Gangnam

So here's the lowdown on the day out at Gangnam that happened quite some time ago now. The idea of me going there was to get my hair cut, which Jin had kindly booked for me.
Funnily enough the night before this day, was a Friday night, a regular one so me and Tyler headed over to Metro for drinks and pool, now it wasn't turning out to be that big of a night ...... UNTIL... Tyler's friend (Sam) arrived with another friend in tow (Hoony..... yes.... Hoony), then everything went pear-shaped...... more drinking.... then we stumbled out, went to a club for a short while thence to another bar...... MORE drinking. Now in all honesty despite my previous jaunts to the Metro every friday and despite the fact that i stumble a bit on the way home anywhere between 330 and 540 it DOESN'T mean that i drink a lot, but THAT night i did drink quite a lot.
Now of course these kinds of things happen, people meet up with other people and things pretty much get out of hand, to be fair to me tho i still didn't drink that much, but what I did drink hit me pretty hard.

So anyway, the night finishes and i'm pretty much on the verge of collapse by the time it's done so i figure we'll just head back to Tyler's place and i'll just collapse there and sort the next morning out when it happens. Unfortunately things didn't work out that way, because we got to T's place and he found out that........


He had lost his house keys......


So we spent some time pounding on the door and because of our drunken state we also considering climbing along the outside of the 3 storey building and gaining access via an unlocked window...... I being FAR smarter in this state, decided that we should just go back to my place and sleep there.
So we get back to mine and Hoony is dragging along a bag..... which i found out to contain 3 big bottles of beer..... (:S) but i would have none of it, so i let them in , gave them a chair to use as a table, went into my room and just collapsed.....

i woke up feeling pretty shit of course..... but after my hangover cure of fried goods (bacon eggs and later, some spam) and some hot black pu erh tea, we were all feeling much much better.
So Sam drivess me over to the station (in return for my.... amazing culinary prowess) and i meet up with Jin.

So she takes me over to her stylist... salon thingy whatever you call it. and it's an impressive site: and large amount of floor space almost completely dominated in the main by upy downy chairs, large mirrors, and clear but soft white light, making this place seem something that should be up in the clouds bathed by the light of an omniscient power saving light bulb. So in my short couple of minute wait for the stylist to finish with the current person, his assistant comes over and offers me a menu..... for a drink.. .totally free and part of the service at this place and while the drink is being prepared she takes me over and washes my hair (amazingly strong fingers she has :P) before the stylist has a critical look at my hair. He asked who cut my hair and i told him mum did :P and when for when she reads this i'll add that "mum she thought that you did a good job, he compliments you on your steady hands and your obvious skill" so yeah he was... impressed i guess for lack of better words :P

Here's a pic of the drink....


and here's me being pampered (and i use this word correctly here) by the stylist and the strong fingered assistant


after the hair cut (which ended up as me saying to do whatever he thought was good as opposed to what i wanted which was to cut lots of hair off so i wouldn't have to cut again for several weeks.. maybe months...) being super hungry Jin suggested (after some badgering) that we try this Viet Pho place nearby (this was after we went shopping for a new phone for me....) the noodles were a lot thinner than i was used to and i have to say i much much MUCH prefer the Hor Fun that's typical of pho in aussie....



after more walking it was over to a cool lil coffee shop where good expensive coffee could be had, in super nice crockery too i must admit... pics here....

So this is my caramel latte


and this was her .... americano ... i think... can't remember now... but it was something fancy sounding *shrugs*


This is the new york cheesecake :).... SUPER SUPER good

and this is the Chocolate Lava.... which didn't have any 'lava' flowing out of it..... so i must admit not a huge fan of this one...


but anyhoo after... i think... 3-4 cups of coffee my stomach was doing flips and my brain was bouncing off the walls :| seriously amped after that stuff but it was pretty funny in a way :P




so anyway. that was my day out at Gangnam :) will most likely go back to that stylist i think :P


Peace out pplz :)