FRIENDS AGAIN!

Assalamualaikum

Looking at the bright side, fixing my relationship with my Terendak girls is among the best thing that has come out of this pandemic. 

No. We did not putus kawan or anything but you know, the classic happened, we drifted apart, although it was not our intention to make it go this bad, life sort of got in the way, everyone got married, have kids, or in my case I've been busy with work and travel, Anut moves to JB, scheduling meet up got harder and harder. In the end, everyone just stop trying.

Since I can only speak for myself, if I am being real, at least for me, I stopped trying because I don't want to disturb them, they all have their own little family now, Whenever things happened, I did not reached out because I didn't want to add my problem to their already full plate. It's Lily and Marshall's "8 or higher rule". Although, if I pay close attention to  the series, I would have known that the rule has serious flaw, it pushes people apart. Plus, this shows how narcissistic I was. I wasn't the only one struggling, my friends are struggling too. By not reaching out to each other, all of us were left alone (well not really alone, but without each other) in our trying times.

Then comes MCO. Although my other relationships suffer, things got better with my girls. We reconnected over our new hobbies and interest; tending plants, jamu, house decor, skin care, hair care, the list goes onnn. We met each other so much more this past month, more than the last 5 years combined! We have salon date, dessert date, shopping date, enough said, we're best friends again.

Now, if only Anut can move to the central... 😋

FRIENDS AGAIN!

Friday, September 25, 2020

MORNING PERSON.....I AM NOT

Assalamualaikum

First thing first, I think Ayu caught on to me. She finally realised how lemau of a person I am. lol. No, I think she had known it for a while but she only said it out loud recently. 

This conversation happened during......well.... to explain how this conversation started you must know the back story. The thing is, we registered for 2019 Milo Run. Yup, me and Ayu and Ain and Pikah. yes, you can laugh now. -__________- This was certainly not my idea. I don't run, period. This was Ayu's idea, the former athlete of her primary school lol. The run starts at 7.30 in the morning. Emphasis on start okay. Ayu was supposed to sleep over at Ain's too but something happen so she had to go back at 12.30 am that night. Story of our lives, when we don't gather, things don't turn out well.

That morning, I woke up at 6.50am almost missed out Subuh some more. After Subuh, I just sat there, and stare at the wall. Kak Cik (Ain's sister) woke up really early, siap mandi bagai. I look at Kak Cik, eh dah siap, kene siap jugak ni, tapi Ayu ni dah otw belum? So I called Ayu,

trrrt trrrt

Ayu: weh aku tak terbangun.

Me: weeeehhhhhhh (pura pura marah)

Ayu: weh macam mana ni? Nak pergi ke?

Me: Kau gerak la cepat (pura pura push orang pergi)

Ayu: Tapi korang macam mana weh. Aku terbawak balik kunci rumah Ain.

Me: Laaaaa ye ke. (pura pura kecewa)

By this time, Ain was already awake

Me to Ain: Ain, kunci kau kat Ayu. Kita tak boleh keluar la ni

Ain: Takpe, ada kunci spare

Me: KENAPE ADE KUNCI SPARE PULAK? (showing my true intention -_________- )

Kak Cik wanted to go but the decision maker were us because she only tagged along. I, well, I am a follower, which Ain surprisingly don't know like whyyyy I thought we were friends for how many years already how can she not know? So I was lazying around on the bed, Ain took it as a sign that I don't want to go so she was like, "kite pergi breakfast je lah. Ayu bangun. Datang sekarang kite pergi breakfast,"

When Ayu came, we properly analyse the scenario. We should have just go. The real run starts at 8.30 (janji Melayu)....Ain blamed me for not wanting to go eh eh, then Ayu said the wisest thing ever,

Kalau pagi kau jangan ikut Tira weh. Die memang takkan berusaha. Kalau die dah bangun pun die takkan siap. Kau kalau nak pergi kau siap je nanti die siap la.

Closest definition anyone can give for seorang Athirah. Ayu knows me best because we've been to a lot more trips together and Ayu, well, she always planned for sunrise trip I mean come onnnnn. Every single time, she knows she has to make her own effort to wake up because this girl will not help. lol. I am a completely different person in the morning. Not that I am not lemau in any other time of the day but I am lemau-est in the morning. 

In the morning, I have a completely different train of thoughts. It's quite simple actually. 

Do I want to wake up? Yes? No? No. Oh well, the world can wait.

This is a disease I know. I do this for important things as well. T-T I've missed three morning interviews in this month alone and one of it is for my Master!!! Don't worry, Alya punched me already.

The Baju Kurung I prepared the night before for that important Master Interview

That Master interview was embarrassing. Everyone knows that I was supposed to go to the interview so when I reached work at 11.30am (Don't worry this is not me being tardy luckily I work for a flexible company) wearing above Baju Kurung some more, My lead was like, "eh dah habis dah ke?". I wanted to lie, I have the dialog at the back of my head, but damn it I can't lie. So yeah, everyone makes fun of me that day. -_______-

This story doesn't has an ending yet. I am still this person, sadly.

MORNING PERSON.....I AM NOT

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

2019 RAYA STORY

Assalamualaikum

Farid scolded me when I uploaded his bulat face. Like any other good sister, I now make it my post header :P

1. When I uploaded this photo on Insta story, my friends was like, "asal kau aje warna lain?". -______- In my defense, we weren't supposed to go boria on the first day. If I was informed, I would have said no from the beginning haha. and seriously, this baju wasn't even supposed to be our Raya baju, I wore mine at a friend's wedding! I have photo proof. On the Eid's eve, Emak casually slight in, "esok semua pakai baju ni eh,". What....no no no no no no no no no no no no no. I am usually lalang when it comes to decision making, but boria is a big no for me so this is a firm No (colour coded outfits I don't mind but same colour AND design? no).  I just realised this paragraph makes me sound like a spoil b*** -______-

No I didn't sabotage Emak. She uploaded this photo to her Facebook herself :P

2. This is the first Raya in yearssss that I am finally able to perform Solat sunat Aidilfitri and I wasn't prepared! It was not until that morning that I realised, I left my pretty telekung at home! The one I have at my mother's were all the jersey, melekap dekat muka kind. To make matter worst, one of Emak's friend invited us to go beraya at her house, right after solat! So yeah, that is what I look like, on first day of Eid, beraya-ing at people's houses.

3. Nuar has a a good new camera so yeah, photo session!

4. My family don't talk about real stuff, not out loud anyway. TBH, till this day, we haven't really discuss how it feels like after Abah was gone. Literally no one mention anything....except at Kampung....but even then, it was only Nyayi talking and sometimes crying, talking about Abah and us five will be around her, nodding. Empty nod, not the emotional nodding, not agreeing, and no one, I mean, literally no one add in nor deny anything she said. I think this is unhealthy, us not discussing things, but I dunno I think we're going to stay this way. I don't foresee us change in the future. (Btw, Nyayi has a point. Abah was always the one who made Raya, Raya. I mean, whenever anyone felt lazy to do anything, he'll come with his requests, lemang lah, ketupat lah, rendang lah, bahulu gulung lah, semperit lah, it's annoying when you're lazy but we have to admit, he kept the raya spirit going)

5. I am now at my heaviest. -____________- Didn't even lose any weight during Ramadan sobs sobs. and to make matters worst, I am now addicted to Boba. Like really really addicted. On the way balik kampung, we have to stop by Seremban 2 for The Alley and on the way back home, we stopped by a petrol pump for Tealive and after visiting relatives it was Chatime, and at the office, Slyvia ordered Koi, I haven't stop since. There was no single week goes by without me drinking bubble tea I need help!

6. We decided not to do any open house this year. One, because now I don't live there anymore and two, I think last year, with the addition of Dik Yah's friends, the scale of the open house got too big that by the end of it all, we were all too tired to function. This year, the Todak girls told me to invite them only haha (the open house affects them too because they help), and each of us (me and my siblings), separately, in different times, told Emak not to have an open house this year. Lol. What a bunch of introverts. We still asked people to come over but not open house as in open house style. We have one day for relatives, one day for Emak friends basically anyone who wish to come, they are more than welcome to come. (BTW, next year we might have open house again because now we miss having a lot of people over lol why life has to be so complicated? and to be honest a lot of people are missing Emak's Daging Hitam)

7. I saw this posting on twitter where a daughter was ranting about how her cousins didn't come when they say they would. The mother had prepared a lot of food which in the end went to waste because nobody came T__________T . I hate people. Why are we so mean. T________T I have seen this happen in real life so I know how bad this could hurt a person. I think this should serve as a reminder to us to not take other people's efforts and feelings, lightly. If we promised to come, come. If foods are served, eat. Secret to successful raya. :)

8. I love memenuhi undangan. When I am invited, I would try my best to show up....but friends open houses gets tougher each year as more and more friends got married. Haha. If I didn't have a reason to get married before, friends open houses gave me one. I need a partner to go to people's open house! I went to Dayah's event once, alone, because Ayu couldn't make it and it was awkward. haha. Luckily, one of her friends brought her mother along who also doesn't know anyone there so we sat and chat together :'D I borrowed her idea for my invitations too, now Emak is my plus one. I brought Emak to Del and Amir's open house so problem solved. The only drawback is, I have to return the favour and be Emak plus one for all her other open houses -______-

9. Emak has been treating my house like a show house. Whenever relatives or her friends came, she'll be like, "nak tengok rumah Athirah?" and off we go to my house. -_________- It was definitely not guest ready. I don't have any snacks to offer, no tea or cordial to prepare, nothing. I can only offer mineral water -______________- Luckily, people weren't expecting anyway. They came to just see the house.

10. I had sleepover with the Todak girls on one of the weekends! It was not really a proper sleepover because we were back pretty late and we have to go out really early the next day so yeah, we should have another sleepover.

10. While writing this post, I realised once again, I forget to take pictures of most of the moment. Some was even important moment like that time when I have my first guest at my own house. *slap self*

***

Daniel few weeks after Raya,

"Selamat Hari Raya Athirah!. Suddenly remembered I didn't wish you. Omg, you should post more insta stuff,"

lol. Should I tell him I spam people in my blog?

2019 RAYA STORY

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

FIRST MUSICAL: OLA BOLA

Assalamualaikum

It's hard not to start a blogpost with "we were struggling with life in general" because that has been the running theme whenever there is a gathering....us, talking about work and what's stressing us out #adultingissofun

So no, this time, we were all mentally fit, no stress, no drama, just agreeing to a "eh jom tengok Ola Bola". Can you guess who suggested it? Alya weh Alya. When this happened just few weeks back,

      Bedah's husband : DeFam bawak lagu Altimet tu ok jugak

      Alya: Siapa Altimet?

      Us: Serious la tak kenal Altimet?????

      Bedah's husband : BTS kenal?

      Alya :  Kenal

      Bedah's husband : Gary kenal?

      Alya: Kenal

      Bedah's husband : Altimet kenal?

      Alya : Tak kenal

      Me : Kau rakyat Malaysia ke tak niii?

During the musical, she yelled the loudest when Altimet came out. Even louder than Nabila Huda scene (she's her die hard fan) so yup, I rolled my eyes. "Weh aku dah google die ni siapa," she was proud. *rolled eyes lagi*

It was mine and Alya's first time watching a musical so we were excited. I thought it's going to be just an hour thing who knows there were even Part 1 and Part 2 with a break in the middle! Did I enjoy it? Yes I do....but I also almost felt asleep a couple of times sorry! Oh come on it was at night after work give me a break please? hehe. It was really really inspiring and makes me feel patriotic with the whole football chants and everything....but some parts are also very cringy lol. I guess, it's a mixture of successful and fail attempts all in the same play....Good attempt nevertheless.

Of course Nadia had to be there lol. (She's everywhere!)

FIRST MUSICAL: OLA BOLA

Friday, April 26, 2019

RANDOM MOMENT: PROMOTER AUNTIE & DEL

Assalamualaikum

This happened yesterday;

Del, Ikin, Kak Ila and I were doing our weekly Thursday shopping (Aeon Supermarket has a lot of good deals on Thursday yes you're welcome) and this one promoter aunty came and approached us. She was trying to make small talks with us:

Aunty:  U olls kerja ke?

Del    :  haah...dekat sini je. (points to our office building)

Aunty:  Mana?

Del    :  (showed her tag) sini sini.

Aunty:  Ohhhh sini kerje banyak senang kan. Anak Aunty dulu kerje situ. Intern. RMxx. Semua ade. Coffee ada. Cake ada. Buah ada. kerje senang. Download invoices saja. Tak payah sekolah pun boleh buat. kan? Orang bodoh pun boleh kerja. Habis SPM boleh terus kerja sana.

Del    :  haah Aunty. Betul lah tu. Memang bodoh pun boleh buat

Aunty:  Kan. U qualification apa? Belajar mana?

Del    :  Tak belajar Aunty. Lepas SPM terus masuk sini.

Aunty:  Itu la Aunty sudah kata. Kerja situ senang. tapi jangan masuk KPMG. Situ susah. 5 sen pun mau cari.
Del    :  haah senang la Aunty itu boleh shopping -_______-

I was busy laughing my ass off at the side.

Moral of the story is....well, no moral of the story. This is just some random story we experienced randomly in Malaysia. hahahahaha. Anyway, the Aunty was just being a normal Malaysian aunties, a concern citizen. In the beginning she was questioning whatever we had in our trolley (kenape beli beras? sapa nak masak?) and she thought I was 25 and wanted to introduce me to this one Malay guy she knows. You know, typical Malaysian aunties. haha.

The only reason this moment made it into a blogpost is Del. The way I write don't even do justice towards her trolling talent. lol. Membahan orang is her second nature. She can do it effortlessly anytime anywhere. :'P

RANDOM MOMENT: PROMOTER AUNTIE & DEL

Friday, April 19, 2019

SMALL TALK: BISIKAN MALAM

That was a click bait. hahahahahaha.

Assalamualaikum

Today (14/02), after our dinner with Bedah, me and Alya had a lonnnnng (8 malam sampai pukul 11 okay) catch up session about life in general.

"We used to have a dream,"

but somehow, somewhere, at a point in time, we started settling for mediocre. [Disclaimer; from this point onwards I am not bragging, I am just trying to make a point]. We have been average for so long we forget that we were once among the best. We were top students. We're MRSM graduates for God sake. We used to think that we could be anything....but look at us now, day-in day-out, doing the bare minimum, merely existing when we should be living.

I admire people who have dreams and are brave enough to push through. My colleague S is such an inspiration. He's resigning to pursuit his dream; to be a pilot. How cool is that? I mean, that's a really big jump. He'll be changing career completely. He'll be leaving his stable career for something uncertain. He has to start over with no assurance that he'll succeed. He knows all this.........yet, he's still willing to take up the challenge. 

#standingovation

Alya is determine to figure out what her dreams are by end of 2019.

"Writing,"

I used to dream to be a writer. EH no. I dream to be a writer...I still want to be one, tapi tu lah, I don't have the courage and the mentality to be one, at least for now. I always assume the worst. TBH, even if I really really want something, that "eh takkan lah boleh dapat," mentality is still there. I don't think I'll succeed, so I never try, I don't think I have the strength to withstand the heart break IF I don't succed. IF. That's the thing. I am fearing IF. -_____________- Even if I have the courage, where do I start? What should I study? Should I study Literature? Language? What's the difference? Which one is more important, idea or grammar? Is lack of content worst that grammatical error? (My english is terrible I don't know how you guys can reach this far  -___- ) What defines a good writer? #sispening

As any good friend would do, Alya encourages me to go for it, "kau boleh, aku tak. Aku suka je tulis2 tapi aku tak boleh jadi writer. Kau boleh," she said. Wait what? What does that even mean? She elaborated further, "Kau memang serious, so bila ko tulis something, senang orang nak take it seriously. Aku suka jugak tulis2 ni, tapi tu lah, orang mesti tak percaya yang tu aku yang tulis,". Point taken. (BTW, this further prove the point that Farid has been trying to make for yearssss, "Kakak tak cool,".

But she also encourages me to go more public about this blog. Promote this everywhere. Well well well, if you've been reading this blog since the beginning, you would know, this is the hard part!!! It took me yearssssss before I can include the blog link on my instagram info, then it took me another year to occasionally post about this blog on my insta story, now what, I need to promote it???? My introvert cells are shivering right now!!

We'll see.

"Consistently inconsistent,"

We also talk about how weirdly inconsistent we are. We could be saying one thing today, then do the exact opposite the next day, then we regret it and we beat ourselves for doing the mistakes. This has been the source of our stress our entire life. For example, Us: I want to be a good daughter to my parents; also us: *lie lazily on bed while our mothers wash the laundry, vacuum the house, cook and etc* -______________- Another example > Me: I am a feminist. I'll fight for injustice; Also me: *someone makes a sexist not-funny jokes* hahahahahaha.

I freaking laugh! It's not funny it's sexist, what did I do? Laugh!!!

Of course we know this has to change but man it's hard!

"Moving on,"

I have reach nirvana on this topic. hahahahaha. I am the master of moving on.....I have successfully clean myself from any sort of longing, regrets, resentment towards anything from the past.....but TBH, it's something that comes with maturing and getting old and try and error and a lot of wisdom. So when Alya asked me how, I was like, "Sorry, macam takkan boleh je," lol tak membantu langsung kan tapi that's what I think. Alya agrees okay with my "wise words" lol. I think she knows deep down it's not going to happen too. Sometimes, even if you know things, you needed someone else to say it out loud to really believe in it. So geng, if you need someone to give you the cold hard truth, come to me, I don't sugar coat things. lol

***

Listing this down, no wonder we talked for 3 hours. We covered a lot!

SMALL TALK: BISIKAN MALAM

Friday, February 22, 2019

KEEPING THE TRADITION ALIVE

Assalamualaikum

Alya: Ape azam tahun baru kau?

Me: Takde. Masih lemau.

Tapi, if I really need to come up with a resolution, I guess, I would like to not procrastinate and just do things right away.....especially with blog. No, for 2019, let's make it exclusively for blogging. I hope I do more real time blogging than late post. Save everything while I'm still feeling grateful that it happened. :D

Since last 2 years (you can read it here and here), we have promise each other to keep the tradition alive. However, please note that we are lazy, heavy sleeper, homebody. When people like us try to make plans, out of 10 plans, maybe 3 survive...the rest, letup. Since I was so lemau the last few days of 2018, I was trying really hard not to mention the tradition. I was really really really hoping that everyone would forget.

However, one problematic Wednesday, while happily eating my lunch,

Alya: Weh kau tau mak aku nak buat *something something something* hari Sabtu. Mak aku suruh duduk rumah. Mana boleh wehhh. Macam mana dengan tradition kite?

Dia ingat pulak weeeehhhhhh!

So I, had to reluctantly organise the whole thing. I pick the place this time. The easiest of them all, Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam. For once, we'll be walking on a tar road not through forest muddy road. (clever or not?)

However, getting us, the 3 people who love our bed the most in this whole wide world, to sacrifice that for an activity, it was not without a fight.

We went up to Empangan Sungai Baru, which, well, how to put it simply, the whole area, sadden me. It was so poorly maintain, they have to block the decks entrance because most of them are broken. So sayang. The place has so much potential but people let it down. Worst, the dam was at the farthest end of the whole park, so it should feel like a reward, after all the effort you pour into reaching that place, to be greeted with something so meeeh, you'll  wonder why you even bother to try in the first place.

Nevertheless, since we're there already, might as well make a full use of it. We rested at the gazebo nearby and do our yearly life review & heart-to-heart session & confession & intervention & current issue discussion & gossip; all-in-one.

Some of blogging-approved material we discussed today (of course I can't tell you all the stories that would be suicide)

1. Alya & Ayu have completely different new year's resolution. One wants to be selfish (originally very considerate and not selfish) and thinks only about her own happiness and the other wants to be less selfish (originally quite selfish) and bring happiness to other people. Me? I don't have any plan to change I'll continue being selfish thank you very much.

2. We are at a point in our life where we appreciate the life we have; married or unmarried. We have completely come to term with everything and are enjoying life as it is. I guess, that's how life is, for us. When we were 20 - 25, we were so busy trying to be an adult we don't have time to think about marriage. When we were 26 - 27, things had slowly became repetitive, we became bored & lonely, desperation came kicking in, we started paying attention to men. 28 - till eternity, we now know how to make ourselves happy, how to be content with just ourselves, no longer lonely and desperate. We really hope people can see and just be happy that we're happy. No need to feel sorry (this one I hate the most) or push us towards something that we are not interested on in the first place. Why should we sacrifice a lifetime of happiness in an attempt to make everyone happy, and this too, only lasted for a short moment?

3. Mothers are the real superheroes. Period.

4. Are things that we're doing normal? Do we have a normal mindset? Is it okay to keep living this way?

5. Ayu said, people could find me unapproachable. haha. Even I have to agree with this....but we were wondering hard about this though. Whyyyy? Even I have no idea why. If you have any answer do let me know I would really love to know.

6. Me and Ayu look alike. People have been asking whether we're siblings....this happens a lot lately it's so hard to ignore. Do we really look alike? Really? It's so fascinating to me that people keep asking, imagine how curious they were they had to ask. I mean, i've seen people who look alike before, in my mind I'll be like, they must be siblings....I did not asked them the question because I am not that curious. So for someone to walk to you and ask the question, they must be super curious. I am not complaining about these people, they have their own right to speak, but do I really look like Ayu? Ayu was like "weh maybe sebab pipi aku dah gemuk macam tira," -___________- kuang hajaq!

That's all for now. xoxo

KEEPING THE TRADITION ALIVE

Sunday, January 6, 2019

HIGH SCHOOL REUNION!

......that happen in March tapi baru nak update sekarang. -_____-"

Assalamualaikum

It was supposed to be last year because that's the actual 10th year after leaving school but oh well, letup is part of our motto so that did not happened. Luckily, some of us took initiative and took actual steps, organised actual meeting to push this through....and I, the shy me from school, somehow got dragged into being one of the committee. haha. It shocked almost all my close friends.

If I were to be completely honest, I did not want to be part of the committee. It was during my peak period where I'd to push myself to stay late nights at the office, I had to be in office on some weekends too and as if that wasn't enough, I had to add my commitment and be a part of the organiser of this reunion, life was just too demanding at that time. However, if I were to compare myself and the responsibilities the rest of the committee members had, huh, mine was peanuts. Looking at how diligent they were, doing things for free, without getting paid, how can I complain? Such dedication to fulfill a promise; 10th year anniversary reunion, they deserve recognition.

Part of the comittee members. I salute their dedication and their effort in bracing it all and make this happen. Only we know what happen behind close door. The frustration, the desperation, the disappointment, thankfully we made it out alive.

For the reunion, I decided to make this as the door gift! My first attempt at creating a door gift out of something that I love. I did not do all this alone. Emak and Dik Yah helped. It was a fun project. On top of this, I was in charge of something else that I love too; making montage videos. Although I like how it turns out, everything was still very amateur-ish. Thankfully our professional photographer friend Lutfi wasn't around if not I would have die out of embarrassment right there and then. 

Survival tips when taking pictures with skinny pretty friends: Hide behind them

It was supposed to be a formal event complete with official program flow but oh well, that did not happen. It was just a total chaos. As soon as people came in, no one sat still. People were too busy walking, eating and taking picture it was impossible to follow the set itinerary. In the end, we just let things flow naturally. I guess, some things never change. We are still the rebellious, loud bunch like we were in high school.

Kids! It's a bit unrealistic if it has been 10 years since you left school if there were no kids around, don't you think?

Last but not least, of course, the usual. P/S: In case you're wondering why I took photos with the same person over and over again, it's probably because they are my only friends. -___-" #introvertproblem

All in all, the event was a success. A lot of our friends praised the event saying they enjoyed themselves. In the moment of weakness, Kerry almost make a promise for 20th anniversary. Almost je lah because we stopped him before he talked. Let's not make anymore promises shall we.

HIGH SCHOOL REUNION!

Friday, December 21, 2018

BUDGET TRIP TO SEOUL - SUMMER 2014 (PERCUTIAN BUDGET KE SEOUL - MUSIM PANAS) : ITINERARY AND FULL BUDGET

Assalamualaikum

I know I know, what a late entry. -________-" but lately a lot of my blog traffic is related to Korea and some of my friends have been searching for the itinerary here too before they asked,

"mana itinerary Korea u? Jauh lagi kebelakang ke?"

emmmm, no. Tak letak pun. -___-"

So this one is for you, friends, Our 6 days and 5 nights trip.

As usual, all prices stated are for the 3 of us and as of 2014 (longgg overdue post). Total spent would be at the end.

***

[ITINERARY PREPARED BY AYU]

DAY 1 - MYEONGDONG (read more here)

Accomodation for 6 days 5 nights (432,000W) - Triple room at Starria Hostel (fka Seoul Tower Hostel). Back in 2014, Airbnb wasn't really a thing yet so we booked this small guesthouse for our trip. So many years have passed but I'll still recommend this place...The location is just perfect. It's in Myeongdong, so close to Namsan, even closer to the subway station.
Transportation from Airport to Myeongdong (15,600W) - 5,200W per person. We took the AREX all stop train, not the express one. All stop train cost around 4,050W per person (2018 - 4,150W) at the time as opposed to 9,000W for the express train.

Shopping at Myeongdong (individual cost) - Walking distance from our hostel.  We went crazy shopping for skincare at Myeondong. (Special announcement: I've moved on from Skin Food) Almost all brands are there and it's not just one store, multiple stores in that area alone it's crazy!

DAY 2 - NAMI ISLAND & DONGDAEMUN (read more here & here)

Transportation for the whole day (20,700W) - 6,900 per person. This covers both trains and taxi at Gapyeong
Nami Island entry visa (24,000W) - 8,000W per person (2018 - 13,000W) covers both the entry fee and the ferry.

Shopping at Dongdaemun (individual cost)- Go straight from Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station. Take exit 14 in Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station

 DAY 3 - TRADITIONAL SEOUL (read more here)

OMG can't believe I forgot to show off this place! The shop at the back was the one Sarang went to make her first Korean name stamp in "Superman Return". This is in Insadong btw

Transportation for the whole day (21,000W) - 7,000W per person
Jongmyo Shrine entry fee (3,000W) - 1,000W per person
Changdeokgung Palace entry fee (9,000W) - 3,000W per person
Bukchon Hanok Village (free) - Since this is a residential area, just be considerate and don't make to much noise.
Insadong (individual cost) - Love this area more compared to Myeongdong. It gives similar vibe, but less busy. The street foods were good, the bingsu shop we went in was good too, the souvenirs were reasonably priced too and oh oh, the antique shops they have, they were unique and pretty.

DAY 4 - TRADITIONAL SEOUL

Transportation for the whole day (6,000W) - 2,000W per person
Namdaemun market (individual cost) - walking distance from our hotel.
Gyeongbokgung Palace entry fee (free) - Normal fee would be 3,000W per person but since we went during Chuseok holiday, it was free for all. In the initial itinerary, this was supposed to be covered in Day 3 but our unfit body couldn't keep up with all the walking, so we postponed in to the next day.
Namsan Tower cable car (24,000W) - 8,000W per person. If I have one advise to give you all, is not to go to these tourist places on public holiday. haha. Initially, we were excited because we would be there during Chuseok, but after experiencing it, hmmmmmm, just avoid it please. All attractions would be packed with people!

DAY 5 - THE HIP PLACES

Niat dihati ambik gambar ni sebab nak bahan Amir at the time....konon2 tinggal Del bawak perempuan lain datang Korea...Realitinya sampai dah dapat Ucop pun gambar ni tak release lagi -______-"

Transportation for the whole day (21,000W) - 7,000W per person
Ewha University (free entry) - It's ironic that at the entrance, there is this huge sign saying this University is where people study (daa) and not a tourist attraction...but oh well, the guard let you enter :P and the university is just too pretty it's hard not to go in...just be considerate and keep noise to the minimum. 
Shopping around Ewha University and Hongdae (individual cost) - All the hip thing is here. Hip clothes, hip kpop stuff...basically everything that young people love.
Hello Kitty Cafe (individual cost) - Don't judge...we were 24 at that time!
Shopping at Myeongdong (individual cost) - yes, again! haha.
Banpo Bridge Rainbow Fountain (free entry) - Last show is at 9.00pm . Don't be late....like us. -____-"

DAY 7 - BACK TO MALAYSIA!

Transportation from Myeongdong to Airport (15,600W) - 5,200W per person.

TOTAL SPENT (excluding flight ticket, anything tag as "individual cost" above and food)

For 3 - MYR 1,838.01 (591,000W @ 0.00311)
Per person - MYR612.67

P/S: If you're curious, I spent around MYR 100 for souvenirs. Food and drink would be additional MYR200 only because we kind of starve ourselves at that time (This is a budget trip. We were young and broke) and as for other personal shopping I did, biarlah rahsia. haha.

More P/S: Look at our faces! So young and kurus!

Hope this is beneficial. :P

BUDGET TRIP TO SEOUL - SUMMER 2014 (PERCUTIAN BUDGET KE SEOUL - MUSIM PANAS) : ITINERARY AND FULL BUDGET

Friday, November 23, 2018