24th or 25th??

OH MY~! I WAS REALLY SO MOVED~! Can hardly believe that my one year being older was celebrated and congratulated by so much people!!! And the most important thing is that they are all my beloved friends in Jyvaskla! My days in Jyvaskyla are painted with joy, laughter, and love thanks to my beloved dear friends. They surprised me in the midnight(the point turning to 11/29, at sharp) knocking(belling;;;) on my door!!! And when I opened, there they were! God~ I was truly tooooooo ready in my pajamas with perfect hair, and all the loundary hanging across my room! Really... as I get older, as time passes by, my zeal goes down and my butterflies has been flying away by one by one and it makes me harder to be excited as I used to be in my younger years. Others might say that I looked depressed in some extent for that, however, the very night, when everybody crashed into my place with overflowing love, I felt like I am a 7 or 8 years old girl!!! Thank you!!!

Lost my words with joy...(LOOK! I WAS JUST TOO READY...haha!!!!)

My singing dear roomate~ Being with her, nobody can be depressed!

Moonju & Me in the 2007's last Stammitsch...

ME & Deiana


Doing some martial activities. (Don't beileve!!! You know!!!) Well, I was dancing, but it's so funny that this picture was taken at the moment when I seem to do such YONG KUAN(a typical Chinese fictional, perhaps non-fictional, martial. You can see a picture follwing to check how does it looks like. HAHA).

Birthdays~!!!

Jenny & I & Aure! Yeah~ we are the big girls!

Me & Jenny before starting our shared birthday party in my place~ Yes, we are getting one more year, going up one more step to be mature~ (hope...kk). When I was teen, I always admired being 24... I thought I would be real 'grown-up' at the age, which turned up to be far from true. Now, I dream of being 30. Will then I be a 'grown-up'? Well... nobody knows. People usually become a bit blue when they are talking about getting aged. It's a matter of fact that our physical status will be different from past days, however, I don't think that's a thing to morn. I love being aged. Of course, getting aged with 'grace' is important. Accepting our age and behaving according to the given age with generosity seems to be 'a sensible grown-up' to me. If life is enternal and youth is as well, our life wouldn't be anymore beautiful as ours now. Flowers are beautiful and object to admire since it is mortal... The time at this moment is precious for it will be not there anymore if it passes... so... Carpe diem!!!!

Korean & German food at the same time. Couldn't believe Moonju cut the vegetable for "JJOL noodle" that thin! Wow~ JJOL means in some sense 'shrinking & not cutting off easily'. Some people described it as Korean pasta(spaghetti, perhaps), but it is a lot different frome that~ You've known it after eating that, kkk. Needs quite a effort to chew that~

Thank you, Lisa~!!! Thanks to you, I could get rid of at least 6 worries of my life! That's quite a lot!!! Wow~ I am going to be a real happy, worriless EJ!


Thak you, Selin! I will remember you everytime whenever I wear this~ I am longing summer time to wear this with my white tops!!! It will be great alongside blue beach!!! It's a pity that Turkey is quite far from Korea! Still, be sure! I will visit Turkey and see you in near future! (I really should try hard now to become a teacher soon, so that I could afford my trip to you!)

Yup~ I am sure this will be my number1 precious when I go back Korea and fill it with our sparkling, beautiful memories... thanks.

Thanks for everything!!! I am a lucky girl with you guys here!!! :)

Selin's~!!!

Yesterday(11/21), I went over to one of my cute & kind friend's. She is living in Myllyjarvi(not sure about spelling, again...) in Jyvaskyla and it was, for me, a quite journey to get there on icy road. Actually, I have been Selin's once before in September(or October..) but the air of going there totally changed since then and I could'nt help thinking that time flies.... why are you in so hurry, TIME? Nobody will catch you... can't, I mean.


At last! I've arrived!!! (the poster is on Lisa's door: she's Selin's lovely roomate from France.) It was really interesting that she was fond of Japanese comics(Manga) which I am also fond of. I am in the circle(club in the university) of manga...kk We talked over some characters' name. God! I feel like it has been thousand years from when I drew manga in zeal... My memories are scattering...

Selin.. preparing our Turkish dinner! I helped and learnt how to cook Pilav & typical Turkish cusine made with chicken, pea, onion, tomato :)

Again, Selin... She's a real good cook! She's so tender and sweet~ I think I am a lucky girl since I could meet her and get to know her in the second class of my survival Finnish course! The course was painted with joy thanks to her, really! Truly happy to have her as a friend! (I am worried that it might sound superficial and fake... but it's real, believe.)

Funny cave man on yogurt bucket. From real Turish girl saying that, he isn't a bit looking like a Turkish. From where do you think he come? Mistery...kkk. The yoghurt was indeed nice. It was thicker than any other yoghurt I tried and it tasted almost like cream cheese, but really went well with pilav! Although the product itself is quite good, we worried that the picture may give wrong stereotype to the people buying it that all Turkish men look like the cave man! I hope the company would change the model soon.

Pilav & chicke, pea, tomato, onion dish! Lovely. Lovely. And truly healthy! Well, it was also interesting that there is totally different way to cook rice! We poured hot, boiling water into raw rice and left it about 15 minutes. After removing the water, we sauted the rice with butter(if you prefer to eat healthy, you could use olive oil instead). Then, we pour hot water into it more and put on the small fire about 20minutes or so until there appear holes through the rice. The procecure is different from Korean way and it was really nice, too! I am sure to prepare the same dishes to my family when I get back.

Selin, pumping air bed for me. We thought it would take a thousand year to build it up, but it took about 2hours...(still a long way~ kkk) Well, still, we succeeded and I could sleep in pieace comfortably! Thanks for your favor! And also thanks to Lisa for helping us building up the bed and encouraging use when we almost gave up! haha~ :D

I slept with all the happiness in the world~!!!

sent a parcel to mom & brother

Since I know that it would take a long, long, long time for some parcels to arrive at Seoul, the capital of South Korea, I decided to send some presents for Christmas for my brother & mom. I was having some tough time determining what to send them, becuase it was quite uneasy for me to think about something stand for Finland which it not for eating. Both of my mom and brother prefer practical things than food.

Well.... I already bought some eye glass cases for both of them, but really wanted to present them something special and typical in Finland... So... I ended up buying two cute cups, afterall. I know it's very boring choice, and not funny... still, well, it would be special when those get to Korea safely! (Hope my family would recieve each of them in one piece!!!! Although I wrapped it with air pumped wrappers I am dreadly worried about them...)
This one is for my dear brother, Jung Whan (If you want to call him as the way you guys call me, by the initials, he would be JW...kkk). Actually there is a famous comedian entertainer(He was also once in a popular pop music group...believe or not...) in Korea whose name is identical with him, though he isn't that person for sure!!! In thesedays, my brother is having hard time... searching a right occupation for his aptitude, taste. Cheers! JW! You can make it!

And this is for sure... for my lovely, tender, and soooo nice mom. I miss her too much that I can't even try to say her that I miss her since it could not carry my heart. I would live a perfect life if I can be a mother like mine. Love, Love, Love... That's all I can come up to when I think of her.



I know that you are wondering why there's a book of Japanese writer here. Yeah... well, I didn't send this one for my family. I even don't have the book! However, it is the book what I read quite recently in Korea and which I thought was nice... Actually I like the writer and he's way of writing. Plots of his novels are really unique and makes our world seem to be strange. He has the power the make the reader feel to be a stranger in the world we are living... I felt like breathing some other world when I was reading his novel, and can totally concnetrate on the novel and forget about complicated and somewhat annoying stuff that bugs me. Haruki also have the ability to make real sensational sentences, and I couln't resist enjoying them. OK. Untill now, it was all flattering my one of favorite writer.

Why? Why? Why did I put this book here?

I will answer in a second. Wait.

Well...

Yeah... It is related to Mummin cup I put up there.

I didn't believed it first, but...

Mummin cup appears in the book.

Yes, the character named SAKURA owns one Mummin cup... and here, once again, I can feel that all entities, things are related to one another in this small, small, small, perhaps crapy... world. It's crapy, but I love crapy world.

Our first snow man~!!!

Who is this charming guy??? Yeah.... it's our first snow man! Though the snow was not quite enough to make a big, bluffy, pure white snow man, we worked to make him up! For me, it was almost been 18 years.... (here comes some hint for my age T ^ T ) making a sow man. The snow of today's was easy to stick together and we happen to role a ball to build it's body. Snow is not that light! It's truly heavy when it come to stick together into a bulk! Even rolling on the ground is tough thing to do, for sure! Well, well, Vivi, Jennifer, and I were the ones who made him. Jennifer suggested to make a snowman to me, and without any hesitation, I was happy to join her~ It's rather funny that Jennifer and I were the first people, not others, who wanted to build a snowman because she and I are elders among our group of friends who gather frequently. Some sense, we could be seen childish, BUT it's not true. We are just being pure as children and being energetic! Don't keep stale prejudice on us!

Our snowman smokes.... and if you see him closely, he has red nose! He is drunken as well... wow, what a real mannish snowman he is!

Jennifer and Vivi working on...

I and Vivi and our cute man! Though he is small, he is so charming~!!!

Jennifer and Jukko Passanen... (not sure about spellings, again.) Jenny gave our man Finnish name~ Jukko... kkkk.

After finishing our job, we acknowledged that Jukko's eyes are looking somewhat sad. He's eyes are filled with some melancholiness... so Vivi tried to cheer him up with her warm hug~! With Vivi, our Jukko really looks alive with his emotion!

Snow, snow, snow

사랑 <--- It's "love" in Korean. We read it 'SA RANG'. It's a noun. If you want to say "I love you", just add 'HE' at the end. SA RANG HE... We should try to say this phrase a lot to people around us. Some shy lovers or family members say that saying this too much fades the feeling it must carry, though I believe the opposite way. "SA RANG HE" , "SA RANG HE", "SA RANG HE"~ Let's not spare this good heart-warming phrase.

... a bike trail & foot prints on fair snow.

Snow. Seeing snow in the middle of November is quite striking experience for me. Usually, I didn't like snow when I was living in the huge city, Seoul, for it gets dirty too easily and the color of snow is always turns to filthy grey soon. But, here, in Finland, there is another story!!! Pure, white, crispy snow exist! Yeah... good to see it.

Crepe from Bretagne~!!!

Are you familiar with the region on the map and the flag which stands for it? Well~! It's Vivi's home region named Bretagne! The region famous for it's Crepe(pencake)!!! Vivi's boyfriend brought some buckwheat flour for Vivi, and everyone could enjoy Vivi's incredible, delicious, truly tempting pencake! I think I am real forunate girl~ It was of course great pleasure to taste real good pencakes of Vivi's~ I am moved... haha~

I heard that dark colored flour made from buckwheat have quite various darkness in terms of its extent. I was puzzled to see dark wheat, but now, after looking up what is 'buckwheat' in the net, I was surprised that it's rather familiar ingredient for Koreans, too. Actually, Koreans usually make noodles out of buckwheat. It's color is dark brownish grey and we usually prepare cold noodles with it which goes along with soy-sauce-based soup. Yeah... it sounds it cannot provoke appetite that much, still, it's nice when we try it in the summer. I think the dish is also familiar to Japanese(not sure where the dish originated from..kkk). HOWEVER! The pencake or crepe from Bretagne was honestly soooooooooooooooooo GREAT! I think I will miss it too much and try to make it by my own self some other times. I love how it is chewed in the mouth and gives some crispy sensation with it's thin layers as well as chewy cheese in it! The picture over this is my first pencake filled with egg & cheese. Simply I LOVED it!

This one is light colored pencake which said to go along with sweet filling. I just put some honey on it! I was impressed how thin the pencake was! In Korea, when I think about pencakes, I can only come up to some American pencakes which is real thick to compare to French's and only to be sweet with some grizzy sense... I definitely prefer French pencake! It's tastes more healthy for me(though it may not be that much true...kkk) and gives cozy sense. The thiness of the pencake was the point which I was impressed with! Vivi! You've really worked for it! I know how it is hard to bake thin wheat sheets because there is also some Korean food which uses very very very thin wheat sheets~ (Koreans put 8kinds of fillings for it. It is one kind of cuisine that was only prepared in royal family long time ago. Usually the fillings were beef, carrot, cucumber, eggs in strips: devided to white & yellow, mushrooms... some other vegetables...) We also can use very very thin layers of white radish seasond with sweet veniar instead of thin layers of wheat sheets. Following is the dish I mentioned. It nees much effort to prepare this one... So, I can easily imagine how Vivi struggled in the kitchen standing in front of fire! Thank you Vivi!

HAPPY...!