Wacky Day

Yesterday started with us not knowing where to go. We (Puspha, Swee Hung, Von Yen, Fen Fang and I) just wanted to go somewhere, but then couldn't think of where to go. At first the plan was to go to ВДНХ, an astronaut-related museum, but then the plan was scraped 'cos we were not really sure whether the museum was still functioning as a museum or is now a bazaar (need to do more research on it 1st). We ended up sitting on the 1st floor, fully dressed, thinking of where to go. Every now and then, people who were coming back from class would see us ready to go out, and say "it's cold today".

In the end, we decided to go to the train station 1st (I wanted to get train tickets to St. Petersburg for me and my parents), and on the way there, we are supposed to think of where to go. We finally decided to go to a place that Hajar and Nat were talking about in class about a month ago. A quick call to Hajar got us the directions to the place, it is called Kremlin in Izmailova.

After we got the train tickets, we headed to the place. The buildings were visible from quite a distance away; they were really big and colourful. As usual, we were busy clicking photos even before entering the place. Only when we entered the place, we were told that there was a fire not so long back, and the repair work is still going on, which means the place was mostly closed. There were some kids running around and stuff, but then the whole place was almost empty. It is supposed to be a Russian traditional park like thingy. I think, if it was open, there would be shows and people dressed up in traditional costumes walking around. Since we were already there, we took some photos here and there, and decided that we would definitely visit this place again and hope that it is open then.

they even have a vodka museum

As usual, going out means eating out. Deciding where to eat took some time too. Since it's been a really long time since we ate out in a restaurant, we decided that we are not going to eat fast food. Finally, we decided to go to an Asian restaurant which we had been to once before. We reached the restaurant at about 3.30pm, still in time for the business lunch. We ate, and we talked and we took lots of crazy pictures, and then decided that it was time to leave the place.

Von Yen de-mushrooming my mi goreng

Von Yen and I having who has the bigger eye competition


Puspha did not want to be left out


I throw another challenge at Puspha

Puspha retaliates (we decided to call it a draw)


Swee Hung's turn to make a face

Since we were all feeling thirsty and not really in a hurry to go back home, we stopped in a food court on the way bachome and had drinks and ice-creams. By the time we reached home it was about 8pm. The day ended with us watching a movie (August Rush) while eating chips and drinking juice. A day spent traveling in the metro and eating and eating. Not too bad, huh!