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happi new year
Sunday, January 01, 2006
First day of 2006, and I finally return to blog....would have blogged earlier, but was busy with work at Pilot Pen....ok, first things first, the korea trip...it's far too long to go through everything so I'll just highlight the more interesting events.One word pretty much sums up the whole trip, and that is "cold". Coldest temperature there was -17C, and always it was subzero. Fortunately my jacket was good, tailored for skiing, so I kept from popsicle-ising. Went to the Phoenix Park ski resort, it was straight out cool (in both senses of the word). Tried out a little snowboarding, it's much cooler than skiing, but stopping involves aligning your board perpendicularly to your direction, which means, no balance = fall. And I did a few times, directly into the snow....no, it doesn't taste good. But it was still great, only once you get down the slope your mouth is numb from the cutting wind of your descent. Next highlight was a theme park called Everland, themed in a rather fairy-tale type way....but it was very fun, especially a safari adventure thing where you're in a bus going through a park where there're bears and lions and tigers....should watch the trainer feed the bears, go figure. Another attraction was great, called the mystery mansion, you sit in a chair, and there're lightguns in holsters around you....you take them, the ride starts....and you go through a dark place shooting at "ghosts"! Damn cool, got top score out of the 4 people I was playing with. Next, and probably last thing I'll talk about is Lotte World....another theme park, alot more indoor-oriented than Everland.....though I much prefer Everland....but Lotte World had an ice-skating rink, and that's what I like it for. And right next to the rink, what might I find but a shooting tange with REAL guns!!! Cool, another shootout! So mi and dad go in for a spin, and my gun is called the "Sig Sauer P220", feels great in my hand. I went first, firing at a paper target. And WOW, the shot is LOUD, even with those ear-things on my ears ring when I fire....but I held still and all my shots went through the BLACK area, I got 77%, not bad, A1 for first timer huh. Brought the target back, who want to see? Heex....not to forget, at Lotte World was the taekwondo demo that I was probably the ony thing I was looking forward to on the trip, had I not known I'd go shooting and skating. First up was simply a guy doing the koryo pattern, but then they went through a series of fantastic kicks and spins that was way too cool....went around asking for volunteers who wanted to try smashing blocks, and I almost fainted raising my hand at them, but they didn't choose mi. ARGH. And after the demo I wanted to ask them some questions....but who knows, they go backstage and completely DISAPPEAR, there goes my special korea-originated tuition on how to do that stupid jumping back thrust. That's about all the nice stuffs that happened, oh ya we saw real snow, last day....haha...ok that's it, the rest of the year isn't exactly very happi. Came back to find out which JC I'm going to for first 3 months, sorry Zoe I didn't answer your question, reason being it's one that'll make a gangster scoff....if you still want to know ask mi NOT on my blog.....then christmas came and went, wanted to do something on christmas but didn't have the chance to....WHY? By now though, I'm quite much accustomed to this manner of failure. Merri christmas everyone, belated, but yeah, it lasts 12 days right? Went back to visit HO on friday, some people changed, Zoe rebond your hair, haha, Wei Ling seems to have changed hairstyle too, and did jiao lian dye his hair? Had a fairly nice time there, again didn't manage to do something I wanted but ohwell. Got grounded on saturday because I didn't fix the dumb printer, but good thing I just did it....and now here I am. Neat life huh? No mood to post some reflections on 2005, will do that next post. Going off to play DarkEden now, bye and happi new year again everyone
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