Posts Tagged ‘Seoul’
From my Seoul diary: Toy Kino
Toy Kino in Samcheong-dong in Seoul houses a huge collection of toys and action figures: Disney, DC, Marvel, anime, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars among others. Name the character and you are likely to find it. Guess who turned green with envy over this impressive collection?
Since T. Je, T. Joyce, Grace, and I have [...]
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Tags: Seoul, Toy Kino, Wolverine
From my Seoul diary: Palaces
I still have to watch the Kdrama Dae Jang Geum (Philippine TV title: Jewel in the Palace) in full, but I have to admit that it was among the things that had motivated me to go on this tour. My officemate Jude was also into Jang Geum at the time that she asked me to [...]
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Tags: Changgyeonggung, Dae Jang Geum, Deoksugung, Gyeongbokgung, Seoul, Seoul Selection
From my Seoul diary: Bukchon
I was blessed to go on a two-week tour of Seoul and Busan with my cousin Angel in the spring of 2008. Today, it has been a year since that trip, but I still talk about it sometimes as if it happened just last week. I guess I will always remember it for the many [...]
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Tags: Bukchon, Seoul
ESTD: Fine Time
Betchay, our ultramagnificent Seoul gatekeeper, wanted to take us to the Chinese restaurant where Eun Chan/Andy (Yoon Eun Hye) and Han Kyul/Arthur (Gong Yoo) ate jjajangmyeon in the Kdrama Coffee Prince. We got there at 3:15; the shop is close from 3 PM to 5 PM. We were meant to have jjajangmyeon because we found [...]
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Tags: Chinese food, Jin Po, restaurant, Seoul
ESTD*: Policewoman
*Eheads song of the day. It was supposed to be ESOTD, but I missed the “O” when I was typing my message to Ayer. He said ESTD sounded like some makamundong sakit, and he likes it. So ESTD it is.
How I wish my ESTD was “Sa Wakas” but the words do not apply to me yet. [...]
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Tags: Eraserheads, Jogno, Music, Pimatgol, policeman, Seoul
We want Tous Les Jours mugs
My cousin Angela and I finally realized our plan to tour Seoul last May 2008. Thinking that Koreans drink tea more than they drink coffee, I brought along my coffee press and a bag of ground beans. But the coffee press was left unused for the two weeks that we stayed there. To my surprise, there [...]
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Tags: coffee, Seoul, Tous Les Jours
