Korea Go Trip Day 1

(PS: All images are obtained straight from the camera, I’m lazy to edit and add watermark to each and every photo, so please bear with whatever’s wrong with the photo. Thanks )

Remember the Digi advertisement in KLCC as mentioned in my previous blog post? Here’s the output of the keychain!

// Keychain of Digi’s mascot with me, got this made for free!

After the flight to Korea using Korean Air, we reached Incheon Airport @ Korea on 7th November 2008.

// Sharen with ‘Rabbit’ figure at Incheon Airport (@ Korea).

Coming Korea now is just like dreams come true for a Bruneian, it is because it feels like there’s a colossal aircon blowing the street even though there is an overhead sun shining upon us.

// This guy is our driver. Roads in Korea are different from Brunei’s road. Road go forward on the right lane and the fastest lane is one the most left instead. This car is well equiped with GPS and it’s the first time I’m sitting on one. The GPS gadget is showing the ‘live time’ view of the current position of the car and it’s destination. It will instruct the driver to turn left or right vocally! When a driver drive past the speed limit, the GPS system will blink to indicate speeding. When one changes lane, the speed limit of the GPS will change to according to the lane he or she is on. Steady.

// We arrived at Jijihyang Hotel in Paju City in Korea at around 10am. This is our room, it is now a different story after me and XinWen moved in.

// At the restaurant of Jijihyang Hotel, the majority of the people here come for the Go Tournament.

// Our table with friends from Indonesia, Malaysia and of course, Brunei.

// Daniel, Indonesia’s Baduk Instructor placed his eaten plate on the belt, waiting to be cleaned.

// After our lunch, we decided to walk around the Korea, searching for entertainment.

That day was a ‘free and easy’ day.

Coming Korea now is just like dreams come true for a Bruneian, it is because it feels like there’s an colossal aircon blowing the street even though there is an overhead sun glaring upon us.

We can find a lot of buildings with special architectural design. Like this one here above.

// Buildings here are far different than those we have seen in Brunei.

// There are more..

// I’m trying to achieve the effect where hundreds of leaves drop from the tree, at least more than this. Fail.

// Here is more example of special architecure building

// This is the group of us wondering around the town. Guess what, we are the few people who is walking in the street. What happen to the other people? Why there are not much cars? We continued to wonder around, searching for shop, stores or anything.

// Hm, more buildings. There is a lot of nice, high tech building but I cannot see any signs of human. This building is not even ‘open’. Now, where are the people, is friday a non-working day for Koreans?

// Uncountable high tech buildling and nice cars. Where are the people? Are they inside? It is not the ‘Korea’ that is ‘as shown in TV’ to me.

// Xinwen and I have the feeling of ‘The Happening’ happening in this city where everyone is disappearing. Or the feeling of resident evil, parasite eve.. you name it. Along the way, we saw that many of these ‘buildings’ are actually companies. According to their logo and name in front, most of them are publishing companies.

// Where is Ha Ji Won, where is Rain, where is DBSK (TVXQ)? Where is Hyori? Where is BoA? Where’s the people? (Jin-no doko desuka?) We continue to explore.

// We found a restaurant! But there’s no customer and waiter/waitress. The only person available inside is the cashier. Hmm..

// After some blocks and several corners, we managed to find some vital life other than cashier. There is a group of people here taking video of something. We left.

// This is looking cool, but I have no idea what it is.

// Sharen.

We returned back to the Hotel shortly, unable to find solve the mystery.

// This is a restaurant at the 2nd floor of the Jijihyang Hotel

// Cafe Suryeon is the name of the restaurant. It’s is classy and warm inside. This is where we will be having our breakfast tomorrow morning. Come to think of it, this Hotel’s furniture and building is very new. We are suspecting that this is a new city, with all the new high tech buildings being built just recently.

Noeul Lounge (Spelling?). This is where we had our dinner. Building, flooring and colour paints look very new. Nice combination of colours, i like.

// The interior of the Noeul Lounge.

After the delicious dinner at the Lounge, we head back to the Jijihyang Hotel and prepare for the next day. It’s only 9pm and passionate players gathered around the ‘meeting room’ to have a game or two of “GO”.

// Games of Go, they are players from different counties, like Denmark, Luxemborg, New Zealand, China, Indonesia, France, Britain and etc.

I head back to my room and continue to online, chat and surfing until sleep. Yesterday I slept at 2:00am and wake up at 9am. Today, I am sleeping at 2:40am and there will be a meeting at 8:30am! Hmm.. Did I mention that the internet speed here is CRAZY?

// Freaking 1.0MB/sec constant! Well, for other downloads, it maintained around 80kbs/sec to 800kbs/sec. The highest I got was 1.2mb/sec, which stayed for minutes and dropped down to 1.0MB/sec.

Off to sleep, maybe. Hope you guys enjoy the pictures. By the way, the mystery of why there is not much people and cars or entertainment in this area is solved! Till the next post people, stay tune. Comments are welcomes, as always.