Sunday, September 30, 2007

September Supreme

This blog has turned to a monthly blog, instead of being daily/weekly. I wouldn't care if this blog ends up as a yearly blog or a dinosaur blog. But, I can't resist mentioning about my special September.


Yes, it was my birthday. and I love the person who made the little card for me there and bought the cake.


September was really a blast for me. Many forging memories that could only be shared with my closed ones. Whether its my hall buddies, malaysian friends, and exchange friends.


Hell, I even tried eating 4 pieces of fried chicken, 15 nuggets, 1 burger, 1 bowl of poridge, 1 fries and 1 sundae in a Macdonalds buffet. After greedily stuffing everything into my full stomach while suffering, I learnt something.

Always know what's the limit and have more time for more important responsibilities.


If not, everything you've earned could just come crashing down.

Wake me up when September ends.... seriously.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

I'm not dead yet

Hola! Who says this blog is dead?

It's a shame that I drop by into my blog lately, just for the links to my friends' blogs. Then, I've discovered most of my exchange kaki's blogs either not updated, defunct, or locked. Tsk.. tsk..

My camera has been giving me many problems, so no pictures in this post. Sorry.

A quickie update on after I flew back from Munich.
-suffered jet lag
-flew to Alor Setar to pray for my late uncle
-suffered jet lag from the earlier flight again
-met the kakis for dinner
-bought new pair of jeans
-flew to Redang with family
-did snorkeling, sunbathing, play pool, ate lots of buffet meals
-came back realised the new jeans too tight already
-celebrated wai hsiang's birthday in strawberry fields
-drove back to Singapore
-checked in Sheares Hall
-went to Padang to witness Sheares win rag and flag :)
-settled in hall, go zouk, chilled in hall for the rest of 1 week

today, I realised that I can fit into jeans again. wheew. met my Prof today about my FYP. We ended up chatting more about national security, and Malaysian politics.

staying in hall is fun now. really fun.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

In Dubai now


Starnbergersee

Updating blog has not been my priority for the past 2 weeks. In addition, I doubt I'll be updating them soon. Hectic schedule awaits me once I touchdown in KL. 7th Aug to Alor Setar. 8th to 10th Redang Island. 11th back to Singapore. That is when I know, no more travelling.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Prague

Finally after 3 trips to Europe in my lifetime. These are the countries I've covered.

That's more travelling than I've done in South East Asia. I've only been to Singapore, Thailand and Brunei so far. Hell, I think its even more than the number of cities or towns I've visited in Malaysia. The "Malaysia, Truly Asia" campaign is not working on me.

Back to the topic. Plague Prague. Photo album here.

Top to bottom: A church, old European buildings, tourists and the Prague's main square.

Finally, my first travel to an Eastern European country. Where capitalism and tourism industry are still fresh there. That explains the swarm of tourists in Prague. Well, honestly, for me, Czech Republic is well known because I used to support the football team in Euro '04.

We took a 6 hour train ride which only costs 59 euros return ticket. We slept on the train for most of the journey, even I was supposed to study for my exam on Thursday, 1 day after returning from Prague.


Wilson brought cool sleeping accessories on board the train. Reminds me of the Demonhunter from Warcraft 3.


The astronomical clock near the town square


Prague's most famous landmark, Charles Bridge. It's about 700 years old.


Lots of tourists rushing to the front to touch the famous Saint statue on Charles bridge.


Another sign that shows how many tourists Prague has.


Another landmark is humonguous. The Prague castle. It's like a little town inside for tourist. Awesome.


"The castle is right there on the hills."


Then we visited the Communism Museum. Traces of communism in Eastern Europe are nothing but history and all being kept in museums.


Off goes Communism, comes the jazz bars in Prague. At a cheap price for the drinks and entertainment as well. Czech's famous beer, Pilsner Urquell tastes good as well. Smooth, very smooth taste.

The hostel we stayed was the Boathouse. Although it only takes 20 minutes tram ride from the city center, it was hard to believe for a place like this to have a "Hostelworld.com certified" hostel in this vicinity. But, it was 1 of the best hostels I've ever stayed in Europe. Clean. Family-runned hostel. Breakfast included. Cheap dinners in the hostel. Great common area to chill and talk to other tourists, who were all Americans, whom we met and brought to another jazz bar on the other night.

No photos with them, as my batteries were being charged. We talked to an interesting chap from Texas, Lucas who's like a walking IMDB(International Movie Database). Even the other Americans were stunned by his movie knowledge. We asked him what's his favourite movie of all time. His answer was, "Batman Begins".

I just realised I still haven't chose my favourite movie of all time.

Prague is quite a cool city. Great nightlife. But, I realised there's not much sights or landmarks there. Going to Prague once is enough, but still fulfilling.

Gotta thank Wilson for being my full-time navigator in Prague. Navigating Prague is not easy as the road names in Czech language sounds strange.