Yet another touching and worth-watching military based movie of South Korea!

Was switching channels yesterday nite and happened to watch this GREAT military based story of South Korea called Silimdo (실미도). As there were no subtitles I dun really understand what these guys were talking about bt still feel that its a worth-watching movie so I went online to search for it. True enuff the plot of the story was interesting and was watching it at DAWN 2am today. Its a long movie 135mins bt definitely worth WATCHING!

If you are also interested in war type of movie then you should give it a try! Certain parts of the movie r based on true story while some are made up of. After watching this movie, you can really feel that some people r really SICK to the core and selfish to kill others/ eliminate to attain his/her own needs!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I salute TO ALL THE SOLDIERS out there who's fight for PEACE!!

A short synopsis of the movie:

January 1968, 31 members of North Korean Special Unit 124 infiltrated South Korea with the ultimate mission of assassinating President Park Chung-hee. In a retaliatory move, the South composed the Silmido Special Unit of dysfunctional social outcasts and criminals under death or life sentences. Their classified mission: explode the North Korean presidential palace and behead Kim Il-sung. They survive the most hellish inhumane ‘killing’ training and are reborn as human armories. However, the project is suddenly revoked and while the hellish training continues there is no more mission. The psychological frustration and physical tolerance start to reach their limits and soon the members start to lose their focus and unity. Then in 1970, with a growing peacemaking movement between the North and the South, the government decides to demolish the Unit and executes all its members ...

Interesting facts of this movie:

At the end of its run, the film was the most watched film ever in South Korea, and the first film to attract an audience of 10 million viewers in the country. The film Taegukgi later broke its record in 2004, and then The King and the Clown with additional 2 million in 2006.

The truth is that Special Unit 684 was not composed of criminal and outcasts.

Release date: 24 Dec 2003

You can watch it on crunchyroll HERE

Info of movie are quoted from:

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Crunchyroll

A money-minded OWNER!

okay I cant stand it anymore so I guess I need to blog this to VENT my frustration!!!

I couldnt believe that someone can be so money-minded and heartless until meeting someone like her....... I dunno if i shld consider her a human-being?! Yah who is this non-living thing?

As the title states the owner, yes the owner of the boarding house i am stayin in right now... First i heard of not really nice stories about her and how she treated the students stayin in her boarding hse... but i dun really bother as i dun really get to see her neither am i going to step on her tail... but something she did recently make me disgusted and i really need to blog it to vent my frustration if nt i tink i will go mad here!!!

Firstly, I knw she is very money-minded cos stayin in this boarding hse for nearly 6 months, i have heard stories of her telling students not to eat too much during dinner, asking ppl why you havent pay up cos its already the date due for payment, collecting 10, 000won more from the china guy cos they eat more than the rest, charging high price to japanese (whom she deemed as high payers) etc.

First of all, our dinner spread is so SIMPLE and cheap that it wont cost much and moreover not everyone eats breakfast everyday so why shld she b so stingy telling ppl nt to eat too much?! I bet a meal would cost less than US$2?! She is already earning!! She have to charge the china ppl 10, 000won more simply becos she deduced that they r the big eaters.... But why didnt she reduce the rent for the other nationalities if they are small eaterS? Sometimes ppl r late for abt 1-2 days for payment, do she have to ask in a tone(n that want to slap her face facial expression) like we r nt paying her at all?! She never smiles when we greet her (instead shwing us the we-owned-her face), she only SMILE when she see you paying ur rent.

k, enuff of the small things above. Here's the BIG issue! Right now its winter time in Korea so its abt less than 10 degree in the day and may fall to below 5degree in the nite. Guess wat our 'LOVELY' owner did?

1st of all, she dun really on the heater in the hse. Even if she ons it, it abt 18degree?! When we complained that its too cold (esp. some of them had their windows facing the outside, its more cold due to the strong winds), she told them that she would only on the heater frm 6pm everyday. Which means there is no HEATER in the daytime!! So hw r we going to survive the cold winter which may drop to less than -5 degree?!

2ndly, we had decided since she dun wan to on the heater (which is under her control) we shld buy our own small heater to use in our room. Though the small heater may nt warm the whole room bt its gd enuff if you sit rite infrnt of it. Yeah, guess what that non-living ting suggest?! Just as i thought i can buy one cheap one, she went ard the hse putting up the notices that noone is to USE private heater in their room. Oh yah... So when i met her one day as i was having my dinner. I asked her why cant we use our private heater as she dun on the heater in the day time? Guess wat she said with her irritating face: 'WHY?!! OF cos you cant use it.... ITs so dangerous, it might burn down the hse.... ' Oh true, it will burn down the hse....

In my mind I was tinking didnt she knw that most of the heater had safety precaution built-in to prevent such fire hazards?! Fine, she left for her hm.... Me being so silly really thought that its becos of that reason. Few mins later she came back to the kitchen, I was so frustrated so i ignored her presence and guess wat she told me? 'Pls read the notice carefully, if you want to use ur own private heater in ur room its possible. You have to pay me 100, 000won as deposit' (which is equivalent to abt S$140) Then tat sentence finally knock senses into my head!!!!!!

DANGEROUS is not the reason, the main reason is that she WANTS to earn our money!!! She purposely shut the heater in the daytime, and put up those notices so tat we will pay her the deposits and in the end, she might tell u that her electricity bills went up cos u have been using the heater and confiscate ur so-called deposit. She's SICK isnt she???

FINE, i believed you might have the same tinking as me that u can secretly use the heater without her knwing rite? Bt i dun tink so...... Once her electricity bill went up i guess she might even order the aunite (hired to clean our hse) to open our rooms when we are not at hm to find if anyone is using the heater secretly. We cant do anything cos she has spare keys to all the rooms. Furthermore as chinese had said 寄人篱下, living under other's shelter, we cant do anything....

She is really a bloody f**king old MAID!!!!!!! Hw i wished i am more rich so i can throw my last rent (in coins) at her and tell her BYE, i m moving to somewhere esle better!!! I dun have the money so I HAVE to bear WITH HER FACE...... Maybe i shld do that on my last DAY of my stay! In the meanwhile I JUST try to avoid facing her frm today onwards to ward off the BAD luck...... I hope GOD knws abt it and will punish her for wat she did............ GOD PLS OPEN UR EYES!!!!

P.S I am trying my VERY best to use her ELECTRICITY, EAT as much as I can and uses more WATER.......... (bt i feel bad to the environment..... haiz)

Graduated frm level 3!!!

YO! Dearest friends and families!!!!!!

Here I am back in action blogging again. First of all an update on my studies, I have graduated frm level 3 from Sogang Korean Language institution. Scoring well.... better than what I expected. At least i scored much better in my oral!

Of cos of all being happy about the results, able to graduate level 3, able to proceed to level 4.... But in the same time, sad.... sad cos my friends will b returning to their homeland, sad becos i m left with another term (even though I m suppose to leave end of level 3, bt thanks to my supportive sister, I am continuing another term), sad becos the money in my bank is draining out...........

But been sad is nt a healthy ting.......So i told myself, its really lucky to be able to have a fun and experience life here in Korea. I shld cherish all the moments here instead of being so gloomy...... so here i m trying my best to be HAPPY. ^^

Nothin much abt my level 3 classmates cos we werent as close compared to my level 2 classmates..... Bt still there are some whom i would like to jot down in my memories...... (not as if i dun really bother or dun remember those whom i m nt going to write abt heheh)

Here are our class photos:

Shin wi (Taiwan)

A taiwanese gal whom I m totally amazed by her actions! She is also the one who made me changed my opinion of taiwanese gals........ She was so much younger than her exact age! I was totally stunned when she told me hw old she was!!! hehe... A fun party gal who speaks wats on her mind!

Suha (Japan borned Korean)

Our class monitor.... A very cute little boy who dun really knw hw to say 'no'.... bt looking at his facial expression you can tell it all....... A little boy who wants to be a big MAN! haha ><>

Adrian (Australia)

A future-to-be lawyer. He's going England to work next year. BRIGHT future! A rather serious guy who dun really talk nor smile in class. But when drinkin he talks alot haha... guess alcohol make a person shows his/her true colors... He speaks japanese too and knw wat he LOVE singlish and watched UNDER ONE ROOF! He is also the 1st ever aussie i knew who dun really joke nor smile... As you knw aussie are famous for being FRIENDLY!

Jeff (USA, Hawaii)

A big guy from Hawaii... A sunny guy just like where he is from... Always with his okley sunglasses.... Everyone loves that shades!! All i could remember was when he 1st came into our classroom with his luggage. He was not in sch most of the time cos he was always travelling ard (as he is on a sponsorship frm his university).

Sujin (American borned korean)

A cute big sister frm New york! Her encounter with her pilot boyfriend is really amazing! They met each other on the street of Itaewon! hahah She's really tall! She worked in the fashion industry too...... Interesting job isnt it?