Archive for May, 2006

You Had a Bad Day - Daniel Powter

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Found the billboard drawing parts “kyut” (YES! I like cute things too. And NO am not having a bad day, are you?)

I was watching Angelina Jolie and Edward Burns in one of their scenes in“Life or Something Like it”, and smiled when Burns mentioned this word. It made me think of putting it up here(and hopefully be followed by more!). Am not good with words and my vocabulary range seems to diminish by the minute, [...]

Kind’a late a post, I suppose (almost 3 years late!), but I’ve heard of this movie makin’ the rounds in Korean fileboxes(p2p) long before. Never took any interest in it since am not into Japanese movies, except if they made it big in Hollywood. Never even took a minute to watch a part of the [...]

I was arranging cd’s when I found one that contains pictures of our August 2004 Kumgang-san trip. Last 2004, hubs’ company cancelled their annual sports gathering and decided to send their employees plus 1 on a 2night-3day group trip to North Korea’s Kumgang-san, ’san’ means mountain, thus Mt. Kumgang. There were 2 groups leaving in 2 separate trips, we belonged to the first group.

The company had to make reservations months before the trip, since it seemed like almost every South Korean was determined to visit Kumgang-san. The company made the reservation April and the nearest possible schedule the tour company could give was August, imagine the 4-month wait!

We took the 6am bus to Incheon(where hubs’ company is), met everyone else at the parking lot of Inha University Hospital and waited for the tour bus to arrive. At about 7:30am we left Incheon for Kangwondo.

boarding pass and passport

We arrived at Kumgang-san Condo in Kangwondo to get our travel and boarding pass, which we have to hang around our necks ALL the time we’re in North Korea. An hour later we were on our way to the Unification Observatory where South Korea’s immigration office is. Back then the train tracks connecting the south to the north were still under construction. Only designated buses were authorized to travel to the north.