YESterday, the worst MOST SWAYEST day of my entire 25 yrs of living...

YESTERDAY was perhaps the most terrible day of my entire 25 yrs of living....... Here are a series of wat happened:

1st: I had a presentation on this coming Fri so I had planned to do up my presentation slide during the long holiday weekend. BUT who knws my laptop decided to also go on holiday leaving me almost going MAD.......

2nd: I tried all means and way to start up the laptop but it just didnt work. I have no choice bt to try my luck going to sch to work on it. BUT the thing is its a public holiday so the sch might b closed. I went to sch, ok nt so bad the sch was nt totally closed (bt the computer labs were all closed). So I have to make do with the computer in the corridor standing there doing my presentation in the cold (no heater). I had to wear gloves to type in the end.......... *FREEZING* Using the powerpoint in Korean?!! Which I cant really figure out wat was wat?!

3rd: Dunno wat's wrong with the Korea's weather... Whenever there is a holiday or long weekend it is bound to SNOW heavily or temp. drops drastically. SO yesterday was no different, it was about -8 degree.....

4th: Junwoo oftered to help me with my presentation slides after I told him I dun understand the korean so I met him up at Apujeong to go to his studio. It was so cold, I bought myself a warm drink (glass bottle). Guess wat?! When I alighted frm the bus, cos of my gloves (i hate gloves) the glass bottle slipped off my hand and landed on the road rite infrnt of me with a LOUD 'PIANG' yeah u bet everyone at the bus stop looked at me thinking that I threw the bottle out!!

5th: all the above were nt terrible enough until this happened........... I was on my way walking to Junwoo's studio in the small streets which sometimes cars passing by. So suddenly a cat came out trying to cross the small road and a car came by. I thought the cat was going to be bang by the car but luckily the driver stepped on the brake of his car when he saw the cat coming. So the cat pretended like nothin happened, walk by the side and decided to cross in between the back tyre. The driver thought that the cat had moved on then step on the accelerator......... n guess wat?! just besides me I SAW I REALLY SAW and HEAR the tyre went over the cat and the bones of the cat cracking was HEARD! I was totally shocked and I screamed! The driver didnt heard it and went on...... I turned ard and looked at the poor cat.... It was crashed and shaking in pain...... I didnt dare to look and I do not knw wat I can do........... I was so panic, I thought I must get Junwoo over to help so I went as fast as I could to the studio. The ting is its too late, when we returned the cat had already died............ I felt so sorry for nt helping the cat at that very moment......

So am I REALLY sway ?! haiz........ If only I stayed at hm then all these terrible tings would not have happened....... The other things were managable bt the last incident WAS really TERRIBLE! I can still remember the sight and sound of the cat being crashed!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS really TERRIBLE! ><

Met up some OLD school friends (18 Jan 09)

yo yo....... i knw i m late again...... sorry abt that but becos I have been busy running ard shopping for stuff for ppl and catchin friends frm Sg......

YEsh... Talking abt catching friends from Singapore who were here for holiday in Korea. First of all, Catherine and Edwin, my cousin and family in Dec 08 and my old Secondary friends and my cousin on honeymoon recently........

Busy schedule trying to catch those on tour packages... MAN its really tough tracking them down and hunting their hotels...... Ok back to what i wanted to blog about.........

Yesh, this is special to me... This meet up was special to me because after gradutating from my Secondary school I had never met up with secondary school classmates..... Simply becos I deemed that I have nothin much to talk to them and I felt so weird...... So out of the place...

1stly becos when I was in Sec 1 and 2, I was in the worst Express class in my school and in Sec 3, I was then streamed to the 1st class (which I kind of HATED). I was the only girl who was streamed to the top class. So during my final 2 yrs in Secondary sch, I rarely had conversations wif my old classmates not becos I was proud or so but there's hardly any time to talk in school. Furthermore, we were of different ECA and I dun really enjoy going out during weekends. And friends in the top class were rather competitive and 'fake' so I dun really enjoyed hanging out with them though there were a few who were ok........

So the 'Old school friends' I was refering here were my secondary 1 & 2 classmates. I guessed we havent met each other for more than 8 yrs. They were Geokling (my partner in class), Louting and Pihong. They were here on a holiday and I happened to be here in korea too so we arranged to meet up. Geokling was really kind to ofter to help me bring some stuffs back to Singapore. They were here with the tour agency hence I couldnt really showed them around like how I did with Cat and Ed. Nevertheless, the short meet up of about 1.5hrs made us 'ran' ard in Myeongdong trying to get them the cheapest valuable items.

While they were shopping in one of the bag shop, I was there standing looking at them with Pihong besides me (a guy who dun shop like the gals)... Suddenly, I looked at Geokling and Louting and thought about it...... They havent change ABIT at all..... Besides the hair color, they are still the SAME as 8 yrs ago...... Geokling still so panicky, speaking like a bullet and Louting is still as cool as a cucumber..... HAHAHA Just the thought of it reminds me of our sch days...... Its really funny! I then realised they are still the same perhaps the one who had changed is me..... and why am I hiding myself frm them?? I believed we still have many tings in common to gossip abt.... so I told myself when I returned to Singapore, I am going to meet up with them more often... :)

FRIENDS are hard to find, so if you do have one (just one is enough) learn to treasure.

Watched my first korean movie in the theatre: Frozen Flower (SSanghwa Jeom 쌍화점)

YEAH.... Finally get to watch a Korean movie in the theatre of KOREA! yesh, since abt 1 yr and half I have been in Korea and yet get to watch a korean movie in the theatre of KOREA?? Yah, reason being I have no confidence to watch and understand the korean movie, no korean movie so far had made me has the urge to watch it in the theatre once its screening..... (bsides GP 506 which I missed when its screening in Korea last early 2008)

So finally this ONE!! THIS MOVIE made me want to go into the theatre to WATCH! of cos having the companion of my friends (who has abt the same standard as my krn). We went to watch this movie a day after our mid-term exam, on 14 Jan 08. A treat I treated myself for having studied for my exams and my up-coming birthday and probably the first and last time watching a korean movie in KOREA.

Why was this movie chosen?? BECAUSE my favourite actor is starring in it! He is non other than JO IN SUNG who had not appeared on the screen (regardless of big or small) for about 2 yrs. So this is much of a anticipation for his LATEST work and the last before he enters the military T-T..... gonna miss him........

Yah back to the movie. This movie Frozen Flower is based on a true story from Goryeo Dynasty Korea, and takes its title from a song of that era which described the sexual relationships between men and women.

It was a great movie with Jo In sung's marvellous acting skills....Its all worth the wait for 2 yrs for his GREAT works! Besides his acting skill, the storyline is quite unique i shld say, luv the clothings and shooting style. A nice movie i should say... Wat's best of all I was asked to show my ID card when i entered the cinema...... (which means I LOOK younger than 18 hahaha!!)

And most of all I am so PROUD of myself, I could understand about 80% of what they are saying in the movie despite the ancient style of talking hahha!! (a pat on my shoulder for the gd work)

Here's the trailer for the movie:

The synopsis:

In the end of Goryeo era politically manipulated by the Yuan Dynasty, the ambitious King of the Goryeo Dynasty organizes Kunryongwe. Hong Lim, the commander of Kunryongwe, captivates the King of Goryeo, and the Queen keeps her eyes on the relationship between Hong Lim and the King with a reluctant view. Meanwhile, the bilateral relation between Goryeo and the Yuan gets worse as Yuan demands to install the cousin of the King in the Crown Prince of Goryeo with ascribing it to no son the King has. The King refuses it resolutely, so the high-ranking officials of Goryeo, who are in submission to Yuan, are discontented with the king. One day, the King gives Hong Lim a covert yet unobjectionable order to sleep with the Queen instead of himself to protect the independence of Goryeo from the Yuan by making a son, the successor to Goryeo throne.

Starring: Jo In Sung, Joo Jin Mo and Song Ji Hyo

My ratings: 8/10

WHAT is 2008 to me??

Happy NEW year to all my families and friends out there!

Let's wish that year 2009 will be a better one for all of us....

Yes.... Went through friends' blogs...... all penning down wat they have achieved in 2008 and their 2009 resolutions etc..... So was running thru my head on what i had done in 2008 and wat i wan in 2009..... GUESS wat?! NOTHING!!! BLANK!!!

2008 wasnt a good year for me.... I GUESS slightly suffering depression in the early of the year... i lost 2 kins.... One of whom is my grandfather whom i always respected since young....Sometimes I REALLY miss him now that he is not around....

First of all, I was back in Sg cos my dad decided tat i shld spend my CNY with my family and in the meanwhile I worked for the $ to continue my studies in Korea....... The approx. 4months in Sg was not paradise i shld say... Though my family and friends were around, I feel so empty and lonely...(i guess its the depression mood tat is working on me tat time) Singapore dun seem to be like my home anymore?! I minimised meeting up with friends so I can save on the money to use in Korea..... HOW SILLY.....I always blamed my dad for asking me back cos if not for the break in between I would have graduated already...

So all the gar-rang show and stuff that happened in my life..... TEARS n stuff....... But again I thanked my dad for insisting that i shld be back so at least i can see my grandpa for the last time..... I guessed I going MAD one day, with spilting personalities.......

Later half of the year, back in Korea, in school with new friends etc.... old friends left...My sis in Korea for work and we went to Pusan for sightseeing etc... Finally friends became lesser and lesser as I progressed into another level......But still I like and enjoy Korea....Not because Junwoo is here but because I know I can take care of myself and need not to be worry of other tings except how I can spend my money wisely.... Maybe because I am trying to escape... escape from reality.... Or simply been selfish.....Or perhaps I was borned a KOreAN in my LAST life...

I havent had any plans for 2008 except to get back to Korea as soon as possible... Nothing fruitful in my memory of 2008. Except remembering that I was crying myself to bed so frequent that I dun even know I have so much TEARS............BT HEY thank god, i pull thru 2008 despite the depression.... GUESS the motivation was to be back in KOREA...

I still remembered talking to a classmate of mine aged 60plus.... He asked me since I like Korea so much why not find a job in Korea... I told him my difficulties and stuff and this was wat he told me and I still remembered "Irin, why are you been so hard on urself?? Things will work out themselves. Why shld u worry?"

Am I being too hard on myself? YUP maybe I tink....

I read Cat's blog.... THANKS Cat for thoughts of fund raising and stuff.... I really appreciate and am touched by that thought of yours.... In fact in tears now.... I too am glad to be able to get to know Ed and be able to show u guys ard in KOrea, the place that I AM IN LOVE in and hopefully you nw know why I like KOrea so much.... But I tink I might have to give up my dream and go back to reality for the time being... I hate that I have to do that bt at least I am not ashame to at least say I HAD TRIED for it before in my life and had a CHANCE to.

ONCE again taking the opportunities to thanks all those who had supported my dream till this far in either monetary form (my dad, sis sponsors), mental strength (Junwoo, ex-sentosians, tiff), materials (jolene for sponsorin ur laptop, LJ for lending me the money for VISA application), physical strength (ah han for helping me with my luggages, cat and my cousin for bringing my stuff back), food supplies (cat, ed, my MUM n my cousin) or cosy hm supplies (the auntie who used to work in our boarding hse).

If not for you I wont b here typing this post... THANK YOU AND I LOVE U ALL!!!!!!! 2008's a history, let's look forward to a better 2009!