Making Songpyeon for Chuseok with Chi Won's family

Tomorrow is Chuseok festival in Korea. It is for the harvest season in October; they wish for good harvest produce for the year. I bugged Chi Won to teach me how to make Seongpyeon hahah. There's a korean saying which is..if you make beautiful Seongpyeon, you will have beautiful children. Chi Won's family said that my first Seongpyeon is pretty. Hahah..so I will have beautiful daughter, but the second seongpyeon and onwards is not pretty so I said that that will be my son. They will be ugly son but rich. Hahaha.

So here are some of our pictures:



Chi Won is kneading the dough for green seongpyeon

The sticky rice flour dough

Mom is making the white seongpyeon dough

Chi Won and her mom

Me..ngehehe.

A picture before we start the hard work..hahaha


Chi Won trying the baju kurung I brought. So tomorrow she will wear baju kurung and I will wear hanbok. Yeahhh...


Chi Won in Baju Kurung.

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Itaewon Alone

I went to Itaewon to visit the Seoul Mosque but I slept there 1 hour instead cause of the fatigue. Hahaha..









I ate at Turkish kebab. This set is 5,900 won.










The roads in Itaewon. Ladies, no high heels and please build your stamina! Hehe..


I have not had the time to check the graffiti at Hangang Park, so here are some from Itaewon

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Cheonggyecheon Stream in the morning

After hiking the Namsan tower..arghh..I decided to check out Cheonggyecheon stream. It was really relaxing to walk along the path and enjoying the stream and viewing different structure of bridges along the course.

I took a yellow bus from the Namsan tower and later transit with a blue bus to Cheonggyecheon as advised by a very kind retired professor. He speaks english fluently and even praises about Malaysia because his wife has been to Malaysia many times.

When I reached City Hall, a rush of feeling swept me as if I was in Shinjuku, Japan. It was the same feeling. The city is soooooooooooo huge. A Metropolis. Hmm..if I can compare it with Malaysia, it is like standing in the middle of Putrajaya goverment buildings.


Road heading to Cheonggyecheon


Cheonggyecheon no


I don't know what they were doing but so pretty!




Before you enter Cheonggyecheon, you will see this statue.


The first path leading to Cheonggyecheon.


The first stream.

Will come here again in November with Tut and Hanim for the peak autumn season at night. It's gonna be awesome!!



People having picnic.
The water is so clear.





I was able to walk until Dongdaemun cause my feet was dem tired! It was only halfway of the whole route.








My tired feet crossing the stream.

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Things to see and do in Varanasi (Banaras)

Varanasi (Banaras) Uttar Pradesh is the spiritual pocket of India. Varanasi, also known as Kashi and Benaras, is the cultural capital of India. Varanasi is a melting pot, where both death and life come together. The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi. Unsurprisingly many prominent Indian philosophers, poets, writers, and musicians once resided

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