Thursday, August 30, 2007

We went down to Seoul immigration office to apply for some weird card called 'alien registration card', which was required of Korean visitors staying for more than 90 days. That pretty much sums up how the nationalistic (maybe mildly xenophobic?) Koreans view foreignors. "Aliens" @-@ Lol.

We transferred at Yeongdungpo-gu and alighted at omokgyo. We walked for a stretch before arriving at the immigration office. Got a free sample of some malt candy like snack from the ajeossi. Damn sweet. and sticky. like caramel. I figured I had enough sugar today to send a ADHD kid convulsing to the grave.

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I love free stuff. :>

Ariyo's and my applications were processed rather swiftly. Our queue numbers were up even before we finished filling up our forms. Sadly, our Chinese counterparts weren't so lucky, they had to wait for approximately 2hrs? for their turn. The seoul government even allocated an exclusive level to cope with the masses of Chinese exodus.

While waiting for them, Ariyo and I went to grab some donuts to fill our stomachs.
We dropped by dunkin' donuts. And ordered donuts worth 1700 won each.

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Plonked our butts by the window seats and ate our donuts while watching passerbys go by.
Playing around with food.

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Lends a whole new meaning to do..nuts. Thanks to Ariyo for supplying his balls.

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Doubly sweet. *U*KIN Donuts. I love the chewy feeling of the glutinous filling.

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Little girl eyeing my candy stick. -Not for sale-

After that, we went back to look for our Chinese friends, Adam and Yuan Yuan, and we took the subway to Ewha's Women's University. We were gushing exuberantly about the 'beauty' of Ewha we had preconceived through conjured images and hearsay.

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We were supposed to look for the swimming pool. But it was hard with all the barricades and renovation going on.

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The school in a dismal state. And we realised that school hasn't started.
DiSaPPointed wE weRe.

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Nevertheless, we were rewarded with some Beethovens. Kudos to Ariyo, our talented photographer, for these shots, at our request. I hope his gf doesn't slaughter him. Lol.

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The Ehwa girls are such hot commodities. Look at the number of children they have even before they finish uni.

Happy men.
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