The Fun Tour Family




Through this 7 days, I had different special memories with all of them, including my team members and crews, just everyone. One of my biggest gain from this tour is I made lots of friends. They were my companions, friends and family at the same time. Every single of them left beautiful memories in part of my life, here it is, The Fun Tour Family!
*note: all the conversations in this post might not be the exact words but the content is the same


The FUN TOUR
I'll start with my precious Fun Team members.

Wouldn't be FUN without any of you


The Girls
Me ; Erry ; Tiphany
We are 3 girls from different countries, which is me myself from Malaysia, Erry from Indonesia and Tiphany from France. Tiphany and I are closer in age, while Erry...Hahaha.

However, 3 of us have different personalities. Erry is always worry for every activity we took, she has to make sure everything is safe before trying it, that's why she always say her favourite line in the tour- "Is this safe? Are you sure?". For me, it's kinda opposite of Erry, I'm excited of every activities, I love exciting and stimulating activities. But the problem is, they can't see my excitement from my facial expressions, I didn't know I didn't show it on my face, I relaxed my face muscles too much, sorry guys. >_< Tiphany is an active girl, she's the youngest among us but she's one of the most active member. Even she's the maknae (youngest person), she has to take care of Erry, which is elder than both of us.



Erry Andriyati ; Funky Shopping Buddy

Erry was the one that I spent most of my time with. Among all the members, our countries are the nearest to each other. Therefore, we landed on and depart from Korea at almost the same time. I was the very first member that reach Korea for Touch Korea Tour (TKT). When I first reach Incheon Airport, the staffs told me I have to wait for another member- Erry who's from Indonesia and depart to Seoul together. I was quite nervous at the moment, I saw her introduction in buzz Korea website, she mentioned that she's a housewife. I worried that our age difference would make us feel uncomfortable for the whole tour (Erry was much more worry than I was).

Then she reached, when I first saw her, I was thinking, "No way..she's a housewife? Did I read wrongly?". I remember our first conversation:

-skip self introduction part-
Erry: How long was your flight? Mine was around 7 hours.
Me: Around 6 hours. I was so nervous as this is the first time I travel alone, I didn't sleep much. You?
Erry: It's my first time too, I was very nervous and excited, I didn't sleep much. And I cried a lot.
Me: o.O Why?
Erry: I have 2 kids. This is my first time leaving them for such a long time, I miss my kids and husband. Actually I cried a lot more, before I came.
Me: O.O You have 2 KIDS?
Erry: Ya! Do I look like a mom with 2 kids?
Me: Nooo! How old are you? (yes I know I shouldn't ask this in first meeting, but I was out of control)
Erry: Errr...ok, I'm 34. A lot of people said that I don't look like a mom. But why? I'm a mom!
Me: Because you look so young! This is a compliment, you don't like it?
Erry: This is a compliment? Okay.. *laugh*




As we're both blog winners from our country and both of us can speak Bahasa, we have more common topics. Most of the time, whenever we do anything, we have to care about our blog, we have to take a lot of pictures, make sure we know the name of the places and foods. We told our members we have to take their solo pictures, they were like "why?", guys..it's for our blog.

Sometimes, when Erry forget her own language, she will ask me because I know Bahasa. Or when we're chatting, and she couldn't explain her thought, she will face me and speak in Bahasa, expecting me to understand her and explain for her. Hahaha.

Furthermore, she's a Muslim, which is not allowed to consume pork and alcohol. I totally understand that because there's also a lot of Muslims in Malaysia, we're fully alert of Muslims' cultures. Therefore, whenever we see suspicious meats, we will taste it first to check for Erry. For example, while we had our breakfast in Jeju's hotel, she took few sausages but was hesitating whether it's pork or not, so I tasted for her. 
"Basically sausages are made of pork, but I'm not sure about this. Even I'm not sure, BUT TO BE SAFE, DON'T EAT IT. We have plenty of awesome foods to choose. Hahaha."
At times, after we tasted the meat and already sure it's not pork, we will be very excited, "EAT THIS ERRY, THIS BEEF IS SOOO GOOD!"


Her favourite Hyunbin
Erry is the drama queen, she knows almost all Korean dramas. But out of all actors, she loves Hyunbin the most. Erry has very funny reactions, therefore we like to tease her. While we were in Jeju Airport, I saw a big poster of Song Seungheon on the wall. He's also a famous and good looking actor, so I asked Erry,

Me: Erry, do you like that guy?
Erry: Who is him?
Me: His name is Song Seungheon, the main character in "My Princess". (I have to mention a drama to make her clear)
Erry: Oh I don't really like him, he's old!
Me: O.O Wait..he's old?
Erry: Ya! He's around my age. I like younger guys!
Me: (I was thinking, did you just indirectly said that you're old?) Hahaha what about Hyunbin? He's around your age too. (Everyone started to laugh)
Erry: Hyunbin is different! Hyunbin is Hyunbin! (Everyone burst into laughter!! She had no idea what was she talking about.)




I realize Erry does this a lot, even when she's talking. When she's explaining something, her hands are very busy, she talks with the serious face and explains things like a teacher. "Because I'm a blogger, I have to update everything to my blog, my blog friends from Indonesia are waiting for my update... I need WiFi... I'm a mom, I have 2 kids, I miss my kids... What time shall we have the morning call?... Ricky is so nice to us, he's good and humble... IS THIS SAFE?". Imagine she said all those slowly with serious face and the explaining hand moves. Hahaha!


Even she doesn't look like and act like a mom, the truth is she's still a mom, somewhere inside her has the mom sense. I remember when we were in Jeju Island, 5 of us went to the beach side at night. It was very dark that we couldn't see properly the sand and sea. Tim went down to play with the sea water, followed by Dondré, Tiphany and I. But when we were walking down, Erry shouted from far, "Don't do that! It's so dangerous! It's so dark over there!". We told her it's safe, Tim was already down there, but she still insisted to ask us come back, it's too dangerous. Ahh Erry is a mom indeed!




Before I go Korea, my friends told me, it's boring to shop alone, you must have a shopping buddy. Luckily I have Erry with me, she was with me for both Myeongdong shopping time. Since we reached Korea quite early on the first day, Jiyeon brought both of us to Myeongdong street, but we didn't buy much things because we thought that it's still the first day, we shouldn't spend too much money. But on the second last day, we realized we spent too little cash, KTO paid almost everything for us, even gave us ₩50,000 Korea Pass and ₩45,000 Lotte Department cash vouchers. So both of us decided to go Myeongdong again on the last day, and shop like nobody's business!


Also, while we were in Jeju Island, we bought some firecrackers from Family Mart to play at the beach side. But Erry concerned about different thing, she told me, "Michelle! They sell so many snacks here! But I didn't bring my money, let's bring our money and buy a lot of snacks here tomorrow!". Haha. This is my Funky Shopping Buddy- Erry


Tiphany Laurent ; Active Sweet Maknae

Tiphany is 2 years younger than me. Her age is closer to mine among the girls. On the first day in Korea, after I shopped around Myeongdong with Erry for hours, we were so so tired and planned to rest well in hotel although it was only roughly 4pm that time. When I was removing my make-up, suddenly my room phone rang. It was Tiphany.
Tiphany: Hello, is this Michelle?
Me: Yes...Erry?
Tiphany: Hi I'm one of your team member Tiphany.
Me: O..h.. Oh hi nice to meet you!
Tiphany: I just reached Korea. Are you free now? Can I go to your room and greet you guys?
Me: Oh.. sure!


What a surprise! Suddenly she said she's coming to my room, I wasn't ready yet. Immediately I called Erry to join us. I expected to see a Demi Lovato. Lol I didn't tell her but I think that she looks like Demi Lovato in one of her photos, but the real person doesn't look much alike. She reached my room while I was still removing my make-up halfway, I looked messy. Then 3 of us had girls' talk on my bed, yes..on my bed. Tiphany told us that she almost miss the chance to join Fun Tour because she's actually underage in her country. I was like.."Wait..how old are you?". She said she's 17 *omg she looks so mature*, but her birthday is on the last day of our tour, which is 13/6, so if she's not allowed to join the trip, she might contact KTO to change her tour to another tour, since after her birthday she will be 18 years old. But luckily she still made it, and she's here with us as part of Fun Team. This is destiny!


We worked hard together in 1st and 2nd mission. Both of us failed by choosing the wrong Icheon Rice in 1st mission, and coincidentally we randomly chose the same spoon number and arranged in the same team again in 2nd  mission. During the 2nd mission, we said to each other, we must win and get our Mapae together! While I was doing the bow, she squatted beside me, cheered for me and kept telling me I can do it! Same goes to me, we took turn to do the bow, when she was bowing, I was beside her to give her support too. But part of it was because we want our Mapae, hahaha! We end up won the mission because they said we had the best team work! ^^


Tiphany and I realized we don't have much pictures together. Then we found out why, Erry was always between us when we're taking pictures, especially in group photos. Why Erry, why? Hahaha. Naww.. Just kidding. We're friends! :)

We talked a lot with Dondré on bus as she sat beside of me in Jeju bus. We laughed for everything we said, even it's not funny. We talked about K-pop, boyfriends and everything. She said she's envy of her friend because her friend's boyfriend did a romantic birthday surprise for her friend. But Tiphany's boyfriends never make surprise celebration for her.

Tiphany: I hope all my boyfriends can do that for me, but they never did!
*We were so shocked!*
Dondré: Wait..WHAT? ALL your boyfriends?!
Me: HOW MANY boyfriends do you have?!
Tiphany: No!! I had only 2!
Me: 2 at the same time?! (3 of us laughed madly!)
*You like surprises? Ok, I got you! Hehehe.*


There's another funny conversation we had.
Tiphany: *with a super serious face* Is the egg on? (Egg is an internet broadband for us to online)
Dondré: *BURST IN LAUGHTER* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Me: What's going on?
Dondré: She's so serious about the egg! *imitate* Is the egg on?
ALL: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Dondré: *serious face* It's time for The Egg.
Me: *serious face* We need egg, right now.
Maybe this don't sound funny when you read it, but it was super hilarious when it happened. So this is our Egg Joke, serious face is the main point.

Some times we feel weird laughing in the bus, everyone looked sooo tired on bus after whole day schedule, but we can still joke around and laughing non-stop. Hahaha we're so friends!


Tiphany, Dondré and I are handcore K-pop fans, but they're much more better in doing the K-pop dances, I only mastered in some songs that I previously learnt for competitions. Tim likes K-pop too but he's more into Kara and...Goo Hara. While Erry only mastered K-dramas. LOL! I had a really wonderful time having the dance party with them on Jeju yacht, I think we were totally out of control, I don't know what was I doing.. The atmosphere was too happy and high, music controlled us. It was sooooo fun!! Click to view our crazy dance video.


Tiphany has a strong French accent while speaking English, I think I was the first one to point out the missing "H" in her pronunciations. While we were at Gwaneumsa, somehow she got a bird poop on her shoulder, let's call that The Tiphany's Lucky Bird Poop Incident. Ricky somehow hit her head and walked away.
Tiphany: Ouch! Why you 'it my 'ead?
Ricky: O.O? I...eat your what?
Me: She meant "Why did you HIT her HEAD?".


Since that, I believe the members slowly realize her missing "H". But one day I stupidly asked her,
Me: Tiph, can you...actually pronounce "H"? Or is it I heard wrongly?
Tiphany: *with the serious face* Because in French, we don't..............


She was so serious to explain about her "H" problem. sorry Tiph I was just curious, I know I shouldn't ask that. :P


Our hotel rooms were just next to each other in Jeju Haevichi Resort. After we hang out to the beach side, we went back to our own rooms, then we realize if our rooms are next to each other, we share the balcony. So we had our girls' talk at the balcony, looking at the sky and beautiful Jeju sea. We talked about lots of things, mostly about the tour. Both of us felt very very lucky to win and get involve in this big project.


Together we shared about how much efforts we put into our competitions and how we suspected that Touch Korea Tour is not real after we're informed to be the winners. You see, it was really hard to believe that we won a FULLY SPONSORED tour and able to MEET CELEBRITIES. I remember I said, "I still feel like I'm in a dream, everything is so perfect, if this is a dream, please don't wake me up too soon..". She even shared about things in France that I would never know if she didn't tell me. That was a really really close and sweet talk with her. I will never forget that moment. This is my Sweet Maknae- Tiphany

3 of us have 1 big common similarity, which is like Ricky very much! Don't blame us, no matter how close we were with Ricky, we're still girls. Kkk...


The Guys
Dondré ; Me ; Tim
Both of them are from different countries too. Dondré is from America and Tim is from Australia. Tim is few years elder than me while Dondré is same age with me, but look at him, he's sooo tall, even taller than Ricky.

Dondré and Tim are both English speaking people. They have very different personalities. Dondré is a very active and cheerful person, while Tim is very calm and quiet guy. However, they have a common thing which is they're both very funny, in different ways.  Dondré loves to laugh, and his laugh is like a virus, when he laughs for something that is not funny, he will contagiously made us laugh, it just somehow end up to be a funny thing. Tim is like a silent killer, he is quiet all the time but suddenly he will say a short and funny sentence to make us laugh. We call that the Tim Style Joke.


Dondré Gumbs ; Reliable Laugh Mate

Dondré has the closest age with me. He's a very friendly person and easy to get around with. The first time I met him was in out tour bus, on the first day of tour. He started to introduce himself before anyone does, "Hi I'm Dondré!" so I replied "oh..hi I'm Michelle.", then he laughed, "yes I know, we all know!". That was the first time I heard his epic laughter. LOL. At first I felt kinda left out as I was late because of diarrhea (I have to mention this because I sincerely didn't want to be late), so I had an odd seat on bus, and 4 of them already met each other earlier, they already feel comfortable to talk to each other. But Dondré tried to ask me questions and tried to bring me into their conversations. I was really glad about that, thank you Dondré.


I saw his video entry before I went Korea, he did a lot of things in the video but the thing that impressed me the most was his dances and the speaking part. I think he mentioned that he never had any dance lesson, but when you see him dancing, you will not believe that he just learnt all the steps by himself.


Again I mentioned about his speaking skills, but it's true, everyone agrees about it. We have fixed position arrangement for all our opening shoots in TKT, he was on my left side. I was normally nervous in those openings because I worried that Ricky will ask me questions that I wouldn't able to answer. Especially when he asks us to introduce ourselves. I mean..I know myself well, of course I'm able to introduce myself, but I was too nervous to think of what to say. Luckily Dondré was next to me, every time we need to do introduction or any interview, we will look at Dondré, expecting him to do the starting, so we'll know how we supposed to answer and have more time to plot our answer. >_<



On the day of meeting 2PM and miss A, we were informed that we'll be interview by SBS. Even we had lots of interview experiences with our TKT crews, but we're going to interview by SBS! It's different! I'm not sure about others, but Erry and I were quite nervous. Dondré was in total peace, he was excited instead. He did the interview sooo well, talked non-stop. I saw face of satisfaction of the emcee, her face showed something like "yes I like your answers, talk more talk more!". He even danced for the interview! He's going to be famous, hahaha!


During the previous interviews in the tour, normally we will request Dondré to be the first person to voice out his opinions, he will answer very smooth, natural and confidently. Dondré is such a reliable person, I trust him very much.



Did I mention how much I love his laughter? I even did a recording of us talking naturally with Dondré's laughter in between. Hahaha. Dondré loves to laugh, sometimes he will laugh for something not funny at all. But he made me laugh with his laughter, a normal thing can become super funny thing with his laughter. Sometimes I can laugh by only look at his face. At first Tiphany couldn't understand why did I laugh all of sudden, I told her it's because I looked at Dondré, then she laughed too.
He has the facial expression problem like me too, some times he has the serious facial expression without realize by himself. Erry and Tiphany concerned about the "upset" face he had when they were discussing about what to wear the next day. But I totally understand you Dondré, totally..


The picture above is the awkward heart invented by Erry. Tiphany wanted to do a heart like how normally Koreans do, but Erry did the wrong pose (how Dondré did in picture above) and made the heart look very funny. Dondré and I couldn't stop laughing about that, we even repeated how Erry did the heart, "this is so intense!"- Dondré's favourite line.




He's also a very good poser, he's good in doing those epic poses, that never fail to catch attention. He thinks it's his height and long legs that made the poses so outstanding. LOL. The picture at top left corner, he was just sitting down and relaxing himself, then the crews went "Wow look at Dondré's pose!". Hence he just purposely exaggerate his pose and do some sexy leg movements to make us laugh. Hahaha! This is so intense!


This is Dondré's famous Dré-Cam-Squat. Before we climb up Seongsan ilchulbong, he took pictures of the mountain with this pose. When I saw this, I laughed so hard then everyone focused on Dondré. Camera crews ran to him and filmed about this. Everyone found this funny but Dondré said, "What.. Why is this funny? I just squat down a little bit to take pictures.".


After we came down from the mountain, Tim requested someone to take a picture of him and the rock sign, then all of us took the picture for him, with Dré-Cam-Squat, even Laney joined us and Ricky was like the director, "More butt..more butt! Higher!". The passersby were thinking "What...are these foreigners doing?" with the (o.o)? look. Hahaha!


Speaker of the team, amazing dancer, great poser, good personality and epic laughter.. This is my Reliable Laugh Mate- Dondré!


Timothy Forrester ; Fateful Funny Partner


Tim is one of the member that have strongest fate with me..as team mate! The first time I met him was on the bus, same with Dondré. My first impression of him- he's so orange, his hair, eye brows and even eye lashes are in orange color, it looks so damn cool for me! Maybe because Asians normally have black hair. Haha. Also, he's a shy and quiet guy, he didn't talk much on the bus. But when I get to know him more, he's not as quiet as I thought, he jokes a lot, and I name it Tim Style Joke.


Some times when I see him talk with Amelie or some other crews and seemed like he got some important announcement from them, so I asked him,
Me: Hey Tim, what she said?
Tim: She said she doesn't like you.
Me: Omg what I did?
Tim: *laugh* Naww just kidding.. *funny face*
Same thing happened to Erry on different day, she was like "Why does Amelie hate me?!".


I'm not sure he tried to joke with us or he didn't mind if he doesn't understand the crews' order. He showed the face of totally understand EVERY SINGLE WORDS and he was nodding, so Erry asked him,
Erry: Tim what did they say? I didn't hear that.
Tim: I don't know~
Erry: But I saw you nodding! I thought you understand what they said!
Tim: Naww.. I couldn't hear them too.

This is so so so INTENSE!
Another thing, Tim likes to make funny faces while taking pictures. These are only few of the pictures among the collection, he can be funny, cute and weird at the same time! Hahaha how can you don't like him? When I got to know him more, he's not the shy guy I thought when I first met him, he's a funny guy.


He actually jokes a lot, however, it didn't have big impact on us, because we couldn't understand his Australian accent. Some times in a funny situation, he tells a joke, and he supposed it to be funny,
Us: Huh what did you say?
Tim: Uhh doesn't matter, forget about it. (because after the perfect timing, the joke wouldn't be funny anymore)
Me: No! Tell me, I want to know!
Tim: Naww it's ok..



We had strong fate to be a team. He was my partner in Transparent Kayak experience and Zipline mission. Tim is the Mr. Extreme! He's good in all extreme games we had, like ATV, Kayak and Zipline. Erry and I never tried kayak before, while Dondré and Tiphany tried once or twice, so Ricky arranged Dondré and Tiphany together, Erry the worry woman (LOL) with himself, and Tim as my partner, as the Kayak Man! He was sooo good in kayaking,
Tim: Where do you want to go?
Me: Let's chase Dondré's team! They look so funny, Tiphany is shouting.
Tim: SURE! *adjust the direction professionally*
Oahhh I felt so safe~ And Tiphany was shouting and laughing at Dondré. Hahaha.


He has a super camera, it's waterproof and crashproof (what?!). He asked me to use his camera to take picture underwater while he's busy paddling. I was worried to immerse it into water because IT'S A CAMERA! Common sense told me not to soak a camera into water! "Just do it, it's safe!", so I did, haha I took quite a number of pictures underwater, the feeling was awesome!


Besides that, we were also partners in Jeju Zipline Mission. Eomma Rachel did some introduction of Jeju and told us it's useful for coming mission, so I wrote all the things in my notebook. Tim said "I wanna be in same team with Michelle!". This is FATE! We coincidentally be in the same team, again! The mission was about finding the hidden words while doing Zipline. We discussed about the plan to find the words, at first we thought of each person take care of 1 side, 1 left 1 right so we won't miss anything. But we ended up changed the plan to JUST FIND EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE!


We only found 6 out of 10 words during the mission, so we decided to made up some words. We had fun making crap answers like Stones, Black pork, Woman, Wind, which are all related to Jeju Island. Unfortunately our made up answers were all wrong, we didn't win the mission. Tim comforted me by saying his favourite line, "It's ok Michelle, it doesn't matter~", but I wasn't sad at all, it was so fun being in the same team with him!


Since he likes to make funny faces, so I joined him! Haha we're so funky~ Some times when I had nothing to do, I just simply look around, whenever we see each other, Tim will show the face in left picture, I don't know why, but it's funny. Kkk..

Although we couldn't catch his Australian accent some times, we still like the special phrases he often says. No matter how bad the thing is, he will say it's perfect. He asked me to take picture for him while we're in Jeju, the picture I snapped was blurred out, I said to myself "uh oh..it's so blur..", but when Tim sees the picture preview, he said "perfect~" with his Australian accent.

Is he too nice or he didn't mind if the picture is blurred? LOL I don't know, but I really like the way he say those phrases with the accent. "Perfect~ Cool~ Forget about it~ Doesn't matter~ DUNNY!" They sound super ordinary without his accent. For those that don't know what is "dunny" (which pronounce as DUNNAY with Aus accent), it's how Australians call a washroom, while Malaysians normally call it toilet.
Before we separate, I told Tim I'm so going to bring "dunny" back to Malaysia. So Malaysians, here we go, WHERE'S THE DUNNAAY?! Also, now all my colleages in my workplace call a toilet DUNNY. Hahaha.


The orange-ish cute guy with special sense of humour, everything bad things is perfect and doesn't matter for him.. This is my Fateful Funny Partner- Timothy


Ricky Kim ; Best Leader Friend



Ricky oppa; A Korea-American actor in Korea. He was our Team Leader that traveled around Korea with us for whole tour. Before going Korea, we didn't know that we will have a team leader. Until the day I reached Korea, while waiting for Erry's arrival, either Yurahn or eomma told me we will have a team leader, he's a celebrity and will be with us for the whole tour. "WOW? I thought I'm fortunate enough to meet 2PM and miss A, now I get to have a celebrity leader?", I whispered in my heart. Jiyeon then showed me pictures of him, "His name is Ricky Kim".

The moment I see the pictures, I was so amazed, I don't think I have to explain how good looking he is. Hehe. "I swear I've seen him before, maybe in some dramas or what, he looks very very familiar!", hmm yes I talked to myself again. But to be honest, I couldn't remember it's which drama or variety show. Sorry oppa! :X
Since that moment, my excited mood +200, oh yeah gonna be an epic tour!

"WOOOW~", when he walked in the hall during our Orientation, my eyes went O-O, he's the first Korean celebrity I ever met in Korea and he's going to be with us for so many days! I couldn't type my excitement in words, but you know what I mean. He's very friendly and nice, didn't act like a celebrity that has gap with fans, conversely he just talked and joked around with us, like friends. :D


He was my partner in Gwaneumsa Mission- Count the Buddha statues with stated pose. Ricky is a very thoughtful guy. When we see the picture of the stated statue pose, normally we will only focus on the hand pose, but instead, he whispered in my ears,
Ricky: They will only look at the hands, but the point is his clothe and the face, be careful of that..
Me: Oh ya it's different! I didn't notice that.

There were 2 rows of Buddha's statues, our plan was each of us count statues of 1 row then combine the answer, we trusted each other. After counting,
Me: Oppa, if we consider their clothes and face, there's only 1 right one in my row. LOL.
Ricky: Ya mine too, it's weird. Let's try our answer.
But the answer ended up wrong, HAHA! Then the crews told us to ignore the clothes and facial expressions of statues, only the hand pose! Hahaha Ricky oppa, we considered too much! Immediately we counted again, and it was the correct answer!

So we got our Mapae and had winners' interview as usual. VJ asked us why were we so fast, he answered, "Because I had the smartest teammate, we trust each other! Yes, Mapae high 5!" Aww, this is so intense.. :D


Like what I said, he's very friendly, even to fans. In most of the restaurants we had our meals, the people in-charged, for example owners of restaurant will request for his signature and a photo together, he accepted all their requests. How nice of him.. However, there are exceptions, when situations are out of control.

When we were in Gimpo Airport checking in for the flight to Jeju Island, Ricky was with his sunglasses on. Suddenly I remembered he's a celebrity, had the celebrity airport style. I mean, it's not because he's like an ordinary people without his glasses, the thing is, we felt so comfortable with him that we often forget he's actually a celebrity. So what happened was, there was a big group of high school students (wearing school uniform) found out Ricky is there, so ended up WHOLE BIG CROWD follow after Ricky, and his manager and staffs were like body guards protected him, just like what we saw on TV! Like fans chasing Hallyu Stars, OMG~

In fact, no matter how close we were with Ricky, and how much we teased each other, at the end we still feel happy about whatever he has done to us. Especially the girls. Hahaha sorry Erry and Tiphany, for saying this out. Kkkk...
Tiphany: He fed me the squid~ My heart pumped so fast at that moment~
Erry: He touched my head and said I'm a good mom~
Me: He mixed my rice and deboned the fish for me~
We acted like fan girls, or the little sisters. LOL.

Ricky on ATV

Ricky Kim's Hidden Camera (Part 1)

To make the tour more exciting, the crews came out a plan to trick Ricky. Dondré and I were chosen to be the main actor and actress for the project- "Ricky's Hidden Camera (리키김의 모래 카메라)". Yes, I was like you, wondered why am I the one chosen, Laney told me it's because everyone knows I have some problem with my stomach (I mentioned I had food poisoning before I went Korea) and I seemed like the most suitable girl to do the acting. At first, I was quite excited to trick him because he tricked me during Pyeongchang Ski Jump, remember?


So the plan was, we have to act like we have some difficulties while doing the filming, so we request to stop filming for awhile to have some rest, but the crews don't allow us to rest and want us to continue recording instead, with angry commands. I started to worried after listening to the whole plan, but I promised I will do that.
The toughest part is, it will be after ATV ride. ATV is like one of the best parts of Fun Tour!! It's super hard to act upset after the incredibly awesome ride!




The trick will be going on after the lunch, so dramatically, I started to built the story before trick started. He sat in front of me during the lunch (as shown in picture). We were informed to have rice and seafood soup as our lunch. So I did weird grumbles about the rice, just to make my stomache act looks real later.


Me: Rice again? I don't like rice~ My stomach can't stand it~
Ricky: Michelle, you don't like rice?
Me: Yes, we had rice for every single meals!
(the other teammates looked at me with the shocked face, then smiled as they understood what was I doing)
Ricky: Rice is nice. Or do you want noodles? I can ask them change yours to noodles.
Me: *NO~ Don't treat me so nice!* It's ok, I'll have the rice.
-Awhile later-
Me: Why do the foods take so long? Can I go to the toilet? *with the stomach-not-feeling-well-face*
Ricky: Are you ok?
Me: I think so.
So I went to the toilet, for no reason. The moment I walked out, the crews came to me and make sure whether I was acting or really had stomache. I did pretty well job didn't I? Hahaha. But I need to stay in the toilet few minutes, doing nothing. -__-


I continued the emo act while eating the lunch. *But seriously, the spicy seafood soup was amazingly awesome, I loved it sooo much!!*
Ricky: Do you know how to take out the bone for this fish? It's ok, I'll do it for you. Guys, this is the way to remove the bone for this fish... (As shown in the picture above)
Me: *Don't be so nice to me when I'm tricking you* Ok, thank you.
My feeling of guilty got more, the more I did the silly acting.

After finished our meal, we sat there and talked. He shared so many things about his career and life. At the same time, I went more guilty and guilty. Finally, we talked about crying scenes in dramas, and he shared about his ways of crying in dramas. I couldn't stand it anymore, my tears just fell down by itself. Luckily he didn't see it, but the crews were shocked, they surrounded me again to make sure I'm acting or crying for real. I told them I was fine, I don't know why am I crying. Surprisingly they gave me thumb ups and praised I'm a good actress.
But the truth is, I felt so bad for doing those things, he treated me so nice and I'm tricking him, he made me cry actually. I looked silly isn't it? LOL.



Ricky Kim's Hidden Camera (Part 2)

Everything went smoothly according to plan. After ATV Ride, Dondré immediately started his acting by saying there's something is his eyes, with the suffering face. Ahhh, after the EXCITING ATV I have act having stomache.
-Immediate mood change-
I began to have "stomache" too. 2 of us ended up sat on the bench with suffering faces and requested to rest. As planned, crews pretended they don't allow that but insisted to carry on the recording instead. Ricky looked worried, he walked away a little while, then came back to discuss with us.


"Alright guys, I know the schedule is tight and all of you are tired. Keep in mind that you're representatives from your countries to join this tour, you're not doing these for yourself only, you're doing these for all of them. I'll have to continue the recording even I don't want to. Anyway, you guys are just tourists, you come Korea to have fun, I want you to have happy memories for this trip. I totally understand if you're not able to carry on the schedule today. I'll talk to the crews. Just make sure you guys are alright."
I saw him holding his anger and tried hard control his facial expression while explained those to us. I was very worried, I don't want him to get angry with me for not giving co-operations to complete the recording. Seriously, I don't want him to hate me.

We told Ricky we're sorry but we really can't make it for the next recording. At the end, we went to "have some rest", while the remaining 3 members continue the next mission opening shoot with Ricky. We were all good actors/actress, except for Erry. Hahaha. Everyone supposed to be serious and mood spoiled because of this sudden incident, but she secretly laughed for few times, not really secretly, 'cause Ricky actually saw it. Anyway, "Ricky Kim's Hidden Camera" ended by me holding the drinks together with Dondré, ran towards Ricky and gave him a surprise! He kinda had the relieved + "WHAT THE... " look.


"Everyone knew this? Even you..you..and you..and you? I'm the only one doesn't.......WHAT.........". Hahaha Ricky Kim's Hidden Camera, SUCCEED! 리키김의 모래 카메라 성공!
At the end of the day, he personally told us, he was very frustrated that time. He understood we're tourists that should happily enjoy the tour instead of not getting rest for tight schedule. If the crews insisted not to tolerate, he would have just take off his mike and leave like that. It was nearly reaching his limit, he said he ALMOST did that for us. Because that's the only way he could do to stop the whole recording. Guiltiness strike again. WHAT HAVE I DONE? T____T

Firecrackers & drinking session in Jeju
Despite of the tricks we did on him, he treated us very nice. Before that, I thought that celebrities will normally have gaps with us, not anymore.. Like when we invited him to join us to play fire crackers at Jeju beach side, I expected him to say something like "no guys, I'm afraid that I can't make it", instead he just accepted immediately, "ok sure!". Our schedule for that day already ended, that was our personal rest time actually, he spent few hours of his precious rest time to fool around beach side with us. Moreover, he bought us drinks and fire crackers. We talked about so many things that night, the Korea Entertainment Industry, his stories, his wife and baby Taylor, and more. It was more than just team leader, we're friends! :')




There's one sentence I remember the most, "Love and enjoy your job, that's very important. Like me, I really love my job!". Thank you from my deepest heart, Ricky oppa, for everything you have done for us. This is my Best Leader Friend Ever- Ricky!




My Fun Team members are the best team members I could ever find. If I'm given the chance to choose a tour again, I will definitely choose Fun Tour. It has Funky Erry from Indonesia, Funny Tim from Australia, Friendly Dondré from America, Sweet Tiphany from France and Lovely Ricky from Korea. We are from 6 totally different countries, this is too cool. I love all of you~


THE CREWS

Let's talk about the crews! I always tell my friends I wish to have Korean friends, now I have plenty of them, and they're all from my favourite industry- media. YAY! ^^


Amelie Kim ; Pretty Genie Manager


Amelie was our manager for the tour, she's pretty isn't it? ^^ Her job was manage every thing for us, even minor ones. She's like our Genie, when we need something, she will somehow get that for us. My nails kinda cracked when we were in Jeju Hotel so I sought for Amelie's help. She immediately found a nail clipper and personally sent it to my room, morever it was already late night. I don't know how she got the thing, borrow or bought it, either way, she saved my life. LOL...too much. Besides that, during our Alpine Coaster ride in the cold weather, after our ride, Amelie and eomma already holding few hot coffees waiting for us, it was so heart warming~


Other than that, she had a part time job- The WiFi Girl. LOL! We needed to upload the pictures we took to share it online, so that more people can see how much we enjoyed this Korea trip. We needed WiFi most of the time, therefore, Amelie brought us WiBro Egg, which is a Wireless Broadband Egg for us connect to internet. So that's how it happened, whenever we need internet, something like this happens..
Dondré: Amelie, we need to use the egg now, thank you!
Tim: Amelie, can you turn on the egg please?
Me: Has Amelie on the egg?
Tiphany: Is the egg on?
Erry: Amelie, I need WiFi...
Hahaha we're annoying kids.
Amelie: So I became the WiFi Girl because I carry an egg in my bag? Haha.


She told me she loves fruits! Korea doesn't have much fruits as Malaysia, that's why she's envy that we can easily get fruits anytime.
Amelie: I like a small fruit, it's skin is red in color.What is it's name again.. Uhh..
Me: Rambutan?
Amelie: No, it's small and sweet..
Me: Lychee?
Amelie: Yaaaaa!! Lychee! Hahaha I love that fruit, but it's not easy to get it here, quite expensive.
Hahaha Amelie shall I get some for you if I can go Korea again?


Amelie was like our elder sister, took good care of us so that we can fully enjoy our trip. Even she says that's her job, I'm still appreciate what she did for us. Thank you eonni! This is my Pretty Genie Manager- Amelie


Rachel Lee ; Cheerful Eomma


Rachel was our Tour Guide for Fun Tour. She treated us like her kids, so we called her eomma~ And she likes it! The day I arrive in Korea, she was with Jiyeon, Yurahn and Jinhyung waited for my arrival at Incheon Airport. The thing I couldn't forget is, she had the brightest smile when she first greet me, "Hi Michelle, welcome to Korea. I'm your Tour Guide, you can call me Rachel. I'll be with you for the whole tour!". She really meant it. She was really with me from the day I arrived at Incheon Airport until the last day I left Korea from Incheon Airport.

To be honest, I was excited but nervous to meet the people before I reached Korea. Without knowing what kind of people I will spend my 7 days with, different thoughts came to my mind while I was on the plane. Fortunately, eomma made me feel so calm, I felt so safe.


Every time before we reach the next destination, she will explain the details on the bus. Normally she will stand in front us, even the bus was shaky and bumpy most of the times. She always provide us the useful informations, like names of the foods we're eating, the histories of the places, Koreans' cultures and many things. I still remember, before our Zipline Mission, she gave us too much informations until the crews stopped her, she almost told us all of the answers that will come out in next mission, she's so nice~ Kkk...

We did an opening before climbing Seongsan Ilchulbong, as usual Ricky did all the speaking jobs. He asked, "Do you know what's the 3 famous things in Jeju?", he actually expected us to answer "don't know" and he will explain it. Instead, we answered it immediately, "ROCKS, WIND, WOMEN!". And you have to see Ricky's shocked face, "How do you guys know that?! Seriously? Was this scripted?". It's because eomma explained this to us! I think he doesn't know the reason yet. Kkk..

For once on the bus, I called her to ask for something.
Me: Eomma~
No response.
Me: Eomma..eomma..eomma..eomma~
Still no response.
Dondré: Eomma!
Rachel: Yes Dondré?
Dondré: Haha Michelle is calling you...for few times.
Rachel: Oh sorry Michelle, you should call me louder, because usually my sons called me "EOMMA!!" very loud, you're too soft. I'm still not used to have a daughter. Hehehe.
Usually when we're doing our recordings or missions, she wouldn't be with us, as she had to stay behind cameras. Like, when we landed after our yacht experience, eomma ran towards us, "아이들 ah~ (아이들: children) Was it fun? Sorry, eomma couldn't go with you..".


I'm always happy to see her, she's always cheerful and called us her babies. The moment she told me I have to go in the boarding gate, and she won't be following me anymore, my tears just fell down uncontrollably. When I hugged her for the last time, I really wouldn't wanna let go, I mean, do you want to leave your mom? Eomma, thank you for letting me to be your kid in Korea. This is my Cheerful Eomma- Rachel


Laney Siu ; Close Chinese Chingu



Laney was our interpreter. She was with us most of the time. The first time we met her was before the opening in Icheon Pottery Village. We were putting our mikes on and I saw her not too far away, standing beside our PD nim, hesitating how to introduce herself to us. You can see that from her body language, she walked few steps towards us, then step back again, I can see from PD nim's face "just go, they don't bite!". At last she walked towards us together with PD nim, "Hi, I'm Laney, I will be your interpreter...bla bla bla.....", after she finished her words, she walked back again. LOL that's so awkward.


Actually 5 of us couldn't remember her name for the first and early second day.
A: What's her name again? The girl that said she's our interpreter.
B: I don't know~
C: I'm not sure, maybe Rainie or Liney.
So I asked her on the first day, "May I know your name?". She told me, but I forgot again. Omg sorry Laney! The second day same thing happened again, "What's our interpreter's name?". So I decided to ask her again, "I'm sorry but what's your name again?", this time I swear I'm gonna remember it, I even asked her to spell it for me! So, finally, all of us know her name. Fuhhh, we're too old to remember a name! Haha..



She played a very important character while we're working with the crews, because most of the crews can't speak English and we can't speak Korean at the same time. However, some times Ricky will translate the instructions before Laney and most of us can understand some Korean language.
Crews: Bla bla bla bla bla..
Us: Oh, ok.
Laney: Yah~ You all understand, I don't even need to translate, I can rest at a side..
Erry: No! Translate it to me, I don't understand anything!
Laney: So basically... bla bla bla..
I realized she used the word "basically" A LOT, seriously, almost every time she summarize the long instruction by the crews, she will start with "So, basically...". Oh Laney, I found your line! Haha!


Here's another thing I like about her, she can speak so many languages! She's actually a Chinese that works in Korea, she can speak English, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and maybe more! The moment she spoke Mandarin and Cantonese with me I was in super shock, OMG there's someone that able to speak Mandarin and Cantonese here! Till then, I felt closer to her. My Mandarin will rust if she wasn't there, hehehe sounds serious isn't it? We even discussed about Ricky's Hidden Camera plan RIGHT IN FRONT OF RICKY with Cantonese, she told me "Don't worry, no one else understands what we're talking about." Hahaha so epic.




Since we were too desperate to try out the Noraebang (Karaoke Room) in Korea, she spent her personal time brought us there. Our schedule ended up around 8pm, after checked in hotel and get everything done, we went Myeongdong around 9pm to search for Noraebang. Actually it was quite late, we can walk back to our hotel anytime we want but Laney need to catch the last bus back to her house, which is around 12am. Not only that, she paid for all our expenses in Noraebang too. Thank you Laney, we enjoyed so much there!

One day, Erry and I asked Laney for the name of each crew, we feel bad when we don't know the names of the people that worked with us for so many days. But she told us she doesn't know either. She said, "In Korea, normally we will call people by their titles." For example, sajang nim (president), PD nim (producer).. "They are all PD nims! We can't know their names?". Erry and I were disappointed, haha what is it to disappoint so easily, LOL! She's quite envy of us, "How do you guys find this kind of contest? I wanna join next year! This is such a GRAND prize!". Many of my friends said so too, lol..


During the last night in Korea, she told us she likes to be with us because she feels closer to us. In Korea, it's inappropriate to call people directly by their names. But she can simply call our names, like "Hey Tiphany!" then hook her arm at our shoulder. For Koreans, it is very rude to do that unless you're very close with that person. You know what, Laney? We like you too, we deeply appreciate what you've done for us. This is my Close Chinese Chingu- Laney



Yurahn & Jiyeon ; Celebrities-alike Eonni(s)

Yurhan ; Jiyeon
Jiyeon and Yurahn are staffs from the PR office, they're in charged of whole Touch Korea Tour if I'm not mistaken. I had several phone conversations with person in-charged of my trip before I went Korea, and Yurahn told me it was her! The feeling was so cool when you heard a voice in a phone call and imagined how she looks like, then finally you met her in real person. Sorry Yurahn, for the nonsense I asked in every calls. Hehehe.

She sat next to me when I had my first breakfast in Korea, at Incheon Airport. We were chatting, and suddenly I found out something.
Me: OH! You look like Sohee from Wonder Girls!
Yurahn: 갑자기.. (All of sudden..) *laugh*
Jiyeon: No~ Not at all.
But seriously, she gave me the feeling of Sohee, anyone else...agree...with me?
I think I only met her on the day I arrived Korea and during Orientation. Unfortunately, I don't have any picture with her. :/


I spent more time with Jiyeon compare to Yurahn because Jiyeon brought Erry and I to Myeongdong on the first day (The girl carrying orange bag in the picture above is Jiyeon). It's always better to have a Korean to shop around with you, they know more about the things in Korea.
There are many Kpop celebrities advertisement boards in Myeongdong, then I saw a LARGE PICTURE of T-ara's Park Jiyeon. I like T-ara's Jiyeon a lot (*I wrote this before Hwayoung's incident, if you get what I mean), so I was like..
Me: AH! Jiyeon! *point at the advertisement board*
Jiyeon: Yes?
Me: Uh? Wait..you're Jiyeon too! What a coincidence.. Hahahaha!
She found that funny too. LOL! Anyway, thanks for spending hours walked around Myeongdong with us, we were exhausted, I bet you too.


Besides that, we met Jiyeon on the last day too. It was the day we met 2PM and miss A, she was there because she was in-charged of that. We don't know how stressful the staffs were to manage the day meeting 2PM and miss A. After the last official interview of 2PM and miss A, Jiyeon told me "Ahhh~ Finally my job is done.". I can see the relief look from the smile on her face. You've worked hard, eonni~

I remember you guys said you don't even have leisure time to watch Korean Dramas like we do, please rest more and enjoy the awesome dramas from your own country! Thank you for your hard works of bringing me to Korea and arranged this awesome trip! These are my Celebrities-alike EonniS Yurahn & Jiyeon!



The Media Crews
From left: VJ Woosok ; Nayeon (my VJ) ; Eunyoung (Tiph's VJ); Hyojung (Erry's VJ) ; PD ; PD Hwiseong ; Mike crew ; Photographer Youngjin ; PD (I don't know their names! T_T)
Coming next are our media crews~ They were the ones that had the hardest works. They had to get every thing ready before we reach the next location. We were enjoying our trip but conversely they're working all the time, I remember one of the crews said they had to continue their works when we're sleeping, that's why the world able to know our latest updates of Touch Korea Tour from Buzz Korea. It was all the staffs in the office and crews' hard works. *applause for all of them*


Nayeon ; Cool & Pretty Personal Cameragirl

Me ; Nayeon ; Mike crew (someone please tell me her name)
나연언니 (Nayeon eonni) was my personal cameragirl, or we call them VJ in Korea. In my opinion she's pretty and very cool kind of girl. 언니 너무 멋있다~~ The first time I saw her I already found out she looks like a Korean actress 임수향 Im Soohyang! I told her only after I came back to Malaysia, she was impressed that I know Korean celebrities more than she does. I think it's because they didn't have much time to watch K-dramas and K-pop, just like Jiyeon and Yurahn eonni. You guys need have some rest!

We didn't talk much to each other, most probably because she can't speak English and my Korean is not good enough to have good conversations with her, what a waste! However we still had some good times. We had a mission at Jeju beach, the mission was about finding Mapaes in the sand. I tried so hard but didn't get any real Mapae but chocolate Mapae and little dino instead. Then she showed me the location of the real Mapae with her eye sight, you can imagine that right? Haha. I was finding Mapae from the place Nayeon eonni told me, then suddenly Tiphany joined me, I was wondering why at first, then she told me her VJ told her the location too! HAHA! We had nice VJs! ^^ I'm not suppose to say this out, but I didn't find the Mapae at last so..it's ok.

Our VJs had to follow us wherever we go, especially during missions. I ran a lot in certain missions, but I saw her chasing me with the heavy camera, I felt guilty so stopped running and apologized to her. But she was like "아~ 괜찮아 되세요~ (Ah~ It's ok, just run~)". Ahh~ It was like Running Man! My VJ is chasing after me! Hahaha that was so intense!

Anyway, Nayeon eonni, thank you for shooting my poker face during the trip, I'll improve my Korean so that I can talk to you next time! 제가 한국어 많이 공부할 거예요, 우리가 앞으로 만날 때 얘기 할수있어요! ㅎㅎ
이분은 우리 예쁜 VJ 나연! This is my Cool & Pretty Cameragirl- Nayeon!


Hyojung ; Lovable Smile-eye Eonni


Hyojung eonni was Erry's cameragirl, but some times she shoot only me, I don't know why, but please don't get jealous Erry, only some times. Kkk.. She's a very sweet person, always have a smile on her face, and she looks pretty especially when she smiles, with the beautiful smile-eyes! Why?! Why are the crews so pretty and they work behind a camera? Like what Erry said, "Put down your camera and start acting!".

She was the closest with us among all camera crews. I don't think it's because she knows some simple English, the main reason is because she's friendly and tried to communicate with us. Her good personality made us like her so much. We had once fought like kids on Facebook just because she said "사랑해요~ (I love you~)" to Dondré. Lol the childish us.


While we were climbing Seongsan Ilchuilbong, I was left behind because I climbed too slow, hehehe.. So Hyojung eonni was the VJ that followed me (where's my Nayeon eonni?). Actually I was very impressed that they could still able to climb the mountain while carrying that heavy camera, omg I already felt tired only carrying my feet. Even she was carrying that heavy camera, she could still smile and talk to me, "Michelle, are you ok?", but I was worried about her, "Watch your steps! Look at the staircase while walking! You're not tired? The camera looks so heavy..".

Thank you for being so friendly to us, we all like you, you know it right? Keke. Quote Erry again, "She's like Go Eunchan from 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, everybody likes her!". Hyojung eonni, you can cosider to be an actress, you're pretty. Agree? :D
This is my Lovable Smile-eye Eonni- Hyojung


Jinhyung ; Cute Mapae Man

Typical Asian poses with Jinhyung Misson Man!
Mapae Man a.k.a. Mission Man, 진형오빠 (Jinhyung oppa) was the most famous person among the crews. All of us concerned about the MISSIONS! LOL just kidding. He was actually a PD nim as well, on the day I reached Incheon Airport, he was the cameraman, but somehow he's the person in-charged of our missions as soon as tour starts. The costume he's wearing is a costume of Korea's hero representative Hong Gildong, who is similar to Robin Hood.

When he first introduced himself to us, I couldn't remember his name, so he asked me to call him "형(hyung)", which is his last name, but at the same time "hyung" is how males call elder brother in Korea, that's why it's funny when I call him hyung. Haha. At first Laney was like, "What?! He asked you to call him hyung? Seriously? This is so wrong!". Laney, I know what hyung means, but it's fun to call him "hyung" instead of "oppa". Kkk...


Mapae Man actually can't speak English, but he tried everything he could to communicate with us, for example using body language, short English words, very simple Korean so that few of us get what he meant. And probably that's how we find him funny, especially how hard we tried to talk to each other when we don't understand each other's language.


We really appreciate your effort to communicate with us despite the language barrier. We had really good time with you! Someone please translate these, my Korean isn't that good yet. ><
This is the Cute Mapae Man- Jinhyung!


Hwiseong ; Adorable Talking PD

Meet 휘성오빠 (Hwiseong oppa)! He is one of my favourite PD, kkk.. Maybe because of his smiles, he gave me the friendly impression like Hyojung eonni did. And also he's one of the talking camera crews. I haven't mention this, most of the camera crews don't talk much while they're recording, perhaps they don't want their voices to disturb the video outcome. However, he and Hyojung talked a lot with us, actually this is good, they made us feel more comfortable during the shootings. :)

While we're eating 흑돼지 (Black Pork) in Jeju, again, my expression was super weird, but I SWEAR I WAS ENJOYING THE BBQ PORK! Hahaha! He must be the cameraman that zoomed in my face while I was showing that epic weird expressions.
Ricky: You don't like it?
Me: I LIKE IT!
PD Hwiseong: But your expression is like you don't like it.. Please smile~ ^^
Sorry oppa, I didn't know I was showing that kind of expressions. :P

I remember he was my cameraman for the final interview, on the last day of tour. I had the same problem every interviews, I dint know what else to say after my sentence, luckily he talked to me, it was more like a chat with him instead of my solo talking time, that how he made me feel more comfortable during interviews. Luckily it was you! Thank you Hwiseong oppa! Hehehe. ><
This is my Adorable Talking PD- Hwiseong


Youngjin ; Touched Kid Photographer



영진오빠 (Youngjin oppa) was our all time photographer. His job was quietly take our pictures of everything, from all angles. Lol, exaggerated. The picture above is a funny thing I found out when I was viewing my camera pictures, I saw Youngjin oppa hiding somewhere taking my picture (blue arrow), and the picture on the left was the picture he took while I caught him in camera.

He was working all the time. Some times after our schedule, we can have meal without video cameras around. But the photographer Youngjin was still with us, busy capturing pictures when our foods arrived. He only go back to his seat to have dinner after we threaten him that we won't start eating if he doesn't eat together with us. Also, I saw him dealing with his laptop, busy editing our pictures when we were on the flight back to Seoul from Jeju. Thumbs up for you oppa~

Anyone else remember his touched face after receiving a gift from Erry? He looked like a kid that got reward for getting 100% in exam for the first time, "Thank you, I never receive any gift while working.". You did a very good job oppa, thank you for following after us for so many days! This is the Touched Kid Photographer- Youngjin!


Hyeonwook ; Unique Silent Cameraman



Introduce you another famous crew other than Mission Man, THE SILENT CAMERAMAN 현욱오빠(Hyeonwook oppa)! He was famous because he never talks~ Well, not all the time. The very first person who discovered this was Erry. On the first day of tour, we went Icheon Pottery Village, he was the PD who followed Erry. Suddenly Erry saw something looks like Ginseng, so she asked him,
Erry: Is this Ginseng?
PD Hyeonwook: ...
Erry: This is Ginseng right?
PD Hyeonwook: ...
Erry: Can you tell me is this Ginseng?
PD Hyeonwook: ...
Erry: Oh you can't talk?! *started to laugh*
I was in front of them but I didn't realize such funny incident happened behind me. Before Erry share that fact to us, I asked him questions too, couldn't remember what was the questions but he just smiled and didn't answer as well, I thought I was talking to the air. XD Then Erry came to me and told me, "No Michelle, he can't answer your questions, I tried before, let's ask someone else.". Slowly..he became the well-known Silent Cameraman!

All of us tried to talk with him just to make sure he won't answer. BUT I WON'T LET THIS CONTINUE, I MUST MAKE HIM TALK WITH ME! Hahaha. During "Ricky Kim's Hidden Camera", he followed me to shoot some "behind the scenes". So I asked him, *something like this
Me: Where is Ricky? Started the next mission shooting?
Jung PD: ...
Me: Tell me please tell me~
Jung PD: *smile*
Me: *Try to ask in Korean* 리키 오빠가 어디에요? 다음 미션은 시작했어요?
Jung PD: 아니에요, 아직은 저기에서 준비해요. (No, still preparing there.)
Me: O.O!! Ohhh~ PD님 대답했어요? 대박!! (You answered me? Wow!)

So I think the conclusion is, he didn't answer us not because he's rude, firstly, he doesn't want to disturb the voice of recording, secondly, he couldn't understand English. Anyway, thank you for making your silent character so interesting. Hahaha. This is the Unique Silent Cameraman- Hyeonwook


Heegeum ; Charlie's Angels' Sister

Nayeon, Tiphany, Me & Heegeum ; with Charlie's Angels pose
희금언니 (Heegeum eonni) was one of the script writers. Usually they prepared great scripts for Ricky for opening shootings, but some times Ricky couldn't memorize the scripts on the spot and made few NGs. So she was the one that modified the script every time they find the lines are too complicated.


She can't really speak English too, but likes to talk with us with short English words and Koreans with body language. When we were on the yacht, somehow she made Erry, Tiphany and I to do the Charlie's Angels' poses, so we suddenly became Charlie's Angels, at the same time she's Charlie's Angels' Big Sister. LOL.

On the last day of tour, she took a picture with us, "Charlie's Angels! Charlie's Angels!" she said, picture above is the outcome. Lol that was so intense! Eonni, thank you for creating this special characters for us, every time I see Charlie's Angels I'll think of you. Kkk.. ^^ 이분은 우리 미녀삼총사 왕언니 희금씨! This is my Charlie's Angels' Sister- Heegeum


MinA ; Heart Warming Eonni

Laney ; Erry ; Me ; Ricky ; MinA ; Tiph ; Tim ; Dondré
민아언니 (MinA eonni) was the script writer along with Heegeum eonni, I think only 2 of them were script writers. I'm not sure which of them prepared the opening scripts, but from what I saw, MinA eonni always holding the large sketch paper with scripts standing behind camera, while Heegeum eonni was normally the one who discuss how to modify the lines with other crews, I rarely see MinA talks.

We didn't have much conversations with her but she's somehow special to me. On the last day of tour, we sat around a table and exchanged present with Ricky. Erry, Tiph and I cried very badly, I saw MinA eonni cried secretly in the crowd. Although we didn't talk much during the tour, but she still feel sad while we're going to leave. That was our undescribe-able friendship with her.

Thank you for the good moments, eonni. This is our Heart Warming Eonni- MinA!


Emily ; Young Looking Boss


Emily eonni was one of the person incharge from Korea Tourism Orgnisation (KTO), no joke, she's from KTO! Actually the first time we met her was during Orientation, she gave us a welcome speech representing KTO, in fact, I couldn't remember each and everyone's face on the very first day, there was too many of them, so I forgot the fact that she's the person in-charge from KTO.

On the second day of tour, I heard someone called "사장님 (Sajang nim: President/Boss)" from the back. I was like, where and who is the boss here? Then I saw someone talked with Emily behind me. But I told myself, "Ya I heard wrongly, she's can't be the Sajang nim, she's sooooo young". Due to curiosity, I asked Amelie, and she told me Emily is the one. My eyes went O.O!!! Omg she looks super young! Please don't get me wrong, this is a compliment. :P She's very very friendly~

She talked with me a lot, personally. She was quite curious about Malaysia's culture and the most common thing that foreigners mistaken- when I tell them I'm a Chinese from Malaysia, they thought that I'm from China and live in Malaysia. Lol. So I explained to her about the different races in Malaysia and our multi-culture living. Thank you for giving me the chance to introduce Malaysia to you, I'm so glad that you shared a lot of Korean cultures with me too! This is our Young Looking Boss- Emily!



There's too many people that I want to mention, but you can see, it's already too long. I've made so many friends and learned so much things through this big project. Thank you guys, for leaving such good memories in my life.

"I won more than just a trip."


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