Recollection of Autumn ~ Winter (2014)

Late post...about autumn last year. 

Strolling along the Youido Park. 

Alone. Sipping cassava coffee. ^^ 

Bringing it along the way back home... 

 

The backyard. autumn.  

What it looked like. 

Now..snow covered most of this part of our backyard. (Jan.2, 2015).

from this ...INTO...

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cars parked in the parking lot were covered in snow. 

the white backyard.....

A Package of Jejudo's Oranges

Winter comes and what rhymes with winter than oranges? hahaha...It doesn't.:-(

But..that's not important. 

We got a box of Jejudo's oranges directly delivered from Jejudo.

Thanks to ms. Han Sang Mee who has been kind enough to have these oranges delivered right into our door in Seoul. 

They did not stand the chance of being devoured by the whole family and friends..

I think they're so irresistibly fresh. 

Drenched in Snow (part 3)

The benches @ our campus park were also beautifully covered in snow. Nothing could stand the power of snow-white:)  

Wow...what an angle. Good job, Mama. 

Well..the seemingly clean and pure bench and its wooden table would be totally different once..the hands of two ladies...intervened what nature created. 

no...not this pic. It's simply a pic of our campus overlooking the baseball field. 

nope..not this one, either. 

BUT this one. Yes, my wife and her best friend, mbak Ulfa, turned out to be the mastermind behind what would be a....works of snow arts. 

First..this is it:) well, they thought of something like:"if we didn't make it to Nami Island this year, why not make one right here?" 

And Eyra....got herself intervened into the action... 

and put some snow ball onto the already-ruined wooden table. 

There goes the naturally snow-covered wooden bench!!!!!

*But, hey..the girls were having FUN!!!

Drenched in Snow (part 2)

A collection of pictures taken by my wife on her journey home:_) what a cheesy story. But, well..yes..it's true...She happened to be romantically fallen for everything with snow, not to say the least..anything with contrasting white backdrop.

First, she got to capture this lonely red rose.....beautifully immortalized in this picture.

looks so lonely...yet glaringly beautifully clad in glorifying red imbued with the white sprinkles of snow on its petals. (oh..NOOO...it's me who's become melancholic:)!!! 

all trees and used-to-be dried grass seemed to be forever lost....covered in white snow. 

Even the red fire-hydrant seemed to be helplessly fallen for white snow.

*thanks for capturing all of these, Mama.:_-)

@ Lotte World: Freya & Her Kindie-Friends (part 3)

yes daddy..look..I'm a tortoise!!--> Yes, I see you, Frey. 

Let's explore other stuff! 

okay, now that's what they call 'home'..as for me, it means only one thing: I got to wait for another 30-minute or so...for them to play. 

they're having a blast early in the morning...and that's a good thing. 

not long before I asked or lured them out, they found another 'hut' to play with. 

And they're making a home-make over party. 

all in all, it was a great START of what would be a tiring-yet-fun day. 

Fantasy Forest or 환상의 숲. yeach..right...at least in the eyes of the kids.:)

where fantasy and reality mingled.

Getting Out of Bukchon Village (part 3)

more stairs and...wait...is that a guitar? 

School bags on their backs, they're still in high spirit of exploring the area... 

Bumped into a souvenir vendor... 

intrigued by the colored-wooden-animals on display. 

a close-up look into the wooden animal toys. 

let's go on, kiddos. Oh, I know what you're looking at. The Crayon Pop? 

Some trees dared themselves to defy the chilling winter's threat.:-) 

with the ubiquitous walls across the street, we knew that we're not far off from the subway station--that we'd been looking for.

Getting Out of Bukchon Village (part 2)

Continuing our stroll along the famed-street near Bukchon teeming up with boutiques and cafes... 

Even some walls are not left in plain sight...some carved-stones seemed to stick out of nowhere (of, course not:)....but, hey...they're camera-worthy. 

then..I bumped into this seemingly familiar brand of antiquities that I usually find at the malls. But, this one's situated right next to this narrow-street...

....?? 

Big question as well as a confirmation that this are must've been a very 'this-is-it' venue for the Haves to spend their money on...:) 

Displays visible for any passers by to enjoy... 

including us. Well, the kids were enthusiastic to see the expensive display of antiquities. Hello Kitty and any other Disney characters are immortalized in gems and rare stones.

okay...enough, kiddos!!^-^

let's continue walking....

oh, did I mention that it's late autumn? 

barren-trees stood sturdily ....

and then...encountering what-was-that-again-house....that was visible across the street.

Bukchon Hanok Village (part 4)

A traditional chimney stood up sturdily....

oops...never thought that cars could roam into the alley,too. oh, well..

what's this stone-pot doing right in front of the house? 

there must be some explanation for it...

the red(?) or ..wait orange(?)-bricks look new, though.

Mbak Ulfa asked me to take a pic of her in front one of the houses...

God knows whose...:-)

An overview of Seoul from atop the Bukchon Hanok Village.

Right at the back of the village....mountains over mountains...

and..what the roofs would look like from atop. pretty crowded, eh??

arrived at another alley...(again and again...with a car parked right on it).

Now..that's what I call 'romantic' view. Who wouldn't want to be in it?

Yup, we're climbing up the hills to find the stone-stairs that would lead us back to the subway station.

with Seoul...at the background.