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Post-Korea
posted : Monday, January 26, 2015
Felt a tad guilty for delaying this post till the end of the month..actually, come to think of it, it's only been exactly two weeks since I got back to SG. And I got all my photos uploaded to FB (even though I haven't got around to doing the captions yet). Okay feeling less guilty already hahah.
Korea trip has been awesome. I guess not having much expectations of the place - I never quite understood the Korean craze going around me - it definitely helps me to enjoy the place a little bit more. Much easier to get over not going to places which I have marked out to visit. Trying new things (never a fan of Korean cuisine either) and discovering that I don't dislike them (kimchi remains out of bounds but they told me I basically had a lot of things with kimchi flavour alr anyway so right now I am in a state of denial lol). Going crazy over snowing (even though it was just flurries). Staring at frozen lakes and snow covered ski slopes in awe. Enjoying the cold weather even though I wish I could wear less layers.
Most importantly though was quality time spent with the other 3/4 of them. Really glad we came together for this trip, I can't say it enough times. Thought we had seen the worse couple of years ago when we settled on the only common two week window we could find and set off for Grad Trip. This time round, planning was even more horrendous as a result of unforeseen circumstances, and thus the tinge of regret when Val couldn't join us for most of the trip. I guess we made the most out of it though. The weather didn't make it easy for the gals either - I guess it was cold enough for the gals to suffer, but not cold enough for it to be really beautiful (think snow covered roofs and streets) so it was kind of in between. But doesn't matter. Still going to be a trip I am going to remember for a long long time, and we probably have to work even harder to make the next one happen. Japan 2017?
Tip though - things aren't cheap. Students who haven't started earning dollars should not consider visiting, at least in my humble opinion.
The usual day by day reports coming up next! I would have started sooner, and would have missed the trip more had I been less distracted by work. Not by the volume of work waiting for me when I returned - that part was actually very nicely covered by the flower when I wasn't around, a huge improvement I must say - but by the shock of quite possibly having to take up a new role which I did not see coming, at least not at this time. Not a single day or night has passed in which I did not think and wonder and worry about it, and this is when things are not even confirmed yet. To say the least, I am very very ill prepared for it, to the extent that I can't bring myself to embrace it. A part of me is still hoping that it is not real and some higher power would step in and veto against it...but does seem to be quite absurd thinking coming from someone in my position. I don't know. Really just took away the thrill, and everything else I feel from the trip a bit.
Even upcoming CNY, which I usually and would have been looking forward to, have lost some of its appeal. Oh well.
We shall see.
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