Vienna's Awesomeness! Day 1

Just came back from Vienna 3 days ago, it was really awesome!! It is my first trip to other EU countries while my stay in Germany and I am glad I didn't spend too much because Marcus let us stayed at his place :) I will just let the photos tell the stories of Vienna.

The Parliament of Vienna, cloudy day :(

The Cultural History Musuem

Hofburg, The Amazing Imperial Castle. The famous Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) lived here. They had a Sisi Musuem, a Silver Room displaying the royal utensils and an Imperial Apartment showing the inside of the castle.

The Entrance to the musuem.

Thanks Heidi, I love this Pic. In front of the hofburg back entrance. A lot of horse carriages all over Vienna.

Vienna Rathaus (Town hall). There is a Circus in front at that moment.

Burgtheather, only top orchestra in Europe can play here.

Recommended by the tourist guide book, we looked for this restaurant which has the best Wiener Schnitzel in town. The Schnitzel costs 13.90 Euros but I think they have the best Kartoffel Salat (Potato Salad)! It was suuuuper yummy!

"Unser Schnitzel ist das Grosstes" Which means "our schnitzel is the biggest!" and indeed it is!
Bigger than my face! but it is quite thin.

Stephansdom, too bad it is under renovation. It is one of the old churches in town.

The Austrian brand : Swarovski, my love.

How can someone not fall in love with Vienna after seeing this?

Tired faces of us after the whole rainy and cloudy day.
Heidi, me and Sumo in front of the Parliament again.

It is seriously awesome!

Burgtheather again.

This ends our 2nd day in Vienna, because the 1st day we arrived was quite late so we just stayed at home. It is fun to go travelling ourselves, looking at the maps, finding directions, we decide where we wanted to go, decided how long we wanted to stay. I think I learned a lot from this trip :) At least it is better than all the rushings when we joined a tour. We really take our time and rest and stop whenever we want, that is what holiday is supposed to be right :)

I love Vienna! hopefully I will go back there someday again <3

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p/s: It snowed yesterday, it was so weird to snow so early in autumn. Seems like I need to equip myself well with all the warm clothings. It's my first time seeing the snow falling above me and I was so excited that I texted daddy and he called me and we shared our experience about snow! hahaha.. I hope to share everything I experienced with them :)

I am loving all these new experiences that I gain, new friends, new places, new food, new languages, everything, for sure, have made my life more wonderful than if I stayed on that boring path and dare not take this step.

And I am sure more awesome stuffs are going to happen!

Shout out loud!

i LOVE ERLANGEN!
i LOVE GERMANY!
i LOVE MY KOPPEPANS!

I just had an awesome week, and I am sure I am going to have more awesome days coming up, so please stay tuned for the updates.

Going for my 1st Ice hockey game tommorow and heading to Vienna, Austria on Thursday!

OH ENVY ME!

Bamberg

Joined the excursion to Bamberg again, and it was really fun as I made more friends now. It is nice meeting new people as that kinda gives me more things to do everyday. Hanging out with them is like a routine now.

OK back to Bamberg, it is a city in Bavaria, which is the state I am currently in. Beyern is a really nice state as Munich is here, and lots and lots of other famous German cities are here too. And us Bayerners can enjoy the Bayern tickets which is really cheap for us to travel around. I thought I would come to a small village before but apparently it is way better than what I have expected ;)

Happy faces in front of St. Michael's Church

Azusa, me and yee-chun by the Little Venice.
It is really "little" as there is only a row of houses and 2 gondolas. LOL.

Camwhores.

My weekends were pretty fun too. I normally go to excursions or I will hang out with YC and Heidi. Last week we met up at Yee-chun's place to make brunch! They are making Taiwanese food so I just contributed by cooking rice. HAHA. It is because they don't have a rice cooker and rice! So I am fairly important!

Thanks to Yeechun for this souvenir from Taiwan. Its a Taiwanese tea and I like it, not very strong <3

Master Heidi teaching us how to make "葱油饼"

YC's first attempt of cooking in her entire life!OMG and she cooks delicious "3 cups chicken".

Yummy yumm.

That's our brunch :) Finished the pancakes before even starting our brunch @@

And conincidentally, we had the plates coulour the same as our clothes!

I love Erlangen, I am glad I made the choice to come. I would not have learnt so much stuff if I did not come. It is the real experience of being independent, at a country that speaks a totally different language, and it was fun trying to learn a new language and try to communicate with body language! Every experience, every new people that I have met, fulfils the empty pages in my heart. I am going to live the fullest out of Deutschland!

A good day and aweful night

Today. Is a very happening day.

I have been really anxious about getting a bike and my ATM card. Finally, I HAVE GOT A BIKE and my ATM card arrived this afternoon! Being really excited I rode the bike to the nearest bike shop to try to fix some little problems, and I realised I can't even pump the tyre. Luckily the very nice boss helped me to do it.. and it's FOC.

By the time I got home it was already 6.30pm, so I rushed to changed cause I had to meet up with my friends at 7 to go to an Irish pub for Guiness 250th Anniversary. They said they are giving free food and beers. Heidi and Ritchie rode in front of me and when they successfully went up a pedestrian path from the road, which was higher, the very unskillful me "BANG!!!" and when they turned around they saw me and my bike both lying on the floor. GOSH it was so scary!! Now I know falling off from a bike is not a joke, it hurts!! Luckily I didnt bleed, and my natural insticts used my hands to block my face from hitting the ground. PHEW.

OK when we reached the Irish pub, they said the event haven't started so we kinda wait and ordered something to eat. I had cereal, bread, and a piece of pizza the wholeday and I was extremely hungry. When our meal came(where 3 of us shared), I ate like a wolf but still the portion wasn't a meal's portion and that means I haven't got my proper dinner yet. Well, this week I have been eating lotsa junks and not having proper meals :( I always have bread for meals, and that's the reason why I get gastric later at the irish pub. I sensed the pain in my stomach and I hardly can speak anymore. The gastric gas was like running all over my stomach. I went to the toilet twice and finally I puked all the "dinner". God I think many people puked in the pub because they had too much alcohol but i puked in the bar because I had a terrible stomachache =.="

Couldn't stand it anymore I decided to ride home myself. Well If anyone has the terrible stomachache experience, you should know that you can hardly move an inch because once I moved the pain increases and my legs go jelly. Well I still have to ride home and the chilly night breeze + stomachache + jellied legs made the 5 minutes ride the worst ever.

Finally I reached my beloved dorm and sprinted to the toilet. Yes, I have diarrhea everytime I had "that particular gastric". But well I went to the toilet 3 times and finally I felt way better. But still, my stomach is still aching and my leg has gone blue-black because of the fall.

I didn't know how to describe my day as the things that I have waited for so long arrived but a series of accidents happened after that.

Afterall I guess it's just a very happening day.

I am going to curl in my lovely warmy blanket and forget about my pains.

Nights.

OKTOBERFEST 2009!

Guten tag~! Finally I step foot on Munich, one of the very big city for the biggest beer event in the world, the OKTOBERFEST!
And I am hitting the first day of the FEST!

The significant building of Munich, the town hall in Marienplatz.

My first experience on the Train, the DeutschBahn. It took us 3 hours to reach Munich from Erlangen on the normal train.

Once we reached there, we met up with Heidi's friend--Kim and his family. His dad asked us to go for lunch together in a very famous restaurant and it is SOOO crowded.

Hofbräuhouse, the restaurant and brewery.

A litre of beer per mass. Of course its not for me, I only drank a few sips.

And gosh the preise is huge! Finally I can find something that is bigger than my face, hahahaha.

AND HERE COMES THE FOOD.

The very famous pork hock, must eat in germany. The grilled one is the southern style.

And the boiled one is the northern style. It looks not inviting but it is quite yummy with some special sauce.

The famous white sausages.

Guten appetit! Finally I get to eat the famous German pork hock and sausages.

This is Kim and his daddy. Uncle is a really nice person, he treated us for all the food and stuff the whole day and keep asking us to visit him in Hannover.

I love camwhoring ;)

Group pic. Besides us girls others are Kim's family.

I like houses with leaves all over them.

Tzu-yu and I in the gothic style Munich.

When we bitch together!

Sugardaddy, LOL.

Finally the OKTOBERFEST!

It is something like a very very very huge fun fare, except that they too have a lot of very very very huge tents and full of people drinking beer in them.

Woo I like this picha!So typical fun-fare-ish!

I dunno what's this called nor what is it, its just selling everywhere and many people hang them around their neck. It looks like some biscuit. Perhaps you just hang them around your neck and eat them when you are hungry.

We are eating Eis almost everytime we go out! Gelatosssssssss.

Different symbol of the beer company and their tents.

And we went into this one.

Crowded and full of alchoholics.

Uncle buying us drinks again.

This time I have a full mass to myself.

Bad beer drinkers were we, neither of us finished more than 1/3. haha.

The locals wearing their traditional clothes, sharing a table with us ;)

Me and Kim's friend Benedikt.

Yee chun gets red sooo fast.

Strong drinkers, and in fact the german girl is only 17.

Burps. Heidi looking extremely OK. haha.

Our table. When there is some alchohol in the body, everyone started to talk so much with random people and shout and yell. Everyone just gets high. And you can see the people ended up sitting with other strangers in different tables. Alchohol plays the networking well.

Ya ya ya, people prost!

She cheers too hard with her mug and the mug actually has a very deep breakage.

tipsy wipsy.

Ppork sandwich for dinner again. OMG so FAT!!! I am feeling sick about meat now!!

We departed back to Erlangen at nine.

The toilet in Munich station, looking highclass, haha. U gotta put in 80cents Euro to get in. GOSH RM4 per peeee. I don't like Europe toilets, you need to pay.

Afterall it is a really good trip and OKTOBERFEST is a worth seeing event!