New Beginnings

(17) The4Seasons Autumn

2009-03-14T12:37:00.010-04:00

Autumn

Autumn or fall

It’s all the same

It all falls down

In red and gold

Summer is gone,

Winter is coming

Days get shorter

Nights are longer
Blankets are out.

One word for me

Hibernation

Zzz...

photos taken from 1st October 2008 to 15th October 2008

(16) Singapore Episode II

2009-03-14T11:54:00.005-04:00

I'm BLOGGING again...

Well it was great to be back in SG with frens again
even though it was for only 4 weeks.

enjoyed the swim, the catching up...
sadly the 3 weeks was a little too little too really catch up with everyone.
but it was still a very fun time.

(15) Delivered into the hands of the holidays

2009-02-10T11:45:00.009-04:00

Thank God that the Holidays are finally here :D

Good bye to books
and good night to the long nights !!!

Im so looking flowered to the coming back to SG. I'm missing the chili crab, noodles, sushi and all the dishes with eggs. Most of all i miss all my good friends, cant wait to catch up wit you all.

for me national loyalty consist only of food and friends.
(thus i've got to do my duty to my country)

I'll be flying back from Frankfurt on the 13Feb
Arriving on the 14th

By Train
Göppingen
Stuttgart
Frankfurt

(i'll be moving off at 23:50 at 13.02.2009)
(train ride will take apx 7 hours)

By Plane
Frankfurt
Singapore

(Date of arrival 14Feb)
(Flight about 12hours)

By MRT
Chani
Yishun

(i cant remember the traveling time liow)

The first thing i'll have to do is get a hair cut cause my hair is really long.

(14) Pimp My Crib

2008-11-02T18:17:00.013-04:00

For today's episode on MTV pimp
my crib, we have selected a spacial
student from Singapore.

he lives in the second for of this
building

lets examine his crib

Oh my how appalling. how could
one live in such a barren habitat

noting but dust and emptiness

what a abysmal view. our team has
to do something a bout that too.

oh the humanity.
how dreadful to sit on such a cold bowl

it is dreadful to think that none of
the privous students living here
made it out alive.

they most probably starved to death.

~~Lets Pimp it~~

inclusive if Mr.Frog the room has
bin pimped with Love.

new books and files
for every student

it would not be a pimp if there
were no 20" LCD with 2.1 Altec
Lansing speakers to keep the
neighbors up all night.

an additional HP Entertainment PC
for tf2 is a necessity

Jammed pack with all the good stuff

Book to last a life time

of cause we left a little water
surprise

nothing would be complete without
a boys best friend on wheels

Presenting the FORCA 3000

thank you MTV for pimping my Crib
Yes i've bin Pimped

(to improve the view from the
window, MTV has bulldozed the
blocks in front of it and made a
private park for keith )

(13) Graffiti & Signs

2008-10-05T15:47:00.007-04:00

something we don't have back home

ironic right

something we do have back home

when i'm not around

i'm still thinking about what to put
on my uni's front door
"Keith Rocks 2008"
what do you think?

my mom was here haha

the vandals are really discipline and
thoughtful, they only make their
marks on unused area near
train tracks

can some one tell me what the
bus number is?

actually it's not a bus, it's a giant
coffee machine.

if you are going to come to Germany
make sure you know these signs.

from top left
1) if you need to make a u-turn pls
walk right b4 doing so.
2) please leave your elephants and
mammoths to the right
3)i really dont know what the other
signs mean

please stand on the tracks

this picture was taken in a toilet in a
old German train

the trains here don't stop at every station, so i was thinking of leaving a package behind for the people at the station as my train zoom past.

(could you imagine the package/packages hitting the tracks at a 100++ km/h?)

(imagine you are the one at the station receiving the package at a 100+++km/h )

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

(12) Esslingen

2008-10-05T13:27:00.021-04:00

On the rood again !

err actually on the tracks
but really fast train tracks (:
the ICE has a cruising speed of
200km/h
unlike MRT with only 90km/h

if Singapore had ICE we could travel
from woodlands to Sentosa in
10 min :))

(but if the train driver were to dream for even a sec the train will overshoot past siloso beach and end up in pulau bukom)

Yes the sewerage cover says it all
it says :
"here is were all the German shit for
m Esslingen flow through"
they forgot to mention that some of
the lumps down there belonged to a
Singaporean guy.

if you don't believe that this is what
is written learn German and proof
me wrong

Esslingen is located along a famous
German river called Neckar it is
367km long

their orchard rood (closed after 7 on
week days, 1/2 day on Saturday
and Sunday not open at all)

how i wish Singapore was like that
too hahaha half of the female
population will just die from
shopping cold turkey hahaha

(look out for more on German
opening hours in the next post)

i'm also a fan of nice old romantic
streets

MCQ (1 life)
if you want to cross this small road
in the foreground of this picture,
you should

A) look Right
B) look Left
C) look Up
D) admire the inside of your eyelids

Ans
Actually there is a zebra crossing

this used to be the old city wall.
kinda look like a big piece of
dark chocolate to me

finally i arrived at Hochschule
Esslingen (Uni)
this is 1 of the 3 campuses.

the labs look really cool, it's quite
unlike those we have in SG. not
that it is any better just that the
labs here look like one could really
build something here and not just
study.

(btw most masters course here are conducted in englich for more info for how to study here please contact your friendly and handsome tour guide)

more strange things

in the olden days people took photos using the
state of the art stone and chisel Kodak camera
(modal number negative 3000 and lower).
it usual took a month to develop. for some faces
a special film is required, namely the
dynamite film.

ah here is the tour guide i was
talking about. and look, in hand he
has the map of esslingen
(cause he is not lost)

this is were i tried to renew my visa. but after
hanging on to my passport for 2+ weeks they
told me this was the wrong city, i had to go to
göppingen to renew it.

if things don't work out, your dream will come
true. you'll be seeing me sooner then exacted :)

QNA (1 life)
if you want to cross this road, you
should
A) look Right
B) look Left
C) look Up
D) look at your eyelids form the inside

A,B,C & D are right cause this is
Pedestrian Area though i'm not quite
sure what will hapen to you if you
chose D

you may need to click on the picture
to see this.

can you see the guy on the pole that
goes through the chocolate bar?

look closer and you'll see that that
that guy is me.
(if you do see my face on the guy
pls stop viewing my blog and visit a
doctor ok)

so now we all know where the Malaysians
copied the idea from.

do you know why they build the bridge between
the 2 towers?

original 1000+ years ago when they build the
two towers there was no bridge, the chief of
army wanted to keep his watchman fit so he
put the telephone & PS-zero in one tower and
the satellite tv & the A-box in the other. it is
only later after the law for overweight friendly
watchman was passed did they build the bridge.

the view from my school

it's hard not to daydream.

the river in front of my school.

that morning i saw 7 swons, never knew that
they existed out side captivity

anyway kinda nice to have a diff bird on the
plate other then duck rice

ok from this pic on i'm heading to
the 2nd campus. on the the map the
2nd campus was only 1.8 km walk
from the train station.

what the map did not say was that it
was on a hill

the hill was quite high

alot higher

MORE STARES !!! ahh

AHHHHH help.

i never knew that getting an education was so
hard.

(11) Back Together In Spain

2008-09-20T08:04:00.015-04:00

"Ohana" means "family"
"family" means every one comes to visit
it was really nice to have my family with me again.

Ok about Spain,
Spain was a very powerful country in the past,
it's navy ruled the trading ruts in the past
and it was at that time the world power.
so what does that mean?
well lots of nice old stuff in the city lor.

First stop was Barcelona.
i know lots of fashion houses here, my sis and

mom went crazy. but you wont find any pictures

of mango and zara here ok.

(shopping is for shallow ppl)

instead you find old ships from the past.
(i know i'm so deep)

you'll find Christopher Columbus
the monument.

here he's pointing to the west.
he said that if one travels far out into the east,

one would fall off the edge of the earth and die!

i told my mom to get me a dog as a pet
but noo look wat she got me.

inside the tower there's a lift.
and you know what.. the lift leads to the

top of the tower, pretty amazing uh.

looking down from the top. i felt like

making someone’s day down there a

little more depressing.

do you know how

Christopher Columbus died?
it's really tragic. his colon burst.

we saw this really cool guy painting

with ordinary spray cans.

Really talented.

this is how it looked like .

have you heard Antoni Gaudí?
man this is guy is a genius.
i mean really. he's architect that does every thing differently

inside the house

His designs are unique and practical.

Note that there are no 2 things in this picture that are repeated and that there is nothing that is simply straight

really futuristic design for his time.

and functional cause it allows sunlight to come in and the place is also well ventilated.

what makes me admire this guy so much is that he's the only genus crazy enough to start on a project that was going to take more then a lifetime to complete.

yah. Guldi came out with the plans to build a church so big, so high and so intricate that he knew that he would be long dead when it's done.

the inside of the cathedral

really fine stone work
i've been to may castle and churches in Europe and there is none like this.

this is the original plan,
when he died, they had only built the 4 side towers.
recently they have started to continue the construction and have done up to the 8th tower and part of the cathedral.
(most old gothic churches only have 1 or 2 towers)

this is the front.
intotal there will be 13 towers.

knowing that it'll take more then his generation to build the church, he passed down the plans in .doc, .jpg and also plaster models

he developed a very simple way to check his building stress calculations. he did so by making scaled model that has been weighted and hung it upside down. by looking at the angels of the strings, he would know the resultant forces.

Madrid

really cool thing was that i got to dive this car ((:

what i'm going to miss most.
is the good home cooked food.

(10) Farewell Goethe

2008-09-20T06:20:00.006-04:00

Like's like that,
most good things must come to an end.

a truly multinational group of frens
(there are no Germans duh)

because bremen is quite a small
town everytime i board a bus or
train, i'll most certainlybump into
someone from school.
it's really a nice feeling that i'm
going to miss

YAH i know the odds of taking
a picture in germany with beer
bottles and wine glasses in it is
hight

picture taken at the fairwell

i guess every one (other then me)
will be heading back to their
home land the next day

our last night together
(one advantage of studying overseas is that your parents will never know how late you came home. whahaha err unless they read your blog)

last day of school

for the ppl i live with
i really enjoyed living with you
for the past month, your
fantastic roommates and friends.

me and my orange bag are
back on the stupid train
again heading south

because of a train delay i missed my 2nd
connecting train

(9) Trip to Hamburg City

2008-08-22T09:12:00.019-04:00

The Trip to Bremen

Bremen is also another super old City.

it is also very big, about the size of Singapore.

If you rmb i have an Spanish guy at my house?

he knows some one who stays in hamburg and

she is willing to take us around the city.

in total the train tickets for 4 of us in only 21euro

the trip took 2 hours by train

The Hamburg train station really classic

me (:

my Spanish friend Carlos is quite a joker

quick on to the subway

we popped up at the river front !! the sun was shining and it was such a wonderful day.

me (:

From there we took a boat Bus to the other side of town

it was quite pack but the scenery was nice.

this was quite a nice way to see the city.

some seagulls drooped by to drop off some droppings :D

Beach front houses are really ex in Germany

the person that can stand the longest on the pontoon will win money and honer. currently the leading champion is a plastic man who does not want to come to shore to claim his price

the dogs really go every where.

this empty building is used by the youths for party's. no one dares to develop the building

after lunch we took a bus to the park.

duck rice any one?

it's quite worm 23deg

the town hall

church tower

some pics that i took from on top of the tower.

this are the old trading houses aka: hamburg clarke

the other side of clarke

(8) fest Bremen

2008-08-20T11:46:00.011-04:00

This was the first of many fest that took place at the town center while i was here.

the fest are not small scale in any manner

and they are not only on week ends but also on weekdays

BBQ wurst yummy :b

but 4euro is quite ex
(1euro = 2.2SGD)

i bought it any way..
the meat was calling out to me.
i had to respon to the call

MLB (mi lu bing) should perform here too (:
i could sing if need be hahaha

yah at the fest they have crazy vehicles like this 16 man bicycle

this is really cute.
cant really see its size here but it's super small.

later on i saw this "bus" again and i had like a 100 germans stuffed in it.

folk dancing

yes more time at the table talking crap (:

smile (::

(7) Feshman BBQ

2008-08-20T11:24:00.007-04:00

REAL GERMAN WURST !!!

made in germany, cooked in germany, cooked by a German, eaten by ME hahahaha

(i know some of you wanted me to bring back german wurst. i will dont worry then we'll have a BBQ yah)

this is how the place looks like. free BBQ food and beer going for 1euro. too bad i dont really like bear.

ah yes. it's my Japanese fren sang opera for all of us. he sang one Italian song, one German and one Japanese.

like all jap, he's really nice and funny

lot of german junk food (::

the 3rd guy is David, really tall. because he is french, it is sometimes quite hard to understand what he's talking about but sounds nice to the ears

(6) Friends

2008-08-20T10:30:00.033-04:00

On the way back from school
(school ends at 1pm Whahahahhahhahahahhaha)

since school ends at 1pm what else could the students possibly do???
visit the park =>

<= go out with frens (:
(yes it's quite warm, short sleeves and shorts )

Language class is often quite hilarious as we don't always understand each other.

mmm :b
good food.
for 2.50euro you can get one of this freshly cooked at the streets

at bremen
there are fests almost every day.
the people here like to take to the streets to celebrate.

in the evening we often go to a pub/restaurant to talk about home.
again communicating is sometimes rally funny.
(from left Italian SGP Russian Spanish )
(not every one is form the same class as me, some are form A1.1 so they cant speak german)

at night it can get really cold and windy.
but i think i fare quite well.

i think the aircondition in Singapore is good training ground.

we are NOT having lesson, that guy is NOT my teacher. we are taking a guided tour around the city :)

Something that could be on the front cover of the next magazine !!!

many hours is spent on such tables rather then at the once in school

(from left : Italian, American, Russian, ???)

more food

at school again.
Yes it's the same shirt. i dont wash my shirts.

i told my fren that he could pose as the cat and i as the rooster

how nice. the first time i was here, i was alone but know i have many frens.
thanks GOD ((:

Flowers are my frens too...

eh. this picture again?
i must have uploaded it twice.

more fest.
and the train is there too to kill some people
(the train is electric so its really a silent liker)

some Russian girls are buatahan ah

river side walk in the cool sun.

flee market

pose at the street

pose in the tram

pose at the cathedral and tram and street

again hands in pocket and smile

in the park

at the canteen

near my house

and with frens

(5) Bremen City

2008-08-19T09:46:00.038-04:00

The city of Bremen!
Formed in AD800

in the past Bremen was reach trades city, it linked Germany and the rest of the word through its port.

the symbol for the city is a key because it was the key the world.

Mr Roland stands in the center of the town center.
He is the symbol of freedom because he freed the city form the Chaotic rule.

this is the city's idol, every one has to worship it...

Haha just joking, it is a story about how 4 animals chased away robbers from their master’s house by staking them selves. And it all happened in Bremen.
(I suspect the chicken became dinner in the end)

going shopping

Tram stop.
the tram comes every 5min and they go to almost every part of the city It’s quite idiot prove.

i take the no.4 to the town center and the no.6 from the town center to the uni.

the trams really go every where even on "walk ways"

the city has lots of nice rivers and parks.
because the weather is really cooling (~23deg) it's really a joy to just hang out under the sun or to go for a jog.

Lower temperature also mean less pesky bags

nothing to say here..

the city's cathedral it's really old and really nice.
i'll snap some photos from the top some other time.

a picture of it at night

a closer look...

the gospel is depicted on the door.

the person on the right is moses and on the left king David

on the inside of the cathedral

the other side of the inside.

the town is a mixture of the old and the new

and in the evening. shops here close at 7 and they all do not open on sunday (other then the spoil market Chinese :)

biggest fountain in the world...

this is one of the very old buildings from log ago that was no flatten during the war.

closer look...

this building has 2 styles.

the first was the Christian gothic, that's why it has red and black bricks as the background

the second is the venice style art i don't know why but some guy many years ago thought the gothic was boring so he added some other stuff.

the trades house
on top of the door it rights
“if you take risk on the inside you win$$$”
“if you take risk on the outside you win$$$”

some fest at the town center. they have one almost every day (will upload pictures some other time.)

old buildings

old tower

more nice old buildings

Town square.
When they first build the town square, they determined its size by the number of citizens the city had. So I guess everyone could stand in the square if need be.

other side of the square

horses

this place is called the "die Schnur" aka the string this was because the rood was super small and the houses very crammed. the city of bremen in the past was very packed because every one who wanted to be a citizen had to live within the walls.

the ppl in the pic are my tour group aka fellow students :D

when they first build this rood, they forgot to put in the sewerage so they had to raise the rood by about 1+m to put in the sewage drains.
So every house on this Schnur has a free basement if you know what i mean

boat..

ah yessss

toy shop...

haha any one wants something???

(4) Goethe Class

2008-08-16T12:15:00.011-04:00

Well i'm currently at Bremen doing a German lenguage corse for a month. after that i'll head down to Esslingen to start my lesson proper at HS-Esslingnen

Goethe is a really cool place cause they not only teach you stuff but they organize excurtions amost every day !!

like for eg. today i'll be going for a boat ride at the Bremen harbour

tml there's conversation class

Wed there's a trip to the art museum and jazz concert at night

thursday a trip to Backs factory.

weekends we usually make trips to other citys

i'm backlogging with regards to uploading my
photos. this is because i do not have interned
at home. but i'll try to do so asap

This picture is taken in my school's cafeteria.

i know that the typical singaporean wil be wondering if the food is good.
yup the food is great, infect this cafeteria has won the aword for the best school cafeteria in germany.

so i guess i must be in the right school :D

the guy on the right is from Poland !!
(good bf matirial any1 wants his no. ?)

Lastly this is my class.

we have people from;
France, Turkey, Pakistan, USA, Vietnam, Russia, Poland, Japan, Egypt, Italy and yes small little Singapore

it's really fun to have so many friends from all over the world.

(3) My New Home for a Month

2008-08-15T09:17:00.028-04:00

i was rather excited to see my new room and also to test out the bed (:

on the left is a picture of the tram stop near my house

note that the cars here are going the wrong way

this is the place where i live.
out of the 6 students that live here, i was the first
to arrive.

though i almost could not get my 40Kg bag up the 2 flights of stairs, i still think it's a good form of exercises.

my room, small and cosy.

the other side of the room. i was actually supposed to get a double room but they gave me a single one for free :D

The view from the window

at night i can see the stars.

looking right from the window...

and to the left.

the throne room...

Jonathan
from Denmark

he stays on the 2nd level

near my place there's a supermarket where i buy my groceries.

Yes, the master chef at work

haha jk i actually ate expired food twice liow

Charles, he's
Spanish comes from Spain and speaks Spanish

(2nd level)

Russian girls from Russia, they live on the 1st Floor...

and a closer look at the goods :b

Federico from Italy (3rd Floor)

Actually we all speak English (:

Thank God my roommates are really nice ppl!

(2) The Journey

2008-08-14T09:58:00.030-04:00

After waving my final good byes through the glass at the departure hall i turned and walk on. As the line of sight was broken between us, it hit me. never again for a long time will light reflecting of my family enter my eyes (i know kinda geeky in some sense)

At that point of time the task was so big and i had no one to guide me.

I told God that it was just Him and me from now on.
The flight was great, Qantas is a nice airlines though it was ~2 hours late.

The 2 seats around me were empty (most prob occupied by my guardian angels :D)
I had extra leg room too.
(for a flight this log this means alot)
My flight was super delayed and when i landed i had only 40 min to get from plane to the train. i rushed of the plane, stamped my red passport and then to Terminal 1.
Ops i forgot my bag! rushed down the stares a and waited for my bag. but after 20 min, my bag did not passby! then in the distance i saw a lonely orange bag on another conveyor. "There it is!" (there were 2 conveyors for one flight how can some one be at 2 places )
After running around the airport lugging 40kg with me i finally got to the train station. i was at the right track but my train was not on the sign board. i told my self that i was at the right station at the right track and on time, my train had to be the one after the one written on the board. i was about to sit down when a voice told me to check it out. and i did and they had changed my train to another track without notice. anyhow i did manged to get onto my train just by a hair :D thank GOD!

the train ride was really peaceful and the cinary outside was just gorges. somehow i felt like i was at home here.

this is a picture of my first meal here. German hot dogs and potato. cost more the SGD10

I traveled in the ICE train at about 160Km/h

in Germany they don't really have trash cans like ours. they use recycle bins instate

me...

my lovely orange bag.

i arrived at Bremen train station at about 1pm, took a taxi to the Goethe institute and then went to my new home.

(1) What i Really Had To Sacrifice

2008-08-12T11:09:00.038-04:00

I really have to thank GOD for the fantastic friends he has put in my path. They have been such a blessing and so much fun.

To all my frens @sg parting is sad but we'll meet up soon again.

Some Last min Photos of Singapore.

Best Pals From KCPSS

aka: buddies in crime

We really gave our teachers a hell of a time yah (:

Will miss hanging out with you all

(some of the criminals are not in e pic)

Just some really cute girls ;D

Classmates and Polymates

(there are some girls missing from this pic, i think one of them was overseas)

i guess i was wrong about wat i said:

"after the prom the girls will change back from butterfly to maggots."

Every body again

All so handsome and cool.

(sorry if you find this picture hard to see due to the glare at the back)

CharacterChrist

Stay UNITED

God has great planes for us, plans that we are not capable of imagining

You guys are fantastic

I will miss you all

It's sad that we can't spend the next 3.5 years together, i'll be missing out on alot.

no matter wat happens, stay near to God and each other OK.

Since we were kids, we were inseparable (:

Whats up broz

TomTom, WeiQi, Kenneth, Sam

you guys are my childhood friends who have stuck with me through thick and thin.

my Sunday school classmate

campong friends (:

Herald Youth Rock On !!!

Though we're small with God we are limitless

Russell !

(to the comm and ex-comm and Pearl it's been my utmost honor working with you all)

Thanks for all your Love and Prayers.

With more then a Card a day, i'll never feel lonely.