Leaving Jeju for Busan : Bulguk Temple.

On Wed 21 October 2016 we took a domestic flight back to Busan after returning our rented car.

We deaprted Jeju at 12.00 noon KE1994 Korean Air 

Good security at the airport!

comfortable ride

and we arrived Gimhae 12,55 pm.

 we are now waiting for our "meet and greet" chinese speaking but Korean tour guide

We found that we are her only guests and so now we have a personal guide, a van and a driver!!! 

 she has bought us so much food to eat on the van because she is rushing us to cover the sights for today.

 rice wrapped in sweet beancurd skin and below you can see her rummaging in her bags for more food!

 kim bap 

stuffed buns!!!! Too much, really for all of us!

She wasted no time in taking us to this temple Gyeongju Bulguksa 

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Bulguksa Temple (Unesco World Heritage

You can see from the pamphlet how huge the temple complex is and how many places we needed to go to complete the tour of the all the National Treasures of the temple!

 We had to walk up to the temple but we enjoyed our walk because the tree-lined slopes were lovely!

 Also we stopped every so often to take pics of the breathtaking scenery!

 Can you believe such scenes like this?

Finally we reached the temple: built in the 8th Century, it houses 2 pagodas and encompasses 7 national treasures.

This is the biggest picture we could take of the temple, it is really much bigger than this!

" Bulguksa became famous as one of the few surviving examples of Silla architecture. "

This is one of the many ancient house, containing the national Treasures

Miae the tour guide has diligently prepared notes to tell us all about the treasures, but alas, I could understand only half of what she explains, while hubby dear understood none, being fully English educated.

 You can see how ancient the roof tiles are but how solid and lasting too.

Really intricate and ornate detailed eaves of ceilings and roofs

Some of the replicas of the roofs for sale as donation

 After visiting Bulguk Temple, we had to walk down the mountain slopes again 

and the van took us down the rest of the slope to the Seokguram Grotto.

16 February 2017 Vocational Service Awards Nightn

 I had a very successful run as the OC or Organising Chairman (person) for the awards night in my capacity as the Vocational Director. Actually, I had a lot of help!!!! The certificates were procured by the AG (Assistant Governor) all I did was buy the frames, but I did do the coordination, wrote all the scripts and programme and speeches and presented the awards.

This is a group photo of the award recipients and some of our guests for the night.  We as the organisers are seated in front.  The event was covered by a Chinese journalist and it appeared the very next day in a Chinese daily, Sin Chew Jit Poh as seen below:

Er...I can't read so much Chinese, but I did see my name in Chinese! They got me to write it for them the night before.

 3 awards were given out: A certificate of appreciation to Shiok Kopitiam for providing much of the catering for our service projects 

 And the 2 main vocational awards went to the late Rev Tang and his spouse...they founded the House of Joy chain of orphanages and old folks home.

Rev Tang's spouse accepting the award for her husband who won it posthumously.  Tony is my able MC (he's an ex toast master trainer) reading from the script I prepared.

I presented the corporate award to Jimmy who accepted it on behalf of Alan who had gone to Bhutan to attend the RI Conference. Jimmy is damn tall and I am damn short, hahaha!

President Rina presented the main awards.

 We had special food that night (handled by my food committee) and it was a departure from the usual fare.

 Chocs and hors doevre ( don't know how to spell lah) brought by members

 punch by steven

 YUM...Mexican Chicken chop from Shiok Cafe

 Creamy Mushroom vegetarian pasta

 fresh garden salad

 keropok from president's recent trip to Kelantan

 guests for the night

 Steven posing with me and the photog Steve said we are posing like mother and son,hehe!

 Lots of posing...for once I am not the photographer, like I said, I have a lot of help: I have an mc, I have a photographer, a food committee ...unlike my Perkembangan Staff days in MBS where I did EVERYTHING including the food, photos, speeches THE WHOLE DAMN THING!!!

 Even the flower and fruit basket was ordered by Jenny and delivered to the venue. It was a very successful night, eveything went smoothly, and I had a lot of praises for a job well done and organised!!!