hopes with my first salary

Have been sending out numerous resumes for the past week. And received two calls as of today! Which is a pretty good achievement already I think! Couldnt expect more that I had zero experience and a private deg les' a fch.. anyway! I kept thinking of what to do with my first pay!! :P

1) book a table for feasting with family, aunt family and godfather!

2) perhaps for the second pay... ill get myself a prada bag which ive eyed for a period!!

3) buying numerous work dresses and separates! :))

4) get the tian wang massage chair from osim!

5) save up enough for family to travel overseas

6) save up for masters :)

Best songs of Kim Taeyeon (Girls' Generation)

I am getting FATTER

due to the amount of slack I am currently enjoying lol.... its really bad. Cant wait for work already! :D its only when you are busy that your life is fulfilling and your body gets to work and move it move it!

Anyway, just some random updates here!

Posted on my instagram on a few of my haul in Korea! :)

(Sample Size #laneige water bank essence, laneige spot treatment, sample size laneige power essential skin refiner, sample size balancing emulsion (behind), 2 sample sizes #iope mist, #holika holika hand perfume essence, innisfree clay mask, jean george llong too cool for school sunblock, sample size laneige sleeping pack, innisfree mist, laneige balancing emulsion, #innisfree cuticle cream I love#facial and body care that this is only a portion of what I bought/got from #korea others given away are IOPE bioactive stem renew (??), odyssey facial creams for guys, innisfree facial cleanser for guys, laneige water sleeping pack #haul)

(Apieu concealer, apieu lip gloss, tony moly gel liner, nature republic cc, etude house color pop bright lip tint, apieu mascara, etude house blusher, etude house eyebrow kit the only cosmetic loots i got from #korea)

Last last Sunday when SIMSD had our first Institution Meeting!! yayy!!

Attendance and the activities are not bad for the first time! :)

A popiah to represent a  portion of the supper district 4 had after our rehearsal at yishun! Supper at Chompang! damn nice the popiah

 A night when the family was watching TV variety show we saw this Fei Chao Ren (channel 8 food variety show where they source out good food) that day was on the CAKES/PASTRIES!

And it happened that, one pastry store that they interviewed is located somewhat near our house! hahaha Pines Garden Cakes! CHECK IT OUT ON THEIR FACEBOOK!

I had this NUTTYMISU which costs about 6.50sgd! my mum says quite expensive... and yup... considering the location, and the price of their cakes, this is really pricey...

Not red bean cake... its Orh Bi Bur cake... dont really like it though... costs about 2.60sgd

The other cakes we bought home were Black Forest and Lychee Martini which are good!!! costs 2.50 each!

A few days back my mum and I went to the McDonalds near our place, and I ordered the Big Breakfast (for the first time after Im back in Singapore)! To my surprise, the burger buns are so small! and the eggs are like in shrunk size! Couldnt accept the truth that I paid for such lousy food/service (the aunty at the counter named ELAINE is famous for her poor service) that I exchanged with her... She was super sarcastic when exchanging you know... I couldnt care less even when others are looking at me exchanging, such lousy service.

And this is the exchanged big brekkie... should have taken a photo of the one i got earlier tsk

GUIDE TO EG SIM CARD

EG SIM CARD

Rental Info: http://air.koreaphone.net/join/join.asp#

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OLLEH PREPAID SIM CARD

http://roaming.kt.com/renewal/eng/rental/sim_card.asp#00345

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SROAMING SIM CARD

http://www.sroaming.com/eng/Product/Product_DataSIMCard.asp

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When I was checking out the 3 teleco companies in Korea, I found out that EG SIM Card offers cheaper package... So I chose that.

Before arrival

1) Register at the website above provided. (for freebies for instance, you will get 5000won airtime!) Though its written as RENTAL, I think you dont have to return the SIM Card :) you can keep it. Cos i did!

2) Just fill in all the particulars and information needed and the location you would like to collect the card!

3) Download EG SIM CARD App!!

Arrival in Korea

4a) Collect your SIM Card! (if you have registered) 

OR 

4b) BUY THE CARD AT CONVENIENCE STORE with nominations of \30,000 / \40,000 / \50,000

About Topping up (for Voice)

http://air.koreaphone.net/waysToTopUp.asp

5) In korea, they dont call it "Top Up". They call it, "Recharge"

6) For card that you have registered, you need to recharge. Similar nominations of \30,000 / \40,000 / \50,000

7) Store person will issue this receipt to you. 

8) With the EG SIM CARD APPS which you downloaded earlier, insert the Pin Number into the screen!

CLICK "TOP UP"

YOU WILL BE DIRECTED HERE

CLICK ONTO "VOICE"

SELECT THE "PAYMENT OPTION"

INSERT THE "PIN NUMBER"

I TOPPED UP 30,000 FOR A MONTH STAY IN KOREA :)

About Topping up for Data

9) You have to top up voice, before you could top up data.

10) to top up the data, just transfer the airtime (among the 30,000won) to data

11) Data comes in 3 kinds: 100MB (5,500won), 500MB (11,000won), 1GB (16,500won)

I topped up for 500MB

FOR INSTANCE: Total Airtime of 30,000won minus data 11,000won = 19,000won VOICE CALL

12) CLICK ON TO THE "TOP UP FOR DATA" at the same page as you've seen the "top up for voice"

13) SELECT THE DATA PLAN U LIKE!

AND YOU ARE DONE!

HOW TO CHECK?

14) Click on "My Account" to check your balance for data and voice call!

Thats about it!

Seoul Day 33- Bidding goodbye to Korea, Guide to Airport Limousine and Tax Refund

Korea has been good and awesome to me for the past 33 days. We went through difficulties but were later resolved by kind people.

Anyway, I will be sharing with you guys the various plans for Telecomm in Korea, my to bring list, and my preparation towards the trip! Any questions just type in the Comment box/Ask.fm by the column at the side!

So here it goes...

A peek into my luggage! While I was planning for the exchange, I was quite curious about what things people bring overseas for a month of exchange in Korea! below shows a portion of what I brought/bought home! hahah

Some stuffs are censored lol

Packed our luggage properly before heading out for breakfast!

The triple room (kinda upgraded for free, we paid for and wanted a twin room) that we got is pretty narrow and squeezy so we took turns to pack bags!

We had our breakfast at the ramyun store we ate in during our first day in Hyehwa! awww

We walked abit of Hyehwa in the morning and many stores were not yet opened... Our flight is at 6pm, and we had to be ready by 4pm, the bus ride comes in every 30mins interval so we were quite scared of missing the bus/couldnt board the bus due to crowds... So we actually left Hyehwa at around 12pm...

The bus stop for airport limousine bus! Bus service 6011 infront of the Dunkin Donuts, in the middle of the road. The bus stop is NOT exclusively for airport limousine. Its just a normal bus stop! There is a screen that shows the arrival of the buses including the coach! The timings/time intervals for the airport limousine is also printed on a paper pinned inside the transparent board at the bus stop!

lol at my turquoise craze

So, we board the bus! I think its white in colour! And it has the 6011 digits infront of the bus! Not BIG service plate like normal buses though...

The driver will help you to carry your luggages into the boot? of the coach! And so, he helped us!

We went up the bus! We had to pay 10,000won (i think) for the ride! But for us, since we stayed in Backpackers and they have a 1000won off coupon, so we used that and paid only 9000won!

You can pay by cash and insert into the transparent box, or pay by T Money!

If you are paying by cash, please prepare beforehand....... otherwise people will just be waiting for you... not forgetting that you still have your carry on with you which are pretty heavy.

After paying the sum, we placed our heavy carry on at the barred corner infront of the bus!

And so, we reached! Dont have to worry if someone will snatch your luggage lol

I looked after our luggages while Wenjing gets the trolley to push our luggages!
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Anyway, when we reached the airport, we were quite confused with the tax refund thingy and thought we could only check in strictly 2hours beforehand...

In ICN, you can check in anytime! Just be early!

And for the tax refund, and checking of goods...

Check in first, tell the person that you have tax refunds to do, go to the tax refund counter at the another side (someone may lead you over), get your items stamped (Heard of stories that the tax refund officer may check your goods... But luckily, they didnt check mine!), after which, place your luggage at the Oversized Baggage Belt at the side of the tax refund counter (Initially we were quite dubious of that... cos it said oversized... but apparently, for luggages that were not checked in at the check in counter, it has to be deposited here...)

So queuing up to check in!

Went to the customs and cleared it! They will scan your carry on here unlike in sg where they scan your baggage at the Gates...

After which, you will see lots of shops inside the departure area!

Anyway, departure area doesnt have cafes/breads like paris baguette etc... so do eat your fav pastries before entering the customs!

Inside! You will see these people in hanboks streaming lol

We went to settle our tax refund after passing the custom... 

Please take note that there are 2 kinds of counter. One for the Global Blue (blue counter), another for Global Tax Free(orange counter). The most common one will be Global Blue.

Separate queues for that... Since global blue is the common one, there will be long queue!

We had lunch at the food court... last korean jajjangmyun!!!!!

We were early, so we took time to shop and look around in the area! I even bought a few masks from Korea back to sg due to the haze... the pharmacists said its better than N95... oh well

Our boarding gate!

byebye~~~

my dinner! i had bibimbap! you have to mix it yourself!

thats about it!