Korean lesson no 1

My first lesson in korean in Korea today! haha..it was very very good. the entire lessons is crafted so well, almost everyone learn very quickly and managed to pick up the basics quite fast. Come to think of it, the korean language lessons provided by the community centres really sucked man. I dun rememeber my korean teacher teaching me how to ping yin and all. But ya, the korean classes in SNU really is fun and spur me on to learn more! :)

I had the Astronomy class today again and once again, the class was conducted entirely in Korean. But thank God, the ppt was in English..so i managed to understand some stuff. My classmate, Jeon, also was really kind and took the time after class to explain to be carefully what was taught during the lecture. He did it even when his english was not good. He seriously tried his very best to make sure i understood. Really hard to find this kind of friend la...haha..

Then super funny after that...somehow, he and the Teaching Assistant (the one conducting the astronomy class in korean) started asking me to write chinese words on a piece of paper. (to koreans, they are actually quite surprised to find out that we learn both english and korean in sg) So i wrote chinse words and they actuallu can understand what im writing! later i learnt that many(about 50%) of the korean words originate from chinese words and some more educated pple can actually recognise chinese characters! Only thing is: they pronounce the chinese differe ntly from us.

After that, Jeon invited me to go out drinking with him and Nok-do (it means Green Pea in Korean coz a general that was damn short like a pea, died at that area..haha lame i know)
The entire drinking session was very interesting. We talked about our own countries...how expensive cars are in sg...HDB...govt policies about housing, babies...we even talked about religion and God. I told him sth that kinda got him thinking i think. I told him that ya although man can call themseleves their own God or rather, they are masters of their own lives- meaning that they can plan every single detail of their lives to make it as perfect as possible, they are eventually some things that cannot be anticipated and pre-planned. For eg like the weather, ur health...

bottom line: there is a God out there that pre-determine our lives. Believe it or not, it's true.