Sunday, September 09, 2007
I took a flight on 7/9/07 night 1045pm. Mixed feelings inside me, Because this is the 1st time I'm actually travelling to overseas alone. I'm too homegrown le... I believe.. That's why I always admire my colleagues who come over to Singapore to work. KH, Lau, Brian, David, even Richall... A lady colleague and come over to Singapore to work... She's better than me in all these exposure.
So this is the 1st time I have to learn my way thru the airport, understand the check-in procedures, find the correct gate to board my plane. So when I knew I had to travel alone to Seoul, I quickly went ard seeking advice from people, hoping to get some knowledge on the airport,procedures, even directions ard the airport. Especially KH, he helped me alot!! Cos He knew about my plight... And deeply sympathised me...
haaahaa...
So off i go, to the boarding gate at 10pm and went to my seat and I found out its a airbus, Oh by the way, I took a Business Class for both trip to seoul n us. I seriously think AIRBUS business seats are better.
1st of all, the movies can be played anytime you want, the seats got multiple adjustments, and its very cosy and comfortable.
So for the night flight, I only managed to rest my eyes for 2hours before I realised I had arrived in Seoul Incheon Airport... Over there, I got alot of problems leh.. 1st Its was 5plus 6am in the morning, the tourist information isnt open yet.. There wasnt any internet connection in the airport unless you pay.
So i need to go and roam ard until the tourist information opened for the day and after getting the necessary information, I took a bus 602 all the way to Dongdaemun Station...
THe rest is hell man!! Ta ma de, due to some miscommunication with the Driver, i got alighted at a wrong stop and I got to walk like 20min back to the orginal destination that I wanted to go, and I was carrying a backpack tat was light, but the lappy bag was rather heavy though.
I finally found the Tourist Information!! The reason why I'm searching for 1 is because..... I DUNNO my way back to the airport so.... hee.... I need to find the bus stop for the airport bus back to the Incheon Airport. As I walked in the crowd, I had tried asking people the actual location I was at, but too bad, the language just don't click, I freaking could not understand their korean...
When I stepped into the Tourist Information Centre, the guy inside was rather arrogant but I don't care. I just want my INFORMATION!! GIVE IT TO ME!!! ARGH!! hahaha... Surprisingly, he can speak very fluent English... Pretty impressed by that young guy! Time was 945am when I got all the information I need to know, next thing on my mind, to explore the Dongdaemun market. I scanned through the map again, and I decided to roam ard 1st as I waited for the Doosen Tower to open at 1030am.
I went ard and saw alot of funny stuffs that I never get to see in Singapore, like the shopping centres would employed young pretty gals welcoming vehicles going into their car parks. They just look like bangkok to me, sorry for that, its true except bangkok got lots of overhead bridges but Seoul got none of them but lots of underpasses... And the drivers in Seoul were so freaking reckless.. haha, to be frank, i got scared by them!
Doosen Tower
Alright, ard walking ard, time passes and the Doosen Tower opens!! As I walked towards the main entrance, I already saw long queues of women waiting for the guard to unlock the doors for them. I went in with them and all of them seems to know what they want, grabbing clothes and showing to friends, I made my way to Basement 2, and I found the fast food restaurant that I want for my breakfast. BURGER KING. I tried to grab some food on the streets but I don't trust the hawkers... hahaa...
Inside the Doosen Tower, I found out that B2 is selling luxury goods like LEVI'S, and other branded stuffs. Ok, the prices are more expensive than Singapore.
B1 to level 2 are all women wears, ranging from office wears, to hip hop and causal wears. Level 3 is for Men and level 4 are accessories for women and Level 5 is shoes and bags ( I forgot if I rem. wrongly its level 4 for accessories or Level 5, anyway, who cares, I don't buy) and they have up to level 9 which is foodcourt, and level 8 is coffee and some finger food stuffs. I couldnt rem the level 6 and 7, I think its linen and some souvenirs for tourists. Within 2 hours, I walked out of the building... Nothing interested me at all.. DaMn KH, still say I can walk the whole day there... Craps.. haha...
DeViL bE wItH DaN.
