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Friday, May 16, 2008

Me was in Korea..

Family vacation and truthfully I only spend money on shopping spree and not the whole flight and acco. Those two were on my parents. My money for this year has been budgeted and put aside for something else. Korea was not in the picture this year. It was much unexpected. So it makes sense that I didn't have to fork out much from the bank.

I was not really looking forward to it. I didn’t even Google Korea. My bag from KK trip was not even unpacked yet when I realised that I’ve to pack again for Korea. So I did not expect anything fun out of it.

There, I was only able to say four sentences which I hoped the Koreans do understand:-

1. which is anyong haseyo (which is halo),
2. kamsa hamida (which means thank you),
3. olmayeyo (which means how much is this?) and
4. gakkak juseyo (can i getdiscounts?).

I am not even sure the phrases means. But I think it has a meaning some sort like what I was made to understand. Asking for discounts is crucial as shopping in Korea can be quite expensive. Roughly, 1000won is equal to 1 USD = RM3. Whenever we went shopping, I will straight ask olmayeyo? (and the salesperson had not even have the chance to say the price), I’ve popped out next question, gakkak juseyo? And the (the salesperson) will look at me weirdly. Well, I know he knows what I meant, coz in the end, he just smiled and laughed it off. But I managed to shop a few things. Can you believe that? I only change RM600 to Won. Sangat Berjimat okie..Huha..

But it turned out that the trip was a good one. I was gobsmacked!

Labels: travel

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