Inje Music Festival 2009

Inje University is having its Music Festival for 3 days from 20th - 22nd of May. The festival is mainly organised by the students. I'm so truly impressed by the organising committee. Everything was done so professionally! It was like a grand festival covered by real TV program. Well well, there's School of Broadcasting in Inje, no wonder these students are so professional.

On Wednesday (20th) night, the festival started with Inje 25th Singing Competition. I was again amazed by the singing quality of Inje students.(No wonder there are so many Norebang (karaoke) in Korea!) There were so good! Some of them sound like a commercial artist. :p Oh, the stage, the MC, the broadcasting crews and the working committee were simply excellent. They managed to get some popular artist to grace the event too. Popular singers were also invited for both Thursday and Friday.

The MC interviewing the contestant. Note the camera crews.

Another contestant- a group entry. Oh, they harmonised so well.

This guy sang with such high pitch! He was good too.

Fireworks! This came as a complete surprise!

A pleasant one! :)

While waiting for the popular artist to come, an interview was done inside the building, and it was broadcasted to us who were outside the building. So cool right?

One of the popular singer. Note the number of cameras recording her performance? :p

~The winner

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The students have turned the big car park into some street cafe. There were so many food stalls and well as games stall. It was so grand, like a big carnival. It was really nice walking around, reminded me of my university days. But our festival was nothing like this. Nothing in such grand scale... This really put us to shame.. :p

Su Kyeong and Anne. :)

One of the games stall.

Heh, this is funny. The guys will stand behind this board. Then people can throw water balloons at them, of course with a price. :p

Some girls throwing water balloons at the guys. Stress relieving game, eh. :p

"Made in China" cafe. The waitresses were in Cheongsam :p

Tables and chairs from the lab? :p

Rocky and his friend in the kitchen~ Asked if he can cook well. He told me that he worked in the kitchen during his military service. :p

Today I celebrate you, Mum

Thank you for the 9 months of discomfort while expecting me…

…for enduring the pain of labour.. (though you always tell us that it was not very painful as the three of us were very small sized, I only weighed around 4 pound :p)

Thank you for running between 2 jobs everyday for the past 13 years or so just to put food on the table…
And you never once complain about the hardship and pain you went through…
..for driving 8 hours from Singapore to Taiping just to see us at least twice monthly..
..for driving down to Taiping just to drive me to Johor during school holiday..

Thank you for giving me the liberty to do whatever I want, with no constraint at all…
..for trusting me enough, that I’ll not abuse the freedom you gave.…
..for allowing me to fly…

I am who I am today because of you…
…because you gave us your best, 

…and believed that we deserve that...

It has always been my prayers that you’ll find happiness one day,
And I’m so thankful that you have found one.. :)
You deserve all the joy and happiness…

Thank you, Mummy.
I’ll always remember you on this day.

.

It has been a while. But it still feel so surreal. Feel like you're still around.

Wish that you are here.

Have been missing you a lot.

Happy birthday, Markus.

Bila Aku Sudah Tiada - Hujan

Bila Aku Sudah Tiada
by Hujan

Bila, aku sudah tiada
Simpan semua laguku
Jangan ditangis selalu

Mungkin, itu sementara
Bila jumpa penggantiku
Jangan dilupakan aku...

Pagi itu indah seperti biasa
Tidur yang lena terhenti di sana
Layap kuyu masih tak terdaya
Bukalah tingkap mu curahkan cahaya

Siapa yang sangka
Bila tiba masa kita untuk pergi selamanya
Takkan terduga
Jika saat ini tuhan tentukan aku lah orangnya

Bila, aku sudah tiada
Simpan semua laguku
Jangan di tangis selalu

Mungkin, itu sementara
Bila jumpa penggantiku
Jangan dilupakan aku...

Gelak tawa tangisan yang hiba
Kenangan kita masa di dunia
Alangkah indahnya jika
Kita mampu hidup selamanya

Siapa yang sangka
Bila tiba masa kita untuk pergi selamanya
Takkan terduga
Jika saat ini tuhan tentukan aku lah orangnya

Bila, aku sudah tiada
Simpan semua laguku
Jangan ditangis selalu

Mungkin, itu sementara
Bila jumpa penggantiku
Jangan dilupakan aku...

Spring, where art thou?

... the weather is getting colder and colder. it has been raining for the past few days. The temperature is around 9 celsius- 16 celsius. Over the past few weeks, the weather has been rather temperamental. Sometimes, cold, sometimes hot, hardly warm.

One day, my roomate was complaining, "Where is Spring?? This is not Spring, this is Summer!" The other day, when I asked my friend if this is Spring, she said "This is feels like Fall, not Spring." I asked her why. She looked up to the sky and said, "Ask God. God, what's wrong with You?" :p

Spring is supposed to be warm and nice. But has been pretty cold here. Anyway, thank God that the flowers still bloomed in Spring despite the moody weather.

.....konichiwa.

Am currently in Busan International Airport waiting for my flight to Narita, Japan.

I had never felt so stressed travelling alone before. (Ok, this is only my second time travelling to a foreign land all by myself) Even when I was coming to Korea I didn't feel nervous or stress for travelling alone. But this time, it's just different. Maybe because I don't know the language-Japanese and the country well, but neither can I speak Korean!

While on the way to the airport from Inje University, I realised that I've forgotten my Yen! I do not have any Yen with me at all! How silly and careless!! Had to ask the taxi driver to make a U-turn back to Obang-dong where Inje University is located. We were already half way through! Urgh.

So, he made a U-turn, and I managed to get my money from my room. At that point, I felt so suffocated, almost feel like vomitting. Maybe because I woke up too early (at 430am) and didn't have enough sleep. The taxi driver was concern about my departure time, but he couldn't understand what I was saying when I told him that my flight is at 8am. Sigh. Need to work harder on my Korean. I had to call my roomate to talk to him. I ended up paying 30000Won (~Rm90) for the cab fare, double from what I was supposed to pay. Sigh. Lesson we paid for mistakes in life.

Hhmm... it's okay. Well, at least I get to travel to Japan and I'm really thankful for it, from flight to accomodation and getting friends to go around with me (not everyday though). Hopefully, it'll be a relaxing trip. I didn't really believe that I'm going to Japan until after I checked in. :p It still feels rather surreal.

But, yeah... thank you God for everything.

Sunshine Kids~

One of the class that I love most! ~helping out in the kindergarden.

My favourite :) - Meksi.

Marit Larsen - If A Song Could Get Me You

am currently loving this, ;p

If A Song Could Get Me You


and this:
Under the Surface

.Like the flowing river.

Be like the flowing river,
Silent in the night.
Be not afraid of the dark.
If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back.
If there are clouds in the sky,
Remember, clouds, like the river, are water,
So, gladly reflect them too,
In your own tranquil depths.

-Manuel Bandeira-


Reading under the Bol-kot tree with bol-kot flowing down as the wind blows really makes one feel so at peace and tranquil. :)

Korean music class was cancelled today, so I took the chance to start reading 'Like the flowing river' just outside my dorm, under the cherry blossom tree. :p

The weather is cooling and nice. Von, it reminds me of the time when I was reading The Shack at the patio of your house in Janda Baik, last August. The only thing missing then was the bol-kotsss. :p


This is how it looks like when I looked up. But the camera cannot capture the beauty that the eyes see....



Teck Fann accompanied me for a while, practicing some Korean songs with me :p



Tea time :p


:)


she decided to be a little adventurous by trying out the bol-kot...

..While the rest of the guys went for soccer game :p I'll join them next time, just not in the mood for the game today.



..with Duyen before she left for the game..


This is right outside my dorm

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Sorry, can't help it. :p

annyeong-haseyo

Welcome to South Korea!


Upon arrival at Incheon Airport, I took the Express Train to Gimpo Airport, it only costed me 3200Won (about RM10). So much cheaper than KLIA Express. It took 33mins to reach the Gimpo Airport form Incheon Airport.




The train is called A REX.


I had to take a flight from the Gimpo International airport to Busan Airport.


Thank God for Beelie, she helped me to purchase the air ticket from Gimpo to Busan online. I couldn't do it myself because everything is in Korean. :p

Air Busan is really good. My flight was at 12.30pm,but I reached and checked in at 10am. The staff asked if I want to change to an earlier flight. So, I took the 10.30am flight instead. Nice!


Bee Lie met me in the Busan airport :)

After that, Hee Jung, the course co-ordinator came to pick me from the airport with Dave to Inje University in Gim Hae.


Welcome to Inje University. I was greeted by the cherry blossoms (bol kot).








These are the places that I need to pass through to get to my dorm from the university entrance. :) Beautiful ,eh?


My dormitory ~ Inje English Town


My room


The table


The cupboard


View outside my room.

I arrived on Thursday, and every Thursday there's a Taekwondo class. So, I just joined in the class to watch and take photos. ;p


Warming up~


:)

At night, the other participants who were there earlier had a welcoming dinner for me and Kelvin (another Malaysian who also went late, but he went a day earlier than me) That was really very nice of them.

After that, we went to Karaoke. :p And I got a little drunk that night. eheheh..


During dinner.

Karaoke time~

Teck Fann, another Malaysian was playing 'drum' with a pair of chopsticks and the tambourine. :p I did that too. It was quite fun.