Andy Warhol Lazy Sunday

So, today a group of friends and I all went to the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Seoul Museum of Art.  We got there around 1:30 and there was a massive line running all the way down the hill.  We got our tickets for about 12,000 won each and the exhibit was interesting at first but got kind of boring because the massive crowd made it rather unenjoyable after a certain point. Some pieces of art that really stuck out to me were the blacklight painting of Jesus at the Last Supper, Sylvester Stallone with his huge doe eyes (I think Warhol was gay), and of course his artistic take on Marilyn Monroe's portrait.  One thing that made me unhappy was this ajumma stepped on my left pinkie toe and i was wearing a new pair of flats so on top of trying to break them in, she inflicts massive pain on my left foot.  And while I was in the bathroom, I stabbed myself trying to tear the toilet paper on the plastic teeth that separate the paper from the entire roll.  So yeah, I was not a happy camper at the end.  Here are some pictures we took at the exhibit:

The Museum:

Inside:

With the famous Campbell's soup can:

No, your eyes aren't deceiving you, these statues were designed to look like they're squished.  It gave me a headache looking at them:

Afterwards, we all went out to eat some Korean food and I had bibimbap.  It's starting to grow on me now.  I used to only like dolsot bibimbap but the one in the metal bowl is tasty as we.  Kimchi is also becoming more and more delicious.  The juk restaurant had the best kimchi I've had so far but apparently there's this soup place near the school that JP and Anna rave about.  I will have to go there and judge myself ^^

We parted ways after eating and JP and I went out to explore.  We got some ice cream before our mini-expedition and I must say, coffee flavored avacado ice cream is simply divine (even though it doesn't sound that great).  The packaging was quite elegant as well:

We randomly started walking and ended up in the enormous Namdemun Market.  JP had to leave to meet his dad later on so I went off on my own into Shinsegae.  Everything in that department store is expensive and I was so scared to even touch the clothes.  The sales associates were eagle eyeing me and when I went into a store they stuck to me like glue, which was kind of annoying.  I then learned to go into a store with the "I can buy anything in this store, so buzz off!" mentality and just kind of ignored the stalker sales associates.  There are actually some good finds if you look hard.  I saw a couple of cute shirts for $9 but decided to pass because I'm on a budget.  I basically took the escalator up all 14 floor and browsed through each floor.  That took a good 2.5-3 hours to do so.  On the 11th floor, there are a bunch of restaurants and a Sky Park.  Here are some pics of the park and some of the plastic food models at a restaurant:

At the basement level, there was the grocery section and I went around eating all the free samples. Free gourmet food? Hell yeah!  Some of the basic groceries such as milk, fruits and veggies were reasonably priced.  Not as cheap as Homeplus but pretty darn close.  There were some more restaurants and snack stands down there as well.  I got some delicious legit shikkae (cold rice drink people usually enjoy at a jimjilbang) for 1000 won ($1) and there were things like pastries, mandoo, coffee buns, etc that looked so appealing but I was too full to even think about buying them.  All the snacks weren't ridiculously priced as I thought they'd be...in fact, some of the prices were the same as street food pricing.  Here's the first sushi conveyor belt I've seen here. Plates were $1.50-$5 each

A steamed bun place.  It smelled wonderful:

Afterwards, I went back to CJ because my feet were killing me. I watched a Taiwanese movie called Hear Me and loved it.  The almost whole dialogue was in sign language and the simple yet moving plot brought me to tears and made me laugh later on.  I really recommend it to anyone looking for a touching movie. That's all for today! Will write later!