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http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e46/beachwoodsparks/
Here's the entire photo album...and yes, I fail as a photographer.

Came back from Korea not too long ago, but the trip itself just feels like a blur. When you're actually there, you try to take in all of it's experience but once it's over, it feels like, "wow, was I really in another country for an entire week?" Weird. I arrived in Incheon, Korea at 5:30 am on Saturday morning. I was greeted by 2 of my cousins that I haven't seen in over 7 years and they took me directly to my grandmother's funeral. Over there, I was then greeted by all my dad's side uncles, aunts and cousins, along with my grandparent's brothers, sisters, and all of their friends. I have never hugged that many people at once. I was extremely happy to see them, but solemn due to the occassion. The family told me to go into the ceremonial room to pay my respects, where my grandmother's picture was held up on a rack decorated with flowers and Korean traditional stuff. Emotions took the best of me and I started bawling like a little baby. It was extremely tough holding back the tears, but when I looked up at all the people who were there, I realized they were here because she had an impacting effect on their lives and that we were mainly here to cherish and celebrate her long enduring life. That made me happy. My grandmother's wish was to be cremated and buried on top of this forest, which we went to after the funeral. I thought it was the perfect place for her burial. Rest in peace.







So yeah, that was all of my first day. I didn't sleep once throughout the 12 hour flight, so I napped hard for the rest of the day.

The food in Korea is....amazing. I ate some bomb ass food for every meal of the day, and the best thing is that it's cheap. Streetside ddukboki, odeng, bulgogi, and deep fried squid > *. and the best thing is it's under 3000 won ($3).

Here's some shabu shabu restaurant, Korean style.




more food, another restaurant.


Anyways, I don't really want to describe my entire trip so I'll just abridge it with random pictures. I basically had one entire day all to myself to go explore Seoul and wherever. I took the bus to 2 different areas in Seoul for 60 cents.



Went to this huge outside market where all the halmunee's hang out.



so many gooks in one place.


I wasn't kidding when I said where all the halmunee's hang out.

Took this photo outside of a PC bang I was in....it had seperate stalls for the computers in the back....uh probably for jacking-off purpose for ronery Korean men who don't have the internets at home. It was dark and had bright neon lights inside.




Look, you can win a knock-off Nintendo DS and a siren for your car.


Took the bus to the National Korean Museum...the 6th largest museum in the world. Check the photobucket for all the photos.





Mysterious looking box.


Cool Jappo paintings.


Even something for our Vietnamese friends! there wasn't much though...kinda sad.

Check out this little nigga.


Must leave my mark before departing.



I spent the rest of the day just walking around and eating more food. I decided to come back to my grandpa's area and explore there as well. I stumbled across this mountain forest region on accident that's right behind my grandpa's place. It kept going higher and higher, so I just kept making left and right turns on random paths and I was lost for a good 2 hours until I found myself on the other side of the forest. Took me about an hour to walk back home. LULS.

I "read" my first hit of "books" here. For those who don't know, my secret word for weed is books.


It led me to here..


went higher...lol


and higher...hay see anything unusual?


Kaki King + Grizzly Bear + Album Leaf = holy shit! It was so peaceful...and plus I was really baked. 2 hours passed like NOTHING. hahaha.


and on the very top of the mountain I found this neat little place overlooking some neighborhoods. I finished the rest of my books here.



Even the babies drink here.


This took too long to post. Might update more later?