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Various Japanese wallpapers

Japanese food wallpaper

Tare panda wallpaper

Tare panda wallpaper

Japanese landscape wallpaper

fringe on me

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After:

future:

 i dunwan fringe already.so childish.go class kena teased .=.=''

Random post.LOL ciao.Karaoke whole afternoon today so exhausted already.Bai!:)

*hugs**bitter smile*

Beautiful Japanese wallpapers

Geisha holding Japanese umbrella wallpaper

Kobe city at night wallpaper

Mont fuji - Fuji-san by night wallpaper

Digital Japanese landscape wallpaper

The Great Wall of Suwon

This is what it's come down to: a desk piled high with roach killer. For the last few weeks, our apartment hasn't felt much like a home, thanks to an infestation of giant cockroaches. They've been dropping from the ceiling, crawling on our cups and just generally making themselves at home. It's hard to sleep at night when we can hear them scurrying around our apartment, and when we do sleep we often have cockroach-related nightmares (or worse- I dreamt that we had a scorpion infestation last week!) Anyway- on top of this, the new semester of school has left us both feeling drained and wanting to get away for the weekend, so on Friday night we went to Suwon, our home away from home.

Though we usually stay at the Lucy, we decided to try another hotel on our favorite Love Motel strip- the Pink Panda. We were given the Pink Panda: Black Edition room, though it was curiously decorated with pictures of the Pink Panther and was more pink than black.

Even though we've stayed in dozens of love motels, I'd never noticed that the cars in the parking lot all have their license plate numbers hidden. This helps to keep what happens in the love motel on the down low. I guess most people that go to these places aren't in it for the whirlpool and big screen viewing of Oprah like we are.

We decided to spend the day hiking around Hwaseong Fortress. The Fortress is essentially a wall that surrounds what was once central Suwon. It was built over 200 years ago by King Jeongjo, who had planned to move the capital of Korea to Suwon. That didn't quite work out, but the scenic fortress walls are well worth a day trip to Suwon. We'd hiked there before, but that was almost 5 years ago, so we'd been looking forward to getting a weekend with nice enough weather to do it again.

Just as we were about to start our hike, I was approached as I left the washrooms by a young guy wearing a Samsung t-shirt.

Guy: Hi, how are you? Do you know Samsung company?

Me: Yeah, sure.

Guy: Do you want to do commercial about Samsung electronics? You can dancing with us.

Me: (Nearby, I can see one of his co-horts already getting dressed up in some ridiculous blue costume because he's sure I'll say yes) No, thank you.

Guy: Come on, it is simple dancing. We will teach you salsa (guy starts to salsa dance).

Me: No no no no no no no... have a nice dayyyyy (running away)

I don't like to dance. A lot. Anyway, we started our hike at the Paldalmun gate (there are 4 gates along the wall) which means we started out by hiking straight up 1000 stairs.

Once that part is over, the rest of the wall is an easy hike. There's lots of little towers, platforms and structures along the way to look at (like the one above).

Some more pictures from our hike:

A nice view of Suwon from the top of the fortress.

Lots of flags along the way.

Stopping for a sammich.

Lovely Suwoncheon Stream.

There's an absolutely humongous cathedral nearby. It's black, very gothic and looks like the spookiest church ever.

There are a few random activities to enjoy along the way: there's a trolley ride, museum, dog soup restaurant, Korean archery and even adjoshis playing croquet.

The humorously named Bongdon: five chimneys that puffed out warning signals to locals just in case someone was coming to plunder all of Suwon's famous yumyum galbi.

After about an hour and a half, the trail ends at a traditional food market. There were a lot of butchers set up there, as well at many fruit and vegetable vendors, and the ubiquitous groups of ajummas selling dried things from seeds to peppers to stingrays (as seen above). From the vendors to the little makeshift restaurants with tarps for walls and menus printed in marker on old cardboard, it feels like this area hasn't changed much in the last 50 years.

Yep, you could buy just about anything there, even... pig heads? For a minute it was like being back in Taiwan again, as I don't think pig heads are a very popular food item in Korea.

It was time for us to head back to Seoul and our cockroach nest of an apartment. If it weren't the last weekend before pay day we probably would have splurged on a second night at the Lucy or Pink Panda, but what can you do? I wonder if leaving a pig's head at the front door would scare all the bugs away? It might at least get the landlord's attention for long enough that he might spring for a little fumigation...

How To Make Your Own Ddong Pen

We were shopping at a stationary store in Suwon on the weekend when Mel spotted a line of DIY pen kits. Who hasn't dreamed of making their own pen? There were a few styles to choose from: a bunny pen, a heart pen, a cloud pen, or a Ddong pen. For those of you who aren't aware of this friendly character, Ddong is a smiling pile of POOP. We bought four pen sets and got right to work that night.

We sat down to create our pens together. The first thing we did was read these incredibly useful directions.

We used the provided ddong stencils to cut out the shape of our pen topper from some brown felt. There was extra felt so we decided to make special sheaths for the inky ends of our pens as well.

Using double sided tape, we unevenly wound yellow ribbon around our pens.

We sewed faces on our felt, glued on some googly eyes and stuffed our friend with cotton. This part took close to an hour to complete!

We attached the ddong to our pen, glued on a bow tie and *ta-da* our poo pens were finished! I wrote my name in Korean on the pen sheath that I made, so no one tries to swipe my amazing pen.

Each ddong had two sides, so we were able to make two different faces for each pen. This one of Mel's is my favorite. He looks like he just poo-ed out his last brain cell.

Can you believe that they sell DIY bunny or cloud pen kits? Who would want to make something like that?

pigeons

They said they saw a pigeon flying over them on the 3rd day you left us,with shiny wings.*blink blink* And they knew thats' you. :) It's the 11th day already, and everyone is still trying so hard to cope with grieve and loss.while I am stranded in KL could not take part of anything.hmn..i want to go back >< Wei, they said that you have not visited anyone's dream yet.What are you waiting for?...When I was flipping through the photo album just now, I found some pictures of me and you when we were still young..So chubby..hmn..miss you so much>< How are you up there? :) Dun't enjoy too much and forget about us. :P

help me pray that i wudnt be kidnapped by some scary kidnapper tomorrow

and see if I can still survive and then still blog tomorrow night.lol 

nitez everyone.trying to sleep early today.

*hugging my domokun tightly*..ciao.

Beautiful Japanese wallpapers

Traditional Tatami room - japanese wallpaper

Japanese scenery - landscape wallpaper

Space invader - Atari game wallpaper

Arashiyama - Bamboo forest - Kyoto wallpaper

Japanese wallpapers - Kyoto - IPad ready!

Beautiful Japanese street wallpaper

Cherry blossom - Sakura wallpaper

Bamboo forest - Arashiyama - Kyoto wallpaper

Kyo Mizu Dera temple - Kyoto wallpaper

Kinkaku-ji temple Kyoto wallpaper

japanese paper lanterns - Chouchin wallpaper

Various Asian/Japanese wallpapers

Panda wallpaper

Mount Fuji - Fuji san wallpaper

Game Boy wallpaper

Red-crowned Crane - Japanese Crane wallpaper