evening trip to rapperswil

Just got back from my little trip to Rapperswil to meet Wingsze. She's my secondary school tennis mate and we haven't met each other for about 3 years? haha. And it was through pure casual wall-to-wall conversations on facebook that we realised that we were both staying in the same canton in Swiss! What a coincidence! We just both wished that we found out earlier cuz we're both missing bit of good gal company over here, and had many boring weekends over here. Nevertheless, it was nice seeing her for that few hours and I enjoyed the journey lots.

i was trying to study during my journey there and back, but the countryside was just too nice to be missed. It has this very nice calming effect in the evening. It's a pity that many swiss people just take it for granted, but i suppose they grew up with it. The train ride home at night was great. ipod, darkness, quiet, moving train. I dunno how to describe the feeling... but I think its comparable to my love for nice rainy days.. maybe even better.

weather confusion

brrrr.... it's cold again.. feels like 11 degrees or something..

it's summer, but it is now colder than springtime a month back. Spring then felt like summer (about 26 degrees?), yet the beginning of spring was colder than their winter days..... europe weather is having a major confusion crisis.

i think i need a blog revamp. it's getting boring.

unifest

after seeing my friend's blog, i got little urge to club again! well i finally got permission to go clubbing without my other half, just hope i can look for pple to club with. lol!

my last clubbing session was some uni party called Unifest. It's kinda cool, where they pretty much convert the whole university into a club. It's like a zouk/mos concept i guess, one area playing the kind of music the europeans like (dunno who to categorize it. lol), one area for hip hop (which was quite empty), and my fav of them all, one area for Latin music! haha. that got me dancing all the way till 4am. Latin music still the best!! hee. Unfortunately, zm wasn't there cuz it was too expensive (25 swiss francs!) so didn't really make full use of it. but it was fun nonetheless, teaching gracia bits and pieces of salsa, bachata and merengue and seeing drunk sea and yvonne.

I was awfully surprised when the swiss guys tried picking us up, but i guess that's not really a surprise when the school population only has 17% girls? But I was still surprised, cuz we're pretty much ignored during school hours... so it was quite a contrast. Plus, these prim and proper looking 'gentlemen' tend to get either ultra friendly or pretty violent when drunk. I almost got knocked down by this tall drunk swiss guy running away from 3 security personnel. i'm quite sure i would have been flattened. :S

The night ended with us making curry with carrots and sausages! haha. we had no other ingredients and we 4 singaporeans couldn't stop thinking of prata. So that was pretty much the best we could produce. And it really feels as if we stayed out all night, cuz the sun was rising from 5am already.. maybe earlier.


arghh.. i miss phuture, i miss o bar, i miss brix... i miss salsa nights.. i miss jalan kayu prata!
someone pls go out with me when i go home! need to do some singaporean stuff! :)

everybody is growing up..

... the thought of it still scares me..

..will i grow up?

French Open

one of the perks of being in st gallen:
I got to watch the French Open over here!! *grins* I have no cable back home and tennis has ceased to be broadcast over the antennae. On the other hand, zm's apartmet got a tv and yeah! they have eurostar in dual channels. =)
Nadal won the finals today and seriously! he can run like crazy! I'm utterly impressed by his play.. just that he doesn't really have a charming character. So though i idolize play, I don't really feel inclined to support him :S Either that, or maybe i'm now in the Schweiz so I'm obligated to support Federer? heh

Anyway, it was kinda cool watching the match today. My sis also got to catch glimpses of it cuz she's working in China again and she could watch it at her hotel (in mandarin though). We were sort of discussing it over msn. lol. Talk about interesting circumstances! =)

project presentation tmr. this canadian girl did the slides and i absolutely hate it. I can't believe she said that she always does the slides back home. well.. gotta rehearse cuz bf says i suck. so yup :( till another time!

going through several blogs... and it's funny how the other exchange students are preparing to go home and are already back. all talking about last days being there....

... and i will be here for one more month, getting ready for the only peak season for this semester. not that i'm complaining.. but st gallen just moves at a totally different pace. tsk tsk. typical swiss. :P

But I think that like the others, I will miss this place when I go back home. Even now, I begin to realise that soon I will stop seeing kebab stalls, or rostis or bratwursts. :S And surprising as it sounds, I'm gonna miss walking up that crazy hill to school.. see the little kids play or sell flowers to the passerbys, hearing the birds chirp throughout the walk, and definitely the nice quiet and cool breeze. It's really different living here.

But this doesn't mean that my massive craving for Jalan Kayu roti prata and stopped, and i will only be able to eat it 1 month and 12 days from now!!

That aside, Siying and some of the Lund exchange students will be staying over one night. I'm not sure how the 6 of them are going to fit into the apartments, but hope it will turn out fine. I just wish I knew more about their plans and stuff cuz i haven't had much contact with ying. I am probably wrong, but somehow it just feels that they are not here to visit us, but just looking for lodging. :S Just hope it will be fun.. kinda getting lonely here.

Family

Random points...

my sis's wedding is coming soon, and the self-claimed wedding planner here ain't there to help out at all. lol. It kinda used to be my dream to be a wedding planner.. it must be nice to have a job that sees happy people all the time right? That aside, my sis put up some of her photoshoot pics on her blog, and she looks soooooo pretty! She always complains that she doesn't look good in dresses, but how wrong can it get when she has big dolly eyes to go with it? *hee*

Btw sis, you look great in the 'kua' too, glad we didn't choose to miss that out :) I'm looking forward to going back home to see your wedding album. And we have to spend more bonding time together before you move out! p.s. can i say that i'm glad that you are only moving to kovan and no longer to somewhere in the east? Easier for me to disturb you for supper ;P

Recently, i realised that I've grown to look like my mum. scary. Not that it's a bad bad thing, but still.. I don't want to know how i look like when i grow old yet :P And also perhaps, I never thought I would look like my parents. Weird as it sounds, but I just assumed that i am just a fusion of my parents genes and never really sided either? It really dawned onto me how much i reflect my mum when i saw this pic, taken at the airport b4 i left for switz. What ya think?

Anyway, happy belated belated birthday to myself. It has been a while since i only celebrated my birthday only once in a year. feels weird.. perhaps a little lonely :S At least i still managed to blow a candle! :)