Pusan Continued



After a night at our guesthouse, we set out for Taejungdae which was a tourist attraction composed of Shinsun (Taoist Monk) Rock and Jujunja (kettle) Island. Some place where some king sat and look out to the sea to meditate...something along that line.



Shyt, I think I am becoming more artistic. Or maybe its the place, I can never take this sort of photos in singapore.



I love their vandalism.



It was a photo competition between Ariyo, Liwei and I to see who could take the nicest photo of that spot.



Having a greentea shake while waiting for our tram ride.




The Jagalchi fish market. Fish and shellfish are sold fresh to consumers, almost right off the boat. The area is lined with tanks containing all sorts of fish, eels, squid, shellfish, and mollusks. Some areas have workers preparing the seafood for long term storage. We watch as the fish get scaled, beheaded, chopped up, and served for us all in record time.



Our lunch. We ate some eel/catfish/ suckerfish like creature..which was still wriggling when they served us. The HK girls were extremlyy freaked out that they left to scour for their own food. Tsk. It taste pretty good even though we couldn't make out head or tail the parts we were eating.

After that, I wanted to try sashimi but no one seemed interested.



So, we went for some traditional Korean pancake, their form of seafood pizza with leeks and onions.



After lunch, we went around Nampodong? (honestly I forgot most of the pusan area names), which was a shopping district of Pusan. Trendy shops and branded shops aplenty..so we did window shopping since we didn't have much money. Boutique selling the clothes that Eun hye wore in Coffee Prince.

In the evening, we took a train ride to Gyeongju...



Our guesthouse where we retired for the night after a tiring day of sightseeing and late night drinking. We had some crazy punishment for Ariyo since he was allergic to alcohol, we forced him to drink up 6 packs worth of concentrated coffee...which left him in an uber high mood, just like the rest of us who were intoxicated with soju. Hahaha. But he suffered worse than us because he couldnt sleep at all.. and puked coffee. Lol.

Pusan/ Gyeongju Trip

Many things happened during this trip. Some memorable, some unpleasant but.. well it was a good trip on the whole. We planned the itinerary, booked accommodation, and had to scroll korean websites for info (especially for PIFF- pusan international film festival) beforehand.



Liwei, our taiwan friend, was our official tour guide since he had the lightest academic load. But the late nights of planning took its toll on him, making him rather shagged.
Train tickets. In a nice 红包..maybe not angbao since its not red. Maybe lanbao 蓝包, but it sounds wrong, ah nvm.



Happy commuters on the KTX express train. (Gary and Ariyo)
View from the window. Trains are kind of fast in Korea, which makes me wonder why do we take so long to travel on Sg MRTs since our island is so small?!!



At our guesthouse which we booked through busanbagpackers.com . Reasonably priced considering our late booking. I chose to sleep on the floor which saved me 5,000 won..the equivalent of 10 ice-creams! / McDonald's meal.



Our first stop was at some old folk town where we discovered that we were the youngest creatures in that vicinity. Yes look at the amount of cabbage that have for kimchi. Food for thought: Do rabbits in korea eat kimchi?



At Haeunde beach (probably their most famous beach) in Pusan. Kind of nice..its natural sand. Its usually packed with flocks of pretty girls in bikinis during summer..but well..summer is over and I made a :( drawing in the sand as a display of my disappointment.



PIFF (Pusan International Film Festival) the reason why we chose to go during that period. Royston Tan's 881. We wanted to catch the closing movie Evangelion 1.0 but we were unable to get the tickets. Because we didnt start queuing since early morning. So we just snapped pictures to act like we went to the film festival, which we did. The venue. haha. And we witnessed the closing ceremony too.



Went to check on girls making sandcastles. And yes. we were only admiring the sandcastles.
But seeing girls moulding lumps of sand made me build my own sandcastles in my head.



Actually we took a lot of nice photos on the beach, using Crystal's camera but some fucker stole it from us while we were drunk and giggling merrily on the subway. So I'm only left with the ugly pictures from Pusan..like of me. haha.



We took a cruise and saw lots of seagulls..flying around us. I could literally examine its armpit from where we stood. The seagulls surrounding us made it resemble a scene of a korean drama. I cant remember which one though.



Some lighthouse.



No, we didnt have dinner at this restaurant..instead we settled for an 'interesting' dinner which was partly my fault because I was such a smart alec to decipher the korean characters wrongly.

Turned out that we ordered..pig organs stew.I don't really have an aversion to pig organs since I was trained to eat those from young. I consume pig liver, kidney on a regular basis..pigs' stomach once in a while. As for intestines, I rarely touch them. In Singapore, pig organ's soup is a common thing...but somehow the broth there was kind of 'special', lol, the taste was quite overbearing , which freaked the two HK girls and Crystal out. We paid like 7,000 won, damn pain sia. T.T

...Blogging fatigue. I have too many stuff to update and I am so tired. 3 more mid-terms to go and lots of activities planned out for the weekend. And late nights of dotaing, watching serials and youtubing sure doesnt help.

Hop over to Ariyo's blog to read more about pusan happenings. :D
Btw, I did a guest blog entry there too. On crazy ajummas. hahah.