to seoul!

going to seoul this friday and coming back on sunday, shold be very exciting! keep y'all updated off what i get up to.

ive finally downloaded continuum in its entirety, very good album. gravity is working against me.

i failed miserably at the automatic baseball machines where they throw balls at you and you try to hit them, but i redeemed myself by playing the "kick the ball as hard as you can" game by breaking the machine with my awesome kick. go me.

and happy birthday to YOU!

1k

i will apply for travel grant for second semester which shall add another 1k to my netsaver!

my whole body is sore and ive got bruises on my knee and wrist cause ive found a place to train finally.

im starting to hate the ppl in my dorm, someone keeps opening the staircase door which keeps being banged by the wind at night, i closed it twice last night but someone kept opening it. :@

its raining outside, i don't like the rain.

im settling in, adding people to friends list (in real life, not facebook).

need to go seoul, daejeon is pretty boring. i also want to go drinking and go karaoke.

i would have killed to be in somewhere like rye for this week, im sick of winter. i need sun, i need sand and i need to sit somewhere and do nothing but stare at some water for a week.

ok, got korean class in 2 hours, enough rambling. bye now

window side

there is just something about being window side in a foreign country that makes you want to ...

scholarship

i received a 5500 dollar scholarship today. go me

also i visited the hiphop dance club... no comment.

Day ?

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i was walking down the streets

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and i saw this huge crowd of girls

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gathered

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and i heard music

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so i walked up

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and there were dudes breaking

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so i broke in there

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and no one spoke engglish

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and then all the korean girls gasped

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coz i was from overseas

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and i wasnt ugly

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coz 90% of korean bboys are pretty ugly

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anyway

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so like 2 hours later

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im just walking down thee street

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and then a group of girls

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was wlaking past me

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and then they just suddenly sotpped

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and stared at me

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for a good 5 seconds

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before one of them was like

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beebui?

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me: ?

michelle ma belle (ap) says:

LOL

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haha

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them: beebui?

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me: OH BBOY! yes that was me

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and then they were all like: wooooowwww

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and then they all hi fived me

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and giggled

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and stared at me for another 10 seconds

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and then they said bye bye

Day 3.

well my day 3 in korea was no where near as filled as the other days.

first of all, friday night i went out with the europeans and man they are so full of energy. and plus they are white so they can do crazy shit and get away with it. eg dancing on the street and outside of a club, when they do that, koreans take photos with them. if i did that, i'd prob get arrested.

i took my saturday off, bummed around with mus, bought some more domestic stuff. also bought noodles and lunch boxes and what not coz we cant afford to eat out every night.

semester starts soon, gotta find out about my classes and what theyre all about.

i think from today i'm gonna stop posting every day...unless i get super bored of course, which is a high possibility.

peace

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)

hk day 3

yes i hav enothing better to do at night in hongkong than to sit in the lobby of my hotel and update my blog. i took like 300 photos today
, went to visit the big buddah on the top of the hill and also the worlds most happiest place on earth.

by now i have realised mongkok aint the best neighbourhood in town haha. nothing much to write about today, really tired. update with photos when i cbf.

hk day 2

reasons why i hate traveling with my parents

1. my mum likes to ask random people things regardless of their nature of work or who they are.
eg. my mum likes to go to a security guard/cleaner etc and ask them if they have any more sizes or if they can get her a coat from the back.

2. my dad is over enthusiastic about anything i tell him eg. i tell him i need to get a back pack and he points out every single store with any sort of bag for sale

3. my dad likes to point out random things
eg. we get on the subway and he goes: we're underground
thanks dad
eg. we go into nike and he goes: this is a nike store

4. my mum is like a small child, when she walks she doesnt pay attention to anything.
eg. mum walks in front, me and my dad stop to take photos, she keeps walking for aboout 300 meters before my dad calls out to her to tell her to come back.

5. my dad is a fool
eg. he is trying to boycott france by refusing to go into any shop that is french such as louis vuitton etc.

6. my dad is paranoid about everything, so before we left the apartment he locked my laptop and everything else in a bag with a lock on the zip. we head out and i got extremely tired and decided to go home early to chill out on the computer/take photos with the slr of surroundings later.

i get back to the hotel and i realise that my laptop is in the bag with the lock...
i was really desperate so i told hotel maintenance to cut the lock for me with bolt cutters.

i reckon my dad will be angry when he gets back, but i couldnt call him (no sim cards/phones here for us) and i literally had nothing else to do.

end of day2

(oh yea, picked up somethings today, retail therapy is making me feel better about this place)

hk day 1

i have succesfully landed in hong kong and landed in my hotel with my parents. i am living in kowloon.

first thing i did when i got here was check out the neighbourhood and because ive been hearing all these good things about this infamous "sneaker street" i was curious to go check it out and since i was living quite near it, it was a good opportunity.

my verdict of hk thus far is that it is as good as it is bad. doesnt make much sense.

the "sneaker street" area of kowloon is like a little cbd full of sneaker stores as far as the eye can see. unfortunately, the price is pretty much the same or even more expensive than melbourne and it is essentially 1000 stores with the same stock. every store has the same shit except a couple of stores had vans whilst most didnt.

here i am thinking that i was gonna cop a pair of cheap van eras for like 40 bucks to beat up whils t im in asia, but no, they cost like 80 aud here too =[

plane trip wasnt bad, i had john legend to put me in a trance like state for about 30 minutes and i also watched a bit of possibly the worst movie ever made in the history of man kind, its called:

kung fu hiphop


i watched the first 10 minutes, i really couldnt bare anymore. it had chicken from YnD as the main character and omg, i have lost so much respect for him. that movie really really really sucked.


anyway, hopefully my hongkong experience gets better starting tommorow. see y'all soon

holdin down the block

almost exactly one more week til i leave for hongkong/shanghai. just for those who were not familiar with my plans, they are:

(in chronological order)
hongkong for 4 days
shanghai for 1 month
melbourne for 1 week
korea for 1 semester
shanghai for 1 semester


but its funny that i've been looking forward to leaving all year, i have been imagining jamming with chinese and korean bboys and living by myself in shanghai whilst doing internship with volkswagen and also been looking forward to making some new friends in korea.

but its funny because on the eve of my departure, i don't seem like i want to leave anymore.

disturbia

so i was on my way to the city this afternoon in hopes of getting some dance on and well a very "interesting" individual got on, and by interesting i mean extremely drunk or high.

he looked a lot like this guy:



a few girls in some nice summer dresses came on (they were like 4-5 maybe 6/10 at best) and sat down behind me, and then that bald guy who i shall refer to now as drunko, got on.

the drunko sat down next to them and started putting his arm around them, shaking their hands and trying to chat them up in a sexually harassing way. so one dude on the side started saying "hey mate, don't do that" and a i think maybe french or arabic guy also told him to stop.

eventually the first dude got the drunko to calm down and sit down and chatted to him whilst the girls ran to other seats, but the french/arab (farab) guy kept telling him to get off the tram, eventually other people got on and the farab guy started explaining to everyone else who didnt see the initial incident why he was telling this drunko to get off and then eventually he started bragging about how he made him stop harrassing those girls. at which point the drunko's girlfriend got on and started lip wrestling with him, the drunko also lit one up to smoke. at which point i decided to move because i dont want to die of asthma.

anyway so from another seat, i saw the drunko get up and get this

he took his pants off and got out his genitals and tried to make his girlfriend give him oral sex...on the tram.



end of story.

foh sale

I had my last exam today and wrote about the impacts that developing countries have on developed countries, and also the challenges that face the communist party of china has a result of rapid economic development and rise in average income levels.

and now i have some stuffs to sell. dont hesitate to buy ;)
need (extra) funds for china just in case i get scammed and need money to save my life. that sorta thing.



White/White Dunks
Condition: 7/10
Size: US 11
Price: $70 (hold)


Lakers New Balance 585 High
Condition: 9/10
Size: US 10.5
Price: $90


Provider New Balance 1500
Condition: DS
Size: 10
Price: $550


Melbourne Dunk Low
Condition: DS
Size: 11
Price: $210


Black/White Dunk High
Condition: 9/10
Size: US 10
Price: $80 (hold)


Black/Orange Ice Cream Boardflips 1
Condition: DS
Size: 10.5
Price: $80