My Rocking Cradle

You can go to Myeongdong without buying anything but you can still bring home a lot of things! Just how do you do this? Simple! Enter all those beauty stores and they will give you sample packs the moment you step in. Most promo girls would tell you to just enter so they could hand [...]

Hubby surprised me with a Hilton Hotel dinner – with the two boys – during our 6th wedding anniversary. At first, he said he only wanted the boys to see the huge rotating indoor Christmas tree of the Hilton Hotel: This huge Christmas tree will greet you upon entering the hotel lobby. When you look [...]

Zel Kim, a Filipino member of the performing group Noridan based here in Korea requested that I help disseminate this opportunity for performers, particularly singers, who are qualified to be part of the Intercultural Transnational Chorus “Montant”. I am re-posting this whole notice from the Noridan site: OPEN AUDITION FOR INTERCULTURAL TRANSNATIONAL CHORUS “MONTANT” Together [...]

I have tried smoking a looooooooooonnnnng time ago… think about college. That’s like more than 15 years ago:-).  And I did it for only a short time because I didn’t really like its taste. And so, I was a naive user of Hookah last weekend when I had a night out with friends at Itaewon. [...]

One of the things I have noticed when I came to live here in Seoul more than five years ago was the unwritten escalator “etiquette” that Seoulites were accustomed to. If you are in a hurry and you want to walk up or down in the escalator you have to take  the left side. If [...]

Traditional Korean restaurants make use of either built-in grills or portable stoves for barbecues. My personal, eternal favorite is the popular samgyeopsal. Anyway, most traditional restaurants have exhaust installed on each table – that long tube hanging from above your table which could be lowered down when you are grilling and the smoke is at [...]

For weeks and weeks, Seoul had been incessantly bombarded with rain. It was only two Thursdays ago when the rain stopped and from then, afternoons were greeted with children’s laughter. This is especially true here in Trapalace where children welcomed their outdoor playtime and wished for the night not to end. Here are the kiddos [...]

I am now even more impressed with the pro-activeness of the Seoul Metropolitan government. Through Hi Seoul, Seoul of Asia, it is currently taking a survey on the attractiveness of Seoul. You see, CNN came out with its “50 Reasons why Seoul is the Greatest City” article and I re-posted it here. As a reaction [...]

I’ve been living here in Korea for more than five years already. And each summer I never fail to see kids frolicking and getting wet in these water fountains sprouting everywhere here in Seoul: And each time I see them, I can’t understand why. Oh well, I can understand the kids’ joy playing and getting [...]

When was the last time we watched a movie? We used to just line up to purchase our movie ticket but we discovered a new way last weekend when we went to CGV Times Square. Yes, we did online reservation before. This self-ticketing corner isn’t new, either. But this time, we noticed that people waiting [...]