Unpolished Gem

Saturday, April 14, 2007

OMG! It's been 2 months since the last update. Thought i'd drop a note to say HELLO, i'm still alive and hope everyone's doing well! I was on the verge of abandoning this blog but knowing myself, I know there'd come a day when I'd actually feel a little urge to blog, and wala, took about 2 months... haha.

Anw... i'm blogging because... i'm suffering from post-holiday depression. Germany was SO awesome, loved it, loved Berlin, loved the people and to anyone interested in going to Berlin, please stay at JETPAK City Hostel, it's the best hostel i've stayed in, VERY clean, good location, internet access, very nice and friendly staff, loved it. You're missing out if you don't stay there in Berlin, i swear!... Unless you're going for 4/5 star hotels. I met Yoke Pean and her friends and we so coincidentally booked the same hostel, took the same flights to and from Germany, so Mich and I were with them for most part of the trip, twas FUN FUN FUN! Ate lotsa good food, all the pastries and pork knukles,sausages, beer. Get FAT, heck. Munich's really pretty, much prettier than Berlin but Berlin's so historical you gotta go for the walking tour when you're there... it's free and you just got to tip the tourguide at the end. We went for this Third Reich (the rise of Hitler) tour as well, and saw the Berlin Wall, Check point Charlie (where people stamped their passports to cross from East to West Germany), Hitler's Bunker where he killed himself, the Death strip etc. Yeah, Germany has such a dark history, to think that the wall was torn down just under 20 years ago. We went to the Dachau (pronounced da-how) concentration camp in Munich and it wasn't as sad as i expected, think Auswitz is a lot worse cos they display the original bunker beds and things like that. And the Neuschwanstein castle, before Walt Disney castle was the Neuschwanstein castle! Yeah, like a real life castle, very pretty. I took zero pictures, hahah, my camera never saw the day light but the others took many photos so i'll try to post them up if I can get over the inertia of blogging. Oh, and German guys and girls are hot. Haha, that's kinda relevant huh.

For now, got to get back into studying mode, sucks!!! It's the bane of my life, i wish my life was more exciting... just 1.5 more months... very quick very quick it'll be over and then... Spain and Portugal in the hot hot summer sun, i'm so looking forward to all the Paella and churros and tapas and Portugese eggtarts and 4 storey Zaras and Mangoes and to practise my rusty Spanish and to see VEE in Europe, WHEE! and then HOME. Woah, feels like a really long time since i've been home. Looking forward :)

On a completely random note, sometimes, the more you want something, the more it eludes you. The best things happen when you least expect it, that i'm a firm believer of.

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