The Wayward Cloud

Hola people! I'm in the mood for blogging again after gathering a small number of photographs. Nothing mind-blowing like my previous few adventures but I'll feature my room, my campus compound and some things I did ya?

*33 Pictures*

Day 5

This is the living room of my guesthouse for the first 5 days in korea. A guest house is like a cheap motel but in a small cosy house. I booked a single room to live in because of privacy but most people living in double rooms or 6 bed dormitories. The guys and girls share the same room. Wireless internet, cable TV and washing machine is provided.


This is the kitchen with its very humble bread toaster, which I used everyday to toast my morning breakfast. Ahh...those were the days.


And this was the room I stayed in, notice there are 2 beds but only 1 person (me) living in it. They couldn't give me a single room so they gave me a room with 2 beds instead.


This is my new room! As of now I've slept 2 nights on this bed. Its as stiff as a slab of stone but the blankets are comforting and can last me throughout the night. When I go back to singapore, I am gonna buy some winter blankets. This stuff is fantastic, its like wrapping yourselve up in heated sheets.


My window view, a decent forest with plenty of trees. I expect them to change colour during autumn and subsequently during winter. It is gonna be a pretty sight for ME. MWAHAHHA.



The laundry room with washing machines and dryers. Cost nothing to use them so I am bringing one set of clothings down to wash and dry everyday. Waste of electricity? Korea doesn't mind...it literally farts natural resources at will.


Li pan reading the newspaper at The Kitchen, the cafeteria for our dorm. Its like the Quad, more expensive just for the ambience.


A simple egg and bacon sandwich breakfast costing 4500won. Thats abt $7.

I hope they rot in hell for daylight robbery.


The road to our dorm. Notice the lush greenery.


A less awesome view of my current home. Certainly looks very crappy from this angle.


The road outside my road lined with Maple trees. This is going to be a fascinating sight once again. The weather suddenly turned cold over the past 2 days and clouds are covering the sky which means its gonna be autumn soon. I'll give you guys a picture of the same road when the maples turn golden ya?


S- Road. In every post, I have an artistic shot.

This is it.


A park near my school and down the road. Its supposedly pitch dark here at night. Couples congregate here to do unspoken things. Unfortunately its a hell hole for me. Mosquitoes practically lord over this place. Its terrible. I can't imagine dating someone here. Quarreling yes. Its alot easier to find excuses to smack someone in the face. Dating, no.


Another view of the park. It reminds me of the Hippo enclosure in the Zoo.


This picture says: If you light up in the park, we will have free toasted bunnies and squirrels for breakfast tomorrow.


The almight glorious amphi-theatre located on top of a hill. Once a year, Yonsei supposedly invites popular korean singers and stars to perform here. On other days, groups gather here to practise things. Just today I saw 5 guys dancing on the stage in a very gay manner, its something like waterboys, but on the stage.

We had a good time laughing at them.



The seoul skyline behind the amphitheatre. See the clouds? They are all being blown towards seoul.


One of the school buildings in Yonsei. Pretty isn't it? Its 120 years old.


A picture taken from the doorway of that grand old building. Lo and behold. A manicured garden.


And after the garden you get....a pretty damm long road.

Yonsei is actually a one road campus. All the schools are beside that one main road. This is one of the school... It reminds me of SAFTI MI


Realise that all the buildings are shaped like castles? The koreans have warfare ingrained into them. I bet in a situation where war breaks out, this place is gonna be fortified by the army.


God knows what school is this. But it looks good.


The library. Its 6 floors, huge, and very old (100years)


A typical line of bookshelves. 30 rows?


This is one of the amazingg study rooms. Compare it to our resource room lol. Guess how many seats and tables there are?


You can't see it, but it says 488. Fucking amazing. 488. What if someone farts. I can't help but think how many people would suck in the noxious poison before it gets ventilates out.

After walking to the end of the road, and past the main entrance of Yonsei you see....busy busy Sinchon.

Winston and Adam (my roommate) discussing what to eat in a Chinese Restaurant.



Adam with his fried rice. He's a Shanghainese who studies in Hong kong and exchanged to Korea.

And to end this little blog, me and my Zha Jiang Mian

Ice cream. I eat 1 everyday here because they don't melt.

New Room

Hello people, been slacking around the past few days so there wasn't any significant events to blog about. I'll update photos for you guys probably once a week since there will be new things once school starts.

On a wordy update, I have checked into my new international dorm in Yonsei. There are a wide range of people here. Half of them are Americans, of which most are american koreans with american slang. You know that type of slang where they go like, you know, like, you know. Many of the people here are very friendly and its only the 2nd day here, hardly enough time to know everyone. Mostly we just shake hands and try very very hard to remember their names. The university assigned us rooms,and my floor, the 5th floor is the highest. it is resided mostly by asians and american koreans so there are less ang mos here.

Opened my bank account and had cheap lunch in the university. Thats about it. Stay healthy!

Weekend Korea! (warrior) Get it?

Yay! Its the end of the day again. Korea is one tiring place... Everyday seems like a long trek under the burning sun just for you voyeurs to enjoy the fruits of my labour.

SELFISH! Pay me!

Kk...kidding actually. I woke up at 11am today morning to discuss online with nic and esther on where to go. I invited Winston along (who is the other NTU exchange student in Yonsei) and we had quite a fun time exploring central Seoul from the afternoon till the evening.

So without further a due...let me present to you.....WEEKEND KOREA!

*33 Pictures in this Post*

Day 4

When you got balls the size of Planet Earth, you can climb any ladder you want.

Our first order of the day was to find food. Granted many of us didn't have breakfast, this was essential. 3 of us ordered barley rice with a mix of vegetables while nic ordered ramen. Halfway through the waiter told us in chinese that we weren't supposed to eat this way. We were supposed to mix the barley rice with the vegetables. It was alot more edible after that lol but winston and esther hated their food ( I thought was good).

This bowl of Ramen ordered by nicholas was eaten by esther instead. Ah...the sacrifice of a devoted boyfriend....

I know what you are thinking. Its long, its cylindrical and esther looks happy. Everyone loves a phallic looking ice cream that cost only $1.30

This is winston, my fellow NTU exchange student to Yonsei. He wanted me to take this picture, for some reason I have yet to comprehend. Ironically, the phrase: "a boot up his arse" keeps flashing in my head.

Welcome to Myungdong, their equivalent of Orchard road, with throngs and throngs of people walking aimless around. None of them has any purpose walking there....I bet window shopping is a national sport here.

Lots of high heels. Korea is full of them. One in 4 shops is a high heel shop stocked high with classy footwear.

This picture is just to agitate my non korean female friends. HA HA.

More pictures of shops in Korea. Normally their department stores have floors of little stores like this. 4-5 storeys of them are women's apparels. Each floor has about 30 shops?

More shops, most of them different.

And yet more shops. I like those mannequins though....if only girls in Singapore wear clothes like those.

Koreans are a tough bunch. When little girls are one year of age, their mums throw them in fashion stores where they have to fight for survival. This little girl has been surviving on nothing but pretty clothes for 3 days already

Out in the open streets of myedong again. Look at that, crowds are far as the eye can see. I would love to spawn as a contagious virus here.

Viva la Influenza!

I am not really taking a picture of nic and esther. Could she be a Beethoven( bei tuo fen)?

Guess not. Its finally a pretty lady in Korea. Most girls here are Beethovens...they get 10/10 when viewed from the back and as soon as they turn, we give them -10. If I were the President of Korea, I would make girls wear a disclaimer on their backs.

This was supposed to be a 110 year old Cathedral but its exterior was under restoration so a drawing of its splendor was draped over it. Marvel at its beauty. Lol

Someone was getting married!

We managed to gatecrash intothe wedding ceremony Lol. Thats me.

The bride and groom exchanging vows and that sorts.

I got really bored there after 30min. We were standing up and sitting down every few minutes. The priest would say "so..so..", and the assistant priest would say "Ahhh men..", and we would stand up for 5min and sit down for 5min. The cycled continued many times.

Oh the picture. Look at those colour lights refracted off the stained glass! The lcd screen and pillars were lighted up with the colours of the rainbow!

Their Trial Run of a proper wedding. ^_^

Winston shielding himself from the sun. Would you look at that? Its absolutely blazing in Seoul.

Some guy was trying to sell bunnies, which he let loose on the pavement. The little bunnies were the cutest bunnies I have ever seen. Much cuter than those in Singapore. The lump of black and white on the side of the pavement is a bunch of terrified bunnies digging under each other. Lol....stewwpeeed bwarnies...

More amazing things from Seoul. A building reflected off another building! You wun see that in Singapore. Most of the time someone farts in the office and an irate coworker opens the window thus SPOILING THE ARCHITECT'S PURPOSE. The entire image screws up and the farting culprit remains unapprehended.

This is a famous stream restored recently in Seoul...its more beautiful at night but my camera took lousy pictures of it at night. Head on to esther or nic's blogs for more astounding scenes in Seoul. (Seoul looks good at night and crappy when there's daylight)

An artistic shot. If you think its good, the photographer is UNDOUBTEDLY talented. If you think its bad, I deny taking this picture.

Seoul Honeymoon for the Lovebirds.

Our glorious meaty dinner. Cost abt $8 for each of us but it was very filling. The chicken and meat patties are alot less oily while the coleslaw tasted like boiled cabbage. Its quite worthed it considering the prices in Seoul.

For dining in, KFC lends us a hard plastic red cup to hold our drinks. How wonderful is that? After that, we are supposed to return it to a tray for them to reuse.

We promptly stole the cups, thus embarking on our fledging career of crime.

A happy looking Ariyo with one free cup (in the bag). The stream stretched for many kilometers, cutting straight through the centre of Seoul. Its like a giant picnic here at night. People are walking constantly on both sides of the stream and couples would engage in..uh ...couplely acts within arm distance of other couples while a crowd stampedes behind them. Other people would be standing in the water or washing their feet throughout the river.

Viva la Polio myelitis.

40 pictures later, all of which turned out bad for me so I am not uploading, we exited the stream and saw a 3 storey Coffee bean with window seats. Those Koreans really know how to chill out. Sitting there drinking coffee, looking at the world go by must be one of the best things one can do in Seoul. Even better, if a girl would to wear a mini skirt and sit there, many guys on the streets would be reciprocally entertained.


KOPITIAM! KAYA TOAST! FROM SINGAPORE!

One Kaya Toast cost $5. You could all be very rich kaya toast merchants if you could migrate here and set up shops.



Somewhere, full of pubs, eateries and slightly mature crowds of 20+. It is also full of lights.


On our way to the subway we saw those Giant phone stuck in a carlike it crashed down from somewhere. To add to the effect, there was even a tow truck in front of it. The entire thing was parked at the side of the road. Locals and Tourists were crowding around taking photos...it seems no one was sure whether it was a plublicity stunt, an advertisement or a work of Art.

And that was it! Winston and I took Line 2 Subway back while Nic and Esther headed the other way.