Saturday, 22 May 2010

SIGH!~

I need to give out a big fat sigh now... And there are tonnes of reasons for it. First of all, revision week's coming to an end. And it seems like there is not much progress at all. I know that this is gonna be like... my 2 last papers the rest of my life? probably? I keep telling myself to really study... for just less than 1 week and then I can really play hard. BUT! Sigh... I just don't have the will power. The drive. I'm doing everything and anything but study. Everything and anything: watching drama, reading k and j pop news, reading world news, doodling in my diary, surfing around fb, staring blankly at the calendar, etc. You name it. Sigh.

Talking about staring blankly at the calendar... That's the second thing to sigh about. Time really flies. I feel really really old and can't control my time now. I agree with Amanda. We're probably getting a lil' too old for study. We kinda lose our focus. For me, I just feel that I no longer have the drive which I used to have so much of back in my Secondary school days. Come to think about it, it's weird how I'm quite a hardcore fan girl now as compared to my days in Secondary school. Shouldn't it be the other way round? Oh well... whatever the case, the fan girl-ing time really came at the wrong time. I should really spend more time with my textbooks, powerpoint slides and more readings... :s Sigh.

In less than a month's time, I would have graduated. With what kind of results, I really don't know. looking at my rate... Sigh. I am not young anymore, I should know what I wanna do and my future route, what I want to do. But it is not the case. My future is a blur. The future is so near yet so blur. Just how short-sighted am I? I think I am almost blind. Sigh. I read about how Taeyang got into YGE. His passion for singing since he was a kid, and how he gave himself a b'day pressie on his 12th b'day. He joined YGE. Sigh... HE, knew that he was gonna become a singer at such a young age, the age when I was suppose to be studying for my PSLE but ended up in front of the TV one day before my papers. x_x Sigh.

I am not trying to find excuse. But I really find it especially difficult to study here. The environment is just not right. Not like there aren't any distractions back at home. Just that, it just feels different. i can't just turn on my study mode *snap* just like that. I really wonder why. And it is really not helping when the marketing and tourism content is not what we have always been studying. It's so dry and biz planning-like in the academic way. Ugh! I totally abhore exams for such modules. Sigh. Not like I have a choice. :( Alrighty, I think I should get going. Hopefully after this 'everything and anything' -- blogging, I will be able to at least concentrate for a lil' and complete my current chapter. x_x

SSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~ =============3 <- a long sigh...

Friday, 14 May 2010

Sport's Day - 1

I was awaken by Val at about 7am on Thursday morning. It's Ascension Day and like what my Title says, it's Sport's Day 1. I had to drag myself out of bed and the day was so cold and wet -- 9 freaking degrees. @_@

We left for the bus stop and the walk/jog there was... brrr.... It wasn't all that bad until after we got on the bus, we started asking people from the events team if we were going to be indoors or outdoors. To our PLEASANT surprise. Weee!~ We entered ourselves into: an outdoor 400m track, 2 basketball courts and 2 small soccer courts. It was crazy. The rain started coming and the rain. OOOOOOOooooooo.... I can never describe how the chill goes deep into the bones. :S

We wished and hoped and wished that it will be cancelled. Well, of course it didn't. Then we hoped and wished and hoped and wished that it will start soon so we can get it over and done with. Well, we started really late of course. My thighs were already aching by then, all the tensing of the muscles from the cold. :x During the long period of weight, we were literally going crazy, complaining and considering a walk over, a hot bowl of wanton mee, a hot bowl of instant noodle, the bed, the blanket, a hot cup of coffee/milo and a book! x_x Janet, Nikko and me were huddling in a thermal blanket most of the time. And when it was nearing our race, Nikko, Marisa, Hany and I were huddling in the blanket beside the track. Well, of course we were super AA and got labelled by Mr. B, the blanket girls + Dr. V just kept laughing whenever he sees us. :s

It was finally our turn to race and from 3 teams, it became 4 teams. How nice. 3 male teams against us, SLA. x_x BUT we did well! We completed the race! Haha... Of course, we finished 1st! ... from the back. :P It's been a really long time since I've ran. How I wish I had my sports shoe. Anyway, it's really no easy to exercise here 'cos of how thin the air is. It was really difficult to breathe and my lungs almost flipped over while I was running. There were so many audiences as all other events had ended. I wanted so much to sprint at the end, but I really... couldn't. Something was wrong with me. Haha... But the IMIs were so nice, they were cheering for me. Despite having suffered so much, think about the opportunity cost: sleeping in on a cold and rainy day + saving on 4 francs transport, I must say that it was a horrible experience. At least one that I will never ever forget unlike my past Sport's Day. Haha...

You can seriously imagine how bad the weather was. Even the guys were freezing their ass off. And seriously, on Sport's Day, who craves for a hot drink? Hasn't it always been cold ice water/gatorade or the super duper cold Milo truck dispenser?

Weather's gonna be bad for quite some time... and Badminton competition's on Saturday. I think I'm going to die. x_x Sigh... at least after I came back, I had a hot bath, a hot bowl of myojo shrimp tamen, surf the net and then off to bed and had a fantastic 4 hour long dreamless nap! Woohooo!~ Love it! <3

Monday, 26 April 2010

You ask about everything except offer your help...

AH!!! Pissed! Thank god it'll be over soon. I'm almost at my limits now. If I really have a showdown at him... It's too much work and I seriously can't be bothered to entertain people the likes of him. As what my title suggests, seriously this is not the first time. What a perfect gentleMAN! :S

T_T Off to continue my F&B report. Just needed somewhere to do a shout out!

Monday, 12 April 2010

Friday, 2 April 2010

Disney Dreams

It's been one week since I returned from my trip. It's funny how I have been dreaming of Disneylands. First, was Paris Disneyland and just today, I dreamt of Tokyo Disneyland! Wahaha... how crazy was that!?

My paris Disneyland was quite a normal one, where I dreamt of Donald Duck and Pluto... Haha... One odd thing was that i kept calling DD, Donald and he asked me to call him: Donald Duck. Oh well... Here comes the weird one in Tokyo...

I dreamt that I was with my dad and only had 2 mins left 'cos smthg happened before that (I could hardly remember). So I was running around trying to buy something. I just wanted to buy something with Tokyo Disneyland imprinted on it. So I went to ask the sales assistant what was a more popular & rare item where I could only get it there. I can't remember what she replied but I didn't get anything in the end.

Before I knew, I was running around looking for something. I came across lots of anime characters and I was looking at the time. It was already 1 minute past 1 and I had already exceeded my given 2 minutes. Well, I still continued running and while I was at it, I suddenly thought of getting takoyaki (somehow, I just remembered that it wasn't easy to get since I'm away in Switz). So I was hunting for takoyaki. I asked a girl for directions (in Jap!) Haha... and she directed me. I found the stall and ordered immediately! But! I realised that it was... weird. The takoyaki they have on the stall menu board, 1) spinach takoyaki, 2) something takoyaki and 3) tako takoyaki. Hmm... the takoyaki they were making was huge! like bigger than my 2 fists. After observing the people, I realised that they aren't Japs, but Chinese. So I decided to walk off (yes, without my order :P)

So I was walking round and then someone pointed to the direction behind me and said takoyaki! I turned around and there were so many stalls selling takoyaki look-alikes. It turned out, that, they were all selling russian eggs. Yes, what the hell's russian eggs!? I have no idea but that's what it says on their signboard. Haha... It was hilarious. Oh well, somehow I walked and got lost and bumped into this really tall guy. He raised up his right arm to talk to me and he had Edward Scissorhand's 'hand'. It looked really scary but he was just trying to help me with directions. Haha... After that, something happened but it's all just very blur and I woke up... WITHOUT eating any takoyaki! ah!!! my たこ焼き!〜 :'(

Sigh... it was a crazy dream. probably one of the most ridiculous dreams I have had. Say, 1 out of a zillion? I have tonnes of ridiculous dreams. Very tiring to go to sleep. I wish I can have more dreamless nights!~ Tonight mabbe? :)

Sunday, 28 March 2010

Barcelona! The land of the _____!~

Yes, I'm back from Barcelona. I totally love this trip. Yes, I love Tokyo, Phuket and Hong Kong too. But Barcelona seems to be a combi of everything, western style. :) In the Barcelona, they have pretty architectures, old, gothic style; mosaic, colourful, abstract. As a sucker for architectures, I feel that I have not done justice to Barcelona. The churches!~ Amazing!~ The museums. Omg! The amount of museums they have, it's crazy. I have only entered the Picasso Museum & Chocolate Museum! I only used one free coupon given in the 2 day pass.

Did you know? Chocolate in Europe kinda started in Spain first! How interesting is that? Their chocolates are lovely! Thick and almost bitter but not to bitter for my liking! Perfect! It's nothing like what Starbucks has to offer. The Xchocolata with whipped cream, together with churros! Omg!~ The match! It's like soybean + fried fritters: the more heavenly version. :P Talking about food, how can I forget seafood right? With the Mediterranean sea just overlooking the city!~ Their Paella!~ Tapas!~ Salad with loads of olive oil and mozzarella!~ Grilled Seafood!~ Waffles by the port!~ Creme Brulee!~ Sangria!~ Not to mention, my last day was spent with an overdosage of Sangria!~ Haha! Well, yea, it's sad that I didn't get to try their McDonald's & KFC there... (You don't know how much I miss it) But yet, how can I not eat local food?

I had Sangria by the beach. And I ordered this thing that I thought was bread with mushroom + cheese topping. Guess what? It turned out to be Brinjal. :s Alright, not complaining, it was quite nice, at least I do eat brinjal now... imagine if I didn't. T_T" The Beach was magnificent. It was still a cloudy, windy day and we saw a lady wearing bikini. There were lots of 'sand castles' built up with a touch of creativity. How the sand dragon's nose can fire up, poking plants in them for the sand house's greenery, there's a big sand dog and what i found most amazing was a sand castle built with a lil' fountain and the water was still flowing! To the side, was a lil mountain, with black smoke spiraling up! How amazing is that? There were so much to see by the beach and it just so happened that they were launching Audi A1 by the beach. So I had a ride in the red A1, high speed, drift and going up the slope, sideways. Haha... it was a fun ride!~

Shopping! Haha... I really liked the shopping there although souvenirs were really quite expensive. On top of that, I had to consider how I was to bring them back with my very tight baggage limit. It was really sad 'cos I really missed out a lot. A LOT. Sigh... I bought 2 tops, One from Zara and another from Bershka. Zara is so not cheap there. I saw this lovely spring jacket. It was 70 euros. O_o The other top I got was 10 euros, I really liked it. Apple got one too!~ :) I saw nice stuff at Mango, but didn't get. Sigh... I bought 2 bottoms, one grey skirt and a pair of Jeans. The skirt was from Pull & Bear, Really nice, a lil' short tho @ 10 euros and the Jeans! Highlight of my trip! 40 euros, from Massimo Dutti!~ It was not even on sale! Love it man! Tho the back pocket doesn't look that nice but... I like it. :P

See, isn't it a combi of Tokyo, Phuket & Hong Kong? Haha... I think it was a great experience. Yes, I did lots and lots of homework and most of them actually had gone to waste but I still feel that it's a great trip. Plan for the unplanned. that's what I learnt from this trip. Other than what Barcelona has to offer, I personally feel that it was a good one 'cos I got to meet new friends. I met Daphne, Apple's colleague's friend. She's an avid traveller. So I picked up a lot of things from her. It was just the 2 of us in the day for the first 2 days. Then Xiuhui & her brother came along on Wed where we went to Mt. Tibidabo, Park Guell and the chocolate museum together. A bigger group, there was quite a lot of fun. Daphne left on Thurs so I was left to go explore alone. I really planned my day already but like what I said, plan for the unplanned, expect the unexpected. I met a new friend on my last day there. (This was how my Sangri overload came about) Liz's Californian with pure Spanish blood. It's her first time in Barcelona which I found quite surprising. She was alone so we kinda decided to go into Sagrada Familia together and we ended up spending the whole day together. Haha... yes, with Sangria. She asked me to join her in California soon and she's a decent snowboarder! How cool's that?

On my real last day, the day I was coming back. I felt so so so sad. the day was so great! It's as if it's calling out to me to tour it more. The clear sunny blue sky! Aww man... On top of that, Apple was going back to Singapore. The feeling i had inside me. You can't imagine how much I wanted to be on the same flight as her back to Singapore. The homesickness overwhelmed me. She sent me an sms that brought tears to my eyes. With this, I left Barcelona. I definitely want to be back again. Not so soon. Perhaps when the Familia's close to completion? There's still too much I haven't done, so yes, I'll be back!

Anyway, i came back with quite some Singapore sauces. Laksa paste, curry paste, chicken rice marinade, ba kut teh, sesame oil and 'da hua' soy sauce + Chocolate oreos and pocky!~ Wahaha... love it man. Can't wait to cook them!~ BUT time really flies! there's only 2 more months till school officially ends! I can hardly believe this and there's still so much workload. @_@ I need to readjust myself to school life again! No more holidaying till end May/Jun! Fighting!~

Monday, 15 March 2010

It's been a long long time!~

It's been a great long time since I have last blogged. I'm blogging now mainly because I have had enough of chapter 3. This will be concluding my Sunday.

I know I need to do well and be consistent with my dissertation. That's what I keep telling myself but there's just too much distractions. This is bad. I need to work harder! On school work! It is really a pain. Somehow, I feel that I have chosen the wrong topic to work on. 'Cos companies doesn't seem to be as helpful as I thought. I've been sending out emails furiously but the replies are usually negative and most ignored me. :( BUT, I must tell myself to press on. Think positive! Law of attraction! :)

Ok, let's go on to something happier! I'm getting out of the Alps-rich Switzerland in less than a week's time! To the land of Tapas, Marco Polo, Zara and many more. Haha... Hoorah! I can't wait man! What's more? I'll be meeting Apple there! Hoorah! x 2 Like what Apple said, I bet we're going to have sleepless nights.... talking to each other all night long! Haha... Been doing research yesterday and a lil' today. The more I read, the more excited I am. Plus, doing most of it alone... It's kind of like my first. Very refreshing indeed. I bet Barcelona's going to be very special place to me. I hope everything goes well. Not perfect but positively well.

Of course, a lot happened in my life but... hmm... yet, there's nothing much to blog about. Like a 'daebak' or something. 'Cos life has just been... like that. The usual. I've one thing that I dunno why I always keep looking forward to. That's language class every Thursday night. Korean's really quite an interesting and challenging language to learn. It's a pity that I don;t take out time to practice every other day. Why I said that I dunno why I look forward to is actually 'cos I already know Mandarin (well enough) and the japanese basics. Hmm... What I can infer from this is that I can really go ahead with taking up Japanese after I go back to Singapore and have enough $$ of course. Since I really have the passion to pick up Japanese. :)

It's career week, there's many many talks we have to attend from Mon to Wed. Plus, gotta work on Chapt 3 and Chapter 2 after meeting my mentor... Hmm... A busy week indeed. I'm glad that I'm only flying on Sun. I think I really need to kick myself and work on my dissertation and get lost in Barcelona. Actually, I think I've already done enough research for the trip. What I really need to do is more like picking up some phrases like... "where is the toilet?" Haha...

it's almost 12am! Gotta wake up early tmr and prob earlier for breakfast. Plus, I think my back and neck's breaking soon since I've been sitting here for almost the whole of my Sunday (meant to be a family day with delicious Singapore delicacies paid for by my Dad). T_T Talking about my dad... Internet here sux! T_T" I guess I won't be blogging till I come back from my trip so... Adios!~ AND... Hola, Barcelona and Manzana!~ (^v^)v

Monday, 22 February 2010

A fine weekend...

Well it isn't really a fine weekend, weekend. More like a fine Sunday. Cos... it was our first time going out of Lucerne (FINALLY!) >_< ...to the haven of discounted branded goods, Lugano. You cannot imagine how 'cheap' it is. Haha... yes, they are discounted BUT still not very affordable. I ended up buying only 2 items. 1. A pair of black Jeans from Polo RL (Finally I found my pair of black jeans!~) It's really pretty and I must say that it is quite fitting. the length's considered perfect I must say!~ 2. A skirt (black as well) from Pe Pe Jeans. It's really pretty... picked out for me by Ying. :) Ahem... here comes the price: 49 francs (RRP: 210 francs) and 29 francs (RRP: 99 francs) respectively. Wahaha... can you imagine a pair of jeans, cheaper than my Levi's? Heh heh... Well... of course i did see things that I didn't buy. 2 main things on this list too. 1. a Burberry men's crossbody brown leather bag. (It was love at first sight) Really gorgeous (The price too)! Haha... No. 2's a grey jacket from Pe Pe Jeans. Selling at 89 francs. I know it's not cheap but original was 219 francs. BUT winter's almost over and it's not exactly my size. (Quoted from Ying, "the reasons why I should not get it") Sigh...

It was a super tiring day tho... totally k.o.ed as soon as I lay on my bed. This morning was especially funny. How everyone could just come into class without realising that they were actually in the wrong class. Haha... I guess most had a crazy and tiring weekend as well.

The weather's really nice today as well plus lunch was good... delicious fried rice... Everything seems fine except that my roomie's ill! Down with flu... It looks damn bad. Hope it won't worsen 'cos it's quite a long day for her tomorrow. Ge well soon, Val!~ :)

Well, why am I skyping now? I'm feeling lazy of course. Although I told my bro that I'll chiong my work starting from today... ermm.... well... I will! As soon as I end this (I hope) Haha... I was skyping just a while ago, finally, for the first time, with my Ah Ma. Haha... Really nice seeing them all again, including my bro who refuses to login to his Skype. Sigh... Oh well, I finally manage to bug him to give me the photos taken during my departure after what seems aeons... but cos he refuses to go in skype... and connection sux... he ended up uploading the photos on my behalf with no caption, no tags. Oh well... At least his mission is accomplished. Come to think about it... I was reading straits time and there was this article saying that a 90 minutes nap is equivalent to a night's deep sleep (without waking up in between)... So,,, I think I should go try it out. *evil grin* yes, my excuse of taking a nap. :P Good Night World!~

Friday, 12 February 2010

Muahaha... Best lunch since...

Of course, I have never ending stuff to blog about BUT as you can ALL see, my main aim of blogging IS... *ta-dah!* My lunch today! Omg... the thought of it makes me drool...

So, what did I have for lunch? If you are slow enough (to not notice my photos on fb) then... here's what I had...


Muahaha... 烧肉!果条!粥!Omg! The soya sauce for the roasted pork... The porridge is delicious, as always. And for Dessert... Creamy almond jelly! Wah... Totally great man! I ate till I was so full & happy. Money makes the world go round and good food makes my day!~ I was totally happy for the rest of my day! Haha... I love the Asian chef la... <3

Well... we were all hoping that their be leftovers (as always) for dinner. It turned out that there weren't any, at all. Sigh... I had to eat the lamb. Kinda made me sick. Good thing there were almond jellies... Otherwise... the taste of lamb in my mouth... Eewww... :s

After dinner, I was running late for my language class. Ok, I WAS late. I love the class la... It's a small class, comfortable number of people. A 1 & half hour class: Korean, Mandarin & Japanese. I like the class. It's something I'm sure I will be looking forward to. See. Interest in something VELi VELI THE important. I'm quite sure I won't feel the same towards German or French. Spanish... maybe. It's said that we'll be getting our books next week! How cool, seems like it's going to be official!~ Wee!~

Last but not least... I've been hooked onto a song since 2 days ago... BoA's new album, IDENTITY called "Is this love". This is for all the people who are in love out there (Not on purpose). :) I hope there'll be a MV for this... Otherwise, a live performance will be great too!~ Haha... I've suddenly become a fan of BoA. Mich! All your fault!


Thursday, 11 February 2010

It is...

It is... so cold today.

It is... snowing heavily outside.

It is... a quiet day. (At least it is, for me)

It is... a constructive day.

It is... so far away from home.

It is... a good news for me to look forward to the coming of the next semester.

It is... a very yummy biscuit. (Julie's peanut butter)

It is... it is.. it is... Sigh...

Monday, 8 February 2010

Boredom...

Well... It's not lke I'm very free cos there are actually lots and lots of work pending... Been doing research over the past few hours but I just can't find anything good! Ugh... How annoying...

Wll, I foresee a lot of time alone like now... 'cos my dearest roomie has finally decided to take up German. :) Yes, I'm H-A-P-P-Y for you, Val. :) 1 more hour till your class ends. Hmm... Since, I'm here, lemme just blog about my weekend.

Nothing extremely happening. Just lots of games, late nights and not to forget, Ice Skating!~

From Fri to Sun... Seriously... We were just playing Monopoly Deal, Bridge, Big Two, Old Maid/Donkey, Speed/Snap/Stress, Heart Attack, Jenga (i think that's about it). Totally reminds me of all those post exam games back in Pri/Sec school. Haha... On the first night, we were into hardcore Monopoly... played till 4am in the morning. Wahaha... That's the first night Vanessa played and got addicted to Monopoly Deal. It's crazy. Then, on the second night, we were just into Bridge. It's been so long since I played that I couldn't remember a thing. Haha... ok, I'll just admit, I'm old... I can't even think properly while playing snap anymore. I used to be so good at it. Ahem.. ok, USED to. Sigh... Just like how I once knew how to ice skate but on Saturday, I couldn't at all once I stepped into the skating ring...

Yup, I fell. ...3 times. Sigh... My Ankle area's bruised and of course, my butt too. Ouch. On Sat night, the lactic acid was killing me. I thought that I wouldn't be able to walk properly the following day. Haha... Somehow, it kinda reminds me of my Badminton training days... It was so much worse.. It's scary. I can't imagine how I pulled through 5 years of training every week. @_@ But still, I miss Secondary school days. Not as much as I miss S'pore food now tho... >_< Some kind soul please send smthg over... Otah sounds good... Laksa, Hokkien Mee, KFC Egg Tart, Mee Rebus, Beef Noodle, Char Siew Rice, OMG!~ >_<

Ok, I shall eat chocolates... This is the only thing that consoles me. It's the land of chocolates. I won't get sick of chocolates. Really. I still go all high when I see new chocolate flavors and go crazy at the chocolate section, my wallet wrestling with my inner chocolate craving. Haha... Seriouly, I love chocolate. But somehow, I've come to a realisation that I love S'pore food a lot more than chocolates. O_O Surprised? I'm surprised myself too but I think I'm able to live my life without chocolates but not without S'pore food. I think. Mabbe it's the craving for Singapore food that's so overwhelming now. I may say otherwise like... as soon as I touchdown in Singapore. Hee... >_<

Alrighty! I think I'd better get back to research!~ Hope I'll come back and update the blog more regularly! Oh yes! DONNA's heading to Tokyo tomorrow! After some 1 week in Hokkaido? Omg! DON! I'm so jealous! :s I wonder if Big Bang's in Tokyo now... Ah!!! >_< Tokyo! Seriously! I'm SO gg there within the next 5 years! Waha! Going off!~ \(^_^)/

Friday, 5 February 2010

The Rain, Cherry Tomatoes, Macbook & Me...

Just woke up from a short nap (all alone in the room :( - my roomie dumped me)... Hmm... How time flies... It's already been more than a month since I came here.

Thinking back, some 2 years ago, Joan, Apple & I were dining together at Marche, Vivocity. Joan was just telling Apple & I about this course. Then, I thought, I'd never apply for this course. Now, I'm seated on my bed, in my room, right smack in the middle of Switzerland, middle of Europe, far far away from Singapore. Sigh... Life certainly is unpredictable huh? Just like how one <3 meets another <3. :P (ahem...)

Well, like I mentioned, I just woke up from a nap. It's a Fri and there's no class. So, why ami I not out?

I spent ahem... 55.50 francs yesterday. Well... It wan't planned... It just so happened that JUST when we were about to head back, a phone call came & we decided to go n have some thai food for dinner. Yes, 30 francs for my dinner. >_< But I was so satisfied & the craving was kinda gone so... I guess it's all worth it? 4 dishes, a rice & a drink. I'll just buy less chocolates. :P Other than that, I also bought chewing gum, a long purple hoodie, 2 pairs of leggings and shared a heineken at Roadhouse.

Well, while I was happily out in town, I forgot all about our project meeting. I can't believe that I forgot all about it. Sigh... my memory fails me so much! No, no, no, no, NO! Hmm...

I'm getting really lazy to blog so no pictures this time... How I wish I have as much time as when I was in China. I could really blog every other day and go on pet society & visit every single house. Sigh... Time... where are you? I wanted blog about something else but I can't remember what. Well... I should just end here!~

Yummy Cherry Tomatoes!~

Cheerios!~ I'm looking fwd to a great weekend!~ <3

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

2nd Sunday has gone by...

Well... As mentioned in the title, it's already my second Tuesday since I arrived. We kinda spent the entire weekend doing up our dissertation proposal. It was giving us such a headache. It snowed over the weekend BUT we couldn't go out to play. The snow's melting now and it doesn't seem like it will snow (according to my weather widget) despite the cloudy weather. Well... It says that it'll rain tmr... oh dear... Will it still snow?? I hope it will! *prays hard*

Haven't attended many classes yet so it feels quite alright now. But I know that workload will just start piling up. Yesterday was our first Marketing class. Hmm... We had our first random grouping and till now, I have yet to meet them. >_<>_<

Well, this Fri, we have no class so we're planning to go out after lunch... It'll be 7 in S'pore... SO! I don't think I can Skype with the gorgeouses who are going to Amanda's to have a sleeplover. >_<>

Well, nothing much has happened in my life... Well... mabbe just today, my tummy doesn't seem to feel too well, having a little of headache? N a bad hair day... :P No worries, I'll get through... They are all not very serious. Hmm... I'm so bored... I'm actually waiting for lunch to come but it's only 1041h right now... :s hould I start waching IRIS? Hmm... *ponders*

Alrighty... I guess I should end here with a very nice photo taken by Ying Ying, the great photographer... >_<


Taken in front of my school!~ :)

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

First Sunday & Orientation 1...

On our first Sunday in Luzern... The class went to the city to get our necessities. Val & I too had a shopping list but it ended up being quite useless because we just didn't have he heart to spend it on them. Things like tissue box, hand soap, etc. They were necessities but not exactly a necessity. Oh well... We'll live without it. In the end we spent about 5 CHF for our bus trip & bought a 0.3 CHF bottle of weird tasting water. Sigh... Since we didn't want to waste the expensive bus fare... We continued walking round the city till we were just in time to catch the 5pm bus. By about 4pm... the sun was setting and the weather really started to get really really cold. Brrr... Everyone was freezing & we could hardly take it. We took quite a number of photos!~

At about 9pm, I got news from Steph & John that several classmates got really sick... running a fever, diarrhea & vomiting. It sounded realy bad. Michelle even got sent to the hospital! Till today, although they all turned up for orientation, I could tell that they are definitely still not well... I really hope that everyone will get well soon. God bless!~

For the first orientation... There were quite a number of talks and stuff... I guess I have been sleeping for too long... I got really tired at some point n my eyelids just felt so heavy... Oh dear... I better work something out before class officially starts. During the intro session for the first half of our cohort ('cos we got split into 2 grps), there were people from Singapore (of course), South Korea (Kyaah... Big Bang!), Macau, Hong Kong, Russia, US & Malaysia. Haha... Come to think about it... where are the Japs?? :P After the session, it started snowing so we decided to go n play with the snow after school. After much delay, we finally went out at about 5pm... It was kinda dark already but as it was still snowing, it wasn't as cold as yesterday night. The sun was setting so there were still streaks of reddish orange, which I was unable to really capture... Oh well... But we (Yingying, Val, Pam, Chris, Emma, Steph, Emma, Hany & me) had a snow fight... Hany even made snow angel! I wanna make one too but I was not wearing something waterproof. DAMN! It was really cute! :)

Then... I finally managed to skype with my cousin, uncle & aunt!~ :) Haha... it was 1am for them... So my cousin had to wake my aunt up... :p Really nice to see them... ;P Alrighty!~ I should get going... Tired... Going to bed... Omg... I've been so guai over the past few days... sleeping before 11pm, waking up at 7am, not watching korean variety show... sigh... I wanna watch FO & BB's performances! >_< Byeeeeeee........~ <3

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Sunday, 3 January 2010

Welcome to Luzern, Switzerland!~

It's my first Sunday in Luzern. Woke up at about 7am from my bro's sweet sms. Well... and i woke with quite puffy eyes & lips... throat hurts a lil' too. Val's still asleep. Really hope that my snoring didn't keep her awake last night 'cos i went to bed first and fell asleep within seconds.

Ok, Luzern!~ We got welcomed by snow on our way from the airport to the school... Had a welcome drink and yummy croissant, a mini snow fight, got allocated to our rooms, unpacked for a lil', changed and went off for brunch. Lunch was not bad. Had spaghetti, their so called rosti which appeared to be hashbrown & sausages. After which, we were off on a campus & city tour. Other than the campus' magnificent view... it's not fantastic school but at least it's small & cosy :)

Ok something more exciting now... The city tour!~ On our bus trip there... (Bus No. 21) I saw so many buildings... all so nice and well built!~ Kinda reminds me of the German houses in Qingdao & the houses on logcakes... :) The city's really cold... the wind's stronger there but really pretty!~ It looks like a lil' city to me... but at least the city's wireless! Haha... So cool ya?
There's a church in the city... (I'll visit it someday), Mac's, BK, Starbucks (I'm gonna miss pure choc) Body Shop... & H&M!~ Hoorah!~ They were having a sale when we were walking pass it. It's said that 60% of the visitors to Luzern are Asians... O_O (Don! Come here quick... be part of the 60%)

Eh... What else do I wanna talk about? Yes, the cleaning of OUR rm... Haha... We cleaned our room... unpacked and all... Got me really sleepy tho... But we finally finished and it was almost past dinner time so we went for dinner in the canteen. Well... they had only chicken curry, rice & bee hoon left. At least they had rice... So i took rice with chicken curry... I must say... the cook's not anyone close to being an Asian. We went back to the room and washed up... ( the toilet light's retarded, mabbe i shld say the design of the toilet isn't gd? 'Cos the light has got motion sensor...) then off to see the stars at ard 8pm. It's so dark and clear here that... It's just so... Superb. The moon's even bigger here and oh so round and bright. The sky's so clear that you can see the gradient of the moon's "colour" (the uneven surface of the moon) PLUS it was hanging beside the mountain & above the lake. The moonlight shining upon the lake's surface, sigh... not smthg that my stupid camera can capture so... It's etched deep in my memory. :) It's really like scenes you'll only read of from descriptive novels. >_<

Yea... that's kinda about wraps it all... Finally, to Gwen Yip: I heard that Jaela likes my b'day pressie for her!~ Yay!~ So happy to hear that from mummy!~

N now... for the photos...

In the midst of the above, Tania doing the <3>

On our way to the school, onboard the bus...

Started snowing...

View right in front of the school...

During the city tour...

Snow drop fell on Val's hair, our attempt to take photo of the snow flake structure...