MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH.....

Today I visited Samsung's office canteen and had some hands on... sorry... eyes on korean food. As I am a ovaterian so I had a real tough time with my vegetarian food getting it thorough my alimentary canal.Then something came to my rescue ....It was kept on my table besides me.

KIMCHI

Yes it was called Kimchi. Indians call it in their own dialect as "KOREAN ACHHAR".
Well as my habbit goes the thing which I like I have to know it fully. But But But there were all korean around... oh my my then I have to play my toughest game of dumb shell arts with one of them who knew some english words (THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!)well I don't know how I was successful in asking him "What is this?" He replied "konchi konchu something something". Well I thought now this is gonna be tough. I picked up the bowl and used my hand gestures and asked him. He exhaled a really sighed breath giving a peculiar korean "aahhhhhhhh". I thought it worked. Then he said it is "CABBAGE Kimchi" . I said ok I didn't have the guts to ask him how is it made!!!
Fortunately I spotted an Indian there.... gr8 goodness!!!!!. I asked him and he expalined me that it is the korean achhar. I did a bit more digging and found its recepie. So ladies get ready to prepare kimchi :)
First u take lots of red chilli, garlic, onion and all the Indian spices like salt, cinnamon seeds and stuff and make a paste, then take cabbage cut it into long peices and apply the paste on each peice seperately and put it into a six feet long pot made of porcelain and forget it for 6 months.

Then eat and serve it with only non spicy boiled food "BIMARO KA KHANA" as we say in India. It will taste like AMBROSIA. Really guys try it :)

SPOOFY SPOON and DRACONIAN VEGETABLES

I dont know what is wrong with these spoons, they are elongated as if it is just for holding and not for eating stuff with it. They are a foot long seriously. I don't know wether they wanna play cricket with it or what?
Onion is a size of a Dragons eye and Carrots are size of Dragon's tail and Cucumber is like Dragons hands and Fruits.. oh conventional fruits are tasteless just like Dragons feelings.

Well some fruits are tasty. One I had was something like mango but I don't know the size as I was served chopped.
I dont know what makes me compare this korean Vegetables With Dragon :O ....I guess you know it... :)


VEG or NON VEG ? SORRY GUYS WRONG QUESTION CHICKEN or NON-CHICKEN

Yes the question of vegetarian or non vegetarian is really "Error 404 Page not Found!!!!".

I went to grocery shop and hunted for some vegetarian things voraciously but was unable to guess which one to pick, as on packs of everything it is written in Korean and as I have already told you have to be really good in nursery games to device ways to use your hand gestures to ask a question to a Korean.
So I picked some bread and milk and returned back as even noodles contained chicken
well CHICKEN and NON-CHICKEN "PAGE FOUND AND RENDERED WITH FLYING COLORs" well to cut the long story short I don't think they have left any animal that has not been used to flavor their savory buds. Well one animal i can think of ....."MAN"!!

Culture is different, agreed and accepted, nothing good nothing bad but just DIFFERENT ,but humanity should prevail..............
Well that is what I feel ....will keep updating...Photos arriving soon as TGIF(Thank god its Friday) is approaching ... TC

LESSONS TO LEARN

It has been two days of extraordinary tryst with korean culture.And i must tell you there are several lessons they carve for the world to follow .
SUWON and SAMSUNG
We (me and my seniors) reached a elctronic passway system and i out of inquisitiveness asked about Samsung office.
he politely smiled and said "The Samsung office extend from here to wherever your eyes can see in any direction except backwards."
i was stunned by the gigantic structures and the ubiquitiousness of the campus. and after digging a bit further i found that most of these structures are built by Samsung construction company ."Yaani is jeb ka maal us jeb mein".Great job.
PEOPLE,DISCIPLINE and FITNESS
well beleive it or not i havent seen a single cop on the streets and to my utter astonishment not a single car contains a scratch. the conclusion is people are themselves so much disciplined that they just dont need a police department to govern the movement of the vehicles.
As a cop is rare sight a "paunchy " is also news here .They all are so damn fit that we in india spent hours working out to get this dream figure.I asked some locals (who knew english :))as to how come everybody is so desciplined as well as fit. well for the descipline aspect they attributed it two years of cumpulsary military training after the college and fitness they attributed it commuting by bicycle and running.yes guys these people run literally to office.
"Running in a suit-boot is so not unproffessional for them" .
WATER COOLER
The most hilarious and very unorthodox way of drinking water.
I went to my water cooler in office to quench my thirst but returned like bewildered owl complaining that there is only paid colddrinks booth in the office but no glasses near water booth so that we who came from outside and do not have glass of their own should look like a buffon drinking water with "chullu" and these guys call us form the "land of snake charmers".On seeing by blistering face my indian counterpart in korea accompanied very politely to the water cooler and handed be 5mm long "envelope".Yes guys it was a paper envelop.i was like what is it i dont want to send so small a letter.then he took one in his own hand blew it open and pour a small amount of water and drank it, i was there watching him awestruck.i shooked my head again in dibeleif and tried it myself .then i thought what ingenuity they have shown to minimise wasting water if you pour little u waste little :).Well not very convincing but this is what i was told .
i dont know what more new things this life hasin store for me ... rite now this is it.... soon will be uploading some pics... keep commenting guys....

First Day in "SEOUL(SAA'OL)"

WELCOME TO SUWON
Yes guys, I am in Suwon South Korea and today begins the long journey of three months. I would like every "non Samsung" friend of mine to watch South Korea vicariously through me because
1) It is not a tourist spot where you will ever want to come leaving so many better places on earth.
2) Samsung is the only company to give a chance to see this wonderful archipelago right now enveloped in a blanket of snow.
Well to start with,
ASIANA AIRLINES AND THE "BAKSHAN"
hahaha... this is for those who know the meaning of bakshans and for others kindly guess, these are a typical class of posh Indian Society.
These Asiana guys showed me a tough time dealing with the extra luggage .I have to shed some extra pound of my luggage at the airport, a real painful job I must say and that too twice... eeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeee .
Because of this initial tussle I have to sit apart from my team and this is how I got seated besides a Bakshan. She was not leaving a single moment of flaunting her wealth and frequency of her international travel. For eg"OOO ji HUMARA BETA TOH AUDI CHALA RAHA THA EK DIN POLICE NE PAKAD LIYA TOH MERE HUSBAND NE APNE HI KAMRE SE , (BREAK OF DISCUSSION), HUMARA NAA CHAR STOREY KA GHAR HAI AUR HUM UPAR WALE PE REHTE HAI,HAAN TOH INHONE DEKHA KI PAKAD LIYA HAI, TOH FIR HUM GAYE AUR REQUEST KARI AUR CHUDWAYA." and "MEIN BACHPAN SE HI APNI BETI KO BOLTI THI KI ITNE MAHANGI MAHANGI CHEZEEIN NAA KAHRIDA KAR KABHI BHI CREDIT CARD USEE KARNE SE PEHLE NAHIN SOCHTI HAI WOH AND SHE IS SO VERY RICH.........."and the saga of ostentatious display of wealth continued for one or two hours in the start and then in the end..... hahaha
coming to the services
1) Food was ok types
2) Drinks were free (Sounds so "down-market".But sorry guys first international trip hehhehe)
3) Air-hostess were so typical chinkis ( :( .Well they gave me a trailer of the movie as they knew english. :P)
well most of the time I slept in flight (motion sickness :( ).

SEOUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

After 4 hrs of slumber and 4hrs of listening to the richie riches stories we reached SEOUL(pronounced "SAA'OL") International Airort
Well "Gamsha Ammeen Ida" is the first korean word which I learnt, as goes the expression of air-hostesses I guessed it must mean "Good bye". Well, later I came to know that it meant "Thank You".
Well now here was the real movie, the trailer of which I have seen in the flight.

First thing I noticed about them are they are soo damn white. It is like someone has deliberatly covered them with a paste of milk and forget to peel it off later.. even the non fairer sex is so fair that fairer part of the other countries will hide there face in guilt.....
Well to sum it off I would say a litle photoshop editing is required of their nose and eyes and they can put any Indian men on fire with there lissome and swelte figure and such a fair colour.....
After that we crossed INCHEON bridge and reached SUWON-THE SAMSUNG CITY. First thing i discovered here is Samsung makes auomobiles too :P .
Yes guys yes, this may come to many including me as shock but here Samsung has tried its hand on every spheres of business, from road construction to electronics...from automobile to house buildings.. everything.
After that we were made to stay in a motel which is saving us from the damn chilling weather outside. It is -2 degrees. and this is the highest in last two weeks.
Well motel guys received us all with open arms and yes some of them knew hindi even. Then they handed us the keys with some envelop sort of thing saying it has toothbrush and STUFF ... Well I didn't knew what that stuff meant but after launching into the room and opening it I knew what exactly he meant by STUFF .Well it contained a pair of "Condoms".

The most painful thing you can think of here is calling your parents with a calling card. On one side there is blazing impatience inside you to call them of your safe arrival and other side these monolithic codes which can easily make your finger tips ache. Well but in the end the blazing desire to call them wins and a talk to them pacifies every pain of the body.

Well this is the most vivid descriptions I can think of ... will keep updating.