Best I've ever had.

Annyohaseyo! (hello) I'm back. And hell yeah, I miss Korea and my all-time favourite tour guide, Jimmy Wang.

Alright now, I shall began with my tremendous awesome trip to Korea.

DAY ONE, 19 Nov 2010.

The flight to Korea was really late (or you can say early at the same time), 11:59pm. While waiting at the departure hall, I sat in MPH and finished off 6 chapters of Mini Shopaholics by Sophie Kinsella. I boarded the Korean Airlines. It was quite a tough ride, as the weather wasn't that good, so it was quite bumpy along the way. Ignoring the stormy rain outside, I turned to the screen in front of me. I found so many movies that are in my demand list, like Inception, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Shrek Forever After, Salt and so on. I wished I have the time to digest all of them. But unfortunately, I have to say, I don't. Plus parents non-stopped nagging we have to get some sleep before starting off our tour in Korea. Ok fine then. So half way through Despicable Me, I drifted off to my dreamland. That was around 1 am.

I woke up several times. Trust me, it's difficult to find a right and comfortable posture to sleep in the plane, excluding Business Class of course. Finally, I got up wide awake by 4am, time for breakfast! And then, I only found out there's ECLIPSE. I regretted for not watching it earlier, and so obviously I didn't get to finish.

DAY TWO, 20 Nov 2010.

I reached Korea by their local time, 7.30am. Malaysia and Korea is only one hour difference, just so you know. The second I first stepped into an country I've never been before, I immediately spotted a charming looking guy. (hot definitely isn't the right word to describe him) And I wouldn't believe when the tour leader of our group from Malaysia asked us to follow him. I know that instant, he'll be our tour guide for this 8 days.

OMG!

Anyways, when I walked out of Incheon Airport, exposed to the wind outside. There, the cold started invading. It was really chilly, I was actually shivering even beneath my thick clothes.

In the bus, our tour guide introduced himself. His name is Jimmy Wang. He's totally covered in black. Black suit, black jacket and black shoes. And his watch is glimmering all the time. Jimmy's half korean and half chinese. He speaks so many languages that sometimes he said, he gets confused too. He has some sort of American accent as he lived in Las Vegas for 7 years. The group I joined specially requested for an English speaking tour guide, and we are so fortunate to have him. He's very humorous, told us a lot of interesting and different experience of his.

I looked at him in awe, really.

The tourists in my group are really sociable and friendly. In no time I was chatting, joking and having hell lot of fun with them. Even the adults are easy to talk to. God, this is the best tour group I've ever had. I remembered the last time I joined tour to China, horrible memory. I remembered none of them, not even an image of the tour guide.

So our first stop is the Blue House and GyeongBok Palace situated in Seoul. "The Blue House is something like the White House. Why call Blue House instead of green house? Well, if not it'll sound like a farm or garden isn't?" Jimmy explained.

Before we went in the palace, I remember Jimmy said, "Alright, we'll be having an important tour right now. (few seconds later) There won't be any toilet inside the palace, so please." *laughs*

GyeongBok Palace is where one of the famous korean drama was filmed, Da Chang Jin (大長今). The palace's really big, and as it's approaching end of autumn, with the combinations of yellow, red and orange maple leaves, doesn't matter if they're still on the branches or have fallen to the ground. The whole scenery's really soothing and beautiful.

After touring the palace, while waiting for the bus, something funny happened. A group of (I guess) Thai and Arabic female tourists came running (sort of) towards Jimmy's direction and asking to take photos with him. Like seriously? Just imagine how good looking is he, that he would attract total absolute strangers.

We were starving and finished our lunch in a real quick speed. Later then, we took a domestic flight and flew to Jeju Island. I slept for 1 hour in the plane. The first place we visited was called, The Mysterious Road.

We looked in front of the road, it's obvious we're going uphill. At that point, the driver turned off the engine. And miraculously, the bus continued moving, and getting faster too! "So how does it really work?" I asked. "We're pushed by the pixies." Jimmy answered, trying to scare us.

We got off the bus and as asked by Jimmy, I brought down a round-base bottle. I laid the bottle on the uphill road, and it started rolling upwards as well! Amazing ain't it?

The answer's easy. It's just plain optical illusion. The road's actually going downhill, we're just being distracted by the surrounding of environment beside the road. At the end of the road, it's slightly heading uphill, but because of the force it gained while going downhill, the vehicles are still able to continue it's journey without the help of engine. I saw a car trying by reversing, it works the same too.

Oh pooh, just like that and the place becomes famous. But well, it does feels magical. Pixies huh? *snickers*

Next, we headed to YongDuam Rock. "People says it's actually suppose to be a dragon head, but I always see it more of a dog head." Jimmy joked.

I see it neither as a dragon head nor dog head though.

We had dinner by 6.00pm. That's real early! But my stomach's already started grumbling. Dinner was seafood steamboat. The prawns in Jeju Island are really unique. I've never seen such prawns with such sharp and hard shells before. It hurts my fingers to peel them off. Too bad I didn't get to take a shot of it. I saw from the corner of my eyes the waiters were giggling when I struggled to taste the prawns. Finally, Jimmy taught me the right way, which is by cracking it with my teeth.

And then, Daddy ordered an octopus, that was totally out of my expectation. I've never tasted one before, seriously. And I thought they were gonna cook it in the kitchen before serving, but hell no! They took the raw octopus. Mind you, the one that's still wriggling their tentacles. And what's next? They threw it into the steaming hot pot. Jesus.

I didn't dare to look when they cut it into pieces.

We headed off to the Jeju Pearl Hotel after dinner. It was only 7 something, and the whole sky was total pitch dark already. It's so weird, that I felt like my watch's having some problem. I took a bath and I wanted to stay in the bath tub so badly. Cause the second I'm up, the coldness runs all over my body.

Don't laugh at me, laugh with me. - Jimmy Wang.