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ada lif ke?
yanakakijalan Post at 21-6-2012 01:29 PM 
yana, ni zebra cross bukan lif ye |
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chimei nak share iti mu... |
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Reply 553# azradiza
Oooo jeju best ooo.. next year summer nak try stay lima full days....on the way nak gi Seongsan Ilchubong tu ada seaside yang kalau air surut leh turun ke beach untuk korek clams/remis. Tengok orang orang korea berfamily sedang holiday korek clam/remis berkilo kilo buat hati nak revenge next year siap ngan perkakas. Lepastu yang gerek nye dorang bawak portable stove macam 2days1night rebus tu clams/remis tepi laut makan ngan instant noodles...machisosoyo...teringin nak buat tu ngan maggi curry hehe.. |
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chimei nak share iti mu...
fadzssha Post at 21-6-2012 07:10 PM
yang...chimei x de itinerary...what i do is pagi2 bangun pastu fikir nak gi mane..huhu...tgk kat subway map n ape nearby attraction dia sbb den bwk budak kecik umur 1 tahun so mmg la x bleh gi jauh2..basically just bawak gi tourist spot je...unplanned... |
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Reply azradiza
Oooo jeju best ooo.. next year summer nak try stay lima full days....on the way ...
DarkBaron Post at 21-6-2012 07:12 PM
im planning to rempit jeju jugak..^^ V |
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ko g bape hr chim?
Ape lg..meh laa share stori... |
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kat Seoul pun ade teddy bear museum.... kat Namsan Tower ...
aku tak follow variety show .... ...
azradiza Post at 21-6-2012 03:49 PM
azra, try tgk running man...my trip basically byk follow running man sbb dorang suka explore tmpt2 menarik kat korea...+ cite tu gaban giler lawak guling2 punye..ekeke |
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Post Last Edit by chimei at 21-6-2012 19:26
ko g bape hr chim?
Ape lg..meh laa share stori...
fadzssha Post at 21-6-2012 07:22 PM
aku gi 6 hari 4 malam....huhu..later aku share ek..aku baru je balik umah ni ha...mood nak stori blum ade lagi..
blum pun smpi 1 ari aku kat umah ni dah ramai lak ha ajak ke koya lagi..wakaka..pengsannn |
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azra, try tgk running man...my trip basically byk follow running man sbb dorang suka explor ...
chimei Post at 21-6-2012 19:24
setuju cadangan tengok running man tu. rasa macam nak buat travel plan pergi tempat-tempat diorang pergi je. banyak diorang buat games dekat attractions dekat sana tu. pastu memang kelakar la, rasa nak pecah perut gelak. |
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setuju cadangan tengok running man tu. rasa macam nak buat travel plan pergi tempat-tempat ...
seoulbackpacker Post at 21-6-2012 08:41 PM
so far ade few places aku gi follow running man sbb partner travel giler suka cr tmpt best2 so aku follow je ekeke |
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assalam nak tanya r, sesape tau x cm mana nak bli emas kat korea
ki_aries Post at 21-6-2012 04:06 PM
jewelery ke?? mahal tuh kat situ.. |
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aku x tgk running man tp ske aje klu korg nak share tpt2 tu...ehehehe |
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Reply 571# chimei
yea ke, tp ada org jual emas korea harga murah |
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ni from paper semalam... anyone care to confirm?
Thursday June 21, 2012
Doing some Seoul searching
So Aunty, So What?
By June H.L. Wong
This aunty went to South Korea and came back not quite sold on the country’s capital. Here’s why.
JUST a few months ago, South Korea was not my thing. Then I became a fan of K dramas. Several TV series and a couple of movies later, I developed a fair inkling of the country and the people. Or so I thought.
For example, in Korean dramas, they shout a lot when they get emotional. They also eat a lot. An attractive trait of a spunky female character is that she can stuff her face and not worry about looking genteel. That impresses the rich guy who is interested in her.
Not only that, if the female lead is poor and struggling, she will bring said rich guy love interest to a street stall serving really rough and homely fare that is unfamiliar to him. He takes a bite and falls in love with the simple food and of course the girl.
In the dramas, they also drink a lot, usually their homegrown rice wine called soju. And inevitably, either the girl or guy will get so drunk, they need to be piggybacked home. That is in practically every drama I have watched.
And yes, the actors are usually very good looking, despite their single eyelid and girlish hairstyles.
What else? Well, they seem to say sorry a lot, greet and bow to everyone almost as much as the darling Japanese. In the TV series, the actress playing the waitress or sales assistant is ever so sweet and pleasant to all and sundry.
So when this ajumma (that’s Korean for aunty) flew off to Seoul last weekend, she expected the Koreans to be almost Japanese clones.
After all, this must surely be a First World nation. Samsung, Hyundai, LG – you name it – are household names everywhere. It therefore seemed logical to assume the Koreans are the new Japanese.
Four days later, as I write this on the flight home from Seoul, I am reworking my initial impressions.
I am sorry to say the Koreans are nowhere near the Japanese in their civility and courtesy to visitors.
Perhaps it is unfair to compare the Koreans to the Japanese. The latter are simply in a class of their own.
My previous column on their awesomeness elicited so much response from readers who shared their own wonderful experiences in Japan that I felt my effusive praise of them was completely vindicated.
The Koreans, on the other hand are rather more like us. They have a lot of First World hardware – Incheon International Airport, for example, is huge and swanky (with clean loos) – but their software was a little lacking (their Immigration and Customs officers were downright surly).
The hour-long ride into Seoul was pleasant on smooth highways and my friends and I had no complaints about the limo or the non-English speaking driver.
But apart from the limo driver, just about every cabbie we encountered was rude and uncommunicative. Maybe Seoul cabbies just didn’t like the look of Malaysian ajummas.
Catching a cab can also be unnerving, especially outside Doota, a popular shopping complex in Dongdaemun. There is no system or a taxi stand and it’s every tourist for him/herself. And that includes dodging traffic on the very busy road to flag one down.
And if you do get one to stop, there’s no guarantee the taxi will take you where you want to go. We were ordered out of a couple of cabs because the driver couldn’t understand us or knew our destination, despite having GPS on the dashboard. Another fellow quoted a fare that was 10 times the metered fare. We jumped out of that cab.
It’s a bit like how KL cabbies behave I suppose but I do believe if you say “thank you” to our cabbies, they will respond.
That was the other peculiar thing about Koreans (or maybe it’s only Koreans in Seoul): they don’t respond to hello or thank you. From my Korean dramas, I know how to say annyeong haseyo (hello) and kamsa hamnida (thank you) and on screen, it is often accompanied by a bow. So I thought these phrases would surely come in handy.
Also, universally, if a foreign tourist can speak a word or two of the native language, the natives are usually delighted and become quite friendly. Not so in Seoul. No cabbie responded to our kamsa hamnida or the English thank you. Even a nod or a smile would have sufficed but it was as if they couldn’t hear us. It was very strange indeed.
Scarier than cabbies were the clothing shop assistants. A surprise was that most boutiques even in fancy malls do not have fitting rooms. You are expected to place the garment against your body and hope it fits in the right places.
Worse, if you don’t buy, be prepared to be assailed by glares and a stream of presumably rude Hangukmal in your direction. Saying kamsa hamnida was another lost cause with them.
So despite the fabled business hours that stretch till 5am, it was no fun when you can’t try on most things. Anyway, from my admittedly limited experience, the sales assistants are meaner at night than in the day.
It can also be rough on the streets. No one apologises if they bump into you. They can even elbow you out of their way with nary an “excuse me” or “sorry”.
My romantic view of the street food also turned rancid when I came face to face to it. Our tour guide brought us to Gwangjang market, well-known for its alleys full of traditional hawker fare.
It was an interesting but queasy experience. I may be Chinese and love my pork but I found the sight of rows and rows of pig trotters, intestines, skin and even piggy snouts on display overwhelming.
But all was not lost: we had a glorious dinner at celebrity chef Edward Kwon’s restaurant, Lab XXIV. I happily ate kimchee with every meal, had my first taste of soju and enjoyed it immensely. Sadly, one bottle wasn’t enough for me to get drunk, so no one had to piggyback me. No one piggybacked anyone, period.
Finally, hard as I looked, good-looking Korean men were scarce on the streets of Seoul. I had to settle for surreptitiously ogling at the posters of my favourite actors – Lee Min Ho, Hyun Bin and Song Seong Hun – at souvenir shops.
All in, it wasn’t the best of first meetings. My friend asked me if I was disillusioned and giving up my K dramas. My reply: Are you kidding? It’s all the more reason for me to stick to my Korean fantasy world. Give me reel life over real life, kamsa hamnida!
> The writer would like to say arigato gozaimasu to everyone who wrote in response to ‘A zensational nation’. She hopes readers will also share their experiences in South Korea with her; hopefully they had a better time. |
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ni from paper semalam... anyone care to confirm?
Thursday June 21, 2012
Doing some Seoul sea ...
mclaren Post at 22-6-2012 08:32
makcik ni expect apa la.. bila dah sampai tempat orang tu, x yah la nak expect lebih2. based on drama je pun. nak tau real, google la pasal korean. at least leh dapat gambaran sebenar.
kalo dah gi memana pun pakai cab, faham2 sendiri lah expectation dia cemana |
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ni from paper semalam... anyone care to confirm?
Thursday June 21, 2012
Doing some Seoul sea ...
mclaren Post at 22-6-2012 08:32
this is one naive ahjumma who thinks she can get a glimpse of Korean life just by watching k-drama ... well, tough luck ahjumma ...
kalo whatever been potrayed in the kdrama is 100% true, then who need kdrama anymore rite??  |
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i'm back..sgt penat..huhu...korea panas....rentung kut..eke..tapi paling best borong baju2 dia yg co ...
chimei Post at 2012/6/21 19:50
chimei welkam bek again!huhu |
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azra, try tgk running man...my trip basically byk follow running man sbb dorang suka explor ...
chimei Post at 2012/6/21 20:24
majayo...!running man daebak!
dr 1st episod tmpt yg dorg g sume menarik!
mmg pndi dorg attract us to visit SK! |
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ni from paper semalam... anyone care to confirm?
Thursday June 21, 2012
Doing some Seoul sea ...
mclaren Post at 22-6-2012 08:32
This is one misleading articles for newbies yang mmg xtau pape pasal Seoul. Sedeyh. I guess expectation mak cik tu over je. Kalo ikut K-drama, dari Incheon ke Seoul 5 minit je  Haha XD |
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Reply 574# mclaren
where the hell is this ajumma came from??? kamon la weii...sape soh ang dok pi pecaya sgt cite drama..confirm la drama tu 'make up' by director hokey...semua nmpk gojes dr hakikat..aigo!! this ajumma jinjja!! ..sib baik bukan dr forum ni..akakka..piss off sungguh....
but anyway...just to give comment to mclaren since dia mintak comment.
1. bile nak gi korea for 1st time..make sure do RESEARCHHHHHHHHHHH...bace all experience dr forumer kat sini k..
nak clarify few things according to this 'drama queen ajumma' comment ye..based on my experience yg tak seberapa ni
last week during trip kat sana i found a lot of chinese tourist donno from china or malaysia but lots of lots of them everywhere..the way they act and spoke to korean give me answer why this happen to this ajumaa...please be polite to receive a polite respond ye.
OHHH...sorry ye i'm not bias to chinese..but it's just my comment based on observation.
here goes the comment and hope it clears..
1. this ajumma is expected all the guys and girls in korea is look like in 'the drama' -->> nope! mmg indah kabar dr rupe..not all of them GODDESS look... almost 80% of the population are 'under knife' punye muka (based on researcher finding)....kalo muka tipikal you won't gonna say anything when u look at them.
2. Piggyback???? Dem! this ajumma is really something...hahhaa...none of us wanted to broke our backbone right? so do them..this is the answer from my male korean friends..hehe
3. I am sorry to saythe Koreans are nowhere near the Japanese in their civility and courtesy tovisitors.--> ajumaa! of cos la tak sama dah nama negara pun lain..even bahasa..but for sure korea is much more safer than japan.
4. But apart from the limo driver, just about everycabbie we encountered was rude and uncommunicative. Maybe Seoul cabbies justdidn’t like the look of Malaysian ajummas.--> u should know that korea is non english speaking countries...instead of they taking us to a wrong way might as well they did not take us at all..again..research the place..find it in korean word, print it out and show it to the taxi driver...confirm! with the efficient GPS they have they definitely will send u safely to the place u wanted to go.
5. Catching a cab can also be unnerving, especiallyoutside Doota, a popular shopping complex in Dongdaemun.---> this ajumma la kan..sila guna subway yg tak berapa jengkal je dr situ.
6. And if you do getone to stop, there’s no guarantee the taxi will take you where you want to go.We were ordered out of a couple of cabs because the driver couldn’t understandus or knew our destination, despite having GPS on the dashboard.---> adakah ajumma ni paham ape yg dia katakan sendri itu..driver tu "couldn’t understand us" ...does that make sense the reason why dia tanak bawak gi tmpt tu sbb dia pun x tau ko nak gi mane...aigoo~~
if this ajumma have map and show the place than thsi won't be any problem.
7. they don’t respond to hello or thank you --> ok here goes! basically they will happily say GAMSAHAMNIDA to the customer who buy lots of their stuff..but for those who very picky and 'cheap skate'..and asking for discount for things that she want to buy only ONE..do you thing they will smile widely..hahhaha..think about it..but yes, i admit the seller is abit rude even to korean itself but not all...go to the shop whose the seller approach you warmly and sure they will definitely be good to you..my 2 cent.
8. Also, universally, if a foreign tourist canspeak a word or two of the native language, the natives are usually delightedand become quite friendly. Not so in Seoul. No cabbie responded to our kamsahamnida or the English thank you. Even a nod or a smile would have sufficed butit was as if they couldn’t hear us. It was very strange indeed.--> it's true! they definitly admire you when u talk in their language..bile chimei kat korea, i'll try to speak in korean eventhough sgt limited word but they understand and appreciate it....kat negara kita pun sama kalo org putih bleh ckp melayu kan kita pun rase kagum kan....but this ajumma said they did not...well what i can say is...ajumma! did u say the right korean word????? say it loudly they'll hear you..^^
9. Scarier than cabbies were the clothing shopassistants. A surprise was that most boutiques even in fancy malls do not havefitting rooms. You are expected to place the garment against your body and hopeit fits in the right places. --> yup! no fitting room..u need to understand..their cloth is meant for THE KURUS one ..so bare with it..org kurus can fit into anything without much ukur ukur k..
10. It can also be rough on the streets. No oneapologises if they bump into you. They can even elbow you out of their way withnary an “excuse me” or “sorry”.--> rasenye semua forumer sini well known kan about this condition..kene langgar berputar putar kat situ tapi x ckp sorry...sbb dorang semuanye nak cepat..kalo jalan tekemut kemut smbil muka tecangak cangak sila pastikan anda berada di lane paling kiri skali iaitu laluan perlahan..ekekkee...see see...this is why i said reseach is important to find out the situation out there..
ok thats all "10 things i comment about this 'drama queen ajumma' on her 1st time visit to korea"
anway this ajumma doing a great review on her 1st time let see what she will talk if there is a 2nd trip for her...hehehe
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Post time 21-6-2012 06:51 PM
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