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met up with hannah today, and she brought me to her senior’s daughter’s 돌잔치 aka first birthday dinner. it’s my 2nd time attending a 돌잔치, and the 2nd time where i brought my camera along, without the memory card. and i once went on a holiday bringing my camera charger but not the camera.
i have to stop doing things like that. seriously.
but anyway. hannah was having this conversation with her senior, which i found a bit… hm. ok i’ll translate it directly to singlish, because i am too lazy to type in korean.
hannah: wah… you seem to be doing really well! married with a kid, and your wife is so beautiful! and very tall too.
senior: hahaha, no la, where got beautiful…
me: -_-;;;
eh, i know modesty is supposed to be a virtue but hello?? there are some things that you don’t have to be modest about. luckily his wife was safely out of earshot. it’s definitely not something a woman would want to hear after bearing a man’s kids, AND on the kid’s first birthday party too! =/ or maybe i am just making a mountain out of a molehill. *shrugs* am i the only girl who thinks this way? hm.
hannah’s been quite worried about my visa situation – i think she’s more anxious about it than me – and she has sent my resume to one of the big companies in korea when she heard that they were looking for people, and while i was with her today she called one of her contacts and asked if there are any vacancies. for the second one, i passed yenwen’s contact to the lady instead though, because the job involves going on tv, something which i am rather averse to doing. 
while we were chatting, she asked me what it is that i like about korea, and why do i not wanna go back to singapore. i told her that i feel absolutely nothing for singapore – i don’t think of it as home, i don’t love it, i don’t feel any sense of attachment to it, i don’t feel that the government cares about its people, and the only reason i would ever go back is to visit my family and friends. on the other hand, i love korea, i feel at home here, i feel proud whenever i read in the news about some korean achievement, and i don’t wanna leave – yet.
i don’t know why i love korea so much, but that’s what love is, isnt it? an inexplicable, irrational, just because kinda thing. i love korea, despite having seen and experienced the good, the bad, the ugly, the pretty – everything. and when the time comes for me to leave (which i am pretty sure will happen – somehow, despite my love for this place, i don’t think that i am going to settle down here permanently. then again, who knows?), korea will always have a special place in my heart.
the bus that i took to go home was full. i was standing next to one of the poles and holding onto it. i also happened to be directly below one of those hanging handle thingies on the bus which was irritating me cos it kept bumping into my head. after a while, this guy who was standing directly behind me, and who was also holding on to the same pole as me, then took hold of the handle and held it to the side such that he was grabbing both the handle and the pole. i was so grateful! i think he did that cos noticed my discomfort, since he didn’t have to hold the handle at all as he was already holding onto the pole. and when he had to alight, he let the handle down gently so that it wouldn’t hit my head. didn’t manage to catch his face though – only caught his side view as he was alighting. heh.
and the first thought that came to my mind was, “this will never happen in singapore man.”
came home to a HUGE parcel sent with love from singapore, containing, amongst others, my favourite cornflake cookies! heh.
and so the title for today – “love” for your spouse, love for a friend, love for a country, love for a stranger, and love for a daughter. hehe
if they were for sale i would have gone back to get another pack.