Russia 2008

Not Moscow or St Pete's, it's Vladivostok. only 2 hours away from Seoul and as excited as i was, i decided to treat myself to a timeless jovial meal of Macdonald's breakfast @ the Incheon airport before boarding.

woohoo.
so i went Russia.
and i return from Russia.
and i go again! how fun!

the story goes that silly me took the risk with the visa. Was stated 9 Oct but as there were KE flights only on 8 Oct, i bought the 8 Oct tickets. And so i got stopped at customs. And so got sent back to Korea on the immediate next flight. And so my first ever trip to RU lasted a total of 1 hour.

the small (not really for me tho) but expensive meal.
the small but expensive room.

i must have this affinity with fireworks. there were fireworks every night i was there! agent mentioned it's Putin's birthday apparently.
the very enthusiastic class of students.
the very jovial teachers gave me flowers!

very nice people.
caviar's their specialty. pity my taste aint that suited to such atas food.

very delicious Russian champagne tho! The red one's some wildberries drink that was equally tasty too!


due to the proximity to China, there are a lot of Chinese living and working in VVO actually.. hence one of these Imperial Palace restos.

i'm happy!

the Submarine, cant recall the name.


St Mary's Church.
Triumph Gate.

Golden Harbour Bay. There were all these yachts docked there the whole picture simply paints romance - to Singaporeans la.
me n my lamppost!


my hotel.

Had a Sunday morning to walk around before boarding the flight and hence went around my neighbourhood.

The billboard says "Great Minds Thnk Alike" and shows 4 men in exactly the same suits. Hm. I will have 4 diffrent suits from the same designers tho as i am sure if it's me, i won't like very much the idea of walking on the streets wearing the exact same thing as others..:P


the harbour. at this point i walked past a rubbish dump and a very big bee-like pest was apparently so attracted to me (or my smell) it kept hovering around me. i cldnt shake it off for some time and had to resort to running!

Electric tram! so exciting can!



Home Sweet Home! to Korea actually...