Snowboarding

11. Columbiana

12. 수상한 고객들 - I really liked this one :)

I went snowboarding the past weekend. After my traumatic accident in 2006, I never wanted to attempt to carve, for I was fine with leafing down the mountain a couple times. Thanks to my lovely husband and JHS, I'm slowly grasping the idea of it :) 

맛집 Part I

I'm going to make a list of places, mostly restaurants and cafes, to take my family and friends when they visit ^^  The only problem is I've gone to a lot, and by "a lot" I mean seriously countless, places but I really don't remember the names. Ugh, why!! Anyhow:

1. 차돌집-- Itaewon (best 차돌박이)
2.  Passion 5 -- Itaewon  (bakery, dessert cafe, brunch); the it-place of Itaewon currently
3.  Miel -- Chungdahm-dong (cafe); has been my favorite cafe especially when my husband and I were dating
4. 청담면옥 -- Chungdahm-dong; pretty good 갈비찜 and 냉면 but I don't quite remember if they had 떡 in the 갈비탕 which is a minus. EDIT: They do now and they changed the name.
5. 홍석천 마이타이-- Itaewon; Thai restaurant that is always packed.
6. 문타로 -- Itaewon; good sashimi's and kabobs and 짬뽕; I never entered without standing in line for at least ten minutes.
7. Between -- Itaewon; more hip than tasty
8. 대도식당 -- Samsung-dong; this is a franchise but boasts a history of over 50 years. 한우등심 and after they mix rice and 깍두기 and it is really a unique after-gogi meal for the palette.
9. Dose Coses (sp?) - Hannamdong; Excellent brick oven pizza and it is always full during lunch and dinner times.
10. 청담안 -- Chungdahm-dong; This place is actually a 술집 and very pricey, but they have excellent appetizers. All their food is bombizees :)
11. 무등산 -- Chungdahm-dong; Bomb meat but very pricey. They give seaweed to wrap your meat instead of lettuce and 깻입, but you can ask for it. Supposedly a lot of celebrities go here but the only celebrity, for lack of better word, is .... omg! I totally forgot his name right now! It's the dude from 우결 with 서인영... the hip hop 교포 who got caught for marijuana.
12. Banana Grill -- Hannam-dong; Pretty good burgers and sandwiches near my house. I recommend the Philly's sandwich. YUM.  EDIT: I'm sick of their bread. It's just like the wheat bread from Subway.
13. 라우라우-- Chungdahm-dong; You must make reservations here but best 월남쌈
14. ONL --  Chungdahm-dong (straight into the alley of Butterfingers) Excellent food and ambience
15. The Flying Pan-- (Garosugil and Itaewon) Good for brunch. Their chicken sandwich is YUM :)

보름날

I've been so sick the past couple days that we wasted our weekend suffering and watching garbage "Spartacus." (It is so sexually explicit that I can't take it. I feel disgusting afterwards) Anyhow, we did manage to go to church and then to his family's house to celebrate 보름날, which means the 15th day of the lunar year. It is actually tomorrow but because it is Sunday, we decided today would be best. On this day, we're supposed to eat 나물 and 오곡밥 as a sign of replenishing our health for the next year. (오곡밥 is rice with five different types of beans) The 나물 and 오곡밥 are supposed to provide nutrition to recover from the harsh season of winter.  This year, however, winter has been especially brutal as it is still freezing. My mother-in-law made 9 different types of 나물, 오곡밥, and 감자탕.  It was yummers :9

This is a picture of the 나물 that she packed for us.. Yum~

Disney Merriment

credits: polyvore.com and Donte as seen on the watermark

Disney has never looked so good with their all star cast in the covers of Vogue. I love love love this picture. Ariel has always been my favorite. In my childhood, I would swim with legs crossed at the ankles and pretend I was her. I also thought Prince Eric was the most handsome of them all. :) Check out Belle! She is fierce!!

Housewarming

Oh have I neglected you once again. Ugh.. so sorry ㅠㅠ. Anyways, this past weekend, I did a housewarming party with all of his aunts. We already did a housewarming party with all of my relatives actually before we got married so we figured it was their turn. I prepared 무쌈, 고기, 낚지복음, 미역국, and salad. My mother-in-law who came three hours before to help me brought a whole buffet of food. I literally did maybe 10% of the entire menu. It was a party of 13 people including ourselves. I think my 시어머니 felt very proud as the relatives complimented me for arranging such a gathering. Of course they knew I didn't prepare most of it, but I did play the part with the 압치마 and the 겸손한 며느리 attitude. Anyways, doing good to the in-laws can be rewarding--Why do I say that? Because you don't know how much happiness you bring them with a simple phone call, let alone a housewarming party with the mother-in-laws siblings and spouses who are, by the way, much older than my mother-in-law, and are grandmothers and grandfathers themselves. Especially because in my husband's family, there are no girls, I feel like they treat me so well.  Anyway, we feasted. And we feasted well.

On another note:

10. Just Go With It: Finally on On-Demand. Oh by the way, "On-Demand" is a monthly based option that is added on you cable bill. It has a list of movies that you can watch whenever you want, albeit, limited in selection of course.  Indeed the movie is a stupid featherweight but it takes you away to Hawaii. I know Hawaii is so ordinary but I'll always love it there. It is simple and polar opposite to a product done by a mastermind filmmaker, but such are my guilty pleasures. A similar type being Mean Girls and such. ㅋ

credits: teaser-trailer.com

I miss my family a lot. I miss being home home. Skyping with them only makes me want to go there more, not to mention sunny Cali winter weather. Seoul is so cold these days. News reports say that it reached an all-time low in 55 years in the month of February. Went down to -24 degrees Celsius. The b****, or the inevitable winters of Korea, is here to stay.