로마에 가면 로마법에 따라라!

Perplexed by the title? It simply means, when you are in Rome, do as the Romans do! We had a wonderful weekend again in Daejoen (haven't been out from Daejeon for period of time). Out of a sudden wimp, we decided to take a night stroll over the central area of Daejeon at the friday night with BIkEs!

Central area of Daejeon

Designated area for bicycles

We rode to the so called McD bridge and have photoshooting session there before we head to Emart for night shopping! For you information, there is a nicely designated area for bicycle on the road sides and it is so bicycle-friendly in KOREA. We rode in a almost zero degree wether and yet feel heart-wamrming at the camaraderie we shared.

Korean super!

:) You won't believe this, we went to an arcade in Gungdong area where university students gathered around till 7am in the morning! We had lots of fun at playing drums, basketball, doll catching machine and time crisis 4! wow long saved money gone in one crazy night :) Before we back to dorm for belated sleep, we witnessed the first sunrise we have in KOREA, a good start for the day and for our sleep.

A dawn snapshot outside KAIST

Sunrise for hopes

Week 8!

Wow time flies and its week 8, which means our exam week starts soon! I have been a little bit busy these past few weeks, especially with assignment and project due. Lets have some intro about what module am I doing in KAIST so far:

CBE311 Chemical Molecular Engineering - An essential chemical engineering basic module! I am really aiming to score this super-hard core module. Could I?

HSS148 Intoduction to Sociology - Personally I love this module and I think will score this module and outbeat the Koreans?? (P/s: Koreans are hardworking and they could stay up whole day for studying, just like the Chinese)

CBE342 Chemical and Biological Product Design - Basically this module is a slack module without much homework and exams, but we have to come out with a product design idea and propose it in a professional way. We came out with a idea colour changing bottle cap but I am abit frustrated that one of my teammate is freeriding on our group, I am freerided while I am an exchange student!

CBE260 Biomolecular Engineering - Another bio module I have taken so far. I have to admit my weakness in bio-related modules.

MSB238 Organizational Behaviour - This module is really epic. Our professor is from Chungnam University and he is always crap based on the notes (the notes are not done by him some more!). Well, I would say this is one of the slackiest module as the prof is kind of easy-going person, with easily set exam questions and crappy lectures! Here are a few spots I like to hang out in KAIST, either studying or relaxing:)

Coffee BEAN at the International Lounge

Book Cafe at the KAIST library

P/s: some funny notes from our friend about Do's and Dont's in KOREA, http://www.facebook.com/#!/note.php?note_id=10150113071103807

Here is some extract,

...2.4) Try the street foods. Street foods are the best. And do eat with your hands haha.

2.5) Must try soju. Though, a lot of girls I met prefer Makkeolli. It is up to the person.

2.6) Try live octopus/squid. Live means live, they should be moving when you eat them.

2.7) Koreans (those in KAIST) don't really exercise... By that I mean I see more joggers/swimmers/gym-ers/etc. in every other country I have been to than in KAIST... and I have been to quite a few countries. I don't know how they stay so skinny. Maybe it has something to do with why I am permanently hungry.

2.8) Travel cheaply by staying in jimjilbangs (saunas) instead of hostels/hotels. You won't sleep very well, but you get to save a ton lot of money and see local culture.

2.9) Don't look like an alien (though you really are one by definitions of the Korean Immigrations Bureau) and talk loudly on the streets. Humph! Who's that loud and uncultured young man/woman! ...

Meeting IU ♥ Daegu

I realized that I have given up my blog as time passes! For the whole last week, we had outings here and there and we went to alot of nice shops, cafes and restaurant! Is a bit troublesome to list down everything here, lets my pictures tell you some insights about it haha.

This cafe is just located outside the west gate and it is delicately designed. Their stock-in-trade, which is the HaagenDazs Waffle was utterly deliciousness!! Well, the main focus of my blog today is not about the HaagenDazs, although it is very tempting, but the White Day 3 Colors CONCERT with IU!

The concert was 3 hours long held in EXCO, Daegu, and consists of 3 parts! First, December brought us ballads, Lessang heat up the atmostphere with raps and hiphops, and finally IU just perfectly set in with her glamourous songs!

One thing to note that, Korean concert really different from what we have and see in our places. Here, the stage is designed really freakingly near to the audience, u can see from my photo and video that I really could go near the stage and shake hand with them. Second, the security guy will ask and please you for stop talking video but not pushing u or just grab your camera, instead they shine ur camera with torch light and ask politely 'Please stop that' LOL!


Final pic of the day, IU :)

Hello Jeonju!

I was too lazy to update my blog, so sorry to my avid reader, perhaps no one lol. Zzz Is 2am in the morning of thursday, which I have 8 hours lecture non-stop! Let me give u a brief summary of what we did in Jeonju.

Jeonju is a small town located south of Daejeon, it is famous of Bibimbap and TAEYEON! We have arrived Jeonju in the morning and we decided to talk a stroll in the Hanok Village. Nice place to sightsee, we walked around those traditional korean houses and witnessed a wedding ceremony there! The couple is tall, just like models. As a good start of the day, we had the famous Bibimbap (korean mixed rice) somewhere near the village. It just costs us 10,000 won per pax, and the taste really worth the price.

We walked around Jeonju for the afternoon, the streets are rather old and small compared to our lovely Daejeon and all the streets of attraction are just side by side. We walked through the chinatown, 'Street that you desired to walk', wedding street and jewelry street. Time passed so fast and we had to settle down for our night, after a korean style japanese dinner and wonderful entertainment of pool (it costs 1,300 won per 10 minutes), we spent our night in jimjjilbang again. But this time round there was something different, by paying a cheap fee of 7,500 won, we got to enjoy the sleep with mattress, blanket and pillow! what a great deal in Jeonju. Of course, we had our family night chit-chat before sleep.

FINALLY the next day came, we took a taxi and arrived at Eyebis spectacle shop, a special shop onwed by Taeyeon's father! There is a Taeyeon Shrine inside the shop, it is a must-visit place for all the Taengoo's fans. We had our sweet time there, with tons of picture taken of course. The shopkeeper gave us SNSD poster as gift (I requested, all credit to me yeah!) summore! Unfortunately, we didn't able to meet Taeyeon's parents as they went to Seoul for meetings with SM.

We went to ice-skating before our time back to Daejeon. Here's the last pic of that day:) Good night zZz