this was my second last day in this wonderful city that i've really grown to love, and i was going to take the day to do nothing, absolutely nothing.
i had only one thing on my agenda tonight and that was to meet YW for dinner, but that would only be in the evening after 6pm and so till then i would be free. so i decided i would leisurely pack mu stuff up and get all my luggage ready for tomorrow's flight back home. the simple things needed to be done today, and a cup of warm coffee was my faithful companion. and once it was all done and the evening had arrived, i was on my way to meet her.
hello leng lui! time to shik fan and yum cha!
and so we went for dinner somewhere nearby the hongik university area, and spoke about how much fun its been since i got here. of course i told her how much i appreciated her company and the effort she took to meet up despite her hectic work schedule, and even though MJ Kim was supposed to join us tonight but she couldn't, i was really glad that YW came and had one last kimchi dish with me before i headed home tomorrow.
it seemed like the perfect ending.
once dinner was done, we walked about for a while in this area, and pretty soon i was told that this university area is kinda like a nexus of pop culture and fun activity among the youth of the city. it was one of those happening places with bars and pubs, clubs and cafes situated near where students live and study, and so this area couldn't help but become the hotspot that it was today, and of course supplemented with rows and rows and rows of retail development. after a while i started feeling that this place was familiar somewhat and then it hit me, that i had been here before about a day or two before i left for shanghai, where i met those young american teachers and had a blast that night. so i had good fun then, and was having good fun now.
all part of the game.
commercialism and its insidious tentacles has clearly taken root and spread out here, in order to take advantage of the young's' reckless purchasing impulses, evident by numerous promotional activities like this one above, all trying to incite us to buy while thinking we're having a good time. i'm not being cynical or even critical, but i'm simply stating down observations i see as i go along.
but i cant deny that people were having fun, and sometimes that's all what people want. including yours truly.
once we had finished walking about, even making a joke on how we should buy shampoo so i can wash my beard at the same time i wash my hair (!) , i decided to ask her to go for nice cup of coffee, sheepish smiling as i was inviting her. as soon as she agreed, we happen to coincidentally pass by a coffee establishment that got YW kinda excited when she glanced initially.
it seems that this cosy place was used as a backdrop for some popular korean teenage soap opera and she brought me in to enjoy the ambiance of the night while she told me what the story was all about. i listened, of course.
it wasn't a bad place, but as usual, the companionship is all that really matters. coffee was simply a secondary concern, and after a while of indulging in one of life's simpler pleasures, and in this case tiramisu and caffeine, we were getting ready to leave.
as soon as we step out a of this famous cafe, little bit of spontaneous humour emerged in our view, completely out of nowhere. as we looked up, i just became speechless at what i saw and both of us, started chuckling in dumfounded delight.
i don't quite know what that means, but hey, it certainly did tickle our funnybones!
and after a few hours of dialogue, dinner and dessert, we finally said goodbye to each other. it was an absolute joy to meet her one last time and i told lets catch up once she gets home for CNY in 2011.
till then ... choi kin, leng lui!
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