Thursday, July 12, 2007
yup happy birthday sue lynn!
anyway haha so i'll talk abt europe as best as i can. london... well, buckingham palace was absoulutely charming. in fact london is. charming. if you've taken the tube... it is nothing compared to our mrt i assure you. but the different different advertisements splashed everywhere is actually quite tasteful in a chaotic way. organised chaos i would say. definitely not as clean as singapore, but its all part of the flavour. did visit the parks arnd the palace, the london eye, big ben, westminsters abbey, St Pauls Cathedral etc... basically the must sees i've been la. and i loooove it at london. moneys a problem though. subway is like the most economic thing you can eat. really. i proper meal (think chicken rice... well in singapore terms) wld cost about 5 pounds. which sort of converts to 15 sing. now a reaaally proper meal would be 8? and fine dining... 18 pounds? i really got nothing much to complain about in singapore.
paris. not quite what i expect it to be. its not exactly clean you see. not really that romantic either. of course, eiffel tower, the moulin rogue(remember the movie? yeah! there!), Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, louvre.. the staples i did go la haha as usual. think of all the places i went... paris didn't really hit me hard.
switzerland. oooh my gosh look at all the mountains. its like hobbit world. everything looks so fake, so pretty, so clean, but its real. God must have spent a bit more time building the country, coz mother nature smiles upon the country. it wasn't exactly the attractions.. not much i would say. but the feeling of staying there. very comfy. good place to retire. if you're rich. made the second snow man in my life(first in korea) up on titlis. made my first aussie friend steve on the trip around lake lucerne. switzerland is really pretty. nice people. nice drivers. they actually stop to let you cross even if theres no zebra crossing. i tell you the wet markets there are perfectly dry. and i would say its more pleasant than going to a supermarket in singapore.
rome. good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to italy. and i think i agree. italy is HOT, and the girls there are too. haha im so sorry if this puts me under the teeko label. but its just an observation that i, being a guy after all, cannot miss. well... besides that. setting foot there is like walking upon ages and ages of history. signs of what used to be. the parts in old rome... i think you can pick any old run down building. it probably has more things to say than the old monuments here in singapore. the colosseum. gaaasp! i think i liked the vatican city the most. it felt like i just stepped into heaven. well ok maybe it wasn't as bright as i thought it would be. but such was the atmosphere... everyone could only revere in silence. pardon me sounding a but off but it really was like, one step closer to heaven. quite a special moment for myself.
ok so thats the 4 places i've visited. nice trip i'd say. as of now... im back to the shit holes. lessons have started. still fooling arnd with my band too..and sleeping at 1 has become a norm. my very much sleep deprived mind cant call back the stats formulas that i crammed in just over half a year ago! but oh wells... i guess i can get them back. investment lessons have been quite interesting. =) NO MORE SCIENCE. i could live with maths... haha. urgh ok im going nowhere. gotta slp. byeee
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