Photo of the week - Smoke gets in your eyes

Few weeks ago... A day before the closing date... I saw this on my Facebook's news feed.

So... I sent this entry...

Title: Smoke gets in your eyes (Location: Myeongdong)

And today, I received this email...

Most probably, my prize will be forfeited because I don't think I can attend the award ceremony. I have to attend a lecture (still undecided)... 

However, I am proud to win it. I always felt like I am not very good in taking photos but today, I realized I can also take good photos. Finally, I achieved my New Year's Resolutions goal no. 6. :) 기분이 좋아졌어 ㅎㅎ

Happy weekend.

Home - Tarot Card Reading - You!

"Say Oh, Got This Feeling That You Can't Fight

Like This City Is On Fire 'night

This Could Really Be A Good Life

A Good, Good Life..."

One Republic - Good Life

I am an extremely optimistic person. It is worthless to be gloomy about life, I think we should live for the day and be optimistic about our future. Although we should get realistic sometimes.

In life I am not a believer of tarot cards and fortune telling, thus I don't believe that our destinies have already been predetermined. This is why I worked my a** out and to be good in what I hope to be. 2 months ago I was back home for Chinese New Year and I had a chance to go for tarot cards reading. It was free!

I was very skeptical but sometimes free things are always hard to refuse, I went for it. That event was held in conjunction with Chinese New Year open house held by SP Setia, a property developer in Malaysia. Initially I was there for the lion dragon dance performance but to my dismay, it had yet to start.

With lots of free time left, I went to the tarot card booth. Let me share something cool, in my tarot cards about my "Future, career and life" thingy, I was asked to pick 3 cards. I picked 3 cards with pictures of a knight on a horse, a king riding a horse with a sun on top and lastly a card with a man riding a horse. Cards with horses are excellent ones according to the tarot card reader. WOW!!!

It WAS sooooo cool. Of course, it was cool!! This is because my mum did not get any horses, while the person in front of me too did not get any tarot cards with horses. Whats more 3 such similar cards coincidentally in a row. It was a "good prediction" but the bad news was, I didn't really believe it although I have to be honest that it did cheer up my day. ^^

Even though I do not believe in tarot cards, it does not mean I am not open to advices given by the tarot reader. He said I could be very successful if I am doing things I have interest at. I will try to be good in what I like then. Frankly, I do not know what I am good or interested in.. I am a very ordinary person.

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These coming months, I would be busier than ever. I would be busy writing for ASEAN-Korea webpage as an ASEAN correspondent. The main reasons...

1. I need to keep myself busy, if not, I am doing nothing.

2. One word - Money.

3. To build up my credentials.

Then, from May onwards, I will be in the KNU Times editorial team (My university's English magazine) after writing unofficially since 2009. It would be the first time for a foreigner to be in KNU Times as they have never accepted any foreigner since its inception. I will have more opportunity to improve my Korean and experience the Korean working environment. Great!

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Wanna be a model in Korea?

Main requirements:

Height between 168 - 170 cm, 20 - 28 years old, Size 55 (Korean size),... If interested, please click on this link.

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To my readers, I have something I want to know. It's just that I want to write something that will be of your liking. So what do you want to read in this blog? It will be more fun if this time, I am interacting with you guys through this blog. Feel free to leave your comment(s) below! :)

Wanna be a model in Korea?

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date..."

"...Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."

Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Sounds true but I believe what's more important in it is that the personality counts more. Well lets take this scenario, imagine dating a beautiful eye candy (Guy's "dream" when young and sometimes, it continues till death though not all guys are that la. Hehe) and so you met her for the first time in a coffee shop.

She's so mesmerizing, so pretty, walks with a style. Is she a model? This isn't another dream right? Wow!

But the moment she starts talking... ugghhh... Same goes to some guys for most girls just to be fair to my female readers. :P But that's another story. Being a model is a dream of many and even in Korea, being pretty (for girls) and handsome (guys) are paramount. Getting a good job is among the many reasons.

Some Koreans then resorted to having plastic surgery to look good. Face lift, double eyelid, nose job and so on, you name it, they have them all. Though not everyone here have done plastic surgery but having one here is not a big issue. Some parents here encourage their daughter to have plastic surgery too. Anyway, whether plastic surgery or not, I couldn't care less.

My model



An ordinary blogger :)

Nevertheless, being a foreigner in Korea (IF YOU ARE ONE), you have the chance to be a model. Don't believe me? Erm.. You should now! Well, the catch is only that you have to be a foreigner (27 years or younger) in Korea and is confident enough to say "YES I AM PRETTY/HANDSOME!!!" deep down in your very own heart - you need the confidence.

You are almost done! If you are selected (2 men and 2 women), you will be paid 400,000 Won (almost 340 USD), accomodation in Jeju Island, meals and round air ticket from Gimpo airport to Jeju Airport.

If you want to apply to this position, please fill out the details below and send it by e-mail (president[at]kinsa.org) with your photo

1. Name :

2. Nationality :

3. University :

4. Address (Korea) :

5. Phone number :

6. E-mail :

7. Date of Birth :

8. Alien Registration No. :

9. Height & Weight :

Are you ready for it? If not, what are you waiting for? Hurry up because it's until 10 October.

Contest - Incheon Korean Music Wave 2011

I am not quite a fan of any Korean groups or singers even after staying in Korea for quite some time. It's quite entertaining sometimes when my friends discussed about Korean Pop news and I am just like "Huh?" or trying to change this conversation topic.

I would be crazy if I talk head on about Korean pop stars with my Korean friends - I couldn't even differentiate who is who in 2AM or 2PM. Come on... It's really confusing.. Why can't they have 2PM and another is 3PM/AM or something? Why another is 2AM?

So who's my favorite Korean groups/singers? Ermmmmmm.... Let me think..... Big Bang? Nah, but they are definitely better than the emo 2PM and many other Korean Pop groups here. You gotta agree with me!

"I'm so sorry but I love you da geojitmal (다 거짓말 or "all lies")..." 거짓말 (Lies) by 빅뱅 (Big Bang)

Lol. But really, I guess you don't care about lyrics ^^ Anyway, if you are in Korea, this is the time to see your favorite Korean pop stars such as 2PM, Big Bang, Girls' Generation (Awww) all in a single venue.

You don't need to pose with your favorite stars this way...



or even stand beside a cardboard-size pop singer..

Neither do you need to work this hard to buy a ticket to see your favorite K-pop stars...

You can see them live and for free by participating in this contest. Click on this link here to read and participate. You wouldn't be seeing me going there because I would be back home for my summer vacation. Have an enjoyable one if you did win.