Picked up the courage

It's currently 5:05am in the morning and I got to wake up in 2 hours time to help me friends to shift house. Okay whatever. Imma just come back to sleep after that, but while typing this, I'm really really hungry. How? 

Just a short update. I will update a full post soon really. 

TADA. Life's has been ups and downs ever since i came over to Korea. Many many many things had happened to the people around me and deep in my heart, it hurts to see this. But I had been able to pull through all these is because of our Heavenly Father, always being there giving me all the strength that I need. Of course, many things had happened to me too. All sorts of people that I met,  I learned so much from it despite just being here for just 3 months. Thank you to those people who were always there for me all these while (I know I repeated it almost every post, but still, thank you guys). 

And I guess I've pulled through this hard hard hard hard hard thingy that is always on my mind, it's not easy but I did it definitely. Kinda glad about it. 

And looking back at myself, I never knew I would changed so much in just 3 months. 

Firstly, I'm getting more and more disciplined about myself in my own life, having a budget, writing down daily expenses, daily cleaning of my room, washing of my smelly clothes. All of these, I don't even do it in Singapore, yet here, i disciplined myself so much. 

Secondly, money. I didn't realize the importance of money till I'm here. The difference between spending money and earning money at the same time. I never feel so bad eating a expensive food in Singapore, but here, nah. Definitely I can't do that, it will just exceed my budget totally. 

Thirdly, spending time alone. For the first time in life, I do appreciate my time alone here. I got so much time for myself, and I start to reflect in my life. Of course many FIRSTs here that happened to me. I don't mind eating alone, I don't mind going to shopping or just roam around the town and shopping centre alone. If you know me, I used to hate being alone, I need people to be around me and I stick with people. But here, many times I don't mind doing things alone or I rather want to be alone, but of course, I didn't change yeah, I still can't stop talking to my friends, so therefore even I like being alone, I tends to cling to my friends via Whatsapp, skype and FaceTime. Sorry guys. I know I'm still quite a burden. HAHAHAHHA 

Lastly, thinking. Idk what is affecting me but last week down thing really affected me so much and I thought was I crazy? So finally I visited the clubs here. Frankly speaking, it was good, not that bad or rather not that fantastic either. People smoke inside and it's stink really badly esp our hairs.  So many things happen inside this small place whereby I feel so damn wrong and out of place here. Yes. Maybe there's a sense of satisfactory whereby eyes were on you (they really love foreigners here), but when they started to get prideful and start pulling you, the thought of it is just too wrong. It seem like foreigners are "easy" to them or rather girls seems like a "easy" thing to guys. The thought of it is just too...wrong? (Idk how to explain this) I'm so sorry if this offend you, but maybe this is just a one or two times feeling I really thought how sucky I am for a moment when things occur to me and my friends. (Maybe I was thinking too much, maybe that......

OKAY IMMA WAKE UP SOON IN 1,5h time OMG. 

HAVE A GOOD REST MY FRIENDS AND I PROMISE I WILL UPDATE SOON. (Okay, not promise but rather hopefully I try. It's a big word)

Stepping out of the comfort zone

Just a short update about my life in Korea. I've been really busy or rather packed everything, life is so far so good here, even though i do miss Singapore so much.

It's been nearly 3 months since I'm here.

Never in my life i thought i would be so brave to do this and choose this route, i do have my plans about my next step, so this is only the beginning, there's still a long way to go.

At first, i thought to myself that the chances of me getting in to language school might be really low because SNU website stated that they do go through strict selection etc.

I was really happy when i got the acceptance email from SNU LEI and i can't wait for my new life to even start.

But as days go closer, i thought : "Wow, how many days do i left? How many people i am going to miss when i'm in there?"

Yes maybe some of you might think 1 year is not a very long thing, at first i was thinking, it's just a year and everything will past by really quickly. But when days get closer, i thought to myself, "woah, how much is everything gonna change when i'm back after a year?"

Many of my close friends are going to US, UK, AUS to study, and it will be like 1-2 years things before i can even get to see them again. But luckily, thanks to the technology, we are able to talk through phone, whatsapp, skype etc. But being able to meet in real life, is way much better right? To the few of them, Gillian, Nelson, Nicole, Jasmine, Liew, Onggo, Jade and those that i miss out, take care and we will see each other soon yeah?

So let's move on, to anyone who plan to study over here or rather just overseas, please kindly open your options up for your lodging because you will never know how much this totally screwed your life. (It's still a very big problem here for me), so basically RESEARCH ON YOUR LODGING because you will never know that they school will give you your dormitory a not.

So for my case, it's really stupid (Sorry to say that), i applied for summer dormitory late (technically i graduated from polytechnic, and apparently they don't understand that i can only take my official certificate in 28 May, so they accept me late), so for this, i got to admit it's my fault for not calling them thinking that they understand my e-mail. So yeah, i stayed outside, move house twice just to make sure that i can save more money, but sorry to say that, staying outside regardless how small a room can be, dorm is still 3 times cheaper. Especially whereby i have my own budget to last myself in Korea for a year, so guys, have backup plans for your lodging. It just stress you up, too much. And not only that, on the Fall application, i applied at 12am sharp for Fall Dormitory and i got rejected because priority are given to the new student, (ironic part, they didn't give it to me when i'm a new student either), i so guess i got stay outside for another 3 months? (MY MONEY FLY REALLY :( ) I will try to call them later, so let's hope and pray. So guys, please have backup plans, find backups even if they confirm a space for you in your new lodging. I do have friends that want to move out because of their pervert neighbours, roommates or whatever. Do more research and ask the Native about where is more reasonable. Of course, if you are rich, all these is not a problem at all.

Just a word of advice for those who are intending to take up Korean Courses here. From what i know, many University's language school does not guarantee you lodging at all. There are cheaper options in some area especially for Yongsei student (Dorm is rather expensive in Yongsei), so many people tend to stay outside near Sincheon. But for SNU case, School dorm is the cheapest and the best especially if you funding yourself for your education fee here. If you are someone that is fine with really small rooms, you can go for Goshiwon(just google and you will see how is it), but if you prefer more of a freedom, you can go for one room studio whereby it can cost you 400,000won a month and with a deposit of 5,000,000won (5000USD) and you need to sign contract or 6months-1year. Honestly i do not recommend this unless you are very sure and you can predict your future very well (this is for language student, but if you are very sure you are studying your bachelor or masters here, you can sign). You will never know what will happen back at home (CHOI, but still....) so if you break the contract, there will be fine (idk how much though) or you got to find your friend's friend's friendsssssss to let them take over your room. & it's a tedious process really. AND BECAREFUL OF SCAMMERS. Many of my friends are being charged so high in their rental and deposit. So guys, please do really tons of research and the best, ask a student studying here or your Korean friends.

Okay move on, i finished raging over the lodging thingy. well other than the stupid lodging thing, EVERYTHING ELSE IS AWESOME HERE. I met tons and tons of new friends, Unni, Oppa, teachers and Singaporeans that helped me so much with my stay here. First term had officially ended last week, i did well for my examinations and it's holiday now. My friends came over and yay, everything is so awesome. Met up with Singaporeans staying in Korea from the national day event plan by Singapore's Embassy and Singapore Seoul Club on Sat and all i can say that they really understand us students here and offer to help us in many ways. That's something i'm really proud of being a Singaporean here. Thank you so much.

& our heavenly father, being there for us for EVBS camp for Sunday school 2 weeks ago. Everything goes so well because of his blessing. EVBS was really awesome. Thank you Pastor Megumi for giving me a chance to be part of this family, it just feel so different going to Sunday School after the camp. & today, 2 very sad news. Yes, people come and go in life, but even though i'm really really upset, but still, i am very happy for them! :) I will update a full post about EVBS and our last day of school they next few days when i have much more time! Till then...

& ohyes, thank you to the many of youssssssss in Singapore, my dear friends, thank you for all your concern, all your everyday text, all your everyday pictures, everyday skype and FT, sometimes i even thought to myself, do i deserve so much from you all? But still, i love you guysssssssss. Really really. It's gonna be 6am here and I AM GOING TO SLEEP SOON :) Good night

Living life to the fullest

9 weeks since I'm in this kimchi island. I'm pretty packed everyday, that's why I should just use my phone to do the blogging while I travel in seoul. Weather here is pretty horrible because it goes so hot like Singapore and sometimes when it does rain, it can drop as low as 23 degree or even lower. So in summer, please kindly have an umbrella and a jacket in your bag because you wouldn't want to fall sick here, doctors here are not that cheap to visit because you can use those money and eat many food. 

Well. Life's had been pretty pretty fascinating for me here definitely. I don't call think it's called busy but rather fulfilling here. Church Sunday's School camp is coming and there's so many things that need to be done. I had been doing slides for all the worship songs and  even though it's pretty challenging (because I need ideas to design the slides) but I do enjoy doing it a lot. At least this is something I'm better at than crafts work. So, I will just let the pictures do the talking. 

This is basically what my school look like, and it's just part of it

My favourite fried pork thingy at Ehwa whereby it cost 2000won and the ahjussi/Ahjuma will just stuff as many pieces of pork into the small cup

Happen to spot a crowd and went to ask about it, it was running man filming. But we didn't get to see them though

Let me introduce one of the prettiest school ever, Ehwa Women University, I'm not sure about others. But definitely Edae is really beautiful to me

Chapel at Edae 

Let me introduce my awesome classmate, Ummugul, she's from turkey (a country that I really want to go) she's like another 언니 (older sister) that take care of me so well. Had a great time with her at a cafe while doing our work  on a Saturday

On the 16 July, it's our class German Oliver birthday and we decide to throw a mini celebration for him because it must be quite lonely if no one do anything about it during your birthday right? Our awesome teacher brought cake to the class in the morning and we meet for BBQ buffet in the evening. It was awesome really the food was too good for 10900won. After that we went to cold stone and surprise him with a cake

TADA, me with 140 pins that I made for the camp. I had totally become a expert after doing that. 

Can I buy this really? It's like $30 SGD, what the

Okay we are not worshipping it's just a action from the dance we gonna teach the kids for the Sunday school's camp

And after I came here, I start to love pizza even more now

With the teachers that are going for the camp, honestly, it was awkward at first but when you start to know them, all of them are really very inspiring, thank you for always taking care of me

And my addiction of all choc 빙수 (something like ice kachang) will not die really, but side note, I can only eat it for few months before winter come

TADA, my awesome friend brought me all of these from Singapore knowing that i miss eating Sg junk food and she is none other than...

Thank you huili for coming down to meet me and bring me so many things, I will see you soon in November

Other than Sunday school, there's always another to look forward to to the weekends. God gave me them, these brothers and sisters that are always keeping a look out for each other, our cg is really one of the noisiest cg ever and fellowship time is always the best because we love talking crap to one another. Indeed I'm really blessed to have them

It's been 8 weeks with all of them, getting to know different cultures and beliefs is so fascinating to me, honestly they are really a nice bunch of classmates to have, role plays will never be the same next term whereby half of them will be leaving for further education and the rest will split into different classes again, but still all the best guys, will definitely miss you all, let's hang out more before all of us depart for our own life

And finally just incase you all miss my face too much, I miss you guys too.

Guess who had booked her flight back to Singapore for vacation. Yes I will be coming back and I had already booked the tickets because it's so cheap, Life's here is really going well for me, everyday is like zoooom zoooooom so fast. But honestly I can't wait for November, I can't wait to find a Part time job here, I can't wait for my first vacation here whereby Brenda and Dawn is coming to Seoul. I can't wait to work out everyday. 

Just that back in Singapore and malaysia, my two lovely grandmother aren't doing that well. But let's all pray and hopefully they get well soon. The operation will go well right? Definitely it will :) 

Till then... I will post again soon. 

Missing you

Oh, how much i miss everyone back in Sg, not say i'm not living a good life here, but, it's just you know you miss the people who are the closest to you back there. I do have good friends here, but comparatively, how comfortable i'm with you guys and them are way different. Maybe we are all from different countries, you will watch your action more because some of things are you offending to others. Well, of course, it's a good experiences because you learn a lot for one another.

One thing definitely i miss, is myself back in Singapore. How crazy i can be (if you know me), i do not need to care about my friends judging me because they know i'm like that, but here, people will just think that i'm crazy. Haha, but well, life's goes on.

Definitely time here seems to be going so fast even though i only have class from 9am to 1pm everyday, everyday just passes by so fast. Well, maybe because there's really a lot of things to revise. I did well my friends, so stop worrying that i didn't study, your friend here still have the ability to study. But, maybe not that well?

Okay, i miss you guys, you, you, you, you and you. Many of you. I miss our crazy hanging out sessions, going out just to sit down and lepak everywhere, eat everything and spending money on just food. I miss talking about my everything to you, I miss the being silly infront of you, after all, i just miss to talking to you. This is how much i miss you guys. Even if i'm here, i do still feel the overly-attached feeling toward you guys. SIAO right?

Love sitting at the cafe here studying and using my computer because it's just 20 steps from my house and i can wear really terribly here (people that come to this cafe  don't dress up too), it's just a really quiet cafe that is located in those small alley, whereby you can sit here for one whole day even if you just buy a 4 bucks drink(this cafe offer one of the cheapest drinks here), no one will chase you out at all. And best thing is, they do have my favourite English songs and some Kpop songs too. (A Korean cafe that have old school classic and R&B songs, really remarkable), if i have like tons of money, i don't mind coming here everyday. But, this cafe is definitely my favourite place on Saturday whereby I have time to use my computer and get some work done, not forgetting to study for test again. It's getting late and i have exams on Monday and Tuesday again. Till then...

Love you guys

The hardest farewell

Even though it's just a year, but i am still pretty much upset that i can't see all of my love ones in this short period.
On a side note, i will be coming back on November anyways. Hahahahaha.
Even though i have like 3 tests tomorrow, i still have some time to sit at a cafe (In Korea, everyone calls it coffee shop). But rest assured, i just finished studying, maybe i will read through a bit more later.
Anyways, i just moved house recently on Monday to Goshiwon/Goshitel, it is just a really really small house that provide basic necessity such as Kimchi, Ramyun, Rice and many others too. Honestly, i like it because i do not have to clean the toilet or kitchen other then my own room, and my room is really small, but, it is just nice for a person, really.
Anyways, if any of you guys need help in anything or any information about Korea, Seoul National University, VISA, Alien Card, Lodging or whatever, i honestly don't mind helping you all, i know it's really hard because i did it all by myself, and i'm really lucky to know some people from SNU to help me a lot, especially on the informations. You can email me at yonghuiting123@hotmail.com . I will try my best to help ah.

So my next blog post will be: "How to survive in Korea?"

Okay, anyways, shall upload photos now. To all who came down on that day, thank you so much, i know all of you have a really long day especially the ones who graduated on that day. I am really thankful for all of you okay! Love you guys loads, and yet again, I MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH!

So...Thank you guys one again.

to my dear friend simin that grow up with me till now, thank you so much for coming down to send me off straight away after you graduation. Till then, take care alright. & thank you sihui and joel too

& of course my favourite band girls

& to the awesome SP Band members, thank you for coming down. All of you do mean a lot to me, band is really a big thing in my life, especially of all you. Also, nelson who is not in the picture who rush down just to see me awhile, thank you

Thank you Nisa, Shan and Winnie for coming down too even though you all had a long day in the morning

& to these girls who are forever with me, love you guys, too bad we can't take a complete picture but it's okay because i'm coming back soon & waimin thank you for coming to my grad in the morning

the moment i saw this idiot at the food court, i almost teared up because she said she can't come yet she cancel her work to just come down, love you pig

& this group of people who is part of my everyday life, love you guys loads tooooooooo, don't need me to say how grateful i am for you guys right?

HAHHAHAHHAHA, & this, this is just for someone to see too, anyways, thank you Loong and Huimin for coming down

And to the most awesome team i ever worked with, love you guys so much

Because god gave me the greatest things along with this family of mine, thank you for all your everlasting support all these year, even though people might think i made a stupid decision coming here, yet all of you still give me your sincere support. I will see you all soon

Lastly, a group shot, thank you guys, really, i will see of all you soon yeah? Ohyeah, and thank you cheeps for down, I know it's been a long day for you too 

Oh, let me introduce my really pretty and pretty big school, Seoul National University

& god gave me a awesome JIEJIE here that often cook for me, really thankful for this girl, thank you waiwai

Have a good day everyone, let's all have a little faith and life will eventually get better