day 2.

i ended up getting that medical exam, man do i hate blood tests.

i have made some new friends, lucas (brazillian), laura (finnish), mus, sarah, mimi who are all french.

i have learnt how to say "i am tasty, i am crazy, i am crazy for you, i am tasty tonight, i am crazy tonight, i am crazy for you tonight, i am vulgar, i am vulgar for you tonight etc" in french, and i have also learnt how to say "i love pears" in finnish. i have a feeling im gonna know more useless french than i am korean this semester. 

today has been a huge day, from med exam in the morning,  to finding a place to eat, to buying groceries and what not and to opening a bank account. i have lost my passport photos so i gotta take some another day.

i really need this weekend to get some cleaning done. sooooo tired.

keep y'all updated.

day 1.5

so i am near the end of my first day in korea.

so far it has been disappointing and facinating at the same time.

its great to be able to experience the campus uni life that you see in the movies, its disappointing its not a 24 hour party like it is depicted in american movies.

i cant speak a single word of korean and everyone in my dorm seem to be local students. i dont have a dorm buddy so i have not spoken to anyone really.

i am asian so ppl assume im korean and speak korean to me and i have to say i dont speak korean in english.

my dorm is so bloody dusty and dirty, i really need to go and buy a vacum to clean this shit up. the broom just lifts all the dust into the air.

i have to walk about 50-100 meters to go to the toilets, not good coz i go like 2 -3 times a night.

my room is heated quite well, and by quite well i mean i have to walk around naked (not really) and i dont know how to turn it down.

my guide says i have to do a medical examination tommorow, but so far no scheduling according to my guide as been correct so maybe i will just pass on it.

hope korea gets better realllllll soon.

peace

Day 1.

So let me just start by saying i aboslutely hate china eastern airlines, partly coz the planes are so crap and partly coz it was delayed by 1.5 hours.

i got to shanghai 1.5 hours later than i should have and i checked into some really crappy hotel.
the bed was rock solid like all other beds in shanghai and the shower has no pressure so i cant take a shower. 3 star my arse.

in about 3 hours i will be on my flight to incheon airport, seoul and in another 2 hours i'll be at my university in daejeon. i dont know how its gonna go, i dont speak a single word of korean, actually i know how to say hello and sleep with me. but i dont think thats gonna do much in getting me to the university. great.

i forgot to buy a lan cable so im gonna steal this one at the hotel so i can use at the uni. keep y'all updated.

(ps: i miss you all, especially YOU, you know who you are)

peace

CNY

happy lunar new year everyone.

for those who dont know, i shall be departing for the republic of korea on wednesday. i will be there for about 4 months and then finally to shanghai again for my internship which will carry on til the end of the year.

anyway, i felt alittle inspiration last night and i decided to do some simple photoshopping to some photos i took at charley's. its amazing what simple tweaks and not so simple tweaks could do to photos.

these two are my favourites:




the rest is on my facebook, but these ones are prob the best ones.

now to learn how to take photos like that without photoshop

the dream

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." - MLK '63

"although it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to have a black president" Tupac Shakur '95


history will decide.

burncity

ive taken some time to enjoy the little things of melbourne that i wont be able to enjoy whilst im in shanghai/ maybe korea:

watching alpha male seagulls fight off other seagulls for my attention

sitting on the grass (all greenery in shanghai is pretty much sealed off)

seeing nimbus clouds and a clear blue sky

enjoying golden sands with blue water

enjoy being able to walk around without people bumping into you everywhere

enjoy the fresh air

being able to drink water out of the tap

the high water pressure.

but there are things that i have gotten used to in asia:

public transport actually running on time (and trains coming every 5 minutes)

taxis being really cheap

food being really cheap (in shanghai, not hk)

being able to buy whatever i need

never being more than 5 minutes away from a metro station

completeness

i have nothing to say, i just wanted to see how it felt to update my blog outside of a nice cafe with a cup of warm coffee.

shai city.

today has been an extremely boring day.

well for everyone who hasnt spoken to me and is dying to read a blog (cissy) haha, i shall update.

i arrived in shanghai on the 23rd of december and its all been a big blur since then.

in short, i've had excessive amounts of beer almost every single night ive been here. and i have pretty much been moving from place to place every night, rarely do i sleep on the same bed two nights in a row.

nye didnt exactly go to plan (sorry ed and charley) but it was still ok. i spent it with jazel, her friend thu, tai gorilla and lucy. thankyou jazel for those shots haha.

i've met the bboys here too and ive been dancing a couple of times already with edward and once with charley.

but really, theres not much to say, its cold as hell here and dark as well...hell too. assuming hell is dark and...cold.

anyway i will be back in melbourne on the 13th of jan, i look forward to seeing everyone who is ever so eagerly waiting for the return of the king. (gone again by the 31st latest)