12/9/2011. 正月八月十五日.
Happy Mooncake Festival Everyone~~~ and Happy Chuseok to Koreans~~~
Chuseok is one of the 4 major holidays in Korea and it simply means thanksgiving day and celebration of good harvesting, if not mistaken. It's similar to those Ibans celebrating Gawai I guess.
Sem-break is finally OVER. Had so much fun this holidays, get to rest well and enjoy life.
1st day of class, new Math lecturer, a Chinese man. When he starts speaking, everyone especially those ang mo, start laughing. It's hard to catch what he's saying as the Chinese accent is strong. But after 10 mins of adapting, everything is going on smoothly. The problem is that, students keep focusing on his pronunciation. It ends up with me laughing as well....coz they keep on repeating certain words that he mispronounced. LOLz. I'm sorry dear lecturer. I promised to behave well for the next lecture. Mid lecture, he took out a knife which one uses to slaughter pig??? and took out a honeydew and eventually a pumpkin from a plastic bag. As lecture tools? =,= Oh lecturer, is this the surprise that you gonna give us today? Yup, it eventually become a lecture tool. It's an interesting way of teaching coz it got stuck in my head. So, this method really works well on me. Hopefully you're good from now till the end. Please~~~the fate for my math results is on your hand now.
After class, went to S-mart to buy the so-called korean Songpyeon which is one of the representative food items of Chuseok. From the info I got, it's like you make a wish as you scoop in the contents and carefully fold it up into a crescent shape so that your wish doesn't fall out. That's Songpyeon. It looks like tang Yuan though. Anyway, didn't get to buy any as it's out of stock. All Koreans will be handling at least one container of Songpyeon when they stepped out of that super-mart. I must buy it once and have a try on it.
四川麻辣火锅, there we went for dinner.
Two types of soup, 麻辣 and chicken soup I guess? Felt so bad as a Malaysian Chinese who don't really understand certain chinese words spoken by Chinese people. The 麻辣 soup is super x3 spicy. U can see the spices, yer.... painful ears, burning stomach and mouth, GOOD TRY~~
Had a small piece of pandan mooncake 10 mins before we call off the day.
Ah, I didn't get to capture a picture of full moon today. It rains whole day and night. Sorry, MAC.
Again, happy mooncake festival ^^
Off to bed, class at 8am tmr.