Everland Theme Park [Korea]

Was looking forward to visiting South Korea’s largest theme park – Everland. As most of the businesses in Korea, this theme park is owned by a Korean conglomerate – Samsung Group!

It was a cold foggy day but we were all pumped up and excited!

The theme then was Halloween so there were lots of smiling orange pumpkins decorating the park!

First ride: something like a ski lift

Safari ride next!

There are white tigers, lions, bears, giraffes, zebras… and a liger??? What’s a liger??

Up on the bus and everyone is armed to cameras to “shoot” the animals!

Here you can see the Liger! A lion and tiger rolled into one!

Oh my!! Is that dead animal for real??!

Next up a water ride!

What a ride! After that, we were all busy getting to dry ourselves with the dryers available!

Some random shots!

Then we took some kind of ghost ride that small little kids also can sit! It was a yawn!! But still a nice ride around the beautiful surroundings.

But what I was really looking forward to was the T-Express – the roller coaster ride! Check out the facts!

• South Korea's first wooden roller coaster
• World's steepest wooden roller coaster(77 degrees)

See some pictures of how the roller coaster looks from a distance!

Waited close to 45 mins to get on the ride!!

We did it! It was a great ride! Lasted all of 3 mins! Loved it!

More pictures of the roller coaster, taken off the net.

4 hours is definitely not enough for Everland!

Rounding Up Korea Day 2

Phew, we have almost come to the end of Day 2! It’s been an extremely packed day and the first time, I am using 5 entries to post about 1 day!

We were driven to this place called Mystery Road. It is “mysterious” because even though it is slightly sloping upwards, if you leave your car engines off, you will feel your car slowly moving along that upslope! You can see that in the video below.

Our tour guide also tried to demo by getting Adriel to run down the slope and run backwards. Apparently, upon running backwards, he will feel the force of the road pushing him along. From the video, you can see that Adriel din quite feel any difference though! =D One of the ladies in the tour group also tried it out and actually felt backwards due to the force! See/feel it to believe it!

Mystery Road from Emily Ong on Vimeo.

Even after such a long day, we still had the energy to go shopping at the nearby hyper mart, e-Mart.

Check out the thickness of their magazine!

Scotch tape in donuts! Cute!

An video screen as a POS item, quite cool! Plays ads in the middle of the freezer!

Yakult!! My fav!!


Kimchi for sale!

Packaged set for your Korean spicy hot pot!

Abalone porridge – pre-mixed!

Quite a crowd!

Finally! Done for the day!! The next few posts on Korea will be based on attraction and no longer by day!! Hee!!

Korea Day 2 (Part 4)

After the Teddy Bear Museum, we headed off to Lotte Hotel Jeju – not to stay there but to check out windmills! Yes that’s right! Well, the reason that this place is an attraction is the windmills featured in the famous Korean drama “All In”. Hmm….. still a beautiful place =)

We saw some kind of “wishing bag” kind of thing and just tossed in coins for fun! Then music started playing so loudly! We were kinda shocked by it!

Also saw some really teeny apples!

Next stop: O’ Sulloc Green Tea Museum

Din find it very informative, just that the interior decor was really cool. The green tea goodies we ate there were pretty good too! Most photos below were taken by my sis and bro-in-law. Both of them love this place – very them, I guess!

The yummy goodies! See the black flat plastic? It will sound when our order is ready for collection.

Some shots taken outside the museum

One more post and we’ll be done … with Day 2!!!

Family Christmas Party 2010

Every year, we look forward to having the family gather at my place for a party =) Reminds me of those days when I was a kid and we had the most fabulous time celebrating Christmas at my Aunt Jenny’s place, complete with food, games and most of all, presents!

Uncle Joseph and his favourite nephew, Jayden

Not quite Christmas food, but still a spread!

“Big boss” in the house =)

Present Time!!

Time for kids’ play!!

First up – Hide & Seek! See anything strange below?

It’s Shu Shu hiding under the blanket!!

Joann wrote both lines!

Till next year =)

Christmas 2009

I know Christmas seems long long ago!! =) Here’s an overview of my Christmas celebration, in photos! (Photo-intensive!!!)

Candlelight Service

Christmas Cg

Dept Dinner

Children’s Church Party

One more set of pics for Family’s Christmas Party, up in next post =)

Office Pranks!

Just a silly random post of office pranks!

What’s in that huge envelope? Not expecting anything from agency or printer??!! Oops, it’s my cushion!

Tit bit attack!

Christmas deco coming into good use!

My wacky crazy colleagues!!

Rose, rose, I love you!

For Christmas, my dearest colleague Jasmine bought me a pair of beautiful rose earrings which got rave comments from everyone who saw them!

I love rose earrings and I thought I share some beauty with everyone today! (will try to get back into blogging momentum again ok? Somehow not so inspired to blog!)

My very first pair (from H&M Madrid) – spunky black!

My fav pair (from Cotton On)

Received on my birthday from Zone leaders (thanks Joy for choosing them =)

From Korea , super cheap, I think only S$2!

From Malacca, it’s made from handmade paper, very delicate, love the graduated yellow colour