September

Aloha~~~
I really abandoned my blogspot.com for so long. Today I am going to write and write and write....


Many things happened for the past months. Lemme start with some of my encounters when I went to Korea in September...

It was a trip to visit beauty exhbition in the city of Goyang, Korea. I went with my manager. We took the night flight and reached Seoul early in the morning around 6am. This trip was organized and partly sponsored by an organisation (which I do not want to disclose here). The organizer or so-called our "tour guide" did a bad job to lead us , and even gave poor instructions on what we should do, what do we need to do, what could we expect ...since he was in-charged to arrange business meetings for us during the exhibition. 

Case#1
Reached airport at about 6am. The organizer , let's call him Mr X,  gathered all of us (a total of few representatives from different companies) at a bus waiting area (out from the airport building), and then told us to wait for him while he went to collect our shuttle bus ticket at the counter. We waited for him under the cold wet weather for almost THREE hours! Mr X was nowhere to be seen. All of us lost our patience and some of the representatives (mostly men) went to the airport and look for him. One of the them even lead us back to the building for shelter. Finally Mr X came back to us, and he apologized saying that the company had sent our bus ticket late to the airport, and the bus driver was still asleep...etc...etc.... What the heck!

Case #2
After he passed us the bus ticket, he annouced which hotel we supposed to go and stay for the rest of our days in Korea. We thought all of us would stay at the same place, but it was not. Some represtatives were sent to the hotels in the Seoul city (which would take them 1 hour journey from the hotel to the exhibition centre), while some of us (including myself with manager) were given hotel in the Goyang city (which took us 10mins to the exhibition centre).

By the time our bus reached, it was already 10.30am. According to Mr X, the bus that took us back to the hotel in Goyang needed about 30mins to reach. But eventually it took us 45 mins! It was about 11.15 when we arrived 

Case #3
Very very unfortunately, the bus driver did not logde us down at the lobby of the hotel. He just dropped us at the bus stop about 200m away from the hotel. And it was raining!!!! All of us in the bus were too shocked and due to communication problem, nobody could tell the driver to drive us into the lobby. And the driver was so rude and took out and dropped down our baggages on the floor and off he went.

Under the rain, we pulled our luggages and quickly walked towards the hotel. Luckily we were spotted fast enough by the hotel crews, and they immediately came towards us with large umbrellas....

Case #4
OK,...once we reached the hotel we were told that we could not check in. All of us were so wet. We thought we could go into our hotel room immediately to take a hot shower. We could only get into our room at 3pm! And guess what, I have a meeting with my Korean supplier at 12pm..I couldn't even change into a proper attire for the meeting. Luckily my supplier was very thoughtful and got to know what had we gone through since we arrived. He apologized on the behalf of his country and took us for a sumptious buffet lunch in the hotel. That was consoling....He even took us to Myeongdong to shop and to the Seoul tower for sight seeing and another nice buffet dinner.

Many uneventful happenings during the trip especially we met up with few rude drivers and because of them, I was drenched few times. This had make me fall sick in Korea...What an experience!

Anyway, despite all the above, I really really enjoy every single meal I had in Korea. I loved the food so much. They were all very tasty and authentic. And I managed to buy a true Hanbok for Bb-G. 

____end of Korea story______