Friday, January 26, 2007
-cough!-

OH NEWS OF THE DAY!!!!! I have Chris Daughtry's Album: DAUGHTRY! It RAWWWKSSSSS I swear!!!! I loves loves loves it la!

Started coughing today. Sucks.

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My sister walks into the living room

Sister: -to parents- Can you send me to school tomorrow? I need to be in school at 710am.. (its a saturday)

Mum: AHhh ask Daddy..I want to sleep!

Dad: -pauses- -points to me- Kakak send ah..

Me: WALAO!!!!!! I have 8am-8pm today I want to wake up late tomorrow ah!

Dad: Alar, you have tuition at 11 anyway right? Plus you haven't driven for a long time (EXCUSE ME!!!! I've been driving the past month!!) already...must practice..

Mum: Yah yah yah -nods enthusiastically- (WALAO!!! Never support me!!)

Sister: So Kak...send me k? Please ah pleaseeee.. -gives me some act sweet face and smile which I feel like stuffing into a Turkey haha-

%$^$#%&#$^%&

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Okay the rest of the EURIP PICS!

So anyway this is a little out of the timeline because I blogged the events by theme, you know, the two restaurant dinners together and whatnots.

The hostel "party" actually happened on the 24th of December simply because all the restaurants were closed and we had no where to go to eat. The germans really take their holidays and weekends seriously. All shops are closed means all shops are closed.

So this is the part where I feel rather touched because the Profs really took care of our welfare la..Knowing that we wouldn't have food, they organised this party thing so we had to go out a few days earlier when the shops were still open to get our supplies. And they even gave us allowance! How rocks is that man.

ANYWAY.




Most of us were down early to prepare the food stuff. The groups that were incharge of the pizzas, fish fingers, nuggets etc had to use the MICROWAVE to cook it. (that's why I say "party" because most of the things we bought were instant stuff.haha.) So poor thing right? But nevermind, they did an excellent job!

My group was incharge of drinks so.. Nothing much to do there, but I was helping with the mashed potatoes ok!




Then Prof Lear and wife and bus driver came down and it was nice that they were pleasantly surprised at the spread.




And then he said the table was arranged in such a way that it started off with the healthy stuff, ok stuff, deadly and death stuff. haha.






We spent the rest of the night exchanging gifts and behaving crazily. I've got videos but lazy to edit and upload. Heh.

So anyways, of all the rooms at the Munich hostel, Shah and I were lucky enough to have each other as roomies..we were also the only room in the entire hostel which had a balcony!! That was like our natural fridge. All the drinks and food that were left unfinished after the party went straight to the "fridge".

It was cold and colder at night so all the unfinished coke and sprite and iced tea we just left out there. It was ice cold when we poured it into our mugs. Roxxorssss.




EVERYTHING was in our room.




Oh and the cakes and some cookies you see on the "death" table were from Alois Dallmayr (i'm sure some of you have heard of it), this place which specialises in fine dining. Now its swimming with other supermarket goodies.

Having the food in our room sometimes has its perks too! When we're hungry.. we just go to the fridge. Mwhahaha.

This is Shah.


Or-horrr.

Haha but on the last night Shah went to aggressively distribute ALL the leftovers.

Shah -carrying BAGS of leftover cake and chocolate and cookies-: -knocks on other EURIPmates door/enters forcefully- HELLO! The trip is coming to an end so please keep this food for rememberance!

Everyone tried to run away from Shah but she was SO AGGRESSIVE!

One guy, Jian Yu ran into his room because Shah was chasing after him with the bags of cakes, chocolates and biscuits and before he could close the door, Shah THREW in the whole thing and it landed into someone's suitcase. HAHAHHAHA

We spent like 2389472398743 hrs laughing about it!

Fastforward 3 days and it was time for us to leave. We left our Munich hostel--home for 13 days at 5am for a 6hr drive back to frankfurt! Prof Lear had a flight to catch at 2pm so we had to make sure he didn't miss his flight.

Anyway the hostel was one of the better ones we stayed at. There was wireless too! Toilets were attached and Shah and I were lucky cos our room was huge.




Shah's bed


My bed

Only thing was, the walls aren't very sound proof so our first few days there, the hostel was pretty packed and at 7am some clown decides to blast music. 7AM!!!!!



Needless to say we were all pretty disturbed by it.

If you're wondering why we were sitting OUTSIDE our rooms to use our laptops... my room had no wireless signal. the only way for the laptop to detect it was to sit outside. haha. Loser right.

Anyway.

Of course, once in Frankfurt, we ended up shopping some more. :D:D

Shah, Dazril and I had our last Nordsee meal. Nordsee is something like LJS here..fast food but they sell only seafood stuff.

Dazril: Eh look! Amy minum beer!!




It was apple juice.

OH!!! LET ME SHOW YOU THE FUNNIEST BICYCLE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!

What is Dazril pointing at? Hmmm.



Lets take a closer look, shall we?



MWAHAHAHHAHAHA. Vulgar sia. Pity those German kids who ride around in it.

Then it was time to go back to the airport to catch our flight at 11pm.





Sometimes ah I really don't know what to say to this guy. He was leaning back on his trolley.




And this marks the end of my EURIP 2006 trip!

Symposium coming up soon! GAH!

Labels: EURIP

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Down sickkkk :(

Before I went to sleep last night, I was already feeling a little weird.

I used the SARS thermometer they gave us during my JC days (now I realise how handy the thermometer is) that I keep in a little box on my study table.. BAH!! 37.7 Deg. Okay nevermind, maybe the thermometer is still warming up, after not being used for such a long time.

So I went to sleep.

I woke up around 4am feeling extraordinarily warm and my head was spinning. I stuck the thermometer in my mouth again (I put the thermometer under my pillow with my handphone haha) and it read a whopping 38.8. (used my handphone light to read the thing haha)

Tried to go back to sleep but couldn't. A while later the alarm rang and I nudged the sister and told her about the temperature of my body. Told my mum I didn't want to go to school because I was seriously feeling like I was going to die. Plus I think my parents spread their cough+sore throat post haji syndrome to me, so my throat was feeling super funky as well.

Really every inch of my body ached and i was in some serious pain. I had to pray Subuh at an incredibly slow pace because my head was spinning and it became worse during Rukuk and sujud and when I got up again. Low blood pressure or something.

Popped Panadol Extra and went back to bed. Temperature check again: 39.2 deg. I was actually perspiring in the 18 deg aircon room. What's wrong with me?!

I woke up at 10am and took temperature again..37.2 Okay lah not so bad. I contemplated on going to school since I had 3 lectures today. But decided not to.

So that was how the day went for me.

I can't stop listening to James Morrison!

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So anyway today I'll blog about whatever's left of Munich. One day we visited the German Museum. It was this huge place with everything German. Planes, space shuttles, ships submarines..super cool.



Checkout the most romantic and sweetest couple ever!


And here are some left over photos which I forgot about.



And Castle photos.



Us and Prof Wohland!

Haha! Funny right funny right? You must look at everyone individually then you will start to laugh spontaneously! Ok fine maybe its just me haha.

Well since we spent the festive season in Munich, we had a few festive dinners.

On Christmas we had dinner at a restaurant in downtown Munich, Augustiner am Dom. The restaurant was famous for their Gluhwein. Prof Wohland wasn't with us because he went back to Frankfurt to spend Christmas with his family.


My group decided to wear the same colour for the dinner. The colour code was red or its derivatives. That explains JieAn doing somesort of a strip act, lifting his sweater to expose the red top. Haha.



Checkout our food. I had the vegetarian meal, of course. The non veg one looked extremely delicious. It was duck and a rice ball. Mine was like a german popiah, garnished with plants.

I was asking our bus driver what the meat was. He can't really speak english so I had to do it in German.

He said "Ente"

I didn't know what Ente was because we didn't learn it in German class, duh.

Then I said "Was ist Ente?" expecting him to explain it in German.

Then he said "Quack quack!"

Then we all went "Ohhhhhh"

Haha!



Not wanting to waste a single drip of red wine, Prof Lear puts his chemist skills of pouring liquids to work. They brought back the entire bottle. Haha.


Tsk tsk..Danny was flirting with the waitress. She's pretty hot, don't you think? She's from Kosovo. Married and Muslim. Shah had a little chat with her.


It was a la carte so it was a stuff your face dinner.





Us with the best bus driver in the world!!

Hostel party in the next entry!

Labels: EURIP

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The Royal Issue!

As you can see, I've donned my black down jacket. Other times I'm just holding it in my arms because my blubber and my denim/adidas jacket can keep me warm enough. But THAT DAY in Füssen it was freezing cold and I could feel the chill as soon as we got off the bus.

So i decided it was NO time to act hero and put on my jacket.

Really really cold! The only way to stay somewhat warm was to play with snow! Mwahaha.

See? After playing with snow, the black jacket disappears again. Haha.

Then it was time to move to the first castle, Schloss Hohenschwangau. The walk up wasn't that long, we were up in about 10 minutes?

Still on the way up..


At some courtyard-ish place which overlooked the town below.


Beng Hwa(fellow druggie) me, Dazril and Shah

Prof Lear and wife again!


Mr Danny-Schokolade and me.

We weren't allowed to take photos in the castle, so there're no photos of that, duh.

We walked around abit before heading back down to town and up another (LONG) way to Schloss Neuschwanstein.


On the way down.. you can see Neuschwanstein in the background. Its really high up, so the walk up was nothing less than a bitch, with horse manure. (You can choose to take the horse carriage up and step princess/prince/king/queen/jester) I think the walk was around 30mins?

Well long story short, we (FINALLY!) reached the entrance of Neuschwanstein.



Neuschwanstein had a breathtaking view ah.





Well no cameras in the castle as well. So we left for the suspension bridge that overlooked Neuschwanstein. THAT was another @#%^$%#@ WALK I swear to you.



FINALLY reached the bridge, after 40mins of walking up steep terrain. Lucky it was cold so the weather was nice.






Rong-Kuchen-Lun :: Me :: Dan-Schokolade-ny. Funny dudes la.



And my fave picture of all!

Don't ask.

Well the next royale place we visited was in Munich, just before we went shopping.

Its right smack in downtown Munich.



Oh and as you can see as well, Shah and I exchanged jackets. Haha.



And it was an audio tour..so we had to hold that thingy against our ears and press the numbers on the boards in the rooms we were in.



Don't give me that look! Dazril took this photo lor.


Shah and her naked baby. Those two have a thing for nudity i think.


Mmhmm.


Me fully in the lamppost role. I think i ROCK at it. Mwahaha.

Ohh and this is my fave room in the Residence. The ceiling was painted in such a way that when you view it from the middle of the room, it gives the illusion that the room has a high ceiling. See?


But really, its just painted.



Well then we escaped early to go shopping! Haha! We had enough of museums and palaces and whatnots! Haha!

Christmas party at hostel and hostel review coming up!

Labels: EURIP