If you remember my entry about the Princess Cafe? and like girly places to hang out?I got a new cafe you must add to your "must-visit-list". The Hello Kitty Cafe.
I've seen this cafe many places in Seoul. Sinchon, Hongdae etc.But never actually went there, before now.It was not my idea to go to Hello Kitty Cafe, but actually my boyfriend wanted to go there. So we hurried to when it opned at 11, so we could study there while drinking coffee while its still quiet and few people.
Cute wall decoration beside the restroom
I want this wall in my bedroom. Seriously cute!
Actually, I want these in bedroom also.
The cafe is so pretty and cute. If I were a child I would never leave this place, and even if I'm soon to be 23 years old I feel like I'm 10 again going to this super adorable girly place.
They also sell Hello Kitty things like dolls,clothing, coffee mugs and other random stuff, and not to expensive either.
Our drinks. Mine is Green Tea Latte, which is my favorite! I always buy Green Tea Latte when in out in coffee shops, Can't get enough of it. My boyfriend choose Vanilla Coffee if I'm not wrong.
Want some desserts???
I want to try they Hello Kitty which is formed as hello kitty's face. But It's too cute to be eaten, So I didn't try it. But next time I will. (I hate eating cute things with cute faces etc, so took long time before I wanted to drink my Green Tea Latte, so sad to ruin it right?)
Anyway. Hello Kitty Cafe is worth the visit. Will bring my female friends here someday, very cool place to girly females like me to hang out and talk gossip about everyone and everything.The coffee might be some expensive, but compared to other plain coffeeshops its worth the extra price.
I guess most people reading my blog dont know my obsession with sparkeling things, I really love bling! And I've blinged my last 3 cellphones. I have had my Samsung Galaxy S2 for maybe 4 months now. But I have not tried to bling yet,but after this long time without blinging I knew I had to do something about it. So if you are like me, love shining sparkeling things and want to make your cellphone, mp3 player or whatever to look more blinged and fancy, I'm now about to tell you where and how you can do it here in Seoul..
First of, of course you need to buy some bling!
I went to one of my favorite places in Seoul. Dongdaemun! This time I did not go to the shopping malls like I mostly do. But behind the big shopping malls there is a market called Dongdaemun Market, where creative people goes shopping. This place sell mostly fabrics,buttons,lace, zippers or whatever you need for creating your own clothes or whatever you wanna make. But this place is really hugh! It has endless of stores and so easy to get lost. But if having alot of free time, walking around just looking at stuff here is actually quite funny.
I found two stores who sold alot of Swarovski crystals in all different colors, sizes and shapes. I guess there is other stores here also that sell crystals and other things for decorating, but among 1000 fabric stores these two are the onces I could find. For my Swarovski crystals I spent maybe around 40,000 won which is cheap for Swarovski, I love wholesale places like these! And the seller at one of the stores, not the one is this picture but the other store I found even game me discount, and was really kind.
This is what I ended up buying. Clear color crystals, and some with ABshine (Shines different colors according to light, if you know what I mean.Makes it sparkle!) All are round shape, but also bought some hearts also to make it more cute. I like cute stuff.
Now.
What do I do when I have bought the crystals?
First of....Do you wanna bling straight onto your phone? then it will be stuck forever, or very hard to remove. Or do like me, buy a cheap cover for your phone and bling it. I bought a white cover from Gmarket.com for only 2000 won. And you do need glue, I used some superglue I found at Lotte Mart. It worked quite well. I actually by accident almost glued my fingers stuck onto my cover, oucccch. So be careful when using strong glue people! Could be stuck with you cover on your fingers for the rest of your life.
If you use fast drying glue like me, I would reccomend to sort out your crystals first to make it faster to pick up before the glue dry. And don't apply glue at a to big area at the time. Blinging takes along time, but worth it when you are finished!
I would also reccomend to start with your big bling first if you have any, then you get a better idea of how your design will end up looking like. After you have glued your main big crystals on,or whatever you wanna use on your phone, don't need to be crystals, be creative if you want a more fun design!I have in the past used both cute crowns, plastic roses,cross from necklace,blinged chain, Hallo Kitty head and many other things. Just google decoden for inspiration if needed.
After adding those, you can start with your smaller crystals, and work your way around the whole phone slowly to its finished. And I also use very very small crystals to fill in any gaps between bigger onces so the cover is not showing too much underneath.
The end result of my blinging
A shiny new cover for my phone after 4 hours of work!
What do you guys think, would you ever bling your phone also?
One month since christmas, omg I'm so far behind in blogging, sorry!!!
So long time since christmas I actually have to ask myself "what did I do in detail?". Thats a good reason to blog more often or what??
Anyway. Over to the main point of this post, talk about my christmas eve 2012!
I spent the day together with my boyfriend in his apartment he is sharing with his brother. But thankfully his brother did not move into the apartment before some days before new years eve, so thats why I got to secretly spend the day at my boyfriends place(you know, going to boyfriends apartment is a big nono here).
We just spend the day with enjoying some foods and a bottle of wine. I had promised my boyfriend to cook for him. But I'm not really good at cooking, so I made the most easy dish ever. Pasta Carbonara. So when I arrived at his place we went to Homeplus together to buy things we needed for cooking, and on our way home we dropped by a bread shop to buy a cake. Every special day can be celebrated with a cute cake in Korea, also christmas! So my chrismas eve was very different than home in Norway. But I'm thankful I had someone to celebrate it with. Even if I had no christmas tree, no presents, no norwegian christmas food. But I did have a good time with my boyfriend, and isn't that what christmas is all about? spending time with someone you care about??
During christmas shopping in Myeongdong. Don't really remember what I bought, maybe I didn't buy anything. Hmmm
Also from Myeongdong. Finding places with christmas decoraton here its not too easy, well..Its some places that has some decorations, like inside coffee shops. But streets etc is not that well decorated. Except Myeongdong. So I've heard from korean friends that Myeongdong is the place couples go for christmas eve, and that they even kiss in public!! (omg right? oooh Korea)
The cute decorated bus I took. The picture is really bad, because the bus was seriously blinged inside! But it was many people on the bus, so it was kinda hard to take a picture showing off the decoration well. And the busdriver wore a santa claus outfit as well.
Ingrid's dog Charlie which spent the christmas at my boyfriends apartment while Ingrid was in Norway. We bought him this cute outfit to wear for christmas eve. So adorable right??
Our pasta carbonara. So yummy!!
And we drank a bottle of wine, with....tomatoes on the side???
Our cute cake. Penguins. I love penguins!!!!!! So when we saw it we knew it was the perfect cake to buy.
The christmas present from me to my boyfriend. I knitted a scarf in a color I know he likes. And bought two sweaters for us to wear together. But I didnt get anything from him T.T Oh well..
And at last me with my christmas accessories.
Might be some late now but I hope you all had a nice christmas together with family,friends, boyfriend/girlfriend!
Went to Nami Island with my boyfriend, located just outside Seoul. Took train from trainstation close to my house, took around 45 minutes maybe? Very fast!
Nami Island is known for being the location where the korean drama Winter Sonata was filmed. But I have never seen it before, actually not heard about the drama at all before the day I went to Nami Island. But because of this drama Nami Island is very popular among couples. So I guess this drama is a lovey dovey sweet romantic drama.
The entrance fee is 10,000 won for adults, which include a boat ticket for being transported to the island, and back. Which is a quite ok price. And because I'm a foreigner I got it even cheaper! Yey, I love when these kinda places have cheaper entrance for us non-korean people.
In the background you can also see that they got a bungeejump place for those who dare to try. I'm kinda a chicken and afraid of hights, so for me bungeejumping is something I will never try.
The Island itself if quite cool! Even if I have never watch the drama before I could easilly enjoy going there. The Island has alot of different art, statues, eating places and animals. Actually the perfect place for taking alot of pictures. But this day was so cold,taking my hands out of my jacket pockets was too cold and almost like torture. So therefor I didn't take alot of photoes. But I would love to go back in summer to take as many as possible.
But I did take photo of this adorable squirrel! Only thing that was so cute I had to take out my frozen hands to take photo. And it was so used to humans I could actually pet it and go close without it running away. First time I've actually been able to touch one.
These are all photoes I've got from Nami Island. But if you plan going to Korea you should check out their webpage! https://www.namisum.com/_ver01/_bbs_iw2000/?link_code=0900 It got pictures, information and everything you need. So if you are a Winter Sonata far or not, its really worth the trip. What a cute little charming Island!
But my outing with my boyfriend didn't stop there. We went to eat 닭갈비which this place is known for. And it was quite awesome. I'm a big fan of Dakgalbi and this place has quite good Dalkgalbi, so be sure to check it out if you go there. While eating we also decided to go checking out the French Village which is also located not far from Nami Island. But still we spent alot of taxi price because we didn't bother to go back to the train station again to then take bus, because there were no bus to the village from the Island. Became more expensive than we wanted.
(Blogger makes video quality so bad! whyy?whyyyy?!)
Of our Dalkgalbi meal. Sorry boyfriend for showing without asking first! But you did say I could upload on facebook, so it means I can do it here also right? hehehe
The French Village. Suppose to look like its French. But well, I don't know. Any french people who can tell me if it actually can look like a town there?
This place is also known for being used as filmset for dramas(talk about kdrama day). Its known for both Beethoven Virus, which I have never seen before. And Secret Garden which I'm currently watching together with my boyfriend. Quite good by the way, should watch it if you havn't allready.
Famous from Beethoven Virus.
Very pretty. Was also a coffeeshop in second floor above this office from the dramaset.
Christmas tree! I love christmas trees, why can't we just have them all year around?? Makes me happy seeing all that glitter.
And my last picture. Wish I could have taken more photoes here. But the battery on my phone died. But the village itself is very cute. And its also possible to rent some of the buildnings to sleep in. And they have a guesthouse buildning also. Think it would be very beautiful in summer. The village also has european resturant, some gift shops, doll house with old antique dolls, performances,cinema, dress up doom with different cute dressed and national costumes, and many other buildnings to check out.
Also got a webpage if you are interested in going there or curious about this cute village
http://www.pfcamp.com/ Beware it has music. I almost got hear attack when I clicked on their webpage. Hurrhurr, be careful!!
Well...I went to Lotte World again, I think it's my third time going to Lotte World. But I really love amusement parks and fun rides so I can't help but going back there more than once. But the main reason I went there was because I found a coupon I downloaded from their facebook page, which gave me entrance for only 10,000 won which is nothing! So I went there together with my classmate Grace after school. But because we went so late (around 17.00?) we thought we would not be able to ride so many rides, but actually we managed to do 5 rides, walk around alot, eat and of course take too many photoes like females mostly do when they are at these kinda cute places. My favorite ride is the indoor rollercoaster, so the trip to Lotte World is worth it as long as I can ride it.
But because I've posted photoes from Lotte World many times on my blog, I'm sure most people are bored with reading about it allready.So instead I will be so kind that I will show you all photoes of myself.
On merry-go-around, correct name right? Maybe the world most boring ride, but also maybe the worlds most cutest ride. Could win both catagories on Guinness World Record.
And oh, my hair accessory is nice right? Raindeer horn with bling and bells on them,It was close to Christmas so of course I had to be a raindeer. If you don't know, It's popular wearing head accessories when going to amusement parks here in Korea, all from fun small hats, to animal ears, to big bows. Last time I wore rabbit ears If I'm not wrong
Happy Christmasuuu~
My hips looks big by the way, oh well, could be worse! People say they loose weight in Korea, I'm not sure how they do, I'm sure I am rather gain weight here.
Looks at my castle, my crib where I hang with my homies. Envy much?
After my moldy problem my boyfriend found a new place for me to move into. Yey, I escaped from mold and didn't die! So I guess its finally about time to show of my new beautiful, almost mold free room.Yes, I did just discover some mold in my new room also, I think I'm under a mold curse. But thank god its very little, so I think it will be no problem to remove.
My new room cost the same as my last place. Biggest difference is that this is not a livingtel, which is one small room with bathroom inside. I now live in a hasukjib, got my own room, share bathroom with 2 other females on my floor, and I get two free home cooked meals a day in the livingroom in the floor downstairs. So getting two meals a day for same price is a quite nice deal for me when I'm a poor foreign student. It's breakfast and dinner.But I never go for breakfast because A) Im lazy,and B)I would reather sleep longer and do my makeup than eating downstairs. But I do eat dinner there.
I can come and eat dinner whenever I want to around dinnertime, I always go there around 6 to eat. But its some awkward because I'm always the only one who goes downstairs to eat around that time, so It's me alone with the older female running this place. And when my korean is not really professional, and she can't speak english either, we can't really speak with each other as much as we want too. But except from that small problem, the food is great and she is super kind. No complains at all.
And now for the photoes of what a hasukjib looks like:
My bed. Lot bigger than my older bed! I got the bed from my boyfriend,and my chair also, and the mirror. He actually lived in the floor downstairs, but moved out after a week after I moved into this place. So thats why I got his stuff.
And my desk area, and you can also see where I hang my clothes. Notice the big window, Before I had no window big enough to even look outside. My room actually looks smaller in this picture than in real life. And I have also change the order of the things in my room. Now I got a second white desk beside mine, for my boyfriend to come and study at together with me.
What a normal dinner here looks like. Mostly some soup with meat, potatoes etc. And ofcourse rice and alot of side dished.
The outside area of my place. This is street with different stores or eating places, maybe 5 minutes from my place.
Right outside the buildning where I live. A long hill where I walk down to get to super markets or eating places if I fancy something different than what I get here.
And this buildning is my home! Very quiet area. Perfect for me who loves sleeping and easilly wakes up by even small sounds.
Thats my new place. Would reccomand everyone to find a hasukjib if wanting homecooked meals everyday for a cheap price. Could be hard to find when most hasukjibs don't have any webpage etc when most owners are older females with the sane age of your grandma. But hasukjibs are mostly easilly seen at most university areas at almost at every corner. Just look for a sign that say 하숙집, and there you have it.But bring a korean friend if you are looking, they mostly don't speak english, so would be very useful!!
Found a hugh problem in my room, a well hidden problem I've not noticed before now. For some weeks my room have had this weird smell, like the smell of old food or something. But I know I always throw my food when im finished eating if I havn't ate all and I don't keep old food in my super small refridgiator when its out of date. So I been wondering where this mystic smell has come from.. And I found the reason:
And this is the reason. Alot of mold under my bed! I have no clue why I have not noticed before now, I guess because most people don't stick their head under the bed often, at least not me because I got a big head, my hugh head is not supposed to be under my bed. But after this, I'm sure I will start looking under my bed often for the next 60 years to come. But my bed has not gotten moldy yet, thank god. So I have used all my force to drag my bed as far from the wall as I could. I don't wanna sleep close to this rotten mold monster. God knows what illness I can get from breating and sleeping close to this mold everynight.
Something is sure, tomorrow I will try mold remover product, and next month I must find a new place to live.
Just wanna inform you all Im not dead. Im alive even if I dont update my blog often! School life is seriously crazy, I end up studying to late night every day. Lack of sleep makes me too tierd to blog, and not to mention my skin have become bad also because of stress and little sleep. But thankfully, its only 4 weeks left to I have winterbreak. Its super long, like 3 months!! What will I do for 3 months hmmm. No clue! Maybe I will actually miss all the hard school work, but my skin will be more happy!
To remember what Ive dont the past month,I must look at my phone, because I mostly take random pictures of things when Im outside.
Let me share with you:
Psy concert at City Hall:
I went with my bf to watch Psy's free concert at City Hall. It was so many people, but it was really fun! I love concerts, and I love free stuff. So this was perfect.
Video from the concert. Alot of people right???
Seoul Firework festival:
Went to this year Fire work festival together with Ingrid and two of her female friends. I guess I dont need to tell what a fire work festival is, its a festival with firework looool.
Its popular among families, and its in a hugh park along the Han river. So people who come early enough can be lucky to find a free spot to sit down and do some picnic. We were one of the lucky onces who got a place to sit. On the subway stop closest to the park Police men shouted in speakers what direction to walk, because it was expected to come 100.000 people to the park. So guess we were lucky with finding a place to sit.
Photo of me sitting on out picnic blanket.
Fire work start. Yey ~~
On the subway home. It was crazy. Never seen so many people in one place. It takes usually 2 minutes walking from the entrance to the trains, but it took us 40 minutes to the train! It was like traffic jam with people. Not to forget to mention people was dripping sweat all over, so nasssty
Shopping Mall and Dining out with my Bf:
Halloween Party:
Went to halloween party together with Ingrid and Mari. Like a norwegian girls night out in Hongdae. This picture is taken in Dongdaemun toystreet, where I went to buy black angelwings for my outfit
Found this cute store that sold many different wings. Found hugh black wings for my costume. It turned out quite well together with a black top, a black frill skirt and heels. But I didnt take any pictures, stupid right??
Cinema:
Went to watch Paranormal Activity 4. My bf dont like horror movies, but went with me anyway to watch the newest PA movie. It was the premiere night, 2 at night, but we were the only onces watching!! So had the whole room alone. So you can see me being forever alone in this picture
Cool right?
Random foods like always:
With Rob and Grace at a coffeeshop after school. Ate cake yummy!
With my bf some weeks ago. Enjoyed a meal and some drinks.
My lunch at school cafeteria. The chicken was not that good. My school has so many cafeterias, tried out this one last week. Must say the other onces Ive tried has been better
Flower shop:
Robert bought roses for his girlfriend, so I joined to help him pick them out. So sweet!
Getting ready for winter:
Bought a cute winter coat. But dont think it will last long, allready feel cold when I wear it, and its not even at the coldest yet he he he
Watching a play:
My bf bought tickets to bring me to watch a play. But it was only in korean, but it was okay because my bf translated the most important parts for me. And I could also understand much of what they said, so I really enjoyed it. It was so fun!!!
Making kimchi:
My bf told me his ideal girl is someone who knows how to make kimchi. So to show him what a serious gf I am, I signed up for Kimchi classes at Kimchi Academy in Myeongdong. It was actually quite fun making kimchi. I went there with Grace, and we were the only 2 doing the class. So got a private cooking class for only us. We signed up for class in english, but the instructor had quite poor english. So we did it mostly in korean, which was fine. It was fun, will surly make try making more kimchi again in the furture. And oh, my bf loved my kimchi and said it was really good. So it was worth taking the classes seeing him enjoy it.
Getting pandabear:
Went with my bf to the cinema to watch the movie TED. He bought me a cute pandabear and gave me. I love pandas <3333 p="">
Also got more cool updates, but will tell about them in my next blog update! :D
