modelling

making models has always been fun... having a 5th year korean archi student interning here together with me on the same project is even MORE fun... being able to learn about technical skilling in architecture through models is so fun.... an experience i'd have been daunted to try in singapore... but here... :) it's fun!!!

been using someone's desk over the last two days.. cos he's on leave till today... but one of the team leaders (the nicest-looking person in our office, most elegant and nice fashion sense too!) transferred to a different department, one floor below ours... so i got a fresh new desk with a freshly reformatted computer and the windows is in ENGLISH!!!! hahaha... yay!! been working on a korean computer the last two days.... guessing my way around with everything.... even had to read a project brief in KOREAN. learnt quite a bit.. :)

tired. need to buy another calling card to call home with... should be getting it later in itaewon... the foreigners' hangout... cos it's near the us army barracks i think... quite nice... we all went there for drinks the other night after dinner... gonna try out the clubbing scene tonight... see if i like it... only thing is... it's not FREE!!!! i miss singapore..... :p

another 10mins before my lunch break is up.... i like my colleagues... i like the instant coffee. (bought a box home last night to keep in my room.. :p) guess i'm happy... alright then... ciao.

FINALLY.

Here i am. FINALLY. after such a long period of worrying about my silly connection troubles... almost having to reformat my entire computer.... *sigh*

but here i am!!!! yay! and feeling all happy about having internet access of my own... :) felt so.... lost and lonely for a couple of days... no way of contacting home..... but now all's good. :)

been eating loads of korean delicacies... am totally absolutely in love with korean soju..... everyone in the world should try bamboo soju. *swoon*

campus is really beautiful too!! foggy mornings are perfect for walking out to the main entrance where there's a bus station taking us to the nearest substation that takes us into seoul... here's a couple of shots of the lake near my hostel.... lovely... loads of dragonflies flitting about overhead... and little ducks waddling about.. :)

first day here was spent settling in... went to lotte mart to shop for necessities. spent an entire BOMB on home stuff... pillows (two cos one was a bolster.......), one pillow cover (everyone should sew them and sell them here. you'd make a real killing..), bedspread-cum-mattress protector, comforter, tissue boxes, mug, bowl, cereal... all these.... then rushed back to hostel to drop them off before rushing to seoul for lunch with our professor... like.. an introduction lunch? it was lovely.. and their treat... professor shin and professor han...

then since prof han works at space group, the archi firm we're interning at, he decided to take us for an unofficial visit to the office. it was GORGEOUS. make the call for yourselves.

we took a long LONG stroll around central seoul.... and came across a very very famous stream... (originally real.. they filled it up.. then after a couple of years wanted it back again.. now it's a really nice place in the city to just chill along...

alright then... off to bed.... first day of work tomorrow!!! wish me luck... ciao..

back from the fragrant harbour and post polluted petronas-towers capital

kl was.... less than perfect. but great nonetheless.. :)

okay. so i DIDN'T take many pictures. so i slept away majority of the Putrajaya tour we went on. so i spent a majority of my ringgit on the extinct-in-singapore-starbucks tazo iced shaken lemon zen tea.

so sue me.

i met (well, more like.. saw from afar.. didn't actually talk to him...) the most charming korean architect at the conference. charming, sense of humour, intelligent, studied at yale, lectures now..... *swoon* think i might be drowning in a pool of my own saliva. :p

PLAN for time in Korea (spare time APART from studying, mind you):

find his firm and stalk him. my Cho Minsuk. my very own korean drama serial.

:)

i miss hongkong. i miss the mango pomelo dessert that cost a bomb. i miss the nice po lo pau. i miss rie. (duh.) i miss howard and julius too.. haha...

ooh. gotta dash out to holland for supper. :p will write again soon.. ciao.