'Cheong Wa Da'e aka 'House of The Blue Tiled Roof' or 'Blue House' is the executive office and official residence of the South Korean head of state, the President of the Republic of Korea... So it is very obvious where they got the name from... The colour of the roof of course...

We were not allowed to go into the 'Blue House'... So strolling along the path just outside the 'Blue House' was what we can do... It was beautiful and peaceful... Not many cars were seen around there... But there were a lot of police around that area... I guessed this was very normal because someone really important was staying there!!! Besides the police, there were also a lot of tourists and both me and my darling were one of them :)

ENJOY THE PHOTOS...

This is the 'Blue House'...

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First destination... 'Ice Gallery'!!! In my mind I was thinking about this... "So nice don't even have to go Harbin and I can experience real ice sculpture"... Actually I wanted to go Harbin instead of Korea but I scare my darling and my concubine (my DSLR) cannot 'tahan'... So decided to go Korea instead... So this was kind of a bonus for me because I always wanted to see ice sculpture... So it was kinda like hitting two birds with one stone!!!

WARNING!!! BLUE PHOTOS BELOW!!!

I was wondering whether anyone really propose in here???

Cute little ice piano...

Merry Christmas!!!

Ice Vodka anyone???

Move over Kimi Raikkonen... The 'REAL' ice man is in da house!!!

My darling was posing besides an igloo... It was all blue so the shape is kinda hard to see...

Ice PC???

Should asked them to upgrade the system to Windows 7... Windows XP is sooooo outdated!!! (But I'm still using it!!!)

Toilet bowl... Try to use it if you dare!!!

Eiffel Tower made entirely out of ice...

My darling tried to stop the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling!!! Guess she succeeded...

The one in yellow is our tour guide... She's from Korea but she speak fluent Chinese... The other one is the instructor for our very own ice sculpting class... She's speaking very very fast in Korean but none of us can understand... So what is the best way to show us??? I guess you can say action speaks louder than word...

Some of our travel mate...

Our task was to make a mug out of a block of ice...

The main tool for ice sculpting... Presenting the 'chisel'!!!

The block of ice was pre-cut by them...

Shaping my handle...

My darling trying her very best...

Behold the mighty ice mug made by none other than yours truly!!!

Look at the carnage!!!

The ice sculpture exhibit was kinda small (Felt like being in a freezer of a refrigerator) but I'm still happy because this was my first time seeing a real ice sculpture... Touching and feeling all the ice with my own hand and sculpting my very own ice mug were something that I will remember for the rest of my life...

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First day was the most boring day... I don't think we can called it the first day because our flight was scheduled at 12.05 midnight... So we actually wasted a full day!!! Spent around 6 and a half hours on the plane and it was really boring... We are taking Korean airline and the plane is an Airbus 300 which is really small in my opinion... The plane didn't even have an individual LCD screen and this really make things worse... We needed to share a large LCD screen in the middle of the plane and we can't choose whatever channel that we wanted to watch... So boring isn't it??? At least I still had my darling besides me...

Our breakfast!!! One thing for sure... The food was not really nice... Malaysian airlines food was in a different league of its own... My darling opted for omelette that came with a bake tomato, mushrooms and some wedges...

I chose fried rice and I'm really disappointed because the fried rice really sucks... The rice was half cook!!!

6 and a half hour later, we arrived at Incheon International Airport...

Very nice cactuses...

Very nice airport indeed...

The first day we arrived the temperature was a really nice -10 degree Celsius... Luckily both me and my darling were not afraid of cold... Felt really nice and this was the reason why I always chose to go somewhere cold because I really liked cold weather... But too bad this will not happened in Malaysia!!! So I needed to enjoy myself to the max during this 7 days!!! Most of our travel mate couldn't stand the cold though...

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