Sunday, December 23, 2007
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! (heh i lazy make the letters
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training yesterday was _______. (i duno how to describe it so i'll just settle it with a blank)
i woke up like half an hour late cos i couldnt sleep the night before D:
lol. blame it on jet lag.
my jieqiu was damn shitty lah.
couldnt get my contact right.
but it was great to meet vballers again.
YIJIAREN, YAY<3lunch after training, :D
chocolates and pizzas, thankyou mr tay and mr ng and mrs bok! (:
now for the europe trip.
but no pics yet, still havent uploaded them yet.
DAY ONE. lol, dun even know why they consider this is one day -.-
went to the airport, checked in the luggages and stuff.
blahblahblah. then went onto the plane.
watched the bourne ultimatum during which i fell asleep halfway. lol.
then woke up later and watched hairspray, hsm2 and stardust.
DAY TWOarrived in frankfurt, germany. :D
jet lagged :\
i was super sleepy in the afternoon lah. luckily i managed to sleep in the plane if not it would hav been worse
anyway,
went to black forest first. its like so pretty can.
instead of black, it looks gray-ish white from far cos of the snow.
totally different from the snow i saw in japan last year.
its much thicker, and way nicer.
then went to see some cuckoo clock workshop.
the clocks were damn nice, damn cute, but damn ex. lol.
lunched, then had black forest cake.
niceee. but too much liqour already ._.
then headed for switzerland.
went to see rhine falls.
the biggest waterfall in europe.
but didnt look very big to me :x
probably cos we only saw part of it bah.
went back to hotel, then had dinner.
pork rib. bleh, i gave the whole piece away to leon.
cos i hate pork you see. :x
DAY THREEdid a little bit of shopping at bucherer then went up to mt titlis.
it was suppose to be an optional tour but almost the whole tour group went up. :D
had to take 3 cable cars up there.
first was the small one, about 6 ppl in one.
then was the bigger one. i think at least 50+ ppl inside.
and the last one was the revolving cable car.
at first i thought it would be the whole cable car revolving, but it was just the platform that we were standing on which revolved. chey.
haha. but it was still cool lah.
so we reached the peak of the mountain which was about 3000+m.
about -11 degrees there.
went out to play snow, take photos.
but it was so cold that my feet and hands were numb and my muscles became damn stiff.
couldnt even kneel down without my thighs hurting. lol.
lunched after that.
wine, water, coke and all the drinks there all almost same price one. lol.
so obviously buy wine right.
after that went to buy souvenirs and sent a postcard to myself. :D
went back, did somemore shopping at bucherer.
but there mostly sell all the branded watches, mostly stuff for the adults.
swatch was probably the cheapest brand there.
heh but i didnt buy any cos i just got a swatch present for my bday.
so i bu she de buy.
went to some bakery nearby to get our dinner.
bought pizzas, then walked back to the hotel to eat.
on the way back we saw this pasar malam-like place.
i was like, eh lets come back here to shop later.
so we continued back to the hotel.
ate pizza and cup noodles, then went back.
lol, guess what the "pasar malam" turned out to be.
it was some xmas celebration place.
with people caroling and selling wine and stuff.
haha. so malu. but we still went to shop anyway.
went to some souvenir shop, they were selling really cute switzerland shirts.
there was one that said "PLAY SWISS" with the playboy symbol thing. haha.
and another one that said "DESPERATE SWISSWIVES".
damn cute. but in the end i bought one with cows on it.
haha see, i'm so pure. :x
DAY FOURwent up the mountain again! :D
this time it was mt jungfrau, and it was higher than mt titlis, but cant rmbr exactly how high.
it was just as pretty though (:
took train up, had to switch train twice. so cool lah.
finally reached the top, then went out to play snow!
this time we were more prepared, we got toe-heat packs from our tour leader. :D
so we managed to stay out longer.
went back in, then everyone looked damn sick.
(i mean not sick sick, but not feeling well) lol.
high altitude = thinner air = less oxygen = not enough oxygen for people = people get giddy and feel like fainting.
aww so sad right.
like uncle henry said, PMTS. uh PMTS means pay money to suffer. LOL.
then went into an ice cave to see ice sculptures. super nice. :D
that night we stayed in a really cool hotel.
its like a swiss cottage, and the best thing was, we got a room at the highest level.
so in our room, the celing was slanted. one side of it was very low, the other side very high.
and at the high ceiling end they built an extra storey there.
so it was two beds below, and one bed on top, up at the extra level. cool.
charis and i slept at the bottom, leon slept on top.
lol, it was kinda freaky up there though, look like samara's room (the girl from the english version of The Ring).
free time after that, so went shopping.
chocolates chocolates and more chocolates.
saw this super straight bunch of bananas at the supermarket, shall post a pics of it some other day.
went for dinner, FONDUE! :D
started of with cheese fondue. nice, but the liqour smell very strong.
meat fondue was great too, especially the chicken.
lol, actually chicken was the only meat i took cos the other choice was pork. so of course to me chicken is the nicest. xD
oho. and the people there super friendly.
everyone from each table was suppose to blow some super long horn thing before they can be served the chocolate fondue.
something damn funny happened, LOL lah...
i shall continue my post another day, i have to go now.
mama's calling. :\
DESPAIR. 4:45 PM