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Assalamualaikum

It's been exactly a year (and a day) since I first arrive in Korea for my study. 

Alhamdulillah I survived. 

Hey Nurul Hashima, you survived!

Nurul Hashima, look at how much you doubted yourself and look at how far you've come!! 

So I was asked,

and my sister was kinda mad about the hate I received, so she ask me this and I replied that

My family and friends know the reason I'm here

They know what I've been through before I decided on coming here to study language.

I was very offended at how someone blindly throw hates to me for going to music shows. They claim that I'm following(chasing) Infinite around. If I've been following them around everywhere, I won't even be going to level 6 right now, I'll be stuck in level 2, repeating it over and over again because I've been doing nothing but following them around. 

F.Y.I, I'm only going to music shows because I'm in my holiday atm and besides transportation fees, I don't have to pay for anything for the music shows. 

And if you're jealous about me getting some attention from the members, besides what I replied above, Alhamdulillah that is also due to my tight grip on my religion (so far). If I haven't been wearing any hijab, I might just be as same as anyone else but I'm special there, very very special in their eyes. This is not the first time koreans give me their attention for my hijab, it happened a lot. 

Yes, I like K-Pop since I was like 11 or 12 but K-Pop does not define my life. Like other things, it is just a hobby of mine and will go away soon, which I won't know when but will eventually fade away.

For a year I've been here in Korea, if I'm really here because of kpop, I would've been to all music shows and would've meet all idols and make them feel amaze about seeing a woman in hijab, but no, last week was the first time I ever went to Mnet, Inkigayo and Music Core (pre-recordings) 

I've been to Show Champion before, but that is also during my holiday, and not when I have classes.

I'm not too fond about sacrificing my education for kpop yet.

Alhamdulillah for that. 

Thirdly, Alhamdulillah! Alhamdulillah I've survived this far.

If people know how paranoid I am, they'll know that it hasn't been easy for me to get this far.

A year alone in a country though a bit familiar but is still very strange to me

I've experienced summer, fall, winter, and spring, all is wonderful. 

I am so grateful for the chance given to me

I am grateful I get to experience all of this

Getting new friends from all over the world, learning their culture and differences. Making them know and understand my culture and religion more.

Though it's hard, making them see the beauty of Islam as well.

My visa will end on the 18th of August and I'm hoping that before I go back, I'll be able to attend one last concert in Summer 

If I can't, I guess it's just not my luck.

Alhamdulillah for everything :) 

Future...

Assalamualaikum

You know there's the Page 1 of 365?

It's page 6 today (it's 12am in Korea now)

We're definitely not getting younger by the minutes, what's more by the year

I know I'm getting older and when the clock strikes 12AM on the 1st of January 2014, the question about my goals in life that have been bothering me for the past months is pressuring me more and more. 

Before I came to Korea, while waiting...

The future was dark for me. 

It was dark in my mind because I was clueless about what I really want to do with my life.

I mean I know what my dreams are but after convocation, the road to achieve it seems lost.

My feet is buried deep some place without the ability to move not even an inch. 

Before 2014 came, I've made a few istikharah prayers, wondering if the offer I got from dad would be better for my future or what is easy would be better for me

Admittedly, I didn't do it as frequent as I'm supposed to but I did it for quite a few times

And after new year, that decision once again pressures me and somehow the easier choice is what my heart tells me would be the better choice.

I consult my family and my friends for it, asking them if what my heart tells me could be the answer from Him.

They say they don't know but all advices are the same, they ask me not to give up half way. 

I'm not a quitter, but I was probably just so confused at that time that I felt like quitting. 

I don't feel like quitting at the moment though, so rest assured. 

This greed in me is probably the thing that confuses me so much right now

I want to write, I want to learn how to make films and scripts, I like communications, and somehow I also ended up loving languages and teaching

After teaching just a simple malay to a Korean friend, I figure out that it can also be part of a job to take

But that just adds in to the number of greed I have in what I want to do in life.

The road ahead is still kind of blurry...

I'm still not sure about what I REALLY want to do but while thinking about it, I'm taking my time in deciding it

Disovering and understanding myself, my needs and my dreams once again.

InsyaAllah, with His help, I believe I'll get the right answer soon.

Assalamualaikum. 

Being alien

Assalamualaikum
So I cheated the date again yesterday while updating the blog post about letting go
Anyways, this time I'm going to talk about being alien.
So in Korea, you call foreigners as 외국인 and 외국인 also means alien
and when you're a foreigners here and you need to get the identification card, it's called "Alien Registration Card (ARC)"

And once, while playing games of...... I don't really know what it's called but basically you need to brag about what you've done and if the person u ask never did that, you'll get a marble from them and the ones who have the most of it wins and well, I'm kinda cheeky in this one game, my question was,

1) Have u fly before?
2) Have u seen an alien before?

So the first one refers to where I tried flying fox before and I think I was 16 or something and I played it while lying down(?) but well, some thing like Superman and it counted as flying.
And the second one actually do refers to us all foreigners in the class but no one thought of it exact for my friend, Kobe and I ended up winning the game /wiggles eyebrows/

But actually in Korea, you can feel like an alien especially when you don't have the "typical asian" look. You need to understand what "typical asian look" meant to understand what I mean.
You don't get stared at that much if you're talking in Korean and actually does look asian, you know how people stereotype 'asian' as those who have small eyes, fair skin and, I don't know what else.
You do get stared at if you're talking in english, chinese, malay or well, any language besides Korean language that is.

But you get stared at more if you don't look asian at all, and when you're wearing a hijab.
Just know that what I'm writing doesn't represent the whole Koreans in a whole but just those who I've encountered so far.

In Malaysia, there are still Muslim people who doesn't understand why we NEED to wear Hijab, so for someone who's not a muslim, it would still be a bit hard for them to understand why.
Some of the ajussi and ajumma here ask me the normal question, "Aren't you hot?" and my normal answer would be, "It's ok, I'm used to it. Malaysia is summer everyday anyway."
and some of them would sometimes ask me, "You don't have to wear it, you can open it (hijab). No one will catch you and no one will know even if you open it."
and I just answer "The God (Allah) sees everything" 
Maybe I should explain more to them when I say those things but usually to someone who I met while passing by, I don't explain to them more about it but to someone who I met like maybe twice a month because I always eat at their store or something, I do try to explain as much as I know about my religion.
They're asking not with the intention to degrade my religion but because they really want to know.
And I don't mind explaining as well.

And here, the ajumma and ajussi and kids, will stare at you a lot.
The ajumma and ajussi will keep on staring at me, especially when I'm walking home alone until I greet them.
When I'm with friends, they don't stare at me that much.
The kids, they do stare at me a lot. One kid practically walked backwards after I pass him by just to stare at me. Imagine me greeting them, some of them actually goes "daebak!!!", at least that's what my friend told me when I walk in front of her.
And while going home with my friend, some of the middle-school student was having their recess time I guess and were gathering around and we were on our way home and all of them are throwing out all the english words they know to us, well at least they didn't curse.
We heard things like, "hey what's up?", "hey bro?", "yo bro!" it was so funny but kinda annoying as well.

So yeah, you do get to feel how special you are here
You do feel alienated here with how much they stare at you.
The tip is, when they stare at you, there's 2 reason for it,

1) because you're weird
2) because you're too pretty

Just pick the 2nd one all the time and you can't help but to smile at it
Ok that's not a form of bragging, but thinking that way is always better than thinking that you're weird.

Assalamualaikum :)

Hari Raya di Korea?

Assalamualaikum
So like always, it's been a month since I last update my blog.
I've been busy with studies, exam and moving.
I just recently move to a new one-room near the school, so I can now at least walk to school after the school holiday ends.
Hello diet! (I guess?)

Anyway,
I couldn't go back for Hari Raya cause the ticket is so expensive and I actually have a paper on that day.
And I couldn't go celebrate hari raya together with other Malaysians at the embassy as well because I had my speaking exam on that day.

So on the first day of raya, I cried when I reached at school, cried again when I called my family and cried again.
The next day on the other hand is the end of semester celebration or something like that and after that celebration, I went straight to Infinite One Great Step World Tour in Seoul.

I've posted everything that happens to me at the concert below, so make sure to read it, if you ever want to.

So a day after the concert, I move out completely out of the dorm into my new one-room

And because it's the start of the semester holiday, I've been doing nothing besides watching movies, drama or I don't know, just open the TV to watch whatever they have.
I've just been lazying out myself in my new room.
Probably try to exercise like once a day if I'm too bored lazying around.

So I spend my Hari Raya without having any raya feeling at all
I didn't get to eat rendang or ketupat or those kind of things but thanks to my family, I received my raya package and I ate the serunding and well it says ketupat but the taste is more like nasi impit.

And I also get to eat the raya cookies made by my mom, so I'm really happy that I get to.
I do miss my mom's rendang though.
So I guess that's all.
Assalamualaikum.

OGS in Seoul

Assalamualaikum
I wanted to put the [FAN ACCOUNT] on the title but I'm not sure if this is count as one.
Anyway, on the 2nd day of Raya, after celebrating the end of semester with my classmates, I went to Olympic Park right away.
I arrived there around 1-2PM and it was so hot that day, and I was just so tired.

When I arrived, I see people lining up and all,  I didn't know why so I just keep on walking towards the merchandise area because Mei said she'll be there.
So I walk and walk and I just ended up lining up for merchandise as well. I bought 3 big fan, 2 sticker set and 1 poster set, the poster set and the sticker set is for my friend.
And Mei helped me buy the towel for me!! whee

And I was informed that I can only collect the ticket at 4, so I just walk around looking for Mei because I couldn't find her at the merchandise area.
She told me she's lining up for a slogan banner, so I just go look for her.
She told me one area where they're giving out Yeol's slogan banner, so I went up and line up there.

I line up and I'm like "there's no way I'm going to line up like this again. I won't do this" so Yeol's slogan banner is like the one longest line I'm in since the other slogan banner I got are the ones with the shortest line.
I only got a little slogan banner if you compared to other fans who have the energy and their young age to go and get all the banners.

As I was saying, the day is really hot and I couldn't handle it.
I was resting for most of the time, sitting down and all, drinking water.
A lot of the koreans helped me. One girl, from Busan helped me when we were lining up to put our bags at the standing area, idk what it's called.
And then there's another girl who helped me get my ticket as well, and another who got me the wrist band whatever after showing my ticket.
So while lining up to get in, the heat finally gets to me.
I was lining up when I finally couldn't stand the heat and sat down.
One ajumma with her daughter was worried about me, I could see it in their face, so I got out of the line and sat down somewhere.
I couldn't see straight anymore, everything was getting blurry, so I called the staff who were wearing the green vest something like safety jacket and she informed those who are obviously have a higher position than she is, and they inform the security and all those things and they brought me inside.
They asked me to sit down first and ask me to wait before they bring me to the... idk, sick bay?
So I waited for idk how long, and they finally bring me to the sick bay.
I lied down right away when I got in.
(I couldn't walk, so they were holding on to me for the whole time), and they ask me to take some meds and ask me to lie down again.

So after lying down for idk, how long, I told them I'm getting better.
I went out and I see all the fans already going into the stadium. While standing up, I felt like I was going to vomit, but nothing came out, so the staff gave me a water bottle and they just brought me into the stadium.

Since the concert didn't start right away, I was sitting down while they were showing all of the MVs.
And a Chinese-Canadian girl started introducing herself to me and we probably were together for the whole concert.
I couldn't get close to the young fans though.
They were screaming for almost all the time, even when they were just showing the MV while I'm like, "aww look at these young fan girls, I'll just sit here and be boring as I can", I mean, it's just MVs?

So when the concert started, everyone goes crazy.
I was at the A section, so it was at the very front, and if Infinite walk on the platforms, we'll see their backs.
I just don't feel like going around, running around to see Infinite face, I'll take a look at them when they're in front of me, I don't want to run.
I was still sick, so I still stick around at my place, though it was quite scary since everyone was pushing, running around to make sure Infinite sees them as well.
I uploaded a few pictures and a short clip of Sunggyu's 60 Second on my instagram here, so if you are curious, u can check it out.
Like this picture

After the concert ended, I quickly went to take my bag and go to the subway
When I reach SNU station, there are no more busses available, so I had to take a taxi home.
Getting a taxi at that time was hard, but I'm lucky to get one.

All in all, it might have been more fun if I wasn't sick.
Maybe I'll try going to concert during winter or anything and not summer anymore.
That's all from me.

Assalamualaikum :)

Me as a Malaysian Muslim in Korea

Assalamualaikum
Hi everyone!!
It's been almost a month(?) since I last updated anything on my blog
I want to say I'm busy but I think I'm lazy is the right word for it.

If you're a follower of my instagram, you can see that I'm actually is having a lot of fun here in Korea with my classmates but that is not the true case of it.
I find myself being very scared about going back to the old me, which I've actually talked it out with Arina.
It is negative because the old me is someone who forgets Him most of the time and rely on mortals for my happiness and joy in life. oh the dramatic words I choose :P

Anyway, yes I am very happy here, I am happy to learn about other cultures here as well, and sometimes hear people talk in a lot of languages I can't understand.
I am in Language Education Institute here which have a lot of students from different countries. I didn't came here after receiving scholarship from any institutes from Malaysia, so I'm not exactly surrounded by Malaysians.
There are goods and bads of it though.

Good is that I am able to understand different races and culture all over the world, while the cons are that I am not used to this. I'm used to having Malay, or maybe Muslim around me that I don't have to explain to them why I don't drink (alcohol), why I don't eat meat or why I don't eat pork but having to explain to them about why and having another example of someone of the same religion but have different views of what a muslim can and can't do is not that easy.
However, I'm not in any way condemning my friend about it, it's just that different people from different country, despite being of the same religion, they have different views of things, that's where mazhab comes in.

Being a muslim who can't eat pork or meat (halal ones only), that doesn't mean I don't follow my friends around here when they go eat or something.
I do follow them but with an option to have seafood as my dish, which is not really an option for me since I have an allergic but I have to. InsyaAllah everything will be fine if I eat my meds afterwards.

It would be a lie if the fried chicken they have doesn't tempt me, it does, a lot but kuatkan iman, ingat even if orang lain tak tahu, Allah tahu. It wasn't easy, not at first, and not now as well but insyaAllah you'll get through it, and you'll get used to it.
Having an ellergy is an excused I always use to explain why I can't eat it, because, I do have an ellergy for beef and chicken.
Because of my high uric acid, I can't take beef since gout is something very common on my dad's side (hikmah tak makan daging dah dijumpai kt Korea :)) and mom said I can't eat chicken because of my resdung (my nose gets very itchy after eating one).

I do see a lot of Malays at LEI and the thing I like about it is the fact that when I see them, a simple 'ASSALAMUALAIKUM' between all of us despite not knowing each other is more than enough to bring smiles to our face.
Admittedly, they are very young, and they're always in a group of people, so it makes me who's kind of an introvert feels a bit shy to talk to them but they always gives their salam to me and that makes me feel proud of myself as a Malaysian.
I am so much thankful about the fact that one of them, Asilah always helps me with questions and she also introduced me to Kak Attiya. Even if I don't have a lot of malay friends here, insyaAllah with Asilah and Kak Attiya's help, I will gain more and more friends here.

About getting halal foods, I usually either go down to Itaewon to buy food at the foreign mart where they sell halal chicken and beef. You can find santan here as well!! whee!! Thank you Izyanaa for bringing me here :)
And thank you my dear Reef for introducing Izyanaa to me dear.
Or you can always order online from Expatmart or indianshopkorea if you don't have any time to go to Itaewon.
I've done both options and here's my point of view.
Going by feet to Itaewon would take a lot of time for you, but I think it saves you lots of money considering the fact that the chicken meat I bought at the market there was a lot compared to the one I bought from expatmart.
But ordering online saves you time but you have to spend a lot of money on it. Unless your order exceed 70,000 won, you'll have to pay 3,00 won for the delivery charges to your house.
I will still go for both options taking in account of my time and money.

Thank you mom, dad, and siblings for all the food delivered to me from Malaysia!!
It helps me a lot in preparation for Ramadhan here!
I was a lot nervous about spending my Ramadhan here alone but getting this delivery from dad makes me very happy!

I am very happy about Asilah always remembers to invite me to any iftar with her, so insyaAllah will follow her next week :)
So this is all the update from me.
Assalamualaikum :)

On the way

Assalamualaikum...
And hello to everyone!

I am supposed to be updating this a few days ago but I've been so lazy to do so...
But here I am updating!

Ok on the first day of class (3rd June), I meet up with Dixxon, who kindly helped me in my process of making a korean simcard.
He's really kind to be helping me, showing me where the student cafeteria(?) is, and then helped me in ordering food as well, and finally waited for me until I finally completed the process of making a korean phone number.
I told him that it's ok for him to go back and not wait for me, but Dixxon keep on telling me that it's ok and I keep on saying sorry and thank you to him that if there's a robot that can says thank you and sorry, they can borrow my voice for it.
Cho Dixxon, really thank you so muchhh for helping me!! And congratulations and good luck for your study!!

So it's going to be the 3rd week since I start my class soon, and so far everything is fine.
In my class, there were 12 students but recently another student is added, so there are 13 students now.

I always thought that I'm really bad at games but out of the 3 games that we played, I think it's 3, I've won 2 games. The marks weren't recorded for the third game so I guess it doesn't really matter? hahaha
Anyway, the prize is always coffee but I don't drink coffee, so I ended up giving my coffee to my classmates.
And Joshua shared the macaroons he made with everyone at class too! wheee thank you!!

Last week, I went to the first fan sign ever in my life, which is Nine Muses fan sign in order to help my friend, actually it's a present for my friend, Bobo.
So I actually get to see how the fansites manages to get pictures of idols that look directly to their camera. It's not really that easy even if the idols recognizes the fansites masters and all because they need to scream a lot to get the idols' attention. So kudos to fansite masters!!

I have the sticky note on my wall to remind me on what I need to update but looking at it, it doesn't give me any idea on what I'm supposed to write at all...
Oh yeah, right now I have toothache, another wisdom tooth is growing I guess and it really hurts, not as bad as the one I had last time but it still hurts.
I'll be going to the hospital tomorrow to check on it, and if I ever remember everything, will try posting out about my experience there.

p/s: Ramadhan is getting near, and I'm quite nervous and anxious about it 

Assalamualaikum

[FA] Nine Muses Fan Sign

Assalamualaikum

This is a fan sign that I actually promised to write for the lovely Bobo like 2 weeks ago.
Sorry for updating it so late!! (cheat date)

I arrived at Cheongnyangni Lotte Department Store at 5PM but instead of going to the fan sign place straight away, I went to the daiso in order to buy a book and a pen because I actually left Bobo's letter at home, so I need to write a new letter for Bobo as well.
After finish writing the letter, I went straight to the fan signing venue, since I arrived kind of late, I actually bothered some of the fans who are sitting down or are at the back, so I got a lot of curses on the way hahaha
I've already forgotten everything before the fan sign but since I got a video of it, I will just write it all down.
[Don't ask for the video link coz I've deleted it already]

So the first person was Sera.
I remembered Bobo told me that Sera is good at english, so I talk in english with Sera. I told Sera about Bobo, and Sera was really touched by the story and look genuinely worried as well.
I actually almost cried while talking aboout Bobo, because Bobo is really strong to get through all the hardship but Sera's genuine worried face makes me feel touched at how much she cares and listen to my story.
She then was trying to figure out what should she wrote for Bobo, I told her to write "힘내세요" since it's easy and all but instead, she wrote, "AJ,... Tweet me! ok? I'll read your messages"

The next person is Saem and I said "안녕하세요" to Saem and she was all like "Hey girlll"
The first thing I ask to her was, "Can you write this down?" which is "Saya Cinta Kamu" on the album but I don't know if she hears me or not but I guess she couldn't hear me since she didn't write it.

She was trying to speak english to me but I told her that "AJ is my friend" in Korean and she had this amused face and was all like "Oh your Korean is good" (actually it's not that good)
In the middle of talking to Saem, Eunji looked at me and we both just laughed for no reason (I forgot just why)
Saem asked me where I am from and said thank you to me for coming to the fan sign
Saem was really nice to even answer the question I put on the album

So, the next person is the one I focused on the most, Eun Ji which is Bobo's favorite member!!
When I move to Eun Ji, she have this amusing face all over her seeing me wearing tudung and all.
I told her in Korean, "My friend really likes you" and she was "aww thank you" and then I pass her Bobo's letter and then I pointed to Bobo's name and she was like "Oh oh oh oh I know her" 
I told her that my friend (Dixxon) came last week and talk about you and she's all like, "Yes I know" 
Bobo told me that maybe, maybe Eun Ji thought I'm AJ, that's why she's really excited but there's no way for we all to know about it.
I asked Eun Ji "Can't you write this for me?" and she asked me "Where" to write it and I just pointed at anywhere at all (word: Awak sangat comel),
I pasted a question on the album and she was so sweet to answer it like this,
(Q: If you are supposed to dance a Dolls' remix version with someone ,Sungah and Kyeongri part>, which member do you want to do it with?)
(A: AJ)

Actually the staff keep on telling me that I can't do the post it thingy, it's not allowed and I said, 'ok' but some of the members answer it anyway.

After Eun Ji, it's Sungah's turn, Bobo only told me that Sera can speak english, she didn't told me about Sungah. OTL I embarrassed myself with my korean.
Sungah was actually the person who is right after the staff told me about the post it but in front of Sungah, the first question I ask was, "Can you answer this question please?"
(Q: Who are you closest to among your members?)
(A: Hyuna)

I told her, "My friend's name is AJ" and she told me, "Your korean is really good" and I told her "No, I'm really bad at it. My friend is currently in Malaysia, so she couldn't come here" and I can hear one member says, "she's better than me" but I'm not sure who... OTL

Next one is Hyuna, and she quickly said "AJ" when she saw her name and she asked me, "Where are you from?" and I told her that "My friend is in Malaysia right now, and I came here for my friend". 
I ask her if she can write "Saya Cinta Kamu" on the album or not but she instead just say "Saya Cinta Kamu" like twice or thrice instead of writing it, hahaha so cute!

The next one is Erin,
Her voice is really cute!!
I told her again that "I'm from Malaysia and I came here for my friend" and she told me "thank you very much" 
We didn't talk much and just proceed to Kyungri but she answered my post it question,
(Q: Who's the easiest to prank among your members?)
(A: Saem)

I like Kyungri after watching MBC Allthekpop
I told her my photostat line and then she asks me, "It's really hot right now, right?" and I told her that, "No, I'm actually is really cold right now" and she have this shocking face hearing my answers but I was really cold at the moment, my hand is almost freezing.
She told me, "my hand is sweating a lot right now" 
On the album, she wrote, "Let's meet next time"
I told her to come to Malaysia next time and she answered, "Yes I'll surely come! Please call us!" and then she laughed

The next in person is Minha.
I told Minha that we're the same age and she was all like "Oh, why is your korean so good" and I told her that it's not and that I'm still learning at the moment but she keep on saying "it's really good" for idk how many times. Maybe she's the stubborn type (in a nice way) lol if she's a friend of mine, it would be interesting, her personality I mean.
She take a look at the post it I posted and ask me, "Did you personally write it?" and I said yes, but then I remembered that the question was given by Bobo, so I quickly said, "It's my friend's question" and she tried so hard to answer those question but the staff passed the album to Hye Mi, so she only managed to answer who's the appa.
She was all like, "Aww sorry, I couldn't answer it" and I told her it's ok.
(Q: Who is the appa/omma of the group?)
(A: Appa - Erin)

The last person was Hyemi.
I really like Hyemi coz her hair is really cute.
I ask her "Can you write this down?" which is "Saya Cinta Kamu" but she asked me, "saranghaeyo" but I told her about Saya Cinta Kamu instead.
She looked at the post it questions but because I'm scared that the staff will just ask her to stop answering it, so I told her "tak payah" hahahaha I really did said tak payah and then I told her in korean again, "It's ok for you not to answer the question" so she proceed on writing the "Saya Cinta Kamu" on the album.

So that's the full fan account of Nine Muses Fan Sign written especially for Bobo and Dixxon!
For the photos, please check it out at Bobo's facebook, here

Assalamualaikum!!
Bye!!

A new journey

Assalamualaikum

I'm actually now in my off-campus dorm in Gwanak-gu, Seoul.
I arrived here in the morning of 27th of May and stayed at Itaewon with my family (mom, dad, younger brother) until 28th, the day I checked in at my off-campus dorm.

My departure from Malaysia was at 11PM and my sisters went to the airport with us to send me off.
We actually took a lot of pictures but now that I look at it, a lot of the pictures taken by my mom and dad are blury hahaha the children takes better pictures I guess :P



It was also the first time for me to use MAS as the I only use Air Asia before this, so I was a bit 'jakun' when I was on the plane, and the stewardess just smile at our weird questions on the plane. I sat with my brother, so most of the time I bother him and try to force him to watch 'I am a murderer' with me (but failed to do so), a korean thriller movie which doesn't have any subtitle yet on the internet, the more reason why I was so excited on the plane because I've been searching for the subtitles since forever.

When I arrived in Itaewon, we stayed at Hamilton Hotel, and Paris Baguette is next to the hotel, and there's KFC nearby as well, everything was easy there. So I brought my mom around, just sight-seeing even though we didn't get to go to a lot of places. Brought mom to Namsan Tower as well, which she wanted to go to but I couldn't accompany her that much because I was not feeling well that day, so my brother helped my mom more than I did.

So on the 28th, I finally check in at my dorm, at around 6:30pm.

 
So that's a 'tour' to how my room looks like.

On the 29th, I had a placement test at SNU KLEC
So I ride on the bus to the SNU with a friend the dorm lady introduced me to.
She's Li Lin, from China,

and when I arrived at the room to take the placement test, I was informed that they actually divided us according to where we came from and I think I'm the only Malaysian there.

Near me was a girl named Maria, from the US who actually studied in Singapore for a month I think and went to visit Malaysia as well, she went to Batu Caves too.
She asked me my opinion on the recent PRU and I was shocked to know that she knew about it and I shared to her about my view on it. She was my age, but I forgot to take pictures with her. Maybe next time.

I had an interview after the test and the teacher told me that I only got 60% for my level one, so I'm not qualified enough for level 2 but I just sits there silently, not really wanting to enter level 1.
So the teacher told me to buy a book and study on my own a little bit, just to understand some grammar and vocab since I told her which is the part that I couldn't understand, and she told me to go to level 2 starting next week since she also thinks that it's kind of a waste for me to go to level 1.
Alhamdulillah.

It's now 31st of May, so it's been 3 days since I've stayed at my dorm.
Last night I bought the instant rice you saw in the video, and ate it with kurma daging which I brought from Malaysia.
And today, I haven't eaten yet but I guess I either eat maggi or any instant food I brought like kari ayam or anything with the rice.
I also bought some chips at the convenience store.

It is halal, you can check the list of halal food here 

Ok so that is all the update from me here.
InsyaAllah I will keep on updating weekly so that my parents won't be worried about me.

Assalamualaikum