A letter from KOREA.

It is Malaysia!

The Unpredictable occurrence

In the early 2004 , about April , My father gave our family news that he might be sent to Malaysia as nominated COO ( Chief operational officer ) to a malaysian governmental company which was related to manufacturing LCD monitor. , but our family , who had never been to overseas before , did consider this news a new challenge.

The First step to Malaysia

After several monthes my father left for Malaysia , I took set my foot to Malaysia for the first time during summer vacation in 2004. Actually , before visiting Malaysia my major thoughts and impressions as to Malaysia were “ undeveloped nation “ , however such stupid stereotype was utterly changed as I could see unknown things staying in Malaysia for 3 weeks ぱ various multicultural backgrounds ( Malay , Chinese , Indian ) , modern civilization ( KLCC ) , dynamic lifestyle and many things unseenable in my mother country and they just shocked me and gave me the answer that seeing the reality is believing the truth. During this short vacation , I did not catch lots of chances to see , feel and experience more , but I could catch one important chance that I might start to live in Malaysia along my father’s business and my studies for being international.

The second step to Malaysia

After dream-like visiting Malaysia for 2 weeks , I could not forget good impressions and memories in Malaysia while studying but that did not matter because I was scheduled to visit Malaysia again in the upcoming Januaryˇˇ

In that January , My father moved to another condominium located in Mon’t Kiara from Shala lam. Wow , Mon’t kiara it is just stunning , beyond my expressions , everything was green! surrounded by many trees and fantastic gardens!. Wowˇ it is totally impossible to forget the first impressions about Mon’t kiaraˇ.. Outside the condominium there were more things to see — Mon’t kiara plaza and Desa Sri hartamas. I never thought that both two places were going to be my place for eating and enjoying ( I met with lovely Char koew teow first time in this place.. I still miss them and how come korean government never let char koew teow into Korea? )
During this second visit all I did is enjoying and traveling around KL thanks to those behavior I started knowing about Kuala Lumpur more and more as well as other places such as Bukit Bintang (for the young ) and Jalan Ampang ( for the Korean ). With these basic life pattern , I went back to korea expecting coming back with a big challenge

The real step to Malaysia

In 2005 24th March. This day may be one of the most historical day for my entire life as I was supposed to go to Kuala Lumpur to begin new life and meet new challenges. After about 7 hrs of flight , I arrived at Malaysia ,third time , but everything looked new with no reason my father welcomed me saying “ Start new life “. Again in Mon’t kiaraˇ I felt just happyˇ living in such placesˇ.never thought to be reality in my life but just came true!
Learning English

After seven days of break I was enrolled in a private(?) english educating centre called ( ESL ) and all I did is eating! Cause it was located nearby KLCC!!! But after class I just went back home directly because peple knew I was a good student far away from the bad
Welcoming 2006 World cup overseas

Well , I never thought I would welcome 2006 World cup in overseas , but I did! In fact I did not join in Korean community only to support the Korean national team but I just enjoyed the world cup itself with several friends smoking Sisha , eating char koew teow , sate and sharing our topicsˇ

Enrolling to British council

After quitting school for personal matters I enrolled myself to British council because , If I stay at home it is very clear that I would be very last without doing anything , so that’s why I enrolled with this thoughts “ To avoid laziness , just go out somewhere every morning “ and I was instructed to attend the classes from August

A Chinese guy

On the first day as you know when a person comes into a new place with no one familiar the person may keep calm until breaking the iceˇ that’s what I did and I could not stand to keep calm long I started to talk to a guy beside defeating my shyness and the guy was meng long and I never thought this guy would be very friendly with me ( how could it be possible ). With repeating talks and talks , both of us established our relationship flexibly.

Laksa Hell

One day I was induced to try Laksa — which damaged my toung seriously as well as my mental health. Actually , I only knew that Laksa existed in the world but did not exactly know about it. Finally , I tried.. but I said “ what kind of taste is it? Did they add some cosmetic substances? “ Oh , god! My toung was dancing here and there I could not accept it , no , wanted to forget the whole situation! That night I talked to myself “ how can the people eat Laksa “ and Laksa still remains mysterious food in my life even so farˇ

Time to seperate

In September the whole family was in a situation to withdraw from Malaysiaˇ We did not know actually that my father’s business was becoming declined as the governmental official did not cooperate with doing corrupted thingsˇI was shocked that I had to leave behind these good memoriesˇbut it was my fateˇ Chances’re always coming but the responsibility of catching it is mineˇ.. Even in airport I talked to Meng long over the phone to the last minuteˇˇˇˇˇ.. On airplane I just slept remembering good memoriesˇ.. but it I was ok I still keep in touch with meng long thanks to internet which is a valuable treasure of modern scienceˇ and I announce that I will visit Malaysia next year to see this Chinese guy!



August 10th, 2007 at 7:36 am