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..
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