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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Prague here i come !!

Leaving in 8 hours time to Prague. Staying there for the long long weekend till Monday. 

From now till monday, its gonna be awesome. 

Life goes on from there. 


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Friday, May 22, 2009

Life can be a bitch.

Life can really be a bitch. But im glad it has been treating me well. 

Things can screw up so badly and seeing other people's life got screwed is not fun at all. 

All the best to all those who need a more boring life. 



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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Its called cultural experience, dude !

having been here for a little over a week, its interesting to be able to notice some differences in the culture. 

Hungarians are meat eater. They eat lots of lots of meat. We usually say we eat rice with meat, but some say the Hungarians eat meat with meat. but from my experience, they serve huge portion of meat with little of rice or potatoes. 

They are very open minded people, yet they are so closed up. We always know that, oh, asians are so conservative and westerners are so open minded and stuff, its kinda true. but its weird that they are so open minded yet at the same time so closed up. Closed up in the sense that they are not exactly the friendliest person on earth to get to know. I mean i am in a small city in hungary, people here dont usually see foreigners around, or maybe foreigners but not asians around. so its kinda normal they sometimes (ok,most of the time) give u some weird stare...i get this alot, not that i mind those staring. I think im used to being stared in a weird way here, but im ok with that, since its normal to stare at something u dont see often. but something interesting is, i usually see them staring at me and i try to be "friendly" and smile to them, but they would99% not smile back. Usual expression will be stone face looking at u, look at other places, turn their face around, look at the ground or something like that but NEVER smile back. Its weird that in Asia altho culturally we are conservative and such, but we are so used to smiling back at people. I mean if you are in asia, try go to the streets or trains, stare at some person for a while and when he noticed that u are staring at him, smile at him, im pretty sure 80% of the time at least that they would return u a smile. Not the same case here. 

Education wise, i guess its well known that asians have strict respect, no fooling around in school kinda thing and europeans have the opposite. But being there and seeing the whole thing really is another story. First obvious thing is that they dont wear any uniforms to school. Then the whole idea of classroom education is totally different here where students are expected to participate and they are so free to do whatever they want. some of them playing PSP,cards, or some random games in class, people just walk to behind of the class and start playing with their PSP during class, girls start putting on make up in class, and so on so on so on....

well, thats it for now, more thoughts need to be organized. 


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Monday, May 18, 2009

random

I got on bus 14, i didnt know where it is going to. I sat on the bus, the bus passed by my apartment. I didnt get off. I sat in it for another 15minutes, i enjoyed the scenery. 

I saw a guy coming up with a tesco brochure, i asked him. Do this bus goes to tesco? he said no. He offered to show me the way with his girlfriend. I said sure. I didnt know where i got off, we walked for a while, they showed me another bus stop and said i can get a bus to tesco there. Opposite of that bus stop is another mall. I went to the mall, walked around, came out and took bus number 2. I didnt know where it is going to, but i managed to get back to the city centre in the end. 

Having a unlimited bus pass and being able to take random buses and enjoy the scenery is cool !


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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Milan here i come !

Thanks Terence ! 

From Bratislava (BTS) to Milan (Bergamo) (BGY)
Fri, 05Jun09 Flight FR4643 Depart BTS at 08:05 and arrive BGY at 09:25

COMING BACK

From Milan (Bergamo) (BGY) to Bratislava (BTS)
Sun, 07Jun09 Flight FR4642 Depart BGY at 06:20 and arrive BTS at 07:40

PASSENGERS

1. MR SIEW YIK CHANG ADT

    PAYMENT DETAILS

    *********0.00 EUR Total Fare

    *********6.00 EUR Taxes, Fees & Charges

    ********10.00 EUR Passenger Fee: Handling Fee

    ********16.00 EUR Total Paid



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    Friday, May 15, 2009

    3 day trip

    We are organizing a fantastic trip to a beautiful part of Hungary, the Danube bend! We will visit Szentendre, Visegrád and Esztergom cities in 3 days by bus. Of course there will be time for cultural things and for parties, too!

    Date: 23-25th May, 2009

    DAY 1 - 23rd May (Saturday):
    Szentendre: Boat trip (from Budapest to Szentendre), Skanzen (outdoor village museum), 
    Discover the city (walking streets, churches, museums), Barbeque + Party

    DAY 2 – 24th May (Sunday):
    Visegrád: Visegrád Castle , King Matthias Museum, Bob-sled,Wine tasting (with dinner) in a wine cellar + Party

    DAY 3 – 25th May (Monday):
    Esztergom: Castle of Esztergom, Basilica (treasury, dome), Danube Museum, Discover the city, Thermal-bath (optional) or walk to Párkány, Slovakia

    awesome ?? Im sure !! 


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    Wednesday, May 13, 2009

    London

    Finally i managed to borrow a cable from viveka to transfer my pics over to my laptop and i just got my plug converter which allows me to charge my laptop and use it normally now.

    With that, i shall upload some exciting pictures of london. :D


















    of course, the 1st flight was a jetstar to KL, then a msia airlines for the 1st time to london. its a 13hour flight. 4 movies, lots of sleeps, eat and drink non stop.
    they serve good stuff, 1st meal fish and potatoes + white wine + ice cream. perfect for sleep after the meal
    2nd meal, so so chicken rice, awesome salad and fruits + red wine. perfect for another sleep after the meal.

















    places of interest : potabello market. the place where notting hill is filmed.
    buckingham pallace, the place where they have the changing of guards thingy. and of course the big big ben. o btw, the big ben is supposed to be called the palace of westminster, big ben is the bell in the clock tower thingy actually.


















    "london bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down,
    London bridge is falling down, my fair lady"

    its quite true, because only then i realized that the nice bridge that we always see in pictures and postcards are the tower bridge. the london bridge isthe one next to it which is old and ugly. thats why u can see i had to hold it up so that it doesnt fall down and with tower bridge im comfortably smiling coz it wont fall.

    not to mention realizing the tower of london is not a tower but a castle where some king used to be staying in.

    and there is also picture with sang ging and cherry at the eye.

















    of course there is this pictures of trains in london and picadilly circus. some supposedly famous tourist area. very crowded with tourists.

    thats briefly about the trip about london. am gonna sleep. have to wake up early...sobsob..

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    Monday, May 11, 2009

    Gyor quickie

    Finally arrived in Gyor. 

    Had an awesome trip in london with Sang Ging being a very kind host. i got to know him few weeks back through couchsurfing.com and there were only a few emails flying around. But i stayed in his place in london, he brought me around and so on so on.

    Anyway...london is great fun tho it was abit too rushed. i spent almost the whole saturday walking around. it was really tiring, but not that many choice since i decided to catch up with as many places as possible in a day. 

    after london was catching a flight to budapest and laci (some call him latika) picked me up and i followed him back to gyor by subways and trains. Laci is gonna be my trainee buddy here and its really fun finally i got a chance to be the trainee....meeting up with other trainees and talking about where to go in the coming weekends. 

    oh, and about my room. its awesome. its a nice apartment with 2 rooms, mine is a smaller one with 2 single beds in it, the apartment comes with a livingroom/kitchen/dining hall. there is tv, sofa,cooking utensils...almost completely furnitured thingy. and the good thing is i managed to steal some weak and unstable wireless to give a quickie.  :D 


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    Saturday, May 9, 2009

    london quickie

    Arrived in london. nice city so far. nice people i meet. me and my kind host sang ging had a short walk around the city area. had a decent dinner. totally tired after the 13 hours flight to a place 7hours late.

    tomorrow, am gonna hang around - means more walking around the city area. leaving the day after that to budapest and meet up with some people and spend my next 2 months there.

    life is good.

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    Monday, May 4, 2009

    H1N1

    This is not a good time to come. 

    Do you know what have you done to us ?

    I got some weird sms that i have never gotten before because of you. and I was stun by those sms. 

    It says the sender is NUS. 

    NUS = National University of Singapore. How can a university send out sms to me ?? 

    as i read on, it says : 

    "There will be temp screening at exam halls from Mon 4 May. Pls come 1 hour before scheduled start time of exam for this. Thank you. NUS Registrar's Office" 

    Isnt it scary. 1 hour before exam, there will be temperature screening for over 1000 people. All because of you. and you are not even here yet. Can you imagine the problems you create if you are here. You have reached only Hong Kong now and we are doing those. Can you imagine what happens if you are here !! Please...dont come. dont !! 


    By the way. stay away from europe as well. Im heading there in summer. I know you are already in UK, but im sure u can just travel back to your home country...right :D *blink blink* 

    NOW. IM SERIOUS !! 

    YOU HAVE 2 CHOICES. 

    1. YOU LEAVE EUROPE AND ASIA AND GO BACK TO YOUR MEXICO OR AMERICA...WHEREEVER YOU ARE FROM...I DONT CARE. 

    2. YOU LEAVE EUROPE AND ASIA AND GO BACK TO YOUR MEXICO OR AMERICA...WHEREEVER YOU ARE FROM...I DONT CARE. 


    What? yea i know it sounds the same...but NO!! ITS NOT!! CHOOSE ONE... NOW!! 


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