Day 1 and 2 X'mas Delight - Klagenfurt in Austria

Woke up at 5am to catch the 1st train to Berlin for my flight. It was still snowing so i had to put on all my gear and brave thru the snow to reach Wismar Bahnhof. It took me longer time to reached there as the path was covered with thick snow.
Managed to get on the train but the train was late to departure. So i was late to catch the exchange route to Berlin Tegal airport. Thanks to my brain and my berlin train route on hand. I quickly took another route to get to the airport, this route i had to walk and change bus. But still i managed to reached the airport on time. Again, due to the heavy snow the plane had to be delayed for an hour. Gosh... i was rushing like mad on the 1st day of my vacation trip.

Finally i reached my 1st destination in the afternoon. KlAGENFURT. It was really cold there, -10 degree. I was shivering and trying to find my location of CS. The local was rather helpful. To my surprise, most of them could speak english. Whereas the youngster in germany dont like to speak english at all. Hmmm... Without much difficulties the CS place was really so close to the old town area. Just located directly behind the one and only shopping mall there.

My CS host was a doctor. She had really nice and cosy house. She was very friendly and helpful. I was given the study room. As she had to be on duty in the afternoon, i was given a set of keys of her house myself. So that i could have my own arrangement. She pointed out the town highlight and suggested to me where i should visit. I was roaming thru the old town inner court and churches. It was so beautiful and classic.



Initially my plan was to visit Burg Hochosterwitz as well. But due to heavy snow, i had to give up the idea of going. It was mention as one of the most impressive medieval castles in Austria. I can't possibly climb up the hill to reach the castle when i can't even see the stairs. It was all covered with snow and plus the cold cold weather i totally give up the idea.
Still i went to the Wothersee. It was suppose to be a very nice lake but it was all frozen. Too bad, i missed quite a few nice sight at Klagenfurt.

Last but not the least, it is a definite place to visit. "Landemuseum" There was quite a few exhibition on display. I loved the chocolate exhibition best. I even get to taste different range of chocolate and the process of how chocolate was made. Lovely and Tasty.

My Backpacking Schedule

Baby Kaden

My bro woke me up in my dream thru skype. I was like grhhh.... it was 2pm in spore but about 9am in germany. I was still sleeping lar.... no early class mah. Luckily it was of good reason. I saw baby kaden crawling on the floor. He can do 360degree turn on his tummy. I was so happy to see baby kaden. He is so so adorable. Everyone at home was treating him like a prince... everyone taking turn to play and cuddle him. How i wish i was there as well. But better than nothing i can still see him live on my laptop.
Really thanks to the technology we had now... no more expensive oversea telephone bill and yet we can see each other face to face online.

My dear...

I was so surprise and touched to receive my "dear" parcel. I was totally caught in surprise. When i opened my letterbox today, i got a note from the post asking me to go SKY to collect my stuff. Braving thru the snow (coz it was snowing this afternoon) i made my way there, freezing and shivering of coz. When i saw the parcel i was like... OMG... i was really very happy. My 'dear' in spore send me my X'mas cum BD present... Thank dear... love you..... miss you.....

Wismar X'mas Market

I caught Bert and Ernie in Wismar X'mas Market... They are having great fun...

A week before my Xmas vacation...

Eyes was not feeling that good. Dry! Maybe it is the result after the combination of long hours looking at my laptop screen plus the weather is cold and dry here. Bought a 7euro eye drop… so expensive… but no choice…

So many things to do for this whole week. Forcing myself to try and complete all asap, maybe even before I go off on my vacation. There will be more travel ling to do next year. Booked my trip to Frankfurt and Milan just yesterday. Going to fly off from Frankfurt to Milan in April for the Furniture design fair there.

Really lack of sleep

I'm really lack of sleep... Had been rushing for work and presentation for the past few days... and even if got time to sleep, i didnt sleep soundly as well. Too many things going on at the same time. Ned to find an easy way out to lighten my workload and enjoy the life.

My dishes...

被骗了。。。

Felt cheated…. Light and symbol elective was not what was introduced when the course started. Every course as given a briefing of the outline and workload . But now, there was an increasing workload and tons of things to do for light & symbol. It is also clashing with other presentation. Gosh…
Everyone was nagging or complaining about the additional load of work to be done. It was not as what was describe in the outline. Totally different. Hate it..

Didnt sleep well for the past few days. A lot of things to be done. And to make things worst i was still doing a job for boss in spore, making my time schedule even more stressed out..

Lighties Chinese Party Night out

Gosh... was realli tired now. Just came back... 2am in the morning. This was my 1st night out party since i've arrived in Germany. Went over to Haus 25 for the party. Lighties Chinese Party Night out. We, chinese students prepared out traditional chinese food... Jiao Zhi... Now i noe how to make the dough, skin and the filling. Will do it for daddy and mummy when i get back to spore. Hehehe...
After our delicious meal, we had wine of coz... It is something that shouldnt be missed out. I drank a bit as usual but not drunk of course. We played "who is the killer" so funni and some other games. From 6pm the dinner started till 2am... gosh.. had so much fun..

Now i noe i'm not suitable to eat beef at all... Had tried beef for a couple of times, but in the end... end up having diarrhea after taking beef...
Now i now, i will cut down on eating beef unless no choice.

The flower is blooming in my room....

Lighties Public Presentation at St. Nikolai Church

12am.... final reached my dorm. My mood was still swinging in the cold cold weather outside. Had our Public presentation for "My Lumiaire" at St. Nikolai church just now. We had many interaction with the local resident. After the grand opening at the altar, we were all invited to the prayer room to had our interaction with the public. This is what i would never get while studying in Spore. We, as student was place sitting in front to face the public. And on top, we had to answer their queries about our design and somehow i would say to defend our idea against their belief. One german guy was like asking about why we had the intention to use colous in our design. Initially, i had no intention of speaking up, but thanks to my dear classmates. Everyone was like.. Ting, ting... that's your question!
OMG! Okie, no choice, i was forced to speak up using the mike. But thinking back, i was not at all panicking, instead i was answering quite well. I think... the prof was staring at me all the way. but still i perform well... Well done... to me...

Super cold today

Today was really super cold... It didnt snow but still i feel worse than it was snowing. As usual, had check the temperature before i go to school. In the morning, the temperature was only 0.1 degree. OMG. Immediately i put on my full gear. Wore my long john inside, long sleeve shirt, one jacket and my thick coat before i left my dorm. had my gloves and hat ready as well. Still i was shivering on the way..
As the weather was too cold, i decide to pamper myself... I made soup to go with my meal. Yummy... add a lot of nice and delicious ingredient... hehehe....

MidTerm Presentation

Finally, the mid term presentation for Design Project 01 is over. The result was rather satisfying... a lot of work was presented by still there is always room for improvement. Will work harder for my final Presentation.

But i was rather disappointed with Andreas grp Presentation. Is my expectation too high as usual. Andreas was rather prof.. he was in the lighting industries for couple of year so he had some experience. But the work he presentation today was rather disappointing. I expect to see better work qualities. Hmm... maybe i shld..... learn from the mistake and remind myself not to repeat their mistake....

The flower is blooming

The pot of flower which i brought back from Neuruppin is blooming. Was so excited. Does it mean i will be having luck for my presentation for the next few days or even my study in germany will be going very smoothly...

My own creation of Fried Rice

Cooked a big pot of Fried Rice... had no time to cook for the next few days, so just now... i cooked my meal for the next three or four days.
Got many ingredients
1. Rice (of coz)
2. carrot
3. potatoes
4. Lettuce
5. hotdog
6. Nuggets

Internet connection sucks here.....

Sucks, internet connection is giving me hell lots of problem in my dorm. Cant find the information as and when i like. Praying hard that the connection issue willb e resolve soon.

How cum ya... suddenly got so many fren by the name of Shawn popping out of nowhere.
Strange and weird... Tomorrow having my midterm presentation for Airrail. Preparation is still going on.. didnt feel any stressed at all. Instead, i was feeling kind of lazy and relax mood. Might be due to the cooling weather.
Time passes real fast in germany. The day was bright at about 8am and dark at 3.30pm... day is so short and night is to long...

SAD = Seasonal Affective Disorder or winter depression.