Korea Travelogue: Day 9 - Last Day in Seoul and back to Singapore

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Day 9 itinerary

• Kimbab Heaven (Brunch)
• Zoo Coffee (Tea break)
• Heading back to Singapore

Sigh. Welcome to the final day of the trip in Korea.

So depressing because time flies when you're having fun.

I didn't even think about anything back home while I was there and it was really very fun!

Guess that's the purpose of a vacation right? To relax your mind and all...

Alright so we were all packed up and ready to go by.. 10-ish in the morning?

Check out time is 11am at Namsan Guesthouse 3 and the staff even came by at around 10.30am to remind us.

My stuff.. not including the 26kg I shipped back the previous day *gulps*

Sad to say, I overbought once again and had to EMS everything back.

The good thing about living in Myeongdong was that there's a post office there (opposite Shinsaegae) and I could easily EMS everything back to Singapore.

Yup, just like that.

Paid approximately $100SGD to ship everything back, yes $100 for 26kg, good deal right?

Better than paying the airline excess baggage charges lol.

And my items arrived on Tuesday in Singapore!

That's how fast it is la homg.

Back to the travelogue.

We wanted to eat Korean food before going back to Singapore and our choice was... Kimbab Heaven LOL!

Super no creativity once again even though I was secretly hoping we could go back to Yoogane to eat again.

But we went to a bigger outlet within Myeongdong (near Clio) and this outlet had more variety of food!

Korea Travelogue: Day 8 - Butterfinger Pancakes, Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market and N Seoul Tower

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Day 8 itinerary

• Butterfinger Pancakes (Brunch)
• Myeongdong Shopping
• Noryangjin Market (Dinner)
• Namsan Tower/N Seoul Tower

I was very excited for Day 8 because we were going to Butterfinger Pancakes! :D :D

Butterfinger Pancakes is located in Gangnam and serves brunch items all day long.

After 7 consecutive days of Korean food, I was beginning to miss all the western food and local food in Singapore so it was refreshing to not have kimchi on the table for a change.

OOTD for our 2nd last day in Korea

At one of the subway stations. Juyin died and went to Minho heaven lol.

Korea Travelogue: Day 7 - Siloam Sauna and more shopping in Myeongdong!

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Day 7 itinerary

• Siloam Sauna
• 홍기와집 (Lunch)
• Myeongdong (MORE SHOPPING!)

2 more entries till I end this Korea Travelogue series D:

Do check out the other days' itineraries if you haven't! 

So Day 7 was a chillax day. I think we were extremely sleep deprived by then that my eyebags grew bigger and bigger as the days progressed.

I'm fairly amazed I managed to stay awake and not grumpy cos I'm the sort who requires at least 10 hours of sleep a night to function well.

But sad to say that kind of life does not exist anymore T.T

We headed to Siloam Sauna at Seoul Station after we woke up.

Gave up on putting any form of makeup (not even contact lenses were worn) and just went there with half-closed eyes.

Directions 

You may look at the map from the website and try to navigate there but here's how we went. Exit at Exit 1 of Seoul Station and walk up the stairs towards Lotte Mart. Instead of turning right to the mart, walk straight ahead till you reach a flight of stairs going down. Walk down and then turn right, following the pathway till you reach the traffic light junction. You should see a Kimbab Heaven opposite before you cross the traffic light to know if you're on the correct path. Next just cross the road and take a left turn. Walk ahead till you spot the sign on your right. Follow the signs and you should reach the sauna in a jiffy! :D

You should see this sign!

Entrance

 

This place is a mini mall please. Food, karaoke, gym, bath, sleeping areas. Everything also have lol

Korea Travelogue: Day 6 - Myeongdong Shopping

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Day 6 itinerary

• Korean Porridge (Breakfast)
• Shopping at Myeongdong
• Kimbab Heaven (Lunch)
• Shopping at Myeongdong
• Two Two Fried Chicken (Dinner)

If I had 1 word to describe what we did on this day in Korea, it'd be this: SHOPPING

And if I had another choice to choose, it'd be either MAKEUP or FML. You'll see why later on OTL

So when we were planning for the trip right, we hadn't factored in any days for shopping at Myeongdong because it's so near us, we figured we'd probably not need that much time there.

WRONG. I tell you, if it's your first time in Korea and you're travelling with girls, just allocate 1 entire day there.

We shopped from morning till 10pm D: NON-STOP.

I'd already experienced this the last trip and was mentally prepared already. Even got my wallet ready because if I had to list all my vices, it'd be these: K-pop, makeup and nail polishes. Oh and Scrump and Woodstock.

Wah lau then Myeongdong's streets already had like 3 of my weaknesses everywhere. SOBS.

Ok, enough talking, not much pictures for that day. Had to kope alot from Lirong's pictures because I think by then I'd given up on taking pictures, just chiong for my stuff.

Now if only I'd been that enthusiastic in my studies :/

OOTD! Dress from Agneselle from one of their CNY collections and my layering top which I abandoned at lunch cos it was damn warm by then. No makeup too because I wanted to like ensure all the makeup to come will match my skin colour to a T.

Korea Travelogue: Day 5 - Changdeokgung, Insadong and Lotte Mart

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Day 5 itinerary

• Korean traditional food (Breakfast)
• Changdeokgung 창덕궁
• Miss Lee Cafe 별다방 미스리카페 (Lunch)
• Insa-dong 인사동
• Natuur Pop (Tea break)
• Lotte Mart

Back with Day 5 of this Korean travelogue. Hope you're enjoying what you're reading so far!

Do check out Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4's posts if you haven't :D

Starting off with... bread (no la! I don't really like bread.)

This greets us every morning without fail when we step out of our guesthouse because a bakery is situated opposite.

Looks very nice and fluffy right? ^^

Waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread can be very tantalising...

Ran out of ideas of where to eat breakfast at so we decided to just have traditional Korean food at Kimbab Heaven round the corner of our guesthouse.

More kimbab for us!

Korea Travelogue: Day 4 - Everland and Gangnam

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Day 4 itinerary

• Twosome Place (For our coffee!)
• Everland
• Yeolbong 열봉 (Dinner)
• Jaws Tteokbokki (Dinner No. 2)
• Gangnam Underground Shopping Mall

Wah today super hardworking lol /pats self on back/

Day 4 was a 'xiong' day for us haha! We planned our trip in such a way where we had 1 very packed day while the next was more relaxing and then the cycle repeats.

So Day 4 was our 'xiong' day because the day before we went shopping till super late.

Early morning and the first thing we did was... Get coffee!

I'm such a caffeine slave I could barely function in Korea without my daily cuppa because I was so exhausted.

Holidays are not meant to be like this T.T sobs.

Ok, nevermind, let's go for Day 4!

 

 

Korea Travelogue: Day 3 - Ewha Women's University, Hongik University

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Day 3 itinerary

• Bonjuk 본죽 (Brunch)
• Ewha Women's University Street (이화여자대학교)
• Caffe Bene (Teabreak)
• Hongik University Street (홍대)
• Haha's Pal Ja Mak Chang Restaurant 팔자막창 (Dinner)
• Hello Kitty Cafe (Hongdae Store)

Ok, Day 3 let's go!

Remember we ended Day 2 on a very late timing due to late night shopping at Dongdaemun.

Think my room slept at close to 4.30 am or 5am.

MAD TIREDDDDDDD T.T crazy siao char bos hahaha.

Selca in the lift! See my white top to keep me warm during the day. Weather was still cold! 5,000 KRW only super cheap!

Walked down to the metro station and of cos, we got sidetracked by food once again.

This time, by the croquette store beside 7-Eleven at Exit 3 of Myeongdong Station.

Ordered the pumpkin and cheese one to share! xD

Korea Travelogue: Day 2 - Myeongdong Cathedral,Bukchon Hanok Village, Jump! and Cheonggyecheon

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Day 2 itinerary

• Myeongdong Cathedral
• Paris Baguette (Breakfast)
• Lotte Department Store (Main Branch)
• Korean Lunch at Bukchon
• Bukchon Hanok Village
• Jump! Show
• Cheonggyecheon Stream
• Bulgogi and samgyupsal BBQ (Dinner)
• Dongdaemun Market

Day 2 고고고! Check out Day 1 if you haven't!

All of us felt very refreshed after a good night's sleep :)

...and I overslept for Sunday mass because I was too exhausted. Le sigh.

But we decided to just go and take a look at Myeongdong Cathedral since it's so near to us and also because I wanted to visit the church.

 

With the new banana & toffee nut milk we bought the night before. Tastes bad! :(

It was still drizzling and freezing cold. Erratic weather please go away!

We walked down from our guesthouse to Paris Baguette just right outside one of the exits of Myeongdong Station on our side of the road for breakfast.

Korea Travelogue: Day 1 - Long-ass flight and arriving in Seoul!

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Day 1 itinerary

• SG>>>>>HK>>>>>Korea
• Namsan Guesthouse 3
• Myeongdong (Yoogane and SPAO)

Hello :)

I'm here to write about my Korea trip. Will do it day by day because we really did alot of things since it was a free and easy trip, all planned by us! Ok, mostly me :3

This is my 3rd time back in Korea! 

My first foray to Korea was after my O levels when the only Korean guy I knew then was Bae Yong Jun because my aunt liked him in Winter Sonata and my last trip was in Dec 2011 (which I didn't blog about because... I just didn't >.< maybe I will when I have time because the places I went to were different from this trip)

I really enjoyed my Dec 2011 trip because firstly, I'm a K-pop fanatic and... I really love the country! Plus the company helped too hehe so I really wanted to go back again (and like a thousand more times please FML)

So this time round, it was Lirong, Qiu Lin and Kai Kee's graduation trip.

Initially it was supposed to be just Qiu, Kee and myself because Qiu asked if I wanted to go with them.

I said ok then I invited Lirong and Juyin along because I knew they wanted to go Korea as well.

Weird combination I know since Qiu and Kee are from my SCAMP OG and Lirong and Juyin are from my SOW OG but it's okay. We are one big happy Science fac family :D

But anyhow, it was their grad trip while Juyin and I became the extras on this supposed grad trip.

Advice to all graduating students: GO AND TRAVEL WHILE YOU CAN. WORKING LIFE STINKS.

Took advantage of the Vesak Day public holiday to maximise the time we could have in Korea.

Cathay Pacific had a promotion in the beginning of the year and once we settled the dates we booked the tickets to fly to Incheon via Hong Kong (FOL please the travelling was so long D:)

Flew off on 18 May 1am and I took half day off that Friday to go home and pack because I had been so swamped with work before my trip.

Boss was a bitch to just make sure I finish everything before going and when I came back, he hadn't even checked my work la. IDIOT.

Group shot! 

(I hate love you Chanel & Dior)

Back from Korea

HI ALL :D

I'm back from Korea!

and my face for the past 3 days has been this ---------> D: D: D: D:

I'm really depressed to be back here after 9 days of eating and shopping and spending time with my girls.

I even threw a bitchfit at my boss yesterday for throwing me with all the work.

Ok, I just have issues with him that's all.

Nevertheless, still sorting out my pictures (I HAVE SO MANY SOMEONE KILL ME) so do hang in there for awhile.

I will do a day to day travelogue with directions on how to get to the places we visited (you have no idea how many times we got lost in Korea but thankfully we met nice Koreans who helped us!) once I recall how we got there hahaha.

Till then, leaving you with the pictures of how I trashed my crappy old backpack into the bin at Lotte Dept once I bought my MCM backpack heh.

Yes, that was a YOLO moment for me.

뿅!