Nhemskie's Haven

         Lightnings flashed and thunder filled the whole sky. The monks in a northern Thailand province were bewildered to find one of their monuments struck by the lighning. Looking closely to this chedi, they discovered  a Buddha statue covered with plaster inside it. The monks took the statue quickly and brought it to the abbot's  residence where it was safely kept.      Days after the incident, the abbot suddenly espied that the stucco on the Buddha's nose had flaked off. He took a good look at it and saw a green image beneath. He removed carefully all the stucco that covered it --- He was stunned to see that the Buddha statue was green!  The Emerald Buddha      In 2006 when Tommy and I had our second honeymoon trip in Thailand. We booked our trip with an agency and had a ...

My vacation this year was very busy and tiring. And though I had a full 10-days off from work, those days were still not enough to have a real decent vacation where I could get a day's nap and take things slowly than my usual pace. Most of these times were spent at the Philippine Embassy in Seoul, our Community Center and the Busan Immigration . If you were keen to guess... yes, I am now a naturalized Korean. I won't say I'm very happy for this big change but I won't deny too that it'll make my life easier here in Korea and for my family too since we're all of the same nationality now. I also applied for Chloe's Philippine Passport and reported her birth as well (meaning she's now a dual citizenship holder). I'll do some more talking about the procedure next time. So, off we go to Seoul last Friday's night after my last class. We started at 11 pm and arrived at Euijeong bu at 3:30 am. Tommy drove all the way from Busan~Euijeong bu IC for four a...

Life has been smoother after the strenuous family schedule few weeks ago. There was this house moving, weekend out-of-town trip, and bidding goodbye to a family going abroad. It's kinda' easy to think this for some... but not with the JUN's. Tommy's family is quite different from other families here in Korea, as far as I know. They are really, really this kind of "close" to each other, they enjoy eating with a couple of drinks... I MEAN eating for as long as they can! I mean I know their metabolism are quite amazing even if they eat for hours and still they don't get fat but, how about ME??? (kkk) A typical get-together dinner would last for 3 hours... minimum but if you'll say it's a get-together party with some more relatives coming it would be just like until dawn! My mom-in-law has a fairly generous set of hands. Appetizers, main dish, desserts... soup for hangovers... you name it! and the list goes on and on. Our family believes like it...

We've got this amazing opportunity to go to Former President Roh Mu Hyun's hometown and luckily see him personally. The location is in Bong Ha Village, Kim Hae. People were really glad to see him. Just see how they smile although it was midday and the weather was really hot and humid.

Sunday morning for me is the best day of the weekend for that's the time where I can sleep a bit more in the morning and have much more time for Chloe and Tommy. But yesterday Sunday morning was different. After a Busy Saturday (Advance Korean Class at the BFIA in the morning and the family-get-together-dinner at my in- laws house) Chloe, Tommy, and Min Jae oppa's family (Tommy's HS friend) set forth for a railway trip by Mugung hwa from Dongnae Station to Bulguk Sa Station yesterday. This was my first East Coast railway travel as well as Chloe so it was such a delight to see all beaches at our window starting from Haeundae, Song Jong, Gijang, Il Gwang, Dae Byeon, Woell le to Im Rang Coast. Chloe was very happy and excited (she was looking for her whale friend from Porroro) to see the vast sea. She was also very glad eating her snacks and drinks while travelling. We boarded the train at noon and arrived at the Temple's ground by 3 p.m. (We met a lot of problems on the w...

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 ho...