Today lessons begin really early and i almost fell asleep during datenbanken if not for yvonne that do her yvonne-wakeing-pple-arm-tapping. haha.it is already a trademark. We were kinda in a rush this morning and didnt have time to make coffee to bring to school. The nearest i got to coffee was the coffee stain in my lecture notes from last week's lec. sigh.

 

After that i thot i had to rush for optoelectronics but in the end turned out that it was cancelled becos of excurksion week. sigh. But in the end we went for early lunch and we packed our own lunch of rice and vege which was close to our hearts. So chinese at heart. And it is pretty healthy too. Most importantly, can save money!all-in-one solution.

 

Today our stock (my floor level in my hostel) had a little outing to bad cannsatt fruhlingsfest! And the best part is, today is Dinkelacker day, so the biers are one for one! haha. It was really quite fun and better than last tuesday, besides the cool offer of course, but rather cos we are going with alot of pple we know, and the whole table is like familiar faces. Esp so when our other frens we met through the same exchange program as us also came along after the Landeskunde (german culture and history) class. I was supposed to go today as well but how can i resist the temptation to go out to play with my stock people! and fruhlingsfest ( spring festival ) is also part of german cultur yah. It is the 2nd biggest fest after oktoberfest.

 

Today is especially special too cos it is the Musikfireworks day too. I did managed to see fireworks but the musik was inaudible cos my ears are still ringing with musik from the live band.

 

It is really interesting to see how germans really let their hair down. When the work, they work hard, when they play, they play hard too. A german who had visited singapore last semester also as exchange student commented that there is not much festive celebration in singapore which is actually quite true cos there isnt really any large scale mb except like during countdown in sentosa or smthg but then again the atmosphere is different here, esp the stomping on the bench and everyone jus dancing together and making a effort to look into the eyes of the person u are beer mugs cheers-ing with else 7 yrs of bad sex as what i have heard. haha...

 

It was really fun going out together as a stock outing. The whole level was almost empty. And at the end of the day, have to dilute my tummy with tea! have a fear of having a beer belly, something which i nv hv to worried b4 in singapore! It is anti beer week for mi, which should be pretty easy to achieve than anti-cheese or anti-chocolate week which both didnt last a week. ahha..

Today muz hv been a lucky day cos

 

1. dipsy's bdae

2. darling's bdae

3. Mitch n Mike's married for 3 mths!

 

so many reasons to rejoice but i suddenly feel so far away from the happenings in singapore. On the macro side, i do not have to vote in this year election because i m studying overseas, but somehow it is like i jus turned 21 and supposedly my first time voting, having a teeny weeny influence on singapore's future,somehow i think it will be cool to be able to vote.

 

On the smaller scale, i miss out little happenings and novelities amongst frens in singapore. Like merina having won free movie tickets for "interesting" movies, nus having free concerts, muggersauruses all over nus during exam time, etc etc

 

But being here is smthg i wont regret, cos it's really more than what i can ask for. Surely certain things cannot be compared to singapore, like there is no place to go on sunday cos all the shops are closed. But with the right pple, (and nice pple), sundays dun hv to be boring. Today was really sunny for once and pple where studying or relaxing at the rooftop. It was pretty nice minus the wind cos if your worksheets get blowed away that is the end of your homework, probably to be found among some vineyard at the back or flowing along the canal in the front.

 

Then for dinner tina suggested bbq at the rooftop which was great and Matthias joined us too, helping us to set up the fire and all. The cool part was cos we lived on the highest level, so we just have to shift everything from the kitchen up to the rooftop. We prepared some satay sauce with cucumber and rosti which wasnt part of the bbq but something to fill our growling tummies. Oh yeah, anyone has any idea how to make the potato strips in the rosti stick together?Merina how did u cook last time? Anyway we jus gotta trial and error and that is part of the fun. Then tina made carrot salad and tomato chicken which taste great. Carlos came along later and made his really pro totillas which taste better bbq-ed than heated in pan. And with gouda cheese once again. Then we had bbq-ed apple and pears with honey yvonne's style as dessert which taste really great so nxt time i could do that too. It was really fun and when the sun set it got really cold and we sit around the grill and grilled our palms.

 

That was really fun eating together and exchanging cultures on food and stuff. We should really do that more often and with more pple perharps when it gets warmer and when the sun sets later in months to come.

 

 

Today is Dipsy bdae!

 

Happie bdae to u, happie bdae to u,

u r born in the zoo, happie bdae to u!

 

is today really a cool day to get married? was walking along the streets just now and there were a few mini celebrations for weddings. The tradition, not just in Germany, they say, goes like this: the day before the wedding, the groom and friends will go out and celebrate in many interesting ways. There was a guy who walked ard the streets collecting signatures on his tshirt which was pretty cool!

 

Jus seen michie wedding photos and they are really nice. Thx michie for putting all that up and all the captions.i wanna get married too! ahha..like so fun. lol.

 

When i first came to stuttgart Koenigstrasse i thot it was really like some cold shopping district with pple walking ard. But it gets better in spring and i m lovin it. There was someone playin the piano in the middle of the street and the groups of pple jus sit down ard the piano and jus relax and enjoy. reminds mi of the open air concerts outside esplanade but there isnt always enuff space for everyone and it only takes place like on special occasions like perharps christmas or new yr.

 

Jus another week more, i ld hv been here for 2 months. 2 months more of lectures, then half a month of exams and it is the end of the semester. Sheesh.Jus as when i m beginning to like the lifestyle here. Why muz time fly so fast? Esslingen is really a nice place to live in.

 

i think i ll return.

My referat on wednesday went well.Except my silly joke on "which food in Singapur ist the heaviest?" then i think i didnt translate heaviest properly then my joke is wasted! When i asked the class have you understand why? then nobody understood.sad sad.My "one-tonne" noodle!haha..i miss wanton mee.Merina! i miss the wanton mee in ubi. The uncle that always give a lot of wanton and chicken feet.haha.and the v.meaty smelly roast pork! Oh and the super spicy tom yam soup.Miss those days when we were working in ubi.

 

Ytd evening mi, yvonne and tina made choco vanilla pudding and banana soup. When tina suggested banana soup i was like banana??So cool!It turned out it is her first time too making the soup and it was all an experiment for us all. But wat i really like best was the fried banana sprinkled wif roasted coconut powder.heehaa.I think she is really adventurous at tryin out new recipes and always so successful! hee..nxt time i shld do that and become a great cook.wahahhaa

 

And it was alex's bdae too and we hv a little decorated pudding cake which was actually quite huge. haha.ate too much chocolate and this week shall be chocolate-free week. Last week was cheese-free week which lasted till the new packet of brie cheese was opened and the battle was lost.It was once again so yummlicious.haha.and my fav gouda or edamer cheese with nutella!ok, every paragraph has smthg abt food and this is really not a gd sign. Are singaporeans all abt food? Have to check out Yvonne's blog and see what she says.Food Food FOod?haha

 

Oh yeah back to alex's bdae. We had dinner tog in our cosy little kitchen which i m beginning to like more and more everyday. And then sang happie bdae in many many languages. haha..so fun.Jose brought his lappie too and we listened to mexican songs which were so full of emotions.I dunno how to describe yah.Mb like the french, romantic and slow and nice.

 

oh then we played wif whipped cream but it wasnt that bad actually. alex's face is still 90% face and 10% cream. No skill. haha..mb nxt time.the cream is still in the fridge.wahahha.oops secret is out.Haha.

 

Tina and yvonne went up to the rooftop admist all the mess in the kitchen and made "ALLES GUTE" out of tealights and it was pretty difficult cos the wind was quite strong. Then we all went up and played with wax which wasnt hot at all cos the weather was cool. haha.Then more singing and wax playing and tryin to make a singapore shape out of inverted germany map shape. ahha...

 

Cleaning up the wax was fun wif so many hands and we shovel till the floor prob came off too. but still not really clean cos we couldnt see clearly in the dark. Now it is sunny and hopefully the natural elements can help a bit??

 

then aft that we had an invitation to the opera and guess what?? no clothes! haha.lol.that was really funny and the pple was so enthu on helping us choose clothes and in the end i m tina from head to toe! It was really funny cos we tried on endless combination of clothes and shoes and Shi nan had a full length mirror which was really great! We even went to the 3 floor to borrow boots from the french gals and suddenly i feel like everyone is like so nice. It is like smthg i hv nv experience cos i dun hv an elder sister and like cannot share clothes or like give comments on dressing or smthg. And tina was really nice cos she really took effort to see how we look overall and we look great! Then in the end we helped her choose her clothes too and it was great fun tryin matching all the accessories and clothes. haha..when was the last time i did smthg like that? At mich's place where all the bridesmaids were like helping each other match stuff.That was so much fun too.Michie i wan to see the photos! hahaha.

 

HAHAHHAHAA..it has been a long time since i had so much fun with such simple things in life.

 

Oh dear i m so sleepy. Rehearsing for my presentation later and it is so boring repeating the same thing again and again. Cant wait for it to be over cos i dun wanna spend too much time on a subject which i m not claiming credit for in nus! v.praktisch.haha.But then again must let people know more about singapore mah.that is really really important. We are not jus a dot in the middle of nowhere. Haha..i m becoming so patriotic.i should celebrate National Day when i cum back!

 

Slept like a pig till 10 plus today and got a shock when i woke up! that is more than 10 hrs of zz and under the strong sunlight too. Ytd night was pretty tiring but fun. Went to the Springfest in Bad Canstatt,in stuttgart. it it like a whole amusement park, jus that everything is temporary and the best part is it doesnt look temporary. Will put up some pix aft i kop them from yvonne.

 

There were roller coasters, free fallers, and other spinning machines that really look colorful and attractive. but quite expensive so didnt play any. Rather spend on food which i did and did not regret. There were many Bier Tents or dunno wat u call them, but they are really huge and the interior just look like a club with live band bars, etc. Then there were rows of tables and benches like the primary skool canteens jus that people were dancing on the benches. At some point in time where there were so many people standing on benches till i felt the floor has risen! Only the waitress are like submerged below. ahha..and they are really cute in traditional dresses and v.pro too, carrying dunno how many mugs of 1 liter biers with their hands.And they are really heavy!

 

Oh yeah, i finally tasted Schweinhaxe which is Pork knuckles which is really really Yummlicious! For the 1st time in dunno how long i actually like pork fat! haha.normally i would remove the fat layer in Chinese dishes. And the skin was really crispy! Ok every sentence is like ending wif !!! becos that is really jus how it tastes. !!! haha. It taste nice with bier too. Oh yeah my fav is Radler which is like lemonade with bier and it has the fizziness like cocktail which i like. And they have alcohol free bier too which taste jus as good as normal! ahha..i cant tell the difference. But it was really an experience, and the germans are really wild at partying and alot of stamina too! Haha..but the not so nice part is that eveyone smokes. So my whole body smell really terrible after the whole thing and my tummy felt weird after the Pork knuckes did dunno how many roller coaster from jumping on the benches. Haha..but v.fun.

 

ok that is all for now and i ll prob rehearse my presentation one last time before i go to skool later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 15 was a zoo day! i feel like i m a kid again cos i m gg to the zoo zoo zoo, how abt u u u, u can come along too too too, cos we are going to the zoo zoo zoo!

 

Went to the Wilhelma zoo and spent the whole day there! We walked around the place like from 11 till 6 plus, only stopping for lunch when our butts can finally rest. And my legs too apparently still sore from last thursday's Taebo. But i ll be fitter, so no prob.

 

It is really much bigger than singapore zoo and loads of beautiful gardens to walk around in. there were alot of greenhouse mini jungles and i felt so at home again amongst tropical forest habitat cos it is humid once again!  Seen so many animals and fish that i really lost count. Oh there is orang-utan too which reminds me so much of Singapore zoo.

 

Oh yeah, made a discovery that cheese taste yummy with nutella.So sinful but yummy.oh i m on a no-cheese diet till tuesday morning cos i ate dunno how many slices of cheese at one meal at one go.So hopefully it is successful! cos the cheese has like 48% fat! Oh my god.haha.no more cheese for now.

 

Oh yeah, bought some chicken necks too in the evening at the supermarket.my fav again! And it is cheap too cos nobody likes them except me and doggies perharps.

 

so basically saturday was a really happie day for mi! high on cheese and chicken neck.

 

April 16 is "maria-day". Woke up in the morning to hand wash my clothes cos the sunlight was bright and warm. yeah! then vacuumed my room which is full of dunno wat white bits of stuff and naturally loads of hair. then now i can finally begin to start work.aft i finish this blog of course.

 

which is now!