderful week I had.

I’ve previously mentioned about the meeting with LY and my poly mates, LL and Error. That and more which I’m going to blog about.

Last Friday, went to Kbox with KH and LY. It has been more than 8 months since I went to Kbox, so I wanted to experience it when I came back from Aus. Kbox sure have changed a lot as they added a lot of up-to-date Kpop songs. I was extremely shocked when I found songs of Lee Hyori, GD, SHINee, Brown Eyed Girls and SS501. Popular songs such as Nobody, Gee and Sorry Sorry are available and I was already a little bit surprised Kbox have those songs, least to say the singers that I mentioned above.

Most of the Kpop songs we sang were accidentally stumbled upon by me while I was searching for some songs. It was so so so awesome to be able to sing those Kpop songs! Felt like I was in noraebang! (Noraebang= Korean KTV) If there were tambourines and shakers, then it can be called a complete noraebang. LOL.

Oh I really want to go to a real noraebang! The only people I know who can go with me are KH and LE. Haha… My fellow Kpoppers!

And speaking about Kpop, Saturday was such an eventful day with the Seoul’d Out Festival. Kpop artistes FT Island, Brown Eyed Girls, T-Max, Lee Ji Su, Mario and Park Si Nae rocked the stage! I will blog more about this another time.

Then on Sunday, which is yesterday, there was grandma’s birthday dinner with the relatives. Buffet at Royal Hotel (?)… Food was alright. I didn’t eat much though. But it was great to see them all relatives again after a few months. Especially cutie pie Baby Sheryl! Awwww. So wowuwoh!! Hehe. Cutie pie actually knows how to vibrate her lips when prompted! Haha, soooo cute!

Us, cousins. Photo is so blurry, hey! Taken by my mum’s iPhone. We didn’t know the quality will be so lousy. Booo! iPhone is only good for games… the other functions are just similar to normal phones. Now everywhere I go, there’s always someone with an iPhone. It’s not that special. Don’t know why so many people are so obsessed with it!

P.S. I have removed the tagboard, just post a comment if you want to say anything. :)

Useless blog??

You know what… Seems like keeping a blog now is redundant when almost nobody is reading it and everyone is getting info from Facebook instead. All of my photos are also uploaded in fb and very minimal in this blog.

Fun times!

Have been catching up with my best friends the past couple of days. Yesterday I finally met up with LY! Haven’t seen her for 5 months! The first thing we did was hug each other. X) We applied for Aussie education together but we’re located in different states, she in ACT while I’m in QLD… Feels awesome to see her again and share our own experiences in Aus with each other. 

We went to Chinatown for some Chinese dessert delight! Have been craving for the desserts for a long time… We had Sesame paste, Green Tea Snow Ice and yam cake. Food that is rare to find in Aus except in Chinatown, of course. We were absolutely satisfied after the meal!

After fulfilling our dessert cravings, we went to Orchard and for the first time, I shopped around 313 and ION, Orchard newest shopping centres. We went around looking at winter clothes. It’s the perfect time to buy some winter clothes now for next year’s winter season in Aus! But we didn’t buy any because we wanted to wait for discounts… Winter clothes can be really EX!! I think 313 is quite a nice mall… shops are much more affordable than the ones in ION where it’s filled with branded shops.

313 has Cold Rock!! It’s just a random note. My place in aus is just a 5 mins walk away from a Cold Rock shop. Hehe.

Anyways, I met up with LL and Error today. Watched Case 39 with LL in the early afternoon.

The movie’s a horror flick but I don’t think it’s scary. English horror movies are most of the time not scary. It’s an average movie… Not worth going to the cinema for. :P

Shopped around with LL after that… Taka, Wisma and Far East Plaza. On normal days, these places would be boring, but I haven’t been there for the past few months so it was nice to be back shopping at SG’s shopping paradises. X)

After shopping, error came to FEP to meet up with us after her class. Then the 3 of us began our gossips, or rather, they began filling me with gossip and “dirt” that has happened during the past few months! We even went to Starbucks to chill out, fraps on our table and just gossip! Hahaa… I just love all gossip stuff. :P Awesome times.

Having stayed out till 9pm with lotsa people still walking on the streets and shops not closed is something that I have to mentally readjust myself to!

Fun times with my buds these few days. :) Missed you guys so much!

-end-

DL frenzy!

I’m back in this tropical island as all of you know! Naturally, I had to readjustment myself, take in the humid weather, see Asians everywhere and get use to the Singlish environment around me. XD

I haven’t stepped out of the flat since I came back. Haha. Been staying in at home for the pass 2 days massive downloading and watching dramas/movies. I’ve been working my laptop for more than 24hrs already. Ooops!

Currently I’ve got 6 awesome dramas on hand to watch-

SATC. Started watching this in Aus and it has a total of six seasons. It's only a few more episodes before I finish the last season!!
You’re Beautiful. The super hyped-up drama even before it was broadcasted… Storyline is very cliche though. Only watching because everyone’s watching it. Oh and add Jang Geun Seok as another one of my reasons. :P
Tokyo Dogs. OMG! Both Oguri Shun and Mizushima Hiro are the main leads in this one! My favourite Japanese actors in one drama, how can I miss this right? This is a must-watch if you like them. LOL.
Iris, My Fair Lady and Hero are the remaining K-dramas which are on my must-watch list but I haven’t started on them yet. I’ve got so many dramas to watch, I’m going to faint…

Okay! I’m finally going to go out tonight to Causeway Point with my mum. It’s nowhere special but I haven’t been to my sec-sch hang out place for more than 5 months! It’s silly but when I was in Brissie, I told myself that the first place/shopping centre I want to go is CWP. HAHAHA… and to think I was so sick of that place during my secondary sch days.

Oh and flight back to brissie has been booked. Fast, hey? Wanna know when? ASK ME IN PERSON. :P

Delightful results and toodles to brissie for now

6777 that averaged to 6.75 in my 1st semester results. CRAZIEST RESULTS I’VE EVER GOTTEN!! Just a 0.25 to 7, man! How close is that?! This is the results you’ll get for doing something you LOVE. Hehe.. :) Next semester, a 7! Haha, nah.. don’t take my word for it. I think my lecturers are also very lenient towards their marking. But I’m soo glad I scored well for my Korean written exam (don’t know the exact marks) to get myself a 7 for the course!

Heading home tomorrow. Exciteeeeed!! I have bought so many chocolates, I think I even scare myself. No wonder the people here get BIG so easily. The chocolates and biscuits are frequently on sale. My luggage is seriously filled 90% of souvenirs/gifts… I wonder if it’ll be overweight tomorrow. I haven’t even buy nougats yet.

Bye bye brissie for now! I’m gonna miss you… I think? ^^

p.s. 7 is the highest GPA score you can get for a course/subject. :)