Lego

What could an Asian like me amuse people in Munich?


Few days ago, I was carrying a 20 kg sack of rice back to my hostel. Those who saw me carrying these were giggling or just asked me, "OMG...! Is that a sack of rice?!". Many angmohs were stunned to ever seen so much rice before.

Rice is essential to our diet. But, they are rather scarce and expensive over here in Western countries. They usually come in small boxes of 1 kg. We were fortunate to find a considered back home regular sized sack for only 23 Euros.

Enough about food, time to introduce my new toy. The Lego Batmobile.


I was never a Batman nor DC comics fan until now.



The Beautiful & Beasty Batmobile.


There's even Technic parts in the engine compartment. I havent installed Flash in my computer. So, no animated GIF for u all. But, just imagine the gears turning when I push the car forward. Pretty cool rite. But try to spot a missing lego block. First time I encountered a defect in lego products.


Even the flames can turn.

The size is no ordinary compared to legomen.

Indeed the force is strong in this one.


The cockpit has nice comfy seat that reclines.

The car is huge that you need 1 legoman to steer and another for the pedals.


Definitely a great buy. 60 Euros. Thats 120 Sg Dollars. It made the B-Wing I bought, that cost 80 Sg Dollars a kiddie toy. Best of all, its the most difficult lego I've ever constructed. 2 Books inside. 4 hours to construct.

I felt young again, even though I had stiff neck looking for the parts that were scattered on the floor.

As an endnote, here's an advice to the readers. Thats what I learnt from the German culture.


RECYCLE!

Kult Fabrik

Kult Fabrik. In English, Cult Factory. I've been hearing about this club for weeks. So after some great dinner last Friday, Mario, Reuben, Ming Feng and I decided to find out whats so special about Ostbahnhof's Kultfabrik. FYI, this is only my 2nd time in a club in Munich. First was at Nacht Gallerie when Kat's friends visited 2 weeks ago. Throughout exchange, others were only in Berlin, Muenster and Vienna. Yeah, my nightlife is mostly restricted to only beers and wine among small group of friends.

The moment we exited the S-Bahn station, we could see a large stream of young people heading towards a similar direction. There is even a sign for it. So much for spending 5 minutes to find directions to Kultfabrik in the Net before we left.


It's unfortunate that I didn't bring my camera on that day, as my camera is bigger than the size of my palm.
From that exact directory I saw at the entrance, I realised how huge is this place. It's like a city itself! Like a Studentenstadt of clubs! Wait a minute.. when I explore around the place, there are actually seperate club management where ticketing system are different for different clubs. I expected it to be an MoS city.

We didn't have the mood to club that night so just hanged loose around bars that were ample there. Kolsch beer which is only served in Cologne is amazingly served here as well. Best of all there is a Kebab store in the middle of all the neon lights around. Price? Same as the average Munich price, 3 Euros. We were also lucky to watch a free boxing match between a German and a Russian. Surprisingly, the German won.

For the highlight of the night, we went to number 23 from the directory above. Great place. Although the entry costs 10 Euros each, the bouncer was nice enough to let one of us in to check out the place inside before we decide to enter. I decided to enter to see the inside for myself. Well, the rest is history.

It was a great and enjoyable time in KultFabrik. I won't talk about the places especially number 23 in details, one have see the place themself. Actually, let's just say, you'll hate me for not bringing my camera on that day.

Finally a gathering

Great food by Jeremy(Grace's boyfriend who is visiting her for 3 weeks), great gathering in Studentenstadt, great time. Nothing much to blog about this. Just that is high time that the huge group of exchange kakis meet together. Finally the Studentenstadt kakis got to meet the Dulferstrasse kakis. Looking forward to next week's barbecue!

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Apart of this, I finally updated 3 posts of my June trips!
My awesomo cycling trip in Switzerland
Muenster revisited
Berlin Trip

Finally, back to normalcy in blogging.

I'm back

Ahh..Yes, it's been more than 2 weeks away from this blog. A great holiday indeed.

I dare say the period of my absence here was the most eventful part during this exchange. Many trips once again. Concerts. More clubbing. More alcohol consumption. Shelf full with empty bottles. Reminisced the good ol' days in Muenster last year. More mileage on the Autobahn. Shattering speed records with a 1.3 liter car. Completed my itenary of Germany after Berlin. Forget about Hamburg. Rediscovered Munich in the right perspective. Many friendships bounded closer. More walls being torned down. Rediscovering myself even more through friends here. Learnt new recipes to cook. Started having programming lab in school. Henry gone to Barca. My longer hair is getting hideous. Gained weight. 2 sides of my pocket became lighter. Right side, because of less money. Left side, my Nokia 6280 has gone crazy, so I had to change to my old spare small Sony Ericson handphone.

No wonder I didn't have time to blog.

I found from sitemeter.com that I had almost 200 visits the past 2 weeks of my absence. I may brag about this, but that means 200 dissapointments for the past 2 weeks. But, I'll take the chance to appreciate the visits by various places recently(very surprising!) like, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, US sometimes(California), Italy!, Australia(Perth, Sydney and Melbourne), United Kingdom!, and once, Thailand! Thank you. Thank you. These visits are like continuous support for me in keeping me motivated in the blogging culture, which something I hated last year. **Those attention seeking bastards.** =)

The question is... will I update these events as backdated post? Only time will tell..

Today, we went to Germany's Legoland.

Just click on the picture to link to the photo gallery.

29.50 Euros entry to this amusement park which is 1.5 hours away from Munich. Mediciore rides. No, the rides/rollercoaster are not made of Lego bricks! But great presentation of anything they could produce from Lego bricks. Clearly, the smartest and most innovative toy company in the world. Still manage to sell their overpriced toy, that is made of cheap materials to adults and old people, like me who bought a 60 Euro Lego Batmobile.

How am I gonna bring this big box back home? I haven't thought about it yet. =)