Pre-departure thoughts

One more day before my departure to South Korea! Last night spending in Singapore and sleeping on my own bed. Haha. Im now at Grace's house, just send her home from my brother's 21st bday celebration. Simple one, no fanfare coz we celebrated at The Glass House on the past weekend.

Well, it has been a whirl of hectic hectic days. Had to do the millions of admin preparation for the Seoul National Uni side: dorm registration, course application, buddy application, student ID card application and more...also went to buy all the winter wear i ever needed. haha..but that was fun..never did get a chance to shop for this kinda stuff coz of singapore climate. Talking about money. i spent so freaking load of money for this trip. First, its the winter wear-down jacket, gloves, long johns, wool sweaters, beanie..then i bought a bag to store my laptop coz i didnt want to carry it in my arms like in Spore. (speaking of which, i took super long to find a perfect bag..haha wei juan, feifei and joyce can testify to this. of course not forgetting Grace :) )
Then i also had to re-stock my first-aid kit. many stuff missing since army times. Then i had to buy travel insurance...apparently, many companies dun provide travel insurance for more than 3 months. All except AIG. I also had to buy a webcam..shucks..there goes my intern pay for 2 months...

Next it was the packing challenge. How to pack so much thing in ONE bag?! luckily i had the help of my gf..haha sweet right. She came over one day and helped me out with most of the packing. I was excellent. Within a few hours...most of the stuff i needed was in my luggage. I thought hey...thats not so bad..i dun have that much stuff what...but in actual fact, i still had alot of things i havent packed in. over the next few days, i remembered stuff and just kept stuffing into the luggage. Lo and behold..today, when i tried to lift it up...it was so heavy that i swear i tore a back muscle. haahah...20kg is definitely not enuf. My brother did a little carrying on his own and he too swear its at least 28kg. OOPS. i hope tmr the airline pple will be kind enuf..or else i have to do last minute packing. argh.

So if anyone were to ask me: "Are you excited about the trip?" i cant really say yes coz im not really THAT excited. Maybe coz i have been thinking about it ever since exams ended in May...and have been looking forward to it. I just cant wait to get out of the plane in Korea and breathe in the air and say "oh...so THIS is how korea smells like. haha..finally im here" :)