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ok.. last time i thought i'm gonna blog about my time in hsinchu, Taiwan... but since i've uploaded the photos of my Taiwan trip on facebook (link on the side), i will just skip it and go to my Korea adventure!

It was quite a crazy day/night at first... i went back from Taiwan to Singapore at about 1am in the morning. Decided to just go back to NTU and did some laundry, took the midnite cab, reached ntu at around 2am.. because my plane to Korea was the next morning at 9 am, after finishing all my stuff and packing, it was already 5am and i only had an hour or so of sleep before going back to the airport.

I took the plane that went to Beijing and then transfer to another plane to Seoul. It was a crazy 6 hours flight, my body was aching and i was totally super tired. after 3 hours of transit and another 2 hours of flight, finally reached Seoul. It was an accomplishment as in the last 24 hours, i was in 4 different countries... reached Seoul at 10pm, was not sure whether we should navigate ourselves at night thus decided to sleep over at Incheon while watching soccer.

Took the airport bus in the morning and get to our hostel. managed to get some rest before going out to venture Seoul. Gonna have to say that i totally love Seoul. Not because i am biased of korean stuff but this city is definitely a clean, nice, and happening city. The food is totally a treat. Haven't got to tried a non-delicious food yet (except for the corn tea i tried at the airport.. that one is totally sux!).. get my very first Naeng-Myeon (spicy cold noodle... a popular dish in the summer) and tried some street snacks that are just so good!!. Visited Myeong-dong, a popular spot for the young-adults and the Han river creek..

it's yoona!!!! not a real one though lolz..

korean food is really good!!

Dongdaemun area

the river creek... touch of nature in the middle of a metropolitan

a church in myeongdong... some scenes of You're Beautiful was shot here

More pictures and update will be uploaded soon... my summer school just started so was kinda busy but will try my best to keep this blog more lively!!!

Taipei 101++

Taipei is such a fascinating city. There are tons of different stuff that one can do here. the combination of metropolis city with touch of nature is really breathtaking.

Back to Nature

the first thing that we did on our first day in Taipei was climbing the 7 star mountain (yangmingshan). Were not totally prepared to do mountain climbing, we thought we would be using somekind of transportation to get to the top. Turned out we need to climb the mountain ourselves through thousands of staircase up to 2.6km.

me and vifo at yangmingshan.. this one is before the climb (read : happy face)

Though didn't really make it to the top, we did see a breathtaking view of Taipei city. The weather was cool and windy, didn't feel like it was summer.

The Night Market

There are a lot of night market in Taiwan. Lots of them selling considerably cheap items and yummy food! To be honest, most of my spending in Taiwan was on food! from mee sua, crispy chicken (this one is super good), snow ice (my fav), and spaghetti hotdog.. taiwan is like a haven for food-lovers!!! Visited the famous Shihlin night market and ximenting night market..

love the snow ice! the best dessert ever!

spaghetti on a hotdog with taiwanese sausage! EPIC!

although my feet were sore and about to fall off, still able to walk through the whole market and found the best food there!

The Taipei 101 + sightseeing

Used to be the tallest building in the world, better to see it at night when the lights are on. Though not much to see except for the exterior (it's an office building!!). The Chiang Kai Shek memorial hall was a wonderful place and the national museum was amazing.

Isaac, me and vifo

these dogs are not dead.. they are up for adoption.. just too cute!!

the limited time i spent in Taipei really felt very short. next one will be about my traveling to Hsinchu, a city one hour away from Taipei! More photos are/will be available through my facebook account (mostly uploaded by my friends ^^)

Summer '10

Finally my summer trip blog is O-P-E-N!!!!! gonna update lots of stuff happening around me...current location is in Taipei, Taiwan. Just landed at around 6.30pm. Taipei is not very much different from Jakarta, apart from everything is in chinese. The airport immigration officer spoke to me in chinese asking about stuff, and with my super-limited chinese ability, we are able to communicate somehow... super LOL moment!

pre-departure photo with the whole team!!

We took bus from the airport to the city centre. It was a long ride. The bus dropped us off way far from our place to stay. Thus we walked for about 30 mins to reach our hotel. We were starving but luckily the hotel (YMCA) is surrounded by a lot of food stalls and restaurants. After dropping our stuff off at our rooms, we head out for a food hunt!

Bought a lot of tidbits before settling on a famous (not sure if it is real but they said it is) mee sua stall. Definitely super yummy mee sua! it's different from those that we can buy in the crispy chicken stall in Singapore! this one has more taste and the oyster does not taste weird/ocean-ish. After that we divided ourselves into two groups, one going to mcdonalds(wth?) and my group went for more street snacking in taipei.

the famous mee sua food chain!

They said bubble tea originated from Taiwan, so we definitely have to try the original!

Oh for those still asking about me meeting the Wonder Girls... yes i did meet the wonder girls on 17th June @ iluma bugis! it was like one of the best days of my life!! so excited that the pictures i took were mostly blur but anyways i got all their signature and SHAKE HANDS WITH ALL OF THEM!!!! also got to talk to yubin and sunye!!! aaahh it was like heaven!!! they are way prettier in real life!!! more photos of the wonder girls meet and greet can go to my facebook account (link on the side!), the better quality is with on my friend's photo album.

are you trying to get my picture sunye?? hehehe

now that this blog is up and running again, gonna update this one quite frequently whenever internet connection is around! for more up-to-date stuff can follow me on twitter, http://twitter.com/DustinBT