Sunday, September 18, 2011

Not a travel blog no more.

Time to flip the page.

Return to normal...Montreal

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Really...sharks looks very like a mad & agressive thing...If I get to dive with this....hmm


Ouh nana..what's my name..

 Lol je lisais ca random...signification de ton prénom...

Variante : ANISSE

Signification prénom :

Anis signifie, en arabe, cordial, affable, aimable.
Il fait partie des prénoms placés sous le signe de l'amitié, une qualité essentielle aux yeux du Prophète, selon plusieurs hadiths (propos avérés de Mahomet). C'est un prénom fréquemment attribué chez les Français musulmans. Étant donné la proximité de leur signification étymologique, on peut rapprocher Anis d'Aimable, un curé de Riom au Ve siècle, modèle des curés de campagne, dévoué et charitable. Fête : le 18 octobre.

Tendances : 308 enfants nés en 2003 ont reçu pour prénom Anis. 3179 personnes ont été prénommées Anis en France depuis 1900.




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Qui sont elles ?

Idéalistes, sensibles et émotives, Anissa et Anissa ont tendance, face à l'hostilité, à se refermer sur elles-mêmes. Elles sont courageuses et déterminées. Il y a une sorte de dualité, de double facette chez elles: d'un côté, celle d'une femme affective, sympathique, altruiste à forte sensibilité plutôt extravertie (tendance accentuée si elles sont nées un 2, 9, 11, 18, 20, 27, 29, ou en février, en septembre ou en novembre, ou si elles possèdent un chemin de vie 2, 9 ou 11 ), de l'autre, celle d'une femme introvertie, méfiante, pru �dente, timide, contrôlée et travailleuse, intellectuelle, qui apprécie la solitude, discrète, à l'esprit critique, parfoiscynique. Ces deux tendances ne sont pas forcément incompatibles, mais font d'elles des personnages à part. Originales et d'avant-garde, elles sont inspirées et ont de hautes aspirations humanitaires où les frontières, les races ou les barrières sociales n'existeraient plus... En fait, cet aspect lié au maître nombre 11 n'est pas aisé à vivre au quotidien. Il arrive fréquemment que les vibrations vécues soient celles du registre inférieur du 11, c'est-à-dire le 2 : on assiste alors à plus de passivité, de soumission, d'oubli de soi dans une dépendance aux autres. Enfants, elles sont extrêmement fragiles, impressionnables et craintives. L'atmosphère affective et sécurisante d'un foyer est nécessaire à leur épanouissement. Il faudra veiller à ce qu'elles ne se réfugient pas dans les chimères, la fuite, les rêves ou les fugues de l'enfance risquant de les mener plus tard sur les chemins de Katmandou... La musique serait un excellent exutoire à leurs besoins émotionnels ou sensoriels. À ce sujet, leurs amitiés de jeunesse seront à surveiller de près, car elles sont influençables, et leurs notions de moralité plutôt floues.

Qu'aiment-elles ?
Tout ce qui sort de l'ordinaire les intéresse et, si ce n'est l'originalité qui les caractérise, ce pourrait être la marginalité. Le domaine sentimental est essentiel à leur équilibre personnel et leurs aspirations affectives peuvent être parfois, sinon utopistes, du moins difficilement réalisables. Anissa et Anissa sont romantiques et rêvent du preux chevalier sur son beau cheval blanc ! Sensuelles, parfois très tolérantes, elles sont prêtes à se dévouer corps et âme si le 2 l'emporte. Mais elles seront parfois aussi intolérantes, exigeantes, éprises d'absolu et directives si le 11 l'emporte.

Que font-elles ?



Le domaine du social et de l'humain attire Anissa et Anissa (enseignement, sciences humaines, droit, justice, médecine ou professions assimilées). On pourra noter aussi les inclinations suivantes : professions en rapport avec les voyages ou l'étranger (surtout si le 9, 18, 27 est leur jour de naissance, ou 9 leur chemin de vie), professions artistiques ou en rapport avec le goût (hôtellerie, restauration, cuisine, fleuriste...), professions liées aux techniques modernes, ou à l'avant-garde, professions liées à la collectivité.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Monday, August 1, 2011

Sometimes...

I had this weird dream that day....anyhow I got up early and just went surfing on different blogs and reading news. 

Wow Montreal Ville Marie tunnel is falling appart...and the bridge prolly soon!
Africa is suffering from the worst Famine...and Philippines as well as Japan & Korea are getting too much rain...floods everywhere...this planet earth is so up-side-down.... Soon soon it's gonna be the end of the world...in 2012 =P

Kinda really like this entry where this girl describe what it is exactly to MISS someone. So beautiful I need to save this on my blog forever lol! I guess....we live in a world where certain words have lost their true meaning and that is indeed, a sad thing. Words like, "I miss you," have value, meaning and a depth that comes from the heart and to say that to another means more than any greeting card ever could.

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People come and go in our lives, sometimes like the sudden whoosh of a revolving door and at other times in a much slower, more painful manner, much like having a boulder rocking back and forth on you before it rolls on to crush another target. That would be a quite excruciating scenario but there are those that actually lie down and welcome that damn boulder with open arms. Some leave mud tracks and stubborn stains on our hearts that last for years despite a good scrubbing, while others depart with a gentle touch and a hopeful wish to return someday resuming the rightful spot they once held. The latter type of exit may seem to be the best possible outcome but in reality it is the hardest.

I have missed many people in my life but I notice I feel it more intensely now. To say, "I miss you", implies a deep sense of caring but is that the true intent of those words or is it said out of habit, like saying Gesundheit after a sneeze? Do I miss their smile, their laugh, or the way they made me feel when I was once in their presence? It could be any one of these things or even all of them combined. Missing is about not being encircled in their arms, not feeling their warmth beside me when it is most desired. Missing is about not having an eager, listening ear that wants to hear my life story even though I am not quite comfortable telling it and it is about the comforting buzz of a text message alert that lets me know that they are still…there.

Missing is truly about me and not them because unless told…they have no idea the mark they have left. I owe them a clear statement of the meaning of the words "I miss you" and to voice my meaning honestly. Missing is about the needs, wants and emotions inside of me that are somehow left unattended in the absence of the person I no longer have access to on a physical basis. The saying that “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is a ridiculous thing because, on its own, the statement screams “delusional” but when it is combined with a need to justify romanticizing an otherwise unfulfilling relationship it walks straight into vomit inducing range. Absence is about being gone or away from the one you really want to be with and that is something I am not even remotely “fond” of. I don’t want them to go and when they do it hurts and not in a fuzzy, romance novel way but in the “insert knife, twist left and right then jerk upward” kind of way.

Being open to another person creates a way for “missing” to creep in, to inhabit your heart like a homeless squatter but I welcome it anyway because to run from “missing” is to run from life. I cannot do that so I miss, I care and I hope for the eventual return of or journey to the one I enjoyed laughing with, sharing with and truly being free with. That is life or at least the life I want and so I will gladly wait because I know it is finally my turn to make “missing” a friend that gives rather than takes.



Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together?  I guess that wouldn't work.  Someone would leave.  Someone always leaves.  Then we would have to say good-bye.  I hate good-byes.  I know what I need.  I need more hellos.  ~Charles M. Schulz
 

Under my Unbrella Ella elaa ehh ehhh






Umbrellas in Asia are so useful...never have I ever thought of bringing it every time I go out...
but certainly, it protects you from the hot Sun and no need to put sticky sunscreen for walking out a few minutes from one point to another outside...and not to mention that it saved us many times...shitty weather in Hk, GZ and Seoul as well...Rain pours so suddenly and we got so soaked at the uncovered parts!! ....like my poor Birkenstock sandals =(

Let me introduce you to Princess Irene Yan




Daejanggeum fans, woudadadadadawoulalla



Sunday, July 31, 2011

Noly Poly




You can hear this every freaking WHERE..and my sis is soon gonna know the dance by heart! LOL

SPALAND MY LAND

Introduction of Spa for my family...One big one in the world's biggest department store of the world: SHINSEGAE, in center Busan. Entrance fee with a 20% rebate ( coupon for foreigners! ), comes to 9$ CAD per person for a 4hours access! Quite cheap if I compare the bath access from my job...it was 55$!!!!



Shinsegae department store..10 floors?

Entrance...request for massage? Nail Care? Esthetics?




Apparently a hot spring, water pumped up frpm the underground: Sodium Bicarbonate & Sodium Chloride hot spring. Kinda impress, it was quite big...on 3 floors? with separate baths..which were NAKED...and a part is common: different saunas & steam rooms, Entertainment zone ( DVD room )


Baths...shocking naked women walking around everywhere..with scrubbing / shower spots

There were 22 spas fed by the natural spring water.

The outdoor hot spring


There were 13 distinctive themed Jjimjilbangs in the 1st floor.

- Finnish sauna
- Yellow earth room: Yellow earth is a good remedy to woman's disease and has a good effect in purification and mental stability.
- Roman Room
- Pyramid Room
- Body sound room: design based on principle of bone conduction...playing sounds from nature or meditation music
- Wave Dream room: Meditation room with  sounds and feeling that we are in the deep water
- Hard Wood Charcoal Room: Gwangwondo generates negative ions and transfers acidified body to alkalified body....
- Turkish Hammam room
- Bali Relaxation room
- SEV room: Radiating electrons that helpsto metabolize the body more rapidly?!

The path to access many saunas


The other sauna & steam rooms upstairs

The Juice bar / coffee shop


Relaxation rooms With TV and diff channels

I would've spent my whole day in those kind of spa...but unfortunately my family doesn't like / stand the heat... so didnt't enjoy it to the fullest.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Insolite

Unfortunately,
I didn't think of taking pictures of the previous more luxurious amenities packs...
but this one gave a Collagen mask per pack...LoL

 Pack of 3 condoms...collagen mask...bubble bath....what more can you get

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Elysee Motel in Busan

Just a personal note:

Deluxe suite motel....looks like a castle white building.

Quite old fashion, with solar lighting on the ceiling to see a fish in the sea scene above the bed... it's like a Glow in the dark thing for kids!




I kinda really like the Steam room facility integrated in the shower, while taking my shower ( which got 3 kinds of water jets with super good pressure ), just press on the start button and the steam goes out...by the time you're done with the shower, the cabin rises up to 42degrees! Perfect spa at home!!!! I want one!



And I read about the water floods in Seoul...Gangnam subway station got much water in...it was exactly where we were 2 days ago...kinda worried where to go next...can't prolly go back to the capital so soon as heavy rain is prolly gonna pour until friday....Crazy to read that Seoul would be receiving half a year's rain within 4 days!!!

Even in Busan, it was raining hard yesterday night and Many stores got water in their AC system...which all soaked the stocks....Triumph's bra store got all their bras ruined! LoL The staff pulled out rack of bras and let them dry on the Rond-Point across the street in front of the store...

I'm still a kid

Cookie house in the Art Center

Real cookies!!!

Beau bonhomme!

Cultural weekend



SO colorful & cute

I do not know how ppl manage to wear those..


Kimchiii???


Korean Palace

Where the king was

Guard at the Palace doors

Tuesday, July 26, 2011


 Chocolate flavor 30 CM long Ice Cream

Ever ate freshly baked SHIT???

And my parents thought for a moment that it would be filled with real sh*t LOL

NOT..red bean filling!!!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

NeGGaZheChalaGAaaaaa

Because of Julie Lai,
Because of my sister's kpop playlist,
Because I'm in Korea...
I'm very obsessed by Kpop now... and mostly obsessed with THIS song!
NeGGaZheChalaGAaaaaa 

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Welcome to Korea!

Just want to comment on my first moment in Seoul..
I knew Koreans do NOT speak English..so I gather the most guides & maps available from the airport and asked directions to take the Limousine Bus to get to the city. Korea got budget!!! Got so many different versions of maps & a full book of the country for free!! Just saying that the day before  I was so in Dilemna at the bookstore of HK if I should buy the damn expensive Lonely Planet!!

So the nearest the bus could drop us was at the Ritz Calton...which on the map we got, didn't look far at all from the hotel I booked ( located at 3mins walk from the Nambu Terminal but the map just cuts at it and the streets are non-identified)...Luckily the Concierge got us in at his front desk and ran all over into his Office inside to make calls and gather Informations and prints...Since it was getting late...he suggested us to take a cab even if it was 3 subway stations away. The cabs stopping in front of the Hotel were only Deluxe ones ( more comfy, with a Interprete phone, receipt printer, etc.)..so I mentionned We just go on the street to catch a regular one. But he just pulled 2 of our luggages super fast, and escorted us to the street steeply DOWNHILL to catch the "non Deluxe cabs''...and even if he wrote me back the adress in korean script on a Post It...he made sure the driver knew his thing and punch the adress in his GPS. All that warm welcoming and helpfulness without wanting anything in return.../Closes the taxi door, big bye signs & bows for thank you/...Lol so much respect and will for help! I think would be the first time I got such a good staff in the tourism industry in another country other than OURS =P Service 5etoiles I like! If I had the chance to pass back, I would surely bring him a gift or somthing!

Life is so expensive in Korea...food is so spicy even when the waitress says NOT...
Our hotel room is quite decent & clean, with plasma TV, a PC, bathrobes, lil continental breakfast...
Only thing is couldn't find any hotel with TWIN beds...all double beds! read a lot about how locals also participate a lot in the hotel industry because of the lovers' escapade...some are really reputated to be Love Hotels.

SO we could find pretty complete ameneties kits just in case you don't have ANYTHING with you, which is separated in lil bags, with all the needed ( toothbrush, toothpaste, bath SPONGE, razor, hair gel & more) , one named LADY ( with hair elastic, cotton pads & Q-tip..and one called LOVE...and guess what..TWO condoms whoulala =)

Obsessed like a real teenage girl...La belle et la bete!

On my plane ride to Seoul, i was watching a few korean dramas...then a part of the BEASTLY movie when i randomly switched channels...damn It stopped streaming because we were landing already!!!

SO yeah  even if we got back to the hotel Dupper late tonight...i streamed the rest of it on Wifi because I so wanted to pursuit this love story..even my sis went to sleep hahahha


Okay it is 4am in Seoul...Good nights!



 

Festival de la BOUE?!? Insoliteee

I so wanna go to this festival because it's RIGHT this weekend...but my  family is not interested  =.=

BORYEONG, SOUTH KOREA-JULY 16: Tourists take part in the festivities during the 14th Boryeong Mud Festival in Boryeong, South Korea on July 16, 2011. The festival attracts 2.2 million tourists for 10 days mud festival with various events, such as mud wrestling, mud king contest, mud fireworks fantasy and mud sliding around Daecheon swimming beach.