• profileHi, I'm Chiui dela Cruz. I like books, Korean music, Asian languages, cat GIFs, the internet, pasta, lettuce, the smell of coffee and plastic (a.k.a the smell of airplanes), thrift stores, hipster jokes, and coolness.

    "What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal." - Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)



Summer In Abu Dhabi

Last week I kept tweeting about how my father got free guest tickets to Summer In Abu Dhabi. We just went there last Friday. Let me share what happened. Through pictures!

So we went in…

We explored a lot til we got tired of “just exploring”. That’s why we entered “Bee Amazed”…

Bee Amazed is like a mini version of that game that you see on Japanese TV show Takeshi’s Castle. There’s a maze and you have to get out. People outside can see how well you’re doing through this TV outside. Anyway, inside, as we find our way out some “Stingers” with sting us with water guns. Yes, I got wet!

We tried the other booths. They’re just okay activities so I didn’t bother taking pictures. LOL. And then I saw the Cello mascot hugging kids.

If you saw the mascots, that means the show is starting! So we stood in line to watch a 5D interactive movie thingy. Similar to Nick Jr’s Hi5, that show on TV. Uh, it’s really cute. The kids looked very happy… but I’m not a kid. But it was still cool because I was liek, “Ahhh so this is how you entertain kids!”

Of course kids need a picture with the actor.

And of course if I saw Cello hugging other kids, she needs to hug my sister, too.

Then we saw another show which is a environmentalist Marvel comic show… for kids of course. I saw Hulk and Ironman. (But he wasn’t Robert Downey, Jr. What a bummer!)

Hulk’s pants are too loose. Caught you, Hulk.

YAY New Yorker Spiderman came. YES he sounded sooooo much like Tobey Maguire, but then AGAIN of course it wasn’t him. Sheesh)

Then you’ll have to swear to Spiderman that you’ll recycle things and help save the world by throwing your trash at the right places. Took a picture of my sister while saying to pledge. I show this to her whenever she mess things up at the house. *evil laugh*

After that, she kept her promise and did what she was told.

Then some random mascot came along. He was walking by himself so it was such an odd scene. He looked lonely so I took a picture of him with my sister. He did a “peace” sign. Being a Native Arab mascot, it was still such an odd scene…

Then we watched him walk away……….alone… and lonely…

I think I had a lot of fun.




Natural Mud Pack

This is the real thing, yo:

As I was translating one of Super Junior’s tweets, I kinda had a problem with the word “Boryeong”. Didn’t know it was a name. And it had a mud fest! LMAO

Apparently it’s one of the activities they do during summer- aside from eating Chicken soup in ginseng during the three hottest days of Korea. Anyway, about this Mud Festival, let me just quote Wikipedia:

The mud is dug up near Boryeong, trucked to the Daecheon beach area, and dumped at a ‘Mud Experience Land’.  The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics.

Mud pack, anyone? Teehee. This 2010, the festival will take place from July 17–25. :) How cool is that. If only I could go there and celebrate as well! And get mud on my face. Darn it.

PS: My 2nd twitter account: [LINK] (1st account is for k-pop fans like moi @pastafairy, I do translations ;) okay!)

Peace.