Friday, January 28, 2011

Berlin trip

I hope it's not too late to post my Berlin trip. Let me reminisce about my life in Europe after 1 month I'm back in Malaysia. Williams, Jia Ning and me visited Berlin from 7th to 10th Dec. The weather was super cold for that few days and snowed heavily. My boots were wet but not as bad as when I was in Italy (which I will blog about it later).

I've forgotten what time we reached Berlin, but the sky was already dark. Well during winter, the sky gets dark around 5pm, which I was cheated by it a few times to have really early dinner. LOL

After check in to our hostel, we headed off for our dinner. That's my dinner, my beloved pork ribs :D


We followed the Berlin free tour the next morning to get to know more historical places in Berlin as well as places of interest. I'm truly amazed how Berlin or I should say Germany can be this successful although the Berlin wall fell for only less than 50 years. Considering Malaysia has be independent for more than 50 years, our country is really lagging and what a failure.

Parisien Platz & Brandenberger Tor

We were brought to places like Jewish Memorial, Hitler's last residing place, Berliner Dom, and also were introduced to the special beer only in Berlin.
The Jewish Memorial - Holocaust

The Holocaust was place in the middle of the city where everyone will pass by everyday and be reminded of the importance of unity and race free mind.
The remaining part of Berlin Wall, the ugly & original 

The beautiful side of Berlin Wall - East side gallery. Do not misunderstood, this is totally a different place from the part of wall in the above picture. You will need to go to a different place for this part of wall.

We also visited the island of musuems where there are at least 5 musuems on the island. Well, not those island that you need to take a boat there, but just walk over a bridge.

That's how beautiful it is when it snowed. But it was also very very cold

The German Parliament

Class now, continue later!
Ok, having my interval now, shall continue to blog.

Me in front of Berliner Dom

Pergamon musuem, but we didn't go in. Just not my cup of tea.

Played the snow slide

Met up with Sabrina! We have not meet each other since after form 6! that's 8 years. I'm so happy to see her again and knowing she is doing very well in Germany :D

Tried Berliner Weisser. It's yummy~

The next day, we took a trip to the Sachenhausen concentration camp. This is not a death camp, it's more to hard labour camp. But a lot of people died here too. It was a chilly day with the heavy snow and strong wind. 


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Up and about again :D

Seems I've left my blog deserted again. January is a busy month for me.

Sis gave birth to baby Ray so when I'm free, I hopped to her house to check the baby out. He is such a cutie!

I just came back from Bangkok today. Yes, it's the 4th time I'm there and I will make sure to visit there annually! This round is a fruitful round. We didn't visit any sight seeing place at all, because our main motive was to shopping. Additionally, we've been to most of the famous places in Bangkok already, so we might as well focus on our shopping. I have never bought this much of clothes before and I've lost count of what I bought. Will post more photo later. It's time to unpack whee~

That's how much I've bought. :D

Sunday, January 2, 2011

After exchange semester

Hey there, I'm back to Malaysia and realized that I have deserted my blog for some really long time! Well, sorry to my blog. I have been travelling since 7th December from Berlin to Budapest, back to Germany on 14th and head to Italy on 15th till 22nd Dec! I knew I have an incredible travel schedule, and it's fun :)

I was lucky to have a good weather (not snowing heavily) to fly from Frankfurt to Dubai on 27th night and from Dubai to KL on 28th. I was kind of surprise when I saw my sis got so swollen due to her pregnancy. Well, that's the sacrifices woman make to have a baby. I headed back to Batu Pahat on 29th morning and back to KL again on 1st Jan 2011 :) Hope it's another great year for me :D

Well, actually I have some time to blog when I was in Jiaxi's place in Hallgarten but I was just too lazy. What we did during christmas eve was preparing dinner, talk, sing songs, watch drama and during christmas day, we made a snowman :D follow by preparing lunch and sleep after that. I slept a lot during that few days and it was always after meals lol



2010 has been a great year with nearly 5months of it in Europe zone hehe. Other than travelling, making lots of friends from all over the world, I also watched a lot of dramas LOL. I have done a lot of my first times and mosts during my exchange semester.

1. Walk the most in my life
2. Cycle the most in my life
3. Had the best beer in my life
4. Had the best wine and most wine in my life
5. Had the most chocolates and chips in my life
6. Travel alone to foreign country
7. Travel on a normal flight (non low cost)
8. Travel by train (not those MRT, LRT)
9. Cook the most in my life
10. I need to think about it...

I shall continue the list later. I will also blog about my trips to Berlin, Budapest and of course, my final station Italy :) 

It's tv time now :D
My meal on the flight home