my FRENCH life

it WAS me

2012-01-06T21:20:00.002+01:00

it's my fifth year staying in france now. and when i look back those four years i have been going through, i feel something different in me now. it WAS me.

today, after the badminton, i was with a bunch of friends of four, and we were heading back home together. like usual, i got nothing to say and i was walking in front of them. in the bus, i was sitting alone, without saying a word, and in the metro station, i was separated from them. (for those friends who are reading this, i'm not critising anyone. dont worry^^) and i suddenly thought of my first year in france.

i still remember vividly : once, a few friends of mine and I, we went for a orchestra since we got some free tickets in Tours. i think we were four, the only chinese (malaysian of course) girl and also the only chinese students studying together in Tours, and also 2 malays, i think. after the concert and also during the concert, they kept talking and i didnt even say a word. and when we were heading back home, i was walking alone, and they just kept talking among themselves and they didnt seem to care about me. at that time, my mood was really bad, i felt alone here, in this strange land, and there was nobody i can really talk to pour out to. and that night, i still remember i used my french number to call one of my best friend, Steven Ngu and we talked for about 15 or 20 minutes, and i paid for 10 euros for that! lol

i mean, how drastic changes have happened to me. that WAS me, i always care for the others' feelings, and each time i saw some of my friends who was neglected in the crowd and i would go for him/her. and i was expecting the same things but sadly, that's the truth and the truth is cruel. and today, the same thing happens and i dont really give a damn to it. sometimes, i think this changes would be something good, i mean, i need not to be dependant on other people. before, if some of my friends didnt invite me for something and they might have forgotten me, i'ld be like : shit, damn, you should invite me! what kind of friends when they forget you when they got something. and these few years, i learnt something cruel : you might take them for your best friends who you wanna approach to, but they might not be thinking the same thing. Im sorry, that's the fact, especially for guys, i think.

today, when i'm looking at myself, woah, that WAS me. it was really hard for me for the first year and the second year, and i really appreciate those who were by my side to go through those hard time, if not, you might not be able to see me today=p i might be inside the psychiatric hospital lol special thanks to those who are studying in south korea currently, especially leehong, dena, mayyee, amy, anna, and khai chee and also some of my friends, like vincent, steven ngu and ling lim hee. i dont know how long i havent talked to all of you, im sorry for that, but i still remember all of you. i better stop here, if not, she'ld be jealous and i'ld be a dead fish tomorrow when she sees this=p

yeah.. i really see the difference of mentality between we, malaysian and french people when the english teacher asked us to list out the most important 'value' in our society. and the top three are freedom, equality and the other one i cant remember. i think if we malaysian do the same thing, we wouldnt write the same thing, we might write : family (probably), most probably not freedom, since we're taught to have freedom in malaysia since we're young and there's no equality in malaysia, especially between different races in politics, scholars and etc. we might've listed love for one of top three, and probably the religion as well. from this, i could see the difference between us and french.

and 1 st year in engineering school, i see the difference as well. i really think we really have huge problem with our education system. in school, we're taught not to memorise the formulas, what we do, is just applying the formulas to questions. and for paper 1, we just need the answer, the professors doesnt care how you got the answer as long as you got the answer correct. and for paper two, we apply the formula and we never ask ourselves how the hell we have those formulas and we dont have to justify every single statement. but, in france, it's not like this, every line you write, you need to explain why to your teacher. they're trained to think out of box, they're trained to think more rather than just resolving the questions, and that's most probably why we never have scientists or inventors from malaysia? we're just not creative enough. and one thing good about french people is that they learn philosophy in schools. when i got my own child, i reallt want to teach them philosophy since they're young and it helps them think.

well, there're good things we should learn and of course some bad things as well. and i really dont like some of our malaysian who are just radical and narrow-minded. about the case which is really hot recently, i think they're just too much. a muslim going to pub doesnt mean they're really bad! i got a friend who went to soirée with us and french people, and we talked and we had fun during the party. and as long as he doesnt drink or hug any girls or kiss girls or have a night-stand, and that's fine. i mean, you come to their country to study and of course you should learn good things and their cultures too by mixing with them and talking to them. you expect them to stay among those malaysians everyday and every hours? what the hell? then you should just stay in malaysia to study as it's much cheaper to study in malaysia and i'ld save alot of money. i even know some muslims from malaysia who drinks alcohols as well. if im not born in malaysia and i dont have family in malaysia, i will never stay in malaysia. seriously.

its a long post indeed. i think i should stop now. well, good night!

i've changed alot especially my mentality. well, of course, some of them are good and some of them are bad as well. feel free to comment=)

假期

2011-12-18T21:36:00.002+01:00

最近觉得自己很有问题，意志以来都忙忙忙，每天都是得过且过，完全忘了思考于观察，只是看到表面所看见的。

订了机票去芬兰。是正月尾，是冬天，而且是一个人去。我想肯定我疯了。天气冷，自己一个人去，冷到昏倒还是怎么样，都不知道能不能够回来呢。是时候买双靴子了，不能够再穿converse去了，之前在立陶宛12月穿converse就有点勉强了。。

明天就要飞去malta（马耳他）。很幸运的就是这次不是一个人去＝）应该感恩感恩。得趁这个假期好好思考自己的缺点。

对了，太久没写博客了，上次假期一个人去的jersey和guernsey都还没有写在博客的。这次假期肯定有时间写了。

敬请期待吧！

基督徒的爱情观

2011-12-05T19:28:00.001+01:00

爱情是强大的力量，让人可以为之生为之死，那到底基督徒该怎么看爱情呢？圣经怎么教导我们关于爱情的事呢？

　　首先，我们要承认圣经对爱情讲的不多，倒是对「婚姻」有比较完整的教导。圣经中提到比较多「爱情」的书卷是旧约的「雅歌」，其中歌颂爱情的力量与美好，提到「爱情如死亡之坚强」，嫉妒如阴间一般的稳固....。却也没有说我们为何会爱，为何要爱。但至少我们由其中看到爱情之力量真的是不可忽视的，其带来的甜美与伤害力都是惊人的，细心的读者还可以在其中找到爱情的准则。但是，其中还是没有赋予爱情意义。而且雅歌所提到的爱情，有一部份是属于「婚后」的爱情？跟我们今天面对的「恋爱」还是有点不同。

　　但是，圣经中真的没有描写爱情的意义吗？我们可以想一想，你我为何要谈恋爱？是为了要玩吗？是为了恋爱的感觉吗？还是为了不知所以的吸引力？不！不是！一个负责任的爱情，应该是奠基于男女双方面寻求彼此是否可以共走一生。一个负责任的爱情总是指向婚姻。不管恋爱的最后结果为何，恋爱的过程中一定是以婚姻为恋爱的标竿，为恋爱的指南针。所以恋爱的意义就在其为婚姻的预备阶段，一个寻找共走一生伴侣的过程。而恋爱的归宿，也必须是「婚姻」才算的上是完美的句点（当然，大家未必会一次成功啦）。

　　既然恋爱是婚姻的预备阶段，是寻找共走一生伴侣的过程，那要踏入恋爱阶段前，必须先了解婚姻的目的。正如一般传道人会引创世记的记载，我们也要来看一看第一件婚姻的记录：创世记第二章18节提到上帝造女人是要成为男人「相配的帮手」。和合本翻译是「造一个配偶帮助他」，而新译本翻译成「相配的帮手」，现代中文译本翻译成「合适的伴侣来帮助他」。林盈沼传道查过希伯来文「帮助」的原意，是「平行的互补」的意思（没有当奴隶苦苦成全那样的意思）。

　　上帝先让亚当看过所有的动物，知道自己由动物中找不到帮助者，然后才造夏娃。那一个问题又引发了，「帮助者」，显然是因为有一个先存的目标，然后人要去达到这个目标，然后需要有帮助。那这个目标是什么呢？不错！正是创世记第一章28节，上帝要人管理全地，这就是所谓的「辟世委任」。

　　所以，第一件婚姻的目的就是要夫妻两人彼此扶持，共走一生，为上帝所委托的人生目的共同努力。所以「共走一生」，「共同完成人生目的」（当然还有繁衍后代），便成了婚姻的目的。虽然是圣经的教导，不过与社会大众的共识还蛮接近的，说明上帝的事人所能知道的还真的是显明在人心里咧！

　　既然，婚姻的目的是这样，而恋爱又是婚姻的预备工作，所以要开始一段恋爱之前，可以问自己：自己的人生目的是什么？那一位可以与我共走一生吗？

　　基于以上的理由，如果自己的人生目的都还不确定，似乎就不适合开始谈恋爱。这也是为什么许多辅导都会建议大一不要开始谈恋爱的理由。而如果婚姻是为了共走一生，那我们可得好好评估自己这一生中最看重的是什么，而这样的目标与方向是那一位可以分享的吗？如果我们一生中最重要的那件事居然不能与最亲密的那一位分享，那是何等的悲哀呢？

　　所以为什么「信与不信不能同负一轭」？如果信仰是你一生中极为看重的事，信仰所带出来的人生观是你一生中极为珍惜的，难道您愿意自己的另一半居然不能与您分享？聪明的人应该在坚强的爱情火花还没有引燃之前，谨慎的拒绝，以免伤害自己也伤害别人。甚至，如果那个您喜欢的对象一生的目标与您不一样，即使他（或她）是基督徒，恐怕你我也该考虑放弃。

　　爱情，有炸弹一样的力量，值得我们小心处理使用。说「愿意」之前，千万先想清楚。

一、找结过婚的长辈辅导：

　　基督徒决定跟另一人谈恋爱时，多半会去找一对认识双方而且结过婚的长辈（也不一定要多长，只要认为水准够就可以了）当自己和她的辅导。甚至决定开始之前就先与这对辅导接触，以免自己因为经验不够或了解不足而做出错误的决定。

　　当感情遇到挫折、误会、转折点，而不能轻易解决时，能有一对受自己尊敬，而了解两人状况的长辈来调解或帮忙，将使自己和对方无由或因了解不够产生的误会可以解决，做重要决定时也有人可以帮忙出主意。

二、研读关于男女差异和婚姻交友一类的书籍：

　　基督徒认为恋爱是找一个共走一生的人，所以十分重要，也需要主客观的条件配合。所以不能无知的说谈就谈，所以一般都会建议适合交友年龄的青年开始看一些这面的书，了解男女的差异与婚姻的目的。

　　开始谈恋爱后，那更是要认真努力研读这方面的书，另外教会的出版社也提供一些帮助交往中的男女彼此认识的「恋爱共同讨论材料」，让彼此除了风花雪月的交往外，也对彼此的个性与背景有更深入的了解。

三、避免身体的过分接触：

　　基督徒深知自己是蒙恩的罪人，尤其是男人的欲望比较难以控制，所以会彼此提醒对方控制身体的亲密程度，以免让自己在还不是很了解对方的情况下就有了太过分的身体接触。

　　身体的接触是只能进不能退的，所以事先有所防范才好。大家都会建议约会的地点不要在太暗的地方，不单独在房间中。至于尺度问题则由男女双方自订，或由辅导帮忙建议。

四、积极了解对方的背景与个性：

　　通常基督徒谈恋爱以后，初期会开始深入介绍自己的身家背景与个性，也会藉由一同看电影后的讨论或一同读圣经或作彼此认识的讨论材料来深入了解彼此。除了自己的优缺点以外，还有自己家人的状况，因为知道婚姻不只是两人的事，也是两家的事。

五、公开与专一：

　　关系确定后，像大家公开，以免有人不知道而误入情网造成伤害。虽是恋爱，基督徒也被教导一次只与一个人认真寻求是否可以共走一生（谈恋爱啦！）。所以「专一」是一定的要求。

六、不随意说分手：

　　正如开始恋爱是必须经过谨慎小心的评估，要分手也是如此。要有足够的正当理由，彼此说清楚为何确定对方并不适合与自己共走一生。这时辅导们的角色就很重要了，帮助两人找出该或不该分手的原因，并帮助彼此建立日后的关系。

　　我本人已经结婚，之前也看过不少基督徒谈恋爱的常读书籍，上述写的几点自己多少经历过，有些没做好，有些自认做的不错，分享分享就是。

　　说过了好习惯，今天特别提出基督徒常犯的一个大毛病，让大家引以为戒，也愿网络上的基督徒能小心预防自己不要犯错——这毛病基本上是因为「不敢承担责任」（梁家麟语）。表现就是：处处寻求到底「这个人」是不是上帝为他预备的另一半。

　　其实这也没什么不好，如果本于前两篇文章的基本理念，好好评估对方的价值观、家庭、人生方向....，本是值得赞扬的。问题就是许多基督徒倒是寻求一些超自然的「声音」。什么「异梦」、「异象」、「一句话」....，真是无比认真又难令人理解。一般反应就是「不敢承诺」，「不能确定」....。说真的，真是能让一个认真寻求思考后才决定摊牌的人伤透了心。

　　这是圣经的教导吗？才怪咧！圣经中所有的「异象」、「异梦」....哪一个是针对个人的？圣经中的人物不但很少（一辈子也只有几次）有异象、异梦等超自然的经历，而且内容也多关于国家民族，而几乎看不见跟个人有关的。其实这样的误解归咎于圣经还不如说是一些传道人受了些神秘主义的影响，然后宣扬出来的东西（我知道要被骂了，请看完再谈）。

　　想想，如果今天你就确定王小美是上帝为你预备的一位，那你们就直接结婚好了，还谈啥恋爱？又难道全世界就只有一个异性适合你？而你的目的就是找出那唯一的一位？当然不，是吧！而是全世界有不少人可以跟你共走一生，而我们的职责就是在比较合适的时间寻找周围有没有这样的人，然后依照圣经的婚姻观，建立合乎上帝心意的家庭。客观条件上当然不只一人，但在那特定时间，特定空间下，我们当然要用尽上帝给我们的智能与理性、感性来寻找那最终的一位。

　　「约」有两种，「婚约」是在众人和上帝面前见证自己将与另一人共走一生，永不分离。「恋爱之约」是在上帝面前宣告自己将开始单单与这一人寻求是否能共走一生，基本上与婚约是不同的（其实圣经中根本没有「恋爱之约」）。上帝给人理性、感性与圣经，基督徒不该推卸责任不好好运用这些寻求婚姻等前面的道路。

　　而且如果有人依照前面两篇文章的建议，思考、祷告了好一阵子，今天该跟你表示要单单与你寻求共走一生的可能性，难道你竟不能好好思考后给人家一个确定的答案？

　　说是寻求上帝确定的心意，其实说穿了潜意识里面恐怕是怕负责任或骑马找马的心态。想除去一切失败的可能，要上帝负失败的责任，或自己从来没有好好想过自己适合怎样的人，来的这个人不错，却好象又不够好，所以暂时藉寻求上帝的心意来演是一下自己的犹豫不决。

　　一方面恐怕也是不知道恋爱与婚姻是两个人共同成长、共同学习与对方共走一生，还以为在买计算机或挑猪肉，只想选了一个完全适合自己，而自己不需要付代价的异性。请问有这种事吗？

　　哪一个真实的恋爱不需要付代价？不需要碰到双方的激烈冲突？不需要头破血流的？难道看到异象的人就能免去吗？圣经中唯一知道上帝要他娶谁的就是「何西阿」。他是一帆风顺？婚姻幸福美满？不需要付代价？所以寻找另一半时，眼光要放远，因为接下去的日子就是激烈的互相挣扎成长，在他最不可爱的时候，还有什么是支持您可以继续走下去的呢？那就是你要评估这人可不可以共走一生的重要标准。决定了就要负责任，努力谈下去，没有一个不负责任的恋爱会有好结果的。

　　唉！我看我不能再说下去了，不然大家都会看不下去了。也相信这一个问题不是我在这里叫一叫就会解决的。如果有人觉得需要更多的理论基础，我建议一本书：基道书楼出版，「凭谁意行」，梁家麟先生著。

　　本文可能牵涉到许多基督徒不太懂的教义问题，希望没有给大家太多不容易了解的。

　　我的重点就是：

　　1. 恋爱是一件要付代价的事。

　　2. 恋爱需要专一的承诺以及负责任的心态。

　　3. 任何不愿意尝试改变自己以配合彼此的目标的人，不管他有什么借口，都不适合认真的恋爱。

　　4. 寻求上帝心意是一件不错的事，但如果成为不负责任的借口，那就不是圣经的思想。

　　以下谈的应该不是习惯问题，而是常有人怀疑，基督徒的辅导们处理感情问题时常常「劝分不劝合」，为什么呢？其实是「王宝钏心态」的缘故。以下特别为大家解释「王宝钏心态」，并请大家注意，注意！

　　当年王宝钏苦守寒窑十八年，结局如何呢？

　　和薛平贵过着幸福快乐的日子？哇！伟大的爱情故事！

　　不！结局是---------「薛平贵把王宝钏休了！」

　　为什么呢？因为薛平贵把王宝钏迎回家中之后，每次王宝钏略有做错事情，薛平贵要稍加责备：

　　「亲爱的阿钏！今天的菜有点咸喔！」

　　「他XX的，老娘等你十八年没有怨言，你今天敢嫌我的菜咸？」

　　「..........」

　　「阿钏！你错怪代战公主了啦！她的意思不是这样的啦！」

　　「呜！我好可怜啊！苦守寒窑十八年，今天还要被欺负，你有没有良心啊？呜！」

　　「钏！我只不过解释一下而已嘛！」

　　「你这没良心的家伙，我等你十八年，你还敢说我？」

　　「.........」

　　看出故事的重点了吗？基督徒认为人没有完全的，自己也是蒙恩的罪人，过重及过长的牺牲或彼此亏负会产生无法挽回的「苦毒心态」，以致两人无法正常而理性的共走一生。此「爱情杀手」 ── 「苦毒心态」，我名之为「王宝钏心态」。

　　所以感情出现问题，一定不能逃避，即使要想一阵子也要定下时限。感情出问题一定要快快解决，积极的谋求解决。赌气式的拒绝沟通，逃避式的躲避面对，到时后恐怕「王宝钏」心态坐大，即使想解决也不是可以简单解决的了。

　　所以劝告即使客观条件占优势的男女，也不用太摆高姿态，如果不是好好彼此认识与学习，到时候他（或她）把你骗上手了，那就等着当薛平贵第二吧！

　　一般问题严重来找辅导的人，大概之前都不找辅导的。等到自己无能为力了，大概彼此之间都已经有蛮深的「王宝钏心态」了。所以这样就几乎不用在继续下去了，可以彼此说「因为我们彼此的心态已经无法让我们继续下去，所以分手吧！」。爱情其实蛮脆弱的，需要好好保护。被伤害过的人下一次的爱也会有更多保留。游戏人间或文艺电影式的爱情，正是王宝钏心态的温床，正是蹂躏自己和他人的心之好方法。

　　所以基督徒常常被建议：两人常常一起祷告，一起坦承。有问题要尽快解决，自己解决不了快找辅导解决。重要的限制与问题要在交往前就先说明。

　　王宝钏的爱情故事十分凄美，但希望王宝钏心态不在各位网友中间出现。

小孩

2011-10-02T14:23:00.000+02:00

一首挺舒服的歌。。

今天一个人去了教堂，感觉就好像第一年刚到法国一样，一个人都天主教堂，看到那些可爱的小孩子。知道我多么羡慕那些小孩吗？他们被他们的父母呵护，亲亲，抱抱，我想小学三四年级开始，我就开始学习独立了，小时候还会一回到家把一切的事情告诉妈妈，过后就不会了。现在更不必说了，有什么事，甚至去年的病，我也没跟他们提起过，妈妈也是从别人听来的。

看来永远都回不到那时候，只能够远远看着那个幸福。

语气

2011-09-30T23:06:00.001+02:00

在下班開車回家途中，車上廣播的一則廣告引起了我的注意。那是關於一個會為你檢查電子郵件的軟體。我對「拼字檢查」、「語法檢查」並不陌生，但這個軟體卻很不一樣的，它會進行「語氣檢查」。透過檢視你在電子郵件中使用的語氣和用字，以確保你的電子郵件，不會讓人感到咄咄逼人、不友善，或是有些刻薄。

當我聽著廣告中描述這個軟體的特色時，我不禁想到：要是在我的嘴上也能安裝一個這樣的軟體，那結果會怎麼樣呢？多少次，我沒有先仔細聆聽就作出激烈的反應，之後才對說出的話後悔莫及？如果有一個「語氣檢查」的軟體，則一定能防止我做出魯莽的回應。

保羅也看見這樣的需要，身為信徒的我們，得好好檢查我們的言語，特別是跟非信徒談話的語氣。他說：「你們的言語要常常帶著和氣，好像用鹽調和，就可知道該怎樣回答各人」（歌羅西書4章6節）。保羅希望我們以溫和的語氣，反映出救主的美善，而這必定是會吸引人的。以合適的語氣和非信徒溝通，是能有效為主做見證的關鍵。歌羅西書4章6節可以作為我們「語氣檢查」的軟體。WEC

say hello, i need friend

2011-09-03T02:21:00.001+02:00

i only understand the part that's 'say hello, i need friend'. and that was my first year in france when i first heard it. the feeling was really bad.

i still remember the feelings vividly everytime i listen to this song.

BNP

2011-05-28T22:55:00.006+02:00

I just read conditions and tarifs of payment and withdrawal of both my bank. And now, i realise why my exchange rate i got in Iceland was so low, 1 euros to 154 ISK, while in xe.com, the exchange rate is higher, 1 euros to 165 ISK, that means that, each time i pay 1 euros, i lose 10 ISK, if i pay 1000 euros, i lose 10000 ISK= 60 euros!

WHY? according to conditions and tarifs by bank BNP Paribas: inside EURO Zone, each withdrawal or payment by visa classic, it's free of charge. And outside EURO Zone, each withdrawal will be charged by 2,9% of commission plus 3 euros. And each payment by visa, you'll be charged 2,9% of commission plus 0,8 euros each time. And i thought that payment by visa is free-of-charge, that's why i used my card alot in iceland, and that's why i got such low exchange rate because i got charged 0,80 euros each time! im such a idiot! So, basically, you're advised to take your money from ATM rather than paying by card.

And i used my card in Iceland at leastmore than 10 times, about 20 plus plus, that means i got charged extra for 16 euros only for the commission of the bank.

i hope i dont give any wrong information to you!

My Easter trip 2011

2011-05-21T12:49:00.056+02:00

22^nd of May: Today is my first day of holiday, in fact. And it’s also a really tiring day for me. Early in the morning, I need to wake up to clean my room as I’m leaving to Rodez for my internship just after the holiday and on the same day; I need to quit my room. After the ‘état de lieu’, i need to complete my assignment of ‘Chimie verte’ (Green Chemistry) before leaving for holiday. Only then, I left for my holiday peacefully to the train station of Toulouse. As usual, something unusual happen each trip, and this time, my train which was supposed to leave at 3pm to Montpellier, was late for about 1 and half hour. And I reached in Montpellier around 7pm, and luckily, I still could able to go to airport for the flight at 9pm. And, unfortunately, my flight to Birmingham from Montpellier (about 30 - 40 Euros) was late about 1 and a half hour and I only reached in Birmingham around 11:30pm. Luckily I still could catch a bus to the city center and it was already 12:30am. I was walking in the street alone to find my hostel, and it was freaking scary, walking alone in the street, where you saw nobody and some drunken gangs. I tried to find the hostel but, I gave up in the end by getting a taxi. Unluckily, he didn’t charge me a lot, 6 pounds for 10 or 15 minutes’ drive. Well, it’s still acceptable. How great my trip is, by starting my trip by such a ‘great’ experience!

23^rd of April: For the first day, I relaxed myself and I only went out to go around in the afternoon. And I only took a bus to London to stay at my friend’s room so that I could take the fight to Iceland on Sunday. I decided to take the flight to Birmingham because the flight from Toulouse to London was too expensive (100 Euros). I headed to London at 5:30pm and I reached London around 8:30pm.

Canals in Birmingham city center.

This is my lunch, about 8 pounds. I under-estimated the portion in England.

Memorial hall

The main square of the city. Behind: Museum.

Birmingham. Vivid mode.

Museum and art gallery.

City Hall

They're doing some theater.

Saint Martin's church in the Bull Ring.

24^th of April: My friend and I started our real journey to Iceland! We took the subway to Heathrow at 10 am and we took our flight to Iceland around 1pm and we reached there around 3pm (the fight takes about 3 hours) and due to the different time zone of Iceland and United Kingdom, so, we flew for 2 hours. Iceland is surprisingly small, even its capital. In the airport, we tried to ask and get as much information we can at the counter as we didn’t manage to find much information on Icelandic tourism. What we can found is that the bus tour, which takes long time, and the price are not cheap, around 40 Euros or even more for a single way! That’s the reason why we didn’t book anything, except one hostel and one way air ticket to the north of Iceland. We took a bus to our hostel, which already cost us around 15 Euros, and I didn’t realize that it was actually Easter Sunday. We re-planned our whole trip again, it goes like this, the next day, and we’re going to fly to Akureyri and we tried to find any tours to go to Godafoss, Dettifoss, Lake Myvatn, and Husavik. We didn’t even know whether we managed to get to those places! OK, two days in the north of Iceland, DONE, and the rest, we’re going to stay in the south of Iceland, those main spots are Golden Circle, Skaftfell, Seljalanfoss, blue lagoon (I’ll introduce you those places one by one). Ok, that’s our plan, and we booked the hostel via phone that day for the next day in Akureyri.

We walked along the port to the city center to get something to eat. The wind was so strong, and it was ‘raining’, it wasn’t water drops; it was hard ice from the sky that it hurts when your face gets hit! WOW! It was my first time to experience such a horrible weather. The capital is very small, well, what I can say, is that its size might be as big as our Kuching! Or maybe the size of Sibu.

This is Reykjavik, the world’s northernmost capital, the capital of Iceland.

Along the coast of Reykjavik, with my friend's shadow.

Reykjavik from far.

The most famous church in Iceland, also called Hallgrimskirkja. You can try to pronounce it, it's quite easy=pp

Building in Reykjavik, to give you an idea how it looks like.

The main street of Reykjavik.

It snowed. This was hard ice falling from sky!! It wasnt snowflakes.

My first dinner in Iceland, some grilled salmon. a mexican restaurant owned by vietnamese.

What a paradoxe!

25^th of April: we woke up early in the morning as we needed to take our flight to Akureyri at 8:20am. Since it was first Monday of Easter, there was no bus service, and we ended up by taking a taxi to the airport, about 20 euros shared by 2 persons. The ticket cost us about 60 Euros for single way as there was a small promotion. The whole journey takes us about 45 minutes to reach in Akureyri, in the north of Iceland. As we expected, it’s very small, like a small village, I suppose it’s even smaller than Sibu. We took another taxi to our hostel and we needed to plan our trip properly and seriously. The hostel’s owner told us that it’s really hard for us to go to those waterfalls if we don’t have a car, and the bus to those spots had left early in the morning. We told him that we forgot to bring our licence, and he asked us to try our luck at Europcar, since the guy is very nice. And in the end, we managed to rent the car without license, only with my Malaysian identity card (Mycard). It’s unbelievable, isn’t it? Well, we paid about 125 euros (20000 ISK) for two days which was going to be shared by two of us. In fact, it’s not really expensive, at all. And we were told that the speed limit in highway is 90 km/h.

View taken somewhere near Akureyri. I think this is what we call fjord.

This is the blue car that we rented in the north of Iceland.

On the way to Godafoss.. do you see the straight road with field beside, that's Iceland.

So, we started our journey by driving the car to Godafoss (waterfall os the god), which is about an hour from Akureyri. Its height is 12m and it has width of 30m. And it wasn’t as pretty as I saw in the photos, I was quite disappointed though. The water is not very clear and it’s not very big. Well, photos always cheat.

So, this is legendary Godafoss from far.

Godafoss, it's not really high though.

The view of rural area far away from cities.

We stopped to recharged our stomach before we continued our journey. This meal cost about 10 euros!! it's a bit expensive, isn't it?

Next, we were going to drove to another waterfall, called Dettifoss, which is believed to be the most powerful waterfall in Europe. The waterfall has 100m of width and 45m of height. We only can reach there by rough road, and then, we walked another 20 minutes, probably, before we could see this big waterfall. And there’s another waterfall just nearby, it’s called Selfoss. It’s a small waterfall relatively to Dettifoss. The water of Selfoss is originated from Vatnajökull glacier (the biggest glacier of Iceland), and then not far away downstream, this is where we can find Dettifoss.

On the way to Dettifoss, we saw some geotermal hot springs. and from far, we could smell some sulphur, like some rotten eggs.

This is the huge waterfall in Iceland, Dettifoss.

Dettifoss from far.

The soil here is dark, and it’s not like any soil we see in any other place.

Selfoss, the other water fall smaller than Dettifoss, just not far from Dettifoss.

It's me!!

Do you see the canyon? it's huge..

Some crystal of ice.

Our next destination was Lake Myvatn, a eutrophic lake. On the way, we decided to go to geothermal spa, not very far away, Myvatn’s nature bath. The entrance fee cost us about 20 something euros including the swimming trunk. It was my first time to experience such geothermal spa, and the most important thing is that, it was snowing outside while I was in the hot geothermal spa. It’s really cool! And the water smells like rotten eggs because it’s very rich in sulphate, and even the pipe water in Iceland smells slightly so, and the taste is really different compared to pipe water in France or UK.

This is Myvatn's nature bath, and it was snowing when we were inside the bath.

Around in the evening, we left to Myvatn, a lake formed by volcanic eruption 2300 years ago. A eutrophic lake, it means a lake which has excessive nutrients till we have algae bloom in the water resulting the poor quality of water, and normally, there’s not much oxygen and no many fishes either. There’re a few touristic spots where we can go and take a look like, Höfoi National Park, Dimmuborgir, and volcanic crater. As we were quite lazy, we only went to Höfoi National Park where we can see some stones lying in the lake. I should’ve done more research before going so that I could learn things when I got there, but, I didn’t due to my exam and some stuffs to settle before leaving for holiday.

This is lake Myvatn. And you can see som mountains far away.

This water is crystal clear but we could hardly see some fishes but lots of algae which cover the bed of the lake.

Some lava islands in the lake formed after volcanic eruptions long long time ago.Due to our laziness, we missed a few spots near Myvatn. =((

We drove back to Akureyri and we had pizzas as dinner in a restaurant, and that’s all for that day.

The cathedral in Akureyri standing on the hill.

Some pizzas for our dinner, in a fastfood restaurant.

26^th of April: From Akureyri, we drove to Husavik, a small town in the north which is very famous for whale-watching, especially in the summer. (The whole journey only takes about 1 hour or slightly more – one and a half hour, and we reached in Husavik about 9am.) We took the whale-watching tour, that cost us about 39 euros, and it lasts for about 2 hours or one and a half hour. From the port, we (altogether 5 persons with 3 ship crew) sailed to the bay, a bit further out of the port and that’s where we can see whales. First, we were taught to differentiate different types of whales and also some species of dolphins. The most common whales we can see in Husavik are minke whales, and also some dolphins. At the beginning, it was disappointing because we hadn’t spotted any whales for the first 45 minutes. And finally, we spotted one or two whales. Minke whales are relatively small compared to other whales like blue whales; the biggest animal on the earth which can reach about 33 m long and its weight can reach about 180 tonnes! While minke whales are about 8-9 m long, and their weight is only about 5-7 tonnes. And I just learnt that, whales feed on microorganisms in the sea, by filter the seawater with their baleen inside their mouth, instead of teeth. This baleen is made from keratin, they’re hard and just look like combs, and every time they feed, these baleen will filter the seawater and trap the microorganism. It’s pretty amazing to hear that such a huge animal feed on microorganism?! Well, well, spending 40 euros to see those few whales is not worthy though, and in summer, we can see more whales, I suppose. And minke whale can dive under the water for about 10- 15 minutes. So, if you see a minke whale, then you can find it easily around the surface of the water because they’re going to re-appear after 10 minutes. Important, there’re two families of whales, baleen whales and tooth whales.

A board of whale-watching in Husavik.

The port, and you can see some mountains at the back.

I personally quite like Husavik, small and calm town.

Putting on a big suit like astronauts. It was too cold outside the sea, especially the wind. It was freezing cold.

The couple, persons in charge of the whale-watching tour.

And I had cod fish with some rice, the fish was really fresh and nice, compared to frozen fishes we can find in supermarket. In the afternoon, we drove back to Akureyri and we stayed in the hostel for the whole day.

It was really nice!! Well, another 12 or 13 euros.

I like the view here=)) especially with this model.hehe..

Husavik from far.

27^th of April: Early in the morning we need to get up to go to the airport. Before leaving to the capital again by flight, we returned the rented car in the airport and we didn’t pay extra because we didn’t cause any damage to the car, except some fines of speeding. Well, I don’t think we did speed, the maximum we drove is about 90 or 100 km/h (the speed limit is 90 km/h in highway). Back to Reykjavik, we thought of getting another car because it’s quite hard to go other places by bus, and the bus schedule is like shit. And we tried to ask to guy whether we can rent a car without an emailed license since I forgot to bring it. (In Akureyri, they allow us to drive without license probably because it’s a small town and it’s not very developed in the north of Iceland.) Oh gosh, they said ok! Luckily I asked my sister to email my license to me! But the problem was where I can get wifi to show them the email or print it out? We were really lucky, but the woman in the check-in counter, she allowed me to use the computer to open the email and print the license out! It’s incredible, Icelandic are really nice! I don’t think you can do this in France or in Malaysia. (It’s a domestic flight within Iceland and also Greenland and Faroe Islands, so it’s just a small airport and a few planes landing each day). We got our car and we put our stuffs in the hostel. Before leaving to Golden Circle, we tried the best Icelandic hotdog bun that my friend read in the Wikipedia. Well, it’s a bit special though.

The legendary aunty with hotdog buns.

First, we drove to Geysir, one of the main spots of Golden Circle. There’re three spots, Geysir, Thingvellir National Park, and Gulfoss (Golden waterfall), these three spots form a circle what we call Golden circle today. Geyser is a hot spring that erupts every 4 -8 minutes and the temperature of the water can reach to 100 degrees Celsius! There’s a famous geyser there called Strokkur which still erupts till now, in fact, it didn’t erupt for a period of time in the history, while other geysers no longer erupt anymore. I should’ve recorded it by my camera!

On the way we drove to Golden Circle. This is my friend, who came to Iceland together.

The typical icelandic view.

This is Thingvellir Lake, the biggest natural lake in Iceland.

Inside Geysir Park, these are hot spring that dont erupt anymore, except Strokkur.

Strokkur before eruption.

After eruption, well, i should say during euption.

This is Gulfoss, Golden waterfall.

Waterfall.

In fact, we wanted to drive to Thingvellir National Park first, because of some road signs, we missed it and we came to Geysir. Then, we continued our journey to Gulfoss, one of the huge waterfalls in Iceland. It’s really huge, and nice.

Then, we continued our journey, according the itinerary of guided tours to Skalholt, a really small village, with a church standing on the hill. Skalholt was once a very important town in the history of Iceland, and it was the most populated city in the early 11^thcentury. There were cathedral, a school, some farms, and there was a very important activities in Skalholt. Well, for me, I have seen so many pretty and gorgeous cathedrals in other European countries, and this cathedral is …, you know. We gave up on going to Thingvellir, and we started driving back to Reykjavik by passing by a very small town, Selfoss, probably it has the size of Sarikei.

The cathedral in Skalholt.

The view in Skalholt, another car we rented in the south of Iceland.

The small town we stopped before going back to Reykjavik. Selfoss.

28^th of April: We were heading to Vik! A small town in the south of Iceland. We departed from Reykjavik around 10 in the morning, and we drove to the direction of Vik. Along the journey to Vik, we planned to stop in Skoga, a small village too where we can see skogafoss, another waterfall, and Seljalandfoss, the waterfall that we can walk behind of it. We stopped in Skoga for a while, and it was raining, not really heavily and there was wind. At that time, we just realized that we were running out of petrol and we were afraid that we couldn’t reach Vik, so, we decided to go backward, direction to Reykjavik to fill our tank. At that time, the weather changed suddenly, there was strong wind with rain, I don’t know how fast it was, but, I was pretty sure that the wind was more than 15 m/s. When I got out of the car to fill the tank, I could hardly close the car’s door as the wind was blowing in the other direction. And some paper was blown out of the car as well! And my friend told me that he could feel the car shaking blown by wind (our car is quite small, SUZUKI, about the size of a kelisa). We couldn’t get our card into the machine, so we decided to find someone under such rainstorm. At last, someone appeared and we just realized that we put our credit card in the wrong way and that’s way the machine couldn’t take our card. It was my first time, filling the petrol tank and driving under rainstorm. We continued our journey to Vik, hoping that the weather there would be better and at least we could be able to go around. Unfortunately, the weather was bad too, with rain and strong wind. We couldn’t do anything, and we stayed in the hostel and took a nap. And in that hostel too, we knew a Malaysian. A Malaysian, working in UK, and he should be coming to Iceland with a friend, but his friend had some emergency, so he had to come to Iceland alone. He told us that, he, in fact, hesitated to keep driving when he saw dark clouds and rainstorm, and eventually he decided to keep going. We already didn’t have much time as we stayed in Iceland for 8 days, and that’s how our day was wasted.

Skogafoss in Skoga. It was raining that day.

And this is the hostel we stayed in Vik, it's very comfortable, and about 17 euros per night.

Mountainous view. does this word exit? mountainous??

29^th of April: We just decided to go for the glacial tour in the morning. We booked the tour through the lady in the hostel and we departed for glacier! It’s one of the main reasons I came to Iceland. Glacier, waterfall, geothermal spa, especially glacier and geothermal spa are things that we can only have in Iceland and a few other countries. So, we left Vik around 9:30 am or 10 am and our glacial tour was at 1:30 pm. On the way, we were already bored of driving at the speed of 90 km/h and we sped till 120-130 km/h. From the Vik to Jokusarlon the distance is about 200 km. We first went to the most famous Icelandic glacial lagoon, Jokusarlon, and we can see some icebergs floating on the water of the lagoon. It was quite sad that we didn’t have time to take a boat trip going through the icebergs in the lake to see the beautiful view of icebergs.

On the way to Skaftafell. I suppose this is a lava field with a coat of algae, and it's just like a mat.

Our rented car..

This is glacier if you dont have any idea what the hell it is.

The glacial lagoon.

It was sad that we dont have much time to stay there.

After stopping half an hour there, we rushed back to Skaftafell National Park where we needed to meet our tour guide and put on our equipments before going up to the glacier. We put on some water-proof jacket and trousers, and also shoes with some gears on it to enable to walk on the ice. We were told that we would be going to Svinafell. How does glacier formed? Normally, glaciers are formed in the high mountain, because we have lots of snow in the mountain, and the snow accumulates and the snow starts to fall down due to the surface slope. The snow is subjected to repeated freezing and thawing and the snow changes into a form of small granular ice, called firn. And under the pressure, the granular ice fuses into denser and denser firn. And they don’t look like snow at all, more to powder. Over a period of years this layer of firn will turn into glacial ice, which is crystal clear blue in color. Glacial is always moving downwards, and the level of glacial might be lower after a few years. It can also widen and deepen V-shape valleys and U-shape valleys will be formed. Glacier is also responsible for the formation of fjords, a long and narrow land with steep cliffs in the seas. Different direction of layers of glacier ice can cause crevasses, like a deep crack which can reach more than 300 m in deep. And the layer of ice is formed when the sunlight heat up the ice and the air inside the glacier ice explodes due to dilation of volume, and sometimes we can even hear the sound of ‘pop’. The glacial tour lasted about 1 and a half hour, and we continued our trip to Skaftafell National Park to see the most famous waterfall with black basalt wall, Svartifoss, plus another waterfall, Hundafoss. These black lava hexagonal columns were formed when the lava cooled extremely slowly, and crystallization happened, like Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.

This is glacier and these are crevasses (lines)

See the crystal-blue ice? it's really beautiful..

This is our tour guide. And those lines at the back are crevasses i mentioned before.

This is Hundafoss.

This is Svartifoss with black basalt columns.

We drove back to Akureyri in the evening.

30^th of April: We were heading back to Reykjavík because we would be taking the flight back to London on 1^st of May. We drove to the black sand beach of Vik because we didn’t spend much time here on the first day we reached. It was early in the morning, around 9 am, and there was still some fog, we didn’t have a good view. That’s the place where we can see lots of birds on the cliff, and also puffins. Next, we drove to Dyrholaey, not very far from Vik and also Skoga, the place we didn’t get down to walk around a few days ago since it was raining, and also another waterfall somewhere near Skoga, Seljalandfoss. It’s the waterfall where we can walk through behind the waterfall. It’s fascinating, the view. On the way back to Reykjavik, we passed through Eyjafjallajokull, the volcano that erupted last year, April 2011 causing the air-traffic in whole Europe and I got stuck in Holland. Unluckily we couldn’t climb up to the volcano.

Rocks we saw near the black sand beach in Vik. The shape is so beautiful, with its arrangment, some kind of crystal.

The black sand beach, and some rocks standing in the sea. It should be prettier in summer..

The cliff where you can see lots of birds, but, i didnt see puffins.

Dyrholaey.

We went back to Skogafoss again. According to the legend, the first settler in the area buried a treasure in a cave behind the waterfall. A local boy found the chest years later, but was only able to grasp the ring on the side of the chest before it disappeared again.

Mountains.

Seljalandfoss, we can walk through behind of the waterfall.

Seljalandfoss taken by manual mode. not bad, isnt it? 60 m high.

We were crazy. We wore no water-proof coat to walk behind the waterfall and we ended up by getting wet. And we had no choice to get changed.

Then, we purposely stopped at Thingvellir National Park, the place we missed during the trip to Golden Circle. We managed to see the place where north-American and Eurasian plates meet, and at the moment, those two places are moving further and further, causing the land between those two plates sinking down. And it’s used to be the place Icelandic parliament was in 930 till 1789. I wondered why they would build parliament there, it’s so weird.

Thingvellier National Park. Do you see something like wall at the side. that's either eurasian plate or north-american plate which are moving further ffrom each other. And the middle land is sinking down every year.

On the way back to Reykjavik, it snowed so heavily and it was white everywhere, everything was covered by snow. And even the capital was covered by snow. It was quite sunny a few days ago, and a few days after, it snowed and I only know why they said the weather in Iceland is unpredictable.

It snowed heavily in the capital.

That night, we decided to get a tour to blue lagoon, including the bus from the hostel to blue lagoon and then blue lagoon to the airport. But, the problem was that, we bought the double way bus ticket which is a bit cheaper from airport to the hostel. We tried to go to the bus station to ask for the refund from them so that we could take the tour to the blue lagoon. And they just paid us without asking any questions! I don’t think it would work the same way in France or any other European countries. They’re really nice!

Our last dinner in Iceland and in Reykjavik. The right one, that was whale meat, its structure tasted like beef but, the taste is quite unique. The second one, unknown meat, it tasted like some liver, and the left one was salmon.

And we had puffin meat here, and lamb-meatball, and another unknown meat (i forgot what it was). the puffin tasted like liver, the meat is soft, probably because its not well-cooked.

1^st of May: We returned our car and the company Avis is outside of the city and it’s located just beside the highway. And we missed the place where we should turn and it took us about half an hour to go there. We went to blue lagoon at 11:30 am, and we took the bus to airport at 2 pm (the flight was at 4pm). Blue lagoon is another place which is much commercialized and it’s another geothermal spa we can go, and the entrance fee cost about 30 Euros. The warm water there is rich in silica and sulphur which is very good for our human’s skin, I also hope so. Everything is very expensive in Iceland, and all the expenses in Iceland cost me about 1000 Euros for only eight days! I got back to London at 8 pm.

Blue lagoon. The quality is not really nice, and i think i used the wrong mode.

Before leaving to airport. The photos is ugly..

Outside of blue lagoon.

2st of May: Basically I didn’t do anything for the whole day, and I stayed at my friend’s house, except I went out to the Chinatown in London.

3^rd of May: I took a bus to Portsmouth to visit a friend of mine. It’s a small port, about two hours from London in the south of England, and its landmark is spinnaker tower and Gunwharf Quays.

This is the famous landmark of Portsmouth. We went up to the tower ( about 5 pounds to go up).

From the top of the tower looking down. It's quite scary though.

The view of harbour on top of the tower.

Gunwharf's Quays.

The port with hundreds of boats.

Spinnaker tower from far, it looks like the 5 stars' hotel in Dubai, no?

Guildhall in Portsmouth.

Our dinner... yummy! chilli con carne and snacks! its quite cheap.

4^th of May: I’d already planned to go to Brighton alone after the visit to Portsmouth, but in the end, he decided to join me. Well, in fact, my original was going to Scotland, in the north of England, but the bus or train takes about 5 to 6 hours, and they’re not really frequent. And since I didn’t have much time, I just gave up and maybe I’m going to come to United Kingdom again one day. So, the main attraction of Brighton, it’s the Royal Pavilion, one of the most beautiful palace/ castle I have ever visited till today. The Prince of Wales, who later became King George IV first came to Brighton in 18^th century and it was him who commanded the architect John Nash to build such a beautiful palace for him, the architecture of the exterior building has some elements influenced by Indian and oriental architecture. And interior of the palace, there’re a few rooms which are decorated based some Chinese decorations like, dragon, especially the chandelier decorated by a few dragons! It’s so great, but, we’re not allowed to take photos inside. You can go there and take a look on your own.

Clock Tower, Brighton.

The main entrance to Royal Pavilion.

Royal Pavilion.

Royal Pavilion taken from park. Its archictecture is quite different from British style, isn't it?

Royal Pavilion, it's pretty..

Fish and chips. It was bad...

And then we also went to its famous beaches. There were not many people because it’s not summer yet. And then, I took a bus back to London at 6pm.

Beach, Brighton.

A small square in Brighton.

5^th of May: I took the bus early in the morning, at 7:30 to go to the airport, because the whole journey takes around 2 hours, if I don’t make mistakes. That means that I had to leave my friend’s place at 6:30 in the morning. I took the flight back to Carcasonne from London around 10 and 12 am in Carcasonne. And by the evening, I got back to Toulouse!

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In Iceland, we met lots of tourists from Asian, especially chinese. We met two girls from taiwan, two guys from hong kong who are staying in UK currently, two macau men, who have got french nationality French, working in Paris currently, and a group of chinese plus a malaysian. I wondered why all asian came to Iceland at this time.. it felt so weird.

And i shouldn't used my card so much! they said paying by card doesn't charge any commission, and it wasn't true! And a good news was that, we didnt get any fine when we were in Iceland. If not, a fine could reach 50 euros, and imagine if you got 10 fines!

如果

2011-04-16T23:59:00.000+02:00

LIFE

2011-04-07T01:44:00.004+02:00

LIFE,

it's not as wonderful as you think, usually,

sometimes, it doesnt just happen in ways you want it to be,

different people and different lifestlye.

some people are just not as keen as me in travelling,

some are just indecisive,

that's when i start not giving it a damn...

maybe it's time to start travelling alone=o

well, well, well, that's life.. I believe He will always be my side! =))

My Winter Trip

2011-03-12T21:22:00.035+01:00

25th Feb- It was a Friday and my holiday started officially! My friends and I, we took a night train at 10:30pm to go to Paris.

26th- We reached in Paris around 7 am in the morning, and then we went to the airport CDG as our flight was at around 11:30am. It's a two hours' flight, and we reached in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia around 1pm. We took a mini bus from the airport to the city center which costed us 5 euros each. Of course we went to the hostel first and only then we had our lunch in a quite high-class restaurant.

My very first meal in Slovenia. Its quite nice, but it costed about 18 euros which was pretty expensive: deer, porc and chicken.

Robb Fountain, if you have been to Italy, it might look similar to a square in Rome, called Piazza Navona, and in fact, this fountain was designed by Robba after his visit to Rome. And three statues signifie three rivers running through the region of Carniola.

I found that my photos have become more and more artistic now! XP

At the back, it's the city hall of Ljubljana.

A church in Ljubljana.

The view along the canal in Ljubljana. It's quite beautiful, isnt it?

My facial expression looked so awkward! Oh man! =.=ll

A narrow, small lane in the old town.

The main square in Ljubljana, where we can find the famous church called the fransican church of annunciation, triple bridge and the Preseren's Square.

France Preseren is a very famous slovenian poet and we can also find him on the slovenian two euros' coins.

Fransican church of annunciation.

A gorgeous organ!

Getting ready to go up to Ljubljana Castle. =))

Up to the castle, I thought I would be able to see the whole view of old town, but, it was quite disappointing anyway..

The main square at night.

27th- From Ljubljana, we took a bus at 7am to Bled, another small town which is 2 hours by bus from the capital. After getting our stuffs installed in hostel, we walked to Vintgar, a small village 4 km away from Bled.

The direction to Vintgar Gorge.

The river is crystal-clear!

I looked so stupid. =.=

Vintgar Gorge.

Unluckily, the gorge was halfway closed, because of the damages of bridges due to the heavy snow. It was quite sad though not to be able to go to the end.

After walking for a few hours, let's recharge ourselves! My yummy mushroom soup, only for 2 or 3 euros.

A meal for two and we paid around 10 euros each. It was so cheap!!

After our lunch, we were going to the main attraction of Bled, one of the reason why I wanted to come to Bled!

The legendary bled lake where we can find a small island in the middle of the lake with a small church. Most people take a boat to the island and ring the bell of the church, it's some kind of tradition. and in summer, we can swim to the island!

Do you see the castle up the hill? that's Bled castle.

The small island in the middle of the lake. We didnt take a boat as it was a bit too expensive. No many boats are operating during winter, as there're less tourist. Well, I dont really like places where we can find tourist everywhere.

Oh yeah, a bad experience, we saw a shop beside the lake and we thought of renting a boat to the main island, but we were scolded by an old woman, working as cleaner of the shop, in slovenian. Please, it's not we didnt wanna listen, because we didnt understand. and she just lost her patience to explain to us and started scolding.

Well, it's also quite pretty during winter with its snow. The view is also awesome during summer.

A sculpture beside the lake. And for your information, the lake is quite big, walking around the whole lake takes about 2 or 3 hours, probably.

We didnt go up to Bled castle, and we went to take some bled's speciality!

The cream and vanilla dessert, in local we call, kremna resina. Well, Im not specialist in cakes, I cant make any comments. it's about 2 or 3 euros, I suppose.

A view of Bled 'village'.

It was a very tiring day though. And we went back to the hostel around 7 and some of us slept till the next day.

28th- Our next destination is Bohinj. We took a bus from bled at 7:30am and we reached Bohinj at around 8:30am. We should be stopping the next stop but we didnt. We had to wait for another bus to go to the another side of lake. It was really early in the morning, and plus I wore my yellow converse shoes again. So, we decided to have our lunch+breakfast first while we were waiting for the sun to come out.

Bohinj, We're here!

A cup of warm and thick white chocolate. This is my first time to taste such chocolate.

Two huge pizzas, and we only paid 7 euros each! I thought it'ld be pretty expensive to have meals in those restaurant because it's quite touristic there. It's not at all!

After the meal, we took a cable car up to the Mount Vogel. The double ways ticket cost about 12 euros. But, it was quite disappointing, and I will tell you why..

From the mount, can you see the lake? That's Bohinj Lake. And up the mountain, there's no place or platform to see this beautiful lake..

Taken from the cable car. Those mountains are part of Alps, and it's also called Julian Alps. And the highest peak in slovenia is Mount Triglav, and we can find it on Slovenian flags and also slovenian two cents' coins.

Up the mountain.

We didnt stay long time up the mountain as it was quite disappointing, and we decided to go to Slap Savica, a 'beautiful' waterfall for those slovenian, which we have to walk about 8 km to go there plus 500 steps to go up to the mountain.

On the way to the waterfall with Converse inside the thick snow..

I'm gonna go up to the mount!!

We heard some water flowing.. We're getting near to the waterfall!!

Unfortunately, we're only in front the entrance to the national park.. We've to climb up the steps up to the mountain. It was quite challenging to go up with only 'COnverse' which doesnt hold at all in snow.

I dont know, after walking and climbing for two hours and more, we could only get to see this small waterfall.. =.=ll wow... *indrecible*

And coming down from the mountains, since there was snow everywhere, we just glided down. We had fun! It was crazy!

We walked for a another 2 hours to get down the mountain, and we took a bus back to Bled at 6:40pm, and we took another bus at 8:30pm back to Ljubljana.

1st March- We woke up early to go to Postojna, the biggest cave system in Europe. We took a bus to Postojna at 8:30 am and we reached there around 11.30 am. Postojna Cave is quite wothy to visit and we paid 17,40 euros for the entrance fee. The cave system is 20 km long underground, and first we took a souterrain train for 12 km, and we only visit by walking around for another 4 km, and another 4 km can be reached. Since 200 years ago, there're already 30 millions visitors and it's one of the main attraction in Slovenia.

Dragon's bridge, there's a legend behind it. According to the Greek Legend, the Argonauts on their way home after havong taken the Golden Fleece, found a lake surrounded by a marsh. And that's the place where Jason struck down a monster and this monster became the dragon that is present on ljubljana's coat of arms and flag.

The market in Ljubljana, it was still too early. At the back, it's Saint Nicolas's cathedral.

On a cave train travelling 12km of the whole cave.

Inside the cave, the accumulation of mineral by raindrops or water.. it takes years and years. for a formation of 1 cm of stalactites takes about 100 years!! so, can you imagine how cold this cave is?

Two human's breast. 18SX and it's not suitable for kids..

We call it as spaghetti, as if those spaghetti are hanging on the ceiling.

What would you imagine, seeing this? Avatar! The tour guide told a joke that, James Cameron probably had cane to this cave, and this mask inspired him!

It's abit blur, but what did you see in the middle of the photo? a couple who is kissing..

And nine months later, they've got a baby!

A huge ice-cream!!

This is an amphibian, which we call Proteus blabla, it's scientific name.. and we also call it as human fish. It can grow till 30 cm long, and it's only lives in caves, specially in slovenia, and some other countries. and its lifespan is 100 years, and it only needs 4 leaves to survive! Its eyes are blind, and his skin is just like human's colour and that's why we call it as human fish.

Inside the cave, we can also see stalagmites and of course stalactites, and when stalactites meet with stalagmites, that's what we call romeo meets his juliet. what a beautiful name, isnt it?

The concert hall, which is known for its exceptional acoustics and has sufficient space for 10000 people for orchestra, messe or some other functions from time to time.

Postojnska Jama= postojna cave.

A small church in Postojna.

Postojna, a small town.

White wine from the Karst region, it's really sweet, and i took down the name of the wine=pp

The appetizer, some raw porc ham which we eat with bread in france too.

Beef noodles soup, it makes me think of taiwanese spicy beef noodles, my favourite!!!

My main dish, thick beef meat, around 14 euros. In France, it's possible to get it for 14 euros, probably more than 20 euros only for this!

My dessert. The whole meal cost me around 30 euros.

The main square of Postojna.

We took a bus at 6 pm from Postojna back to Ljubljana.

2nd- We took a train from Ljubljana to Zagreb (the capital of Croatia) at 6:30am and we reached there around 10:30am. We had our lunch first in a croatian restaurant first.

My first Croatian meal, a soup with meat inside and also some beans. It's better than cassoulet, a french dish, somehow.

Street in Zagreb.

The main square of Zagreb. That's the statue of croatian king, who i dont remember his name.

The king's statue.

Saint Stephen's cathedral.

Inside the cathedral.

Dolac market.

A statue of a lady. Im sorry, I dont know who she is.

I still prefer Ljubljana and Zagreb than Paris or London, because there're not many people from other countries in africa or what we call 'etrangers' in French. And there're not many tourist either.. And in Paris or London, you can see Asian or Africans everywhere..

Four tourists from Asia with a bunch of bananas, and the fourth one was taking the photo.

Saint Mark's church which was close.

That's my dinner..

The cathedral at night, Im getting good in shooting night's photo.=))

Oh yeah, do you know that our necktie we're wearing today comes from Croatia? Its old name is called cravat, and we only call it necktie in modern english, and cravat is the short-form of 'A la croate' (French). During the thirty years' war, those croatian soldiers who served in France, wore a neckerchief, a scarf made of silk or cotton material around their neck, and the French King, Louis XIV was so impressed by this cravat and more and more people starting wearing it and it's become a trend.

And for fountain pens, it also comes from Croatia. Nicolas Tesla, a great Serbian inventor lived in Croatia when he was small.

3th- We took a bus at 7 am to go to Plitvice National Park and the whole journey takes about 4 hours. The night before, the girl in hostel told us that the National park was close because of heavy snow and some roads were even close. However we still went there just to try our luck, because it's one of the main destination we wanted to go. When we reached there, Entrance 2 to the Park was close, and we walked 3 or 4 km to go to the Entrance 1. After taking our lunch in a expensive restaurant, we went to the Park. We paid 40 kuna (6 euros) for a child price because half of the park was close because of thick snow.

My lamb chop=) It's yummy..

This is Plitvice waterfall. It's gorgeous, dont you think so? there're a few waterfalls..

On the watefall, some water was frozen and it's become ice.. It's so pretty! And on the left, there's a lake where we have a path go through the lake.

Can you see the lake and watefalls?

This waterfall is huge!! and you can see some ice or frozen water hanging there..

The lake, in fact in the mountain, there're a few stages of lakes, and the biggest, we can cross from a side to another side by boat!! can you imagine that? im gonna come back here again in summer to do randonée here.

Waterfall.

Do you see the water flowing down? and some of water was already frozen.

Waterfall.

I love you! Saranghae.

It was so cold because it's located in mountains but the trip was really awesome, seeing those gorgeous waterfall and nature. We only stayed 2 or 3 hours there, and we took some hot drink and we went back to Zagreb at 5pm.

And my very last dinner in Zagreb before leaving Croatia.

4th- We took a bus to the airport at 9:30am to take the flight at 11am. We reached in Paris around 1 in the afternoon, and we took a night train from Paris to Toulouse at 10:40pm and we reached in Toulouse at 6 am in the morning on the next day.

近况

2011-02-24T10:22:00.002+01:00

挺久没在这儿写东西了！最近还过得挺不错的呢。。

今天的新年真的是超级特别的。新年除夕那晚就到了我家附近的一间意大利餐厅吃‘团圆饭’。就点了一个大pizza一个人享受。今年可以说完全没有那种想庆祝新年的冲动了。

除夕呢，也到一间法国餐厅，就点了汉堡。我的新年特别吧？！=）长大了也觉得这种节日已经失去了它的意义，因为这是一个团聚的节日。

这就是我的情人节晚餐。我也不是孤独的哦!

跟我可爱的teddy bear一起过呢！>.<

下个星期放假咯！vacation mode已经on了。。 =p

My Baltic Trip, Christmas 2010

2011-02-02T23:08:00.029+01:00

21st December- At night, I took a night train from Toulouse to Paris.

22nd- We reached around 7 in the morning in Gare d'Austerlitz. We had lunch in an Indian restaurant and we went to the airport around 3 or 4 pm because one of my friends, Eugene doesnt have any document to come back from France. Normally we need titre de séjour or récépissé in order to get back to France and due to some technical problems, he doesnt have anyone of them (he's supposed to get the récépissé that morning but he's in Paris) and we were quite worried that he could go with us because he couldnt get back to France. And if he's stopped in the airport when he gets back, he'll ask the other friend to bring his récépissé to the airport. We asked the police officer, he checked and he said it'ld be ok. What a relief! And Eugene was quite disappointed because he can come back without any problem. Yeah, I agree, sometimes, in our t lives, we should have some special experience like being caught by police because of not having any official documents.

Next problem is that, I didnt know why I put the wrong family name for my friend's ticket when I booked the flight! When have he changed his name to Eugene Sebastian Raj TANG? lol And he had to buy another new ticket and I paid half of it. Luckily the ticket wasnt very expensive. Better dont buy ticket for the others next time. =((

We took our flight around 7pm and we reached in Kaunas, Lithunian around 10 or 11pm. I was really lucky because I get to know a lithunian girl, Jurate who sat just beside me in the flight, and we talked. She offered me to be our tour guide in Vilnius when she gets back to Vilnius. And she also helped us to ask for the way to go to the hostel. We took a bus to the city center and we walked and it was freezing cold!

23rd- it snowed heavily and it was quite cold. We didnt do much things. We just went around the old town and tasted the lithuanian food!

This is church of Saint Micheal of Archangel

I still prefer the snowy atmoshere. I dont know, in my mind, I always imagine these kind of countries are supposed to be white anywhere..

The huge chritmas tree

Who is this Ah Pek??

I like this street where we can see two rows of trees.

The telephone booth.

It snowed so heavily that morning!

Buildings from far.

Inside a church. The decoration is quite nice.

The main square of the town.

At the back, on the right, that's the city hall of Kaunas.

The same square.

On the left, that's a church.

Under the christmas tree. On the wall, there're cards or a piece of wish from people for themselves or for the others.

I like this photo!

We had some lithunian traditional foods!

This is lithunian soup. It was really nice.

Some lithunian typical foods.

I love this photo! The view is so nice!

I think i can become a good professional photographer=pp

A statue just beside the church.

A photo in a park just before leaving for train station to Vilnius.

At night, we took a train from Kaunas at 5:30 pm and we reached in Vilnius around 7 pm. We found our hostel and we took our rest.

Our dinner in a lithunian restaurant. It looks like our curry puff, doesnt it?

The only difference is that it's much bigger than our curry puff.

The effect of fish-eye of my camera.

24th- We had a whole day's trip to Hill of cross which is located in Siauliai. We took a bus from the train station at around 11am (we'ld be able to catch the bus earlier, but we woke up late, therefore we could spend much time in Siauliai). The journey took us about 4 hours to get to Siauliai, and from Siauliai, we had to take another cab to go to Hill of crosses which is 12 km away from the city,

In the beginning of the 20th century, this hill of cross was already widely-known as a sacred place and lots of people from worldwide came here for the purpose of pilgrims visits. During soviet times, those soviet army considered this hill and crosses as a harmful symbol. And i also read this hill is also a symbol of nationalism of lithunian people against the soviet union. And these soviet army tried to destroy the hill and all the crosses, and they even blocked the way to the hill from preventing people to go there and put their crosses on the hill. But miraclely, each night after the demolishment of the hill by soviet union, more and more crosses reappeared on the next day. And in 1993, Pope John Paul II even visited this hill and now, alot of people came to this hill and put a cross on this hill. And today, there're more than 100,000 big and small crosses are found on this hill.

it snowed so heavily that day, and the cab we took even got stuck in the snow! And we pushed the cab under -6 degrees celsius! Luckily, we succeeded. Yay!

This is Hill of crosses where we can find hundred thousands of big or small crosses!

Do you see that? I wore converse, walking in the snow. It was really crazy!

It was actually -7 or -8 degrees at that time, and while walking in the snow, some snow got into my shoes, and the worst thing was that it melts inside my shoes and with the cold wind, I could hardly feel my legs! If i stay another half an hour at that time, I dont think you would be able to see my legs anymore!

Crosses from near.

Beautiful crosses covered with snow.

The view of all crosses. Even though it was so cold and I almost lost my toes, I still dont feel regret going there! It's so beautiful with the snow! I prefer snow rather than green grasses.

Sadly, I didnt notice that some photos I took were abit blur..

We only spend about 20 minutes up to the hill as it was too cold and there were only another group of people visiting the hill besides us. But, I still dont feel regretful. =)) We got back to the Siauliai around 5;30pm and after having dinner there, we took the bus back to Vilnius around 7m and we reached there arounf 10 or 11pm.

That's why I spend another christmas' eve.

25th- We went around the town with our tour guide, Jurate, the girl I get to know in the flight.

This is the girl, and she's now working in Chateurault, a town in the center of France, and this time, she was going back for christmas holiday.

Catholic church of all saints in Vilnius.

And I just get to know how to differentiate an orthodoxe cross and a roman catholic cross. A roman catholic cross is just a cross, but, on an orthodoxe cross, there's another extra piece of wood on it.

Street in Vilnius.

A snowman and its snow-woman=)

I still love snow very much!^^

This is the famous cathedral's square.

And this is the cathedral. And do you know that, there's only one cathedral in each town?

The monument of Grand duke of Gediminas.

This is the soup for my lunch. It's a bit spicy but I like it.

Some potatoes with ham and melted cheese.

On the hill, as there was haze, so we could hardly see the whole town from the hill.

Saint Anne's church and the church of Bernardine Monastery.

Gediminas Tower

Another newly-married couple that we met. Hope you'll be together forever.

The bridge of chains, where lots of couple put their names on the lock and after getting it on the bridge, they throw the key inside the river, hoping that their love will last forever.

And each year, the government will clear these lock by cutting them off. So, in fact, their love wont last forever..

Back in hostel, we were trying to build a tower of cards. We were too bored=.=ll

And this hostel that we stayed is operated by an old woman, and the way she speaks seems to be a bit weird, like, please pay the money, sir, please. And on the notice on top of the sinki, it's written that; please wash your own plates because your mom isnt working here and blabla.. Maybe that's the way they express themselves, who knows?

26th- We took a bus early in the morning, around 6:30am to go to Riga, Latvia so that we would have more time to visit Riga since it got darker earlier. It took us about 4 or 5 hours to reach in Riga. After checking-in, we went around, and I found that I prefer Riga to Vilnius. =))

Another church, but, it was close.

What kind of this statue is this?

Snow!!

Saint Peter's Lutheran church

The two red buildings are blackheads' house.

I love this photo so much! Especially this view.

^__^V

This is the place where romantic couples come and have a date.

Another orthodoxe cathedral: Nativity cathedral.

Yoyoyo...

Some kind of building?? Go and find out yourself, and then tell me what it is=))

Potatoes with porc.

Some raw herrings with bread.

Herrings again.

Spinach soup.

Some sausage from porc blood.

The main dish: porc steak and potatoes.

A cake as dessert.

This meal costed me around 15-20 euros. And it's latvian food.

27th- We followed a city tour to visit the whole town and before leaving, we're free to give how much you want to the tour as tips. She brought us to see the central market where we still can buy vegetables and fruit or meat from there. And another market where we can got stolen stuffs. And she joked, if you lose anything in Riga, you just go to this market and you might be able to buy it back.

Doma's church and huge christmas tree.

The entrance to Christmas market.

Riga Academy of Science. We also call it Stalin's birthday cake. And it has some influence of soviet architecture. It's a gift of Soviet Union to Latvian people.

The girl with a red coat, that's our tour guide in Riga, and there were also some from germany and finland, joing us the tour.

Another bridge in the park where we can find 'love chains'.

Die! She was begging for not throwing her in snow.

One of the biggest organ of the world. Unluckily, it was under renovation.

A bridge.

At night, we sat inside a fastfood restaurant (Hesburger) to kill our time, and we also went to pool center to spend our time before taking the bus at 1:50 in the morning to go to Talinn, Estonia.

28th- We spent our whole night in the bus and we reached there around 6:30 am. Then we took a taxi to go to our hostel, and it costed around 100 Estonian Krones, about 7 euros. We check-in and we slept till 12 at noon, only then we went out to find some foods.

Czech restaurant.

On the way to the old town of Talinn.

Estonian buildings.

Probably, that's the city hall.

Orthodoxe church, take a look on the cross, it's different, isnt it?

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Oh NO!!

Another church which I dont know the name.

Taken from a hill. Talinn is gorgeous in snow.

At night.

29th- Before leaving to the airport, we had our dinner in an Estonian restaurant. Around 1:30 pm, we took a bus to go to the airport and on the way, the bus driver caused an accident of another car but he just kept driving.

Buildings.

Various grilled meats for two persons, and 15 euros for each.

It's typical estonian.

Our flight was around 4 pm to Dusseldorf, and we reached there around 6pm. Originally, I wanted to take a train with my friends who come to Europe, from Dusseldorf to Paris and stay in Paris for another few days. But, because of some financial crisis, I had to cancel this idea. We stayed overnight in Dusseldorf airport, which is only open during winter.

30th- We took a flight back to Marseille around 5 am and we reached in Marseille around 7am. And my friends took their train at 2pm, while I went around alone with my bag till 7pm, only then, I took my train to get back to Toulouse! HOME!

Baltic states- Lithunia, Latvia and Estonia are three countries that were formed after the first World War. And after that, they were occupied by U.S.S.R or Soviet Union and also german army during the second World War. By the end of second World War, these three states were reoccupied by soviet union and only in 1990-1991, they got their independence.

变态？心理病？

2011-01-09T21:23:00.003+01:00

想了又想，自己真的是有心理病吗？自己真的那么变态吗？

也许我是真的有吧？

可怕吧？

看来我还有很多的人生功课还得去学习。

包括我的脾气，我的固执等等。。

还有三年我就毕业了。

时间真的过的好快哦。

我的mission：游玩整个欧洲！

还有西班牙，葡萄牙，德国，瑞士，芬兰，法国南部，冰岛，希腊，土耳其，slovenia，croatia，bosnia，埃及，摩洛哥等等。要趁这三年半去完这些地方。。如果能够，明年想去北部挪威看北极光。

这次二月假期，无论如何都想去slovenia和croatia，就算没人想去。

Plitvice waterfalls, Croatia

Bled, Slovenia.

圣诞和新年

2011-01-01T02:25:00.000+01:00

原本以为从今以后会有不同的的圣诞和新年，

结果，

一年比一年没有意义。。

圣诞和新年，我跟你说拜拜了。。

晚安，大家。。

The Romanian and Bulgarian trip

2010-12-20T22:15:00.036+01:00

23rd Oct- Our trip started beautifully by a train strike, where our train to Paris was cancelled. And most of the train in France were cancelled, we didnt know which train we could take because lots of train were full, in the end, we decided to go to the train station early in the morning to take the train to go to Paris. So, we spent a night in a friend's room so that we could take the earliest metro to the train station. But, in the end, we took a taxi at 5 am in the morning, and we managed to take the train at 5am to go to Paris. In Paris, we just had our lunch and we went to the airport. We took the flight around 7 pm and we reached in Bucharest at 11 pm. (It takes only 3 hours, the flight, and another hour is because of the difference time).

Again, something 'great' happened. We reached in bucharest too late and there was no bus anymore to go to city center, we had no choice by taking a taxi. In fact, we read in the internet that those taxi driver cheat tourist by charging extra, and we tried to ask people there in order to know the price, but eventually, nobody could help us. A guy (taxi driver) went towards us by offering us his service, and we were charged for about 260 Lei (60euros) divided by 4 persons. So each of us paid about 15 euros, which seems to be normal in France. We asked people in hostel, they said, normally single trip from airport to Bucharest costs about 50 lei ( about 10 euros). And with 260 lei, we can get a taxi from Bucharest to Brasov (about 4 hours by train) and the journey from airport to city center just takes around 45 minutes. Damn!

And when we got to the hostel, the lady made a mistake by reserving a bed for a person for four nights, while we were four and we just stayed in that hostel for a night. She just gave back our money and an address of another hostel nearby. We went to that hostel and it was actually full, and luckily the lady was quite nice and she called another hostel. We walked for about an hour to go to that hostel and we also stopped to have our supper. In the end, we reached at the hostel around 2pm in the morning. It was pretty scaring, walking in the streets in bucharest in the middle of night, with dogs barking, and we dont find this kind of atmosphere in France. We're already used to staying in France though.

24th- We took a train to Brasov early in the morning. At the train station, we met the guy called Ivan, a tourist guide who offerd us to be our guide to go to some castles in Romania. At the beginning, we didnt really trust him because we got cheated once the first night we stepped out of the Romanian Airport. And we just told him that we'ld consider it and check the price before giving him a confirmation. There's a black church, which is quite special, told by somebody, and till now, i still dont get what's so special about that church. We just walked around inside the old town, and unluckily, we didnt have enough time to get the cable car up to the hill to see the whole view of Brasov.

The main shopping street in Brasov.

The main square and that's the city hall.

This is Black Church, called also Biserica Neagra in Romanian. There's a legend, that during the construction, a german child disturbed the bulgarian builders and told them that one of the walls was leaning. An annoyed builder pushed him off the church tower and immured his corpse in the church.

The Catherine's Gate.

I looked thinner than before, i think because of being sick.

25th- On the second day in Brasov, we took another train early in the morning to go to Sighisoara, another medievel town which is quite pretty and worth to visit. It took us about 2 hours to get there.

Another Orthodoxe church in Romania. Its design is quite different with the churches in France, dont you think so? Most of churches in Romania are Orthodoxe, while, in France most of them are Roman Catholic.

Going up the hill to the Old town which is located on a hill.

The view is pretty, isnt it?

A church on the hill.

The medievel tower inside the old Town.

The photo is nice! with two models!=pp

And, here we saw a few gypsy woman, holding their babies just beside the street and they beg for money. And they were breastfeeding their babies. I wondered that's their own babies? And i really feel sorry for them...

This is the town where our famous Romanian Dracula (Vlad Dracul) was born. I'm gonna tell you the story about him that you must know.

The bust of Dracula. Grrrr*

I like autumn! I even took a few pieces of leaves from Romania!

The footsteps.

Getting down the hill to get ready to go back!

At night, we got back to Brasov and we went into a high-class restaurant where alot of people wearing coats. And it only costs us around 8 euros.

This is the snack, fried crispy porc.

The romanian soup.

My main dish, various of meats, like porc, chicken and so on.

While eating, we were still thinking of those gypsy women that we came across that morning. And I felt so guilty, I was enjoying my king-like dinner, while they're sitting in the street, begging for money.

26th- Actually, we planned to stay in Brasov for two days, a day to visit Brasov and a castle called Bran castle and another day for Peles Castle and Sighisoara. But, Peles castle is close on monday and sundays. So in the end, we decided to stay two more days in brasov (basically two days and one night). And our original plan of staying a day in Bucharest and bulgaria was cancelled, because we thought that, Peles castle is one of the most famous tourist spot in Romania, and we should go there before getting back. In the end, we talked to the guys we met in train station and we decided to have him as our tour guide.

First, he drove us to Bran Castle, also called as Dracula's Castle by most of people.

According to him, this castle isnt the castle that Dracula was living. Due to the uglyness of the original dracula castle, they built this castle for the film shots. I'll show you the original Dracula's Real Castle later.

From the top of the castle.

This is taken from outside, Bran Castle.

On the way down from the castle.

Our next destination is Curtea de Arges, one of the oldest city in Wallachia (a region in Romania).

On our way to this monastery, we say some houses along the roads, and Ivan told us that these houses belong to gypsies. He also adds that those gypsies dont wanna work, and they steal. They also even ask for money in towns, even if they're healthy and in good condition to work.

In train station in Brasov, we saw a young guy putting his hands inside his vests and he came to us for money. Ivan explained to us that he's actually smoking gum and he was abit 'high'.

This is Curtea de Arges Monastery. It's gorgeous.

That's our tour guide, Ivan.

Getting your first glimpse on it, dont you think that there's some arabic elements on this architecture? There were also a legend about this monastery.

The legend is like this: A king called Negru Voda wanted to bulid the most beautiful monastery in Romania,so first, he hired some arabic or persians architects to build it. But, they couldnt finish the construction. So he hired Mesterul Manole and his 9 men, which is the best architect at that time. They couldnt finish the construction either. And one day, Manole dreamt and inside the dream, he was told that, if he wanted to build the most beautiful monastery in the world, he or his men had to sacrifice one of the most valuable things. The next day, Manole's wife came and he suddenly thought of the dream, and he started thinking that maybe burying his wife that he loves so much inside the wall would work. That's how this beautiful monastery was built and in the end, Manole was trapped on the roof of the monastery because he forgot to build stairs to go down. He built a machine to fly down, but in the end, he fell down and he was dead.

Inside the monastery.

This is monastery church just behind the monastery. Inside the church, there's a small coffin where we have the body of the small girl, Saint Filofteia and we can see her left hand.

This girl was born in a farmer family, his famer works as a farmer. Since she is very young, her mom gave her a good grounding in orthodoxe faith, and she likes helping the other poor children in the street. but, her mom dies early and her father got married again. Her stepmother doesnt like her to help the other children. And one day, she asks her to bring the lunch to her father who is working in the field. And she sees a children in the street and she takes some of the food for that children. Her father realises it, and asks her where the food goes. He spies on her and he finds that she gives the food to the poor children, and he gets so angry till he throws the hatchet towards her. She gets hurt in her leg and he dies. The father feels so regretful and he wants to remove her body and he cant because her body becomes so heavy. All the clergy with people, bringing candles try to move her body into the cathedral but, they dont manage. so the clergy says prayer to God and the Martyr, naming all the monasteries, cathedrals and churches throughtout the country to see where her holy relics wish to be. When they start naming Curtea de Arges monastery, her body becomes so light, and they places her in the coffin and they put her in the monastery church.

The dam we saw on the way to the real Dracula's castle.

The lake behind the dam.

The scenery in mountains.

Our next destination is real dracula's castle. Do you see the castle on the cliff? That's the castle where Dracule lived and is also called Poienari castle. To get on top, i climb 1400 steps and on the top, it's just a small castle where we have a few walls, and one third of castle has already collapsed down the mountain in 1888.

On the way to get up there. And there were three small dogs followed us all the way up to the castle.

On the top of the castle. And we can see the whole view of mountain covered with red and yellow trees.

Ok, let me tell you the story about Dracula or also called Vampire.

In fact, Dracula, this person exists before, and he's a Romanian King who is very cruel, but he doesnt drink blood, neither have characteristics as vampire what we've watched in movie. It's believed that the first vampire:Dracula novelist, Bram Stokes, an Irish novelist has inspiration of this 'vampire' character from this Dracula, the cruel Romanian King and Bram stokes had never been to Romania either.

Dracula, he's also called as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462. He is born in Sighisoara, in 1431 and his father is Vlad Dracul. Since he is young, he and his brother are sent by their father to Ottoman Empire as hostage of royalty to the Empre and as return, Ottoman Empire will support their father to be the king of Wallachia. In Turkey, Vlad Tepes has learnt all the tactics of war. In 1447, the Romanian Boyars rebel and Vlad Tepes's father and his elder borther (heir of the throne) is killed. And Vlad Tepes goes back to Wallachia and becomes the King. But, his rule of Wallachia doesnt last long and Hungarian invades Wallachia and after that Wallachia is taken by Ottoman. In 1456 he takes the throne back and he becomes the King for the second time. In 1459, he calles all the boyars for a big party, and he asks those old boyars that the reason why those boyars have already served under more than 4 kings. And then, he kills all those old boyars who are reponsible for his father's death and he makes the young boyars to work hard to build a castle. Some legends say that after the construction of the castle, those boyars who are still alive, they are taken off their clothes and there's nothing in their chests which means the work is so hard. He makes alot of revolution and the army becomes strong. He stops those boyars from exploitating the commerce in Wallachia and also introduces some cruel laws, for example death to punish theives and robbers.

In 1462, Vlad kills 30000 turcs in Danube and he refuses to pay tributes to Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman King, Mehmed is so angry and he sends 3 times more army to invade Wallachia. In targoviste, Vlad and his army burns their own villages, kills all the animals and people, poisons the water source. And when turcs amry arrives there, they've no food neither drink and they're sick, weak and also afraid, seeing lots of turcs army impaled. Vlad and his army come and defeat the turcs army. That's his first battle against the turcs which are 3 times more in number compared to his own army.

Then, he is prisonned in Buda for 12 years but he's free to go where he wants in Buda.

He comes back to Wallachia for his third reign. And he shows his intellingence when he has another battle against the turcs. At night, he and some of his soldiers get into turcs' camp and shout,'Vlad's army is coming'. Those turcs are panicked and they start killing themselves as they cant see at night. This is his second victory against turcs. In 1476, he lost in the battle and his head is cut and brought to the Tukish Sultan. And he is buried in Snagnov monastery.

The newly-married couple that we met on the top of mountain. They were having their wedding shots here, and it's pretty romantic!

This photo was taken in Brasov. Inside a small corridor where we have glasses.

26th- With this tour guide, we went to rasnov castle.

We reached Rasnov Castle. It already started snowing! in the end of October!

Rasnov Castle.. That's me!! Cheers!

On the top of Rasnov Castle.

View from the top of Rasnov Castle.

Next, we went to Sinaia Monastery, another beautiful monastery in Romania!

Inside the Sinaia Monastery.

This is our another destination: Peles Castle (the King Castle). The King Carol of Romania visited the region of Sinaia, and he fell in love with the scenery in Sinaia, and he decided to build a castle there. He stayed in this castle during summer for hunting and some outdoor activities.

Peles castle is one of the most gorgeous castle that i have ever seen in my life! It's really pretty if you see it from outside, and even the design inside.

Inside the Peles Castle, you can see those wooden-made decorations.

It's pretty, isnt it? I should've paid for the photograph so that I could take some photos.

Outside the Castle.

^__^

The statue in front of the Castle.

This is Pelisor castle (The Queen's Castle).

We didnt manage visit this Queen's Castle because it was close due to cleaning process.

I wanna bring my dear one here one day, if I have time to go to Romania again.

The king's castle from far.

We finished our whole day's trip around 1pm. After getting some Romanian bread for ourselves, we took a train around 2pm but, we were really stupid because we took the wrong train from Sinaia (Sinaia is between Bucharest and Brasov) back to Brasov. And we were supposed to take the train back to Bucharest to take our night train go to Sofia, Bulgaria. We only realised we took the wrong train when the conductor came and checked our ticket. We paid about 10 Lei as 'Rasuah'. That time, four of our were really panicked because we were told that there's a train which leaves around 4:15 to Bucharest and it takes around 4 hours to go to Bucharest from Brasov and we had booked the train ticket from Bucharest to Sofia around 8:30, but, we reached there around 4:30pm. And if we missed the train, we have to take the train next in the morning.

Luckily, when we reached in Brasov, the train going to Bucharest was late, and we quickly got into the train without buying any tickets. And in the train, we paid another 8 Lei as 'rasuah' again. And we were praying that we could manage to take the train to Sofia. Luckily, there was a conductor to whom we explained our situation, and he called the other train to wait for us. I think, it's quite normal for the train to be late there, that's why he can ask for the train to wait for us. Just after getting down in Bucharest around 8:20pm, we ran straight towards the train going to Sofia which is just beside the train we took. And first, we got into the engine room. =.= And it was really weird because the stairs were so high, and it's in fact, the engine room!

27th- We slept inside the train and we reached in Sofia around 6 am. We took breaskfast in the train station and we got back to the hostel first. All of them slept till 11 am besides me, which can sleep well anywhere and anytime=pp We had our lunch first which costed us about 10 euros and only then we walked around inside the city. It snowed that day! And it was still October! It seem that we're facing severe global warming now.

The statue of Saint Sofia which is the landmark of Sofia.

In front of the fountain in Sofia.

The Russian Orthodoxe church.

And this is one of the gorgeous cathedrals that i have ever seen before!

And especially the decorations inside. I cant show you the photos as it's not allowed to take photos inside.

This is orthodexe cathedral, called Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

The cathedral from far.

Our photo=))

A mosque in Sofia.

Synagogue, Jewish's worship place. Sadly, it was already close by the time we went there.

YOYOYO!!

In Bulgaria, we noticed that some alphabets in Bulgarian are quite similar to greek, for example they also have alfa, phi, pi and so on.. I asked the person-in-charge of the hostel and she explained that they're not really the same.

Saint Sofia with the sunset.

28th- We saw in hostel where they offer trip to Rila Monastery and Plovdiv, an ancient town in Bulgaria, and we asked for having the two combined trip for the whole day. And we paid for 100 euros for 4 persons to go those two places which are not really near from Sofia.

It's was very cold in Rila Monastery because it's located in the mountain. And i think it was 0 degree. And there, my camera screen didnt work again! In fact I dropped the camera last year and I got it repaired in summer! DAMN!

This is Rila Monastery, it's really pretty!

Do you see the colour of the buildings? It's really nice.

Take a look on the walls. They're all painted with stories from Bible.

This is a handsome guy, isnt it?

After the trip to Rila Monastery, we went to Plovdiv.

A church in Plovdiv.

The roman theatre.

What's so special about this house? i dont know it either=pp

OUAIS!!

SMILE ^___^V

The main shopping street in Plovdiv.

29th- We woke up around 3:30 in the morning and we took a taxi around 4:30am to the airport because we had our flight at 6pm and we paid 20 leva for 4 persons which is quite cheap compared to the price in France. We reached in Paris around 8am. We departed from Paris back to Toulouse around 2pm.

During this trip, I've learnt lots of things about the culture in Romania and even the origin of Vampire. It was really cool, and only then, I know that I'm much luckier compared to them.

christmas

2010-12-20T03:13:00.001+01:00

I love christmas,

but I dont love celebrating it,

dont you think i'm weird?

maybe till one day, one day in future,

I'ld change...

I'm waiting for that day to come..

A short update

2010-11-11T20:47:00.005+01:00

It's been really long long time that i'm not here,.. you know, a BIG busy man..

I've just recovered from a disease, called mononucleosis, which had huge impact on my past two months and caused 'trouble' and fear in my life as this is my first time i got such a severe disease.

And, I went to Romania and Bulgaria for last holiday, and I havent updated the trip!

I feel like I have not enough time everyday, and I need more!

Feeling tired of asking people, you wanna go there, you wanna book the ticket? I wish I could go alone, or I coud find someone who can always go with me.

ok, byebye!

Death

2010-10-17T01:17:00.002+02:00

What if one day, you have no chance to say goodbye to me at all?

what if one day, i'll just leave you with all the sudden?

what if one day, i'll just leave this world?

what will you feel?

what will be left in your mind?

The claw of death is powerful, indeed. Nobody can resist it...

我的近况

2010-10-03T09:43:00.002+02:00

我生病也快两个星期了。。

前天是我今天抽第三次血了，第一次是捐血，其他两次就是要验血找出到底什么病毒跑进我的身体里。

我呢，就有发烧，全身疼痛，没有胃口，整天都感觉很累，还有肝发炎肿起来。

一开始是以为有种病毒叫做epstein-barr 病毒（一种没有危害的病毒）。结果第一次验血报告显示说不是。第一次报告也证实说我没有A型肝炎，没有B型肝炎，没有爱滋，没有疟疾，还有几种不知道名字的病毒。

希望真的没有什么大碍。。到现在还没有告诉爸妈的。。就打算找到了病毒，确定有的治了再告诉他们吧。。

2010-10-01T07:32:00.001+02:00

thanks, I know that You love me...

I'm gonna win this battle against the virus!

Amen!

生病记

2010-09-26T05:29:00.002+02:00

生病是件很辛苦的事，尤其是你一个人住的时候。

昨天，基本上整天都呆在床上，晚上八点就上床尝试睡觉了。

如果有人在身边，那么我不用那么费力的起来煮饭，不用那么费力的起来拿湿毛巾放在额头上（每次戏里头他们都是这么做）。

睡又不能够一睡就睡到天亮。

所以呢，还是不要生病。由于天气的转变，要好好照顾自己，大家！

中秋节

2010-09-22T21:21:00.003+02:00

好久没在这里写东西了。。今天呢，就是咱们一年一度的中秋节。。

今天早上上课时候，感觉全身关节酸痛，眼眶也觉得有点疼，那时候就开始知道自己不能够再呆下去了。结果就翘了三堂的课，回家睡觉。

晚上就没有聚集在一起吃，因为没有人主动带头说一起吃顿晚餐。

最近爱上了傍晚一个人在湖边散步，加听音乐。偶尔也会去跑跑步。

今晚的月亮特别的圆。原来我坐在公车站赏月。其实也是一种不错的感觉。宁静的夜晚，加上iphone里我爱听的歌曲，简直就是绝配。。

还是早点休息睡觉了！晚安，大家！

中秋节快乐！

中秋节

2010-09-22T21:21:00.002+02:00

好久没在这里写东西了。。今天呢，就是咱们一年一度的中秋节。。

今天早上上课时候，感觉全身关节酸痛，眼眶也觉得有点疼，那时候就开始知道自己不能够再呆下去了。结果就翘了三堂的课，回家睡觉。

晚上就没有聚集在一起吃，因为没有人主动带头说一起吃顿晚餐。

最近爱上了傍晚一个人在湖边散步，加听音乐。偶尔也会去跑跑步。

今晚的月亮特别的圆。原来我坐在公车站赏月。其实也是一种不错的感觉。宁静的夜晚，加上iphone里我爱听的歌曲，简直就是绝配。。

还是早点休息睡觉了！晚安，大家！

中秋节快乐！

回家

2010-08-24T20:12:00.003+02:00

又是一个没有睡眠的晚上。。

现在到达了阿拉伯的Riyadh。要等十多个小时才能够回到法国。

好累，好困。。

但是不能够睡觉，也没有地方睡。

。。。

Saranghae...

2010-08-15T09:04:00.003+02:00

Saranghae, all of you guys..

It's really my pleasure to travel with all of you!

I'm gonna miss you all! Pogoshipo...

Anyong...

失望

2010-08-01T19:46:00.002+02:00

失望。。。

已经不是一两次的事情了。

应该可以说已经习惯了吧？已经麻木了吧

人是很容易习惯的，我个人认为吧~

。。。。。。

太阳与星星的故事

2010-07-18T19:22:00.003+02:00

太阳，

今天又一次彻底的失望了，

天空一片乌云，

下起一场大雨，

谢谢月亮，

像往常一样，

虽然是白昼，

它还是在那里陪着太阳，

无论如何，

永远都在那里直到雨过天晴。

星星，

像往常一样，

有时候看起来是那么的耀眼，

那么的显眼，

但是，

有时候却离得那么远，

让人捉摸不清，

星星会永远在那里吗？

'心空'

2010-07-14T19:50:00.002+02:00

凌晨2：51

此时此刻的我，好像到外面走走，望着布满星星的天空，那时候的你，才会感觉到你是多么的渺小，你所经历，你所受过的伤都算不了什么。

最近才发现到诗巫的天空真的没有星星可以看吧。

心底有许多的话，但是写不出来。就让它埋在心里吧。

告诉你们很可笑的事情，其实是最近我才开始注意到我妈妈的眼睛是双眼皮，我爸呢，其实也是双眼皮，只是不是超级明显，所以生了有内双的我。

最近还有一个朋友说我看过去有点老，这次回法国真的要保养我的脸了。

还有，前天还跑去打了耳洞=pp

还有一个朋友还说我的脸有点像女生，还说想要帮我化妆成女生！如果你们想看马来西亚人妖，那就拭目以待吧！

Adios！

2010-07-10T10:21:00.000+02:00

我觉得我不再属于这个世界了。。

心空

2010-07-09T19:58:00.003+02:00

I shouldn't have come back this summer, well, I've come back, and I gotta accept that fact.

I dont feel regretful of anything, it's still great souvenir left in my head.

I dont feel regretful of giving out even though I know that I'll receive anything, which I'm not used to doing it before.

Well, at least I've tried my best to achieve what i want=))

Good night, everybody! Anyong^^

慢慢的才知道

2010-07-09T02:25:00.001+02:00

1、慢慢的才知道,太在乎别人了往往会伤害自己
2、慢慢的才知道,对自己好的人会随着时间的流逝越来越少
3、慢慢的才知道,一个人要自己对自己好,因为真正关心你的人很少,有了事他们也不一定会在你身边。所以要自己照顾自己
4、慢慢的才知道,真心对一个人好不一定有回报,而你忽略的人往往有可能是最重视你的
5、慢慢的才知道,很多东西是可遇而不可求的,很多东西只能拥有一次
6、慢慢的才知道,恋爱不一定是真心的,有可能是利益关系, 有可能是攀比心理
7、慢慢的才知道,不要和别人争论什么,因为那是没有结果的,无论谁对谁错
8、慢慢的才知道,很多时候自己遇到不开心事,千万不要渴望别人同情,大多数人会采取冷漠回敬的。那样会更让人家看不起
9、慢慢的才知道,有很多东西是不属于你的,你使劲强求会遭天遣的
10、慢慢的才知道,未必做每件事情都有意义,可是做的每件事情都觉得是一件回忆
11、慢慢的才知道,人的性格可以差异到如此之大
12、慢慢的才知道,许多曾经的人会变的让你认不出,但请留住回忆。
13、慢慢的才知道,从现在开始应该把握每一个你能把握的人,放弃你留不住的人,不要因为想留住个别人而失去一群人。
14、慢慢的才知道,自己一定在乎自己的自尊,但你的自尊在别人眼里根本不算什么
15、慢慢的才知道,不要心情不好的时候对周围人发脾气, 渴望他们谅解你,人家不是你的父母,现在你可以明白父母对自己多么重要
16、慢慢的才知道,即便有人对情感看的无所谓,你一定要坚信,人之间的感情,有可能会令所有东西都无法超越的,但记住,只是有可能
17、慢慢的才知道,原来现实如此的无奈
18、慢慢的才知道,会遇到许多自己看不惯的人或事,但那与你无关,别人爱咋整随他便,别生不该生的气,不值
20.慢慢的才知道,两个天天在一起的人不一定是朋友,有可能什么都不是
21.慢慢的才知道,会遇到很多诱惑,无论别人怎么样,你是你,你有你的原则和底限
22.慢慢的才知道,会有人很讨厌你或者和你过不去,但是他爱怎么样就怎么样,我们要大度,不和小人计较,但前提是你正确
23.慢慢的才知道,很多人无法理解男女之间的朋友关系,在一起就一定是恋人,不是恋人就一定不能在一起
24.慢慢的才知道,学习要刻苦,因为凭聪明就能应付考试科目的人是凤毛翎角
25.慢慢的才知道,原来时间一空闲下来是那么无聊,丝毫没有中学的充实的感觉
26.慢慢的才知道,手机是别人有事找你的时候用的,并不是为了交流感情的
27.慢慢的才知道,可以不把所有人当朋友,但千万不能把一个人当敌人,至少可以当同学
28.慢慢的才知道,玩你能玩的起的,玩不起的千万别玩,不然会输了什么都没有的
29.慢慢的才知道,快乐常常来自回忆,而痛苦常常来自于回忆与现实的差距
30.慢慢的才知道,那些嘻哈打闹只是消遣而已,而过往的抽烟打架更是无知
31.慢慢的才知道,有很多人的想法与做法你无法理解,或是根本不知道他在想什么,千万别在那揣摩或者瞎猜,那样会让自己累,既然人家要保持神秘感那就让人家保持去啊,自己又不是占卜师
32.慢慢的才知道,不要把自己想的有多高,没有绝对性的胜利,也没有绝对性的失败
33,慢慢的才知道,生活是有很多不公平的,你一定要正视, 相信实力和群众的眼睛
34.慢慢的才知道,兄弟情义有时候未必是想像的那么美好, 只有自己真心付出,才有可能得到别人的真心对待
35.慢慢的才知道,有的人不断的算计,到头还来是会输的很惨,所以应当保持一个平和的心!
36.慢慢的才知道,有的事情不是自己所愿意的,但是有的事情必须得去完成,那也是对自己的一段特训
37,慢慢的才知道,原来两个人在一起或真或假,相处的时间还是占据着重要成份
38.慢慢的才知道,现实根想法的差距,必须要随机应变,跟上生活的步伐!
39.慢慢的才知道,自己也在慢慢长大,不在是小孩子了,适应着每一件事的成长.
40.慢慢的才知道,不要把自己想的有多高,没有绝对性的胜利,也没有绝对性的失败
41 慢慢的才知道，给人留一线日后好相见的真正意义,没有永远的敌人只有永远的朋友,凡事不要做的太绝,事情的结局都是用嘴巴说出来的
42.慢慢的才知道,不管玩的多好的朋友都有可能失去,但是我们还是要乐观面对,若是真的把他(她)当作自己的朋友就应该为他 (她)祝福.遥望!只是做自己

I'm wrong

2010-07-08T18:42:00.003+02:00

Yeah, I'm wrong.

Sometimes, I'm just too selfish, hoping someone will care for me..

I know I shouldnt be like this, I shouldnt be thinking of only myself.

Just hope I can change myself for better (even though I dont know whether I can make it)

Please touch my heart by love. =))

Anyong~

X.X

2010-07-06T16:05:00.005+02:00

这是我最新的照片，很恶心吧？lol

有点后悔剪这个发型哦。=S

唉。。。在家发霉。。

这次回家，每个人都说我都瘦了，妈妈还说我的脸皮肤变得比去年更糟糕。唉。。

回家

2010-07-03T19:37:00.002+02:00

老实说，没有什么感觉想回家了。。已经对这些都别无眷恋了吧？

还是说在法国生活太久了，所以也变成了冷血动物？

想尽法子保护自己，不让自己受到伤害。

也许人就是这样吧，没有一件事情是永恒的，没有任何一个承诺是永恒的，人的心也不是永恒的吧？？

天气报告030710， 0141。

就别理我写什么吧！；）

晚安，大家！

今天

2010-06-28T02:46:00.002+02:00

人类只有三天，昨天、今天和明天，而我们能够珍惜的只有今天。

觉得这句话很有意思，想在这里告诉你们。

觉得每一个人都很自私吧，当你想了这个道理，我想你不会再生气任何人了。

很想回到原点。其实我也不知道该怎么做是好，觉得。。。很复杂，也不知道该怎么说。

也许也许。。。

忽然好喜欢一首歌；好心分手。其实从以前就喜欢了。=））

晚安！明天要去巴黎了。。

25 JUNE, 2:11

2010-06-25T02:03:00.002+02:00

I just had my dinner at 2am in the morning, is it incredible??

I started packing my stuffs, I'm gonna leave for my 'kampung Tours' tomorrow night.

and on 29th, I'm gonna depart for Malaysia!

*****

Cette fois-ci, jsais pas trop ce que je pourrai faire, ou ce que je dois faire. C trop compliqué. Est-ce que j'aurai dû rester en France cet été? Bon, bon, bon...

Après avoir écouté tous les histoires de chacun, je me suis rendu compte que, l'amour, en fait, n'est pas si beau comme tous les conte de fée où le prince et la princesse vivent ensemble pour toujours.

****

well, I think that's all for today, and i'm gonna sleep soon after having finished packing my luggage.

Good night, everyone! Anyong~

放弃。。

2010-06-21T02:32:00.002+02:00

想放弃了。。可以放弃吗？？

眼前没有一片渺茫，没有一丝的希望，凭着什么再继续坚持下去呢？？

笔于
２：３４ａｍ

第三年的端午节

2010-06-16T19:31:00.005+02:00

今年应该算是我第三年在外地的端午节吧，其实也不记得了。

今天是端午节吗？要是没有朋友告诉我，我想也不知道今天是端午节吧。。。

上课回家就一个人面对一个空空的房间。哎~~

如果有个人陪我庆祝，那就好了。。

有时候就想，宁愿不知道端午节是今天吧，宁愿什么都不知道。这样就像普通日子一样的过。

明天还有考试。。Geometry，就让我爱上你吧，就那么一天，嗯？

得开始温习了。掰~ anyong~

p/s:独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲；这句话真的对吗？我想我已经被磨练成冷血动物了。。=.=

14/06

2010-06-15T09:41:00.003+02:00

今天，由于功课没做，就被化学老师赶出来了，结果就在雨中慢步（半个小时才到家）。好久没有这么淋雨了，觉得感觉特别爽，只可惜没有人陪我一起走。（活该咯，人开始不舒服了，还淋什么雨？？）=S

知道今天有人跟我说什么吗？有人竟然告诉我说很想我！其实我听了，真的觉得非常高心，因为没有人会那么告诉我吧。她这么说就让我觉得有人还珍惜我的存在，不然我以为别人已经不在乎我的存在了。她还说以后陪我一起淋雨？=.=ll 真的好谢谢她啦。。

还有什么故事呢，对了，想告诉你们一个故事。

之前有个朋友还找我诉苦，说她很想念她的前男友，然后，其实那个男生已经有好几次找她说要跟她复合。她就坚持说已经不可能了，所以我就告诉她说，如果你都说不可能了，就要果断，不要拖拖拉拉的。结果上几个星期，她还告诉我说，她还是很爱他。她还主动找那个男生，但是男生就告诉她说，已经不可能了。爱情真可笑吧？当初如果那个女生没有那么固执，也许他们现在还在一起吧？所以，女生们，如果男生已经主动说喜欢你了，有时候你们也得主动点，不要觉得我是女生而这样失去一段属于你们的幸福，因为幸福就是自己争取的。

还想说什么呢？对了，上个星期刚刚买机票去台湾。=））

啊对了，前几个星期吧，有个朋友忽然告诉我说，那个女生呀，XXX的，其实她也挺美的哦，自从去了出国之后就变得很美了。。几时要行动呢？你们应该猜到是谁吧？=.=

觉得人与人的关系非常复杂，不知道该怎么处理。要么爱，要么就不爱，就那么简单，其实并不是那么简单的。当作我在说废话XD

RIEN

2010-06-14T01:38:00.005+02:00

很久没在这里写东西了，除了上个星期在这里写了一些东西，到最后也删除了。

其实脑袋上有很多东西要写出来，结果就没什么心想写出来。

好久没有痛痛快快地淋一场雨了！刚才本来想淋到全身湿透，由于要进餐厅吃晚餐，所以不能够淋到湿透。=p

还有懒惰。。唉。。今天的午餐~有时候晚餐懒惰时，就只是吃点水果就算了。。

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在脑海中又浮现一些阴影。。。 >.<

Peut-être, c'est vrai qu'il y pas de choses qui sont éternelles. Everything's gonna fade away when it reaches its 'time'.

Je me sens que je connais plus l'amour. C'est quoi, l'amour, je crois que j'arrive plus à te dire. J'attend la prochaine personne qui va apparaître dans ma vie.

Je porte un masque, pour que personne me voie nettement. Est-ce mieux comme ça?

Bonne nuit!

0203, 140610

周日天气报告

2010-05-23T13:11:00.004+02:00

今日外头的温度是28度，可以说是夏天了，

但是，心里深处却冷得比冬天还要冷。

对了，未来医生们，如果有时候胸口有阵阵疼痛，那是疾病的症兆吗？

LLLL

2010-05-22T21:38:00.003+02:00

有时候，真的好希望一件很严重的事情发生在我身上，还是生一场大病，这样我整个人就可能会垮下来，这样就能够休息。

有时候，有些东西不是用张嘴说出来就好了，而是需要用心去体会了解的。

太懒惰做饭了。。就饿着肚子减肥吧~

p/s：当作没有看到你所读到的，所看的，所听到的=）加油！

LOST

2010-05-16T13:48:00.004+02:00

I lose my direction,

I lose my compass,

I lose my north pole,

I lose my destination,

Im living without my soul, without direction, with nothing at all.

Who can help me??

HELP>>

=S

2010-05-15T02:08:00.002+02:00

I wasted my first two days' holiday by doing nothing at all, watching korean drama, fooling around and so on..

This morning, we went out to have a lunch with our juniors. And after the lunch, I walked around in the city center alone, I visited the Jacobins, which I never realised its existance.

My long weekend is gonna be over soon =S

What I need to do is to "EAT" my "BOOKS"!!

Stop online-ing, stop everything.. I hope I can do it.. Fighting~

Anyongkaseyo~

Unknown Tittle

2010-05-12T01:23:00.003+02:00

Have you ever had the experience that you've a really close friend, and you know him/her very well, and after a while, he/she has just changed completely, and you feel like you dont know him/her anymore? As if he/she isnt the one you knew before?

I just went to Casino with my french friends, after a bloody hard exam this morning. I lost 10 euros. =.=

I only have one class tomorrow, and I have a long, four days' weekend! yeah!

p/s: J'ai besoins d'amour et d'affection. Qui peut m'en donner? =p

Good night! Anyong~

I just love the drama 'Personal Taste' and it's just too funny. =))

Anyong~

2010-05-07T00:06:00.003+02:00

The trio going to Hong Kong is cancelled due to my friends' financial problems. I have got used to it, everytime the trip is nearly confirmed, and then, it's cancelled at the last minutes due to some problems. That's why i learn not to give too much hope on it. My summer trip is still not confirmed yet.

I had headache this whole day, because I drank a bit too much alcool yesterday night before I slept. I'm so sad, and I wanna forget everything by getting drunk =pp (Actually, I wanna finish my Martini in the fridge).

Suddenly, I feel so stupid and foolish when I think about it.

Faith, it's a thing that is built between friends, or whatever when we get to know each other well, and it really take time. Dont you agree with me? And it's faith who connects us miraculously. Just forget what I said. I think I have got drunk=.=ll

Anyonghikarseyo!

p/s: a beautiful phrase for you guys: LOVE is never letting go.=))

12:16

2010-05-06T00:06:00.002+02:00

Just had my bath at 11:30 at night and I felt fresh enough to stay awake till late.

Well, this week, it's gonna rain a lot. It'd been raining for the whole day yesterday and it was cold, around 6 or 7 degrees. And some of places near Toulouse even snowed! It's incredible, it snowed in May, which seems to be impossible. Last few weeks, it was pretty hot, and the temperature reached around 25 degrees, and this week... It's such a huge difference! Well, well, well...

I got the letter from Korea, thanks Chingern for the birthday letter. Thanks alot! Thanks for sending me the letter, even if I didnt send you anything before, I suppose. I promise, a postcard for you next time!

I just wanna start doing my work at midnight! Oh no!! I watched 'Personal Taste', a korean drama which is quite funny. Damn! It's the fault of the one who introduced me the drama! Ah Hong Mei Mei!! =p

These few days, I just keep myself being busy, so that I wont have much free time left. Back to 'me' that you know before.

I'm gonna start my work now! Fighting yeah!!

By these few days, I think my summer plan will be confirmed. Most probably Hong Kong+Korea, only if I can find cheap tickets. =))

^____^V

2010-05-03T02:37:00.005+02:00

I just got back home at 2:30am from studying in my friend's room. =.=

That's called studying at the last minutes.

Life is gonna be harder after this with those endless exams.

I just bought my tickets going back to Sibu yesterday.

Just talked to a friend yesterday who's gonna attend some sort like a camp短宣 in sibu, who I wont be able to meet up as I'm going back late(in the end of May).

Sometimes, when I talked to my other friends, I just wondered whether my friend, he or she who is very closeto me, will keep something from me that I should know.

Well, I just hate being cheated, and I'm afraid that the same thing goes again.

Now, I understand one thing, why people feel so angry when they're being cheated. In drama, the main character always got into a company to be a spy in order to know the company well. As time passes, he learns that he fall in love with the company, and all the stuffs, and when the others know the main purpose of his, they got angry, even though they know that he shouldnt be that kind of person from the way he treats people all those things.

Lots of things that I wanna tell you here, maybe next time then.

I feel like going to get sick soon... =S

Oh yeah, I wanna disappear from the world of facebook, the world of msn by not updating anything anymore. Those who dont know me will be thinking the guy've disappeared from this earth. Only those who are closer to me will have my blog and my skype account=))

I remember that I told my friend that I'm gonna be a cold-blooded human.=pp

Good night, everybody! =))

开学咯~

2010-04-26T00:10:00.002+02:00

要开学了。。放假也完了。。=S 我还想要放假，可以吗？？

那天凌晨，我竟然穿着一条短裤，一件背心，和拖鞋出去走！那时候只是14度左右罢了！

哇。。看来，是因为我的脂肪吧。。唉~~

前几天还熬夜熬到早上六多点才睡！太厉害了我。。

一大堆的东西还没有做的。。但是很懒惰。。。=S

回诗巫的机票也还没有订。这次不打算告诉任何人我回家=pp

还有想去西马的student conference，（是我的朋友，rodney DUNCAN叫我去的）也想认识多点不同的朋友。

很大可能性会去台湾吧！跟三年没有看见的朋友聚一聚！

那些在韩国读书的朋友，你们太可笑了。。我听了就想笑。。还向丽红一直promote我？lol。。哈哈。。有点想念你们。想当年，我人生的第一次保龄，第一次溜冰，第一次熬通宵，还有很多第一次都是和你们一起度过的。

得去噢噢了。。anyonghikarseyo! 最近又开始看韩剧咯。。hoho~~

Easter holiday 2010

2010-04-24T11:33:00.011+02:00

My Easter holiday started on th 10th April. In the morning, I was woken up by my friend's call, telling me that there was a strike of train in France, and we gotta take the train to Carcasonne in order to take the flight to Brussels. She said that we had to go to the train station as early as possible to check whether there're trains going to Carcasonne or not. Luckily, we had buses to go there instead of trains, and we got there around 1 pm. We had our lunch there and we took the bus to the airport, and finally, we reached in Brussels around 8 pm.

11th April- Actually, it was my second time in Brussels. And this time, I learnt something special or saw something special that I didnt pay attention during the last trip. We went around in the city center, and of course one of the most famous landmarks of Brussels, Grand Place (Grand Square).

This is 'Grand Place'.

On the left, it's City Hall, with its gothic architecture style.

There're flower markets in this square.

Actually, I lost my camera, and I got these photos from my friend. Just ignore the girl.=p

Other buildings in the Grand place.

This is called 'Maison des Roi', located just in front of the city hall.

It's actually a museum about the history of Brussels.

We visited this museum, and I just got to know that the city hall is constructed in three different phases, first, it was contructed in L-shape (left part), and then, they constructed the right part in symmetry. Actually, it's not really symmetry, and it's longer on the left. And the third and the last phase, the tower was added on.

And inside the museum, we can saw lots of customes of Mannekin Pis (please scroll down and you'll see the photo of it) from different countries, for exemple Japan, China, blablabla, and even singapore too!

And actually, there's a legend a few legends about this small child, and one of it, it's that, this child saved the village from a fire by peeing on the fireflame! Well, I dont know whether it's true or not.

Of course, the most famous landmark of Brussels is the statue of Manneken Pis.

Do you see the painting on the wall? It's actually comic strips.

Some of famous comic strips character were born in Belgium, for exemple; Tintin, Marsupilami, Schtroumpf and the list goes on.

A gigantic cathedral, Saint Michael and Gudula Cathedral.

Inside the cathedral, could you see the colourful window panes? It's awesome!

The view of the tower of city hall from far.

The royal Palace

City Hall at night.

And Maison des Roi.

The park near to Royal Palace.

One of the famous comic strips character, Schtroumpf, I think.

In Belgium, French is spoken, and there's another language which is called Flemish is spoken too. It's very similar to Dutch, and it's spoken in north of Belgium, while french is rather spoken by Belgian in the south.

I'm planning to go to Belgium again for 3 or four days. Actually, I took some photos that I like so much, but they're all gone, and these photos that I uploaded here is from my friend's camera. Who wanna join me next time??

12th April- We went to Ghent, a quite pretty city in Belgium before we reached in Bruges. The city was under the construction of the tramway, and it spoiled the beautiful view of the city with those big machines, lorries, and ashes.

The train station

I think this is Saint Bavo cathedral, if i dont make any mistakes.

Belfry, built for the purpose of defense of the city. Enemies can be easily spotted from far.

Along the riverside.

Three main towers can be seen in Ghent. At the back, saint bavo's cathedral and belfry.

There, we met a nice tram driver, you know, he got down the tram and bought the ticket at the machine for us (of course we paid the ticket). And all the passengers in the tram waited for us.

After spending half a day in Ghent, we took the train to Brugg or Bruges. It's called North Venice because of its famous canals.

Beguinage, a place with some small dwellings and a courtyard. It's a place where those roman catholic nuns live, and once upon a time, they believed that they can got married to Jesus.

The small park.

Canals.

The view of Belfry at night.

Night view

13th April- We spent another half a day in Bruges before continuing our journey to Amsterdam.

The city hall

The holy blood church. They believed that the relic of the holy blood is kept inside in this church, and certain period of every year, the holy blood will be paraded in the street.

It can be seen inside this church.

Belfry. We got onto the top of Belfry, and we cant see the whole view of the city due to the renovation in the tower.

The panoramic view from the belfry. Far away on the left, it's a cathedral called Saint Salvators's cathedral.

Market square. I took a photo of horse cart and this square, and I really like it, but, the photo was gone.=S

Some buildings along the canals.

The canal with Befry as the background.

Boat.

We visited a medievel Castle where we learnt how those prisoners are forced to tell the truth. For exemple, they were forced to 'drink' lots of water, their fingers were 'squeezed', or they limbs were chopped by a big knife. It's really cruel. And we also bought some chocolates there because it's famous of its chocolate, for exemple, Pralines.

Around 3pm, we took our train from Bruges to go to Amsterdam. And I would say, it wasnt my day. My bag got stolen, I lost all of my clothes which cost around 100 euros altogether or maybe more, a box of chocolates from Bruges that I havent tasted, I also lost my key room and the badge which cost me 100 euros too, my friend's camera, and I think i should sponsor him partly for his new camera, and some other things. If it's possible, I would rather give him 100 or 150 euros in order to get my bag back. And I dont think he can get much money with that second-hand camera, and my clothes. Well, why should he care?

We reached in Amsterdam around 5 or 7pm, and we had our dinner in a Sichuan restaurant. After that, we walked around the red light district. Actually, our hostel is just located 5 minutes by walk from the red light district.

I amsterdam

I think it's just beside the red light district, where you can see lots of sexy girls with their fluoroscent bras standing behind the window.

And of course, you can also see a lot of sex shops selling some sextoys, like dildo, porn DVD, and so on..

14th April- We walked around the canals, and I found that I myself quite like Amsterdam, because of its canals and its archictecture along the riverside. I think I'm going back there one day, with my own camera! Because this time, I didnt take photo that I like, and these photos were taken by my friend.

The canal, and the houses along the canal. It's pretty, isnt it?

And I just found that there're hooks on the top of those houses. They're only used when they wanna move something big like sofas, and they cant get the sofas through the door. That's why sofas will be moved into the house through the window. If you watched 'who am I' by Jacky Chan, which was taken place in Holland, then you can see it.

Another thing is that, Dutch people use a lot of bicycle! From the statictics, each dutch people owns 1,5 bicycles per person. And you can see how common the bicycle is in Holland.

Canal.

The royal palace which is under renovation. sigh...

I know I'm ugly like this. I lost everything, including my wax too.

Church

The square which I dont even know the name, and it's just beside the flower market.

Flower market, and we can find seeds of tulips.

Again, I amsterdam.

Dam Square

Could you imagine that this is shopping mall?! If we have such a shopping mall in Malaysia, it's gonna be cool!

Again, canals.

And again, canals.

Church. The architecture style is quite different from churches in France.

This is Dutch pancake! It's very similar to Crepes that we eat in brittany.

Anne Franck, a teen Jewish girl who is very famous for her diary. Probably, most of you know Anne Franck's dairy? I'm gonna introduce her to you=))

I should've tried Marijuana, a kind of drug which is not addictive at all, but, it has the fonction of getting relaxed. You know, certain quantities of drug are allowed to be sold in cafes in Amsterdam, and Prostitution is legal here too.

15th- We had a whole day trip to Keukenhof, the largest garden in the world, which is only open from mid March to mid Mai. We took a train to Schipol Airport first, and only, we took a bus direction Lisse, and the whole journey took around 1 or 2 hours, I think. Some photos of the flowers=)) The Europe, it also has flowers=pp

I dont remember the names of the flowers.

Maybe tulips?? I dont know~

It's like photos that are usually taken in Korean drama, isnt it?=))

Inside the garden

It's me=)) I think I get darker during this travel.

Flowers...

I think it must be your first time to see this kind of flower, right?

These flowers too.

Flowers...

Some decorations made from flowers:

Windmill

At the back, can you see the colourful field? They're flowers.

16th April- We went to another small village called Zaanse Schans by train. And we got to know the process of making cheese and clogs, dutch shoes made from wood.

View from the bridge.

Special houses in Zaanse Schans.

These are dutch cheese.

This lady explained the whole process of making cheese. There're young cheese, and old cheese which can have 3 years old. At the back, it's the machine where milk are heated, and blablabla... i dont remember the process. sorry~

Cheese tasting with honey mustard.

These are dutch clogs, they cost around 30 or 40 euros.

This machine is used to duplicate the clog, and he demonstrated how to use it. Well, he didnt really show us the whole process of making clog.

Big Clog.

Windmills.

Do you know why they built these windmills?? Actually, they used these windmills so that they can make use of the wind power to crash the nuts in order to make jam. And it's also used to squeeze the oil out of seeds after being heated at very high temperature. Each windmills have their own fonction. The another one, they used the wind power to cut the wood, and I have no idea, because we only chose one windmill to visit.

Seeds are heated at the high temperature.

The oil from the heated seeds.

do you see the wheels? They're used crash nuts into jam.

House in Zaanse Schans. I hope I can live here after I retire.

From the top of the windmill.

After spending half a day in Zaanse Schans, we got back to Amsterdam, and we had a chance to visit Anne Frank house, (Anne Frank huis). Inside the Anne Frank house, it talks about the life of Anne Frank during the second world war, and they hid from the Nazi. She's a teen Jewish, and her family and her were from Switzerland, and they moved to Amsterdam because of Nazi who tried to kill and hunt all the Jewish. Her family (her dad, her mom and her sister) and her, they hid in the secret place inside this house, and eventually, they were betrayed and they were caught and sent to the concentration camp. Only his dad survived from this catastrophe, she and her sister died inside the concentration camp, and she was only 16, and she died a month before the liberation. Inside, her diary, she described how horrible their life was, and at that time, all Jewish were discriminated, and they weren't allowed to go to theatre, school, and so on. And they also had to wear something to show that they're Jewish. During the hiding, she also described that they had to sleep early at night, and they werent allowed by their parents to flush the toilet, nor take a bath, because they were afraid that their neighbours knew that someone was hiding in that house. If you have a chance, you should come here, and also go to the concentration camp in Krakow, and you'll know how lucky you're because you need not to go through all these circumstances!

Anne Frank House

This is Anne Frank house. It was a office of the company of Anne Frank's dad, but it was registered under some other's name because Jewish werent allowed to own a company at that time, and it was also the hiding place of Anne Frank's family.

I like this photo=))

Me...^^ I look fat=.=

Most probably you notice that I'm wearing the same shirt and the same jean.

At night, we took the train to go to Eindhoven, a friend's friend's place. We cycled to the city centre at night, and, I fell from the bicycle as the seat was too high, I hurt my knee.

17th April- We woke up very late in the morning, and we went out to the market at noon. I tried some dutch snack like fried potatoes and also some raw herrings. Dutch is one of the germanic language, and other languages categorised under germanic language are English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and others. For example, 'huis' is pronounced as 'house' in english, the pronunciation is the same. Another exemple, is 'uit' which is pronounced as 'out' in English and means 'out' too. While compared to german, they've have similarities too, for exemple, in Dutch, 'out' or 'exit' is UITGANG, while, in German, it's AUSGANG (I hope I dont make mistakes). Meanwhile, compared to swedish, norwegian and danish, 'centrum' exists in danish, swedish, norwegian and dutch too which means 'central'. oh yeah, I also just knew that Phillips was firstly founded in Eindhoven, by a guy called Frits Phillips.

That's Eindhoven

At the back, it's the first company of Phillips ever exists.

The cathedral.

=))))

Another cathedral. The statue on the top reminded me of Duomo in Milan.

Have you ever seen the traffic light for cars and bikes? Here it is as biking has become so common in Holland.

18th April- We started our journey to Kinderdijk early in the morning. First, we took the train to Dordrecht, and then, we took the waterbus to Alblasserdam. Only then, we took the bus to Kinderdijk, where we can see about 22 windmills. Here, those windmills are used to pump water or discharge excess rain water so that there'll be not flooding.

Windmills

Smile=)

Windmill from far.

Isnt it beautiful??

After Kinderdijk, we took the waterbus again from Alblasserdam to Rotterdam. Here, we saw the site where Jacky's film, "Who am I?" took place and the cube house.

The bridge

This is the building inside the film 'Who am I?' by Jacky Chan.

Cube house, isnt it cool? And you must be thinking that how we can live such a small cube house? Let's see some photos.

Inside the Cube house, the living room.

The kitchen

Rotterdam

19th April- We were supposed to go back to Brussels to send one more night there in order to take the flight on 20th. Because of volcano eruption, our cheap flight coming back to france from Brussels which cost us 20 euros was cancelled. Instead of waiting for the plane to re-operate, we decided to take the train from Eindhoven to Paris, and then from Paris to Toulouse. Instead of paying 20 euros for flight, we needed to pay more than 100 euros for all the train tickets. We stayed another night in Eindhoven.

20th April- We woke up at 4 am in the morning, and we took the train at 5:3oam, then, we changed our train two times, once in Dordrecht, and the another one in Brussels. And we arrived in Paris at 10:30am. We decided to take the train back to toulouse at 12:15 at noon, and as the train was fully booked (actually because of the strike, that's why the frequence of the train became less), and we had to buy the ticket in the train, which would cost us 54 euros! We decided to make a pity face, and eventually we didnt pay for the ticket because the train was late for 3 hours because of some problems of electric circulation in the train station. We reached in Bordeaux around 6:30pm, and we took another train to Agen before we could got back to Toulouse. In Agen, the train was late for around 45 minutes, and we only reached in Toulouse at around 11pm. And then, we had to take underground and bus before we got back at midnight. sigh~~

p/s: Thanks to Peixin for those photos=)) Those who are going to Belgium or Holland next time, tell me and I wanna go there again!=))

30/03

2010-04-01T21:53:00.004+02:00

这么大的日子当然是本少爷的生日咯。

29号的晚上，那些在这里的马来西亚朋友，他们就给了我一个‘惊喜’。故事是这样的：那个晚上，我呢，就到一个朋友家做讨论一些功课，然后就有朋友，忽然向我讨我家钥匙，说要上网跟妈妈说话，而且那时候是晚上十点多，马来西亚时间就是五点左右。所以什么都没有问的，就把钥匙给她了。然后，她又忽然打给我，说我的电脑有问题，我就告诉她restart过它，说不到几句就把电话挂了。原来，第一通电话就是要骗我回家，结果不成功。第二通呢，她就哭。我真的还以为什么事情，所以就跑回家看看她。到家了，看到她在浴室里蹲着哭。我想问她发生什么事，但是不敢问。我觉得肯定家里发生了什么事，跟妈妈聊完后，就哭了。忽然我看到有个女人内裤在我的厕所里。我就开始觉得不对劲，我走到床头，看到有内衣在地上，我更觉得奇怪了，她来我家打电话，不可能连内衣都带下来了吧！还有一个推断就是，她真的接受不了什么打击，快疯了，所以就连内衣给脱了，丢在地上。但是，我又看到了安全套，不可能跟家人说话需要到安全套吧。。那时我就开始排除她家里发生有点急事的推断，就开始想她是不是被强奸。我刚进来的时候，门是锁的，我就想可能那个男生还在房里吧。我就试着找，那时，心里真的有点害怕，我在想如果那个男生高大强壮，我要怎么对付他。我就拉开我的门帘，那时真的吓了一跳，看到几个人躲在外面，还以为遇到了鬼！这就是我的生日;特别的惊喜，安全套，女人内衣内裤，蛋糕。真的感谢你们。。

除次之外，一点左右还有一个马来西亚朋友打来，谢谢你，初霖，还特地早起来跟我说生日快乐。晚上呢，就是丽红和dena，谢谢你们啦，你们还有考试，但是还陪我聊了那么久（其实都是丽红在陪我聊，dena却死到哪里），还谢谢你们的生日歌。对了，都忘了安娜！谢谢你从韩国的sms！谢谢！在学校呢，我们就有个传统，就是如果当天有人生日，我们就会敲茶杯，唱生日歌。通常我们只是唱一次罢了，但是他们竟然唱两次！上帝对我真好！真的，还有那么多的人爱我，我不应该放弃自己，让他们担心。由于隔天有考试，所以也没有一起吃晚餐，就一个人吃晚餐。。=S 对了，还要谢谢另个人，phyllisia，虽然你的祝福迟了点，但是无论如何，还是谢谢你！当然还有很多人的祝福咯，我想，有些应该是看到有人在我的facebook墙上祝贺我生日快乐，所以也跟着跟我说生日快乐吧。。

还记得之前我告诉你们说，最近发生了一些非常不愉快的事吗？这两个星期的生活真的非常非常潦倒，睡觉睡得不好，胃痛，还有甚至不想读书。星期一早上，原本想早上起来读书的，结果又回想起一些事情，心情特别差，所以就跟朋友聊了一下。谢谢你。就连一些朋友都觉得我真的变了很多；有一个，她还告诉我说，之前看你还常常跟她笑，还能够跟她开玩笑（别想太多啦，是我dailou的），现在跟她也没说几句话，脸上也没有了笑容。另个呢，就说我之前不会这么懒惰的，几时变成了这么懒惰。。在短短的时间内，一个人会180度转变。多么的不可思议吧？

原来，信任是多么的重要的。有时候，一个人特地说些难听的话，还是特地做出一些过分的要求，其实他是故意的,但他的心里却没有这么想，他只是想确认一个人的心，是否那个人会忍着，毕竟他之前就是因为太相信一个人，所以才会跌的那么痛。

昨天看了一部戏，my mighty princess，开始爱上一首歌。。=））

知道吗，我的妹妹竟然会记得我的生日！爱死她了。。这次夏天回家肯定要好好带她出去玩。。

无题

2010-03-29T05:09:00.001+02:00

如果说我没事，那就是说我在骗人。。

这件事发生后，无形中在我身上产生一种无形中的压力。

晚上不好，还加上胃痛（应该是胃痛吧）。。

。。

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2010-03-28T21:39:00.003+02:00

Tomorrow morning, Biochemistry... @__@ I hate it..

well, I just wanna start it.

Asking me to study those names by heart is just like taking my life.

I admit that, memorizing stuffs isnt included in my talent.

Oh yeah, I've just decided something. Let things to end by a beautiful dot.

It's not bad..

You guys, I'm waiting for your decision.

I might be able to join them to travel in Taiwan this august!!

It's been around three years that i havent seen you! Feeling excited.. =))

The world is still pretty, even though something bad happened.

I'm waiting for holiday now!

I'm going to Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Amsterdam, Cologne, Eindhoven, Keukenhof! Yeah~

Things change within a second.

The only thing that's eternel is His love.=))

When do I become so holy?? @__@ It does seem like me.

Better start struggle a bit for Biochemistry so that i wont get a ZERO for the test. =))

Good night!

Anyong~

A question to think deeply: What's love??

A Thursday

2010-03-25T21:09:00.003+01:00

Something really bad happened today.

The person I trust the most, did that bad thing to me! I really felt disappointed and sad, I dont know how to describe, I would say that, it's the worst feeling that I've ever had. This is my first time that I'm thinking the problem again. Usually, if someone does something wrong to me, I will just forgive him or her. But, this time, I've been thinking for a few hours.

Nobody in the world never make mistakes, including me, the matter is just that the mistake i made might be smaller than yours or hers or his. I think I'll just forgive that person, and maybe that person really wanna correct it? I'll say sorry first, if i find that it's hard to trust you anymore.

Well, my birthday is around the corner! Presents, please!! I'm waiting cards from you guys!!=pp And maybe your precious calls too!^^

星期三

2010-03-17T20:21:00.004+01:00

她的丑样blek~

感觉自己好像跟以前朋友完全失去联络一样。。我呢，就好像人间蒸发一样。今天就跟了一个好久没有聊的一个朋友说了话。。好谢谢她，因为陪我聊了那么久，聊了过后，原本挺差的心情也好了起来。我的生日快到了，我要礼物哦。。有心记得生日是没有用的=pp

对了，我们的学校里最近有了一个传染病（epidermic），叫做mumps，它的后果是挺严重的。目前为止，已经有30个人染了这种病，而且下个星期有人来给学生打疫苗。huhu。。

还在考虑要不要去澳洲玩。其实我想去悉尼，和canberra，但是。。哎。。其实台湾也不错，只是朋友不能够给我一个特定的日期，所以有点难。

对了，其实我很不喜欢一些朋友的想法。就是，对他们来说，爱情就好像一场游戏，分手了，不到一阵子就找到新的恋情。换男朋友还是女朋友就好像换衣服一样。甚至有些呢，还说交男朋友或女朋友，而他们不会与他们结婚。我真的不知道他们怎么想。难道他们拍拖只是为了弥补心灵上的空虚吗？不知道，我个人要找的是能够当老婆的女朋友，而不是女朋友罢了。

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2010-03-17T06:54:00.002+01:00

昨天第一次觉得自己给别人带来麻烦，给别人带来的不舒服。。真的非常抱歉。。以后不再会有这样的事发生了。。

昨天竟然十点就睡觉了！

今天下午没有上课。太开心了。。要做什么呢，下午？？对了，这四月的旅行，hostel都还没有订的，得开始找了。

下个星期三我会去捐血。还第一次捐血呢！不知道我的O型血能够救活多少人呢！能够帮助别人自己也开心。

This Weekend

2010-03-14T15:18:00.003+01:00

I dont know why, I just couldnt sleep well last night. and this morning, I woke up early in the morning, and slept again till 11am, thus skipped my mess.. I know, I know that I'm a lazy worm...

Things are going again and again, it's just like a vicious cycle. When will it end? We're just like playing hide-and-seek..

I'm so bored till I put my status that, I'm no longer listed as 'single' now =.=''

Maybe that's how thing should work out since the very beginning... Sometimes, things just work out in the way that we dont expect, and sometimes, no matter how much effort we put in, it will never work.. That's the reality, and it's cruel, I know.

I think I'll just go travelling alone this summer=)) I've been thinking of going to australia, or maybe somewhere else.=))

I've booked my tickets to Bruxelles for this April. Most probably, we'll be going to Brussels, Bruges, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, and Cologne!hehe~

SNOW AGAIN!!

2010-03-08T21:32:00.004+01:00

It snows again today... I like snow, I like watching the snowflakes flying the sky..

I watched a video just now, a video of proposing, and i think that it's really romantic. I just like it so much, and the girl inside the video was so touched till she cried. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=293068330497&ref=mf It's really true that, that girl will be the most happiest girl in the world! I also hope I will be that guy who take care and love the another half of mine the rest of my life.

Oh yeah, I would like to ask you one question:

If you find that you only have 1 more day to live in this world, what would you do? Well, 1 day is tooo short, 3 more days then. Only then, you're gonna appreciate what you're having, arent you?

Life is so short. I dont know, I will say that something will always stop us from doing something that we wish to, for exemple, most of us are afraid of getting hurt or disappointed, thus it stops us from doing it. Why dont we take everyday of our life as the last three days and we appreciate what we're having now, and what we're gifted, but not always finding excuses that just let it be? Things can easily fade away, things are fragile, and he, she or i, might be going to 'leave' this world tomorrow. Dont let you have any regrets in your life=))

Another thing, who wanna travel with me this summer?? I dont wanna stay at home for almost 2 months, and I will be dying of bored..=S

Before this, I dont know why i dont really like small kids, as you know, they're naughty and noisy. And now, I start loving them, and I found them so cute, especially those small kids of the church which I'm going.=))

这个星期

2010-03-06T23:48:00.003+01:00

今年的农历新年特别没有感觉。。不知道为什么，也许已经麻木了吧。除夕就跟一群朋友一起吃晚餐，元宵节呢，却在家一个人过。

最近的生活就那样。。没什么特别。像往常一样，感觉寂寞，就试着找些事情做，比如看戏，收拾房子等等。。这样时间就会过了。

之前弹钢琴的时候，就忽然发现了一些很不错的曲子，如果能够，想尝试做一首歌。其实很多部分需要改进的，改次录了再给你们听吧。

感觉很多事情要做，但是就是懒惰。想搞失踪。。=.=''

晚安，大家！