This blog has been in my draft for so long (almost a year LOL), but here it is...
It has been a month since I've last blogged. I was busy settling down all my stuff and getting myself ready for school life. It wasn't as bad as I've thought! I was keeping myself busy from moving into my pretty sharehouse at Ewha, buying necessities for my house, opening a bank account, convincing myself to cook everyday, buying new clothes, getting my hair cut, attending MBA 연고전, pizza lunch with seniors, student council junior-senior dinner, meeting my Korean friends, food hunting, movie watching, and most importantly, eating MALAYSIAN FOOD IN KOREA!
I can't be blogging all of the above in this post so I'm going to divide them into a few parts.
Update #1 (sharehouse, home-cooking, clothes shopping)
Update #2 (Flight to Seoul, KGSP Orientation)
Update #3 (MBA 연고전, student council, Malaysian food in Korea)
Update #4 (Fall MT, Korean Day, Volunteering activities)
It was hard to find accommodation/원룸 and sign rental agreement for a year when I was still in Malaysia. Normally, people look houses up through app and call the 부동산 for room tour appointment. I wasn't able to do that and it was too risky to just believe whatever the 부동산 people says and sign the contract. Not only is the monthly rental expensive compared to Malaysia, there is a huge up-front key deposit money that you have to pay prior to moving in the house. I had no choice but to ditch the idea of looking for accommodation through 부동산.
I came across a type of accommodation called sharehouse whereby you can rent a room in a house/apartment, and share the bathroom, kitchen, living room with other house mates. The rental and deposit is way lower and normally, the interior looks nice! Not only you can have a private room, you dont have to stay alone in a house. Good news if you are a scaredy cat! So, instead of using app and going through other median that will obviously charge an amount of extra fee, I went on my house hunting through Naver (the Google of Korea). Of course, I did all the research in Korean as most of the posts on the website are in Korean.
Long story short, I found a sharehouse and reserved the biggest room in the apartment. It was slightly more expensive than what I was looking for but I like the room so much and I was running out of time (do mind that September is the official beginning of school in South Korea, so students tend to grab all the rooms by August, especially the good ones). My first criteria for the room was to have great lightning and space. I can only study by my own in my own room, so a great study space is what I was looking for. It is 15-20mins by walk from my house to Yonsei University, so I guess it makes a great exercise routine for a lazy bum like me.
I can't give out too much details on the house for confidential and privacy purpose, so here is a few photos of my room.
The owner will send monthly duty roster schedule to us to take turn and clean the house and throw the recyclables. I won't say that it is hard but it is tedious as there are a lot of rules of how we should recycle and throw certain rubbish. And there is a certain timetable for certain recycling activities so you cannot really clean the house when you have free time. You had to follow the time set by the neighbourhood (or in this case, my apartment's schedule).
Because the dining area was so beautiful, it gave me the motivation to cook more at home! The refrigerator was spacious enough for all 4 of us to have our own space to store food. The only downside I would say is that there is only one induction in the kitchen so only one person can cook at a time, using only one pot/pan.
You can see from the below photos, most of them can be cooked in just a pan. Its just the same ingredients cooked different ways haha but these are photos from a month ago, I've gotten so much better in cooking different food, like spaghetti, adding minced garlic and eating 김 with the kimchi fried rice (trust me, it is life changing!)
(left to right) 간장계란밥+스팸+두부+소세지, 김치볶음밥+계란후라이, 볶음면+계란후라이+갈비탕
(left to right) 토마토 계란 볶음+김치볶음밥, 토마토 계란 볶음+소세지+버섯볶음, 볶음밥+된장찌개
Because autumn was around the corner and I didn't have enough clothes for autumn, I went to the Underground shopping centre at Express Bus Terminal to do some shopping. I bought some jacket, long sleeves, 맨투맨, hair pin, and a pair of shoe. Most of clothes there can be bought at as low as 10,000won!
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