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The Awakening


It's good to be back here writing in my blog. Now where have I all been these days? Hmmmmm.. yeah, I was really busy. Time slips easily these days. Maybe it's because I had a lot of things to do... (I mean, I a ALWAYS HAVE a lot of things to do). I never notice that the year is almost ending. My dear~ I never even fulfilled my new year's resolution!!! There's a another year anyways... (too bad)

I guess some pictures in my photo album will tell what I have done for the last few weeks that I never wrote anything in this blog. That would be my trip to Andong and Chungmu(the nappoli of Korea as they say). My trip to Andong was sponsored by The PWHL team where I attended some seminar about Korean culture, sex and violence, child rearing and the like together with different foreign wives here in Busan. The trip was actually more of a cultural experience more than the usual sight-seeing. They taught us to do some traditional charms and let us know more about the traditional house, its' different parts and and functions. It was interesting actually learning at the same time being with a bunch of new friends. Tommy was also with me that day.
Chungmu, on the other hand, was such a nice place to stay. It was Tommy's birthday trip this time. We went there with the rest of the family and stayed for two days. Actually we never did anything special but the place indeed made the trip very memorable and fun. We just drove around the downtown and had plenty of sushi on our first night. After the heavy and delicious dinner, we all went bowling... you won't believe it but even Tommy's 84-year-old grand mother played that night. It was really fun! Of course add some alcohol and that would be a great night-out.

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The rest of my days was spent studying, meeting friends, driving, bowling and bowling. By the way, The PIFF was also very nice (we met Jacky Chan and Kim Hee Sun in person).

I think my boredom has come into end.

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