Back!

I realised i have been MIA for a long time. So i need to post something before everyone thought i was busy plucking the spring flowers.

I am really busy! haha...busy holidaying, but also busy doing my report for my lab. For 1 week, i slept at 3am every night and woke up at 6am, so as to complete my report. But after that, it was one week of holiday in Lappland in northern sweden. To give u a better idea, Lappland is within the Arctic Circle.

This is what i saw...

Northern lights aka aurora aka 北极光

okiez...check out for my updates soon again. i need some time to organize my photos and wash my stinky cloths, tidy up my room, study....

Its back to reality!

春天的足迹

I smell the arrival of spring..

The sun has been rising earlier. People are walking much slower on streets. Kids are playing in the park. Flowers starts to appear out of nowhere. Indeed, spring is coming.

The flowers reminded me of the story regarding cherry, peach, plum and dansom (樱，梅，陶，李）. The four different flowers that bloom in spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively. They all need different conditions such as a specific range of temperature before they can start to flower. It is said that the colder the winter, the more brilliant the cherry blossom will be as it absorbs the energy of the cold winter.

Human lives are just like the different flowers. We all have the limitless potential and we just got to be patient and wait for the right conditions and time in order for us to realise and display each of our unique individuality and talents. Sometime, we may need to endure a cold winter in order for us to realise our unique mission in life that no one else can fulfil.

It has been exactly 2 months in sweden. I has been doing much reflection for the past few days, reflecting the things i have done, things yet to be done, and new things to be done. Sometime, i have doubts regarding my own beliefs. And i wonder if this self reflection bug has caught on other people. It seems that my friends ard me, and in singapore (from blogs) have been doing much reflection. I guess we got to be patient. Sometime, a cold winter or a hot summer is needed in order for us to make us realise our true self.

At least the stary flowers reminded me of this truth..

Göteborg

After a month of hibernation in Lund, i am finally in action again. This time round to Göteborg. (Pronounced as 'your de boy').

I was with Simone, Betina and Christoph. So i was the only asian in the group. And i discovered something peculiar about the Europeans when it comes to travelling. For example, they would...

Climb up a hill to see the elk...

Visit the palmhuset(palam house) to see tropical plants like..

Tour the Saluhallen and the feskekork the first thing when we first arrived in goteborg ..

Monster Looking Fish

Surrounded by kids and interesting innovation at the Universemusume, which is a science musume. .

One compartment for big bussiness and another for small business.

Cute swedish boy

(Sorry simone, but i was more interested in taking the photo of the boy)

Visiting the Goteborg opera house twice cos the night was not so fantastic for taking the photo of the opera house ...

And these are travel mates...

Christoph, Betina and simone

More photos here

Next stop, bike trip to Malmo this weekend. .

(weizhi is really looking forward to it....But he has 1 report and 1 essay yet to finish...)

CNY EVE

This is long overdue....

We have a terrific reunion dinner, or i should say an international dinner at Spoletorp on the CNY eve. We didnt really have much chinese friends over here and we haven been in contact with the rest of the spore students. Therefore, Stefanie(nus) and me decided that we should invite our flatmates to celebrate this dinner with us. And our flat mates just invited their own groups of friends, and we also invited our own group of friends, and this is what happened...

2 tables combined. So guess the number of ppl.

17 people. Yvonna, Gratta (HK), Stefanie, Kellie, Tom, Me (Sin), Thomas, Phillipp, Phillipp's gf, Flitz(Ger), Simone, Christoph(Austria), Asami, Manaka(Jap), Asami's bf(swe), Suwei(Australia), Sarka(Czech)

so our reunion dinner an international dinner. But it was really great cos we got to try dishes from all over the world. And it is the best time to understand one's another culture. I learnt that angmoh dislike bean stuffs. Cos one of the chinese cooked red bean soup. I thought it was good. It is so typical among asians, but generally all the ang moh found it werid. And they loved chicken curry and bak ku teh.

panna cotta for dessert

Thomas came up with this stupid idea. He wanted us to sing him some CNY songs. So we told him that it is not our tradition to sing CNY songs. (This is true ok! Tell me when was the last time you sang a CNY song.) He was so persistent and wanted me to teach him sing a song. I gave up and taught him the 恭喜，恭喜。 And christoph joined in after a while.

And at 12 midnight, the 2 angmohs and together with their 师父entertained the rest with the song.

Christoph and Thomas learning how to sing 恭喜，恭喜

I guess this shall be one of my most memorable cny dinner.