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    Seoul Searching!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #3
    Seoul Searching!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #3
    Seoul Searching!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #3
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    Seoul Searching!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #3

    By Adeline Foo

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    Amos Lee and family were off on their first family holiday ever, to Seoul, South Korea! But everyone was caught up in their own thing: Dad kept checking his work emails. Mum and Grandma were chasing down K-pop stars. Whoopie only cared about growing long eyelashes. And Everest was set to win a Choco Pie eating contest.
    As for Amos, he just wanted to win the Instagram Prize for Popular Youth! But when Grandpa went missing, the family holiday became a living nightmare. Grandpa was lost in a city of TEN MILLION people—how were they going to find him?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpigram Books
    Release dateNov 24, 2016
    ISBN9789814615389
    Seoul Searching!: The Travel Diary of Amos Lee, #3

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      Seoul Searching! - Adeline Foo

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      If anyone were to ask me to describe my family, I’d say, They are mad.

      My brother, Everest, is only seven years old. He is obsessed with the Jjang Choco Pie. He’s out to win the Jjang Choco Pie Eating Contest being held in Seoul, South Korea. What’s the big deal, my friends ask. Well, to enter the contest, you have to send in coupons cut out from Choco Pie boxes. To improve your chances of getting picked as a contestant, you have to eat A LOT OF Choco Pies in order to get your hands on the coupons.

      If my brother were doing this by himself, I wouldn’t be complaining. But he had to rope in the ENTIRE family to help him. My parents avoid fatty and sweet foods in general. Not keen on developing diabetes, they’d say. My sister is careful about what she eats, as she’s afraid of growing fat. That leaves only me to help Everest with his mission. Between us, we have eaten something close to 1,566 Choco Pies for breakfast, lunch and dinner—and sometimes for supper, too! That’s A LOT OF Choco Pies eaten in the last SIX MONTHS. So, is my brother mad?

      What about my sister? Whoopie, aged 11, wants to grow long eyelashes. She says she wants to go down in the Guinness World Records as the first human to beat the Lhasa Apso, currently the breed of dog holding the record for the world’s longest eyelashes. She says, like the Lhasa Apso, K-pop stars also have pretty long eyelashes. Really?

      Now for Mum. She is mad about all things K: Korea, K-pop, K-dramas, kimchi bokkeumbap (kimchi fried rice) and kimchi jjigae (kimchi stew). In fact, she’s so mad about Korea, she said she’s buying an entire carton of Choco Pies to support Everest’s quest to enter the Choco Pie Eating Contest! Mad enough?

      As for Dad, work is all that he cares about. As he is the only breadwinner in the family, work is all we see him do. He’s always checking his iPhone to see if his boss has a question or a task for him. So yes, Dad’s mad—about his job.

      Back to the Choco Pie. To be honest, I don’t enjoy eating Choco Pies. I’m doing it for another reason. I love indulging Everest in posting selfies. Just look at ALL the cute photos he posts on my Instagram account! I’m amazed that I’ve got so many followers! Even people I don’t know are following me on my Instagram account. Maybe there’s something about seeing a chubby kid eat Choco Pies with his big brother that gets people to like our posts. There’s no denying that I’m so, so, so popular now. But the best part? All my friends think I’m AWESOME!

      So if I have to adopt some madness to blend in with my family...maybe this. I hope to use my brother to win the IPPY award. That’s the Instagram Prize for a Popular Youth. No one from Asia has ever won this prize! Imagine, I’ll be the first if I can find that one fantastic post to garner the MOST likes! Maybe I’ll find it in Seoul, who knows? And if it means I’ll have to eat another couple of hundred more Choco Pies to get there, I’ll do it. Anything to win the award!

      #EatChocoPie

      #ToSeoulWithLove!

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      A CALL FROM BEIJING

      Last evening, we had a surprise phone call from China. It was Grandma, and she sounded really upset. She said she’s having trouble living with Grandpa. Huh? They’ve lived together since I was born, and for years before that...maybe even since last century—they are so old now! What’s she talking about? I could tell Mum was worried after the talk. She said something vague about Grandpa going through some behavioural changes. Who, my Grandpa? Are they talking about the same person?

      Just a few years ago, when Grandpa was living in Singapore before his retirement, he was my swimming coach. He was so FIERCE and REGIMENTED in training me! My grandson, a wimp to swim champ! he used to say to all his friends. I’d given up swimming ever since my grandparents moved to Beijing to live with relatives. To stretch my retirement savings! Grandpa had quipped before they left. I missed Grandpa, but he was quick to learn to tweet and Skype, so we never really felt he was far away. Hmmm...having said that, I haven’t heard from him in the last few months. Maybe he’s just been busy.

      I can’t imagine Grandpa as a different person. A behavioural change? I know someone in my family who’s going through that: Whoopie! She has been acting strange. Once, I caught her staring hard into the mirror to check her teeth, with a ruler! I asked what she was doing; she said she was making sure that they were straight. With a RULER?! Isn’t that stupid or what? It’s like checking the temperature of a glass of water by sticking a thermometer in it. If it isn’t her teeth she’s fretting over, it’s her hair, or her eyelashes. She’s only 11 for crying out loud!

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      Just before bedtime, I asked Mum if maybe Grandpa isn’t well. She said he’s all right. Then she surprised me when she suddenly announced that maybe she could get Grandpa and Grandma to go on a holiday with us. Seriously? Much as I was secretly hoping to go on a free trip to Seoul if Everest gets to enter the Jjang Choco Pie Eating Contest, er...a LARGE family holiday isn’t exactly what I had in mind. Oh well. It’s not going to happen. Of the millions of people in the world eating Choco Pies, surely there are thousands hoping to win the free trip to Seoul. My little brother can’t be that lucky.

      MYSTERIOUS STUFF LYING AROUND THE FLAT

      I had been seeing these things lying around our flat. I wonder what they are for.

      Illustration

      Hmmm...it looks like someone at home is into arts and crafts. Since when are Dad and Mum into creating masks and Transformers Art? I didn’t know ash could be made into a mask, or mud used as glue—that’s awesome!

      This afternoon, Everest and I decided to experiment with mud glue. It was a big mess trying to get the mud thickened to the right consistency. But we persevered and managed to glue all of Everest’s plastic blocks and empty toilet paper tubes together. It took close to two hours before we got everything to look right. It was quite fun, if you ignore the mess. Just look at my brother’s creation: Bumblebee, made entirely out of blocks, cardboard and mud! What a genius. He takes after me, obviously.

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      SOMETHING WEIRD ABOUT WOMEN

      Grandma called again. She complained to Mum that Grandpa has been acting strange. For example, he has been losing

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