International Ice Sculpture Festival

A space-themed festival of ice sculptures kicks off in Moscow - International Ice Sculpture Festival. I visited the festival 2 days ago despite the weather, it was below -20C and I can't believe that I went out for such a craze outing hehe. I have never really complain about getting freeze outdoor esp when it comes to photography. I have a lot of patience while Danbo enjoying his session but NOT this time. I actually freaked out and told him that I couldn't stand for even 1 more second! He is always so indisputable and you can hardly see him angry, hes always with good mood LOL hehe. Contenting him is like a piece of cake. Shhhhhh.

So, we didn't take a lot of photos and in fact I didn't even care to look for more sculptures and I didn't have a lot of fun. I can only remember my feet almost torn off. I read online about the festival, taking place from 4th until 8th of January and thus without second thought I told Danbo ; I wanna go! Because I've never seen an ice sculpture throughout my 6 years life in Moscow ( to be exact all my life! Heeee.) and he quickly agreed to go and again despite the weather!

These astronauts are my favorite sculptures!

I became wiser a lil slower, second thought how can they demolish the sculptures if the weather gonna be constantly below sub-zero, am I right? And its an outdoor exhibiton, in a garden, why whould they wanna demolish all these sculptures when the festival ends by 8th? Of course nobody would destroy'em! Foolish me... It would be a fun trip if the weather wasn't that bad. And when I was there, the Russian team is still building the sculpture so I guess maybe by end of January/February, there are more to see. Plus I am in exam break for god sake! Heeee. So I went for a total-fooled-outing!

But anyway let me tell you about the festival ; International sculptors came all the way to Moscow building sculptures up to five meters tall, among them the legendary rockets Soyz and Vostok ( by Russians of course). There are also the heroes of Star Wars and fantastic galaxies. At night the composition turns more colorful, as different lights create a special space atmosphere. The festival located at Cosmo Park, VDHX. You gotta pay for the entrance fee. Talking about paying... I can actually go for free after the actual festival date right? Haha! Again the ice sculptures will stay there for at least 1-2 more months due to the temperature. So peeps, don't be hurry. Wait for a better weather and perhaps for a free entrance? Heeee. I MIGHT go again - many sculptures are still in the process.

It wasn't a good outing, and I was disappointed. The disappointment wasn't totally because of the weather, the festival wasn't as good as, as grand as how the news'd mentioned. Its normal that the russians exaggerate issues.

I don't know why they placed these stupid animals on it! Maybe the tiger can scare off the kids so that they wouldn't climb onto the slippery sculpture? Maybe LOL =p

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So, after an-hour-of-fast visiting, we went to the center for shopping-spree (again!). I just shopped 2 days before past 2 days lol =p Well like any other winter sale, I do shop. Not a lot but never empty-handed. And shopping is like my life, or to be exact used to be my life. I don't know what happen to me lately but I found myself having some shopping disorders. Haha! I still remember how my sisters and bros complained about my shopping-attitude, and they hate to go shopping with me because they needa wait too long and walk from morning till night. I will only be home when the shops close. But thank god I have Danbo now, he does all his jobs hehe!

I used to love shopping, I used to love all the apparels and thingy I bought home, trying them all once I got home, getting excited about it. But ended up I abandoned them inside my wardrobe ~ the same old Kubi Disorder. That was okay. NOW I am even worst. I truly enjoyed the shopping moment, truly madly deeply I do but I keep them aside once I got home and the worst part is I didn't get excited at all. I am excited only when I am getting'em but not anymore when I own'em! What happen to me? I am a lil worry myself. Or maybe just because exams are near and I get a lil stress after 2 destress-shopping-spree? Damn. I hate this feeling! Excitement no more.

Anyway, checking out my wish-list. I always buy things I didn't want to. I wonder why. I wanted a knee length black boots but I ended up with 2 ankle boots. And I wanted a black wool coat, but I bought a colorful coat (again!). I seldom wear black. Yeah seldom! I love colors too much Heeee. Conclusion I told myself many times I shouldn't make a wish list because it will be forever unfulfilled. And one thing I dislike about shopping in Moscow, is that you have to worry buying the same piece of apparel as other Malaysians in Moscow LOL =p To me it doesn't matter as long as I love that piece and it looks good on me! And rarely people will buy the same thing because I like odd-stuffs. But it happened once!

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11 more days to exam! Forget about food and shopping, at least for the near 2 weeks. Then I can have all my life back! OMG. What a lengthy post. Needa get back to study =) Night peeps!

p.s : I complained but I still do take 'a few' pictures hehe!