In malaysia
The smell of socks is killing me. And so in the 5 minutes of existence that i am going to have before i die from suffocation, here are additional thoughts:
- Korean beauty is overrated. As least that was what i thought in the first few days. Dont say i am shallow. Hell, even my sisters agree with me. It seems that eye candy, or what can pass as "eye candy" hang around posh areas, theme parks, and well, shopping areas. Kinda like singapore actually. Go to any of the neighbouring places, and any tourist will be wondering, where is that actual Singapore Girl so constantly advertised about?
(my sis reminded me of another point. Pretty girls, which are kinda rare, often get paired up with well, frankly not that great looking guys. Not that i am that great looking, but you get my point. I should go to korea, learn their language, and be the happiest man alive there)
- Snow is...white. It's all pretty when it is undisturbed, and they make excellent snowball. But when millions of people and car go over them, it aint a pretty sight at all. You know how all the drama series you see absolutely perfect snow. It doesnt really happen at all ladies and gentlemen. It is just...brown ice. Sorta like cendol.
And snow when it...snows (urgh) is kinda anticlimax. It just feels like a drizzle.
- Travelling probably takes up about the second most time of the trip. Sleeping is probably the first. Someone can go calculate, but i think they both might be the same. You travel 40 minutes for 30 minutes of "fun". You travel 3 hours for 1 hour of fun. And in that 3 hours, your mind wanders quite...badly. Which makes for very emo rides sometimes.
- Falling sick when it is snowing is absolutely the worst thing that could happen to a person. Having a damn bad fever, but still having to brave the cold, which incidentally is around -10 degrees is insane to say the least. I must say, 3 days would have been wasted just like that. Yet there aint no refund.
- You know the thing about cold, is that it is so awesomely cold, that when you do your little business at the urinals, you actually see steam rising up. I have a feeling that it is one of the worst steam that you can ever breathe in, yet you kinda have no choice. Especially when you held in your pee for hours on the bus, and you have a truckload to release.
And they put ice cubes on the urinals. Which makes you wonder when you pee, whether the steam is actually pee steam or water steam. If it is mixed, you are screwed. Which you probably are.
- You know the thing about heat, is that it pretty much stands right on top of the hierachy table. A few of us guys stood in the stinking toliet, which had a holy heater and by golly, we just huddle there like a bunch of idiots, grinning like we just ate the sweetest candy in our lives and tried to ignore the smell. Tried, because when we came out, we started coughing. Very. Badly.
- Hindsight is an evil thing. 2 steps forward, one step back as they say. In this case, 3 steps back, and none of it forward. G.O.O.D J.O.B Good job Good Job.
It sounds highly pessimistic, but in truth, the korea trip was one of the nicest one i have been to. I think i almost cried when we left. Almost.
The tears couldnt be squeezed out.
Justin ranted at 12:00:00 am on the 2 January 2009
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