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Friday, November 17, 2006

Hi guys,

as promise i'll be blogging about the korea trip...
i took about 1600+ pictures on my camera,

i have selected some of the pictures and will present them to u all, in a pictorial daily recount of the Korea Trip.

it told me quite a bit of time to reduce the filesize of the pictures so that i can upload into blogger.
so i'll be doing as much as i can... but i'll be presenting the photos and summary of the trip in a day by day recall.

Day 1 - 07/10/06(Sat night), overnight flight to Korea, arrived in In'cheon Airport,Korea on 08/10/06(sun morning, 7+am). korea is 1hr ahead of singapore.

There wasn't enough seats on the original Asiana flight, 60 of us going, so 10 was re-allocated to take later SQ flight to n fro. so it MAJ Philip Tng, CPT Yusri and this 8 volunteered...

Since it was an overnight flight, we got to see the sunrise on the plane~ ^_^

The reason why we're in Wonju, Korea...

to attend the Wonju Tattoo 2006, International. (*tattoo = in simple terms a military band display) It's a festival lasting a week long, with various performance by bands all over the world. got outdoor performances, indoor concerts, and the main event of the tattoo is the daily evening marching bands display shows.

The Resort that all participating bands are staying... Hyundai Sungwoo Resort~

It's actually a ski resort in winter. this is the view of what's behind the hotel from my room's balcony. it's autumn in korea in october.

we change to our working clothes, had a lunch upon reaching the hotel before going to the tattoo stadium to unpack our cargo and recce the stadium.

in the background is the Wonju Tattoo Stadium. we're rather amused and amazed that they actually built a stadum just for a bi-annual event.

the following is a picture of the cartoon mascot of the SAF Bands. the mascot is dressed in our band's no.1 uniform and holding a bugle.

the tattoo committee got a cartoonist to draw cartoon mascots for all the participating bands.

This is cartoon of the Official Mascot, Tattoori, the mascot of the Wonju Tattoo, tattoori was launched during this year's Wonju Tattoo.

And the 1st band we see after arriving korea(besides us lah~!),
is the R.O.K. Field Army Band...
and the following is their cartoon mascot.

other recce-ing the stadium, we proceed back to the resort.
took my bass bone back to warm-up and oil.
can't wait to play on it. cos we packed it into the cargo 1 week b4 we fly.

photo courtesy from Song Wee

then it's buffet dinner at the Resort's ballroom for the participants...
so far saw the new zealander highland dancers rehearsing at the resort's auditorium.
and the rok field army band at the stadium...

Sin brought his frisbee to korea... so after resting for 1hr past dinner, a group of us met at the hotel lobby to go and play frisbee at the open carpark just in front of the resort's main block.

photo courtesy from Leon

show you guys the resort's room. it's like an apartment. 6 of us room in 1 apartment. there's 1 master bedroom w/ toilet , 2 smaller rooms (1 more toilet beside the hall), 2 of us in 1 bedroom.

only the master bedroom got windows. the other 2 rooms only got 4 walls. the 2 small rooms has 2 thik mattresses on the floor, the M-bedrm got a queen size bed and a mattress on the flr. then cos it's autumn, the hotel shutted down the central air-con system for all the rooms. so quite a few of us pulled our mattress out to the hall and sleep beside the balcony's window. cos at night got cold air blowing in from there.

The Living Room

Master Bedroom

Toilet in Master Bedroom

Toilet in the Living Room

2nd Bedroom - shared by me n ronnie
(but i shiifted my mattress to sleep beside the balcony door n in front of the tv)

the temperature at night is average about 11'c at the resort... but got 1 night... it went down to 4'c.... SHIOK arh~!

3rd Bedroom - shared by khoo n simon.
(simon changed room with gilbert, so gilbert pulled the mattress to sleep in the hall too.)

ok la... this is roughly day 1.... stay tune to the other days......

bye~

Labels: Wonju Tattoo 2006

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