unfall im weihnachtsmarkt..

both eufo and me deemed this as blog-worthy so here it goes..

both of us decided to go down to hamburg central after having not been to hamburg central for more than 2 weeks.. yupz, believe it or not, we have not been to hamburg central for more than 2 weeks.. see.. it was berlin, then köln, then it was lab-report week.. so yeah, we finally went to central today!!!

well, our main purpose was to visit the hamburger weihnachtsmarkt at rathausplatz.. but we were there too late so didn't get to see much.. but anyways, it was pretty much an adventure too..

weihnachtsmarkt started at moenckebergstrasse and went all the way to rathausplatz.. so much bratwurst, champignons, gluhwein, geschenken.. wow.. we called this, the high-class version of pasam-malam.. coz the stuffs are actually quite expensive.. well, finally made our way down to rathausplatz and boy, it was full of ppl.. yeah, on a tuesday evening.. can't imagine a saturday evening though.. anyway, the rathaus was opened due to some private event so we decided to go in and take a look, considering that the previous time we were at the rathaus, it was closed..

pretty cool to see a christmas tree in there.. and as usual, we were too engrossed in taking photos.. and then, there appeared this group of 4 guys in front of the christmas tree and asked for their photo to be taken.. and i did that.. but see, they were kinda drunk so one suddenly grabbed me on the legs and yes, i fell.. quite traumatised coz if he doesn't let go, i'm stuck there.. but after that, he was quite apologetic.. oh wells.. the effects of alcohol.. quite a funny bunch coz they wanted us to join them for a gluhwein session but nope, not when we have school tomorrow.. so that's the 'unfall im weihnachtsmarkt'..

continued walking around and saw so many wonderfully cute and beautiful christmas decor items.. you know i melt at the sight of decor items so yeah.. cheapo method?? take photos.. yupz, went passed this bakery and bought ourselves more food.. i got a rum-kugel and eufo got a sprit-kuchen.. the rum-kugel is really sinful and awesome but it fills you really quick too.. so super bloated now..

left about 9pm coz everything closes then.. hmm, must go back there again.. this time round, earlier so that can hang out longer.. =P

what to type here..

hmm.. getting really unmotivated to blog.. even if i had and have the time, i just don't seem to want to blog anymore.. perhaps coz it's all the ranting and whining.. time to get out of them all..

if there's anything i wanna whine now, i wanna whine abt school.. hmm.. studienarbeit.. not one but two!! spannend.. dateline?? by end of january.. including of one report and one presentation, subjected to question & answer from the floor.. and not to mention that i'm in the world of a headless chicken.. so yeah, so exciting.. and i just found out that all my old friends are no longer useful.. must start to shelf all of them.. they are namely, nusselt, prandtl, schmidt, stanton and everyone else.. hicks..

one big accomplishment of the week? eufo and me whacked a lab report for the whole of saturday and viola!! everything's done.. including modification of results.. actually she did that.. not to mention that we smoked our way through it as well.. =)

exams ending in singapore.. not that it bothers me.. just feel a little weird, coz usually this time, will be planning for 'what to do this coming holidays'.. hmm.. oh wells, waiting for the wedding photos to come in too.. and i just received yet another invitation for yet another wedding which i will be missing too.. but uncle bernard, make sure you include me for your celebrations back in singapore yah!! it will be so great to see debbie.. *laughs*..


winter wonderland.. not exactly, that's the state which my uni was in on sat morning.. friday was snowing like crazy!!!

köln.. cologne.. köln..

and so it was.. getting more unmotivated to update my blog and all.. but anyways, i went down to köln and back.. no cologne water though.. just didn't bother much with shopping.. was satisfied with just the company alone..

anyway, started the whole trip with a 757am train on friday morning to köln from harburg.. passing pastures of white due to snow.. and did i mention that it snowed for 0.5 hour last tuesday afternoon?? yeah, thank God that there's no need for an umsteigen.. finally got to köln hauptbahnhof at 1157am.. jawohl, 4 hours worth of journey.. liangzhu left on another train to aachen, while eufo and me decided to take a walk ard town.. really interesting city.. resembling too much of that of orchard road.. esp. the shopping area.. a little like the small streets of freiburg, minus the crowd..

met azman, raymond and samantha.. made our way down to the youth hostel, djh.. finally got rid of my bag and we went back to walk ard town.. went to the dom.. (seems like the typical thing which i will do at almost every place.. blame thomas!!).. but guessed what? in my attempt to take a photo, i burnt my own jacket.. yeah, the polyester melted due to the heat from the candle.. spannend!! man, tot i could save on shopping but nope, had to buy a new jacket on the spot.. boo.. and then, the schokolademuseum just had to close early on friday evening.. oh wells.. but this was pretty exciting.. sam bought a piece of chilli chocolate and after partaking it, we had to neutralise it with azman's marzipan..

friday ended with the arrival of folks from all over the place.. from kassel, dresden, leipzig, esslingen, karlsruhe, stuttgart, aachen, muechen, konstanz & köln.. the evening ended with a party, which ended up as a catch-up session for singaporeans.. jason, who looked too much like mok, was fiddling ard with his pirated dj turn-table.. there's too many ppl who resemble others one way or another.. too many friends who are friends of other friends.. man, talk abt frienster-ing again..

saturday started off with the climb of the kölner dom.. yes, thanks to thomas.. eufo and me just went all the way up.. man, but it's really really steep.. mel was wondering, why in the world did we go up that fast.. erm, blame thomas!! *laughs*.. too much vandalism but i won't complain when you get to see your own country being part of the vandalism.. even 'jurong west' appeared!! we were so tempted to draw the whole mrt line there.. and i honestly confess that i've not done that much exercise as compared to saturday.. after the dom, we made our way down to königswinter for a hike.. never fail to remind me of feldberg.. hmm.. last year, we went all the way up to feldberg to look at a pillar.. this year, we went all the way up to see the last wall standing of the schloss.. *round of applause*.. we went back to köln at about 4 plus in the afternoon.. it was followed by a free-and-easy session.. which conveniently ended up as a shopping trip in disguise.. nothing was bought though but rong jia, eufo & me ended up in nordsee, talking rubbish and eating.. the evening ended with part of the group leaving to pub, while the rest of us played charades.. man, it was a bucket full of laughter.. i never knew that 'pride and prejudice' is guised in the form of 'sir stamford raffles'.. and 'the statue of liberty' looks like a pose from that of manhunt contest.. well, and many more.. keve's personification of a lizard was nothing like a lizard.. man, who can forget william and his lizard act during a session of guesstures at youth camp many years ago..

sunday came and went with edb flying into germany.. lunch was great, well, at least i thought so.. left for the hauptbahnhof at about 5pm to take our 545pm train back to harburg.. and i nearly fainted when i learnt the karlsruhe party got home at about 9 plus..

all in all, despite having not seen much of köln, this has been a much better trip than berlin.. perhaps it's the company.. perhaps it's the city itself.. i don't know.. but it definitely was an excuse to enjoy the weekend and catch up with friends.. well, at least for me, it was an excuse to meet up with samuel & rong jia.. hmm, those of us who braved through 4 semesters of german language and now, here at last.. but we are missing on chengho, wengkeong, yuhan & kaiqing.. oh wells.. and it's also an opportunity for me to sprout max. amt of english, chinese, hokkien, singlish..

so till singapore, then shall we all meet again..

i love clean, clean room..

and i cleaned my room today.. tomorrow is laundry day.. i love the smell of washing powder.. what a way to spend my weekend..

went shopping on saturday.. how exciting can i get.. i mean, that's a girl's favourite past-time.. bought another top.. hmm, think someone should stop me from shopping.. was at chengyi's place for dinner and for sleepover.. as usual, was coughing that badly.. i really wonder what's wrong with me.. so i've decided to silent the crowd once and for all, i'm gonna go see the doctor tomorrow.. watched red eye.. not a really that great movie.. the movie just accelerated all the way.. boo.. as usual, no studying done.. great!!

oh, and so i heard, dragostea din tei is the newfound craze in singapore.. *laughs*.. i'm so ahead of time.. =P

effort is..

waking up at 630am on a sunday morning, to join the crowd at the fischmarkt...


waking up at 7am on a wednesday morning, just to run down to landungsbruecke and watch queen mary 2 docking at the hamburg hafen..

berlin.. berlin..

not doing any work tonight.. then again, when have i ever done work since i started sep??

i finally went away from hamburg.. looking forward really much to the trip to berlin but it's unfortunately not as great as i expected it to be.. maybe coz it's too short?? maybe coz there's too much that i wanna see but there's no time or coz i dunno how to get there?? maybe coz i spent too much time in the museums?? maybe like what rongjia said, coz i'm simply not a history student?? too many maybes..

left for berlin on friday at 845 am.. nice train ride but didn't fall asleep, as a result, i fell asleep in the bus during the city tour, only to wake up just in time to catch the remains of the berlin wall.. the city tour was crap.. it was as good as a 'touch-and-go' session.. and finally when we got to photo-worthy places, the sun has already set.. i'm so motivated for the trip.. boo.. spent 2 hours in the berlin wall museum at checkpoint charlie.. goodness!!

saturday was spent in museums as well.. the deutsche filmmuseum and the pergemon museum.. well, if you are into film history and greek mythology, they would appeal to you as well.. but dinner was good.. had mushrooms with baked potatoes and turkey!! schmeckt sehr gut.. lecker!! und tomatensuppe auch.. yummy!! as usual, the rest of the group went partying and the finnish guys are the best of the lot.. they went till it's so late, they skipped much of the tour to sleep in..

the last stop was the judische museum on sunday morning.. man, it was huge but i wished that it was the holocaust museum instead.. guessed that will interest me much more.. anyway, with a museum too huge and too little time, as usual, we didn't finish the museum.. it was then 1215pm.. in the name of not missing the train, we were at the hauptbahnhof by 1245 though our train was at 1345.. so exciting right?? there's nothing much at the hauptbahnhof area..

so yeah, that's the end of my trip.. if there's anything to comfort me, i bought a piece of the berlin wall, hoping that it's authentic.. and a shot glass, which has a huge crack, but i love shot glasses, so no comments allowed.. man, i'm gonna have a big problem bringing everything home.. too much glass and too many rocks..

think i caught a bug on the train back from berlin.. coz i'm coughing like nobody's business now.. hmm.. but no biggies.. if anything, i'm insured by 55 euros/month + 10 euros/3 months.. dumm!!

hmm.. wondering what to do this weekend.. studies seems to be the last thing on my mind.. oh no, i need a brainwashing session to wake myself up and study.. =P

musing away..

hmm.. got into a really off-tangent state few days ago.. chills, i'm not pms-ing, neither is school getting to me.. but it's just one of those days whereby you just feel like this.. apologies to those of you who were talking to me then.. really really off tangent.. but 2 sweet darlings (in a way) got me out of the state and despite the weather being so cold here.. both of them warmed my heart a lot.. really!! and i really miss them loads..



one has always been a wonderful sunshine and a really sweet monkey.. who's going down under soon for holidays!! enjoy yourself k?? take all the photos and show me yah!!! missing you all back home.. and so happy that you did well for your promos.. strive hard and study hard yah!! talk more with ya when you are online..

the other.. there's so much i wanna tell her but it's not coming out here.. lost for words and i rather just tell it straight to her as well.. but you know what dearie? you really warmed my heart that night.. i'm really really glad to hear and talk to you.. and i really wished that i could give you a big bear hug, rather than that small tiny icon from msn.. come, let me try and give you a big bear hug from here!! *HUGZ*.. really miss ya loads and miss seeing ya too.. write more to you after your exams.. =D

anyways, i've been here for a month!!! school has gone underway as well.. man, i'm still not motivated.. and believe it, i'm continuing with german here.. yeah!! 5th semester of german language.. man, if i don't improve after this, odd to whack myself in the head.. but otherwise, everything is still functioning really slowly.. i need to read more and read faster but when they are in german, i spent 2 hours on one paragraph, using a lousy online-translator.. i wanna faint man!!

last saturday was a trip to bremen.. quite an unplanned adventure.. siang fung lost her wallet so we went bremen twice in one day.. the fundbuero just contacted her that they have found her wallet but it's such a hassle to get it back.. but yeah, more planning to do to get her wallet back from bremen.. hopefully it gets done before this friday.. oh yah, i've just uploaded the photos for my 1st mth here.. go check them out..

it's been a long long journey and i just want things to settle into place.. daylight saving hour is over so germany is now 7 hours behind singapore.. just finished my bananas & grapes, so i'm back to apples again.. will be off to berlin on friday with the uni.. so exciting right? the international office organised this trip and it starts on a friday so that means that, if anyone has classes on friday, they will be legitimate to skip classes!! woohoo!! so exciting.. as good as encouraging one to skip class.. so should i do that??

musing away.. till next time then.. take care everyone!!