Korea trip diaries: day 3 and 4

Sorry I have been keeping quiet but I had some personal issues and then last weekend was a national holiday. But now I'm back :)

Day 3, on monday in the morning I had some time before meeting my friend so I went for a walk. I woke up soooo early for some reason and had nothing to do for two hours. But I had nice walk around sungkyunkwan university area which was basically next to my hostel.

Tong-in market and Insadong

So about 1pm, I met with my friend Hyojoo who was in same volunteer work place as me when I did volunteer work in Korea.

We met at Gyeongbokkung station and continued to tong-in market from there. It was so nice to see her after a year :)

Tong-in market is basically a food market where you can find traditional street food. You can access there from line 3 (orange line), gyeongbokkung station, exit 2. It's about 500 meters from exit 2 on the left side.

We first walked it through and just browsed what was in there. We were supposed to go to the restaurant where you buy kind of fake coins and then with those coins fill in your "lunchbox" with different kinds of food. But sadly it was closed.
So we ended up buying tteokbokki (떡볶이), tong-in market specialty small kimpab (김밥) and mandu (만두). And I got sikhye as a drink which is a korean traditional rice beverage (it has real rice in it).
Then we looked a small spot in one shed which was full of mainly older people spending the day and eating picnic food. We just stuffed ourselves in there and spend a little picnic ourselves :P
Just a warning, if you don't like spicy food, don't try tteokbokki. It's very spicy rice cakes but for me it tastes so good! Because I like spicy food :P

Our food :P

After eating all I asked if we could visit Insadong which is really famous tourist street for getting all the korean traditional things and souvenirs. I needed to buy my mom a picture which she asked (because my mom loves the korean mother-of-pearl art).

We decided to walk from the market to Insadong which takes about 20 minutes. It's not that far~

We walked next to Gyeongbokkung palace and partly through gwanghwamun. So If you're looking for nice day with sightseeing and lots of traditional korean culture, I recommend route tongin market-gyeongbokkung-gwanghwamun-insadong because they're so close to each other.

 Above is Gyeongbokkung and on it's right side gwanghwamun square. Literally, if you're walking you'll be seeing this as your left and right view :D

We found the picture pretty fast to my mom although first we had little miscommunication problems about what I was looking for but eventually all good~

Then we found Sulbing cafe which I had read great reviews before and wanted to try! Hyojoo had visited Sulbing before so she recommended me Mango bingsu. Sulbing is mainly concentrated on bingsu's which is traditional dessert in korea. It's made of shaved ice and usually comes with icecream topping. You have milk in side of the bowl and you can pour it over as you like. But it tastes definetly better with that milk :P

We ordered injeolmi toast and mango bingsu.

After eating ourselves full from delicious bingsu, we said goodbyes and planned that we have to see next week also.
After parting with Hyojoo I thought that evening is still young and I had some more shopping to do so I quickly stopped at myeongdong to buy some cosmetics what my friends had ordered.

It was a bit crowded even though it was weekday. But this is pretty normal because Myeongdong is popular shopping street. I recommend if you do shopping, go at daytime. Not too early though because I noticed most of shops open at 10.30am or so at most days.

Ewha and Hongdae

On tuesday it was so sunny and I was glad that weather had been nice whole time I had been in korea. I met Anniina at the morning and we headed to Ewha which is famous and popular university area (Ewha womans university).

You can access there by line2 (green line), ewha womans university (idae) station. I don't remember which exit but there are clear signs to pointing which way :P

We just walked through streets, enjoying view. And visited outside the famous idae (korean name for ewha university) library.

Then we were feeling pretty hungry and we went to eat chicken in one restaurant Anniina liked so much. I have to say it's propably best chicken I've had in a while :D And dem chips omg so delicious! And in that restaurant, if you have your passport with you they give -10% discount for foreigners.
It's a little hard to explain where it is located but when you're at main street which is going down towards idae, when you notice corner ice cream shop Baskin&Robbins in your left side, turn left to that side street. It's right on the left corner so basically opposite on Baskin&Robbins. Chicken restaurant is on basement level so there's stairs going down. It can look a bit shady but trust me, it's an excellent place for either lunch or dinner.

We were pretty full but decided to first go around smaller streets and then get back to main street and go get ice creams from baskin&robbins. I have to say they make delicious ice cream, and it's quite cheap. My serving cost 4500won which is about 3€?

Then just before we left I bought a bag for myself :P I recommend idae if you want cheap but very good looking bags. In the main street there was one bag seller from where I bought my bag and it was only 10,000won (about 7€).

We said goodbyes at idae station and I headed to Hongdae next where I met with Laura.
To Hongdae, you can access also from line2 at Hongik university station. It's like couple stations away from idae.

We met in front of exit9 with Laura. We decided to visit Thanks nature cafe which is basically a sheep cafe :D They have sheeps inside fence outside cafe. Animal cafes are pretty common in korea but sheeps are rare actually. They were so adorable and fluffy! And I totally liked their ade drinks and waffel!

It's a little difficult to explain location but I'll try; when you come from exit9 and see etude house in one corner, walk towards there. Pass etude house and turn right from next intersection. Walk straight until big H&M is on your right. Turn left from there. It's on that street. Just walk straight and it's on your left side. It's also on basement level so you have to go downstairs.
It's definetly a cafe worth visiting for. And pay attention to this: you can visit the sheeps only after ordering!

After petting sheeps and saying goodbye to them, we walked around Hongdae. I finally got myself converse shoes which I had been wanting about two years lol. They cost about 45000won so about 43€.

Then after awhile we sayed goodbyes and I left back to my hostel.

So that's that this time :) I will post next korea diaries propably on weekend~

Korea trip diaries Day 2: Block B concert

Hi again, continuing my korea trip diaries with day 2. I decided to divide this day as it's own post because it's about concert and would be too long if I put it together with next days :P

So at sunday morning I met with Anniina to go to Block B's concert. We went to eat lunch first and then headed to Olympic park where you can access most easiest from line 5 olympic park station. Be careful though because line 5 is parting to two different directions and to olympic park you should take subway to Macheon direction.

We weren't sure of our exit when we arrived but we pretty much figured it out seeing where all teenagers went lol.

As soon as we got out from the station we were greeted by couple sales persons who really wanted to get us buying some fan merchandise. We were like naah, let's just search ticket booth first.
So we looked for ticket booth but then I got distracted lol and was like well, let's just buy small lightsticks and get over with it lol. So we bought really small but convenient, they cost 5000won which is like 3€.

After it we headed to ticket booth.
 We had bought tickets beforehand but for foreigners only option is buying online first and pick up the physical tickets at concert day (I have never seen korean sites using email tickets which are very common in europe). When you arrive to ticket booth, you have to have confirmation email from your purchase printed with your id (basically your passport if you're foreigner).
We were a bit lost at first because there were 3 lines to ticket booth and we didn't even know what time it would open. There is always staff around, some speak little english, some not but we managed to get by speaking in korean. Although many korean fans were also like "ok....what should we do" :,D

Just to be specific: staffs even though they are mostly fans also, they are official. They are usually hired through fancafe's by artist's company and they have staff badges and staff shirts so you will recognize them easily. They are very reliable and they usually know all the info you need. So don't hesitate to ask anything from them. If you don't know korean and they don't know english, they usually search english speaking staff for you~

We figured out the system pretty quickly how every queue went; they had signs announcing where everyone belonged. First was those who wanted to buy tickets from there. Then the line for foreigners and next 3 lines for koreans depending on their last name alphabet.

We got our tickets pretty quickly and then we just spend time in there and took some photos. It was raining a bit so it wasn't that ideal of a weather.
I wanted one eco bag but unfortunately it was sold out. Every concert has a bit different way of selling official merchandise, some has paper forms you have to fill and then you can go to line up, give your form to staff who will give you products according to it. And then some concert like Block B, you just go to booth and tell them what you want.

We at some point were wondering why is everyone running and what are these small queues everywhere. Turns out fans giving away free stuff. We got some stickers and I got one so cool moomin stickers which were made in each Block B members characteristics xD
We met one italian fan in one queue who talked with us a little while. She was admin of Zico fanpage italy. Nice person^^

Oh by the way, we were in seating place so if you have standing ticket your system will be a little different; there is one tent in each of venue doors and you have to look your section and go to the tent according to your section. There, they will give you a bracelet when you present staff your ticket. This is important to know because without bracelet, you are not allowed in even if you have your ticket.

About an hour and half before we got in, we decided to go and buy something to eat. And our time went quickly because soon we were in queue and getting in. When we first got to our section doors and saw the line we were like nope. It was raining and queue was extremely long but I guess this is how efficient it is in korea because too much people always in everywhere; we got in less than 15 minutes. We found our seats easily. What we noticed is that there were alot of foreigners near us xD we were like omg what is this xD
Then a little before concert started me and Anniina were wondering why is everyone suddenly screaming and we noticed some movement like everyone were looking in just one direction at audience. We weren't sure who it was because we were so far but we later read from articles that it was couple of Winner's members. And then just few minutes later we saw some Seventeen members xD they walked really close from our seats and Anniina was like "OMG look!" and I was like yeah yeah because I'm not a fan of them xD

Concert itself was awesome! There was strict rule of no photos and those taking photos were punished. Even when I took photo _before_ concert even started from audience staffs were complaining and shouting that no photos...
Block B started with their newest song 'a few years later' and from there I don't even remember xD I just remember seeing my favorite songs along with 'nillili mambo' and 'conduct zero' which they didn't perform in Helsinki's concert (latter because they didn't even release it then yet).
My favorites were Very good rough version and conduct zero. Just OMG their energy and all! And those fire props, we could feel warm heat even when we were quite far, I just imagine how hot members must have been lol.

At some point one japanese girl in front of me got dragged away by staff because she was taking photos with her cellphone. She came back like 15 minutes later and complained to her friends that she got a warning and had to delete all her photos and next time they would throw her out. (I have studied japanese so I understood what she complained about).

During few last songs audience stood up, we too and we were just jumping around and feeling the music. We were little sad it was over when it was but it lasted about 3 hours lol.
We had fun time and totally would go again if we have a chance! Korean concert are awesome, compared to kpop concerts in europe, korean is 100% better! I know that small stages in europe have their own charms but like experiencing kpop concert in korea is just something I hope everyone will get to see. And I have to say one more thing; fanchants blew my mind. Whole venue was echoing when fans passionately shouted~ We just shouted along what we knew lol xD

As you can see from my few photos, we had pretty good places. We were in row 4 in seating section.

After concert we were soooo exhausted but still decided to briefly visit Myeongdong before going back to our places. All in all, I had fun day!

Next time will be days 3 to 5~ so until then :P

Korea trip diaries: Arriving and first day

Long time no see! I am so sorry for not updating while I was in korea but my crappy tablet crashed all the time and it was difficult to write with it so I decided to write everything afterwards. And thus, named my blog post series as Korea trip diaries :P

I'm posting only now, two days after my trip because first I was so so tired on monday when I arrived back to Finland and yesterday I was having travel sickness symptoms afterwards :/

Travelling to Korea

My luggage was quite heavy when I was departuring from Finland but I had like maaany souvenirs with me. Everything went fine in Helsinki airport and flight was on time. 

Now, I really really dislike long flights mainly because of my travel sickness. I got new medicines so I was half afraid what would happen. But I had to get them since the old ones didn't work for me anymore. I felt fine up until two last hours (where we experienced 20 minutes of turbulence somewhere around china's airspace). And afterwards discovered that one of the medicines actually caused me to feel worse.

When we landed and I got out of the plane and headed towards immigration I was like nope, this is not true. Queue for immigration was looooooooooooooong like seriously! Whenever I have arrived Korea, I've gotten through immigration within 15 minutes. Now I had to wait an hour because there was people from three other flights lining up in there.

Eventually I got through and got my luggage quickly and then I headed straight to airport railroad. This is kind of task if you're a first timer in Korea but basically you first have to notice that you're in wrong floor so look for escalator or elevator to go down. Then just follow the signs. I first had to load my T-money, which is kind of equivalent to finnish "matkakortti." Machine to load my card was located just next to subway gates so no problem in there. (you can also load t-money in most of convenience stores which you can find from airport too). To those of you who are arriving Korea and Seoul for the first time, if you're spending one week only then 35000won is enough for t-money. To those of you who are staying two weeks I advice you to load at least 45000won. That way you don't have to keep looking your card sum everytime you pass through subway gates or bus doors and you don't have to worry loading t-money for awhile. Just a note; I use subway alot so those sums are based on my experience.

I had a very big luggage with me so it was quite an achievement to arrive my destination which was Hyehwa (혜화) in subway line 4 (light blue line). First coming from airport I had to change one time in Seoul station but it was pretty easy because it's a big station with lots of escalators.

I didn't know that exit 1 had escalators so I headed to exit 2 which was the exit I was going to use when heading to my hostel... but like korea's style is, it had veeeery long stairs. So I was struggling with my luggage when suddenly one korean girl just grabs my luggage and helps me carry it to the top. Again, I'm amazed how koreans are so helpful and friendly!

I don't know why some people had complained in hostel reviews that it's hard to find because I found it pretty easily. It was like 7-minute walk away from subway station, Hyehwa look really interesting place with many shops and restaurants. Definetly liked the area! Just to say; even though this was my fourth time in Korea, I have never been in Hyehwa.

To be honest I wasn't that happy with my hostel (Bong House hostel). Anniina recommended it to me so that's why I decided to stay in there but I have been in better hostels with same amount of money. Well, at least location was great and hostel staff nice. I reserved single room which was the size of a shoebox but I didn't spend alot of time in my hostel so it was fine for me. The only thing that really disturbed me was that two out of their three bathrooms didn't have any locks! They told everyone staying in hostel that if door is closed you cannot enter but still one time when I was doing my skincare routine and evening stuff before going to bed an accident happened; I was just changing my clothes when one chinese old lady just rushes to bathroom, didn't care I was in there... just stared at me couple seconds and proceeded to toilet stall... it was soooo awkward and I was definetly not happy with that accident.... for the rest of my stay I happily changed my clothes in my smaller than small room.

First day

So after checking in to my hostel I waited like two hours before my boyfriend sended a message he finally arrived to Seoul and he was waiting me near my hostel. So I met him after being apart a year. Obviously I was happy to see him :P we went to Sinsa to one restaurant my bf had searched that was apparently famous for it's tonkasu (it's basically a pork cutlet dish). But just before arriving travel sickness hit me. I don't know why it hits me afterwards these days >_< but I was sooooo sorry to my bf who bought me a dinner and I couldn't even eat but just a little. I was apologizing to him even in the evening. I seriously felt so bad for him that he travelled to Seoul to meet me and I wasn't feeling very good.

After Sinsa, we headed to Changdeokgung palace which is one of the oldest in Korea. I haven't ever visited there so it was new experience for me~ I just loved the scenery and what is more perfect than seeing it with bf while walking through beautiful alleyways.

After walking there awhile we decided to go to Bukchon hanok village which was in walking distance from Changdeokgung.

We were first kind of lost but found our way eventually. From exiting Changdeokgung, turn right and from first intersection turn right again and start heading up towards the hill. You will find Bukchon there.

This was my first time in Bukchon also (yeah, everybody usually visits there when they come to Korea first time lol) and I enjoyed it. Even though I didn't enjoy climbing up lol. We browsed through alleys and one point stopped to buy smoothies (banana smoothie is yummy). But there even though I was clearly with my bf and he even ordered two smoothies the sales person was like "hello what can I get you" to me... *sigh* But we just enjoyed the day like that, walking through streets and enjoying each other's company. But I advise not to go to Bukchon on weekend, because there was seriously too many people! It was even hard to take photos because people kept passing by in front of camera. At least we got some photos together with my bf :P

You can access to Changdeokgung and Bukchon from subway line 3, Anguk station.

After Bukchon my bf asked if I want to go back to hostel or continue to visit Hangang park. I said I want to continue the day even though my legs were already hurting so bad and I wasn't feeling good. But it was first time I was seeing my bf for a really long time so of course I want to spend more time with him~ in the end I didn't even feel my legs hurt that much :P

So we visited Hangang river park next. Just walked around there and enjoyed the evening. We stayed until they started light show in the bridge and then left. I said my bf goodbye in Chungmuro station and continued to Hyehwa alone. Sorry I don't remember which station we got off to go to Hangang :,D But basically you can access there from like four stations~

I got back to my hostel like 9pm? Can't be sure because I was so out of it lol. Anniina visited my hostel that evening to get her rye bread :P which she asked me to bring to her lol. We had to go to sleep pretty soon because on Sunday we went to Block B concert which I will tell you in my next post~

That's it for this post. I was hesitating if I should include my concert experience in this post but in the end decided that then this post would be overly long so until next time~ (going to post in few days again).

Going to South-Korea!

Just a small update because I've been so busy this week. Finally going to South-Korea today! Going with Finnair's straight flight and arriving to Korea tomorrow morning~

I don't know if I'm updating this blog while I'm in Korea because I'm only taking my tablet with me and it's total pain writing with it. And it crashes often so if I'm writing a long text there is possibility that it will get erased if my tablet crashes =_= so we'll see. But when I come back I'll tell all two weeks how it went :P so be prepared for long posts at least when I come back after 18th of april.

Weeks go fast

Hi everybody~

Only a little less than two weeks and I'll be in Korea :D
So my this week has been quite busy. On tuesday I went to Jumbo mall with Annina because I needed to buy some things. We also went to eat lunch to newly opened Tamarin restaurant. It was great, I'm fan of thai food :P They also had very nice deco although the restaurant seemend a bit too stuffed to be honest. Aisles were too narrow to walk because tables were so close to each others.

On wednesday I went to just to do little shopping with mom. She wanted flowers for easter time so we went to get tulips.

On friday I went to Helsinki to first color my hair in the morning, my haircolor had started to turn too light brown and gold/yellow... I seriously hate that kind of shade >_< after coloring it has stayed a bit gold :/ but I'm happy because it's lighter shade afterall.
After coloring I met with Linda and we picked up movie tickets to Divergent: Allegiant movie which we went to watch in the evening. But before going to movies we went to eat to this new ramyeon restaurant called Momotoko. They had late lunch 12€ which was excellent, I ordered Korean Kimchi pork donburi rice which was kind of close to kimchi fried rice. It was very good and I was seriously full after eating only half xD they have very filling, big portions :) Linda had chili tonkotsu pork ramyeon which looked delicious also~

This weekend I have just been chillin and planning more about my trip to korea. I like to plan at least some days beforehand so I won't miss for example some sights I absolutely wanna see.
I will leave already on friday but because time difference and long trip (about 10 hours flight) I'll arrive on saturday morning. I have my first weekend already booked; on arrival day I'll meet my bf and spend whole day with him. On second day (sunday) I will spend with Anniina enjoying Block B's concert :P

And Anniina promised to visit Everland with me either first or second tuesday :D I finally get to see it! I have visited Lotte World and ever since first trip to korea I wanted to see Everland amusement park. It's just that it's a bit outside of Seoul. But finally going to experience it :D

And other planned thing for second week is on 13th when I'm going to watch Mata Hari musical with Anniina. My favorite person from idol world ever aka VIXX Leo will be in it~ and also Shin Seung Rok will be in it who played the bad guy in "You who came from the stars" -drama which is my favorite drama ever. I can't wait to see the musical!!

Whole last week I have been addicted to watching korean cosmetics reviews of what people recommend to buy especially from korean bb cushions. It's funny that before I wasn't even caring much about cosmetics. Like up to 24 years I used only a little of powder and that's pretty much it. But somehow skincare and makeup products started to interest me last year and I'm watching those review videos like "omg, I have to try that" xD
I still like natural look though. I'm not a person who wants to look like I have ton of makeup on. And I prefer pastel colors like really light. I don't like to attract attention >_<
And I guess interest for skincare came along because my skin is veeeery sensitive and after using makeup I have to make sure my skin isn't irritated. I hate my atopic skin =_= I'm also interested in korean cosmetics because they have nourishing and moisturizing makeup products, those kind of products won't irritate my skin so often as some western makeup products. Although I know some korean brands that tend to have products that causes irritation.

Anyway now it's propably a convenient time to move to cosmetics review :P

Etude House Princess happy ending Snow White BB cream
Price: 15€ / $16
Where can I get it: propably on ebay. This was limited edition so it's mostly sold out

Even though this is mostly sold out I wanted to do a review. I bought a light beige tone (there were only 2 tones available). It was very suitable for my skintone, it blended well. I fell in love with the packaging, it's very cute and because I loooove cute stuff I was like I have to buy this :D
Texture was very flowy but when applying it, it left kind of cakey feeling. I used this like couple days and I was yelling "yes, finally an etude bb cream that doesn't cause anything to my skin." I was too early to be happy about it.. on third time I used this and washed it off at evening my skin from cheeks was very red and full of small pimples. I soooo liked the packaging and the tone but I can't use this because it irritates my skin =_= Lucky, I got my skin calmed with my evening skincare routine.
Would I buy this again: if I even have chance it's a no. It left me with red marks on my skin...
Score 2/5


That's all for this week~
Lastly, I want to recommend a great drama that I'm watching currently;
Descendants of the sun. It tells a story of a special force soldier and a doctor; how they meet and how their lives mingle in time of crisis. It's very well written and sucked me in starting from the very first episode~ It has actually caused a huge hype in korea and I don't wonder why anymore. Definetly check this out!

Seoul, I'm ready!

Hello everyone!

So my week started with ticket panic. I'm going to see Block B Blockbuster in Seoul on April 3rd with my friend Anniina (who's in Korea in exchange). And on last monday they released ticket sale for non-fanclub members. Not all concerts sell tickets in global site but lucky for me this one did have global site sale. (Korean companies have often domestic and international sites because on domestic sale they ask korean id and phone number).

I have bought from yes24 before and I thought this will go with no worries. I was wrong. At first I got very good seats and noticed seats are going fast. When I was ready for payment the site complained I have to install their payment plug for my computer. So when I did, poof, the seats what I got vanished. It closed my whole internet and I had to go to booking again and as you can guess, I lost the good seats. I got another seats from a little upper stand but then the payment program crashed... I was like seriously?! Now I lost good seats for second time. Third time when I went to booking, all first stand seatings had been sold out... so I had no choice but to take seats reaaaaally far from stage. But I was happy I even got one. So a tip for those buying from yes24; go to some show's booking and "reserve" seats and go to payment. It will suggest you to install that payment program. So that way you will get the program before the intended concert sales starts and you will not lose any seats like me because of that program installing.

Anyway, I got tickets so I was happy~ but then on tuesday evening when I was curious how many seats are left and went to check, for some reason they had released really good seats on sale! So I cancelled my previous ones and bought the ones with really good view~ So I'm happy and my friend's happy :P At least I'm going to see one concert while I'm in Korea. Last two times I was so frustrated when two artists that I listen held a concert just before I went there...

But yeah, going to see these boys:

On tuesday I went to lunch with my parents. It has been so long since I went out to eat with my parents. Mainly because it's quite expensive here in Finland. We went to one luncheon in near city, Kerava. It was upstairs of one car center so it's quite hard to find and I think only locals know it. We got to know about it from my aunt who lives in Kerava :P It was actually pretty good lunch, for only 8,70€ you got main dish, side dish, soup, sallad and coffee. And the sallad buffet OMG it was HUGE! I bet you could be full even from all that sallad lol.

On wednesday I went to Helsinki with Annina. First I had to visit verkkokauppa.com because I had bought Sony headphones which broke so I got them changed to new ones. There was still guarantee left, lucky for me. They were expensive headphones so I would have propably raged if I couldn't have gotten new replacement.

So after visiting there we went to lunch in Morrison's. I have to say you will find best steaks and hamburgers in town from there! I chose steak and it was soooo good! And filling! And I absolutely love their potato wedges.

After being totally full and satisfied we headed to cosmetic sales in Sokos.
They were having this "Kutsu kauneuteen" which roughly translated means "invite to beauty." I had previously looked through their brochure and knew exactly what I was looking for but it was also nice to browse and just look what new things different cosmetic brands are bringing to europe. And why I say to europe because those trends have been in asia for quite awhile. Like the new Lancome oily lipstick which has been trending in asia since last year.
Anyway, I found what I came for; Sensai concealer brush in shade 1 and Biotherm Aqua-Gelee ultra fresh body repleshiner body lotion. (what a long name lol). I will review these some time, I haven't opened the body lotion yet. I tested it in store though and it was soooo good like I fell in love instantly! It was gel like body lotion that spreaded amazingly well and dried up in minutes, even seconds.

After being hyped about what I bought we went to just looking what new Body Shop, L'occitane and Yves Rocher has to offer. From Body Shop I found this English rose series that I sooo wanted to try but I just had bought cosmetic products and I have the upcoming Korean trip (where I know I'll go crazy with cosmetics lol) so I restrained myself buying anything xD L'occitane mannerheimintie has by the way nice new store! They have renovated and it looks so inviting~

On thursday I got myself travel insurance, finally. But it has gotten so expensive, it used to be 46€ for one trip that lasts less than 3 weeks... now it's 51€.. turva has still the cheapest travel insurance though. I always have gotten it from them.

Now I'm ready for Korea. I just have to calculate my budget for first week (because I will be getting more money on my account first week wednesday or friday). So I have to calculate spending money for saturday to at least wednesday from what I have on my account now (and I tell it's not that much being unemployed and all).

I have been quite hype about Korea this week. I have been linking too much cosmetics things to Annina (sorry :P ). But in Korea they have too many new things I want to try, a few being peripera cushion blusher, skinfood cushion bottle and banila co cleansing zero.

Just chillin'

Hi everyone and sorry I haven't posted for awhile (or at least if feels like that for me lol).

I've had nice week. On sunday-monday night I was at Annina's place and we watched the Oscars. It was nice but because airing time was between 2am to 7am I was a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit tired xD So on monday I was like zombie xD

On tuesday I met with Linda and we shopped a little and went to eat Thai food nomnom. I found LP Seoul pocket guide and it was only 12,95€ in Suomalainen kirjakauppa so I had to buy it :P It's small so it's convenient to carry on with~ And LP does best travel guides!
Now I have about all ready for my trip to Korea. I'm only missing travel insurance but gonna buy it soon~

On wednesday I accompanied my mom to near mall. She had some things to solve with our phone operator and wanted me with her (because apparently I have bigger understanding how things work lol).

And now rest of the week I have just been chillin lol. Next week on monday Block B Blockbuster concert in Seoul tickets will be on sale so I hope to get tickets for me and my friend. Finally I'm in Seoul when there's a concert I want to see :P
And on wednesday I plan to go to Helsinki with Annina, there's cosmetics sales in one department stores so we're gonna check it out (I know I shouldn't buy any cosmetics but I saw they had Sensai's concealer pen discounted with a very good price!). And I should visit one electronic store where I bought my expensive headphones... because they broke :/ and I did use them only like 4 months <_< so I should go and change them since there is guarantee left still..