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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Go Reds~!!

You guys have to see my dinner today:

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It’s bulgogi (bbq beef), kimchi and one of my favourite Korean soup dish, 육게장 yuk-ge-jang! (Spicy beef soup)

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The soup is cooked by A’s friend (who is also his roommate). Home-made yuk-ge-jang, how awesome is that?!

The bulgogi was also given to me by the same friend. He actually gave me a whole box of marinated bulgogi which can probably last me a week or so. It’s too much actually. ><

I’m always heavily pampered when I visit A’s place. He’ll cooked for me, his friend will cook for me, and what do I do? I just sit there and be served. Well I do help out with the dishes but I still feel too pampered by them.

Anyways, World Cup season! Everyone’s going nuts over this tournament! On the day of the match between Korea and Greece, my friends, A and I watched the match at this open restaurant in the middle of the city. ALL the Korean restaurants broadcasting the match are fully booked so we had to settle for an Aussie restaurant that regularly broadcasts World Cup matches. It wasn’t so bad. Many Koreans were at the restaurants too… probably also the ones who couldn’t find any other place to watch the match.

Watching a Korea match with Koreans is soooo different. You can feel the intensity, the awesome atmosphere and the pride for their national team. They would burst out in loud cheers when a goal was scored then followed by the national cheer, “대한민국!” (dae-han-min-guk!) *clapclapclapclapclap* Not only when a goal was scored, Koreans would clap whenever the Korean goalie saved a goal from being scored. The Korean team  really did well that night, they were really alert, many good saves by the goalie and the national soccer hero, Park Ji Sung who scored the 2nd goal swiftly. So good.

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Some of you might have seen my photos in fb. After the victorious match, Koreans in the city were cheering and dancing. You can hear the cheers from different corners of the city. It’s crazy! Haha. We joined the crowd in cheering as well. ^^


That same day in the afternoon, A and I went cycling! :D It felt good to cycle again after so long but my leg ached a little after that. Understandable since I haven’t hit the gym for some time. :x

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Exclusive photo once again~ I hate wearing the helmets, seriously. It flattens my hair but it’s illegal to cycle without a helmet.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Completion

…not of my assignments but of reading “The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time”. After saying good-bye to A this evening, I went to one of the quietest foodcourt in the city and decided to finish the book right there. I just sat there for about an hour reading the book because I always like being alone and having to sit there reading alone gave me a peaceful feeling. Even though it was peak hour during dinner time, the foodcourt was still rather empty and that’s why I chose that place, plus it kept me away from the cold outside.

I felt so accomplished after reading the book! A refreshing feeling because I haven’t read in a long time. I love the book! After closing the book, I looked at it and thought, “too bad this isn’t mine and that I have to return it.” To the library.

It’s weird how once you start reading a book, you would want to keep reading even when you’ve finished with it. I’ve just moved on to another book but I think this time I’m going to spend more time completing it since this is exam period and I still have got assignments not done.

image That’s the book I bought a few weeks ago and just started after finishing “The Curious Incident…”

I didn’t buy it because of the title although it was definitely the one that caught my attention. LOL. I bought it because the story seems interesting enough and it’s only $7aud.

Oh. This is just random, but today I saw one of A’s female co-workers and was stunned by her beauty! She’s Korean (all of A’s co-workers are) and she was so pretty…. I don’t know how he can like me when he’s surrounded by pretty girls.

The End…

And there we have it. The last day of classes for Semester 1, 2010. Once again, typical words for this- HOW TIME FLIES!! It’s half of 2010 already! Just one more semester to go and it’ll be LONG vacation which means HOME. :D Oh how I look forward to that…

This semester has definitely been a super KOREAN-fied one as all my courses are part of the Korean Major. And that’s all really really good. But next semester I have to focus more on the Asian Studies Major… which means toning down the Korean stuff. However, I would definitely try to take at least one Korean course next year to keep my knowledge of the language intact!

Anyway, less of the future more of the present, right now preparations for exams are on its way. Except that I still have a couple of assignments to complete and fret not, the deadline is on the last day of exams! :D

Last day of exams is also the day LY is going to arrive in Brisbane! My goodness, exciting times are coming ahead! Follow by KH who is coming 2 days after her. I have to start planning an itinerary for them. Revision week, I promise. :P

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

When by myself…

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Recently, I started reading “The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time”. I’m sure most of you would have heard of this title before since it’s quite a famous novel. The book is very interesting and engaging to read. It is written in the view point of a 15 yr old who has Asperger’s Syndrome, which is very intriguing! It’s not everyday that we get to come across people with autism much less understand what they’re trying to express. So having able to read in the view point of someone who is psychologically different is quite fascinating. I’m into 3/4 of the book after just two days and I think that’s quite something considering how long I have not read a complete novel in so long. :P

Today, while crossing one of the streets in Brisbane city, I came across an old lady driver in a car, which was about to exit from a carpark, smoking. Her cigarette caught my eye because it wasn’t just any cigarette. It was a cigarette in a cigarette holder- just like the one Cruella Deville in 101 Dalmations always smokes from (photo below).

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Initially I didn’t know what it was called, so just according to my observation, which is a metal tube holding a cigarette, I googled “cigarette holder” and I was right! At least to Wikipedia. :P

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So, for awhile I just stared at the old lady smoking from the cigarette holder. Seeing something new in person for the first time usually leads me to staring at it for a few seconds and what went through my head was, “woah, it’s not only seen on TV/movies!”