Weekend @ Kazakhstan

Usually weekends are fun, but when your with colleagues in a new place, you really need to muster all the enthusiam possible to venture out at -10 degrees.

I woke up at around 10 am, had a amazing bath, water was just short of scalding. As the guest house is fully furnished, we prefer cooking ourselves. The entire range of MTR's ready to mix and eat is here with us, not to mention the various podi's (powder's). Apart from that, we get vegetables from the local supermarket.

The lesser task of cutting vegetables and washing the utensils was assigned to me. Atleast I knew the food would be better considering my colleagues are cooking. It was a sumptous lunch by all standards. Idlis and sambar are good to eat anywhere in the world.

We then went shopping (as usual in our multi layered clothing), shoes, leather garments, and clothing. Walking is a daunting task, a wrong step can make u fall easily, as there is a thin layer of ice sheet on the road. Even cars spin, wheels refuse to turn as easily.

Making a reference to my earlier point, the women here seem to look likes cats without whiskers, except all of them can be called snow white.

A curious fact : Women outnumber men 3:1 here

There is a strong emphasis in fashion and PETA would have a field day here. Leather jackets with fur lining or hats made of fur, u can find them all. The women, as usual the culprits, despite the cold wear skirts as short as they can come with a variety of stockings. Even men follow fashion in their shoes, jackets. All of them seem to prefer the long pointed shoes.

Came back in the evening at 6, spent time watching the only Indian Channel which runs the same songs again and again. Played NFSU2 on my laptop, helped with the cooking and crashed.