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Well, hello there!
This is a blog about Hapi/Vanilla Tea's life
You will be finding posts about food, personal things, acg related stuffs

WARNING: there is BL contents in some post as well as heavy use of Malaysian English! And also unrelevant fangirl spams everyw
here 8D

Saturday, October 4, 2014

★★Gundam Base Busan Korea : Seomyoen (서면 건담베이스) ★★

Season II : Episode 1
September 2014

Probably the first acg related post for this time around in Korea Busan.
Honestly never really got into the fandom of Gundam before though I know a certain friend of mine tried to poison me to watch Gundam 00 when I was in high school www.  

I always knew that Gundam Base existed in Korea. However I never bothered to check it out on my stay in Korea 2 years ago. This time around I decided to check it out since there is one in Busan and honestly, this post is actually dedicated to my Gundam crazy boyfriend in Malaysia wwww. (*´▽`*)
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There was still a week till my semester in Korea officially starts. 
My parents followed me to Korea as well and so we had nothing to do until then. 
Since my father is also interested in plastic models and they lived in lotte hotel Seomyeon. 
I suggested to go check out the Gundam Base in which they were actually fine with the idea. 
Gundam Base Busan is located at Dong Bo Plaza . 

Upon arrival at Dong Bo Plaza from the underground roads. 
We were greeted by a very big screen screening Gundam Build Fighters on our left hand side right opposite MCD as well as a row of Gashapon machines. Right in front of us stood a pillar written with floor plans of the whole Dong Bo Plaza (동보프라자). The Gundam base is located in the basement. Pretty snuggish. 

Ja! Hapi! Ikimasuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!! 
ヽ(≧Д≦)ノ

 screening GBF
 Floor guides of Dong Bo Plaza
 mcd on our right
 gashapons 
 underground entrance to Gundam Base 
yolo pilot hapi incoming :v //gets bricked

This is probably war for all the gundam fans....
with their wallets of course XD.

Upon arrival in the interior, we were greeted by this large scaled banshee in which If I know if my boyfriend is here, he would probably talk about all the scenes in GU and keep shouting 
Banagher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
as if he is Riddhe =A=

There were also cosplay costumes on display from one of the gundam series, Gundam Seed. 



  Aside from just having Gundams being sold here. Other products manufactured from Bandai are also sold here which includes plastic models and action figures such as Taibani figures and random kancolle ship models. There are also some hard to find gunplas here that couldn't be found in Malaysia like the Acguy mg and other stuffs. Honestly out of all the Gundams, I have a soft spot for Acguy (probably due to that gag manga kidou senshi Gundam San). And surprisingly my mother as well took a liking to Acguy too ._. 
 one piece figures on a rack
 all the perfect grades
 some master grades.
p/s: damn acguy QAQ


 some are on bargain.


And of course behold, one of the largest kits up to date. 
The Neo Zeong is also sold at this official bandai store as well. And of course, for a hefty price. 
I remember once my boyfriend said he wanted to save up and get one of these and one day during an event, carry it in a baby stroller while cosplaying full frontal. >_>


damnnn this thing is huge OAO

There were also some Kamen Ride Figurines for sale.
and uhh I am not sure whether this is a normal thing from the series but damn I find this weird. 


and if u cannot afford to buy the neo zeong that can fit ur baby stroller, maybe get the smaller one?
 Which I saw many netizans post up with random nendroid madoka or mario piloting it :0
its currently sold out here though. 

 There is also a tcg corner for those who play Gundam trading card games.  And Gundam Build Fighters music playing on loop in the background ._.



There were also these super old vintage kits for sale in one of the small corners.
As a lover for vintage old school art, I couldn't resist but to buy the Acguy kit in the end as a souvenir upon visitng the gundam base. 
Just for collection purposes :)

Thus this concludes my pilgrim to gundam base. ( ´ ▽ ` )ノ
Yeap the bench are Gundam hands. 
I remember having an inside joke that happened during few cons ago, where we were at our booth drawing .My boyfriend wanted to join and he ended drawing gundam hands. We made a joke where if he could draw gundam hands well and become a gundam hand meister in the future, we will print his drawings of the gundam hands in badges to sell XD  
Wonder how is he doing now? wwwww

p/s: No wonder those people don't hurt so much after they have been grabbed by a gundam in the shows. they are actually quite comfy HAHAHHAHAHHA

Just so you guys know, this place is actually really big! The photos I took may not be much justice but it is huge. 
Those pilots out there who are interested. 
You all better get ready for war, with ur wallet resource all stocked up of course! XD 



Directions:
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Here is a map from lotte department /hotel underground path. 
From lotte you keep going straight passing by in between nature republic and the face shop towards the subway station. 
Keep going straight until you see a flight of stairs, go up those stairs and soon u will see ways splitting either to the left or right. 
Turn to your right.
and then keep moving forward and you will see plenty of shop lots selling accessories and clothes. 
When u pass by standard chartered (should be on the left side), start keeping to your leftest side of the road until u see a sign where it shows Dong Bo Plazza on top on your left.
 Then turn to your in and walah! You are already there! 

>> Hint: keep following the signs in the subway to Judies Taehwa (쥬디스태화 ) until u see standard chartered so you wouldn't get lost ~


 the map, its actually quite close to judies taehwa.

passing by the station in order to get to that flight of stairs.

 just follow those sign boards to Judies Taehwa and You wouldn't loose your way.

Shop lots after upon turning to your right after the flight of stairs.

keep to the leftest part of all the shop lots and u will see the signboard of Dong Bo plaza there on your left.
Dong Bo plaza is written in Korean in Blue.  
There will be a screen screening random gundam animes and a mcd there.


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Website:


Address : 

B2F DONGBO PLAZA, 704, Jungang-daero, Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea




★★★ Back to Korea 【2014】 ★★★


Not sure whether it is fate or not, but Sunway Uni offered me another scholarship to Korea to study Korean at Silla University (신라대학교) for one year.

 It was said that my tuition fees are completely waved which tempted me very much and I immediately applied for it!
.............and so here I am back in Korea again! (ノ´ヮ´)ノ*:・゚✧
However this time, I reside in the southern part of South Korea in which is also known as the second largest city after Seoul, Busan (부산).  Which I am completely unfamiliar with QwQ
My korean communication skills has already dropped so I gotta improve it again!
My kimchiland journey therefore continues with a part two. 
I shall bring more acg news to you and other cool stuff about Busan >w<

♥♥♥ love and peace ♥♥♥

Sunday, January 5, 2014

中文与我

从小到大
一直都是待在公公婆婆的身边比较多。
原因...大概是因为我小时候弱小易患上疾病吧。

也因此,
这几年来都在能说中文的环境中成长。
幼稚园都中学初三也都是读华校。
回到公公婆婆家都也是以中文会谈。
只有每个星期五,六才能回到父母的家。
我的父母并不像我一样会说中文,
这大概是因为以前得读英校的原因吧。

说我的中文...
好也不是好....坏也不算坏吧....?
大概只是少了那份文艺。

还记得小学的时候,
每次刻意在写作文的时候还读下成语字典。
希望能学到些成语拿来点缀作文。 
好让整篇文章看起来没那么平淡乏味。
最后只获得老师的一声 “别滥用成语”。
回想起来还真有点尴尬呢...

嘛,
之前觉得学中文没什么了不起的嘛。
离开了华校后, 高一就转到国际学校休学。
那个时候,我也从公公的家,搬回父母的家。
之后也没那么积极修炼中文了。
毕竟没有人可以用中文和我会谈。
试试看设用中文和妹妹交谈。
结果只获得她们用英文淡淡地回应。
之后我再也没什么用中文和她们会谈了。

第一次我对学到了中文还真感激的时候,
大概是当我2012年去韩国京花女高休学的时候。
我记得有一次有位老师在为学生修演讲稿,
她看我闲来刚好没事做 ,就托我帮忙修改。
毕竟她知道我的中文比她好
嘛.....那演讲稿是为了促进京华女高还有中国的女高之间的关系(抱歉忘了校名没啥留意诶嘿)
长话短说就是中韩学校交流活动的开头演讲稿吧。
那篇演讲稿呢.....修改到我头疼,
因为我不明白演讲稿到底在讲些啥.....得读两次再修改。【扶额

之后,也觉得最适合用来表达自己的感受也还是中文。
毕竟有很多词语,英文词典是没有的。
也当然,就算是有,也没中文那么文雅吧 【笑