March 2, 2009 at 1:38 am · Filed under S. Korea
I received a forwarded email with a subject title “Your Korean Name”. I really don’t know if this is true… hmp! but I’m pretty sure that this is just for fun, anyway I’m quite regaled with the content of that e-mail. I even have my Korean name now, its Kim Hyun Bin… hhmmm so the hot and ever papable Hyun Bin shares the same name with me?! hehehe. Do you want to get your own fake Korean name too? 
don’t spoil the fun.. let’s just try to have our fake Korean names lol
Surname : Korean surname is the last number in your year of birth.
0: Park 5: Kang
1: Kim 6: Han
2: Shin 7: Lee
3: Choi 8: Sung
4: Song 9: Jung
II. Middle name : is your month of birth .
1: Yong 7: Ha
2: Ji 8: Hyo
3: Je 9: Soo
4: Hye 10: Eun
5: Dong 11: Hyun
6: Sang 12: Rae
III. Name : is your date of birth .
1: Hwa 17: Ah
2: Woo 18: Ae
3: Joon 19: Neul
4: Hee 20: Mun
5: Kyo 21: In
6: Kyung 22: Mi
7: Wook 23: Ki
8: Jin 24: Sang
9: Jae 25: Byung
10: Hoon 26: Seok
11: Ra 27: Gun
12: Bin 28: Yoo
13: Sun 29: Sup
14: Ri 30: Won
15: Soo 31: Sub
16: Rim
February 27, 2009 at 12:32 am · Filed under S. Korea
… is Korea’s most popular and nutritious convenience meal. A layer of cooked rice is spread over a square piece of gim (dried laver). Various ingredients (including ham, sausage, spinach, cucumber, crab meat, carrots, and radishes) are thinly sliced and placed on top. The laver is rolled into a tube, sliced into sliced pieces, and seasoned with sesame seeds. The idea was borrowed from the Japanese during the colonial period, but Korean Gimbap is slightly different. You can find it sold everywhere: picnics, schoolchildren’s lunch boxes, street venders, and convenience stores.
February 23, 2009 at 3:00 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
It is one of my most liked Korean food (so far), and thank goodness that I saw its recipe in Monterey Recipe Book. I will share to you the details…
you will need the following:
- 1 Kg Monterey beef shortribs, Korean cut 1000 g
- 3 tbsp Garlic, minced 42 g
- 5 tbsp Gochujang (Korean chili bean paste) 135 g
- cups Soda water 313 g
- 1 tbsp Sesame Oil 14 g
- 1 tsp Beef dashida 7 g
- 1/8 White pepper 1 g
- 2 Sesame seed (for garnish) 9 g
- 2 Sesame seeds
- 20 Onion leeks, julienned
Here’s how to do it:
1. Marinate short ribs in all ingredients for 8 hours.
2. Grill. Brush ribs with marinade while grilling. Top with sesame seeds and onion leeks.
Isn’t it so simple? 
February 20, 2009 at 2:17 am · Filed under ASIA
is my destination for now… one of the premiere travel destinations in the world that awaits each and every traveler to its beauty. I often heard that Istanbul City is truly an exciting city of Turkey, though it is not capital city of Turkey but we must admit it that it is more popular than Ankara. I remember before when I was in high school then, I had chatmate who’s from Turkey.. I really thought that Istanbul is the capital city of the said country (LoL). He then said that there are actually a lot of Turkish who wanted to replace their capital city, well, I don’t want to comment on that matter for I’m not from there 
There’s only one thing that I can give my remarks to Istanbul… it really an out of the ordinary among any other cities in the world, imagine it strikes two continents – Europe and Asia ! <<Wow! Bongga! >>
Visiting Istanbul will indeed sense you their ancient culture and history – the legacy of three empires: the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires. Well, if you’re not much of an historic aficionado.. You need not to worry because Istanbul is very industrialized – from beautiful skyscrapers of world class hotels, malls and other business and entertainment establishments. But nevertheless, when you are into sights you must pay a visit to the Bosphorus Bridge. Yes, this is the thing in Istanbul that connects the Asia and Europe, reason to be called as the transcontinental city.
When it comes to transportation, Turkey has already started building the rail line for high-speed train in 2003 which has a length of 533 km, it is the largest in the metropolis of Turkey. It is expected to launch by the Turkish government by March 2009 the first high-speed train of Turkey – TCDD HT65000. This cool train reaches top speeds of 250-300 km/h, that actually aims to reduce train voyages, just like for instance the supposedly travel time of 6 hours and 30 minutes between Ankara to Istanbul will cut down into 3 hours.
August 5, 2008 at 11:27 pm · Filed under employment, my blogs, travel
I just have few moments chatting with an old friend – Barbie, who’s now in Australia working as a pearl farmer in the seas of Darwin. Enjoying the waves and nature that surrounds her, plus the fact that it is her most loved pastime – diving, still there comes a time thinking about her most wanted job, to be a flight attendant. Gosh! Having a flight attendant career was sought after by Barbie, Michelle, and Harlie before, during our college days, but Barbie’s the real diehard hahaha, so I’m not surprise anymore when she told me that she’s planning to enroll to a flying school after her contract to achieve her career goal. Actually, to have a flight attendant career is a favorable and rewarding job for me because aside from I’m an outgoing person, I’d really, really love to travel and see all the places in the world, and being an aircrew is very much suited to those interests of mine, of course I’m very much able to provide friendly and excellent services as well. But then I’m not blessed with fair height in accordance to this kind of profession (LOL) so guess I’ll just pass on to and entrust this career to Barbie. I’m pretty well sure that with the right flight attendant school that she will be opting, she will get the skills and expertise to meet the standards of joining the team of Sun Country Careers. I’m very much sure that she will become a clever and competent airline crew of Sun Country Airlines. I hope so… maybe we can join same flights on my trip to Caribbean. I’m very much excited in this Caribbean trip some time next, next month ‘coz I’ll be meeting some business associates and some old friends. Majority of the people involved in this business trip chose Sun Country due to the extra benefits and perks offered to their flights.
July 27, 2008 at 1:59 am · Filed under CHINA
TUANGOU, meaning “team purchase” in English is the new phenomenon for Chinese Shoppers. It is their new technique to get better discounts in various products such as home furnishings, electronics, and even cars in the internet. Yes! This is online shopping so instead of shopping alone and haggling individually, the group picks a specific time and date to meet up in a real-world shop or showroom. They then approach the sales staff in a mob and negotiate a group discount.
The scenario here is websites are popping up that are putting groups of like-minded shoppers in cybershopping…
Actually, it’s kinda puzzling for me.. but if you want to give it a shot, try it at trendwatching.
July 25, 2008 at 4:47 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Such a lazy spring day again! Felt so weak and I don’t feel like getting up in bed since morning jumpstart. Now that I’m here in the office, facing in front of this PC to do my usual paper works still the lifelessness in my system taking me up incessantly. This is what usually happens to me if I’m fed up in my present condition… The more I get tired, the more I don’t want to do anything at all. I’m so sick to death here. If I could only spend the rest of my working hours playing casino online and win this huge pot prizes I think this will be the best thing that I’m yearning for these days.. to have big, big bucks so I can have a vacation and take a rest from all the pressures in my work. You know, playing casino isn’t a bad idea at all, honestly. Busy people these days need to have fun and leisure time too.. they forgot to spend some time for themselves… being entertained and have fun. This is the thought in developing online casinos gambling, that even at home, you can still play your favorite casino games… and wait! of course we must not fail to consider if it is safe and reliable, ok?
June 15, 2008 at 12:10 pm · Filed under travel beyond Asia
I wish that in this year’s birthday of mine, all of my plans will be possible, not just possible but will really happen … I’m wishing to go to this beautiful island that I only saw on TV – Jeju Island. I wanna be here, and step to every part of the island that marked me most, take pictures, feel the air, eat the foods that I also saw on TV (of course!) and even experience their culture. It would be my first time to go in that foreign country but I don’t feel nervous so far as I am so excited to be there.
Aside from going to Korea, I also want to visit Paris …. Hmm is it true the it is the most romantic city in the world? well I guess so, if you follow the rule: never go there ALONE! So let me check IC’s schedule if he could go there with me and book our accommodations at one of the Hotels near London attractions 
(nice noh?) and this room’s so perfect—->
but I also like also like this conventional room on one of the Hotels in Manchester CBD —->
. There are a lot of attractions on London and Paris-the entire nation of UK, of course the most common and visited are the Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Piccadilly Circus, Tower Bridge/London Bridge, but as for me, I am more interested to see and visit the number of palaces there and of course 
the Louvre..yah I’m actually got that cracking interest for the Da Vinci Code (LoL) so good luck to me in my discoveries there
Click UK Hotels for more inquiries on your travel accommodations in UK.
May 17, 2008 at 7:25 pm · Filed under Philippines, S. Korea, buzz
The presence of Asian Novellas in the Philippines is really the craze in every teen and not so old ones – the actors’ looks, songs, even the foods they cook and eat, and most especially the styles (actually even the anime hairdos is such a fad). So for our grannies, don’t get stunned of you would often see people down the streets having the hairs of San Goku, Yusuke, Kenshin Himura and all those anime characters we’ve seen on the television. The higher the hair stands the better for them so basically the Gel is very salable to comply with those hairstyles . With regards to outfit, the Korean fashion was really the in thing here in the country, you can see most of the female who wear skirts with matching tights or leggings inside, then their tops is a combination of fit shirt and a spaghetti strap outside or the other way around. If it is not super fit then the super loose blouse that most often it can cover even your buttocks then paired with skinny jeans. If you really think about it, for me it was kind of weird combinations but then on, since it was the in thing nowadays you would also learn to appreciate its effect once you saw somebody who wears it and especially if they can carry it beautifully and wear it out like a celebrity.
By the way, to all those Young and Beautiful individuals not only in Asia but throughout the world can join this unique online Beauty contest. The winner will take $10,000 and might be able to work as a Model in New York, Milan, and Paris. So, if you think you’ve got what it takes to be the next Look of the Year, feel free to register and give your best shot! Goodluck guys!!
May 5, 2008 at 3:40 pm · Filed under travel beyond Asia
I graduated my college degree in the year 2003, and since then until year 2006 I was totally unemployed and UNWAGED! Though I had a bit or like a part-time in my Aunts business but I still get no pay for it for it’s like a partnership between her and my parents and they have some arrangements about it, and/but the bottom line is.. I wasn’t able to have my remuneration in all of my involvements in that thing.
For three years (more or less) of futile life (I find my life so pathetic during those years) I only get myself busy in online chatting and internet browsing (too bad I haven’t discover blogging that time!), so I was able to meet new friends across the globe. I have four particular chatmates that I’m got to get sociable and at ease with: one from Sweden, one from Romania, and from Germany. This particular guy from Germany is half-German and half-Bangladeshi, we’re of almost of same age so we easily get acquainted to each other plus we both like jokes that’s why we even exchange jokes in emails.
We also have another thing in common – we both like to travel. He shares his experiences in his trips and sends pictures too. Most of his trips are round the neighborhood cities of Berlin, such as Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, and Frankfurt (he said that it was great experience to stay in cozy and classy hotels such Munich Hotels and Frankfurt Hotels). He was inviting before me to visit Germany at sometime ahead. Well, I think it’s a great idea ‘coz there are a lot of interesting places in Germany such as Wind turbines in Marburg-Wehrda; the stunning and historic castles of Coburg Castle, Wartburg Castle
; Neuschwanstein Castle (I don’t know what K�ln Hotels is the nearest in this fairy tale castle built by King Ludwig II) 
Hornberg Castle, the ruins of Heidelberg Castle, Linderholf Castle & ; and the Hintersee Lake in Bavaria. 
When I saw the picture of Hintersee is like seeing a place in a fairy-tale… the water is so green, very romantic idyllic scenery, and blessed with moss-covered boulders that rumbled down the steep mountains in the ancient years.
Germany truly is a place where you can find the lost paradise on Earth. I really love to see the castles there and feel like a princess (LOL). But anyways, of course my first would be at Germany’s capital – Berlin, and stay in this one of the Berlin Hotels that is architecturally amazing 
. It seems like Germany has a lot of castles, so maybe that’s why some of Germany Hotels have a touch of castle-like designs.
Gosh, I wish I could go there when I’m still young… hhmm I wonder if I could meet the famous German nationals: my look-alike model – Claudia Schiffer and the very papable Ralph Schumacher.
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