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Events in 2009!

2009-07-03T18:38:00.000-07:00

Fairwell with Ex Roommate

2 pairs

Industrial Machinary Exhibition BUTECH 2009 (with Company Colleague)

Me and Sulin at JinJu Flower Festival

2 Malaysians + Chinese + My korean teacher

JinJu Yudeung Festival 2008

2008-10-22T06:16:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday to Me 2008~~

2008-10-22T05:52:00.000-07:00

Photos of the years!

2008-09-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

Hehe, Happy Moon Cake festival to all my beloved friends!

Psp3000 Series

2008-09-10T16:15:00.000-07:00

Get prepared now for Psp3000 Series. Recently sony has announced about psp3000 series.

Tokyo, August 21, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that it would launch a new PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) handheld entertainment system (PSP-3000) featuring an advanced LCD that further improves the very popular, high resolution PSP display. The new PSP will be available in stores in Japan, Asia, North America and Europe from October 2008.

Some of the unique features: Waterproof (spillproof) with a silicone O ring, the case can be dropped in water and will float, not allowing any water inside. Dustproof once closed and latched, nothing can get inside to damage the contents. Crushproof-people have actually driven their vehicles over the 3000 Case with no damage done (we do not suggest this however).

The new PSP 3000 officially revealed at last week's Leipzig Games Convention may have a nice, bright screen, but that comes with one downfall - reduced battery life. Battery life will decrease by a small amount. It's about 20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, and that's because there's a larger power draw with the brighter screen. Elsewhere on the net, sketchy rumours claim the new PSP will be compatible with the PS3's DualShock 3 (or SixAxis), allowing you to control your PSP games on the handheld with the controller using a USB cable to connect them

PSP®(PlayStation®Portable) (PSP-3000) Product Overview

Product Name	PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)
External dimensions	Approx. 169.4 x 18.6 71.4 mm / 6¾ x ¾ x 2¾ in (width x height x depth) (excludes largest projection)
Weight	Approx. 189g / 6.7oz (including battery pack)
CPU	PSP CPU (System clock frequency 1-333MHz)
Main Memory	64MB
Display	4.3 inches (16:9) full-transparent type, TFT drive, 480x272 pixel, Approximately 16,770,000 colors displayed
Sound	Built-in stereo speakers
Main input/output	Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b) (Wi-Fi) High Speed USB (USB2.0) (mini-B) Memory Stick PRO Duo™ Analog Video Out Microphone
Main connectors	DC IN 5V connector DC OUT connector Video out/headset connector USB connector Memory Stick Duo™ slot
Key/Switches	Directional buttons (up/down/right/left), Analog stick Action buttons (triangle, circle, cross, square) START button, SELECT button, PS button POWER/HOLD switch, WLAN switch Display button, Sound button, Volume (+/-) buttons
Power sources	Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery pack AC adaptor USB power supply
Internal disc drive	Read-only UMD™ drive
Supported profile	PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) Game UMD™ Video
Access control	Region code, parental control
Wireless communications	Infrastructure mode Ad hoc mode (connects up to 16 consoles)
Supplied accessories	AC adaptor Battery pack (1200mAh)

Supported codec (in Memory Stick)

Video	Memory Stick Video Format: MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC LC) H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (AAC LC) MP4 File Format: MPEG-4 Simple Profile (AAC LC) H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile - CABAC only - (AAC LC) / Baseline profile (AAC LC) AVI Motion JPEG (Linear PCM or µ-Lau)
Music	Memory Stick Audio Format ATRAC3™ ATRAC3plus™ MP3 MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer3) MP4 (MPEG-4 AAC) WAVE (Linear PCM) WMA (Windows Media Audio 9 Standard Only)
Photo	JPEG TIFF BMP GIF PNG

PicNic In Haeundae! [Finally Summer is over]

2008-08-22T05:06:00.000-07:00

On last last last last( I forgot which weekend already) in Busan, I was the first one walking down to the subway station. After half and hour, I met up with other malaysians. I believe it would be the last time for us going to the beach in this summer.

So we made our way to Haeundae Beach - by car of course. They brought some snacks and drinks as well. Personally I bought 2 Kimbab for myself =P.

Wow!!
The moment we arrived to the Haeundae, wow, girls, were scanning for some seats and guys, scanning for something else.....!! I will never regret to come South korea, especially Busan!

Sheng Chao Farewell (Left on 8th July)

2008-07-12T23:14:00.000-07:00

~@Company Staff@~

Ship Networking Manager

Sheng Chao, first senior I knew in South Korea, thanks for him for helping me so much especially when I am in South Korea. He left on 8 of July. It was my turn to host a farewell dinner for him.

The day before, company stuff planned to have farewell dinner with him. We went to the most famous Sushi buffet nearby the Haeundae Seaside. Yes! got free food eat again, hehe! The environment of the restaurant is good, comfortable, and high class as well(I like the ice-cream).

If I am not mistaken, the sushi buffet cost 30usd per seat.

All Malaysian, fighting!

Together with 5 new comers from Malaysia, our gang was celebrating Teressa birthday in "Spice" Chicken restaurant.
We went to "Makoli", a kind of alcohol drink in South Korea for second round.

Next, I am going to introduce another korean famous food which is known as "cho bal". I do not know how to describe in words, just hope those photos make you understand more. It tastes like "wasabi meat".

Soju, 1 shot!

"Cho bal"

Yoyo,梁赫群吗？No, he is my roomate

I really wanted to make the evening more than just good food. Lastly, I wish Sheng Chao all the best in Europe.

Olympic torch relay in Seoul ends

2008-04-28T05:44:00.000-07:00

Handsome Police!

Yesterday 27 April 2008, Gamy and I joined the celebration of The Olympic torch relay which successfully reached in the capital of South Korea, Seoul. For the whole journey, there are seventy plus runners, including Lee Sei-Kee, chief of the China-South Korea Friendship Association, Heo Nam-Soo, mayor of Busan City, actresses Chang Nara, Kim Mi-Jung, movie director Kim Jong-Seok, and Olympic gold medalists Moon Dae-Sung, Ahn Hyun-Soo, Nam Eun Young and Kim Soo-Nyung, participated in the 22-kilometer relay that covered Seoul’s most famous landmarks and historical sites.

Wow! 22-Km!!! We decided to take subway to reach the final destination. We gave up! Hahaha! After a four-hour relay, last runner Yon Tae-Woong lit the cauldron amid a cheering crowd of thousands waving Chinese and South Korean national flags at the City Hall Plaza (Final destination).
Unfortunately, Chinese students clashed with anti-Beijing demonstrators at the Olympic torch relay in Seoul, throwing rocks and punches at the latest troubled stop on the flame’s round-the-world journey. 8,000 of polices guarded the torch from protesters blasting China’s treatment of North Korean refugees. Nonetheless, a North Korean defector tried to set him on fire to halt the relay.
After Seoul, the torch was scheduled to make its first-ever trip to North Korea for a relay on Monday.

Stay out from me!! I am hungry!!~

Who are you?!

Reunion Dinner and Chinese New Year 2008 @ Busan, South Korea

2008-02-11T05:48:00.000-08:00

Reunion dinner is an important part of Chinese New Year – that’s what I was taught and grew up with. Important mainly because it is a time when all family members gather at the dinner table to have a meal together. It is a pity that I can’t be with my families at this time of the year. I am sure the boys will enjoy the festive mood and goodies. Anyhow, Malaysians here decided to carry on the tradition and have our little reunion dinner with friends here in Busan, South Korea.
We had steamboat at home. We invited Kathrin and Stephanie (they are from Germany) to join us for the dinner as well. All of us absolutely love the food and the cooking part. We had so much food and laughter.

Here is the compilation of our reunion dinner’s food! Wow, we had prepared a lot of food. As predicted, we could not manage to finish them. Never mind then, all the shops here was closed for 3-4 days, after New Year celebration still can eat right?Hoh? Buffet and steamboat were held at our own dormitory kitchen. Starting from 3pm, we were divided into 2 groups, 1 group (hunting food in Tesco team) and 1 group (frying team). I am in Frying team.

The most challenging part..

Food (from left clockwise):-carrot + cucumber+eggs, TomYam soup, Raw Chicken meat, Pizgulasch(1 kind of german food, mandul (big wantan), Tong Fen , Mee Hun, Ham, fishball + mushroom, ..haha..missed out the Pineapple fried prawn, fried cracker, hotdogs and niao gao (年糕）?! haha..Yummy yummy!!

yup!! as promised, this is one of the 1st thing that most of us put into our mouth during that dinner..haha..!!

Steamboat in the kitchen. The breeze of wind will blow away our sweat

Here is Korean 'Nian Gao' (年糕）cost around 22USD

Wish you all to have a very best mouse year ever!! Fighting hard and achieve whatever you want!! HapPy cHineSe New yEar' 08!! Rou Su (Mouse pronounced in cantonese!) for GOOD!! (slogan from radio988..Love it!!)

Christmas Tree Festival 2007-2008

2008-01-13T01:12:00.000-08:00

Initially, that saturday was a boring day for me.Things had improved by the evening, and we headed off in the direction of the Christian Kosin University, which was having a Christmas Tree Festival on their campus. when we reached the bus stop where we needed to continue our journey from, the buses were also crammed - imagine a vehicle which has already been reduced to standing room only - with no standing room - and another twenty people getting onto it regardless in apparent defiance of the laws of physics, and that's what you're up against. .
I'm not sure we fared much better. The roads up to Kosin University - which appears to be on top of a mountain. At the University, the lights are spread out over a large area and while some pieces were overtly religious some were not, and one advantage of its mountainous position were backdrops of Busan and ships docked far below in uncertain locations.
In addition to the tree lights, four large screens featuring festive scenes which the public could see themselves in via a camera proved quite a hit, and there were a couple of multimedia displays powered by PCs linked to old CRT monitors placed among some rocks - complete with unprotected extension sockets heading off in some uncertain direction. It had better not rain I thought to myself.
As part of the Christmas Tree Festival, which appears to last from December 6th to January 13th, there are regular events in one of the halls of the campus which differ from day to day.

1 January 2008

2008-01-05T06:44:00.000-08:00

Goodbye my friend, Nam, we will miss you!! GoOd Luck in your future!

Raw one ee!!

Steamboat!!

First photo with Chee Min in 2008!!!

Beomeosa mountain!!

Ice Skating in Busan, South Korea ooooooooooooooo!

2007-12-30T05:32:00.000-08:00

Went skating this afternoon at the public session up at Deok Cheon, Busan.(I love skating). It costs around 6usd person for 3 hours. In fact, nothing really much to tell - it was quite busy skating day, but this did not bother me now as much as it used to, as I don't worry so much about falling over! I practiced lots of stops( really getting the hang of it now, by the way, I lost my skills!!), two foot turn and getting up speed on forward stroking. I discovered that I actually can skate!!! I was skating sort-of fast. Losta fun.

I saw a demonstration from "ah pek". You know what, we shall wait to see how easy he was in the middle of the ice. It feel like being comfortable on one blade and lifting up your feet (and out of the way) should be the two most important things, but I only tried it a couple of times.(Ah pek, watch out!).
Surprisingly, We had a chat with a group of graduated student from Dong-eui University. We took a group shot(and contact too!!hiak). Frankly say, I just want to send them the photos only. No other intention o.

Nice to meet you all, cheers!~

Below are some short clips. I actually don't feel like betraying my friends. But clip was classic( Sorry, I was laughing while recording the clip.)

Classic ler, hahahahha!

Anyway, I wish everyone happy new year 2008!!!!...Take care, saranghaeyo!

too fast ? Cannot see clearly ler...haha^^

男追女的秘决！

2007-12-12T19:08:00.000-08:00

嘻嘻，又是时候来一编厉害的男女文章咯。（你们看过就算啦。）

如果我是女生，看到有的男生想追自己喜欢的女孩子又不敢追，还想人家倒追她，我很反感。从一个女生的角度，女孩子大多不会主动出击，去追求自己喜欢的男孩，除了确实太喜欢了或者是那种比较有个性的勇敢的女孩子。所以，如果你很喜欢一个女孩子，并且认为她对你也有点意思，那就主动点，别跟她搞拉锯战，自己难受，说不定你喜欢的人也痛苦。

任何一个女孩子在被人追的时候，心理都是很复杂的。她也许很开心，但是又带着点惶恐，她对这个闯进自己平静的生活的男孩子，有着欲拒还迎的矛盾心理，她不是故意的。不要以为她在考验你，她其实也在和自己斗争，她怕受到伤害。不要怕你的主动会带来她的反感，你不主动，她也不主动，也就慢慢淡下来了。如果你开始的表白被她拒绝，那也很正常呀。不要气馁，谁知道这个女孩子心里在想什么呢？也许你再表白两次，她就会被你打动，一个心地善良的好女孩是很容易感动的。如果你受到一次挫折，就立刻离开，再也不去答理这个女孩，把自己紧紧地保护起来，默默地舔舐伤口，在你痛苦的同时，那个女孩子也许也正在心里遗憾、后悔呢！也许她会偷偷哭泣，后悔拒绝了你，再看到你漠然的眼神，她也很痛心，但是她却不会对你说，绝对不会请求你回来追她。你的过度的自尊心，可能会伤害了女孩子敏感的心。她会认为你不是真诚的喜欢他，要不怎么会就这么放弃了她？

有人说，男生真难，追女孩子太不容易了。可是我的感觉却是，这种现象跟男人和女人的社会角色定位是分不开的，从生理和社会的角度，女人总是被动的。如果反过来,让男人都脉脉含羞，女人变得勇往直前，世界才乱呢！女人的羞涩总是美好的、动人的呀~我总是听说是某个勇敢的男人战胜了多少困难，最终获得佳人芳心。相反的例子却很少。有的男生，就怕别人说自己什么死缠烂打，落下不好的名声。可是我觉得男生追求自己喜欢的女孩子，受了点挫折还继续对这个女孩子好，说明人家确实很喜欢，很有诚意，如果没成功，也不遗憾，并没什么啊？谁让人家喜欢了？最讨厌别人跟着瞎掺乎，也最讨厌那种自己没主意，过于在乎别人对自己看法的男生，活该这种男生找不到女朋友。
是男人就勇敢点，女孩子本来就感性，容易沉浸在爱情里。虽然你付出了辛苦，而一旦你的真心打动了她，那么你得到的将是更多更久的加倍的爱。这样的例子，在身边比比皆是。女孩子对自己的男朋友都是很温柔很贴心的，为了换来这份甜蜜，开头的辛苦算什么啊？而且大多好女孩都爱得挺投入挺专一的。

想一想，一般人都不会一眼就看上你，但也不会看一眼就讨厌你，都是老百姓家的孩子（除非你长得象周润发刘德华或者凯文科斯特纳），好感是需要随着了解的不断增加而实现的，所以问题的关键是你要得的进一步发展的机会。站在女孩子的角度替人家想一想：你这么直接了当的冲过来要搞对象，女孩子肯定有心理压力。这要是接触一阵后发现不喜欢你，那不就成了耍你了么？所以如果你开始就摆出志在必得的姿势出来，基本上会被立刻闷回去。首先要把关系定位成“朋友”，本来是“普通朋友”，你希望成为“好朋友”，有品位的还可以要求对方成为“红颜知己”什么的，总之千万不要说“追你”。你想想，你如果根本不提“追”，那么女孩子也就更没机会“拒绝”你——你没追她怎么拒绝你？！这样可以减轻女孩子的心理压力，使你们能顺利的交往下去。不要幻想认识三天就答应嫁给你，要充分的交往、了解，感情不是凭空产生的。要有张有弛，不要整天缠着人家，谁这样对你，你也会腻。

我有个好朋友对我说，追女孩子的关键是八个字—— “忽冷忽热、欲擒故纵”（这是我同学多少年心血的结晶）。你整天缠着人家自然不觉得你好，你适当的冷个一两天，女孩子就会想起你在的好处了。还有就是不要拿出“非你不娶”的志气来，太掉价了不好，有时候可以耍点花招。前面说了，不要使事情立刻变成“你在追别人”，而你又需要得到接近女孩子的机会，这时就要看你的创造力了。你可以搜集情报，想办法把守株待兔变成一场邂逅；也可以装做漫不经心的找出最最充足的理由邀请对方和你一起做什么事。总之这个是最有技术含量的地方，实在不行可以找前辈请教。有些人追女孩子心切，喜欢经常买东西送人家，殊不知追女孩子最忌讳这个。俗话说“无功不受禄”，你这样送人家东西就是在施加压力，人家会觉得欠你的，所以会想办法还给你，如果没办法还给你就会想办法不和你交往，免得总是欠你人情。如果你想显示自己的诚意，倒不妨请女孩子一起消费，比如说找好的餐厅吃饭，或者找贵的地方一起玩什么的，女孩子自然能看出你花了很多钱，但钱终究是两个人一起花了而不是变成东西带回家。

1、我认为最关键的，是要让女生看到你的上进心。
男人的最大魅力在于事业有成，年轻人工作时间不长谈不上“有成”，这时候你就要让女生觉得你是个有上进心的人。别的可以胡说八道，但这个问题不能含糊。
2、要显得有信心、有责任心
不要像个小孩子，女孩子都很懒希望能找个依靠，你要拿出自己的信心和责任心来。有一个错的选择总比没有选择要好的多。
3、不要太正经，但也不要太随便
该正经的地方就正经，该调侃的的时候就调侃。女孩子都喜欢有点玩世不恭的男人，所以别显得对什么都特别在意，那样太呆板。
4、显得成熟一点
遇事镇定、从容不迫的男人对女生有致命的吸引力。

Busan City Tour 2007 and Working place

2007-11-11T01:12:00.000-08:00

Last weekend, Busan Metropolitan City Government offered all the international students in Busan an opportunity to get to know better about Busan through a City Tour. We travelled several sightseeing places in Busan. The most important thing is the whole tour was free of charge!!!!

Terresa, pok mong ah?

Beomeosa temple was our first stop for this tour, one of the largest and well-known temples in Busan. It was fairly easy to get to from the subway, but it still situated deep in the forest. Never mind, we were not going by subway. Hiak!

Hie!

A lot of other people were there that day. Koreans like to buy all sorts of specialized hiking gear for their regular walks in the mountains. A short walk later from the main entrance and we arrived at the temple complex surrounded by forest covered hills. The architecture in temples around Korea has many similarities, but each complex has a slightly different if you look closely.
There is a main temple that is a little bigger and more decorated than others. Smaller temples surround it and each has its own theme. Lots of young couples come to places like these when they are about to get married. The atmosphere in these places is very tranquil, and even though there are sounds from outside it tends to somehow dampen when you are inside. (May be because the temples located in deep forest).
Winter is coming and it’s getting cold these days. This year they are expecting snow down here. The trees have nice colours on them too, from deep reds to bright yellows.
Aiks, guys I am not going to talk more today. I got some work to do now. So I will let some photos to talk. At the end of this post, I attached a nice MV for you. Enjoy!

So messy working desk. Hehe.

Working place.

A place where i always make coffee

To all guys, appreciate your beloved. Enjoy the MV.

Global Positioning System in Korea

2007-11-06T03:24:00.001-08:00

Yup, today I am going to introduce a very advance system which I discovered here, as known as GPS (Global positioning system) navigation system. frankly, I am quite impressed with this technology as well. Therefore, this post would be a “tech” post. Don’t worry; I am just making a quick and simple introduction for this system [for those interested]. Hiak!

taken in collegue's car[On the left of the gps navigation monitor is just a PSP]

The main purpose of navigation system is to guide driver to their chosen destination. Feature such as Point to Interest (POI), traffic avoidance etc also included in this SUPER system. You may enter destination information [like how you type “thing” search in google], it searches for the destination location via any line of address together with estimated time to reach. Those controls should be tailored for use whist driving. Complete touch screen operation is ideal for reducing attention taken from the road.

The GPS navigation systems also provide voice guidance features which increase yours confidence in the product and help keep eyes on the road. You should be possible to follow the route by using just the voice instruction. In addition, you should be able to take a diversion without having to manually update information. That means, the device would adapt to the new route and would not resort to instructing the user to turn around.

Closer view. [The "arrow" representing your vehicle]

This GPS navigation monitor also supports plug into car audio system for playing cd/dvd/mp3 which means the one sitting next to you can watch movies and play games.

3rd Busan Firework Festival 20 Oct 2007

2007-10-21T06:36:00.000-07:00

Hoho, this post is going to be a long post, because I am going to put a lot of firework photos and talk about fireworks in Gwangan Bridge. Hiak!!Firstly, the "3rd Busan Fireworks Festival", the world's top high-tech multimedia fireworks festival, will be held for two days from October 19 to 20 against the backdrop of Gwangalli Beach and Gwangan Bridge.

That day was just too cold!!!

While Busan may be Korea's second city, there's a feeling that it's got some way to go as far as the development of cultural events are concerned, as the Fireworks Festval seems to be one of the relatively few events of note in the annual city calendar. This of course meant that the desire of local people to attend was particularly high, making the two subway trains we took more like cattle trucks. Clearly the subway authorities had become concerned enough by the number of people to annouce that changing train in Seomyeon,petaling street in Korea (most happening area) would not be possible.

The initial impression of chaos was not to last though. A huge number of police at Gwangalli Beach ensured good crowded control and everyone who arrived early enough was able to take a seat on the beach with relative ease - though we had to wait two hours for the firework to begin. The fireworks started from 8pm to 8.45pm.

Gwangan Bridge - which arcs across the bay in an improbably fashion to apparently link points A and B on the mainland in the longest way possible (It's currently Korea's longest bridge) - was lit up spectacularly, although most of the fireworks were launched from the shore rather than the bridge itself. We'd been promised a multi-media fireworks display, though predictably this translated into meaning fireworks accompanied by loud music. It sort of worked though. If we are going next year, I think we'll take cushions for the beach though; 2 hours sat on sand and pebbles with nothing more than a thin ground-mat for protection is not to be recommended. (There were a lot of hawker selling plastic made cushions cost around 3-4 USD).

Counting Down show

Despite the heavy police numbers the post-festival experience was worrying. We were staying with friends at a Gwangalli Beach but when we left Gwangalli Beach to walk towards to Suyeong, we found ourselves pushing against a flood of humanity surging in the opposite direction. The small group of us intent on going to other way eventually succeeded.

I read that 600,000 people watched the festival last year, and the city authorities expected over one million this year, but our Korean companions told us that this year actually seemed quieter, in which case I can only imagine the horrors of the previous event. it certainly felt like we fought our way through tens of thousands of people walking towards Gwanglli Beach, and the crowded did not really tail off until we were almost at our destination - approximately 45 mins walk.

No longer 23

2007-10-21T05:58:00.000-07:00

On 20 October 2007 (Friday), it was my birthday celebration together with another Malaysian Trainee (Deyan) in girls old dormitory. Thanks to all the wonderful angelic friends (All Germans and Malaysians) that actually care and take the initiative to celebrate this wonderful day with me. It is just so meaningful. I am really thankful even though I did not know how to express it in words. If you all are reading this-------------------------------> Thank you, danke !

Thank you all my friends.

Suhan, Deyan, Chau Lun, Skaine, William, Byran and Keat

As usual, a group shot

Romantic Love Story (Episode 1-3)

2007-10-19T09:36:00.001-07:00

Well, I'll introduce you a short Korean Love Story MV. Guys, drop your work, just spend a few minutes to watch this MV. Hope you like and enjoy it.

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

Episode 3:

p/s: Frankly say I love the song very much. HIak!

Taejongdae [visited on 03.10.2007]

2007-10-04T05:48:00.000-07:00

Jump?

At the invite of Sheng Kiat, we went to Taejongdae during this public holiday [03.10.2007], which is a park by the sea.

I saw 1 of the sign board is written like this:

"Taejongdae is a representative park of Busan, with fantastic rocky cliffs, quiet places in thick forests of various evergreen and deciduous trees, and variety of recreational facilities. It is famous for the fact that the Tshushima island of Japan can be seen from here."

The park itself is beautiful - despite the season which left a good number of the trees bare - but unfortunately we went Taejongdae at a peak time because we had to fight our way through crowds of locals with the same idea. The tourist buses, disturbingly brightly coloured were still running around the park, although why anyone would choose to take a very noisy bus rather than appreciating the quiet serenity of the park's grounds is beyond me.

On the way to the park, we wanted to check out something nearby that looked like a war memorial of some kind. Well, it is a memorial to 'medical assistance units' from the U.N who served in the Korea way. Italian, Indian, Danish and Swedish flags were on it as well as a couple of others I cannot recall.

Along the way, there are Buddhist Temples off the path in the forest. At the far side, where the lighthouse is, we made our way down the cliffs on increasingly perilous sets of steps. As we descended further the route lost any pretence of being a proper path and just became a narrow level bit of cliff with like a two-rope barrier to avoid you from falling off the edge.

On the way down, completely unexpectedly, the path briefly enclosed and within that space was a wall where visitors were encouraged to neatly leave their love message. Perhaps this was to discourage them from writing their messages all over the other rocks on the cliff, but if it was it failed miserably.

We hanged out there about 3-4 hours. Eventually we took "bus" to the entrance of the park. Along the way, proving that Koreans can sell anything, anywhere, vendors hawked refreshment in increasingly precarious locations.

My 1 day girl friend

ChuSeok

2007-09-27T20:02:00.000-07:00

Hello, it is time to update the blog again. This post i will be talking about how I spent my "moon cake festival" in this foreign country, Korea.

Before that, I must show you how's Korea moon cake looks like. For this, we bought it in LOTTE market. It cost around 12USD.

Chuseok, also sometimes spelt 'Chuseok', is a major holiday inKorea, celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar Korean Calendar. It is similar to our "Chinese New Year". That why I got 5 days holiday. In Korea, Chuseok is a time where families get together and remember their ancestors. For us foreigners at the dorm, we travel.

---------------------------------Nampodong--------------------------------------------------

On Monday(24/9/2007), we went to Yongdusan Park in the Nampodong area of Busan. In Korea, 'yongdu' means dragon's head and 'san' means mountain so it seems this is Dragon's Head Mountain Park. Apparently the mountain looks like a dragon's head from the sea. We quickly made our way to the collection of buildings which form the base for the park's tower to escape from the heat. Amongst the usual cafes and shops selling tourist trinkets, were an art gallery which perhaps was not too keen on photos being taken(shit, got scolded by old man in the art gallery corner).

---------------------------------Busan Tower------------------------------------------------

After that, we went to the Busan Tower, the highest storey in the city
Busan Bridge

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------------------------------Busan KTX Station-----------------------------------------

After that, we headed off to Busan KTX Station. Korea KTX train, perfectly exemplified my description of Korea as an average of Japan and China. The train in China had floors covered by regurgitated food, children sitting on overturned buckets, and shredded seats. They cost only a few dollar to go half way across the country.

On the other hand, Japan's bullet train cost upwards of $140, but are silent, spotlessly clean, and look like airplanes from the future. The seat rotate so that everyone always faces forward regardless of the direction train is going, and all staff is required to turn and bow to the passengers before entering or leaving the train car. (That's what Japanese told me)

Now, what i noticed is that, Korea KTX was not dirty but was not flawless, but did not hurt your ears when the brakes were applied, and cost a mere $40 from Busan to Seoul( cheaper when holiday). Just right in between Japan and China.

-------------------------------JagalChi Market----------------------------------------------

Jagalchi market was stinky, full of every type of sea creature and a lot of ajummas (old woman that selling these creature, all with curly hair and a visor cap), but it was interesting to walk through.

-------------------Geungjeong Mountain Fortress------------------------------------

--------------------------------Children's Park-----------------------------------------------

On Tuesday, we went to a Children's Park, a theme park meets botanical-garden type place. It was built a few decades ago but is still very popular. This park is enormous and you could spend hours just walking around in it. Along the way, you see little Korean kids laughing shouting, crying, pointing etc. In the center of the park is a large dam and corresponding lake. It's very relaxing place to be.

In the various wooded ares of the park, you can see many familiar picnicking. I'm assuming that's how you spell 'picnicking'. Since coming to Korea, I've noticed my English deteriorate significantly. Sometimes I'll write a word and think, hm.....that does not look right, only to find out later that it was the correct spelling.

And then, right at the back of the park tucked neatly into a mountain fold is an aging theme park. Entrance is free and most rides only cost a couple of dollars. So we had a ride on the roller coaster, which was largely constructed from old wood and the major safety feature was 'holding on tight'. It was scary for those two reasons alone.

--------------------------------Haeuadae Beach-------------------------------------------
I am lucky to live/work in Busan, South Korea. The beaches are fablous and so easy to get to using public transportation. We made our way to the Busan Aquarium just beside the beach. The entrance fee for international student is cost about 7USD dollar(Offer for international student) which original price is 14USD. My company is just facing the Haeundae Beach. (I am waiting next year summer).

Gwanggann Bridge

--------------------------------Yonggungsa Temple--------------------------------
Yonggung Temple means King's Dragon Palace. Its also a Buddhism sanctuary with a wonderful view of dark blue sea and breaking white splintering water.

人紅薪水暴漲

2007-09-16T00:35:00.000-07:00

蕭敬騰，（1987年3月30日-），台灣歌手，台北市人，母親是阿美族。唱腔多元，演唱曲風多樣化，外型斯文白淨卻歌聲渾厚，真假音轉換與自彈自唱的功力令人折服。欣賞Bon Jovi, 曹格, 張信哲和張惠妹等歌手。

爆紅經過

2007年5月11日因參加中視之歌唱選秀節目《超級星光大道》而首次登上電視螢幕，其參賽歌曲為曹格的《世界唯一的妳》，因其爆發力十足的唱功和渾厚的嗓音立即受到廣大觀眾的矚目；同年5月18日，更以曹格的《背叛》一曲，擊敗該節目人氣王楊宗緯，而有史上最強的PK挑戰者，黒蜘蛛軍團團長的封號。

蕭敬騰總共只出現在《超級星光大道》節目三次，而這僅僅三次的曝光率，卻吸引了眾多歌迷為其創立了雅虎奇摩之〈唯i蕭敬騰家族〉，其家族人數在短短的一個多星期,即突破一萬人，這是非常少見的事情，而其在無名小站上成立之部落格的點閱率亦居高不下，在創立之初的半個月內，即有超過四十萬人次的點閱，之後的一個月內，更可以看到為其所創立的後援會紛紛建立。此等現象，乃由一位尚未簽約發片成為出道的藝人身上所產生，故引起了民眾的廣泛討論及臺灣中天電視、TVBS電視、東森電視......等等之各有線、無線電視臺爭相採訪，依各電視台記者表示，只要播報到蕭敬騰的片段，其收視率即會成為同性質、同時段的第一名。台灣信樂團亦曾有意邀他入主，成為該團主唱，但遭婉拒[2]。而他駐唱的餐廳及PUB，在其演唱時段場場爆滿，一位難求。

萧敬腾-霍元甲

Tesco Homeplus

2007-09-15T18:26:00.000-07:00

Back in the Malaysia we had a weekly routine of going to the local Tesco for groceries, and when we found out one of our closest supermarkets here was Homeplus Tesco, it looked like little would change. But what actually happened was different; we ended up only going once a month at the most, buying what we needed on a day-to-day basis from local stores and street markets. Korea can be wonderfully convenient in that way. Recently we discovered a smaller sized supermarket nearby call Family-Mart and the last couple of times did our more substatial shopping there.

We headed off to find Tesco Home Plus yesterday in order to scout out some cheap food from what is our regular Malaysia supermarket. This involved my second bus journey since arriving in Korea. I was not entirely surprised when a bus with about twenty five seats filled up with around sixty people, most of whom were reduced to standing two abreast in the isle. Our driver had clearly missed his calling, because his style of driving was the binary full brake/full accelerator combination which I've come to associate with almost all taxi drivers here. At last, we came back from Tesco Home Plus by taxi, but frankly, it's hard to say which was the more frightening exprience.

Happy Feet

2007-09-15T18:25:00.001-07:00

In Chinese medicine, good health begins with your feet. In Korea, Western medicine is practiced alongside Chinese methods, so perhaps these slippers discovered in my company should come as no surprise.

Each raised rubberized along the inside corresponds to a particular area of body. The idea is that by walking around with these on side your apartment you are massaging your feet in all the right areas to improve your health. However, while they are very light, they are not very comfortable(I am not healthy?!). Much like acupuncture. I suppose you have to suffer for your health sotimes here.

Korea v2

2007-09-15T18:17:00.000-07:00

Today was the laziest day I have had in awhile. I slept till around 9.30am (Normally I wake up at 8am in Malaysia)

Beautiful Korea, Wonderful Immigration!?(Haha!)

Busan is the second largest city of South Korea. It also hosted the Asian Games in 2002. Busan is a city with many hills around. Roads are up and down and smaller than Seoul and Incheon roads. It is said that night life is best in Busan.

Busan

Autumn is announcing its arrival. It's been raining a lot since I reached here on thursday and temperature is running low. Even the rain drops here is different than in Malaysia. It's thin, tiny( I don't know if these are the correct description) and you can barely feel the drops. It's slightly cold for me, but the people, the weather is just nice.

Rice and noodles (along with Kimchee) are a central part of the diet here. But the fact is my quest for some nice food from home is eluding me. It's not to say there are not many fine local dishes-there are-but sometimes you just want a break from the new and opt instead for the comfort and familiarity of the old.

Because dark off-the-bone meat seems to be what Koreans prefer-at least as far as chicken is concerned- it's meant finding the kind of chicken I like has been almost impossible thus far. All the chicken meat is dark, one 'chicken'-topped pizza so much so that I actually doubted it was chicken at all. I could be the first time in known history that a person could look at a piece of unidentified meat and pronounce that in fact, it did not taste like chicken.

Learning English is quite popular in Korea, not least because some proficiency in the language is required to enter University, irrespective of the course of study.
I have been given quite a lot of work now(Start researching new microcontroller family). I have to start working. My Company is facing beach(Ohh no, bikini season was just over.)

For international student here, you must attend the korea language class once perweek.

My First Night in Korea

2007-09-15T17:57:00.000-07:00

I know, I said I would blog about all Korea lifestyle.

Yes, I have reached Busan, Korea and arrived in Dongseo University (Very tired) at 8am. After like 5 hours flight from Bangkok to Kimhae International Airport, I was a little tired due to the lack of activity in the plane. What's more, the plane was full of Korea and I was sitting with a Korea guy too. He was snoring !!(Wtf!)

How to describe that feeling? The feeling is a bit weird, knowing that people around you are talking a language you do not know, and everyone thought that you are a Korea too. Even the air stewardess thought I am a Korea and gave me an immigration card written in Hangul.

When I finally put down all my stuff in the dormitory, I set out to meet all Malaysian students. Two of them are graduating soon(我也太惨了吧，第一天就看人家毕业回国了！）.So, they had a photos session for whole morning in campus. I took the opportunity to have a look of the campus.

Friends, I am sooooo tired now. Before I go bed, I will just let the photos do the talking. Only add in some remarks whenever necessary.

P/S: 2000Won means 2USD

My Room:

Room toilet

Busan First Night View

Washing Machine ( 0.2USD satu kali)

A bit messy I know

My desk

Sharing kitchen

My first Korea Food Spaghetti (2000won = 2USD)

Finally, A group photos with all Malaysian.