6:28 pm
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

This was as CLOSE as I can get to see No.63 Building..
Tallest building in Korea.

Table offerings..
Simple yet "meaningful".


"Tokk-Guk" aka "rice cake soup.
Koreans eat this on the FIRST DAY of the LUNAR NEW YEAR.

I missed the "snowing" part.. =(
So unfortunately, I'm left with this. haha


Sunset Glow - Big Bang


Ok first of all, I am aware that pictures I posted were limited but my SD card got screwed up halfway so ya. =(
Second.. LOVE the song, 'SUNSET GLOW' by Big Bang. Its got a catchy feel to it! haha

Spent two nights at Grandma's place, celebrated the Lunar New Year with halmuni, my uncles and their family. Took that 5 hour bus ride from Seoul to Kunsan, just as we got on the Expressway, it was snowing like MAD! Couldn't take a picture cause it wasn't clear.. -__-
1st Day of the new year, I got up bright and early.. us, Korean women had to be in the Kitchen, preparing breakfast while the men and kids basically "chilled".
Granny made a few dishes that I'm unaware of, but I knew that "tokk-Guk" was one of them.

Table was set up and food was placed on it. We had to 'kowtow' infront of them, as our way paying respects to uhh.. I'm not sure who.haha=) Then the grandkids had to do the same infront of my elders. In exchange we get MONEY! Obviously me, being the oldest Grand-daughter.. I get more lah... MUAAHAHHA!
Grandma then lead us into a 20 min prayer. She was thanking the Lord like dunno how many times! Good gracious.. She kept repeating, " Kamsa-hamnida Hanemin..AaaMEN."
haha.. =)

Breakfast was served and it was a damn good one! Too bad mom couldn't have some of that lovely soup! She sounded sad when I mentioned it to her on the phone. Oh well ~ Perhaps next year, I'd be able to cook for her then.
Relatives came to the house in the afternoon, ate, drank, be merry.. I was with the kids the whole time cause I wasn't familiar with the rest.

Slept like 2 am the next day, only had like a few hours of sleep cause Granny woke me up to have breakfast again. Packed my bags and then took the cab to the Terminal where I boarded the bus back to Seoul. I'm telling you..travelling up and down Kunsan is so tiring!

School tomorrow.. back to studying -__-
more updates tomorrow!