garbage bin: December 2012

Kayyyy what is up, people? My third semester at KINGS ended last week. Lots of people had gone back home. I have to work on my project research. Sooo, bedtime story now. Had another Cross Cultural Program (CCP), we went to PyongChang this time, to a ski resort called YongPyong Resort! I went snowboarding. Last time I remember falling on my butt for so many times I decided that I hate snowboarding. But this time, I kinda enjoyed it. I actually love snowboarding. Not an expert yet, but I was doing great, though I fell a lot. One tragedy though, we took a group lesson (well, typical thing to do if you go ski or snowboard once a year, of course you'd need one) and we were sitting somewhere in the middle of the slope, waiting for our turn to practice this particular technique. Suddenly, like out of freaking nowhere, a ski blade, a freaking ski blade that was sliding down the slope from the top, hit my freaking butt. It was so damned painfulllll my butt was throbbing every second for the next two freaking hours. I could not sleep on my right side that night (and the following 10 nights) and on the next day, the place where I got hit turned red, blue, purple - it's like a horrible abstract painting that's worth only 300 won!!! Damn, son!

Anyway here are some pictures. The place will host 2018 Winter Olympics, I heard. Nicerrrr.

It was a crazy trip, I was one of the "Board of Games Commissioners" for a games night kinda party thing for students and profs. Because of the exams and project reports that we had to submit before going for the CCP, we had only 2 or 3 meetings, and the final meeting, which was held a day before the trip was when we finalized every-freaking-thing. We finished planning and preparing for the games night around 330am, and we had to wake up around 7am since we were leaving at 730am. I slept at 6am that day because I had to pack and all (including eating as I was sooo hungry from the long meeting, plus we had a festival going on in the morning where we had to perform the stupid Saranghae song - again I played guitar for my friends to sing to) after the meeting.

And when we arrived at the resort (it was snowingggg and people said it rarely snows in that area actually - the resort uses artificial snow most of the time using that machine that produces snow) we had to get all the rental gears. At night after the games night thingy (everyone enjoyed our arrangement, I was so happyyy), the profs invited us the Board of Games Commissioners people to have some drinks at a bar. So we hung out with the profs until past midnight (and I had just like less than an hour of sleep that day, okay plus like maybe 2 or 3 hours of sleep on the bus, which was not sufficient at all). Nevertheless, still enjoyed everything! Oh by the way, I have always wanted to do Taeguk (Taekwondo pattern) in the snow, and this time I did ittttt. I did Taeguk 7 in the snowwwww.

Then after the trip, we attended Jude's wedding on Sunday. Jude requested for us to perform at his wedding, so we practiced the song (we chose "Can't Help Falling In Love" by Elvis Presley) the whole night before, Kirah on guitar, Mimie of course flute and Ha and I on vocals.

Practicing before the actual performance

After the wedding, Kirah and I stayed back in Bujeon to go for Yellow Monsters concert. Damnnnnn they're so good. I was so surprised that there were so little people and the place, Cosmic Collavo (formerly known as Rock House) was so small (it's like a bar and it's like in the basement). There were like almost 20 people who came, I felt bad actually but regardless, Yellow Monsters still performed as if they're performing for a 1000-people crowd. I loved their show! We got to take some pictures with the band. How often do you get to do that rightttt. I mean, it's usually hard, if not impossible, to take a picture with the performing band if this was just a regular, ordinary concert that everyone goes to.