More on this later, but for now, make do.(;
I think life as a backpacker is very interesting--you get to see things that life as a tourist generally doesn't get. Though backpackers are essentially tourists, the experience is...essentially different. Backpackers have to interact with the locals more (like when searching for ways to travel to whichever destination of choice), while tourists...tour. Tourists are brought to designated areas while backpackers can live life as locals (minus the job and boredom).
I don't want to blog too much right now because I didn't come on this trip to blog. I'd just say that it's very refreshing to be treated as adults in our own right, when we meet other Singaporeans who are touring with their families.
At the airport while waiting for our interconnecting flight, we met 2 Singapore families. We talked to the parents of these 2 families in our own capacity as teenagers and were accorded the same respect as if we're adults, of the same status as them. Now I won't go so far as to say that we've matured as a whole, but I'd like to think of this as quite...liberating?
Remind me to talk about the "Mum alliance" and other random stuff, complete with pictures. We stalked Fi at his hotel too, and I guess that's because I remembered his full name, yes, all 5 parts of his name. He's got a cute family and he's cute himself too, and him showing his familial side makes me even more moist than I ever was for him. =\
Oh, did you know? Korea is 1 hour ahead of Singapore. Singapore is GMT+8, and Korea is GMT+9, meaning when the time in Singapore is 8AM, it's 9AM in Korea. Now that I've narrated this difference in timezone to you, it's time for me to readjust my alarm clock to wake the birthday boy up later. OK, this is it. Buhbye, my imaginary audience, does anyone want to give imaginary orders to me to buy stuff for you back to Singapore?(;
And this just means that at 3.08AM, I should probably go to sleep now. The beer here is not as heavily taxed as it is in Singapore, and I love Korea now. The cold is...acceptable as long as you aren't wet, best to bring heat packs / buy them here, the locals are freaking resistant to cold (the females walk around in mini-skirts/hot pants, most fortunate for me), and there's a proportionately higher amount of hot girls than in Singapore (because some Korean girls are so ugly they pass off as guys, thus escaping this statistic of mine).
TIME TO SLEEP. I'm sleeping with my socks on, there are heatpacks attached to my sock, I'm sleepy, and really, seeya'll soon.
-- 12/14/2010 01:48:00 AM
