The end of training

The autumn breeze is coming up now as our time in Korea is about to come to an end. The last remaining few days we had several times of our favorites spaghetti in a shopping complex near the Ori Station. We head to Homeever which is also our favorite shopping mall as it is the nearest complex available at the place we stayed. Seafood spaghetti is a must for us to have every Wednesday every week. Personally I really love the pumpkin flavored source. The only thing which we could have within several kilometers that we know of.
Besides the spaghetti, we went to several places in Seoul to grab some souvenirs for our friends and relatives back in Malaysia. Insadong and Itaewon are two of the best places which we favor over any other places. They are packed with foreigners and tourists looking for special stuff for their special ones. Catch a train / subway on orange line (line 3) and get off at the angguk station to go to Insadong. On the other hand, catch the brown line (line 6) and get off at the Itaewon station. Both places offer quite a lot of souvenirs for you to choose from.
I don't want to buy too much as the weigh of the allowable luggage is only 20kg maximum. I am not willing to pay for it even though I could afford it. Therefore I only purchase the small and lightest souvenirs. Sorry guys for not able to fulfill your expectations if you have any.

Korea outstanding internet speed

Again, I'm showing you how amazing is the internet speed in Korea. Here is an example of the video captured download speed. The file is an Adobe InDesign downloaded from Adobe website. The file size is about 450Mb! Checkout the through put download speed!!!

Coex Shopping Centre - Seoul

The COEX shopping centre is located near the Han River just about 10 minutes from Seoul city centre (I'm refering to Itaewon) by subway. If you were to go there, just take a subway line number 2 which circulate the city centre, get off at the Samseong station. Once you get off, you will easily notice the signboard to COEX and follow all the way there. It's very famous for its underground level shopping center. It's very humongous that you'll be really exhausted if you were to walk all around the shopping complex. It's got the Aquarium as one of the major attraction as well as other standard facilities and amusement centres. It's a great place to spend time with family and friends to enjoy the weekends.

They love reading

These Koreans really love reading. These photos are taken at a bookstore in Coex Shopping Centre in Seoul. Notice that how many people enjoy reading at this bookstore's seating area. It's part of their natural habits - reading - no matter where or when.
This is one more reason why the Koreans are doing very well in their technologies and economics as compared to several other nations which gained independence at about the same era. The more knowledgeable the citizens, the better country they will become. So start reading, always hunger for knowledge and make it part of your culture.


Look at those people. They don't even notice when I take their photos.






Look how crowded and busy a bookstore is!!!







This is another scene of a crowded the bookstore is.

The Last Lecture

This article is dedicated to lecturers and cancer patients. I knew that this article is a bit out of topic from this blog but I'd like to have it posted anyway because I am also a lecturer. This article is very interesting to me. It helps to make me think of what we are, where do we stand and how are we doing in our life.

It's a story about a professor of Carnegie Mellon University who had been diagnosed with cancer in his pancreas. He fought the disease in a very different ways and he wasn't look depress at all in his appearance. Having advised that he had several months to live, he was invited to give a lecture about life title "The Last Lecture" at Carnegie Mellon. Overwhelming response made the full the lecture hall seems like having celebrities appearance. It was a great lecture that people did standing ovation after the end of the lecture. It is a very touching moments for him, his wife, family and the people in the lecture hall.

Professor Randy Pausch was invited and interviewed by the medias and "The Last Lecture" gets wide coverage in the internet. It become so popular that many people felt touched after watching his lecture. The professor died last week which is about 10 months after his "last lecture".

Checkout the following:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/

http://www.thelastlecture.com/