SHoppinggg!

What a beautiful morning it is today. Bright sunny and not hot. Weather here is pretty good now. :)

Yesterday i really had a super tiring day. We went to the Gyeongdeukgung Palace and after that roamed around the streets in Insadong- finding nothing much, we decided to head straight to a shopping paradise- Dongdaemun (in chinese its supposed to be North big gate literally).

The Gyeongdeukgung palace is a UNESCO registered world cultural heritage site and it totally deserves to be on that list. Not only does it look extravagant, it is also very well preserved. I learnt from the English guided tour (we were not allowed to roam ourselves..), that the chinese words inscribed on the nameboards on the palaces had quite a lame reason. The koreans were very influenced by the chinese at that time (abt 700 yrs ago) and so their temples, official buildings all had dragons and roof shaped like the chinese style. they even spoke chinese. But after King Taejong invented the korean language, the officials who were the more educated ones, refused to use it. Because the korean language is supp;osedly easier to learn than chinese, more of the lower class peasants could learn and master it. The officials, not wanting to be just like a peasant class, decided to stick with chinese and show off. Haha..this just proves that since all of us know how to speak chinese, we shld actually be super proud of it! hehe..

At Dongdaemun, wow man really a shopping paradise. They have 3 shoppings complexes over there, two opens up to 7pm and one start their business at 7pm. crazy right? haha..outside they even have macham pasar-malam shops. All these shops sell clothes, accessories, boots, hats...all the fashion stuff. Their style is somewhat similar to what Singapore have but sometimes when i say this, i think SIngapore style is very much copied from other countries. we have little or no style of our own la. MAybe the only difference i can point out is, they can play around more with their clothes esp when the weather there turns colder.

Today, Euwin plans to go to the beach coz he says summer is ending soon and after that, the beaches will be closed. Hmm we'll see.