Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Back in sunny Singapore!

This morning, (or was it yesterday? I don't know. I'm pretty confused with the whole timeline nonsense) we left Foyer Beausejour for good. Oh how I will miss the place. My home for 26 days. I will miss the neverending lunches and dinners. Tortilla Boy, Matador, Perut, Jack(not really), Ricardo, HotRedJacket... I will miss saying Salut/bonjour/ciao to everyone and anyone on the streets, everyone's just smiling.

I mean, if you were to do it here in Singapore, everyone will think you're some kind of poser.

Blearghh.



So we left Fribourg for Zurich Flughafen. I swear Zurich has the worst system ever. We took 40 freaking minutes to check in! What nonsense is that!





Emirates has this weird-ass system of being so anal about punctuality of the passengers and THEY themselves cause delays. We are all there on time, 40 mins before departure.. and 20 mins after the scheduled departure time, we are still taxi-ing around.




I want to emphasize again that Emirates is STILL the best airline everrrrrrrr, even though they cause unnecessary delays. The cabin lighting so totally rocks!



Their inflight meals are uncomparable. Once just now the stewardess asked "Coffee, tea or ice cream?" I almost grabbed her by her neck to shake her and scream "WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?!?!" Obviously ICE CREAM!!!!!!! Ice cream on the plane ballssssss!



Plus on Zurich-Dubai, we got their new airbus, with the new entertainment system, ICE, which ROCKS.



600 over channels of movies, tv shows, disney cartoons, old shows, music soundtracks and albums, all totally scannable. So you can watch what you want, when you want.



I took the liberty of watching Aquamarine (annoying chickflick), Pocahontas!!, Little Mermaid, Friends and my ultimate favourite Pretty Woman! When it got to the sweet ending, they had to collect the freaking headphones! Do you know how PISSED I WAS!!?!?! ARGHHHH. Dah takleh berfeeling feeling.



The rest of the time I was listening to Franz Ferdinand's album and other assorted albums, including Westlife's. Haha shut up okay. Don't deny it. At one point of time everyone DID like westlife.



Zurich-Dubai was the best 6 hr flight I ever had. I was always occupied and..yeah it was great. Except we didnt have that much legroom.

We got to Dubai at 2 mins past midnight and I went to solat what I needed to solat at the mosque in the airport. Comfy. I like. We sat around and boarded our homebound flight at 2-ish am, but only took off at what 330am?

I pretty much slept through the Dubai-Sing flight, woken by turbulence. We had some MEAN turbulence there. And I went to the Belt, greeted by my parents and Babs and Hirmyyyyy! hahaha. I swear Hirman must have thought I was nuts because my jaw literally dropped when I saw him there. hahah. Too bad you're a guy hirman, if not I would have pelukked you too.

Haha. Okay lets not go there.

Anyway, I went to fetch my sister at her school just now and while I waited at the foyer for her, she came up from my left and shrieked "KAKAKKKKKK!!!!!!" and I went "AHHHHHHH!!!" and we hugged, di hadapan khalayak ramai. I'm sure they thought we were mad. haha!

So anyway I do miss Switzerland already, but I'm happy to be back here, nonetheless. No place like home yup. :)

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Monday, July 24, 2006
Leaving Fribourg for sunny Singapore.

Right now I'm praying SO hard for so many things.

I'm praying that everything I've bought here will fit into my luggage.

I'm praying that the luggage will still be well within the weight limit.

I'm praying for a safe flight back home.

I'm praying that my family and friends are in good health.

I'm praying I'll wake up tomorrow in time for the 1004 train.

I'm praying that I'll be fine lugging my luggage, carrying a mighty heavy backpack and 2 huge paperbags that are bursting with yummy chocolate goodness from the hostel to the Bahnhof.

PACKING IS SUCH A BITCH!!!!!!!!!

Zurich - Dubai EK 88

Dubai - Singapore EK404

Wednesday 205pm I will (insyaAllah) be back in sunny Singapore's worldclass Changi Airport.

Chicken rice here I COMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

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Left in awe

Interlaken was SO beautiful. Its such a small town, with majestic mountains as the backdrop. Shopping haven too!



Anyway we had to change trains at bern and we took a Deutsche-Bahn train!!!!!!! GERMAN TRAINS ROCK!!!!!! So super comfy with nice 6-seater cubicles. WOW! I love DB Trains! Next to Swiss Intercity double deck trains, of course!





Oh and since Interlaken is the last Swiss town we're visiting, I've decided to hold a inter-canton fountain water award. You know how I've been refilling my water bottle with fountain water right? Zurich, Fribourg, St Gallen, Schaffhausen, Geneva, Bern, Interlaken. (technically interlaken is considered to be under the canton of bern)

After tasting all the water from all the above mentioned cantons... The nicest, most refreshing water comes from..... Interlaken! I think its because the water comes from the mountains, so the water's ice cold and very refreshing. The rest all taste like they came from a stagnant river. Okay that sounds absurd. But whatever ah.

Haha so be sure to take Interlaken water! Its the best!









Joyce, Si Wei and I reached the Foyer at 9 plus? (Adi continued on to Grindelwald since he was using his Eurail pass) We went down to cook dinner anddddddd...guess who was cooking dinner too!!!!!!

TORTILLA BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, my spanish neighbour!!





A guy who cooks.. how HOT is that lahhh.




Okay fine this is a bad photo of him.

So poor thing, he was eating alone! Anyway the photos were taken by Joyce. I had NO involvement in the taking of the photos okay.

Plus he had such an appetising dinner lah. Pasta with fried chicken fillets. Ahhhhh. Today's a good day.

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*p/s: Dear Manna, On the way to church this morning, Rebecca and Si Wei bumped into....AURELLE. Sorry babe. I mean, its not like you would have gone to church right.

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Sunday, July 23, 2006
HAHA!

We're almost 20 and stuff like this still amuses us.

This was taken in a toy shop in geneva.

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Saturday, July 22, 2006
2 down, 7 to go.

I just came back from sending Yu Shan off AND a humongous shopping trip. Photos are with BeccaBurritto will get it later tonite perhaps. Argh, the weather is SO HOT its just makes you so lazy to do anything.

ANYWAY, speaking of hot, yesterday when I was downstairs cooking dinner, my Spanish neighbour the Tortilla Boy was cooking in the kitchen as well!!! I haven't seen him in quite a bit, just hear him coming back that's all. THEN TODAY! When we were just leaving the foyer for the bahnhof, Tortilla boy was JUST coming back to the foyer. WOW! Twice in two days! Sheesh man, I have such hot neighbours!

One side is the really nice lebanese girl, Nancy and the other side is Tortilla Boyyyy. Nancy is hot stuff la, really. I wish I could sneak a photo of both of them.

Argh okay la I desperately need to remove every piece of clothing from my body. Interlaken tomorrow! Yey!

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Friday, July 21, 2006
Last day of class!

Today was the last day of class! How time flies! I left the Foyer at 830am for Manor with Adi to develop the photos and put them in the frames. Freaking early lah, considering last night Joyce, Si Wei, Manna, Adi, YuShan and I were in Rebecca's room gossiping till 330am! I only had what, 4 hours of sleep? I woke up at 730..bah.



Class was fun today! It wasn't much of a lesson..Frau Probst made us go on a Amazing Race like thing around the university. IN GERMAN! OMG. And we had to walk around alone..in 5 minute intervals. So i was holding the paper, pen and the most impt thing of all..the dictionary. Later go wrong way how!




Dahsyat man. I must have been like super sleepy because the instruction said "Gehen Sie unter..." and I went UP the stairs, when padahal supposed to go down! Then I panicked because nothing on the paper made sense and I knew I was on the wrong route.

Michael, Ho Shan and I finished early and we sat in the mensa(canteen) while waiting for the rest. We still had a quiz about Switzerland that we had to do.



THEN, we met with the rest and sat at the mensa's outdoor terrace where we received our certs and other assorted articles.



Meine Lehrerin, Frau Probst und ich.


Mdm De Dardel! She's like the nicest woman on earth and has the prettiest porcelain eyes ever.


The best german class everrrrr.

The funny part was that while taking this photo, I stood in front of frau probst and i bent down, for fear of blocking her. So she told me "Ah amylia, nein, nein, ich bin gross genug.." WTH! hahaha. She told me not to bend down becos she was tall enough. haha. shes SUPER tall lah!

After all the hugging and goodbyes, we sent Manna off to the train station, where she left for Zurich to catch her flight to Norway to visit her brother. She's the first to leave! YuShan is leaving tomorrow, Huang Sha on Monday and the rest of us leave on Tuesday.



So soon!! And I HATE PACKING!!!!!!

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Edits!

Photos of yesterday's dinner are up already!

I tried to start packing. After most of my clothes went in, I think I'm screwed. No space for 5 pairs of shoes. 32892389743829 chocolate bars. And I'm still not done shopping for stuff to bring home!

MUMMYYYY!!!!!! HELPPPPPPPP!!!!!

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Updates!

Well I had planned to update yesterday, after we got back from BEAUTIFUL Le Gruyere but the internet was cranky. So here are the photos! If you thought Schwarzsee was beautiful, check gruyere out. Its at least 982734987239874298374 % more beautiful. You never run out of scenery in Switzerland. Really.

We got there by bus, to Bulle, and then by train from Bulle to Gruyere. Gruyere's very countryside-ish, something you'll never get in Singapore.





We entered the cheese factory, and our ticket was a packet of cheese. The cheese is NOTHING like our kraft cheese, which really isn't cheese, CHEESE actually. It was blearghhhh.



Not my cup of tea, really. There were like 3 huge chunks.. 6months, 8 months and 10 months.. I tried the 6 months one and the taste was really strong, so I didn't dare try the 8 and 10 month one. Haha!

Saw this really freaky looking cafe. Eww.



We walked up to Chateau Gruyere but kept stopping to take photos because the place was just too beautiful.








Yu Shan told me to take a photo of her. And Adi just hopped in, uninvited. Her facial expression is priceless.









and finally, we reach Chateau Gruyere.



THEN! After walking around Chateau Gruyere, michael and antje gave us a treat to the authentic Swiss meringues and DOUBLE CREAM.




Check out Adi's orgasmic expression, haha.

I swear to you, it was the bestestestestestest thing you can ever eat in your entire life. Yeah, it'll clog up your arteries but hey, who cares man, I'm in Switzerland.


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Anyhoos, its way past midnight now and I just got back from a totally great dinner at Mdm De Dardel's place.

Mdm De Dardel is the head of the University of Fribourg's International Relations Office and she's been like our mother here. She ferried us to her house in her HUGE Volvo XC90 7-Seater.



We could see her house from the bridge, and from there it looked awesome, the kind shrouded by greenery... But when we got into her driveway, her house looked 932879832498237 times more magnificent.



She has a frickin pool lah! Her house is totally a dream home lah.















Ok time to sleep!

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