Bus is an important public transportation of human society, we can find bus anywhere that travels up to the farthest destination of a certain country.  Well it’s been a long time since I took  bus and went to Seoul the last time was on February when I am supposed to meet my cousin in Seoul.  The photo below was taken that day, while I am waiting for the bus going to our city, I went out the terminal and took few photos of everything including this pink bus which is very lucky to be part of Pink Fridays.

This is an Express bus owned by  Dongbu Express begin its operation on July 5, 1972 with Seoul-Yongin route.  As what I have read Dongbu Express currently operates 200 units of express buses, which are equipped with the latest facilities such as satellite TV and high quality seats in 30 routes with Youngdong region as their basis of operation in provision of advanced passenger transportation service. The company received Traffic Culture Award given by the Korea Broadcast Services and  been recognized as the safest and friendly express bus services through designation of 1st ranking company in the survey of Korea Industry Customer Satisfaction conducted by the Korea Management Association.

The drivers are really friendly when the bus left and arrived to its destination the driver will just stand near the doorway and greet all the passenger.

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If you already stumbled to my food blog you already know what happened yesterday, what happened to my food. As I am not feeling well and not in the mood to go the gym I didn’t went out  yesterday so Pookie bear went alone, he didn’t forced me to go which is surprising because we always have a tug of war every time I feel lazy going to the gym, well maybe he knew his mistakes especially I told him I have no strength and I feel weak because I have not eaten yes as my supposed to be viand was thrown by someone.

Last night he asked how could I forgive him, I replied when my empty stomach is full. Then he asked me again what do I want to eat except for adobo which is already in the pail. So I ordered cup of coffee and four peanut butter sandwich, he asked me again if it is okay if he makes it five(5) as the left buns are five pieces. So I said yes, while he is making my order. I keep nagging him to make it faster, hurry, quick and etc., as I am hungry, you know playing like I am the boss and he is my servant. Lol! He told me to wait and my food will be ready if it is ready.

When he is done with my coffee he brought it to me but as I am busy online I neglect it for a second then he return it in the kitchen he said he don’t want to play because he can’t bend (lower back pain), poor sweetie so I went to the kitchen to get the coffee and sandwich. While blogging I am munching the sandwich and sipping my coffee,  when I finished eating he asked me if I forgive him already, I replied you have to wait for a second I need to chew the remaining particles on my mouth and when I done I said yes and we are now peace. He asked me after wards, did you enjoy your expired bread? LOL

The other night I have blogged about the fun we had with our new electric grill, we bought two kinds of marinated meat, Pookie bear was the one who put the meat in the electric grill and I am the one who turn it to be cook.

Above is Galbi,  a marinated beef short ribs  in a ganjang-based sauce (Korean soy sauce). In the Korean language, galbi literally means “rib” and can often indicate uncooked ribs. In addition, the dish’s full name is galbi gui, although “gui” (grilling) is commonly omitted to refer to it.

Above is Dweji bulgogi  or Spicy pork bulgogi it is also a popular Korean barbecue dish and it is quite different from beef bulgogi because it is marinated is gochugang (Korean chili powder) and not in soy sauce.

Well finally our toilet was fixed, a real plumber came and used a toilet auger to removed the stuck tooth brush, I did not see it though because I run to the nearest bank here in our place to withdraw if ever we need more money to pay the plumber. When I returned home the plumber’s truck is not in the front of the apartment anymore, so I when I went inside our apartment someone is having  a cool time surfing the net without cleaning or removing the said toothbrush in the bathroom floor. Pookie bear’s co-teacher was the one who called the plumber, I think she look online for a plumber. The guy who first came here its not really  a real plumber but a tile installer, I mean his business is tiles. He is a friend of our landlord so they gave him the business and maybe he is the one who installed tiles in this apartment. Anyway Pookie bear’s co teacher also got the money we payed to the first guy, so what I owed to Pookie bear is 2 weeks and half of my allowance. I made a bargain with him if it is fine just to make it two weeks and he said yes, but I make a deal again what if he just deduct half  in on my allowance every week.  Then he replied its fine, 5 weeks.

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When he returned to school for his next class, I went to the bank to pay bills and I could say I can pay my bills alone now using the machine, because the last time I pay I have to ask the woman at my back what’s next by pointing the screen to her. So on next month I am not going to disturb the guy in the information counter. If you don’t yet I am very happy that I finally established a communication my aunt and cousins in Germany,  my cousins are already teenager except for the younger who is eight years old if I am not mistaken. I just saw them on pic when they are a toddler and I am in Elementary., and since then we have no communication with them.So as I feel happy and relieved I decided to enjoy  and treat myself by shopping some small stuff for me. Love my new little  teddy bear..hehe

Well it seems our toilet will be plugged for a long time or maybe forever after I accidentally dropped my toothbrush in it, the plumber insist its fine and he don’t think the toilet needs to be open, lol. He also said we have two choices, to get the money back from him but we have to go to their office which is we both don’t know where is it, or he is going to return in our apartment the next time the toilet is plugged. So does it mean he is going to come here everyday after we sit in our throne? Anyway what he didn’t understand is the toothbrush needs to be removed in the toilet, because it is stuck in the curve pipe.

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So my husband get annoyed not just to me but to the plumber and to his co-teacher as well. Right now he is contacting Dad asking if he can come here in Korea if he will shoulder his air fare just  to unplugged the toilet here, I don’t know if he is serious but that’s what I read  on what he is typing right now, nosy me. I wonder how much does it cost, from Canada to Korea so might not be serious because if he is I am going to be in a shit hole. I might not have allowance for five years or more considering the amount of allowance I received from him weekly, which is just for chocolate treats. So sad!

So right now we need  a plumber, a real plumber! Haist if we are just in Philippines, any person can do this as long as you are willing to pay. It is cheap too $6-7 a day., so I suggest to Pookie bear maybe we don’t need a plumber, a laborer will do because my father can also fixed our plugged toilet and he is not a plumber.

As of four o’clock in the afternoon there is a snow fall here in our place, I’ve been waiting for it because there’s already snow fall in Seoul but here it is still sunny. Then as I am working in front of my computer our room turns dark so I turn on the light and decided to cook rice , lunch  as well and when  I peep  in our window Yay, it is snowing. The excited me went out with my shorts and thin shirt without a slippers. Lol,  I didn’t even take time to get my slippers in the cabinet because I was such in a hurry. Click..click..click..then my feet cannot take the cold anymore I went inside and look for my sweater and grab my slippers in the cabinet. Click..click..again and I decided to shot a photo of me in the middle of the snow forget about the noodles I am boiling I’m busy on what I am doing.

Then returned again inside our apartment and cracked some eggs, Pookie bear will not be happy if he found out I did not cook his meal. After it, went outside again, now wearing a winter jacket and shoes. I left the noodles in the pot, the two locals working on the next apartment look at me maybe wondering if it is my first time to see snow. Lol!

Just so lucky that this metal thing is in front of our apartment so I was able to set the timer of my camera and take photo of myself. Hehe..when I returned inside our apartment the noodles for my pancit canton was not good to eat anymore, it is too sticky and wet. Now this is how it looks like after the snow. Scroll down..

Just kidding, this is how it looks like in Canada right now. My mother-in law send this pic to Pookie bear and it was send to me after wards.  My MIL says classes were postponed because some of the roads are not working, blocked by snow. As I look at the above photo it feels like your are living in an Igloo because snow is more than half of your house. This is just a two days snow how much more one week?

Experimenting in cooking is already part of my life, my mother and I used to experiment food way back in Philippines. What I mean we just cook or sauted any vegetables we harvest from our small back yard garden or sometimes from grandmother’s  vegetable garden.

Last night I have cooked a pork with spaghetti sauce. There’s a left over spaghetti sauce from the jar so I used it as my main ingredients. You know here in Korea there’s a lot of  ready spaghetti sauce for sale  which you don’t need to cook anymore just pour it in the top of hot dumplings or pasta and eating time already.

Anyway this is how I cooked it , first I sauteed onions and the meat the I waited until the meat turns a little brown then I seasoned it with black pepper and salt, after it I pour the small jar of spaghetti sauce which has water already so all the spaghetti sauce will be used then I let it cooked until its done. Presto after it I have eaten my dinner, my husband says it tasted good. Wonder what is the name of this menu.

We woke up very early today, we’ve went to postal office to mail the sweet box to the Philippines. Pookie bear has no choice but to come with me and carry the box even he is a little mad (I supposed to me) for disturbing him. He didn’t wait anymore he just left after “delivering the box”.

When I came home he is all relax playing his farmville (lol), after few minutes we returned to sleep but I can’t go back to sleep my stomach is disturbing me, asking for food. After a hour or two, time to wake up again because Pookie bear will go to work and that was the time our doorbell rang, when I open it is the mail man. He handed a small gadget to me to sign before getting the box in his bike, it is a box from my mother-in law address to Pookie bear. So when I came inside the house I asked him if I can open his box (lol). He said no, its for him. He tease me after wards that I am going to feel crazy waiting for him to open his box, he carefully hand it and put in the corner and says it is his Christmas gift and he is going to put it on his imaginary Christmas tree ( as you can see the box standing like one). He added maybe he will open it on Christmas day too just to tease me more. Anyway I already know what’s inside just by shaking it, (LOL) my parents-inlaw already send me us some present for Christmas.

As of now I am patiently waiting for him to open the box, he is at work at this time.

Christmas is almost here, last weekend I have asked Pookie bear if what is our Christmas gifts to his family and to my family. I remind him what he told me a year ago that we are not going to send gifts every occasion but during holiday season only. He told me what about he will shouldered the postal fee of the things I have collected. So I agree, on Monday I went to the nearest postal office to buy a box. I got the big box ( number 5), while arranging the stuff I am going to send I remember what pookie bear has said he don’t like a big box, so I returned to the postal office to buy another box the small one (number 4). When he came home he was surprised to see two boxes so I told  him just one, the small one. So he asked me how much is it, so I looked into the price list the the postal office had given to me, when I said the price. Believe it or not, he said No. Lol, he was not going to pay that amount just for postal fee. So I told him that he said yes last weekend, he said he thought it is just half of the price, so I replied to him that he knows how many kilos my stuffs are.

So what happened? No choice so I just told him that he is going to pay the half and the half price is mine. Asking me where am I going to get the money for it, well its from the allowance he is giving me weekly $8.64 /week ah yeah just last week I have an allowance increase $12.96 per week already. Lol!  So I think the box will stay here in our apartment after Christmas because I need to buy chocolates too because my mother  and sister has a sweet tooth.

Anyway what’s inside my box why it weighs so much, well just shampoo I bought from my allowance when they are on sale. Big bottles of shampoo.

A doorbell ring wake me up this morning,it was in the second time ring when it came into my senses and spoke to hubby, “Sweetie its your delivery” (referring to the package he is waiting from my mother-in-law ) I think he is also not aware at first what’s the doorbell ring all about, he immediately jump out of the bed. The doorbell ring four times, when hubby is already right onto the door we heard the deliveryman footsteps walking away and a sound of his motor vehicle. Hubby was a little pissed off but he said maybe the guy will return this afternoon as he is going to bed again. He asked why I did not got off the bed, How would I say I already had a phobia when the doorbell rings? I had a phobia opening the door, afraid that the person’s outside is the bible tamper, or another like them. Weird!

This is the story why. It was just yesterday when I heard a knocking, banging sound at the door adjacent to us. Few minutes later our doorbell rings, I immediately opened the door thinking it is the deliveryman we are waiting there is an intercom but I am not using it because even I did we cannot understand each other.  In to my surprise it was two ladies, we didn’t understand each other. very well  I told them No Hangul, English Yes. The first lady knows a little English though, Anyway I want to close the door but I sense hey don’t want yet to leave. The first lady asking for something, she said mool. As far as I know mool means water in English. So I asked her, water? She told me she want a drink by showing an act of drinking something, so I poured cold glass of water for her I did not close the  spring door  while doing it because the second lady is holding it and I think it is disrespect. Well to  my surprise they are already on my back, because our kitchen apartment is just in the doorway, they already invited their selves inside. The spring door was already close, so they ask me something if I am alone I said no. Then she asked me about passover, salvation, bible and etc.,

She asked me I had a bible I said Yes, so I look for my bible on our bed but can’t find it either on my bag so I told her it is missing, maybe I left it in Seoul. Surprisingly while I was looking for it I had a hint she want to follow me but I went back in a nick of time bringing my bag and showing them that I can’t find it.  My guess was right she really want to follow me because she was already with her socks, she peeked  inside our room and see my laptop in top of the bed. Then she said something, I immediately got my laptop at the bed of course I think it is already disrespect if they want to sit on our bed, so she put it on the floor  on our room of course, anyway our apartment door inside is a sliding door like a Japanese door that just divides the kitchen and room. I manage to find my bible and I have found it on the top corner, she get it and open it and read a lot of phrase  to me. And then she operate my computer without asking if she can used it, anyway I already gave it to her so I think it does not need anymore.

On my observation she is not used with touch pad on the way she manipulate it, her hand is getting and pressing hard on my laptop. Well she showed me some video and me a retarded had also a discussion with her, while the second lady was just a silent company. She showed some video about salvation, passover, mother God, ye it is three videos.  The weird thing about them is they believed that there is Mother God, and we are the children of Mother God. I don’t want to be disrespectful so I just entertain them, and in the end it seems they want to stay more longer so I told them I need to shop my husband will arrived and I have to prepare food which is true that I need to buy eggs . She laughed and say something to the second lady, don’t know but as if I understand what she’s saying in my translations “You just want us to go” Well that’s what I feel because they are almost thirty minutes inside our house, I did not yet ate my breakfast because I just wake up when they knocked and hubby just left. I did not even yet wash my face or brush my teeth, so if my breath stinks like morning dew sorry to them (lol).

They asked me for a phone, I said none and ask them why? They want to make contact with me, they won’t  stop asking home phone? Still none, which is true we really don’t have phone or mobile. So I told them I really need to shop so they asked me too shop, E-mart? I have told them no, not to E-mart just here, beyond the vicinity. I also told them I have to eat lunch, then they asked me to come with them in their church and have a lunch. I said again no, my husband will arrived and I have to cook lunch for him then I stand maybe she know I am not interested anymore to talk with them then she asked for a comfort room, so she went and I return the laptop in the bed.

Well no more question that’s mean goodbye but before they leave they asked me if they can return tomorrow here. I said No, a big big no and say bye. Hubby will hate me for letting strangers get inside our apartment. So while they are on our door I am in between thoughts, grab my jacket or close our door for them. Well I grab my jacket and run through the door, I am going to shop so they will know I am not  just making an excuse a while ago.

I saw them walking in front of me and of course they saw me I just bow my head to say bye once again, we parted ways in an intersection. In my naked view I saw them in one corner, waiting for taxi.

When hubby arrived I told him what happened he was a little bit worried, he asked why I let them in. They might looking around our things, and maybe they see our laptops. That was the time a light blinked on my mind, I easily trusted them what if hubby was right? I told him she asked for water, and to his dismay I told him she used my laptop too. So when we went to gym last night, he keeps teasing me. I am sure our laptops we’re not there anymore because your little friends just broke up inside our apartment. Luckily they didn’t, maybe they are really bible tampers.

That’s the reason why I had phobia when our doorbell rings and opening our door because that was not just a first time it happened it was second time here. The first time the lady just gave me a pamphlet, it also happened many times in Seoul. I had this phobia since in Seoul, the only difference we don’t had doorbell over there, so they just knocked. They also keep insisting me to come with them in their church, asking some question. Let me talk to someone on their phone who is fluent in English. And you know in Seoul sometimes I heard someone want to get in our apartment by trying to open the door knob, sometimes the way they knocked as if it is emergency. That’s why I am too thankful when we leaved our old apartment, people thought it is the main door of the apartment because of the stairs , we are on third floor first door that even delivery man and police will knock on our door.I am hoping apartment here in Korea has a peeping hole.  The only thing I am thankful our door here in our new apartment is secured, you cannot open it unless you know the code that only I and my husband know. But when that case happened that I already opened the door, I am dead if the person  behind the door is a murderer. There’s a CCTV too in this apartment but does our landlord always looking at it? If you’re interested to take a look at their site just visit here

A little information about their ministries, The World Mission Society Church of God (Korean: 하나님의교회 세계복음선교협회) was founded by Ahn Sahng-hong in 1964. The church believes that he is the second coming of Christ. Ahn Sahng-Hong was baptized in 1948 and died in 1985 and the current leader of the church is Zang Gil-Jah, known in the church as “the Heavenly Mother”,and the General Pastor is Kim Joo-Cheol. About 70 percent of followers are women and Korean Americans are increasingly found among the new adherents. Its headquarters are located in Bundang, Sungnam City, Kyunggi Province, roughly an hour away from Seoul.

The church believes that Zang Gil-Jah is “God the Mother” (who they believe is referred to in the Bible as the New Jerusalem Mother) and that Ahn Sahng-Hong is God the Father. The church regards the earthly family system as a copy and shadow of the heavenly family system, consisting of a Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, and the spiritual brothers and sisters (humans)