Berlin Quickie

Gotta make a quick update from Berlin.

its 11pm and im too tired to go out for a walk around. just wanna stay in front of the computer and do nothing.

I just got here by a 10 hour train. the direct train from stuttgart to berlin should take about 5 hours but i took 10 hours, 4 transits, 2 times 40 mins wait, to cut the cost from 120 euro to 8 euro. yes, 8 euro. its supposed to be some weekend special 5 to go promotion and someone got the tickets, and asked random people online to join, which we then shared the costs and its 8 euros, so i basically was in a train for 10 hours with
1. an old chinese guy doctor whose studying phd in germany, he grad from nanjing uni and became a dr for a while in china and somehow went to US for some research work and then now in germany for PhD.
2. a german architect girl who is moving to berlin,cameback after working 2 yrs in new york, got hit by the financial crisis and had to move to berlin.
3. a quiet indian guy who doesnt speak much, from somewhere north india and studyng in germany.
4. a 22yr old guy whose job is making videos. he is going for some festival thingy near berlin.

so its cool to travelwith random people and its 10 hour train ride which means i have too much time i dont know what to talk about to these people.

anyways, also some update from the past week.

i spent a day in vienna, its a nice place tho it was raining a little. didnt have enough time and wished i could have spent more time at the castle.
i spent 2 days in budapest, met up with csilli and stayed at her hostel. i met her 1st time in sg, 2nd time in japan and here i am 3rd time in hungary. :D
Budapest is very nice and i started liking sending postcards after i wrote 9 postcards in budapest in front of a church. basically i got 8 postcards, and i started writing,sitting on a nice bench in front of a nice church. and after writing 8 to other people, i realize i gotta write 1 for myself, so i bought another one and wrote to myself :D
i was in Karlsruhe and stuttgart, met up fengying and her bf. It was kinda rush, most of the time rushing around, but i really i enjoy meeting people i know in some other place. and i got to view a little of the life of aSEP student. I think its really nice....


now that i am in berlin, gonna go around for tmr and day after, then will move on to stockholm.

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Today is a good day.

It started off alittle boring. Its a Sunday and i have no plans. No where to go and stay at home for the day ? thats bad.

In the end it turned out to be not that bad. After lunch i went out with JianHua, or Jack. we went to pluck cherries. Its the 1st time as i remember that i actually climbed a tree. i real cherry tree. and it was fun. picking cherries and eating it on the tree. Its like something a kid would do. but we did it. end up picking lots of them and then i dropped by his place, he and his frens were playing mahjong. omg. so chinese...:P

Then its pool time with a few others, krajo, neha, manish, renaud.....its fun. havent played it since im here, turned out to be not that expensive coz we shared the cost among 5 of us....

then i got bored because i didnt want to have bread-y stuff for dinner. but those are the cheaper things around. Any non-bread, warm food will costs like 1000HuF(5USD) or so...

Then i decided to just go supermarket and get some random stuff and throw it into the pot and have a warm dinner. End up actually, a few packets of instant noodles, some cabbage, some frozen ham put into a pot of water cooked for 10 minutes can make a real good cheap tasty filling warm meal.

Not so good start, but GREAT DAY !

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Lithuania

Just came back from a Road Trip to Lithuania.

Its actually the first time i joined such trip, its really fun. We had a huge car which is more like a van. 8 of us went, 6 of us came back.

Saulius and kestas, the 2 lithuanian guy i get to know here in Gyor had their Erasmus or student exchange program ended and they are going back to Lithuania. and some crazy people came out with the idea of driving to lithuania to drop them off, so thats how the whole trip came about.

The trip going there started at 12 am and after crossing Slovakia, Czech and Poland we finally reached Lithuania Vilnius at 6pm. so its a 18 hours drive..we had only 2 drivers, a Hungarian and a French guy. they took turn to drive while others took turn to keep talking to them to keep them awake.

Vilnius is a nice city, tho it was raining at some point of time, i think its a nice city and from the suburb its alot of grey buildings. Its kinda sad but thats how it is because it was build for the worker class during the soviet times according to these lithuanian guys. And i never imagined i would really go to Lithuania, definitely not by car, but looking at the europe map and where the country is located, its definitely not a main tourist attraction. but its really a different story to visit a city when u have some friends there. It gives u a different feeling about the city for some reason.

Anyways, I will be doing Lithuania again. Because its in the plan for my long trip.

Thanks to Ryanair again, im doing my eastern europe trip...or baltic countries trip.

Budapest on 23rd June

Slovakia on 24th June

Frankfurt and Karlsruhe on 25th June

Berlin on ~ 27th June

Stockholm on 30th June

Riga on 2nd July

Estonia on ~ 4th July

Lithuania on ~ 7th July

Warsaw,Krakow on ~ 9th July

Back in Gyor on ~ 13th July

lets hope everything goes well.

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Sports day

Today is fun. and tiring.

The school had a sports day. Sports day for most msians or singaporeans i guess it would be imagined as people having competition, running, 100m, 200m, or soccer, badminton and such. So its kinda different here. They call it sports day, but its more like a whole school beach outing.

So it was at this mini man made beach behind a club called lapos (its famous and every young people know where it is in gyor), the beach is just next to the danube river. So they had all sorts of activities like volleyball, soccer and things like that.

But something really embarassing happened. I wanted to do kayaking. I still rmb i did it a few times before, like those out door camps i used to be in when i was in form 4 and form 6, i even kayaked in the sea for like a few kilometers from island to island that time. But this time, in this very danube river, i fell into the water like 4 times. Great, so i had to move to canoeing which is like 4 person in a much bigger boat kinda thing. Good that i didnt make the canoe overturn. By the way, the water is cold. damn cold ok.

And i tried another thing they call water football. Probably its only popular in europe. Basically they have a small field filled with water and the bottom is made of plastic/cushion like material, so u can slide and fall down without hurting urself...still u do feel it when u fall. So basically its so slipery that u will either fall down or do a slide tackle every 2 minutes. which is fun !! They continuously spray water onto the field to keep it slipery....so the game kinda waste alot of water. thats why i said it might only be popular in europe, guess they love this game during summer....

and basically thats it for the morning. Sports day.

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milan and bratislava

It turn out to be not rainy at all in both milan and bratislava....this proves that weather forecasts can be really really inaccurate. 

Basically its a short trip, left on thursday took a nite bus to bratislava,walked around and "slept" in the airport, went over to milan, walked around whole day, stayed in the hotel room and went around again, sleep in the airport again and flew to bratislava nad walked around whole day again. 

I think there is nothing much in Milan, its a decent city, but other than the cathedral really worth seeing, others are quite boring...

Bratislava is a really small city, and the square near the old town hall is nice, and the blue church is even better. The blue church is a must go if you are in bratislava, the whole church is basically painted blue and its really nice...especially after u see 100 other churches with similar colors and design..

Travelling is fun, its tiring  and its expensive...think i need to find some cheaper alternatives...

any suggestions?

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rainy Milan here i come

Its gonna be raining. Its only on weekends that i get to travel and its weird that europe only rains on the weekend... damn! 

pray hard. 

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Praha

It was a good trip. despite the rain in prague. 

I remember this Argentina guy in the hostel came over when i was using the internet. He asked me to check the weather forecast. So it was Friday, the day when i arrived at prague. and the internet says its gonna rain heavily in Prague for both Saturday and Sunday and even Monday. Oh shit, we took so much effort and time, and the tiring 6 hours bus ride to prague and u telling me its gonna rain for the next few days that im here? Die.. 

So we ended up checking out nearly cities...maybe he wanna make a short trip to somewhere else to run away from the rain. At the end we both gave up because its raining in most cities in Europe except the london chunk, portugal spain chunk and athens chunk which is too far away to travel to. 

But it ended up not too bad, like walking in the rain in Prague, having capucinno in the Old Town Square because of the rain, watching street performer sing and dance in the rain, and sipping the warm coffee in temperature like 15 or 20....its good...i had a chance to see the city this way which would not have happened if its a sunny day. 

anyway, journey to prague was not really smooth also. We thought that we could have gotten a ticket on the bus, so we waited at the bus stop on Thursday evening, end up being told that no more tickets, we have to buy in advance after waiting for like 1 hour with all our luggage. 

But something i learned during the trip. Check weather forecast before u make any travel plans. Change it if the weather is not as good as you think it will be. 

And i really prefer to travel alone. much more relaxed and way more freedom......

Interesting me. 

PS : playing with DSLR is really fun..i think i will get one some day..

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