Quality Time

I have been back for a week. Have been playing tennis with my sister almost every evening, she is my coach. Spending time just talking and catching up with family is great.

I managed to see my grandparents in Singapore also, my grandpa just underwent a bypass but he is fine now.

Caught up with my friends working in Singapore also, who are earning a considerable good salary and because of that, I got a treat everywhere.

Nice.

Euro Summer 2007 Trip

I have departed from Como, Italy to Munich on 13th, last friday on my Euro trip.
I spent 3 nights in my friend's place in Munich, who happen to be a friend of my ex coursemate in UTM. He is really very very very kind. He even bought a temporary air filled bed for me. He and the other Malaysian cooked dinner for me every single evening, generous dinner. Thanks guys.

Munich, is one of the city that i want to live in, and in fact, it was voted before as one of the suitable cities to live in. The people never throw you a 'discriminating' look just because your skin colour is different from theirs, which I appreciate a lot, very unlikely to happen in Madrid. The cost of living is not actually that high, the food is around the price of Madrid, but definitely cheaper than Northern Italy. And German cities has very nice campus style hostel, which any students can apply to stay inside, very considerate.

My friend acted as a tour guide of Munich, showing me around, which is the best place to shoot pictures. The Allianz stadium which hosts Bayern Munich is impressive. I reached there, it was white and when I actually walked to the picture-taking spot, it turned red before I could snap it. But I did shoot the red and the blue stadium.

I visited the Neuschwanstein Schloss, the Swan Castle built by King Ludwig on one the hill. Having to climb the small hill plus the two hours train ride from Munich is worth the effort and the view of the entire fairy-tale castle from the hanging bridge is magnificent.

The weather in Europe this summer is terribly hot. I was so well tanned now. 35-39 C without aircondionting nor fan, on the train and in the hostel was just horrendous.

Prague, 6 hours of train from Munich, again I left my super heavy luggage in my friend's house, but i didn't reserve a seat as I didn't see 'Groups of German students travelling on graduation trip to Prague on the same day, same time as me' coming and I had to sit on the aisle for 6 bloody hours.

Prague gave me a first impression that it is Europe 10 years (or even more) back. Things are disorganised, a little bit unsafe, and hot hot hot. I think the weather spoilt my entire trip, I just didn't have the mood to sit there and enjoy the city under the scorching sun. But I did meet the Philipines couples competing live on the Amazing Race Asia, and I was taped as the female participant asked me 'if I see the red flag' that they were looking for, so watch out if MELVIN ever appear on AXN.

Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, i thought it should be more devastated and cheaper than Prague but I was wrong. It has not only more modern buildings than Prague, but also way more expensive, which I supposed is due to its 1 hour by train location from Vienna. BUT, Slovakian girl is seriously beautiful. Almost every girl on the street looks nice but speaks no english. I was in the city for 4 hours and left to Vienna.

Vienna, still hot, 'i will continue tomorrow....

very well written post

http://sukwen.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post.html

Munich

Taxi in Munich
HofBrau Haus - the best beer in town!

Mercedes, is not from Munich Stuggart

Strawberries Roast Pork Leg with wein

Weis Wurst - white sausage Olympic Park - 1972 Munich

Allianz Arena - Bayern Munich Stadium in Red 30 Minutes later, Blue, I didn't take the White Arena
with fellow Malaysians in TU Muenchen, Wei Qi, Soon Hooi and Pei Lai


Alpsee Lake, bluish water
Schloss Neushwannstein - from Manbruke bridge
I think it looks even magnificent during Winter

I was replying to comments and heck, i should just reply here

Sayang, first, I named my blog after some Taiwan tabloids who likes to dig the dirty shit out of artists, and I did that to my ex UTM coursemates in my many previous entries in 2006.

Second, I write in English because my 'hang yu ping yin' is really lousy, it will take me 1 hour to write one paragraph and most likely i will give it up before finishing.

Third, yeah, never have time to do those 'Rome' ppt slides again. But will try to do it when I am free, which I guess I will not be in the coming 2 months.

Fourth, I am reaching Malaysia on 22th July and will be there until 2 Sept. Tolong Heboh-hebohkan. Finally, some real food. Before that, actually is this friday, I am leaving for Munich for 3 days, then head to Prague, Bratislava and Vienna for another 3 days, before going back to Munich to pick up my luggage to go to my final destination, Stockholm. I will take my flight back from Stockholm. I will use train all the way, and it's not that expensive since I bought the Interrail ticket (discount for European, and I am temporarily European, haha)

Fifth, my life is pretty well described in my many entries, I will feed you with more stories when we meet up in Malaysia.

Sixth, I heard your interview (downloaded it to hear the whole session) with the DJ on AiFM. I couldn't believe it in the beginning, thought it was a prank or something, but seriously my ex classmate was on RADIO, somebody that I know was on AIR live. How cool is that!

Seventh, I just checked my nuffnag analytics. There are visits from Singapore, cool, a new source. All the while, is just my friends in Malaysia and Italy and my sister in India. Haha

Wimbledon 2007

I was watching Federer defending his fifth consecutive Wimbledon titles. The very first time that I have seen he scrapped in Wimbledon, his favourite grass court. He never had this disappointment before, couldn't break Nadal's service since the first set. Nadal was very consistently good (and very lucky with all the calls and challenges) the whole afternoon until Federer fought back steathly. Adversity Quotient, being able to perform in adverse condition. Is that what he possessed to win the fifth set?

070707

Wow..I was reading my schoolmate's blog and realised that today is 07-07-07. Once in a hundred years.

By the way, they were invited on a radio call-in show. Amazing!

Pallanuoto

Como Master water polo team, very kind and old but swim faster than me. Ci vediamo! (I should write down their name, the manager, Gibo, Cesere, Teto, Lucio, Nick, Paolo, Alberto, Vittoria, Chicco, Kaka, Gerry and the guy who always fetch me back, i dunno his name;p)

Midsummer's

The closest Friday to June 21st, to celebrate the longest day.

8.30pm

Snus..tobacco leaves..good solution to 2nd hand smokes

Swedish Caviar, spread it on their biscuit and boiled eggs.

The Swedish host

The weather was freaking hot!