day out at hort park

When i woke up today, the air smells of rain. It's those days when you feel like snuggling up your blanket and not get up till you feel like it.

Well i woke up at around 9 plus, not too late nor too early. I went out with my parents and brother to Hort Park. I am personally not a botanist enthusiast. But the sight of seeing my mommy enjoying herself at the park just makes me feel good. She's like, "this is called verticle gardening"; "oh these are sugar canes"; "hmm the mixed breed of sunflowers!". It's really rare seeing her behaving like a little child on a discovery trail, absorbing everything she sees with delight. We had a great lunch of course :)

I begin to appreciate public holidays. I look forward to them and see it as a great opportunity for a get together with my family. Afterall, family is the emotional support and pillar behind every individual.

celebrating a baby's 1st month

A newly born. It never fails to amaze me whenever i see pregnant ladies with heavy tummies walking along shopping streets or struggling up the public transport. The thought of having a life within you is indeed an experience which belongs to only the mummies-to-be. After 9 full months of feeding the life within, it's no surprise that babies develop this natural attachment to mummies the moment they are born but not to daddies. Indeed it is a real joy to celebrate a baby's arrival on to earth !

Take a look at this pretty package which was delivered to celebrate Alyssa's 1st month birthday.

And the food in it.

Well, i'm already well past my 1st month of birthday. But still i hope to live every day and month of my life to the fullest. :)

Der letzte Tag als Studentin

Gestern war ich in UCC. Es war meine Abschlussfeier. Aber bevor die Abschlussfeier war ich nicht aufgeregt. Ich habe auch keine Ahnung. :S Meine Mutter und Schwester war da. Es war das zweiten mal meine Mutter, die die Abschlussfeier teilgenommen hat. Ich möchte meine Mutter danken, weil sie immer da für mich!

Der Dekan (oder Dean auf englisch) und ich


Viele viele Luftballon


Die Volkswirtschaften Studentinnen


Meine CG Freunden und ich

Junda Porcas und ich


Danke Siying und Porcas für die Blume!



Rui Peng war auch da. Es war eine Überraschung!


Meine Schwester und ich. Sie hat von der Naturwissenschaft Fakultät graduiert.


Meine schöne Mutter und ich




Meine Mutter ist auch sehr klug!




Wir haben langweilige Volkwirtschaften Vorlesungen zusammen teilgenommen. :S


Die LAG-gers und meine Schwester. Wir lieben Deutschland :)




Ein interessante Luftballon

Boon song, charm und ich. Boon Song trägt eine andere Farbe, weil er ein Student mit ausgezeichneten Leistungen ist! wow!

Han Xiang und ich. Mein Junior.


Hui Ling und ich

Nic Tey und ich


Huiyu und ich


Huiyi und ich


was ist das?!


Yayss!

Genuis and Gawk

Have you watch the MV on this korean song "Kiss, because i'm a girl"? Well if you had, you would realise the MV's pretty romantic but ended in a sad way because the guy had donated his pair of corneas to the girl whom he loves.

Yesterday, i chanced upon this Hongkong show "Genius and Gawk".

The story began with the coincidental meeting of a city and a village man. The village man, being really pure, honest and simple- hoped to find a pretty wife in the city, versus the city man who's clever, scheming, in need of money but kind-hearted.

I kind of expected how the city man would ask for a loan from the village man, and in return, he would help him to find a wife. The village man being not so good looking, were rejected by all the ladies he met. Finally, he met this blind but pretty lady called yuan. In order to gain her love, he and the city man put up a show, allowing yuan to believe that the village man is really rich and he even has a PA around him- who's the city man. Yuan eventually develops positive feelings towards the village man, not because of his wealth, but because of the village man's kind heart.

Believe it or not, once when the city man helped yuan to look after her roadside flower shop while the village man took her out on a date, there was a gang fight and a briefcase loaded with money fell beside the stall during the gang fight confusion. The city man, who's desperate for money now sees the opportunity to use the illegal money to repay his son's loan needed for overseas studies. The internal struggle between conscience and greed rose within the city man. Because of this issue, Yuan and the village man were captured by the gang members who threatened the city man that if he doesn't return the money, both of them will be dead. In the end, the city man brought the briefcase to the kidnappers and demanded them to release both his friends first. However, the briefcase wasn't filled with cash, but with white paper. Seeing that they were fooled, the gang members hit the city man till half dead. Meanwhile, both his friends managed to escape.

After being in coma for 3 days, the city man realises the village man was gone. He reads a letter left behind by him, thanking him for his friendship and sincerity as not only did he not look down on him as he was from the village, but he even risked him life to save him. Time passes by and the city man still didn't hear news from the village man. Until one day, he saw yuan riding on a bike. Her sight had recovered. But she too didn't know where did the village man go to.

It was then they decided to go back to his hometown, where the city man and him first met, to look for him. Halfway through the search, both of them rested at a teahouse. The city man went off to ask around while yuan rested. Then from afar, she saw a blind man carrying a case filled with packets of peanuts for sale. She went up and bought one. But when the peanut-seller heard her voice, he immediately walked off. Yuan wanted to pay him, As she stuffed the notes into his hands, she began to realise from the touch of his hands, that was the village man! but he was blind. Then it hit her that he had donated his corneas to her. It was very touching to see how yuan accepts the village man for who he is. For his inner beauty despite how the village man insist he wasn't worthy and suitable for her.

I like these kinda shows. Simple yet down to earth and touching. :)

Melbourne!

Melbourne. I've heard so much about this city. I really enjoyed myself during my 4 days here. First day was to the Philips Island. Here, we see many of Australia's famous wildlife. That's the Wallabies in the picture below. Looks like another breed of kangeroos. Btw, my tour guide said that the term 'kangeroo' is originated from the tribal language. And it means something crude actually. hahaa!


Frau Chen and i at the Churchhill

Look at this happy animal. It's smiling to itself. IS it a sheep or goat? haha i realise i'm quite bad at animal names..

This cow's only 2 weeks old. But it's blind.

A very cute sheep. It's wool feel like my comfy blanket at home :S

Nice pastel colours

Animals spotted along the journey

Sun and the swamp (low tide)

Spot the LAZY koalas. They sleep 20 hours a day! lucky them. And the only 4 hours when they're awake. they eat and do their business like us. Great food, great life and they're a national treasure as well. argh! Watch how this koala eats likes a king, with no apologies.

The reason why i want a DSLR cam is because, all my koalas look like lumps on the tree. I believe a better cam do wonders.. oh well.

This close up pic of the koala was really the best shot of a koala in it's 4 hours of daily activity when it's awake!

Beautiful blend of tree leaves colours.

This is a shopping street. Around some corner are those LV, Gucci shops.

The St Paul Cathedral just diagonally across Flinders station.

That's Flinders Station

The Aquarium

Morning tea along our way to sit the puffing billy steam train. The scones were yummy!

A bird park. With super friendly birds that flock towards you the moment you hold bird seeds out.

Has the bird been starving for days??

Before setting off on a steam train!

It was a sunny day.

Night shots in front of the aquarium!

I don't know what we were trying to convey too..

The night at Melbourne airport. some shots of us and the uncomfortable chairs.

m for melbourne!

Eureka building! The place to get the 360 degrees view of melbourne

This shot reminds me of the word 'peaceful'.

A helicopter view of the 12 apostles!

2 of the 8 remaining Apostles

Animals again! Isn't it so funny how singapore tries to put up cardboard made cows whereas there're just abundance of cows, goats here among the fields in Australia.

look at the splitted waves in a row.

See the sea-horse shaped rock?

Beautifully created.

The rocks looks just so magnificent against the sunlight.

The world is really small. I met Khung Xing- my secondary school friend there!

Dots of animals i spotted while on the helipcopter

Australia (Days1 and 2)

Hallo! Sadly, i'm back in the sunny island- singapore. I experienced 10 days of winter season, averaging 10 degrees and could go as low as 5 degrees at night. It was so cold that my teeth chatters and my body shivers from the inside! My first day was spent in Brisbane.

This is the "fake" beach on the south bank where i saw many seagulls there.


This is apparently their "London eye" or Singapore's flyer. It was rather deserted that day though. No one was sitting on the ferris wheel.


The "Story Bridge"



A shoe shop with my brother's name. Cool!



On the second day, Lixin and i traveled to Gold Coast Surfer's Paradise via airtrain. The journey was about an hour and half from Brisbane. The seas were really beautiful. This was the place where the weather felt a little bit like being under singapore's hot sun.

Look at the gigantic waves! Beautiful!

Spot the tallest building!

Frau Chen and I

And off to the Movie World. I don't really remember any characters representing Warna Bros actually. But with only 2 and half hours in the theme park, lixin and i had to rush at times. especially we singaporeans being so touristy, taking pictures of the themepark. Here's the entrance to the themepark!

By the kid's pool



Scooby Doo's roller coaster ride. I really recommend this ride. It's so thrilling that lixin and i took it twice, just to feel how's it like to sit the front and the back row. Conclusion is, the back row's more exciting! haha cos there's the verticle backward fall! awesome!


Inside the 3D shrek theatre. We were suppose to put on this glasses to see the 3D effects. halfway through i tried to take them off. Well the result is, the 3D effects just look blurred.


The kid's theme park. There we sat another roller coaster ride for 2 times, just to enjoy the wind hitting against our faces.


The first 2 days were extremely tiring. Since the first night was spent in Brisbane airport without sleeping on a proper bed. Little did we know the next few days in Melbourne and Sydney were equally exhausting. But much Much more rewarding. :)

memories which never fade

I was chatting with a colleague today on her trip to Europe and i was reminded of my SEP in Europe last year. No doubt I took some time to recall certain places i visited in Europe. But definitely, these memories had a special place in my heart and i would never forget them.

Coincidentally today i received too a msg on my facebook inbox from a year 1 NTU student. She asked me on accomodation in Mannheim.

This is the beautiful Wasserturm in Mannheim


The shopping street


The really value for money and delicious Döner


And the main train station


I miss Germany. And the german language. When will i get to learn german again?