Brugge + Gent

Just came back from Bruge & Ghent today. Wow it was an eventful weekend, and overall, the trip was enjoyable. Just a little regretful that I didn't manage to explore the 2 places entirely 'cuz we followed the erasmus schedule. 

BUT BRUGGE IS SOOOOO PRETTY! :D

Here are some sneakpeeks of what went through our itinerary: 

1) Dump bags @ hostel - basically us 6 girls shared a room haha. Below is the view from our room (:

2) Walked towards the city centre (took about 20 minutes + extra time for snapping of beautiful pictures. The weather was just super good, really. Photos that turned out were fantabulous!

3) Went on a walking tour around Brugge

4) FREE TIME: had a v-day dinner with Lonely Hearts Club, mwahah.

5) While searching for a pub to chill, chanced upon the restaurant which appeared in the movie "In Bruges" by Colin Ferrell (don't watch - lotsa swearing!) & met 2 brazilian guys who had nowhere to stay.

6) Found a pub, Joey's to chill

7) Went to the 'party street' but xiuli & i pretty much didn't dance (haha i'm so 乖!); but the guys were like drunk & crazy

8) In the end we got kicked out by some irritating blonde who said matter-of-factly that if you don't buy any drinks, you'll have to leave. BUT she only said it to us, asians. Pretty much didn't like her because she went around complaining about how we were still 'staying' (even though we were packing to leave). Pretty much immature in every way, her actions and words. But overall, we had a good time. Mum, don't freak even though we went back to our hostel at about 4 plus, there were lotsa people! (:

Yup, and then we slept for 3 hours 'cuz we had to wake up at 9am (WAH BIANG!) as we were heading to Gent. 

Haha it's nearly 4 now. i'll upload the rest of the photos soon, probably tomorrow? Till then!

l'hiver: il fait ensoleillé et neige

Salut! Aujourd'hui à Louvain-la-Neuve, il fait 5 degrees et il fait beau.

AND it was snowing heavily last night, here's a shot of the snowflakes pelting down on my window ledge. We were walking back from the sports centre (10 minutes walk) after our step-up dance class, and the wind BLEW, causing rain to form into snow. So, acting like retards, we started playing in the snow! Wheeeee (:

Fast forward to today, morning/afternoon - bon weather as the sun was SHINING its glorious rays (:

Haha actually i took more photos, 30 to be exact + more in the camera phone 'cuz the sun was really gorgeous and it complemented with the blue sky and white clouds. So pretty! :D

Gonna head to beckett's later for a drink. Till then!

stuck at home

just finished french class in the early morning and HAD to post 'cuz the weather is really creepy. it's been raining since last night, the sun is not out, had to wake up super early for french only to find out there's a french test this friday + lesson on thurs starts at 0830 instead of usual 1030, a black cat crossed our paths while trudging back home, and NOW the wind is howling like crazy outside my room. talk about a setting for a bad day. but surprisingly, i'm in a good mood (:

handtwerp part 2

Audjourd'hui, c'est lundi. Il pleut (Heavily).

It's really raining a storm outside tonight, so i think it's gonna be a cold night, brrr. And, tomorrow it's an early day for french lesson - 0830!!! i better pack some cereal for lunch. ohnoohnoohno. i seriously need to buck up in my french! 

the cathedral in antwerp - bought postcards about the death of Jesus from there - cost me 2.80 euros but well worth it (:

still at the cathedral - xingyan so unglam. we were all putting eyeliner that day.

自拍 in front of the statue-man who threw the giant's hand away and saved antwerp. three cheers for the photo (:

there was a pigeon on top of the man and i couldn't resist a photo. it was at this exact spot where we met a fellow singaporean who recognized our accent! her name was fawn. cool huh?

onwards to the medieval castle..

watch where you're pointing!

And after that, we had moules for lunch! (:

our new singaporean friend we met on the way. we had moule-y lunch with her (:

snow + 'hand'twerp

YAY! i shall upload photos of snow in LLN + antwerp, where we just came back from today, this evening. i had a short sleep while watching csi new york (les experts: manhatten) in xiuli's kitchen just now, so i'm fully awake now while waiting for gossip girl s02e01 to load. 빨리!!

haha can you see the snow cascading down onto the ledge? haha i opened the window and saw xiuli trying to take 豆腐 with the snow on the window ledge. below is the photo of the view from my window at night where the snow had fallen. too bad the weather is relatively hotter now - 6 degrees the last i checked. PLEASE GET WARMER!!

And now - photos from antwerp. lalala we spent the weekend there & many things happened! haha & that includes meeting a fellow singaporean near the 'handtwerp' statue. coincidental? haha she recognized our singaporean accent. SINGLISH ROCKS :D

the train station (:

the train station again - above the tracks. it's super lovely, the architecture of the whole building. pity the outside was under construction though - if not i would have taken a photo of it. 

haha the hand is super cute la. we saw it while traipsing down meir street on the 1st day & three of us couldn't resist a photo each. and dont get me started on meir, haha did quite abit of shopping there! at bershka, especially. haha i bought two great buys! one white 3 quarts for 3.99€ and one blackish brown formal wear 3 quarts for only 2.99€. super worth it! haha so worth it was it that we made a second trip later in the evening before it closed. saw a nice purple dress that i'd always wanted (same style) but was coerced not to buy it by xy 'cuz it cost a bomb - €24.95. lalala. i hope i find something like it in the near future! (: of course, at a cheaper price.

haha groensplaat(?) at first we thought this was the grand place but we thought wrong. da giovanni's just around the corner. thanks neese for telling us about the place. student's get 20% off. and guess what we had lunch & dinner there 'cuz prices were within our budget. hehe. cant blame us 'cuz all the other restaurants were pricey (urgh.)

pasta + pizza *CHOMPS*

walking along meir street (only 9 minutes walk, according to google map) from our hotel. i think the walk should have been faster but the strong wind kept blowing us bad. at least it wasn't as bad as liege. hee :p

couldn't resist a photo. the sky + clouds + blueness was just so gorgeous! i'm a sucker for nice scenery. so i just HAD to take a photo. haha the weather in belgium is really sporadic. one minute it was cloudy, the next sunny, and then cloudy again. weird huh. haha this was en-route to one o f the diamond museum to check out antwerp's famous diamond trades. wait till you see the price of the jewellery. OUCH.

we went to the triangular playground after that. haha they had a mini youth park for skateboarders but as you can see hehe we were more interested in the swings. the base was big enough for three of our butts la. amazing!

playing the swing

haha there was a half frozen lake in the park too with lotsa duckies - quack. with the sun setting, the photos turned out nice! (: it's past 0230 already & i think my brain needs a break. gossip girl still hasnt loaded so i'm in a grumpy mood. i gotta sleep soon, me reckons! hmm, shall skype the family tmr (hehe) 'cuz i havent talked to them for long so dee pls leave yr skype on hor! what time's good? 

my left arm hurts - why? is it 'cuz i tried to open the hard to open thai chili sauce bottle? 

PHOTOS, pls hurry up upload yourself! 

nice hor? i love the colors in the sky.

i love the effect of the cathedral with the full moon. too bad my camera optic zoom wasn't that good. haha but it had somewhat the hogwarts effect. whee. ok i think i'm done for the day. shall upload day 2 photos tmr since there's no sch but we have to settle more admin stuff + print notes! (crap how could i forget?) hmm ok i shall head to bed really soon..

日本語を使いましょう！

日本語を練習するために、英語を書かない。

でも、ちょっと難しいよね。

何を書いてまだわからない。

明日は９時半ごろ授業があって、そしたら６半ぐらいまで終わる。長いよね。

へええ、じゃあ、あたし今ドラマを見ると思っています。

じゃあ。

while waiting...

In continuation of what i rambled on last night, below is the photo of the painted glass & various paintings drawn on the wall of the cathedral in liege, really pretty so i couldn't resist a photo, heh.

And on the 2nd day, GUESS WHAT? we woke up to snow! mwahah. it was a pretty sight of rooftops layered in white. here is a shot from outside our hotel window. wasn't spectacular, yet breathtaking. oh and it was also great that we shared a king bed (xingy, pui & i) PLUS the room connecting to us was unoccupied! and they had a couch in the room! so i sorta used their room a couple of times - the thrill mwahah. it was almost like having 2 rooms, almost.

And after waking up (albeit late), we decided to go have some meatballs. the meatballs were delicious cuz of the sweet sauce, but the waitress was a nincompoop. 'cuz we shared our food & she didn't like it so i think she told the chef to give us less fries (in comparison to all the people sitting around us who had bigger portion of fries). what a バカ、本当！so overall, it was bad as the service was just plain horrible, no matter how good the food. ok i shall not rant about how nonsensical the stupid waitress was. honestly, it should be a happy post!

And after that we went to climb the 406 stairs in order to get the best scenery of liege. IT WAS TIRING!@!  haha but we made it & were forced to do the visa ad. Rar. how embarrassing la! i was drinking my yeos soy milk drink (bought at an asian supermarket) while climbing up the 406 stairs. there were people living at the houses bordering the stairs. man, how can they possible live through everyday climbing it up & down. yucks. haha - which goes to show what a lazy pig i am.

Haha, the photo below was taken on the way back to the train station from our hotel. lalala. the sunset was pretty & my photo really doesn't do it justice. POO. ok i suddenly lost the mood to blog. have gossip girl finished loading yet?

TODAY (3rd feb) Louvain-la-Neuve SNOWED like almost the entire day la. now if i peer outside the window i can see a layer of snow covering the ground. took a photo but lazy to upload, mwahah. AND mum, yes i finally bought my boiler & drinking hot green tea 泡 from it. so don't worry. stocked up on candies & cereals & things that i usually dont eat back at home. weird huh? 

LIEGE!!

hey!

just came back from liege today - it snowed! (haha) so when we woke up today the roofs were covered in snow - pretty! (: but we woke up late and slept through our alarms so xiuli had to personally come over & knock on the door to chase us up. oops. :s

AND did you know that Liege's river market (basically like a pasar malam which only opens on sunday) ROCKS? i bought a nice wooly scarf plus had a delicious roasted drumstick (YUMMYLICIOUS) for only 1.50€. the scarf was 2 for 6 € so xingy the nene & i bought one each & split. woohoo. all that happened yesterday while we were freezing our butts off as the wind just blew & blew! while i'm blogging, i'm uploading the photos onto the computer & the process is rather slow. 

my roommates are NOISY. i think one of them is drunk 'cuz they had a birthday party at the kitchen which is next to my room. ok it's been a while since i wrote the previous paragraph 'cuz i was doing other things like watching shows and then i got distracted ahaha. ok so on with uploading the photos. i heard we can only upload 5 for each post. how ridiculous is that la?

ok.. on with the photos & slow connection (or maybe i have too many applications on)

haha the photo above is actually the first day when we were walking through the river market. the clouds were just so beautiful, couldn't resist the picture. hehe. and at this place was where i had my delicious chicken leg for only ONE FIFTY EUROS & also my scarf for three euros. super bien! (: the river market was along the road next to the river, so we had to walk down the market (might as well) in order to get to our hotel. haha man sundays at liege really rock. the stuff at the market were really cheap. boots for 10€, bags & jackets for 5€ - unbelievable, honestly.

And here's the cathedral - St Paul(?) that looks really nice & gothicky so i snapped a picture. we went in 'cuz it was a sunday & everything else was closed & they had german musicians who played the flute & guitar - brillant music! so it was a nice distraction. haha i shall end it off here now 'cuz it's past one & time for me to go to bed even though hair's not dry yet. EGAD. it's been like what, 2 hours? stupid humidity. can't seem to run away from it. WAHA.

!!!!

wow. woke up today at about 0730 for my first french class at 0830 (which was my first lesson in UCL). upon opening the window, was engulfed my the cold mist. it's still misty outside, & i took a picture wahah. 

I was wondering how come the room was so cold, and was going to check my heater (the spoilt one) & i got the shock of my life. IT WAS FIXED! (: but everything seemed the same, as in like my door was locked before i entered which means the technician had an extra key to my room. ok i'm not surprised about that since i mean there is usually a set of master keys held by the administration, but wow i was surprised 'cuz i would have expected them to come in when i'm in the room. but i'm happy anyway. nothing was misplaced, except that my room was a little cluttered and unsightly. but yay! for the heater :D hope it really works.

i must comment that french is such a tough language :( i just had my first lesson & i'm lost at some parts. but i think that it's such a beautiful language though. ok, motivation to study!

一生懸命！

photo time!

PHOTO TIME! ok here are pictures of the dorm in my room. it's quite small, but there is a washing basin, and that is super CONVENIENT! haha as you can see, my cupboard is in a mess. but i have an excuse, xingyan and xiuli were bunking in with me! so we spent like an hour scrubbing the place clean with rags.

3rd rack: FOOD GALORE! (:

That's my messy bed. heehee.

the night view outside my dorm. it's a pretty dead town at night. but maybe that's 'cuz school hasn't started yet. Officially, school starts tmr, but we have no lessons on monday, yipee! (: but we still have lotsa things to settle though. like my spoilt heater.

ok that's all for now 'cuz blogspot is taking quite long to load photos.  i shall upload the brussels photo soon (: