the first day in korea.

my last update was when i was in korea and i said that i'll put more in the next post. or i didnt. so what. well this is next post. emm . so, to me, korea overall is great, clean air, almost no pollution, nice view everywhere, beautiful girls, good subway network and lots more. but there are some lows such as the inability of understanding and speaking english from almost all the koreans that i ran into, they dont cater for tourist where they expect that every person in the world who ever goes to korea will understand their language and their "tulisan" almost all the signage and directions there are in korean, except for those near to tourist attractions, but if u happen to live in and around a tourist attraction site then it's ok, but if you dont live near it, then it'll be hard.

okay, for the trip itself, we, me mom and dad, went to klia by car, my brother sent us there, checked in our bags, went into the boarding area while it is still about like 2300 hours where we are suppose to board at 0045 hrs, that means that we have around about 2 hours to waste. went to the satellite building even though the gate is not at the satellite building, went to the bookstore, and had some supper at the BK there. as it reaches around 0030 hrs, we went back to the main building, and we entered the gate for boarding. after we had handed in our tickets and received our boarding passes, we waited at another room before we actually board the plane. there, out of the blue, an old korean lady came up to me and this is the conversation that went on :

old korean lady : excuse me, that malaysian phone ? (as that time i was trying to send my last msg before going to korea to fara)
me : yup, this is a malaysian phone.
old korean lady : oh, my son's phone number jilo(0) wan(1) tlee(3) ......( a whole sequence of number which starts form 8, which means the number belonged to someone in sabah or sarawak right ?)
me : oh, you want me to call it ?
old korean lady : (she kept repeating the number she said before)
me : oh okay, wait, i dial it for you. (i dialed it and gave the ph to her)
old korean lady : oh okay. (as her son answered, she spoke korean which i couldnt understand)
old korean lady : (as she finished talking) here, im so sorry. (and she went away as the gate is opened)

and the significance of the story is. hell, why did she said sorry ? isn't it suppose to be thank you ? that was like so sad. i helped her, and all i got was an apology ? haha. kind of weird to me. heh, all is fine. no harm's done. but it's funny.

board the plane, got to incheon airport, and Rena (the tour agent) was already waiting. we went out towards the van, only to be halted by my mom's question about mobile phones. malaysian mobile phone mostly cant be used there, you have to rent a phone that is usable in korea from a mobile operator there. and this is when dad asked how long have Rena been waiting. and she said :

Rena: oh, not very long, only about 30 minutes.(a bit broken)

haha, weird, 30 minutes, not long ? hehe. koreans are weird. oh yah, Rena was cute by the way. haha. ;) after the phone was rented, we went back towards the exit and we were on our way towards the hotel we are suppose to be living at. the trip to the hotel took about 1 hour plus. we arrived at the hotel but it was more like a studio. if you know what a studio is anyways. rested there for about 1 hour and we were out and about searching for FOOD !! went downtown by subway(they call the train subway there) which costs about 900 won and it didnt took long. but the journey towards the platform for boarding the train did take long. 5 flight of stairs, and the stairs are not short. damn long. but there are escalators, a few of em at least.

we searched high and low for a place where we an eat, mcdonalds to be exact, but we managed to find a burger king and thankfully there was fish based burger there. ate and went back on the road to see more of korea. oh and yeah, the chilli sauce there costs us 100 won, which is 40 malaysian cents. after enough sight seeing we decide to go back to the hotel and get some rest as tomorrow a whole new adventure will begin(i put this in because it sounds cool). went back to the hotel, relax and tomorrow comes.

as for today, went out to klcc with wan, pian, din, alan and pokwe for a movie. watched the da vinci code. never read the book, but i think its quite good. wwent there, waited, watched the movie, ate at BK, and then back home.

this post is kind of long. it might be boring. till the next one .