Spine-chilling

Hmmm…today was quite an interesting day excluding the hectic study routine obviously. Today’s special event was the visit to the National Theater. As you all know, this is the place where operas, plays, and so fourth take place. So, the guide took us for a little tour around the theater as well as the dressing rooms and the store where all the costumes are kept. According to the guide, there are approximately 1 million pieces of costumes (including hats, headgear, etc.) in that store and that was crazy. There were so many costumes ranging from the early Roman Empire days, Gothic, Renaissance, and the modern days. Haha..cool heh.

Then, we proceeded for a play entitled ‘Heimgegangen’ . It means pass away literally. This play was about some man whose wife was his mother and he had no clue about it till his wife’s last breath(well, she told him at that moment). There’s a little irony where his wife died of cancer and he, a smoker (he smoked as part of the play and it stunk) had no cancer. It was kinda spooky because there was a coffin with a picture of his Mary Jones, smacked right in the middle of the stage. Really gives me the creeps. It’s just an extremely short summary. There is more to it but I’m lazy too type..hehe.

Sorry got no picture la. Audiences were not allowed to take pictures as it might irritate the performers.

By the way, again, here are three pictures of a place where grapes are grown for wine production. (You call wine Sekt in German)

Grape trees.

Nice view.

Place where wine bottles are stored. Some are really old (more than 40 years old).

Volksfest

Guten Tag. Today’s class was sooooo boring… Guess what, we had C programming…yay.. :s . We had four 45 minutes sessions of this subject today. Learning about the computer language (which I have no clue at all) is definitely not my cup of tea. Having to do all those special commands and stuff…urgh..is really killing me. Well, at least there was no homework but I will still need to comprehend them or else, I will be dead meat.

I foresee really tedious weeks ahead and I envisage more homework piling up. Therefore it means less time spent on blogging. Currently, I still take a very long time to post blogs because I am still not really familiar with the blogging system and all. I still need to explore more on the functions in the site. Darn, I just suck with computers except for Starcraft(which I have not played since coming to Germany) and CS haha!

By the way, I’ve just came back from a ‘Volksfest’ a couple of minutes ago which is not far from where I stay and here are some pictures. There were fire crackers but they were nothing as compared to the ones in Malaysia but it was nice with all the beer and sausages and the lively atmosphere. We played bumper cars and I was on the verge of puking after having had a large glass of beer.

Argh dammmm…I’ve just spent 30 euros! Shit..

A beer for everyone. The guy on the far right is from Singapore. Cool heh.

This is 'Volksfest'.

So..here are some pictures of Mannheim Wasserturm which I’ve been to a couple of weeks ago. And again, I am posting these pictures really late. Sorry I am a lazy person and procrastinating is just part of me.

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Wasserturm in the background.

Enjoying beer at a German pub.

Nice glasses..heheh.

We adjourned for beer again at night(It was 3am then.) with some loud music in a mini so-called disco..haha. Everyone was groggy.

Wicked day.

Hallo hallo hallo. Cold. Cold. Burrhhh..

Looks like Wednesday is going to be the heaviest day of the week. Classes are from 8am till 5pm. Blehh.. This reminds me of college. Classes from 8am till 4pm in the evening and technically in the schedule, there are no breaks at all except for mini breaks between lectures. No time allocation for lunch at all. Crazy huh..

Below are some pictures of a place I went on the 20th of last month. This place is called Schwetzingen . It’s another castle with lots of greenery surrounding the castle. You need to pay to enter this place .Don’t worry, it was just a nominal fee of 2 Euros. Take a look at the pictures and you will know that the maintenance is not going to be cheap especially when autumn is approaching. Some small plants need to be changed if they wilt.

This place is very breathtaking. Coincidentally there were a few couples taking wedding pictures in the castle. Yeah nice landscape and all.

We were in a friend's car heading to the destination and we got lost along the way..haha.

Wooooo..nice limos!

That's my friend from Malaysia studying in Germany too. That's me on the right.

The entrance of the castle. Doesn't look as ancient as the one in Heidelberg yeah?

Nice garden.

A large pool with mini fountains smacked right in front of the castle.

A mosque within the boundaries of the castle. It actually caught me by surprise.

Description of the mosque.

Interior of the mosque(It was the dome).

Ahhh..so nice....

Yea...another cool view.

The geese look so white eyy...

What a grand promenade..

Did the king played golf?????



BYEEE :)

Day 1

So today was the first day of the semester. Everything turned out normal. The whole university was no doubt packed like a market. There were students at every corner of the university. Today’s lecture started off with physics. Oh yeah, I had a problem finding the class room (was at the wrong building) and so, I was late for class but it was just five minutes. The lecturer was a German and he had really weird accents. It was hard to comprehend his lectures but after some time through the lecture, I got used to it.


Next was my electrical engineering lecture that lasted an hour and a half. And so, the lecturer started off with basic electrical components and circuits. It was owwhhkkaayy. And he had a different slang too, which I had to adapt and not to mention his hand-writing which was cursive that I have to guess those words..haha. Well, I guess everyone have their own quirks and twists.
Finally was the inter-cultural competence class where we learn about err…cultures?? Yeah. As well as learning to ‘live’ in Germany. Haha..do I sound very general? Imprecise? I can’t really describe it. Anyway, this was the class that was livelier as compared to the previous two lectures. So, it kinda ‘woke’ me up from day dreaming. LOL.


The pictures below were taken at Heidelberg. There was a trip to Heidelberg organized by the university on the 18th of last month. I know it’s a little late that I am posting the pictures up now but it doesn’t really matter right??

View from the foot of the hill.

Tram or Bergbahn leading to the summit.



A view of the city below. If I'm not wrong, its Heidelberg itself.

Another picture.

Picture of a part of the Schloss.

This is a wine cask( actually I can't remember whether beer or wine was stored) and it's really big and apparently, one of the king's men drowned inside this cask. As you can see, there is a stairs on the right side of the cask. So, use your imagination.

View of the river from the castle.

There is a 'story' behind this.

This tower contained gun powder but was accidentally blasted by the...French? Ah..I'm so forgetful.

View of the castle.

Another view of the castle( background).

The Weather.

Hello there, I’m back. So, as time passes by, the days seem to be getting shorter. Well, probably it’s because autumn’s kicking in. It used to get dark at 8.30pm but now it starts to get dark at 7.00pm. Trees are getting yellow and they look very pretty..hahah.. like the ones in the calendars we see. I’ve uploaded 2 pictures of my room. It’s not too big and not too small. I guess that’s what you should expect from 225 Euros a month with heating, electricity, water, and internet (mind you, it’s sometimes slow). Just don’t convert the Euros back to Ringgit because if you do so, you’ll feel the pain :s . Well, this place I’m living in now is called a Wohngemeinschaft. So it’s six people(each having their own bedrooms) to one kitchen, two toilets, and one bath. And guess what! There’s this German gal next door! She lives in room 215 and I’m in 214..haha! I sound like a perve..lol!

Darn..I am so lazy to cook. I have to admit that after all these years of having a maid, I feel so awkward cooking for myself..blehh. So yeah, I go out and eat. But after some eating out, home cooked food is still the best. Somehow, it just tastes different from the outside food. And fortunately, I don’t miss Malaysian food till today. No cravings..nothing at all. Phewwhh. It’s mostly pork here and not to mention, beer. The standard dish which you can find in most of the German eateries is Schnitzel paniert. Sorry I don’t have a picture of the dish but it’s mainly deep fried pork and French fries and maybe salad; the pork version of fish and chips. There are many types of beer and I only remember Koelsch and it’s from Aachen. I just order the beer and I just drink it. It’s generally lighter than beer in Malaysia. So drinking a glass of beer here is nothing. It just makes your bladder more filled up. Im sorry, I don’t really know how to appreciate beer, but I drink. It’s ok.

So this is my room. The door is quite thick though.

My bed. See the white heater behind the chair? Looks like a huge condensing unit..haha.

Cute doggie picture.The dog was so small and white..

Typical fruits in Germany you can find in every supermarket. The bottle in the middle contains 'new wine' which means it has very low alcohol content. It tastes nice though.


This is about it for now.
Chao.

Sorry, I'm late.

Heya everyone! Just so you all know, here I am in Germany. Urgh..I miss Malaysia. Well, I arrived on the 8^th of September, but couldn’t get access to the net till last Friday..blehh..blame the internet tutor. Anyway, the air is dryer here, sunny, and yeah, COLD. Still not used to the weather, but I think I will just need some time to get used to it, I hope. Coming here is kinda different for me. Food's different, weather's different, people walking on the streets are different, and the language, yeah...language is different. People here can speak English but they somewhat refuse to. Their style. But the younger generation Germans here are ok. They speak to you in English. Probably more open? Liberal? I don’t know.

So, I’ve just got my room, the administration stuff is almost settled, and I’ve got a telephone number too from O2. Apparently O2 is good but I don’t know why. Probably the coverage in Germany is good. I did some grocery shopping and noticed that shops here close by 8pm. That’s early as compared to Malaysia. Another thing is that shops are not open on Sundays. Sigh. Eateries, petrol kiosks, and boutiques are the only shops open on Sundays. Well I guess the people here are rich enough to not open for business on Sundays. This is how things go in Germany, which I will have to get used to.

By the way, here are some random pictures of Abu Dhabi. Well, I was at Abu Dhabi for a couple of days (4th-8th of September) visiting daddy. And mommy joined daddy. So the house in Malaysia is now occupied by my cousin, his wife and his little kid. Anyway, Abu Dhabi is a fekking hot city. Seriously hot. Just step out of an air conditioned building and feel the heat wave. It’s bad. I thought I was about to get a sun stroke while hailing a taxi under the scorching heat and during the night, it’s still hot and humid till it’s difficult to breathe. Oh by the way, taxi rates here are far cheaper as compared to the rates in Malaysia. That's probably because buying a car in Abu Dhabi is not too expensive.

Picture of Burj Dubai . Yeah its blur, because it was dark and the camera's shutter speed was really slow.

Highway with five lanes.

A random picture of the city.

Another random picture of the First Gulf Bank.

Century Hotel Apartment. This was the place where I stayed.

Familiar eyy? Yeah, Chilis in Abu Dhabi. Chili's here is better than the Chili's in Malaysia. I don't know why, but yeah, somehow it is.

If I've not mistaken, this is Khalidiyah Mall. Another random pic. (Mummy and daddy on the left)

Construction site.

Another construction site picture.

Feel the HEAT?? *swt*

Sales office.

Notice the cranes in the background? It's kinda blurry, but there are fekkin many of them, if you pay attention.


That's all for now.

Hey Giju, heard you are going to Russia? All the best and see you at Red Square!