Mexican Food, Norebang and Sci Fi Flicks....

Last weekend it was a friends birthday and he planned a weekend of fun stuff in Seoul. We started out by seeing "The Incredible Shrinking Man" on the big screen at the Seoul Family Film Festival which was amazing. I had seen it on DVD before and found it really compelling so it was even better on the big screen.

We followed up the film with lunch at a restaurant called "South of the Boarder"the food was amazing, it was the first Mexican food we have had in Korea and it was well worth the wait! They even made the guacamole at our table.

The original plan had been to go and play mini putt after lunch, however, it was a really wet day so we couldn't play. Instead we ended up going to play Norebang (like Karoke) which was great. We went to a "luxery" Norebang and had free ice cream and spent a raining afternoon in what looked like someone's living room. We got to sing western songs but none of the videos matched - instead they played random Korean music video's with the western songs.

We finished up the night with a few drinks at a "London Irish Pub" - yes that's right a London Irish Pub, it also had 1950's style American memoribilia on the wall which made matters more confusing and because it was Halloween night they has some interesting decorations up to celebrate - "Have a sexy Halloween"?

Care Package from Carolyn

This week I recieved a care package from my friend Carolyn which was just awesome and also very timely as it's just starting to get cold. It's really milo weather!

Autumn in Uijeongbu

So it's now Autumn in South Korea and it's getting really cold but it's so pretty.

Mmmm....nothing like some Guts

New Hoodie

Today my new hoodie arrived from one of my favourite websites, Kreepsville 666 and look who packaged it all up - Erika Zombie!

Hello Kitty Cuteness

Over the weekend it was a friends birthday, he's a huge Hello Kitty fan so I made him a couple of Hello Kitty soaps and I packed them in this cute Hello Kitty packaging.

Halloween Swap - Day 7

On day 7 of the halloween swap I recieved an amazing variety of stuff including a shrine kit which I have been wanting forever, also a Texas Chainsaw Masscre inspired framed photograph, some day of the dead patches and some blank skull notebooks.
On day 7, I made my partner 7 patches using sublime stitching designs - although somehow I managed to forget to take a photo of one of the patches - Do'h!

Migrant Festival

Last Sunday Rich and I stumbled upon a Migrant festival at the park near our apartment, it was a pretty huge day with music and stalls.

Halloween Swap - Day 8

On the 8th day of Halloween my partner gave to me all sorts of jewellery and accessories! It all came in a very cute red box - the package included a ring, brooch, earrings, bracelet necklace and hairclips.



I also recieved a little mouse for our apartment, here he is in his new home.

For the 8th day I made my partner some fridge magnets which say, of course "I love Zombies" I made the magnets with some beado's before I left New Zealand and I think they came out pretty well.

Puppy Love

Last weekend my friend Valerie went away hiking so we offered to look after her two little dogs - Maxwell and Sadie whilst she was away. The pups were a whole lot of fun even if they were a little crazy at times.

Bulgasari

One of our friends told us about a experiemental music event in Hongdae called Bulgasari so Rich and I decided to check it out on Sunday night. It was a really cool event - it made me feel like I was back in Happy Bar in Wellington again watching some random performances. We saw all sorts of things but the most impressive were the bellydancers accompanied by a piano acordian. The performers were a mix of foriegners and Korean's.

It's a monthly event so I am really looking forward to heading along next month and I will hopefully manage to get a few more photo's then as well.

We even managed to finish the evening with some pretty good mexican food - we avoided the kimchi taco though, some fusion cuisine shouldn't exist!

Dinner in another random Korean restaurant....

On Saturday Rich and I were at a bit of a loose end after going to the Seoul Folk Flea markets so we decided to head out for dinner in Uijeongbu. It's always an adventure eating out in Korea as you never know quite what you will get, this time we decided on a place called "2nd" it has a really amazing interior - although it did look a little bit like a drug dealers den with all the red lights and beaded curtains!

The menu said that it served "ethnic cuisine" and my quesadilla was surprisingly good, I don't think Rich's burrito was quite as good. We also had some lethal soju kiwifruit punch, tasty.

Seoul Folk Flea Market

Halloween Swap - Day 9

On day 9 of the Halloween swap I recieved all sorts of "Day of the Dead"goodness including an amazing candle holder and some bloody candles and some amazing paper cut outs to decorate our apartment.


I also recieved an amazing beaded skull bracelet which must have taken hours of beadweaving to make and is absolutely amazing.

I also recieved a zombie rubber duckie who now lives in our bathroom.

Finally, a really cool zombie image for the walls of our apartment.

Halloween swap - Day 10

For day 11 of my craft swap package I recieved a whole bunch of zombie green goodness - a note pad, two crocheted zombies and a crocheted zombie sheep, three creepy markers, a zombie face candle holder and two zombie candles as well as a whole lot of creepy stickers.

The wored filled with sweet dream - tasty

Halloween Swap - Day 11

Today in my Halloween package I recieved a whole bunch of little pumpkin stuffies - including a zombie pumpkin which is my favourite, they even came with their own little tree. Unfortunatly I didn't take a photo of what I got for my partner for day 11 so I can't post it here - boo!

Pinkest Italian Restaurant Ever!

Last night I organised a girls dinner out with some of my friends here we ended up going to what is possibly the girliest Italian restaurant ever followed up by drinks at Ann Place - so much pink in one night out!