Stockholm's Gift

This was my birthday present for myself and i love it totally.






I love SKI

First day of stockholm, i ws greeted by Fabian's friendly neighbours and they made some cuban cocktail drinks for us. Power. Here at the uni hostel, We prepared our own dinner had a pre lounge party with performance by the crazy and fun loving salomei. At 11pm we braved through the cold and walk to a nearby university club. It wasnt really happening over there, after some beer and attempts on techno and house music we headed back to rest.

On the following day, we headed straight to the ski resort at flottsburg, With our precious 3 hrs, we manage to snap some quick shots, rented the equipment and headed straight to the ski slopes. It was pretty hilarious for the 3 of us. Trying to keep our balance, with the skis and falling down to the tiniest slope. Finally we made it to the amateur slope, and went up the slope with the kids and fellow asian beginners. My first attempt at ski was unbelievable, tho i crash in less than 10 seconds, the adrenaline down the slope was ................WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Had some guidance from a kid's mom on how to stop n ski, i got the hang of it and manage to ski better. However as the slope gets too crowded towards the end, i had to avoid crashing into people, i crash into the net. The next day i woke up with a sprained neck, bruised butt and knee, and a fxxking fun experience.



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After skiing we got back to the hostel, Eda and gang had already prepared a feast for us. There was baked salmon, Reindeer meat with salmon roe sauce...Yup reindeer, bake pasta, dumplings,apple pie, cheese cake, beer,wine and champagne.
That was pure indulgence.Thank you!!!

The drinking party follows after the feast, and after many attempts to make me drunk, i survive..heh. I was trained by my drinking buddies in NTU. hehehe.
Overall the trip was good, and thank you Fabian, candice and gang that gave me such a great birthday gift.

Stockholm’s sights



Birthday party

A Beautiful Day

Today is beautiful. Sky is blue, Sun shining bright on my face, i can feel the gentle heat radiating to my skin and the occasional chilling but tender wind blowing.

Its always nice to have good weather, but even with the darkest skies, each day is beautiful and good day for everyone of us. For there is no bad luck, only blessing in disguise. The world is what you want it to be. Stay happy today.

Amanda: Life A beauty itself in the making. Bringing forth all that is bright and beautiful Leaving no traces of ill fate. Only blessings in disguise. Giving you the power to build love, foster friendship and change the lives of others To repay this sacred gift . Stay happy.

Which one do u like?

My Brother is Married! Congrats!!

I dedicate this page to my dearest Brother and his newly wed wife.

Off to Stockholm

Dear family and friends,

Thank you for all the birthday wishes from home and the rest of the world. I'll probably be back after my birthday, so i can't see you dearest people on the web. Love you all !!!
I'll be leaving kiel and flying over to stockholm at 3pm Friday from hamburg and reaching stockholm at 4pm. I'll be back on sunday 4pm, and reach back hostel at 7-8pm. I'll be meeting Fabian and candice over there
Take care everyone!!

London, The Heart of Europe

Yup, I Rock.


16 Feb, Friday night. After 2 hours of bus ride and train ride, and a 1.5 hr of flight, I'm here London. Sorry to keep you waiting.

A quick link up with fabian and a Fat, Cheehong, Extra Mat (F.C.E.M). Uncle Ly pick us up and drove us down to London City. Zipping pass the Canary Wharf, London eye, Tower Bridge, 10 Downing Str and many London sights. The City lights coloured the sky, She is indeed the heart of Europe. Circling around the bustling chinatown and picardilly circus for an hour, we manage to find a parking lot, It was 230 am, but the Streets are still very much alive and it feels like 9pm on the orchard road. This place loves to party, i feel home.

Uncle said he wants to bring us to Mayflower chinese resturant for a 'quick bite' and a tour around the night life of London city. Even at this time, Mayflower is packed. The 'quick bite' turned out to be a 6 course feast, the best meal since i'm in Europe. Here's the indulgence, Lobster noodles, Roast chicken, pork ribs, Deep fried spiced unagi and a red bean longan dessert to fill the brim of my stomach. Supper cost 80 pounds for 4 and it was uncle's treat. Respect.

After the sumptous bite, we hit the streets. Bar, pubs, disco, gay clubs and people all cramped up in the streets. It was 330am. With some shots of the night scene and self made MVs on our way back to Uncle's place, I wash up and sleep (Resting for the 'DAY'). 430 am.

At 11 am, Uncle handed us to Julie, my best cousin. Met Ah gong and Ah mah, greeted them, got the Ang Pounds. It was heavy Weight.
( Special thanks to all my dear family and relatives that sent me the ang pounds )
Julie brought us on the train and we headed to the city. Walking down the sides of River Thames towards Big Ben, snap some good shots in the city, with the F.C.E.M failing to keep is !@#$% mouth shut. Fucking extra. Thanks to Fabian, he almost ruined my trip.

2pm at picardilly circus, i met my buddy jingkai and Daniel. He saved my day, i was so happy to see him. Together with his singaporean friends, Elena and Celeste, we head down to have dim sum lunch at Chinatown. It was really hard to describe how happy i was to see so many singaporeans gather. I felt homely and i've never been so happy since i've departed from singapore. It was a great 'yum cha' lunch. I miss dim sum. *Hungry*

Following lunch, we decided to go shopping and Julie brought us to this HUGE Topshop. Think it's about 4 levels, stocked up with the most trendy and coolest, clothes,accessories, shoes and bag. The ladies went frenzy, the F.C.E.M tag along their asses, while i spend more time with jing and daniel at the entrance. Same old stories from those training days never become boring and always brought me back to those bitter sweet days in OCS. Jingkai is a great guy, always cool, slow and relak, i'm glad to have him be my buddy. Shopping's over and we bidded farewell as we stroll down the street. Reunion dinner at Ah mah's awaits us.

Julie brought us back to her home and its time for dinner. Ah mah had prepared a feast, a MAN HAN QUAN XI kind of feast. The round table could not hold so many dishes, so some food had to be at the sides. I dunno how we are going to finish up the food. There was just Fabian, me, F.C.E.M, Julie, MeMe and her bf, Daniel. We did our best, stuff as much as we could, but nothing seem to have changed. There is still as much food left on the plates, as if no one touched it. The dinner was awesome, with dishes including, lobster and abalone...etc...etc.

As we relax one corner after dinner, Julie mobilised her Army. The 'Objective' was Club Metra. A convoy of 3 Vehicles, 8 pretty friends, 2 cool dudes and an extra we got to the club in 2hrs. Linking up and picking up every one around london city, had a long stop and drank some Smiroff and WRD to keep ourself warm. i switch my car and hopped into Guppy's cos i couldnt stand that yakking F.C.E.M anymore. She was a good driver and it was comfortable with Fabian around. Finally we made it to Chinatown carpark, cost 15 pounds to park. 'Cheap'.

Metra was not a big club like Zouk or MOS, but she has her attractions. I saw the best crowd ever. The music, lighting and decor, swee.... This is London, the place to be.

At 2 am Sayha finally made it here after her work, she told me she never clubs after her work, But she came for me and bought me a drink. Sweet.

All of us had a good time, ocassionally Julie n me posed as bouncers. Time flew, and it was 4 am , closing time, and we all left. I was sleepy and knocked out in the car, tho the 2 tequila shots and bourbon coke had took no effect on me. It was the german lifestyle that killed me.

20% conscious, i could still hear the fucker yakking, his mouth never stops. Fortunately julie had made this trip so amazing that it clouded over the asshole presence, I would have killed Fabian for bringing him. I don't want to see him in Stockholm.

Uncle brought us some nice supper and soon it was time to fly back germany, took some pictures around Tower bridge and i'm back to kiel. Thank You so much Uncle, Julie and Ah mah . London will be missed. Next weekend Stockholm.

London, Beyond Words

London Nite

Tony's Blair's - 10, Downing St



London City


London in the day



In Da Club, Metra



Chinese New Year @ London



Club LONDON

Some Beer and travelling plans

It has been 3 weeks here already. Last friday i went to another pub, it is the 'so called' most popular pub, and i went there with the most unexpected people. I went to the pub with 2 heart specialist, they are here to do some clinical research, one in his 30s another in his 40s and another shanghai engineer in her 'maybe' late 20s came along. Bar was pretty much happening, with some chap palang music and lots of people. I had abt 1.5 litres of beer and a pork knuckle, both didnt live up to my expectations. I think paulanders at the millenia is better.

It was a real chill out session, and some drunk germans found me interesting again ( English speaking alien) and i also talk cock to them and made afew more new friends.

I also just bought 2 more air tickets, one to stockholm for my birthday and one for poland for my eastern europe tour during easter. I'm also looking forward to fly down to rome in march to do a marathon. I'm really looking foward to all my travelling plans, they are keeping me alive and going. This weekend i will be flying down london with fabian and julie is going to bring me to a club right away, my flight arrives at 2320 Fri. My buddy jingkai also promised to find me the best duck in the world for saturday's lunch and after a re-union dinner at julie's place, she's gg to bring me to another club and i've arranged to meet up with shawn ow there.

Come next weekend is my Birthday.....and i'll be in Stockholm with fabian. He'd promised to organised the best house party in stockholm for me, he better do good job. hehe..

Thanks to my best buddies dennis and terry, we'll have a helluva experience in june and probably with the company of peijin and pearlyn. Come 8th june, dennis will fly over here and i'll link up with him and the rest and we'll do a week++ long backpacking trip. Preliminary plans say we'll go amsterdam, milan,berlin,prague/budapest, or maybe latvia? The best thing is aloysiuus and sherman will be in milan..wohoo...

Some 'living' updates:

My ntu counterpart has arrived and he brought me the new camera, he's a nice guy, Gentle and quiet, just like me....haha. I also just bought a new car in kiel, it's a 18 speed auto gear , single seat cabriolet. I bought it for 30 euros.

I miss you all and i will see you soon.

Happy valentine's
Turtle loves all


sights of kiel- Don't fall asleep watching this.

To the club!! Tshdoom...Tschdoom....Tschdoom..

Can you feel the vibration??? My first clubbing here in Kiel has been an experience. This town may be small and boring on the outside, but inside this sleepy town is a party city in disguise.

There are plenty of posters, guide books of the clubbing scene here, just like we have juice in singapore. In Kiel, people go to clubs from thursday to saturdays and there are about 8-10 major clubs, with events such as reggae fire, black Jam, U30 (over 30 yrs old party), Retro, trance, Euro dance, and chap palang music every different night.

I would really love to post pictures of my clubbing in Traum GmBH on last friday, but my new camera is only gonna arrive tomorrow. You can check out the club here .http://www.traumgmbh.de/party.htm This club is about the size of the entire zouk and it plays hip hop RnB throughout the nite, the music is good, the crowd is pretty and the cover charge only 5 euros. The place is 2 storeys high, with a huge main dance floor, a viewing gallery on the second level and the DJ set elevated on the opposite side. The crowd in Traum is mainly young german students and with me, the only asian around. Ratio of Male and Female is about 50%, something you will seldom find in singapore.

At around 12, people started to fill the dancefloor and the guys started picking the girls up. I didnt dance cos i would look like an idiot dancing alone, so i was up there at the gallery having my beer and watching the 'show'. This show is pretty entertaining. Within an hour there was about 3-4 fights and they don't have bouncers to stop the fight, the fight is pretty violent and hilarious. They threw punches, chairs, kicks and their head. I was like wah...song. This place is like a live ring...haha. Some of other people at the gallery tried talking to me and asking me some questions, but i totally cannot understand them and they totally cannot understand me...and i told them..." Knn this place play Hip Hop (english american music and Rap) and u all dun understand english............." After some handsigns, a few cheers and 2 hours of 'clubbing' i left the place.

My transport for clubbing is no longer my blue turtle wheels, i had to walk 30min+ to reach the club and i took a longer route back (abt 45 mins) to see more of the town. Along the way i came across a turkish resturant selling turkish doners at 1.90 euros and i bought and ate it. It was shiok..........man, the night was cold at abt 2 deg C but feels like -4 deg C with the strong winds, having a hot doner, chipped lamb meat, veggies, cheese and chilli sauce warms my stomach...
That was my first solo clubbing experience in Germany. Not exactly the kind i get in singapore but overall,c it was worth the money, only 5 euros...haha.

Website for all the parties in kiel http://www.kiel4kiel.de/News-topic-4-catid-19.html

Where i am

Hostel and lab in Kiel

Kiel in Germany

Next post: My 1st solo clubbing experience in Germany...

The arrival and my first week

Fachhochschule
First of all i would like to thank all my dear friends who had taken time off their sleep and the effort to travel down all the way, just to send me off. Thank you my dear friends, i will miss you all.

After the painful farewell, i took the step out of my comfort zone.
Before the my arab plane 777 can take off from singapore to dubai, we waited frigging 1hr for a bunch of stupid mats...fxxking idiots. The flight took abt 7 hrs and i arrive at mat land at ard 7-8am. Their airport is crazy man, the world is here, because as long as you take emirates for a long flight, you will have to transit in dubai. Wtf. There were people everywhere sleeping on the floorand the seats, queues every where,just fxxking messy lah. (Btw, there were long queues every where becos the customs check are not equipped with hand held metal detectors, so you have to remove everything till you can pass the detection gantry, so people were trying to take off their belts, shoes etc etc and putting it thru the x ray box.

After the custom checks, i proceeded to my departure gate for hamburg, waited 1 hr, made a german butch friend. She's quite cool, punk with a stylo hair. She was returning home after travelling for 3 mths in australia and new zealand, got some traveling tips for germany from her but i forgot her name...hah.

The flight from dubai took about 7.5 hrs, it was quite an amazing flight. Flying across the light blue arabian seas, deserts of kuwait, iraq, pakistan .......over snow capped mountains in the deserts. Past instanbul, poland,berlin then finally hamburg. I also manage to take plenty of beautiful 'bird's eye view' scenery pics, but unfortunately they will never be published. Becos i lost my fucking camera on the way to my hostel. I'm trying to forget the incident, so ask no more.

After 14 hrs of flight, 1 hour of drive and a lost camera, i reached my hostel. It called Wirtschakademie aka money sucking hole. Paid 300 euros for my 1st mth of rent, got my new room. To be frank, the room is actually pretty nice, equipped with a bath room, clean and nice view from the 7th level. But this place in germany, you have to pay for your internet. I paid 10euros for a mthly prepaid card for wireless internet usage in my room, and if you step out of the hostel, no more wireless reception. Few places in Kiel have wireless hot spots, so its more backwards than our singapore in this area. Another point to add is that the 'GST' here is 19%, Nice.......!

General info on Kiel,Germany.:

Everything here is pretty expensive, especially the transport. An average daily cost of transport just to get to school and back is ard 20 euros or $40. So walking is the best tansport, save money, sight seeing, exercise and leg aches..i walked abt 15-20 km for the 1st 2 days and subsequently manage to hitch a ride from my colleague and also took the ferry.



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Weather here is around 2-10deg C. No snow, dark, cloudy,rainy and windy. Occasionally, some sunshine, but only between 8am-5pm. when there is no wind, it is pretty comfortable with my clothing, when the wind blows, it can be quite chilling and you can be blown off your feet with windspeed up to 20+ mph. But overall, i'm ok with the weather.

Working environment:

My workplace is in a small lab called the research ctr for adaptronics inside the Fachhochshule campus( university of applied sciences). It a small uni, probably around the size of a junior college. I'm under the supervision of my prof, prof helmut dispert, nice guy. With another 3 german guys and 1 russian girl in my lab. The place is boring and the people are boring too, but nice people though.

Food.

My best meal every day is at the 'mensa' ( uni canteen). The food here is ikea style with a different menu each day. a normal lunch meal consist of a main dish( eg. pork chop) Bake potatoes, salad and drinks all at ard 3-4 euros. On top of that my lab mates will always buy wafers and each of us get a slice. Breakfast is usually bread on the go and dinner is bread, soup, tuna, or instant noodles. Got to eat their hot dog, Bratwurst and their turkish doner (Kebab) ...................shiok.