[Part 2] 046. 2nd lunch with Himchan 힘찬 and Miok 미옥

I don't know why I'm so bothered by this; it occupies my mind day and night. I think it's karma for all the wrong I've done to someone for the past few months. Now it's retribution time :( And I'm giving up before anything has even started.
Anyway, I went to the gym again today! My plan is to hit the gym from Monday to Saturday every week but I think my body is already protesting given my aching back today. So I have no choice but to cancel my workout for tomorrow to give myself some rest.
Today, I ate the most that I've ever eaten during my 46 days here in Korea and I attribute this to the start of my exercise regime which has resulted in my increase in appetite. As I've said on previous Thursdays entries, I love Thursdays! It's my shortest school day and the end of class on Thursday spells the start of my weekend. I was quite hungry today and since I had a 45mins break before Korean class, I went for lunch together with Jeannie and Yuhong. Initially, I wanted to skip class because it was too hot and I didn't want to walk all the way to the International Studies Hall. But the "good girl" in me surfaced and I decided that I should stop missing classes so I went for class, albeit 5 minutes late.

When I reached class, Beatrice gave me a comb which she bought from Homeplus yesterday. So nice of her! I had showed her my horrible tangle and she told me about a comb for curls which I've never seen or heard of before so when she saw it in Homeplus yesterday, she bought one for me.
During Korean class, our teacher also gave us songpyeon 송편 to eat. Songpyeon is a Korean rice cake that is typically eaten during Chuseok 추석 (Korea's Thanksgiving) which is also our Mid-Autumn Festival. So while us Chinese eat mooncakes, the Koreans eat songpyeon. In Korea, Chuseok is quite a big affair and there is a 3 days public holiday dedicated to it as Koreans return to their hometowns to gather with their families. In other words, most places will be closed during this period with very heavy traffic on the roads as people return to their hometowns. Chuseok falls on 22 September this year, so 21 September and 23 September are also public holidays, forming a 3 days 연휴 (consecutive holiday). Most classes are cancelled on Monday as well, so next week is like my holiday week. Unfortunately, our passports are still with the Immigration Office for the processing of our Alien Registration Cards so we can't travel out of the country :( And since most places will be closed for the holiday, I don't think I'm going anywhere, other than Bucheon on 22 September to visit Youngjin and his family.

After Korean class, I met up with Himchan 힘찬 and Miok 미옥 (his girlfriend) for lunch (yes, my 2nd one for the day but I was hungry!). Both of them were in NUS in 2008 for exchange and Miok was previously a KUBA buddy. She's really pretty! Coincidentally, we were wearing the same grey t-shirt from Dongdaemun. Himchan is Morten's friend and I met him on 5th August. Both of them really miss Singapore, especially chili crab! From my conversations with my Korean friends, I've concluded that most of them love yong tau foo and chili crab! And when I told Himchan that I'm going to Nami Island on Sunday with a group of friends, he said that I should go with a Korean ... bf because it's a romantic place. What to do? No bf and I'm going there because I want to take nice photos, not for a date! Now I should start deciding what to wear because Yuhong's going too and he can be my photographer :) 

Odeng (fishcake) udon for 5,000KRW

We parted ways before 5pm as Miok had a group meeting and I returned to my room for awhile to put my books down before going out. Earlier on in the day, before I went to school, Jeannie came to my room and I told her my toilet roll had disappeared and I didn't know where it had gone to. When I got back to my room, I discovered this...What a brilliant day.

My toilet roll was supposed to be on top of the blue container

And here's where I found the missing toilet roll -.-

My evening was spent window-shopping in Myeongdong. The H&M opening was quite a disappointment...I didn't see any nice stuff at all :( Neither did I buy anything from F21. What a good girl :) Yuhong and I popped by Chanel in Lotte Hotel to collect my earrings before we took the subway to COEX Mall where we got lost for quite awhile. I walked past Accessorize and...you know what I did. The main purpose of going allllll the way to COEX Mall was to buy our Crisis Economics books from Bandi & Luni's Bookstore (밴디앤루니스). Unfortunately, the bookstore didn't have stock for the book!!!! -.- Yuhong and his online research :( We should just buy it from Gmarket! I'm quite tired of hunting for the book in stores. But at least I shopped at COEX and bought a necklace which I didn't see in other Accessorize stores so it wasn't quite a wasted trip :)
We had dinner at Mr.Pizza's before I went shopping in Thefaceshop and Etude House and going back to Anam for peach melba ice cream in Baskin Robbins.