i went for a walk on my own this morning. they love flowers a lot. i love flowers so it's nice to see so many of them around. i went into a bakery and bought a cup of tea. tasted salty. weird. actually i only bought that tea cos i needed the washroom, but in the end there wasn't any washroom in sight and i didn't know how to ask to use their washroom so i didn't go. so i spent 1,2 euro on a lousy cup of tea for nothing. lol. food's great. but it comes in a huge portion and most meals have a meat component.

the neighbourhood

some matchmaking agency ad

Then we went to Homburg (a nearby town) and had ice cream. wth. their "Klein" portion is 3 scoops and that's the minimum. I had chocolate, strawberry and some nut thing can't remember the name. tell me how i'm not going to gain weight.Then we went to this place called 'Outlet' in Zweibruecken, which is basically a shopping zone. haha. i bought soap and spray from Body Shop. i know i know i wasn't supposed to, but couldn't help it.. they were having sale. it's so cheap. like the soap cost 3 euros and it costs like 12.90 bucks in singapore. the spray was 3.50 vs 20 SGD. man.. fyi, 1 euro = 2.13 sgd.

anyway then we went to this Baumarkt. just to look around. it's a place that sells home equipments, where you can get like garden fork, shower cabin, tiles and countertops, and tractor.

yep so that was my day and here are some photos:

to all the choir people going for the outing, hope you guys have a great time :)

i'm in Doha International Airport. Let's just say i'm testing their free internet network. lol. but i'm subsisting on my battery (not sure how long this will last).

kind of hungry. wanted to buy some food/drink, but i have no Qatar money (dun even know what's the currency). ok lah can buy using other currencies but nvm forget it. dunno why i'm hungry either. i like had FOUR meals in the past 12 hours.

i watched 'I'm Not There' on the plane. finally. okay lah.. but like a bit confusing leh.. plus i cannot make out like 30% of the words so i just guessed. i dunno why there are so many names and people. are they the same person or what? somebody around me kept freaking FARTING throughout the flight. so annoying!

anyway yesterday jh and yj sent me to the airport. that's so nice of them. and we had macs. (which explains the four meals) i think i tired them out though. some photos from T3:

nice toilets huh..

haha. ok maybe my change in attitude wasn't drastic enough. cos i just saw the sms and i freaking smiled. wth.

btw. i can't believe it. those photos that always looked so exotic, they're real. Qatar is like a desert with buildings sticking up. i mean when we were landing i didn't see any tree clusters/forests like in indonesia or singapore. it's really amusing. okay im damned suaku lah so i get excited by these things. anyway i had some thoughts to blog but i don't think my battery permits. so bye for now :)

this is only half the journey leh.. i'm glad there's transit. my body is really not built for long flights, i guess. or maybe not used to it.

it's so weird how sometimes you try so hard to do/achieve something and it doesn't work. and then you achieve it when you least expect it.

i spent months trying (unsuccessfully) and suddenly i don't have to try anymore. freaks!!
i'm not happy. that's because i don't know WHY this happened. and because i didn't want this to happen.

i will update you through the blog and will post (hopefully) nice photos :)

okay. i'm effectively done with 'Oliver Twist'.

Quite a disappointment for someone who's read 'Great Expectations' and loved it. This one is as witty, but for some reasons, less funny. it's also less exciting/thrilling. doesn't really capture and engage the reader as well or as consistently as GE.

the difference is obvious when you compare the start of the two novels. GE grabs your interest within the first twenty pages. Oliver Twist is more descriptive and less action-packed at the start, so i got a little bored. it's probably also partially because Pip is a much more lovable character than Oliver, and GE is written in first-person narrative (as compared to the annoyingly overly-sarcastic narrator in OT) so you feel more "into" the story. I say Pip is a more interesting and lovable character, because we know what he's thinking, and because he says funny, witty things himself. he is very human and accessible to the reader. He is a nice, respectable character, but he is human. We don't know much about Oliver. Most of the time, the narrator tells us how Oliver feels/thinks, but we don't see it ourselves. Most of the time, the narrator isn't even talking about Oliver!! Half the novel is about the events concerning Oliver (in which Oliver has no active part. he's only at the receiving end) And Oliver is portrayed to be so pure, so squeaky clean and so maligned and victimised that it kind of got on my nerves at some point. he is a rather not believable character. I don't like Oliver because he freaking does NOTHING. throughout the entire novel, the only thing he did that made an impact in his life was running away from the undertaker's and going to london. ok i understand that he was held captive so he couldn't do much, but still..

you could probably tell i was pretty sore about this disappointment. LOL.

yes. i got into architecture. i'm personally pretty puzzled with the test/interview thing (because of people's contradictory opinions). but anyway. yeah at least i'm relieved now. haha. so just wait till the start of school.

haha. yeah.

have i posted this before? maybe not. this is super duper cool stuff. lol.

really hoping to get into architecture. the interview went.. i think not too bad. it was like a chit-chat session. they asked me if the slompretan area in surabaya still looks like the one in the postcard i brought. i said no. haha. actually i hardly visit that area so i'm not sure.. but i think must be very different now lah. the one in the postcard is like COLONIAL era!! still had horse-carts and chinese signboards. then when they asked what's my favourite place in singapore, i said it's TJ. haha. yeah, really like that place. and i said maybe cos you spend a lot of time in it so somehow start to grow a sense of affinity to the place. not very related to architecture but nvm.

it was raining both on the test and interview days. pathetic.

i wish you all the best, dude.