The end of a hectic week

Okay, although my hectic week may not seem so hectic as compared to others, it was still hectic! 3 major tests in a week is quite a feat!

So today marks the end of a boring week. It feels like a heavy weight has been lifted off my back and now I can continue watching Queen Seon Deok without worries. This drama is so awesome I don’t know what to say. But with my really lousy Mandarin, it’s a little tough watching period dramas with Chinese subs. Makes my head hurts sometimes when I have to pause the vid for a moment to read the difficult words. Anyways…

Today’s oral test went really smooth for me. At least that’s what I feel about it. I didn’t need any script for the roleplay and I was able to say most of my dialogues naturally without any stumble whatsoever. I feeeeel good. :P

The coming weekend seems like a promising one. Currently, there are a line of activities planned so I’m really looking forward to it! :D Plus, it’s a 3-day weekend once again… how awesome is that!

OH yes, I made Seafood Kimchi Pancake today. It’s a 2-in-1, Seafood Pancake + Kimchi Pancake. It actually tastes better than the two originals! Pancakes are so easy to make and they’re delicious too! It’s a good, fuss-free and simple dish to make. Next time, you’ll be seeing me eat this more often! :)

해물전!! Korean Seafood Pancake!!

I had a bit of a difficulty this evening… I was at the Supermarket, really desperate in needing to fill my empty fridge. The glutton in me only craved for fruits, specifically apples and oranges, which then left me wondering down the vegetable/meat aisle thinking of what to cook for dinner. I was seriously pacing up and down aimlessly with no idea what kind of vegetables or meat to buy… Now that is something that doesn’t occur so often. Most of the time I would have a rough idea what to cook especially while grocery-shopping. All that fresh food will definitely inspire me. But this evening my head was a complete blank…

Well, not until I thought back about the only food left in my fridge. SPRING ONIONS! Yes… Pathetic fridge has only got spring onions left. Then I realised too that I still have that pancake mix I bought a couple of weeks ago. It’s the perfect time to use up my spring onions and start on making that pancake I intended when I bought it.

So, I bought a packet of mixed seafood from the Korean mart.

I came home and briefly looked through a few websites with Seafood Pancake recipes before stirring my own pancake! With a little help from my housemate (a really nice woman who hails from China), I managed to whip up this lovely Seafood Pancake!

It’s a little burnt. :P

The pancake mix is awesome. You just got to add water in and wah-lah! you get the pancake mixture. What I did was just add the spring onions and seafood into the pancake mixture. Really simple. :)

The taste was almost similar to the ones in restaurants. Hehe! I might have to get the soy sauce suitable for pancakes. I actually wanted to try with the current sauce that I have but that sauce was for cooking and not dipping! The taste was too strong to be pancake dipping sauce.

Anywho… I restocked on my kimchi as well. Perhaps next time I can make Kimchi pancake though I prefer Seafood. ^^

아름다운 하늘…

This evening, I was just studying and realized the room was getting pretty dark. I looked at the time and it read 5:34 PM. I guess this shows winter is approaching with the sign of early sunset. From my study desk, I looked out at the sky and found the moon shining brighter than ever. Although it was not presented in its full roundness, the brightness of the moon captivated me. I stared at it for a few seconds before realizing the beautiful scenery before me- the sky, beautifully splashed with pastel colours of dusk while reflection of the opposite houses crept over the surface of the calm river water. I looked on with fascination… Appalled that I could witness such beauty. Then I my thought came through… I have to show this to you! So I grabbed my digicam and took a snap.

It is as if someone has digitalised the photo… I personally love soft, pastel colours that’s why I was really drawn in by the colours of dusk. :)

P.S. Translated title: Beautiful Sky…

Hee hee…

Today’s a public holiday… But I’m just gonna stay at home and study for two tests tomorrow! No life…. And then I have an oral exam this Thursday. This week’s hectic! Kind of…

But there’s another public holiday next Monday and I’m looking forward to that! Hopefully some activities will be planned… :)

Just gotta love Bidam! Hahaaa~

P.S. This blog entry is obviously written out of boredom. :p

소주 Soju, anyone?

OMG... Eye-popping situation… Heart pain… when you see the bill we had after our dinner last night. Such a horrendous amount of money spent after just one meal!

A and I wanted to try a new Korean restaurant so we went to this place where both of us have never been to. The day before, I had suggested to him about drinking soju together because I wanted to experience drinking soju with a Korean! :P So he said let’s have dinner and Soju together after our lesson (on Sat). And there we were…

Koreans’ drinking etiquette is so interesting. Lol. It’s exactly like how it is in dramas (okay, duh…). I was so excited when I saw the little Soju glasses.

A told me that Koreans usually pour Soju for each other and not for themselves because there’s this superstition about not being able to get married if you pour for yourself. So every time we wanted to refill our cups, both of us had to stop eating and pour for each other. LOL. Then we had one-shot for our first glass of Soju. The taste was so strong, one-shot made my throat burn a little. It was interesting though… the rest of our glasses later were drank slowly, no more one-shots. Though I thought one-shots made the taste better and stronger.

It was my second time drinking Soju… The first time was with LE and LY at the Korean restaurant in Msia. I remembered we couldn’t finish even one bottle and LE had to bring home. Haha~

For our main meal, we had BBQ!!!!!!!!!! <3 All that delicious meat wrapped in cabbage!!! We ordered a set for our BBQ which was more expensive because there were different kinds of meat. SO SO SO SO SO SO SO DELICIOUS! Thinking of it now makes my mouth water…

After our BBQ meal, A ordered 막걸리 (mak-keo-li) AKA rice wine, which has lesser alc % than Soju. He told me usually Koreans eat pancakes while drinking rice wine so he ordered Seafood pancake. Oh yeah, he ordered Sprite to add into the rice wine to make it taste better.

We sat there for like almost 3 hours talking and drinking. Haha… Because after I had drink a few cups of soju + rice wine, I was a little tipsy. A kept asking me if i was okay because he said I looked a little drunk! I said I was okay but in fact I felt like my head was kind of heavy and swaying a bit. LOL. JUST A BIT, okay.. :P I was still as clear-headed as normal.

Before our meal, A told me that most Koreans think that after having a drink with each other, they’ll become closer but he doesn’t think so. After our meal, I do agree with most of the Koreans.

Anyways it was so interesting and fun! Haha~

LY and KH, when you come over let’s have a round of Soju/ Mak-keo-li while having BBQ!! HAHAA :P I’m so excited about you guys coming over… Counting down the days!! Only 2 more months~~ <3

Next week will be a busy week!

Next Monday is a public holiday… but this holiday is reserved for studying 3 tests to be held on the same week. So the sensible me has taken this incredibly huge step in preventing myself from watching ‘Queen Seon Deok’ and increasing my concentration on my studies- that is to stop downloading the rest of the episodes of the drama (for now). Without the episodes, I won’t lose myself to the urge of wanting to watch! hehe. 

내일은 한국 친구랑 소주를 마실 거야! 정말 고대해! 히히… 쉬…

앞으로 여기서 한국어로 더 쓸 게… 기대해 줘? ^^

More Montville photos!

For all you people who are curious as to how my Korean friend, A, looks like and thinks that previous photos can’t satisfy your curiosity…. HERE’RE MORE~

 

erm….? LOL

 

Are you happy now? Can see the people clearly now? LOL

Also… thanks to A and T (the one in red shirt), I have my Queen Seon Deok episode 31!!! Been waiting for like more than 4 days?! Finally I can continueeeeee….. :D