Campus & Youido in Spring

Monday, March 31-2014. 

I spotted some gardeners designing the main thoroughfare at the campus center. 

As I continued walking towards international building where I mostly have my classes, I spotted the quintessential yellow & white flowers of spring-time. 

It's quite unusual for me to go pass this route, but...the flowers seemed to wave at me and tricked me into walking through the path leading into the main building...which turned out to be full of cherry-blossoms adorning the morning of that day. 

Got them captured on my camera while they lasted.  

April 2nd, 2014. Around noon, I was walking towards the line 9 after finishing my work @ Youido. Just when I was about to turn around the block, I noticed something familiar..and too-good-to-ignore: cherry blossoms. AGAIN! 

With Youido business district as its backdrop, surely I wouldn't have let the moment slip right through my lenses. 

The Conrad Hotel and other commercial sky-rises where lots of major companies "headquarter" themselves were almost a-routine-weekly-spectacle that I see on my way to and from work. 

Spring @ Gyeongbokgung (part 3)

#Pray for everyone affected by Jindo ferry incident. 
--> so, I just hope that everyone, my friends..anyone who happen to read this blog...please try to understand that IF I start posting up my pictures and all of the activities I've been doing for the past weeks (blogging that I've been doing on a daily basis for the past years..), please..believe me that it DOES NOT mean that I am insensitive of what IS happening. I AM and I do. My heart goes out for them.
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March 30, 2014

We're back: Pak Ryan, me, and Ismail. Thank to Mr. Ryan who informed us about the ceremony @ Gyeongbokgung. 

Ismail: the adventurous guy. (ㅋㅋㅋ). 

Mr. Ryan who speaks Indonesian quite fluently. His works involved with Korean historical artifact and I was more than happy to have him as a friend as well as an avid guide who kept telling us what the museum had in store for its visitors. 

Hmm..I tried to remember what those were, but one thing for sure..they are dolls inside the Jagyeokru or water clock!! Yes, that's what I learned. During Joseon dynasty ..well ..who would've known that timekeeping was an important factor of daily life. So, by using clock (water clock) that strikes itself...was one of the way government (king) ruled its people. 

Water clocks worked as the liquid flow through layers of layers in a precise manner intricately prepared by its maker, of course. I think this one was made during King Sejong (15th Century).  

When the assigned time struck the designated time..the doll would strike the drum which actually made sound to tell what time it was. Pretty impressive, indeed. 

In short, this water-clock is deemed to be one of the influential inventions in Korean history.  

Jabsang: roof figurines:) or roof-tile decorative creatures adorned the tiles at palaces or royal palaces in Korea. These ones are the ones stored in the museum. 

This is a dragon statue ...said to be found (dug out of) inside the lake near Gyeonghoeru (경회루) pavilion.  

Now...moving on to an experience of becoming a Joseon guard. #more on this on my next entry.

Planes? Sharks?...

I was reading an article for my class assignment while Eyra and Freya (sitting next right to me) were busy making 'something' out of their color clay. A few minutes later..I found out these cute little planes or sharks....:) put on my reading list. 

Eyra blurted out: "Dad, please pick one that you like. 

Oh, wait..I think I'll give the yellow one to you, Dad."

And what about the others? --> blue for Mama, pink for Freya, and the purple one for me, Dad.

But, why yellow? I was curious..but just left it unanswered. I just grabbed my camera and took a moment to take the picture of those little 'sharks'.  

*Thanks, dear for 'coloring up' my time so as to 'remind' me when I got to squeeze in myself in between assignment and play-time to be or at least..take a moment to notice what you're up to.

A week has passed and then I noticed something else. Wondering what those were that you put up on the wall. But, I guess...that's how you 'spend' your time...playing around in the house. 

*gals, just keep on making stuffs you like* and decorate the house as you please...^^