Hola and greetings! Im glad to announce that I have just returned from my excursion to the Korean Culture Centre for our International Understanding Day!! The whole trip was a fair success and I am glad that it is over thus taking my mind of one of the billions of other stressful activities that plague my everyday life.

  We began arriving at 8 o clock at the school canteen for a wonderful day of thrills and spills. Pn Rajes made the sudden announcement that she was a vegeterian and wanted me to call the centre at the eleventh hour to see if they could change her order. She had her Roti Canai just in case.

  When the clock struck 8.30, the first joke of the day began. Pn Rajes was away and I instructed everyone to board the bus. Then she got back and ordered everyone down again so she could do her "personal" headcount just as Dic had said she might. Would it not be easier to count INSIDE the bus? We had a cartoon moment there. Further, the bus driver did not know the way there so we got semi lost in Kuala Lumpur with my bladder on its way towards reaching critical mass. Dheepan entertained us with a very very disturbing remix of "Appologize." Oh my, that horrid image is still burnt into my mind.

  We finally arrived at the Mugunghwa and without wasting time went to watch the cultural movie that depicted the traditions of Korea. I sadistically "locked" my audience inside the room and laughed maniacally as I knew they would soon die of boredom. Inside the room I was laughing my brains off as the movie was indeed boring making Alex's predictions fairly true. Not to worry, using my ingenious method of innovation I left.

  Only to return with a new movie altogether about RAIN! Hell no it wasn't, it was about Korean food. The first thing we learnt was the staple food of Koreans was, rice. NO SHIT! I never freaking knew that! Then we proceeded to learn how to cook rice, and hurray we all never knew that too whooppie doo. I made friends with a Form 3 guy, Jack Sen was his name, during the course of the movie. Nice fellow, cute too. Did you read that right? Maybe.

  Noticing boredom beginning to creep its ugly head again I decided to end to movie to begin our next activity which involved a tournament of keeping some sort of...coin sac in the air using our legs. This is similiar to the act of keeping a football afloat by constantly kicking it in the air. After rounds of elimination we finally narrowed down the last four to Daryl, Lu Quan, Eric and Anil. Daryl unsurprisingly won, being a professional football player. We played the drums and gongs like Ja Kuns as well, causing such a din the walls vibrated with the intention of crashing down.

  Next we went to look at VASES!! Yes vases. Lame? Like hell I care. Camwhoring took place by the bucketloads at this stage. There was also a library there for the reading pleasure of everyone. After the movie about food everyone was so starved they were pestering me on when the food would arrive. We then went to the lowest floor for our next activity...trying out traditional clothes! And camwhoring in them of course. Of course "lar!"

  They set up some kimono like clothes for the girls that looked like maternity clothes. You may just look pregnant in those clothes. For the manly men we had something akin to those traditional japanese clothes...Yugatas I think, with a mosquito netlike hat. To catch mosquitos. Like of course. Li Za decided to cross dress in the guys outfit and I decided to cross dress as the woman. Yes Im aware that I wore a dress. Jealous "ar?" We had a very sweet photo of exchanged gender roles after that. =)

  Then came everyones favourite part of the day. Food glorious food! So we ate in with gusto the Korean "bento" sets. The kimichi (letuses) tasted rather odd though. Picture this, lime mixed with cabbage, mixed with wasabi. Yes you get a kick, and not the good kind of kick. Korean sushi is average I prefer the Japanese ones but overall a fairly decent meal.

  We then split ourselves into different groups and began going to the nearby korean shoplots. This part of town was seriously Korea town with so many Korean citizens and shops and even products! We mostly bought Korean ice cream and this particular one I bought was so long, hard and black it looked rather "wrong" when I sucked on it. WHAT? How else was I to eat a damned ice cream of that length and hardness! Then it broke with a piece stuck in my mouth and I was forced not to laugh causing me to nearly choke.

  And that ladies and gentlemen. Is our IU Day 2008 proudly brought to you by the one and only Shahnon. Oh and Lu Quan. Pictures will (might) be updated later. Good riddance for this report.