Brussels, Belgium--Amsterdam, Holland (15/8)

Park

My house..(Royal Palace of Belgium)

Brussels Streets

Parc du Cinquantenaire (Celebrate Golden Jubilee of Independence)

Closer up (Inspired from Arc de Triomphe in Paris)

European Union Parliment

Frites (Twice-fried Fries/Local delicacy)

On train to Amsterdam..(the backpack is killing me)

Canals..(Important transportation here)

Cargo-van for dwaf like me.....

City Hall of Amsterdam

Canals again......

Streets of Amsterdam

I am not that short after all...(lolz)

Expressive art.. (Something that is lacking in My/Sg)

I wonder how long these taxi need to get me back to the hostel.

Zi Lian at one of the main streets of Amsterdam.

Red-Light District

Quick shoot (Taking pictures is prohibited in red-light district)

The 'ladies' are inside the windows illuminated in red (watch carefully)

What a view!

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Brussels, Belgium (14/8)

In Nottingham train station, prior to the start of our 1-month Europe trip.

Our 2-pound lunch at St. Pancras Station.

Grand Place (City Hall Square of Brussels)

Hotel de Ville (City Hall/left side)

Tip of Hotel de Ville

La Maison du Roi (former tax hall/jail)

Its peak (magnificant craftings)

Guild Houses (guild=trade society/eg:boatman, baker etc)

Afica Evpopa Justicia Asia America

Manneken Pis

Shame of you for relieving in public.

Freaking bright although it is 830pm already.

Coldnye.

Brussels Waffle (local delicacy)

Yummy....

Seng, are you sure you can finish it?

Night Streets of Brussels.

Gosh, what a beauty!

Cathedrale Sts-Michel et Gudule

Up closer.

Geez, what a day!

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1st Day in Nottingham

After 17-hours of flight, Seng fell asleep in train.


A 30 pound ticket to Nottingham...(freaking expensive)


1st morning in Nottingham,UK.



I am honoured to have breakfast with PRINCESS XIN XIN


Roti prata, sausages, flakes...yummy


It is freaking cold even in the summer(22 C), it is colder outside..(17 C)

Apple tree..



Unripe apple

Took these pictures during a stroll around the neighbourhood

Fine weather

Typical cute little bristish houses..

Cute little dog + beautiful view..

Blueberries..

Relative's place

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In Dubai Airport

After 6-hours of flight without much sleep in the plane. I finally reached my transit airport, Dubai at 430am. It is intimidating at first to set foot on a total strange place, 5K miles away from home. Although the airport design and architectual are not that impressive as I always imagined for an oil-rich nation, Dubai is indeed an important transit point at present and will be in future. You will notice people from all over the world are hustling bustling here to be transited to another place. A true sensation of a world without boarders, a place of multinational and multiracial. Update next time, off to catch sunrise in Dubai.

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Far3well Wish3s

Farewell wish is an act expressing goodwill at parting. Most of the time, one would ask the one leaving to take care and have a safe journey followed by a handshake, a hug or even a goodbye kiss. It is supposed to be warm and touching. It never occured to me that farewell wishes can be funny as well untill recently.

Some of the funny wishes I got;

1. "Enjoy your trip to UK and dont return to Singapore if you are still a virgin."

2. "Dont waste SG air lar, fast fast go breath UK air lar."

3. "Hopefully your plane wont crash into South China Sea."
4. "Safe journey and dont be intimidated by tall people."
5. "Instep only mar, next sem I will get Instep too." quoted from failed instep applicant wai hong

6. "Dont get lost in the 'tall crowd'."

7. "Dont be 'fan shu' there."

8. A friend of mine actually drew a 'ba gua pai' (an eight sided yin yang plate) for protection.

For all others who wish me luck and safe journey, thank you very much. I will surely miss you all very much.

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Sianz-ness VS Excitement

5 more days before flying off to UK for a 6-months exchange programme. I am getting quite alot of farewell wishes nowadays from friends followed by this million-dollar question "Are you excited?"Well, I am supposed to be but have been super busy with administration issues recently. Dont really have the time to settle down and feel excited.

Listings on what I have done for the month.
1.Visited the UK Visa Application which is located at Tanjong Pagar 4 times before successfully obaining my visa.
2.Visited HSBC at Vivocity, Tanglin Road, Orchard Road and finally Jurong East just to open an account and apply an atm card.
3.Visited Jurong East HSBC 4 times to transfer funds and to buy travellers' cheques.
4.Visited AIG main office building at Rivervalley to purchase insurance.
5.Been to Jurong Point post office twice to courier packages to UK.
6.Visited Bristish Council to help liase with host university in UK to enquire about our admission letter which take ages to reach our hands(and I still dont have it yet!)
7.Been to Student Travel Agency in Bugis 3 times to enquire about air ticket and to purchase Eurail Passes
8.Been to IRO and SAO numerous times
9.Sent out tonnes of emails
10.Hours of research

and......spent a lot of money topping up my EZ-Link card.
Sighz..Sianz.

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Folding T-shirts

How long does it take you to fold a t-shirt? 5 seconds? 10seconds? or a minute?
I can do it in 2 seconds flat.

I was packing my clothes the other day and I cant helped but felt fustrated because folding t-shirt was such a tiring task. Moreover, I have like over 20 t-shirts. Irritated, I tried google on how to fold t-shirt for dummies. Guess what, now I can fold a t-shirt in just 2 seconds flat. Amazing right? Watch the clip below and folding t-shirt will never be the same again. Enjoy.

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