(Another) End of Class Dinner!!!

Thank God..there'd been rice and banchan or side dish..otherwise I would not have eaten anything.^^ Our class just ended a week ago and the professor invited us to have a dinner at Suraksan station, line 7, about 30 minute subway ride from campus. 

He told us that there was this delicious fish restaurant there.

And..here it was.  

Dong min dung, my Vietnamese friend, seemed to be so eager of devouring into this fish......and fish....and fish. Oh, the restaurant juin was cutting the fish into small chops....of course...in a Korean style by using scissors.  

See? scissors are widely used to chop the food. I am sure that they're solely used for food.  

It turned out to be Nong's, my Thailand friends,  first-time to visit this kind of restaurant.

Well, good for you, too, then...

After devouring ourselves into all-fish related food...which I could not eat at all....we're heading to this on-the-roof-top live music bar.....^^ 

Say cheese, guys. 

The Base camp live music bar....drenched in pink disco lights. 

Again...since I don't drink:-) ....the only thing I could delightfully enjoy while being @ the bar was of course..as the picture shows....fruit platters!!! yup, I bet it's expensive..as just in any other places like this. It could be meagerly cheap at any restaurant but definitely NOT at this kind of marked-up place. But, boy..they're fresh.^^ 

Cheese...with Mindong and Paloma, my Mexican friend. 

*Have a great summer holiday, friends.

Till we meet again next semester.

Coffee Time After a Colloquium

We just finished having our monthly colloquium. Today we had our fellow senior who (happened to be in Korea from her post in Chile) and who (were willingly giving her time) to present her dissertation plan. It's quite an interesting topic since she brought up about this 'nana' issue in relation to the Korean immigrants in Chile. 

Even, we talked about it as well, when we're at the cafe. It's that good.

To accompany myself...during the after-party:), I only ordered this affogato--which was actually not really my favorite coffee...but..since it's the smallest one..I just played along with it. 

I wonder as to why the scoop of vanilla that was supposed to be 'complementing' the flavor...turned out to be cooling me off a bit. But, it's still 'enjoyable' though.

* I just wished that we had avocado coffee here in Korea, NOT affogato.:) 

Okay..back to the after-party, most of us are PhD candidates who are either writing their dissertation or in the middle of field work or in the middle of 'soaring to the clouds of ideas' or in the middle of 'what-the-heck-I-am-doing-here' contemplation....

or ...well....we're here now. 

together....

Wish us all the BEST.

GSIAS Homecoming Day Dinner (part 2)

that's more like it. We had our tummy full and now it's talk over dinner time. 

But then, we would never have gotten into the gist of the party had we not talked about stuffs that mostly concern us....and... 

we would never have gotten into the bottom of our friendship, had we not used the best of this moment to ask others to join in...and take a group pic like this one. 

then..more and more friends came along to our table and ...

off we started or ended the party with a pic. 

Have a great winter vacation, my friends. see you around next year.

New semester to look forward to.

okay..though small in size, this water+tea plastic can was one of the door prizes that I got:-) ㅋㅋㅋ

GSIAS Home Coming Day Dinner (part 1)

Yes, it's been my second year of studying at GSIAS. Never thought that time flew so fast like this. Having said that, it's my 2nd time of participating in this home-coming day dinner party with friends. 

all students were sitting along with their own peer or one department.

Oh, this is the dinner we'd been waiting for ..after the previous session of talk-talk-and talk (a.k.a. seminar!!) 

It was a good thing that there are lots of things for a vegetarian to enjoy. 

Let's start digging into the food, my dear fellows. 

And..then..came the game-show. what would be a party without any games, eh? 

and a guest performance, as well. 

not to be missed: a photo session with friends of mine at Korean Studies Dept. 

Look...look at the camera, guys!!

Fellows at GSIAS

(*Ichi san: my Japanese friend, and others..) who? 

The last class of this semester. Nope..only for methodology class. We celebrated the end of our semester. Well..some should've joined us..but only few came up..

Kim Ji Seon (Korean), Ssangwon (Thai), Kim Ji Yeon (Korean), Soo (Korean), and me...

"What's the commotion?" 

Thanks, guys..for sharing the whole semester with me...

Ssangwon got his nerves to touch Ji Yeon's tummy...yes..she's going to deliver her baby..next week..!!!! (mid June). 

So it's also a celebration of relief. 

wait..I didn't make that V sign with my hands. It's Soo's hand. 

Gosh...it looked just like my hands that does the 'V' sign.^-^