today was market day. the market days in this town are wednesdays and saturdays. so the teacher made us go to the market and interview people about their diet, health, organic and GM food, etc. i bought a small pot of mini blue-violet-ish flowers :) cos i have practically no friend here so i want SOMETHING to talk to. lol. nah i just like flowers a lot. i'm not good at this, though, i don't have green fingers [in sec2 i was the rep and all the plants freaking ROTTED and attracted a lot of ants :( ] so i hope this one has a better fate. it's called Lobelia. i didn't name it. lol. i mean that is the genus. i researched a bit on wikipedia and found out its english names include Asthma weed, Pukeweed and Vomitwort. some names.

and wth it means "malevolence" or "ill-will" in the victorian language of flowers. if i'd known i wouldn't have bought it. and for myself, too!! lol. but no matter. No wonder they were called Lotto and Lobelia in LOTR (Frodo and Bilbo's relatives).

i wanted to buy some strawbs too but i decided not to cos i didn't want to leave them overnight. i made soup for lunch and dinner. still not used to the amount i should put in, so i put in a lot of carrots (as with the previous tries) and i feel so sick of carrots now (as with the previous tries). and i'm eating more of this later. haha. but it's not so bad. at least i'd like to believe so.

[of red and yellow roses and which i should pick.]

my dear Lobelia:

today i went to the library. it's called Stadtbibliothek im Glashaus. as the name suggests, it's a glass building. it's quite nice from the outside, though it looks out of place considering the other buildings are like Fachwerkhaeuser and old houses. it has english, french and italian collection as well, though they're kind of limited. for a small town, i think it's not bad. and the ambience is great. i bought two thin books at 0,50 each. german, of course. lol. they were having a small book sale. i figured it's more sensible than getting the card that costs 8 euros for 3 months (since i'm only staying here for a month)

the counter:

here's a video from Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting. hope you like it:

the most rubbish thing here is that you need to pay to use the public washroom and it costs 0,50 E. that's terrible!! especially for people like me who need the washroom all the time. anyway yesterday i was "homeless" cos i reached Schwaebisch Hall and the hostel wasn't open so i had to stay in a dismal room in this dilapidated building. lol.

this is the corridor:
anyway i ate chips from this tube and now i think it's been tampered with! lol. no wonder the crisps were so weird. like very hard to bite. tsk.


so. now i'm staying at this hostel. this is my side of the room. my neighbour has yet to arrive. i hope she'll be a nice roommate. after the housekeepers came and cleaned up, the room's quite pleasant. the town is.. okay.. ytd when i arrived it was like a ghost town cos it was sunday. but it seems quite nice now that i see some semblance of life as monday breathes some vitality into the town.
and the shower:

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 :)