Travelling Extravaganza - Seoul

This is, I believe to be the last travelling extravaganza I'd have until a few good months before I'll get to travel again *cross fingers*.

Though my eye was still under recovery then, I applied nail lacquers for the trip for vanity's sake and also to console myself not to keep thinking of my condition. With that, I took Color Club's Otherworldly from my nail lacquer stash & applied them onto my nails.

Seriously, I've bought it more than 3 months ago but I had no idea why I did not use it till now. Perhaps I was hoping the blue and the glitter will elevate my mood somehow. Nonetheless, the application for Otherworldly is very smooth and I only used 2 coats for this.

Being one who love Seoul, this trip wasn't very enjoyable to me due to one and annoying reason - my eye. As mentioned in my previous blog post 'Eye Infection Gone Bad', my eye's condition had gone terribly bad during my trip there. I was really thankful to my partners in Seoul who took such good care of me & even offered to bring me to an eye specialist just to get my eye checked. Without them, I'd have freaked out in a foreign land!

话说回来...although I did not truly enjoy my trip (physically), I did manage to do some retail therapy there, heh. My shopping desire in Seoul was pretty objective - Hair accessories, anti-dust caps if any and foot masks (since I'm allergic to most korean skincare products). My most extensive loot? Definitely the iPhone anti-dust caps and hair accessories! I basically had a serious overhaul on these 2!

iPhone anti-dust caps!
Some are giveaways, some for self-keeping of cos!

Hair accessories overhaul!
Some on the right were for my girl, the rest...MINE!

Honestly, I bought more than those...but somehow, due to my eye, I wasn't in the best of mood to take a lot of pictures and thus, these 2 were the only ones I took when I was in Seoul. When I came back from Seoul, I was literally focused on seeking a cure for my eye and didn't think of taking any other loot I've brought back from Seoul anymore. Am truly sorry I couldn't share the joy of Seoul's shopping haul for this time.

Let me get my eye fully recovered and I'm sure I'll be able to tune my mood back to normal & blog with more energy again!

Creepy Hotel Experience in Seoul

I was so tight up from work & home stuff since i got back from Seoul, Korea, that i practically didn't had time to update my blogs. That explains the lack of updates for the past 2 weeks. Now that i've settled most of the loose ends, let me relive an encounter i had when i was in Seoul.

Well, it wasn't my 1st trip to Seoul since most of my partners are located there but this time, i flew up to meet a new partner. Since they are situated nowhere near the usual hotel i stayed whenever i was there, we took a new hotel. It was a wrong decision.

Just look at the hotel entrance...

Where in the hell will a hotel block up their entrance glass door with such thing!? We got very paranoid, feeling this is like a love hotel in Seoul. However, it's not, though it does look like one.

Check out the passageway to the hotel rooms. Don't they look sleazy to you? The overall feel of staying there really drove my entire mind crazy, within 4 days.

It wasn't us who plan to stay here but actually our partners who claimed that this hotel seemed to be fine. Apprently, they didn't do their homework well enough. They got so embarrassed when they brought us there & looked so apologetic. What to do, we gotta put up in this hotel for the rest of the days...it then turned out (from another partners i met up personally when i was there) that this is a hotel for travellers. And in Seoul, hotels for travellers means they're not to the standard of those group hotels.

To give this hotel just a little credit, their rooms seems pretty decent and cozy...in a way.

That's the interior of the hotel room & as a matter of fact, the interior of the rooms on every floor are different. It's really just the general feel of the hotel that gives me the creepy & unpleasant feeling to stay in. The room itself was pretty fine.....

And so, the morale of the story is.....DON'T ever choose a traveller's hotel to stay when you are in Seoul if you are one who is more picky over accommodation! Though i'm the type who don't mind cheapee hotels, i hate one who flims up their hotel entrance making it looks like an indecent hotel!