Bye Bye Seoul, Hello Beijing!

After 3 wonderfuly (and oft frustrating) years, I have left Seoul and made another journey to China to start my new home in Beijing.  First off, I was sad to leave as I had made a good circle of friends, had my favourite haunts and found a fabulous hairstylist (yes, these things are important!).  I had a nice nice little group of people who would occassionally order cupcakes from me and had good supply of baking products from Bangsan Market.

Now I am starting fresh in Beijing and I must say, so far it is a far easier place to live as compared to Seoul from a foreigner's perspective.  They have so many 'foreign' supermarkets with excellent stock of imported goods like Jenny Lou's, April Gourmet, BHG Marketplace and Ole to name a few.  Of course you have to pay a premium for the items but so did I in Korea.

Weather is cold though... really cold.  I only remember it being that cold in Korea around January but by November the low temperatures are hitting -8C.  Of course it helps that I speak some Chinese and I hope this will make it easier for me to find the best markets to go to and if I am lucky, I will find a little nook or street somewhere that sells baking and packaging stuff.

Boys Over Flowers... again?!

I have this habit of going to bed late and every once in awhile, I turn on the tv to numb my mind and what did I come across a few nights ago?  Boys Over Flowers, one of my favourite Korean dramas on the Olive channel.  Although this time it was without English subtitles, I can still remember the gist of what was happening so ended up watching it till the wee hours.  It made me want to dig up the show and watch the whole show again. 

I think there are many fans out there who also enjoyed the drama as evidenced by the amount of hits I get on the piano sheets pages.  Sorry guys, I am not going to scan the pages again or write the notes down for you.  The books are already tearing a little at the binding from the first scan.

Gu Jun Pyo!  Yoon Ji Hoo!  Fighting!