TWG Korea

More than 6 months later, I’m still stuck in a dilemma. Whether to continue blogging on a daily basis and whether to make my blog more public, leave it as it is or to make it private. Some things never change.

But reading others’ blogs on Korea made me miss the old days of what my blog used to be and what it could do for others too.

Anyway, my 4 year old Macbook died on 31 Dec 2013 but was resurrected on 6 Jan 2014 thanks to James. Don’t ask me how I could have just sat aside and do nothing until my laptop refused to start up with just 25MB of free space left -.- Alright, my photos took up the most space…photos that have been sitting in folders waiting for me to edit them and upload them and blog about them.
I’ve since cleared enough space so that the total count as of now is 78GB.

Which means I should start blogging again regularly. But the thing is that for days when I don’t do much, there are not many pictures or exciting things to share, so they’re not quite worth me blogging because I’m sure you don’t want to read about my boring life. But for days when I do exciting stuff like taking a short trip out of Seoul, etc, I take soooooo many pictures that it’s a horror just thinking about the photos and things I want to share on my blog and then my plans to blog about them never materialise. And if I have a few consecutive exciting days, I accumulate a backlog that I don’t want to think about or sit in my room just clearing them when I should be out.
When will I ever make up my mind about what I want to do with you, dear blog??????????

Anyway, today was the start of the 2nd half of my winter semester and I’m just taking Emerging Markets: BRICs but I wish Marketing Research was held for 4 weeks instead 2. I had a great group and the class was…slack, which I want, after slogging it out for the last semester.

Some people returned to school for the 2nd half. Some of them…whom I have issues with, which perhaps, I’ll talk about in due time. Or maybe not, since I don’t want to be sued for defamation by anyone or any institution. But the only thing I really have to say to them is: they have no one to blame but themselves. And yes, rules are meant to be broken. BUT NOT ALL. There are certain rules that can’t be broken. Like NO CHEATING, in whatever form, in the relationship/friendship world or the academia world, etc. I mean getting a good job because of connections, to some people, may be deemed as “cheating” but it isn’t a morally wrong thing to do. But then, whether cheating is defined as morally wrong or acceptable is viewed differently by different individuals. I said I’ll talk about this in due time right? But you see, everything comes out. And everything has come out of my mouth for the past few weeks, so much so that if someone asks me how my MBA program is here, I have to pause for awhile, think about what to say and exercise self-restraint before replying them because some other stuff might come out from my mouth instead. What’s done has been done, you can never reverse the clock and go back in time. It’s how we move on from here. But how???

Ok, tomorrow, I hope that I’ll gain closure from this incident. It’s been on my mind for almost a month and I’m so sick of it that I don’t want to talk about it anymore. But I know that when I’m back in Singapore at the end of the month and I meet my friends to catch up on life, it’ll all come out again. ARGH. Self-control, Clara. Move on!!!

On a more positive note, I’ve exciting news to share: I’m going to Shanghai in March for 3 days!!!
It’s both a good and bad news. The good is that it’s the first time I’m representing my school (and maybe Korea) in a business competition held overseas. The bad is that my winter vacation will kinda disappear and I have to really prepare for this! But first of all, I need to settle the flight and hotel reservations first before the competition organisers can confirm our advancement into the Regional Finals. And I think we have to work on our team dynamics too…it’s Shibei and I, together with 2 Korean seniors who are doing their PHds here. Girl power!

Where was I? Right, I was talking about BRICs. After class, I had lunch with Hyunjin, Inkyung unni and Andy before going to Cheongdamdong with Hyunjin for….
TWG!!!!!
It’s my favourite tea salon in Singapore and just last week, I was commenting to my Marketing Research group that I really miss TWG and I showed pics of the salons in Singapore to them. Then, during the weekend when I rotted in my room, I googled TWG Korea and lo and behold, there’s one in Seoul now!!! Hyunjin said that it only opened recently so I guess I can’t be blamed for not knowing about this earlier right?

So yup, we went there for tea :) And it’s actually diagonally across Ugg Boots’ flagship store! Why didn’t I see it when I went to Uggs 1 month ago????

I felt like I was home after stepping into the salon. Even the music was the same.

I didn’t know that it was only 2.30pm when we placed our order and the waiter didn’t allow us to order the afternoon tea set (from 3-6pm) initially but he relented after awhile.

***ok, I’ll TRY to edit this post with pics ASAP!