Last day in June. ( A month in Seoul)

Picture taken by Danny Kim
6.24.09 @ ShinChon London Pub - Transformers night

Time flies like an arrow!
It's been already a month since I came to Korea.
I think I got used to the Korean lifestyle very fast, thanks to my wonderful friends. While in America, I always had this unpleasant feelings towards going back to Korea. But I definitely broke that stereotype this summer. Which I am glad for. Hey, living in Seoul is not that bad! hehe

In the morning, I woke up and went to the gym. I've been diligent about going to the gym lately and hopefully by end of this summer I can see some results! ( I mean muscles! ) haha
I like how the trainer at the gym always greet me and asks me "운동은 할만해요? " which means "How's working out?"
I always reply by "yeah it's ok" in Korean. Hopefully by end of three months I can show him the results too!

But it's getting hot and humid lately and maybe I should start going to the gym earlier like 6AM... haha yeah right.

Today, I also got an email back from KAIST telling me that my orientation will be held on July 6th 5PM in Daejeon.
I'm excited to meet my professors and fellow classmates. Hopefully the weather is more cooperative since I have to take the bus down there and it will be approx. 2 hrs long from Seoul to Daejeon.
Unfortunately, it is the same weekend when Amy and the gangs are heading down to Pusan. I wanted to go to but I guess I'll be in Daejeon. But next time, I hope I can go somewhere outside of Seoul with my friends!

Tomorrow, I will go to Shinchon again to say farewell to Abzal. Although, I've only hanged out with him for past month, I think we became very close and I will definitely miss him for sure.

RIP Michael Jackson 1958-2009

This morning, in the KBS news they briefly reported
that Michael Jackson died today. When I first heard the news, I did not believe it. It was so unreal. SO I immediately went online to check LA Times and NY Times. There they have reported that Michael Jackson suffered a Heart Attack and was under a coma.
However, it wasn't long until all the sources confirmed that Michael Jackson is dead.
Although, I am not a huge fan of his behavior lately, Michael Jackson is indeed the King of Pop.

I hope his legend lives on through many years to come ahead!

Starting my own blog!

June 24, 2009

The night of

Transformers and truths.

in Shin Chon ( 신촌)

@ Osama Bar ( おさま）

photo by Danny Kim

It was around 12 PM, my friend Jack was online on facebook. He is an exchange student from China, who is finishing up his term in Sogang University and getting ready to head back to China. I told him we must hang out before he leaves Korea and we agreed to watch Transformers. Originally, we planned on watching it in Apgujeong (압구정) at 9:30PM and get drinks after the movie. However, the tickets got sold out and we have decided to watch it in Shinchon for the 1AM showtime.

So I went ahead and texted Jana and Abzal and asked them to join us. They told me they will join us at the movies because they are working on their essays. Along came

진화 and Mohammad. Around 9:30PM I took the bus to Jamsil (잠실) and then the metro to Shinchon to meet with the group.

Jack brought his friends one Mexican guy and two Japanese girls. We all headed to the Megabox to buy tickets. After securing the seats for the show, we had one hour to kill so headed down to the London Pub for a beer. London pub is popular amongst foreign exchange students. The atmosphere is a typical Western bar with foozeball and pool table.

Jack never played Foozeball before so we decided to play. I've teamed up with Akiko? (I think that was her name) and Jack with the other Japanese girl. For a first time player, Jack was really good at the game. Unfortunately my team lost :(

After watching the game, Mohammad jumped in and teamed up with me and challenged Jack's team. Then, the games turned around. Luckily for me, Mohammad was a start player. He shot goals after goals leading my team to victory! yes!!

After that, we had about 15 minutes to the show and headed back to Megabox.

It's been a while since I've watched a late night movie. However, tonight I was excited to watch Transformers 2: the Revenge of the Fallen. It is definitely entertaining to watch Hollywood Summer Blockbuster films. They know how to entertain their audience for sure. While, I enjoyed the action packed explosions and hot cars and transforming robots, I thought the movie was long. Poor Jack had fallen asleep and missed all the important parts!

3:30AM. After the movies, 10 of us split. Some of them went home to sleep while, me, Jack, Mohammad and 진화. Thanks for being a pal and staying up with me!

We all headed to Osama bar , funny name? It reminded of Osama bin Ladin but actually it is a Japanese name (おさま）meaning important person.

There we ordered more beer and soju and started to play drinking games such as

Baskin Robbins 31 and Spin the Bottle.

While playing Spin the Bottle, some questions became I should say.... sexual? ahahah

Most of us were drunk at that point and I had a great time getting to know each of them more personal should I say!

6AM - the sun was up, we parted our ways. Me to the Line #2 metro and the others to their dorms and apartments in Shinchon.

I have to say, it's been almost a month in Seoul now, and so far I'm loving it. I've met so many great friends and I finally feel like I am home in my own country! Let the great summer continue~