Korea Day1 01/07/2013

We woke up early, checked out and took a taxi to airport. Nothing much happened at the airport and on the plane.
Got to korea at around 3pm ish, we were all hungry as shit, because they didnt give us food on the plane, so we walked around to look for some food, david suggested lotteria, which is a korean fast food chain. So we walked around the whole airport just to find the place right next to us........ had some bulgogi burger and chesse sticks and cheese fries, bulgogi burger tastes nice, a lil different to the typical australian burgers. Cheese fries tasted weird, but its ok, cheese stick was super cheesy, but pretty tasty too.

After eatting some food, we went to pick up Brandon and them, we waited a lil bit, and they finally arrived. we went to rent a pair of mobile phones, just in case anything happens, and then left the airport. we took the airport shuttle bus straight to hongdae, checked in at our nice little cozy apartment like accommodation. It's a really nice place, and super cheap too, like maybe around $20 aud per person per night?  Its a double story room, upstairs was really tiny, so we moved the mattress downstairs. There's a kitchen inside, and a fridge, they even provided toast, butter and jam for breakfast. Super nice place.

After we unpacked a lil, we headed off for dinner. we walked around, and found a korean fried chicken place, that was apparently pretty popular. We ordered heaps of food, korean fried chicken, sausages, Pan fried chicken with cheese, and a HUGE jug of beer. They were so strict, and had to check our IDs, didnt know Korea is so strict about alcohol.

After dinner we walked around a lil bit around hongdae, looked at some street performers, then we decided to go to a bath house. We looked around for this apparently super fancy one, but apparently it disappeared. there happened to be one just on the side of the street, so we just went in. it was very similar to what i expected, very similar to those chinese bath houses, not as fancy though.
we paid $10 aud for entry fee, went in and changed into bath robes, then went out to the public sauna place to meet the girls. there were different saunas with different temperatures, tried them all, and i liked the hottest one, which i believe was 50 degrees? and there was this iceroom right next to the saunas, TBH it wasnt even that cold, mayb around 10ish degrees? it felt super awesome after hot sauna, and go straight into the iceroom. We cam out, had some tea eggs? and some kind of super sweet korean drink. Then we decided to go in and take a bath, while brandon and the girls just got changed and waited outside.
The bath was pretty good, pretty similar to the Chinese ones, they had a greentea pool, ginseng pool, and a super hot one. I dont know why brandon and the girls doesnt like it, its just being naked right? not a big deal at all. maybe im just used to it lol, cause ive been alot of times. but its just penis right? no one is gonna judge. o well, its his own choice, but it was super fun especially with friends. there was this super hot sauna which i believe was 80 degrees, HOT AS FUCK, stayed there in 2 mins and almost died. we couldve stayed inside for longer, but we were worried that the girls and brandon might be waiting for too long. Took a shower and came out, everyone was tired so we headed home.

HK day3 30/06/2013

today the biggest LOLS of the whole trip happened....... Im still surprised how stupid we are....... basically we thought today was the 01/07/2013 and thought we were supposed to head off to korea.

on the previous day (day 2), we thought our flight was today, and got all excited about heading off to korea, we packed all our shits, and set an alarm super early at like 5:30 ish. So we woke up, getting all pumped up about leaving HK. we were about to check out then realised there was no one at the front counter, so we put the keys in a piece of paper, and wrote something to the boss saying we are leaving. we got to the airport by the airport shuttle train, which was quite expensive at around 20aud if i remembered correctly. David was talking to megan at the airport, and he said megan told him that they r still at home chilling, and david was like nah shes just trolling, pretty sure they are at singapore already. we proceeded to check in, we gave our passport to the staff, then she said, "your flight is tommorow, would you like to change your flight?" we were like WTFFFFF, then we realised megan wasnt trolling us, we were trolling ourselves. Then we were laughing our asses off, and facepalming the entire time, then david and pua took out their phones and checked the date, and it was 30/06/2013.... and they all started blaming me, cause i was in charge for the HK part. I admit it was mostly my fault, but i did tell them my phone's clock and date is screwed up, so i cant tell the date. I even booked the little shitty motel for 3 whole days, till 1/07/2013. I even planned the itenery for 3 whole days, but david told me that we were apparently staying for only 2 whole days. I dunno what we were thinking, words cannot describe how retarded we were.

So we stayed at airport for a lil bit thinking of what to do, the staff told us that they'll find a seat for us, but we'll have to pay $50 aud extra, we all agreed to that, but unfortunately there were no seats left. So i felt bad because it was kinda my fault, so i shouted them breakfast. After breakfast we decided to look for a hotel, because we were too embarrassed to go back to the shitty motel, even though ive already paid for the last day. Then we were like YOLO lets go find a 5 star hotel, since its the last day. We searched for some hotels nearby, and found this Intercontinental Hotel near TsimShaTsui. We took a taxi to the hotel, it was the same price as the shuttle train, so we decided to take a taxi instead.

We got off, then checked in at the 5star hotel, and they told us the room will be available at 1pm. At this stage im kinda running out of money. It turned out to be $80aud per person per night, not even that expensive.
we left our luggage in the hotel, and went out to grab some lunch. We found this yum cha place, which seemed pretty crowded, if its crowded it must be good right?

after lunch we went back to the hotel to chill, took a nap, watched some tv, went to gym, took a shower and just stayed inside for the whole afternoon. Then its dinner time AGAIN, we went to the same place, we saw that they have all you can eat hotpot there as well, so we decided to come again. We told pua to get select a soup, and he chose some retarded apple pear and snow fungus soup. It was so plain, had no flavour at all, and we had to pay for extra sauces, so we decided not to get any, just used the soy sauce they gave us for free. All the dishes were so good, so many thins that we havent tried before in a hotpot, E.g. frogs, glutinous custard balls, all kinds of fish balls, and meat balls etc. The soup tasted pretty nice and sweet after all the flavour went into the soup. After dinner we headed back, and just chilled and slept early, so we can wake up and head off TO KOREA!!!!!!!!!!

HK day2 29/06/2013

We woke up pretty late, at around 10ish. We all wanted to have yumcha, so i searched on my phone for a place close to where we are staying, apparently there is one around 10mins away from us. according to reviews they have good dim sims, and its also a buffet. So we walked there, its located inside a quite fancy building/shopping center (the mira), we got there pretty early at around 10:30 ish, and it turns out the the restaurant opens at 11. So we went to a nearby starbucks, and had some coffee/drinks.
at around 11ish we went to the restaurants we were told that they dont do buffets on weekends, so we decided to go in anyway since we were there already. They brought out the menu, and we had a look, and HOLY SHIT it was expensive as fk. but YOLO, since we are here already too late to back off now, and plus it wasn't that expensive mayb just around 10aud for 3 prawn dumplings. Seriously the taste was amazing, not like any ordinary yum cha place, the dumpling was full of prawns, and tasted very fresh. even though it was a lil pricey, but  was definitely worth it, service was nice too. we spend maybe around 50aud per person.
after eating breakfast we found our way to ocean park, we took a shuttle bus from the central. It was SUPER CROWDED, even the entrance was packed full of tourists, especially mainlanders. ocean park was nothing special, just like any other theme parks, but 10 times more crowded. I lost my roller coaster virginity here, Ive never been on one before in my life. the line was super long, had to wait around 1 hour to go on, and i was super nervous, heart was beating super fast. it wasnt actually that scary, it was actually kinda fun, but i wont go on it by myself, its only fun with friends around.
you'll have to wait probs 1hr for every single fkn ride, so annoying, especially on such a hot and humid day. we bought maccas ice cream, and drinks and ice creams, but they dont even help. then we finally found some stalls that sells small water melons, omg they were life savers, even though it wasnt that chilled, but still soooooooo goooooooddddddd omggggggg.

while we were lining up for the cable cars to go down, some mainlander tried to push in lane, a lot of ppl in front got super mad, and starting telling them off, but they just ignored and kept walking. such disgrace, now i kinda get why hongkies dont like being recognised as chinese. most of the mainlander tourists are fkn disgrace to chinese ppl, even i feel ashamed.
so we left at around 6ish, tired and sweaty as fk. so we went to this street food stall near the SOHO street to eat some street seafood. The dishes were cheap, and actually was pretty dam good. had some goose intestines, tofu and fish, some kind of shells, and garlic prawns.
we went into lan gui fang, which is like a street full of bars, pubs and clubs. we seemed so out of place with our "beach outfit" everyone was suited up with nice shirt and sexy dresses and all, and we were just walking around casually in our shorts and short sleeve tshirts, so we decided to leave and stop embarrassing ourselves lol.
Then we decided to go up to the victoria peak. Line was freaking huge, everywhere in HK is crowded and have to line up for almost everything zzzzzzzzzzzz so annoyed. we lined up for around 20mins, then i saw there was another palce selling combo tickets for the peak and madame tussads museum, so we all came out of the line and asked them how much the ticket is etc. Then we were told that they will close soon, and we probs wont make it, and i asked if we can buy the peak tickets here, but apparently not. Since we came out of the line already, we went alllll the way to the back and started lining up again....... it probs took us more than 2 hours to get up to the peak..... the nightview of HK was AMAZING, definitely worth the time and money spent.

HK day1 28/06/2013

On the day before we left, we had a catch up dinner with everyone, since we were all done with exams, and we will be leaving the next day. After we had dinner I went home, then david and pua came to my house for a sleep over, because our flight is at 7:30 in the morning, and we'll have to wake up super early, so i thought it'd be better for them to sleep over at mine, since my dad is taking us there. Pua and david both came at around the same time, we checked our luggage, and did some last minute packing. Then i asked my mum for some moneyzzz, then she was like super worried that im bringing too much cash, but then there is no other way lolzzzz. then we played some games, PS3 until like 2ish, our plan was to not sleep at night, and sleep on the plane.

Woke up at around 5ish, ate breakfast, and drove off to the airport. everything was going well, checked in, went to our gate, and pua bought this emu jerky thing, which tasted pretty weird, but we still finished it all. Pua and david were all watching movies on the plane, i just slept through the whole thing, typical snorlax LOL. we got to HK at around 3ish, got a cab at the airport to bring us to our little shitty guest house. the cab didnt drop us off at the exact place, so we were walking around randomly trying to look for our place, and it turns out to be right in front of us, such retards....... So our guest house was in a very old but tall building around tsim sha tsui station. The building had a really weird atmosphere, alot of Indian, africans, arab, muslims, and various other dark skined people. not being racist or anything, but it felt weird, not sure if we were in HK or India. there were a lot of indian restaurants in the building as well, the whole building smelled like curry. It didnt feel really safe at all...... but i guess at least the location is good, and its super cheap around $20 per person per night.

So we took a lift to the 13th floor, even the lift didnt feel very safe, it was super dodgy, i was scared we were gonna get stuck. as we went to our guest house, this Indian guy came out and greeted us. Went into our room, and it was SUPER FKN TINY, there were 2 single beds (maybe a little bigger), and no where to walk around. Lucky there was air con in there, we left the air con on for the entire time. Bathroom was fkn tiny too, o well cannot complain, i kinda expected this, i was told by my parents that its normal in HK. we took a shower, chilled for a lil bit in the room, and went out to Tsui Wah cafe for dinner. I ordered a pork chop rice, which was really nice, pork chop was massive and the sauce was good too, and IT WAS SO CHEAP, ok maybe not that cheap maybe around 10 AUD. Also tried out the HK style milk tea, IT WAS SO AWESOME, i guess Key was right, hk style milk tea is actually better than most of the milk tea u get in melbourne. Tea flavor was very strong, and was super smooth. we drank it pretty much everyday for every meal lol.

after dinner we went down to the subway station to figure out how to get to ladies market, we walked around and asked a few people, lucky they were all able to speak mandarin. So we took a train to ladies market, and walked around and bought a few shirts, hats, and other little shits. We also had heaps of street food, was so full afterwards LOL. we had coconut juice, egg waffles, curry fish balls, ALOT of mango desserts. OMG the desserts were FKN CHEAP FOR REALSSSSS. So for the FULL SET IT WAS ONLY 15 AUD OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. too good to be true seriously, they all tasted so gooooooood as well, alot of fresh mangoes. after eating shit load of food, we kept walking around the market, didnt buy much after that. Went back to our place and slept. 

FUARRRKKKK

FUARRKKKKK my one and only exam is tomorrow, I'm around 70% ready, just gonna YOLO this shit, wish me luck lawl

meh, exams =(

Haven't updated my blog in a longgggggggg time, it's because  nothing interesting is happening in my life. My one and only exam is in 2 weeks time, on the 18th of June, I'm glad that I only have 1 exam, but its worth 50% hope I can pass, shouldn't be that hard anyway.
Though i only have 1 exam, I still have an assignment that's worth 50% due tomorrow, I'm still cramming on it. I thought it was due last Friday, I freaked out, and finished almost everything last Thursday, then i found out it was actually due this Friday. =.= I cant work without pressure, I haven't done anything for the whole week, and today is the last day, and I've done so much work today than all of the other days combined.
My only motivation right now is the HK and Korean trip with friends, OMMMGG I CANT WAITT. It's gonna be so fun, and will be such a great memory. Though I haven't seen many people in a long time, like Calene and Megan, because I wagged uni pretty much everyday during the last 2 weeks LOL, but I cant wait for exam to finish and catch up with people.

first week of 2nd year has been pretty hectic, well its technically first year for me again, since i transferred from bachelor of biotech to nutrition science. Even though i've been to uni for a whole year already, i still dont know all the buildings around, i got lost so many times during the first week.....my timetable changes every week, which is pretty annoying, my timetable is pretty bad, 9-5 for 2 days. I've been carpooling with nicholas, so i dont have to deal with the shitty bus time anymore.

Oh and also, i got my P's before uni started, which is pretty exciting, I've been driving alot by myself recently, which is pretty fun.

On saturday, Tony and karen both had birthday parties at sophia, i had to walk around between 2 parties. It's nice to see people that i havent seen in a while. After dinner we went clubbing, first we went to bamboo saturdays, it was so bad, words cannot describe how bad it is, its tiny, probably around the same size as my house, and the dance floor was even smaller, mayb a little bigger than my living room. Then we all decided to walk out, then we went to bass lounge, which was wayy better. We finished at around 3am, got home at 4am by taxi, it was my first time taking a taxi, and getting home so late.