This is part of an ongoing travelogue, to start at the beginning click here. After lunch at Myeongdong Gyoja, we had some time before the Nanta show at 2pm (box office only opens an hour before). Since we were almost to the end of Myeongdong walking street, we decided to walk to the end to see Myeongdong Cathedral to enjoy the beautiful day. It was a Sunday, so there were ongoing services and the whole cathedral complex was alive with a fair of some sort. there were street performances and booths promoting various charities and upcoming events. The cathedral itself looks somewhat unconventional, with the its brick façade, instead of…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue, to start at the beginning click here. Oh wait, before i continue with the travelogue, i felt i should write a bit about Internet access here. At first i had planned to get the wifi egg – its mobile wifi device similar to our Mifi that is quite popular in Korea. There are at least 3 different telcos offering it, each with their own different pricing / rental terms and with different Intenret speed packages to suit your needs. From those that have used it, I’m told the eggs provide reliable and super fast connection. But like everything else in Korea, these eggs…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue series. To start at the beginning, click here. So off we go to Seoul! Our flight was 1.15am in the morning, so get to KLIA2 by private taxi. We had to get an Exora since there were 4 of us and 3 large suitcases. Cost me RM100 inclusive toll from Puchong. This was actually my first visit to KLIA2, so you can tell how long it has been since my last trip 🙁 We were scheduled to touch down at 8.25am, after almost hours of flight. I had problems getting sleep, so throughout my first day, I felt really tired especially we walked…

This is part of an ongoing series of travelogue in South Korea. To start at the beginning, click here. Getting around Seoul and Jeju was a big concern of my trip I’ve decided to write a separate post for it. T-money First things first, get a T-money card from the kiosk or convenience store at the airport. If you are planning to use public transport, this is very important, similar to Octopus Card in Hong Kong. Getting on the subway, you tag in and out at the turnstiles. On the bus, you do the same on the scanner near the doors. If you forget to tag out, you will be…

One year ago in November 2014, I booked an 8 day trip to Seoul via AirAsia as a birthday gift for my wife. After that, we kept it in the back burner for the most part of the year. We had really a lot of other stuff to occupy our minds – moving and renovating our new house, buying furniture, and both kids having major examinations this year. It was only around August that we started looking at hotels earnestly, as that was the time we got our internet connection setup at the new place. Planning intensified about a month ago when the 2 exams were over, and we finally…

Well, first some backstory. I was reading Ric Flair’s book “To Be The Man”, and was intrigued by his accounts with the Four Horseman stable, and less than flattering comments about Scott Steiner from the Steiner Brothers. I’ve never really watched The Steiners as a tag team before, I’ve only watch Rick as part of the Varsity Club with Mike Rotunda (later known as Irwin R. Schyster in the WWE) Scott much later as the jacked up chain mail wearing jerk. Which made me google up “Greatest Tag Teams of All Time” to see what the internet thinks of the subject. Most lists were partial, some were contain a few…

Twenty years ago in 1995, I was doing my 4th year practical training in KL, and renting a room in my aunt’s house in SS2. My classmate Ray and I bought tickets to the Bon Jovi concert at Stadium Shah Alam. The stadium was then new, just fresh off being featured in Jackie Chan’s movie. Ray bought the standing ticket on the field, him being a Selangor FC fan and wanting to touch the hallowed turf of the stadium (*rolls eyes*) Anyway he changed his ticket to seating zone with me, and one day we were off. The entrance was extremely chaotic, due to poor crowd control. Back in 1995,…

I’ve been using the new Xiaomi Mi4i for just over a month now, migrated from my Samsung Galaxy S4. First, a little backstory. I had always wanted to keep my Galaxy S4 as long as possible, but of late it has been getting slower and slower, and a particular problem with the screen locking up recently really frustrated me. One day I dropped the phone, and the LCD went kaput, so I had no choice to repair it (for RM700 plus GST, no less) in order to turn the phone back on and save the data inside. So my search for a new phone started. Almost immediately, I narrowed it…

Let me just put this out there first – I’m definitely no racer fanboy or petrolhead. Well, i can tell a Skyline from a Evo from a Silvia, but I have no interest in Formula One or cars in general (except for knowning enough to maintain my own). I think the most i ever got into the scene was playing Gran Turismo and Need for Speed on the Playstation, and reading the  Initial D manga (not the entire series though). Anyway, that just goes to explain why I’ve never watched the Fast and Furious. Never. Not a single one. Recently, though, with the news cycle about Paul Walker’s passing, my…

Well, to be honest, halfway through this season, I gave up and stopped. I moved on to other things, other shows, other matters. But the completionist in me nagged for me to finish it, so after a month or so after stopping, I picked up where I left off. It was a good thing the 3 episode story arc where I re-started was quite interesting. This season was rather forgetful. the things that stuck in my mind was it was the re-election campaign, which wasn’t very convincing. I felt the tension of the campaign could have been captured better, I didn’t sense the urgency that Bartlet was losing or winning…