Hello Suwon again..
Got back from Busan this afternoon and now at home in this another awkward silence... The trip has been finished and now its back to the basic.
Day 2 - Busan (2015/02/01)
Woke up by the usual habit of waking up early for work and football.. I couldn't force myself for a further sleep when it was 7. Typed out the diary and woke my friend up. The day would be the busiest time of the trip as it would be the full day spending to tour around Busan.
I liked him.. Liked my friend... Enjoyed every single moment spending with him. We went to the spa that was at 2nd floor. Bathed and entered into the hot spa and had men's talk. Left the Sauna after styling our hairs and we somewhat.. were pretty ready for a day with such great weather. As soon as we left, there was a convenience store welcoming us. He moved his feet as he wanted to grab a drink and we bought got a banana drink for breakfast. Being so thirsty after being so drunk the last night we needed it. Walked pass by the place where we were drunk all night drinking and taking out our story sacks.
We took on the train to Nampo from Sasang. It was pretty near as it only took about 20 minutes to get there. When we reached, we again took a bus that moved to Taejongdae. A tourist attraction place where the place had trains going inside this place. It was like hmm somewhat of mountain that had roads in so trains can move to take in the tourists. The view in here was somewhat the best I can get ever...
Walking walking and walking... it somehow made the both of us pant and sweat in this winter but inhaling the fresh air like this was good enough for an exhausting walk like this.
Along the way, we saw a status displaying the animals, sea and the fishes... Reading the description.. I could see what it was.. The importance of nature.. and how mankind should treasure them.. Yes Youngsub.. Love nature.. and not spitting.. not throwing thrashes although could be a basic courtesy, doing a great job for the nature.. Keep it up..
When we got down from Taejongdae, we went to have our lunch. It was already 12:30 when we went down for lunch while we only had a banana milk drink for breakfast. As we were walking and thinking what to eat for lunch, I wanted to try those popular foods in Busan. The famous Pork rice soup.. I wanted to try it for hangover on the last day's morning. However, there was an auntie calling us in to the shop and both of us being someone who can't reject... we got in.
Luckily the food was really nice. I loved it. I loved eating it. Hot...meat..soup is all I love. My friend Jae Yeon, still being a kid when eating, didn't finish his food and didn't eat vegetables like Kimchi haha. Same as my sister who doesn't eat kimchi at all..
Then, we had to take the bus back to Nampo so we can tour around there... which I had been counting on the most! We were going to the Market place which is famous for fooooods laid everywhere. All the nice famous food.
When we were taking the bus, I saw a group of girls wearing the Muslim's traditional custom and queuing up for the bus. I do not know why maybe I becmae Singaporean .. that when I see people who have the look of Singapore, I just want to talk to them and feel like home. Feel like I've met someone from my hometown like that. I hoped to talk to them when I was taking the bus. So luckily, there was a seat left in front a Malay auntie. The other people were sitting at the back and only the auntie was sitting in front there. Without a single hesitation I talked to her. Said hi and asked where she was from. She was from Malaysia. She seemed quite happy to have meet someone who knows of her culture little bit. We communicated in English but she couldn't speak so well but it was okay. Seeing the faces... I could know what she was saying and wanted... Her job was a Secondary school teacher in Malaysia. She asked me what school I was from and I marketed about IJC and told her it's a very nice school to me. She lived at Kelantan and asked me to visit one day. haha it was a quick invitation considering we only met for 10mins. I loved conversing with her. My friend and I alighted like two stations earlier than them and we went on to the market!! We went to see the Busan Jagalchi Market. The renowned market in Busan. There were nothing much to see for us at there so we moved on to the other market where there was most people. It was the food market. There were lots of food stores and it was like a standing kind of eateries. LIke you buy and can just eat while you were standing and move around. I ate the famous Seed Pancake, fish cake, Tukboggi, Candy Fruit, Dalgona, Sausage with Grilled short rib patties... Loved all the food and now typing my diary here in Suwon... I quite regret for not having to eat the other foods cos I was full and worried to spend more.. I should have spent more money in there and eat all the food so I wouldn't crave it when I'm back in Suwon.
Jaeyeon and I went into a game room and played just one game, motor cycling. He won. I was so stupid not knowing how to start a bike. I thought there was like some pedal or button at the foot area to start a bike. Didn't know the accel was at the handle. Then, there were lots of places giving people their fortune and all. Like fortelling. and also things like physiognomy.. and martial compatibility. I wanted to know the martial compatibility between him and I just for fun. But he didn't want to know such. But he wanted to know about his own fortune... While he was a faithful Christian. He took the courage to go in and talked to the fortune teller what he was curious of.. He asked like.. whether he can get the scholarship this year and like expected the forteller told him he could. And when he asked whether he could get a gf this year, the forteller told him to be more aggressive and told him he got a high chance of getting. this year. Seeing him... celebrating in front the forteller that he can get a scholarship.. I was pretty scared of him. Like hm.. a bit worried that he would stick to their words and do silly things.. Hope he would only take their words just for fun like he'd said..
Toured around the other markets and those were pretty boring. After touring was the part Jaeyeon wanted the most. It was to go to the Dog cafe... Was a place where there were lots of dogs and people need to buy a drink to enter. I went in really just becos he wanted. Dogs barking everywhere if not happy sometimes biting other people I wasn't so willing to be there. Plus that... there were no guys coming there. We were the only two.. The rest were all girls or guys who came with their girl friends... Yes I guess I came with a girlfriend too. Jaeyeon.. Oh my God.. He chase for the dog like how the other girl friends do while their boyfriends sit down at the chair annoyed. I was one of them seeing him screaming shouting with other girls for the dog trying to grab the dog and all... He asked me to take photo of him with the dog at numerous angles and later on he changed his Kakao talk profile picture to him and his dog. I was bit annoyed and asked him we leave here. Even after leaving, he grumbled that he regret he didn't buy the dog food so he can get all the attention from the dogs..
We went onto the Yongdusan Park which was just beside. This place's night view was really brilliant. It wasn't as nice as the view I saw at the Taejongdae's cliff but was still nice. The park was also appeared in Runningman as the longest escalator in Korea. After going up all the escalators, there was a lighthouse that needed to take the lift up to 120m high. This place.. had Busan in hand. Being up in there.. Busan was all in the eyes. We waited for the sun to set.. Waited like 1 hour for the sun to set and the view we got was really worth the wait... and How I wish I could upload photos in here.. The google blog now can't upload photos..
We got down and headed to Seomyun now for dinner and sauna. Firstly checked where the Sauna was due to Jaeyeon's thorough attitude to call it nicely... then after being damn undecisive for choosing the dinner place we decided to go to the BBQ place. Ate the dinner cheaply and we went onto spend the Second Night in Busan. We looked for Ktv place as we wanted to sing. As we were looking for the place, there was an auntie giving out the KTV flyers. It was pretty nice as we could sing without limit of hours and only pay 10bucks for room. IT seemed dammmn nice so we asked the auntie where the place was and the auntie led us to the way. I thanked her a lot as I as a person who had an experience being in this flyer distributing industry, I thanked her so much and told the boss that she did all those for us. Got in the room ordered one spicy fish roe soup that cost about 23000 won and began to sing. I asked Jaeyeon to sing first. Having gone to ktv with him in SG i knew he was pretty shy when it came to singing and entertaining. His voice so soft, I couldn't hear anything. I tried to encourage him by shouting screaming putting in chorus while he sang and even took over his line when he sang so he could be motivated to shout and sing. After an hour. it totally changed. He never put down his mic. Even the songs he didn't know he still sing. Like what. He reserved all the songs and when the mood was about to be down as we were so tired and just sit down and sing slow songs, he suddenly reserved Exid- up and down and make me stand and dance with me.. I was really glad he was having fun in here as I was pretty worried he wouldn't. In the end, he sang more than me. And he wanted to stay longer while I was falling asleep at the KTV.
We got to the Sauna and asked ourselves for a sleep. This Sauna was much better. The place was big and had sleeping room. They gave blankets and pillow and was really warm. Had such great sleep..
Day 3 - Busan (2015/02/02)
Woke up when it was 7.. I couldn't sleep more.. Waited for Jaeyeon to wake up and when it was 8, he woke up too. Bathed and had talks in the spa again. I loved those times where we could sit and talk slowly having our time. I think I enjoyed those time more than those time where we sang ktv and saw all the views and went out at the markets..
After bathing, we went on to find place to eat our breakfast. My train back was supposed to be at 10:44 so we didn't have much time. When we found the place to have our breakfast, it was already 9:40. From Seomyun to Hwamyung where I was supposed to take the train up to Suwon itself would take 30 mins. Just as when we ordered we realised we didn't have time.. Like really a short time.. Our breakfast was the same as our lunch yesterday. The Busan pork Rice Soup. It was too hot to eat fast. Only had like 10mins to finish them. We hurried and finished it in 15mins. Got down to the train station and I was really running out of time. The train would just leave when it's 10:45. I had to get there in 7mins. It was already 10:37 when I reached the Hwamyung station. Hwamyung MRT and the subway was quite apart. Like 800m distance apart. There were two traffic lights and I ignored all of them... Ran die hard. Didn't have time to hold my breathe and just ran forward... Walking up the staircase was also super tiring and really couldn't move on but I just ran..and ran... and when I reached.. It was 10:42. I reached in 5mins. Train was slowly coming in and took the train. Called my friend in joy and told him to go home back safe...
When I found my seat.. there was one girl sitting beside my seat. She seemed like of my age and I was pretty heated up for a talk on the way... But everytime I wanted to take the courage to talk to her... I kept thinking... It wasn't the right time to have girlfriends... and what would happen if the person sitting beside was a guy. I knew that I indeed wouldn't bother talking if it was a guy. That rebuts the words from my mind that I was talking for the sake of getting more friends. It was because I was interested in here. I forced down my hormones...and just asked myself for a sleep. 3hours passed quick and she alighted at Daegu. I still had two more hours of journey.. I wanted to have my own time thinking of the trip...
Why I came for this trip?
What I learned...
and how I should do from now...
I left for this trip to kind of summarize the 50 days of me here in Korea..
Before leaving, I took photos of those lists of things I wanted to do when I am in Korea that I wrote in computer.. I also read my Day 1 Diary before leaving..
I became a different person as compared to Day 1. The willing to be obedient and dying in silence Youngsub was gone.. but only the talkative and causing trouble me was here in place... There were indeed good things about being silent and being obedient but also had good things in being who I am at Day 53.. Being talkative and talking to mom and sis often...
There were like 12 lists that I had wrote I wanted to do this holiday and only 4 out of 12 were practiced..
Then I asked myself... What would I regret the most when the 2nd half of my journey is over.. when 100days are over... like how I am at this 50th day.. .what would I regret the most...
The answer was clear..
First was not studying ..
Second was not having to be me at home while not being obedient to mom and causing trouble with sis.
These were the only two...
There were also things that weren't satisfying although I was practicing them.. like playing football. I wasn't doing it well. I didn't play or practice football when there was no training at the center. I should take my own initiative for it.
Came back home.. and ... the atmosphere and all... were like back to Day 1.. Really...
Having to have quarrel with mom before leaving.. and mom didn't even reply to a single sms i sent when I was at Busan. The day1's silence... the tone.. and the poker faces... Maybe it was my initiative trying to be different me or back to myself of who I was... But hope it will lead to a better one..
The night is here again in Suwon...
I hope this 50days trip was not just for pleasure by meeting friends.. but a turning point to summarize and learn something... and an energy drink to move on for the next half of the journey..
Goodnight...
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