Day 6

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Day 5

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Day 4

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Some pictures from day 3

Day 3

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Day 2

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 Streets of Myeongdong

Aa -50-90% family sale gathered a long queue in front of the store

 A 4-story coffee house

Side-by-side skincare shops

Sogong Underground Shopping Center

 Blingbling-store

 Blingbling-skull/phone

 All the freebies we got from visiting the skincare stores

All of the boxes were filled with cotton or something like that

to make it feel like there was something inside.

All my skincare products thus far. The dark grey thing in the topleft is hair wax.

We visited a 5-story Forever21

Some pictures from day 1

 Our plane

 Me at the airport, on my laptop as usual...

 The route maps for the different KAL Limousine Bus lines

A huge building (at least compared to Finland)

 Our living room

Paparazzi

 The view from our living room

 Our lovely bath tub

Our bedroom

The view from our bedroom

Our very first meal in Korea

Dongdaemun (Great East Gate)

Day 1

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6 hours to go!

As I'm writing this, we're just about to leave the house to Sara's mom's house to fix their digibox, and from there we'll continue to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport! We've got everything packed, but unfortunately I forgot to get me a tripod/monopod for my camera for good photographs during the night....

This one will be a short post since we're just about to leave, the next time I'll be posting here will be from Korea, so see you then!

There'll also be a huge suprise for you in the very near future....!

0 days 'til Korea~!

Byebye PC, hello laptop~!

I finally sent my PC back to the place that sold it to me because it wouldn't start properly. It's been like that for about 9 months or something, but I couldn't be bothered to send it back to the company. Now I'm writing on a laptop and this keyboard feels really awkward when I'm used to the huge buttons on my regular keyboard.. And I didn't manage to stay awake last night. I went to bed at like 1.45am or something like that, and, to my surprise, Vanessa woke up at like 1am to eat! She hasn't done that in a good while now, good thing I was awake though so I got a full nights sleep after feeding her.

I've also set my laptop up so that it has all the required stuff installed so I can actually upload stuff here and to my travel blog where I'll be writing during our trip instead of here: http://summerinkorea.wordpress.com/.

I've been wondering whether I should really stay awake the whole night so I could get better sleep in the airplane or not, because I'm really bad in sleeping in anything that moves where it's not possible to lie down on a flat surface. Anyhow, I'll cut this post here because I've still some last minute check-ups to do so I won't forget anything important back home like my friend did the other day; she forgot her travel insurance papers back home and she remembered it just as she was in the airport and it was too late to get anyone to bring her the documents!

Song of the Day

Heard about this one for the first time today and instantly fell in love with it!

Big Bang - Feeling

1 day 'til Korea~!

Busy!

Like I said earlier, I've been busy this entire day with stuff concerning the trip. Busy enough to FORGET about writing in the blog! Currently I'm studying korean since I've been slacking with it a lot lately, now I'm trying to catch up with all these classes that I have left before our trip, and it will be a gruesome task since it'll take me about 14 hours in total to get through all the rest... This is also the main reason why this blog post will be so short today.

I (finally) got new insoles to my (favorite non-high top) shoes, the last ones were in a horrible condition... It was bad enough to be uncomfortable to walk with the old insoles since they were so twisted and broken! I also decided to buy some Ben & Jerry's for myself when Sara asked me to go by the store on my way home, it's good but after eating around 2/3rds of the entire cup in about an hour it left me feeling nautious. It's good, but it's so sweet that it will kick back eventually and leave you feeling nautious, unless you can tolerate the sweet taste of raw cookie dough...

Also earlier today, when I was going to get some cash from my mom because she wants me to get something for her from Korea, I had a nice little brunch for 4.80e at Robert's Coffee in Kamppi.

A croissant and a large cup of Japan Sencha green tea~ ♥

Song of the Day

I just randomly ran into this just now. I've been looking for a full version of this intro and now I finally found it!

Big Bang - Still Alive

Now, back to my korean studies, I'm trying to accommodate my body to the korean timezone so I'll probably stay awake the entire night and go to bed tomorrow after feeding Vanessa her supper at around seven o'clock in the evening.

..............

Or maybe not..we'll see after a few more korean classes if I can stay awake or not..!

2 days 'til Korea~!

I'm a millionaire!

We spent the whole day shopping in the city center today and exchanged most of our travel cash to korean won. When we combine both mine and Sara's cash we have a bit over 2.000.000won altogether! And as all the cash is in 10.000won bills, that means that the stack is as thick as my wallet..! How the hell am I supposed to carry around enough cash to last for the entire day!? We've also started packing today just so we don't forget anything important back here, so unfortunately Style of the Day portion will be left out again until we arrive to Korea.

Now onto the bad news, a week-long strike started today among the Finnair tech people, which causes cancellations in flights during the next 7 days. Let's hope our flight doesn't get cancelled as well! We're lucky enough as it is though, since Finnair has already cancelled flights from Helsinki to Seoul on the 12th and 13th of June, and from Seoul to Helsinki on the 13th and 14th of June, and also all future flights on wednesday from Helsinki to Seoul and on thursday from Seoul to Helsinki from the 18th of June until the 31st of October... Good thing we fly on friday and saturday!

Song of the Day

Girl's Generation - Gee

3 days 'til Korea~!

Swimming vol. 2!

Today I had a "day off" when Sara and Vanessa left to visit Sara's grandmother, so for some crazy, masochistic reason I decided to go swimming for a change. I spent 2h 20min in the indoor pool, and swam 3km in 3x1km sets with 2x15min sauna/watermassage breaks. I ended up ripping up something in my left shoulder, and it's really sore right now, I can't even lift a 1 liter juice box with my arm bent at a 90 degree angle without feeling pain! Good thing I've some leftover muscle relaxant pain killers from the days when I had issues with my lower back at the start of this year.

My korean studies haven't gone so well either, I'm currently at class 9, and there are a total of 24 classes, which I was supposed to go through before our trip... Each class lasts about an hour or so, so I'm going to be quite busy the next few days. That's why there will probably be either no updates at all, or some really short ones. What's even worse when it comes to my studies, is that we're supposed to go shopping tomorrow since Sara got 70e from her grandmother, and that I'm supposed to go to my mom's place on wednesday, so that leaves me with a single full day when it's possible for me to study the entire day... I've a feeling that I won't reach my goal to for even a few basic sentences in korean when we go there, but you never know! I might be able to absorb at least some the lessons taught in the classes...

No Style of the Day today either. I wore just a pair of black college pants and a black t-shirt combined with black shoes when I went swimming and I don't think that there's anything to show with those clothes. Oh yes, black is my color of choice when I can't think of anything else!

Song of the Day

Some Skrillex for you today!

La Roux - In For The Kill (Skrillex remix)

I also got a few roses yesterday:

And my mom got me this nice marzipan ornament for my graduation cake!

Now, I'm waaay too tired to be even awake at this hour because of todays earlier excercise, so I'm off to bed now, g'night everyone!

4 days 'til Korea~!

A day of celebration and panic

Apologies for the late update, I was busy doing a 3½ hour D3 speedrun!

Today I had a graduation party for my relatives, it all went smooth and I got enough cash as presents to double our original travel budget of around 1.200e! The fun stopped after almost all guests had left and I tried to show my godmother my travel bag when I told her about our upcoming trip. It was then that I realized something was wrong...the combination for the numeric lock wasn't working! At first I started to look for the company's retail stores in Helsinki because I was certain that the code was correct, and then I started working on the lock when I realized that it would be a faster way. 3 scrolls with numbers from 0 to 9. I went through about 450 combinations before I got it right, just to notice that I was right about the code, but the first number had, for some reason unknown to me, changed from 1 to 4..! Now that I got it right I changed it back to the original number, let's hope it doesn't change again! 

And before you start, I'm 100% sure that the code started with that 1 because I even showed it to Sara when we changed the codes from the factory preset 000 to our own codes.

Style of the Day was the same as saturday because of the party, so no pictures for sunday!

Song of the Day will also be skipped today since it's so late and I haven't picked any song in advance unfortunately!

I'm off to bed, thank god I've a vacation already!

5 days 'til Korea~!

Graduation!

So it's finally over! After 2 years of waiting I've finally graduated! I didn't have any fancy parties today, but tomorrow I'll be hosting a small party for my relatives...the crib is still like an aftermath of a nuclear disaster though.. Oh well, 13½ hours left until the party so I'll probably get to clean up a LOT tomorrow..

As it's late, again, I'll save all the celebrations and writing for tomorrow and continue with

Style of the Day!

God I hate that bulging vein on my left hand....

The copyright for all the above pictures belongs to Apirat Nomnavi from Studio Elite.

I pulled off the white suit quite well in my opinion! What do you think?

Song of the Day

Big Bang - Monster

Now I'm off to watch the Jeff Dunham Show from JIM and then I'm off to bed!

Vacation!

My summer vacation started already! My boss let me take next monday and tuesday off probably because I'm graduating tomorrow.. I also got this huge flower arrangement from my co-workers as a graduation gift!

We barely had a pot large enough to hold this!

Tomorrow's graduation day and I'm excited! I'm finally eligible for bachelor's degree studies! It's been 2 years since I should've originally graduated, but I had other stuff to do such as the mandatory military service and finding a job and an apartment for myself, Sara and Vanessa. Now that we've finally settled in the new place I could relax and start studying again. My grades on the matriculation exam weren't the best possible ones, and really the only grade that keeps haunting me is the E from english. I was 1 point, 1 single goddamn point off from getting an L (the best possible grade)! Other than that I'm glad that I managed to pass the exams, since I wasn't too keen into studying during the last year for some reason..

I also got out bags from the basement because Sara wants to start packing already for the trip! As usual I'll probably just take it easy and start packing on wednesday or thursday, as the only thing different from my last trips on this trip is that I'm the one handling all the tickets and all other important papers such as travel insurance and our food/accommodation/transport cash.

Now, I must be off to bed now so that I'm not too tired tomorrow for the party! The only unfortunate thing about tomorrow is that the weather forecast has promised some rain for the morning, and I was supposed to take my graduation photos outside with my friend! Let's just hope that the rain has stopped by midday tomorrow so my photoshoot won't be completely ruined!

Song of the Day:

This is a good motivator for those days when I'm feeling a bit lazy or down.

B.A.P - Unbreakable