Another trip to Nürnberg

I went to Nürnberg again 2 days after the previous trip :P
(If you wonder why sometimes I type Nuremberg and sometimes it's Nürnberg, it's because Nuremberg is the name in English while Nürnberg is the name in German)
For shopping, only shopping and eating.
I know, I am crazy, it was like my last days of holidays so I just desperately wanted to go somewhere. And well, I am going to Nürnberg again this Saturday, but it is an excursion :) So hopefully I get to know more of Nuremberg from it's historical and geographical sides, instead of just where to eat and shop! (Well, that's what locals are, haha acting local now)

Ok back to that Saturday morning, there is a Lebküchen(Gingercake) Market. Nürnberg is famous for it's Lebküchen and Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market). So they always have this gingercake market.


Well, I didn't buy any as I am not that big fan of Ginger, and cakes.

When there is no pictures, that means that both of us were really busy shopping.
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And finally we got really hungry and decided to hunt for something around the market.
We had some crepes, it was super yummy!
Smelled something real good from far, and realised it was this >>


Fried champignons! How awesome is that! Crispy on the outside, juicy inside.


Chun got her fish sandwich, some raw fish marinated with salt and some sweet sauce inside, it was yummy :)


But I am really not that connvinced with their sashimii, it looked like it is going bad any moment you start to eat them.


After some salty bits, I got myself a string of grapes coated in milk chocolate :) They are not as yummy as I have thought, but well it was still yummy.


Vain vain vain, just to show S babe my new boots :) and that's my Zara knit.


Well, and there was this weird old men choir, like sailors. Standing there listening for like 1 minute and left. Old men are not for me, I only want cute guys :P

Lotsa things to share about my experience in labs. I shall update sometime soon :)

Tshüss!

Happy Halloween!

Trick or treat??

I went to my 1st Halloween Party ever yesterday in my dorm, since I live in the party dorm, there is no reason why I should miss this awesome event right!

I had been thinking of a lot alot of costumes and try to shop for some little devil costumes (yeah I wana be slutty) but I don't find any, so at last I have decided that I shall just go with my lab coat and act like a mad scientist or whatever.

Eliza and I bought a tube of fake blood and it looks really real!! Of course, with my superb skills of making fake wounds!! So fake wounds are pretty much easy to make, just buy a tube of fake blood, and stick it with some tissue paper on to the place where you want your wound to be, add some liquid black eyeliner onto some spots of the tissue paper, and now it looks real! But the only advantages is by the end of the night the tissue paper gets quite dry and it will kinda peel off or crack. But it still gives u a very good effect though :)


Dead Ballerina in act! We were trying to make up stories for how we die,and she wants to die of a gun shot, haha.And she sew her own too-too!! How amazing is that?



My room became the room where everyone put their fake blood on.



This is what I was planning to wear before my floormate lend her costume to me.


I zombied her up!! Make up and the wound :) Satisfied with my own work!! Wished we had lips concealer, it will look better!



And that's me!!The Zombie Nun!! Had some blood tears and a wound beside my mouth.
Well I think everyone still wants to be pretty even for Halloween but I think I made myself scary more than pretty!! But I am happy because I won't have a chance to wear this in real life, and it's only for Halloween you don't get people staring at you when you walk on the streets!



The Joker approached me and said " Why don't you smile?", it was so eerie! And I replied "Amen" LOL. We are both very into our characters.


A nun becoming a reaper while a witch is drinking beer, and I have no idea why the camera man looks so happy, haha.

It was really hard for me to talk and laugh as the fake wound dried up. And I was struggling with my expression when I take photos because I don't know whether I should just look scary all the time or what.


But finally I succeeded to smile a little bit,it doesn't look that bad does it? It feels like now I am just a nun working overtime and injured my face..


But if I don't smile, you better not try me.



Groupie pic. The doctor zombie, the nun zombie, the emo kid, the vampire and the witch.



The Japanese babes dressed up cute as always.



And I think this nun has smooth skin. HAHAHAH. I think the powder + the potrait mode of my camera makes this magic.


This is the only time that I don't need to correct the red eyes of my pictures. I am glad, we should take more Halloween pics. Free red contacts :P


The sexy vampire, and I am sure every men is willing to get bitten by her.


No idea what we were trying to express.Nun with becks and cross with a constipated look? Perhaps.


Yeah and I like the green lights effect.


I am now a nun of the witchery society.Gosh, having a witch hat is way better than the nun's headscarf. At least it makes my face looks pointy rather than "M-E-A-T-Y"( although that was a fact)


Trying to curse the vampire.


Dearest Azusa and Fabio.



Meet my party-goers.

It was reeeeeally crowded yesterday night, we were being squeezed, squished and banged while we were on the dance floor. Especially when those people got drunk and started jumping. How does it look like when a nun dances on the dancefloor?

I will leave that to your imagination.

Happy Halloween!

I had a tiring night. Eliza came over and we both went through 2 Physical chem labs that we have gotta do this week and we spent like 2.5 hours, purely going through. Gosh, self studying takes so much time. I want to go to lectures now!

But well we are going to the lectures tommorow about Medicinal Chemistry but the lectures are in German!! Hahaha, I have no idea how are we going to understand, we will just try our best :P Will have a long day tommorow, from 9in the morning till 8 at night for my German course.

And yeah my tyre punctured today!I have gotta walk and take a bus to classes tommorow. :(

Anyway wish me luck ~

Good night peeps.

Some last minute craziness before the uni starts

So this was my exciting YESTERDAY. I went to Nürnberg finally after a month + here. That was not a very good thing, because Nürnberg is probably a lot more nicer than Erlangen, in terms of the old buildings and shoppings!!!!!!!!Yee chun and I even got free train tickets because I met a staff from a Restaurant, which the boss is a Malaysian (therefore he calls me to pick up free food whenever he cook something good :P) and he said he would lend me his Mobicard. Good, we were lucky! Head off to Nürnberg at 10am and started out shopping spreeee!

Well I haven't really visited the old historical places of Nürnberg, and I totally have no intention to do that, I just can't wait to do shopping!! (Like I have lotsa money to shop @@) But anyway window shopping is satisfying too! But the weather wasn't really good, it was -1 degrees :(

Went pass the city wall. And spot the red ROXY ear muffs from my dearest S babe!!

And the church

We basically walked around 2 streets but it took us for a whole day already!We went into every shop, browse around the stuffs, comparing prices. But well we were not too prepared to spend a lot of money and we didn't really see a lot of things that we really like, but still we enjoyed the window shopping.

Tried on this blouse in MNG and I quite like it but it costs 40 Euros!And I think it would cost much lesser in Spain because Chun peeled of the sticker of one of the shirt and the price below was like 25% less! How unfair is that, we were still in Europe!!Probably Malaysia is even cheaper.

Disappointed in MANGO but ZARA rocks! It was way cheaper and the quality was good. And it has only one price :P I bought two basic knitwears and they were kinda thick. Well I bought them after walking two whole streets comparing the other knitwears from all other brands, or some unknown brand and found out that ZARA has the most reasonable price. So I walked all the way back to ZARA. Hee, I am a wise consumer. They costs 14.90Euros each and that is the price for a ZARA T-shirt in Malaysia. I am in love with ZARA now. :)

Came home early as I had a Welcoming Party back in my dorm. But we are going to Nürnberg again for sure!!I was pretty tired and wasn't really keen for the party but my beloved floormates made the night really awesome. We had an ALEX-Rally which is some game where there are around 40 questions and you have to go to each floor to ask for answers. Of course, by then you will have to drink some alcohols that they prepared.

So, we have 5 floors each on the eastern and western wing, which means we have to drink 10 glasses EACH. So we ran like crazy, drank like crazy, and answered like crazy. I drank like 7 glasses in one or two hours and at the end I was really dizzy and I kept hugging my friends :P
But well we answered those questions in a very creative way ;)

Anna and I outside my door

Darja and I, well I was pretty drunk by then.

Just to show you that Anna has got her dentist to embed a little diamond on her tooth! Which lasted for 2+ years until now. If someday it wasn't there anymore, she must have swallowed it. That's cool, I haven't seen anyone had their tooth embedded, Ok well except my great grandma that has a golden tooth.

My bellas on the dancefloor @ Alex'sbar while waiting for the rally results :)

Meine mitbewohnerinen.My lovely floormates. Anna was hugging me in a way that made me feel like I was pregnant. hahaha. Ich bin nicht schwanger!

Ulli and I. Ein sehr nett Mädchen. A very nice girl :)

Tadaa the result was out and we won!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job team mates!

Just know the words, KOSTENLOS TRINKEN!
Means DRINK FREEE!
Yeppie, seems like I have another drunk date with my bellas.

This was my very very good day & good night ;)

I love today :)

Shout outs:

I had a great day, and a great night!!

Seriously!

I know I am a lil bit drunk now and Imma going to bed.

Will blog about it soon.

I love you guys.

xoxo.

A busy start?

I think I was suppose to start my uni this week but apparently both the Unis in Aussie and Germany haven't done their work very well and the three of us have been running to many places, meeting heaps of professors to deal with our stuff. I was really excited when I see that they have a Department of Medicinal Chemistry!Yes I am finally at the right place, a place where has a whole full building full of medchem and pharmaceutical stuffs, and yes we are important here :P

I found out that my Deutschkurs which are going to be from 6-8pm every Tuesday and Thursday is at a very far far away place from my hostel. It is like 25 minutes ride by bike. You can imagine how far is that. And it is at night so it's gonna be BLOOOODY CHILLY, or I shall say I am so gonna freeze to death if I cycle. I have been cycling early morning arouns 10 and my legs go numb afterwards because of the cold.

UH, I cannot imagine.

The temperature has been 0 degrees recently. It is always cloudy, or rainy :( Today was the only sunny day and I have spent so much time meeting the people figuring our schedule and I end up still not knowing the schedule. Ok well I know I am going to do something with Dopamine and Neurotransmitter ligands binding. Yeah, the researchers have been working for it for the past 15 years and we were like 2nd year kiddos trying to make a great work out of it? Well I think there is a lot that I have to learn and I cant learn from the exchange here.

I cycled pass a place with lots and lotsa "lalang" today and remembered the photoshoot when I was in Malaysia, we were like looking for lalang everywhere. Seriously the scenery here is way too beautiful and how I wish we can do photoshoot here. Nope, I don't need a DSLR, I just need a photographer :P

Photography credits to Nickson

Ok enough of craps. It has been long since I blogged about my mood. Ignore it, I know its boring.

Vienna's Awesomeness! Day 3 & 4

Relaxed for a bit and went out really late the last day because the weather wasn't good. Rainy and cloudy early morning :( Well we had only a few places to go, thus we took our own sweet time.

First stop, Schloss Belvedere.

Schloss means castle in German. And this guy named Belvedere (I suppose) is a French guy and I forget why he suddenly got a huge amount of money so he built his castle. In the castle there are a lot of arts and paintings including the famous painting by Gustav Klimt - Der Kuss (The Kiss)

We went in and looked around, there were heaps of paintings. There were several paintings by Klimt and this is the most famous one. The Kiss (original Der Kuss) was painted by Gustav Klimt, during his ‘golden period’, and is probably his most famous work. It depicts a couple, in various shades of gold and symbols, sharing a kiss against a bronze background. (by Wikipedia)

Every castle has their own garden. The Garden in this one is simple yet grand.


Arts of the stones and little plants.




And fountains are a must.




This point of view makes the castle looks the best :)


Was a little bit bored and took this pic.






It was pretty windy at that moment and I was telling Heidi that Sumo will fall into the water. And straight after she snapped the pic, the wind blew strongly and both of us screamed when Sumo fell. All the people around were staring at us! Luckily there is a slope before the water and Sumo lay safely there. Both of us were quite stunned.




Camwhore in the ladies.

Left the Schloss after a round seeing endless paintings and were lucky to leave that place :P

We hopped on to the Strassebahn(the tram) and got off at random stops that we liked. That was a real experience of freedom and the excitment of the unknown.






Hopped off at a stop and walked to this fountain, probably some war memorial fountain.


And walked randomly into the Burgsgarten and saw Mozart's statue.




We went to the Donau Canal expecting awesome night scene and nice riverside restaurants, and who knows it turned out to be ....


Something very industrial, or I would say NOTHING. Maybe we got to the wrong side but Heidi told me this is the spot where the tour took her last time. Well maybe I expect too much of it.


It was really creepy as there is not much people and it was getting dark, only the two of us strolling between the buildings and bridges. Well, it's adventure then :)

Well feeling dissapointed we went to Prata, where there lies the oldest Ferris Wheels of Austria, The Wiener Riesenrad.


The Wiener Riesenrad with 15 carriages.


It is another big fun fare.We didn't do much, stroll around and got home.

The last day in Wien.
(Wien is Vienna in German)


Went to look for a post office early in the morning to post a post card back to mum and dad. Well the postcard and postage were really expensive in Vienna. I spent 2 Euros to post it, so sorry la friends, can't post to you guys :P

That day was probably the worst day of all as it was really cold and the rain hadn't stop.


Went to the Hundertwasserhaus, probably the most famous building in Vienna. I watched it in a documentary before.

The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German: Hundertwasserhaus Wien) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

The house was built between 1983 and 1986 by architects Univ.-Prof. Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan. It features undulating floors ("an uneven floor is a divine melody to the feet"^[1]), a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows. Hundertwasser took no payment for the design of the house, declaring that it was worth it, to prevent something ugly from going up in its place.

(from Wikipedia)



I like the assymetrical feel.




Set the camera into the wrong mode, snapping bad quality photos :(


The croocked stairs. Probably because of my weight :P


This is where they imitate the inside of the Hundertwasserhaus as the real one has residences in it so we couldn't visit.


We were pretty much affected by the weather and felt really moodless so we went home early as we promised Marcus to cook him Asian dinner. Yeah, he is the chef, and since we cook for the chef we are Superchefs!

This basically ends my Vienna trip. I was there for 6 days but the first and last day we didn't do much. And we left at 6 in the morning on the last day and we nearly missed the flight. Thanks to the very not frequent S-bahn. So a piece of advice for Vienna potential travellers, check the timetable to the airport, they don't have it very frequently. And in the end we had to take the City Airport Train which costs 10 Euros per way. AND the tickets machine only accept 5 euros or 10 euros notes! and I only had a 20 euros note and I end up rushing to the cafe opposite the change the notes!!!

AND IT WAS SUNNY WHEN WE LEFT VIENNA.

Anyway Vienna is a very very beautiful city, lotsa historical spots to explore and they were basically very near to each other in the centre of the city. I am really happy to meet a lot of new friends through the journey :) And as we stayed with Marcus, and we spent very little on food, some paid by Marcus, or we just eat some cheapskate food, we spent around 250 euros, including the flight tickets for the whole trip, which I think is pretty little :)

Good, where's next?

probably a place with friends that can provide free accomodation :P