first day in switzerland

ok.. switzerland.

basicaly.. (refer to previous post) couldnt sleep.. left slightly earlier than intended (which was like lucky) us on my way cycing there i kinda made a wrong turn and had to turn back.. so whew~ reached the busstop in time.. yada yada yada.. took the plane to stockholm, changed plane to geneve.. no problems.. sat beside like these two french-speaking guys on my flight to geneve. so funny.. think was one of the guy's first time on plane.. he was so excited it was so cute.. so ya..

reached geneve. called esther.. hanged around the airport waiting for her to come.. then we took train to lausanne.



thy view

all these greenery are like a 180 degrees change from lulea.. so nice.. and THE SUN!

yups so like reached lausanne.. went to do groceries shopping before going back to her place to put down the bags and stuff.. then went to meet her fellow singaporean exchange student and this other australian guy for dinner.. went to a chinese restaurant.. not bad the food.. (better than what was sold in the uni) and they had like actual china people working there.. was cool. and apparently in swiss they can bring their dogs into the restaurants so like this dog was like barking and stuff..

after tt wanted to go to the welcome party at some bar.. but we kinda couldnt find the place.. so basically waked around lausanne before heading back.

in total took like 1611 photos (and videos la) maximum.. 300 pictures with faces/people. the rest is all scenic.. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!!??! oh my..

selectively uploaded them onto facebook. so can check them out if u guys wan. ^^

just because...

just because its having a freaking snow storm outside..(ok not REALLY a snow storm but more of like a super dup windy day resulting in snow being blown around like crazy) and thus i refuse, absolutely refuse to go town to get my bike back.
just because i just manage to complete (hap hazardly.. what other way mans?) one of my assignment and i refuse to do the next one.. (due in 3 days' time)
just because im bored stiff sitting in front of the comp nearly (once again) the entire day and have ran out of interesting things to do...
IM GONNA BLOG.
haha..

okiee.. hmm yokkmokk...
ok had to wake up early early to walk to sch to take the bus to yokkmokk..
basicalyl yokkmokk winter market is like an annual thing. and its at even further up north in sweden from lulea.. so its like GAN COLD!
first stop we went to the artic circle.

there's like this little hut there for people to go in.. though its not like warm or something so i have no idea why is it there..MAYBE it helps a bit la.. maybe...
POLAR CIRCLE!

abuot jokkmokk

this guy all decked out in fur at yokkmokk.. and of course.. me ALL WRAPPED UP.. told you guys i'll look like an eskimo..

their stalls..

machiam like pasar malam.. just that its in snow.. o.O

CROCS WITH FUR!!! bet that people..

selling fur.. from animals.. its like they wear such stuff ON THEIR HEAD! gosh.. some even with the head there.. so like totally creepy..

this cool little haven i found somewhere off the adventure camp area.. hidden.. its all craved in ice.. coolios.. but have no idea what is it for though.. =\

a horse wearing fur coat.. aha.. and the horses there are like super hairy!

saami women dressed in their traditional saami clothings,

this guy from kiruna that sat beside us in the cafe and started talking to us.. ^^ nice guy

dog-sledding!!

this fireplace that's nearby to warm our hands with ^^

reindeer race!

yupp.. so that bout round up yokkmokk.. qte cool place.. like pasar malam.. selling (some) rather interesting stuff..

temperature then was like wayy into minus 20s.. crazy shit..

like ive said had like frostbite on my ears walking to sch.. shit..

after that had a healthy fear of the cold liaos..

bot loads of food to try tho.. hot chocolate, elk meat (that's for free.. sample), their hamburger.. reindeer meat burger(not me but idza) and i got like their syrup drink and like a tart.. nice.. ^^

and they have this area where they distribute FREE HOT syrup drink. damn nice.. if only singapore's like that.. but then again singapore too giam liaos.. aha.

went dogsledding. damn fun la.. was over damn soon tho.. and the poor dogs.. all so skinny and stuff.. poor stuff.. but enjoyed myself!! ^^

i guess.. this is it! au revoir swiss and hotties :((

last night in switzerland.
im currently staying in a hostel cus i culculated and realised that its cheaper to stay in hostel then to travel back and forth from lausanne (esther's place) to geneve airport.. so yup. here i am in the internet stations in the hostel and blogging.. (yes blogging cus im too bored in my room) and smply cus i paid to use the internet and have like 23 minutes left? aha..
anyways.. so funny.. was just like chatting on facebook with idza the other day.. and i heard about the whole hooha over my previously angsty blog entry. hilarity i tell you...
couldnt believe the whole uproar that arised due to it.. i mean HEY PEOPLE, MY BLOG MY COMMENTS ABOUT MY FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS.. you dont agree just bug off.. i mean its a free world out there man and everybody's entitled to the own different thinking.. even if it doesnt jive along with yours.. so ya.. hey.. that was how i feel la.. (note.. was past tense)
aha.. no longer angsty and all liaos.. a trip to swiss.. land of eye-candies.. that's all it takes to bring my mood wayyy up people.. hehe...
seriously for the past few days been traipsing around swiss its not even funny.. travelling in groups.. travelling alone.. been there done that.. details and pictures post up later.. ^^
in the meantime, just some comments and thoughts bout my one week trip.
switzerland basically is the land of alps, time-tellers, fountains and chocolates.. and ofcourse, who can forget, hot guys.. seriously, what do the people EAT here mans.. they are all so good-looking its unbelievable.
got hit-on (is that the correct phrase for it?) by this old african-turned-swiss guy. who was selling hot dogs.. my god.. scary.
i love ticino area of swiss.. after this week.. italian swiss are the BEST. the creme de la creme.. the epitome of cuteness.. hot stuff..really.. of course.. that's followed up by both swiss germans and swiss french.. they are no less hotter but just a teeny weeny behind italians.. *smirks lips* italianos.. ma favourito *grins*
carnivals are like the best of the best in switzerland. its fantastico.. is there albums out there featuring swiss carnival songs? love 'em.
someday somehow, one way or another, im gonna move to switzerland. IM SERIOUS. im either gonna marry one, work in ikea (i saw ikea in switzerland and i have yet to see ikea in sweden.. thy irony), work in some swiss bank or something or maybe even work in one of the many chocolate factories here.. its FANTASTICO down there...
luvin' it.
alrighties.. till thy next many posts filled with details.. and of course scenic photos.. :))))
ciao babes~~~
and ciao to thy lovely land of alps.. :(((((

and off i go..

i realsed my previous post was angst-filled. im embarrassed. filled with remorse. what had intentionally set out as a travel blog turned out to be one of those bitchy blogs where people just rant and grumble at the rest of the world sinmply cus i gave in to me anger.. hais.. not good not good.
im really tempted to delete the previous post. but then... hmm.. shall consider..

on the other hand. its 4.47am. im up, alert and ready. heart's athumping. filled with trepidation. i cant wait to set off, only being deterred by the idea of standing in the dark all alone for more than 10 minutes waiting for the bus (in case im too early). sooo.. here i am.. just minutes before setting off.. blogging once again.
i decided i shall leave early.. instead of the intended 5, i shall depart at 450. aha.. cant wait. kinda excited and all.. but keep having this thought that i forget to bring something.. (of course since i only took like less than 1/2 hour to pack?) sheesh.
passport, check. readind, check. flight confirmation paper, check. money, check. card, check. clothes, check. camera, check. phone, check.
hmmm.. i guess this is it ppl!
off i go into the land of swiss alps, watch-makers and(slightly) warmer climate (like 5 above? o.O).
ciaoooo~~

WARNING: RANTINGS AHEAD, PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK

you know the thing about blogs? is that you'll never know who's peeping into ur blog. and if u go like add a password or something, some intended readers may not have access to the password and hence was denied of the chance of reading about my oh-so-wonderful life. so ya...
troublesome troublesome.
but i aint gonna care no shit niemore. its like WHAT THE FUCK LA.. my fucking blog.. i wanna bitch i bitch all i want. big big loud loud in my blog. and if u dun like what you see go ahead and gossip bout me behind my back cus i aint gonna give no shit bout it.. (like i ever did) so ya. HA.
im not even gonna like give face and go bout corners hinting bout this person yada yada. so silly. not like you dunnoe i dun like you and not like i dunnoe you dun like me.. so be it. fuck care mans.

yes and this is how bad life has become of me here in lulea. im estranged from my "fellow singaporeans" (like i give a shit bout it) so ya.

anyways gonna go away and incontactable for this one week. flying off to switzerland. to the land of hot guys and eyecandies. to the nearest (cheapest rather) piece of solace i can find. to esther!! aha..
since idza's gonna abandon me and go rendezvous with her hot angmoh guy. i shall go in search of my eyecandy. SAMUEL!!
ok im uttering rubbish now its not even funny.
hurrr.. annyway serious serious. decided to go for a trip to geneva switzerland and bunk over at esther's place (cus that's what ppl do in europe. go for random trips like this *as quoted from idza). so ya.. gonna be spending a week there.. (got like fucking cheap tickets from stockholm to switzerland) but the catch was that in order for me to get from lulea to stockholm, the tix cost just as much as what i paid to get from stockholm to switzerland. but hey! aint complaining here.. bloody cheap tickets for me anyday please.
so then since i got this iffy new bike (i got this new bike.. mountain bike summore.. hehe) and my bloody flight is at fucking 7am in the silly morning, im gonna cycle ALL ALONE in the dark all the way to the city centre. and then catch the bus from there to the airport. ya.
so then cus i'll be cycling (on the snow sumore) i wanted to be safe and borrow a backpack see.. instead of using what i had on hand.. the shoulder nike bag which then MIGHT be slightly more dangerous (im cycling on snow summore lehs) and what better to do then ask from ppl you believe you could rely on best? fellow singaporeans. and the thing is that these two girls denise and wanteng.. actually had like big humongous backpacks cus their luggage was like overweight and stuff and like need big bags to like use as cabin baggage? kinda shit? anyway that's not the point. the point is. i bloody know that they have big backpack lying around collecting dust so wanted to borrow from them. HA. but surprise surprise.. cus they are going on a trip (good riddance) like 2 fucking weeks from now.. (i'll be back in one) they couldnt lend me their fucking bloody bags.
liew.. i mean ok.. granted i could go fucking borrow from nice foreign ppl... (who are most willing to lend me even their trolley cabin lagguage WHICH sad to say i couldnt take cus im cycling.. :((( ) but ya.. and msot ppl here being practical dun really have like bags lying around unused you know. so ya.. fuck man. i'll probably like lose my balance somewhere and fall to my death or something on my way to the city centre cus im being unstabalised by a shoulder bag. dang.
but nevermind.. training. undergoing this sorta training will make me a better cyclist and probably NEXT TIME I WOULDNT NEED TO SEE YOUR FACE TRYING (IN VAIN) TO GET A BLOODY BACKPACK FROM YOU. fucking hell..
ya so that;s all out there in the open now.. and i aint caring no shit. HA.

anyways kinda couldnt wait to get to switzerland.. esp after sec3 social studies.. hehe.. switzerland is like the utopia country you know? hehe..
i have now like a sling bag.. (which contains like all the essential documents) and my nike shoulder bag.. and both aint even full.. hurrrr... cant think of what else to put in them tho.. :(((

ohoh.. yokkmokk.. have yet to blog bout it.. hurrr.. shall do it.. next time.. hehe.. the most lasting thing that happened to me. on the way to sch to take the bus to jokkmokk, my ears kidna froze up.. it was a fucking scary experience.. cus like it was really cold.. i dont really know how to describe it but ya.. basically like frostbite on my ears or something. (it was like minus 20 in the morning) so then. when we board the bus i tried to warm up my ears by putting my hands to my ears.. FUCKING HELL the pain ar.. seriously unbearable.. like you just wanna like kick and shout and scream and stuff. really it was horrible.
kinda got them thawed. then for the rest of the day i had my hoodie on. thought that was the last of it. but NOOO...
that night when i went to bed. i lie on my side and PIANG EH.. pain sia.. cus my ears were like pressed against the pillow.. -.- sians.. so like had a hard time sleeping..
so then after the first night, my right ear kinda healed. but my poor left ear still aching till now. like hmm.. 3 days liaos? like when you touched/pressed it, it will hurt? hais.. but at least its getting better..
scary mans.. totally scared the shit out of me..
gosh..
ok its like 15 minutes to one. and i need to wake up at like 4 am cus im leaving at 5 am to cycle. hurrr.. wish me luck and may i not forget to bring anything!

ohoh and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO YOU BABES OUT THERE!!! :)))

abbey's birthday celebration

after making the crepes, i went over next door to pearl (this hk girl)'s place for abbey's (another hk girl) birthday dinner.
they made chinese food!!! yumyum.

and as they have no rice, they substitued rice with pata! lols.
me and the birthday girl abbey!yup. so then sat around just me, abbey, pearl and helen (this other hk girl) and then ate dinner.. :))) many thanks to them for inviting me tho.. hehe.. was plesantly surprised ^^
so after the dinner, we went over to my corridor and had crepes for dessert. so then hanged around my place for a while while the rest (some korean girls and the other 2 singapore chinese girls) get ready in pearl's place to give abbey a surprise.
then we just went over to abbey's place using the silly excuse of wanting to know what korean drama they were watching the previous night (how lame is that) but oh well. it worked!
so ya went over.. then the others came into the room. surprise surprise. sing song. cut cake. take pictures. and stuff.. lol..
after eating the cake, i went back to me corridor, hanged out a while more then cleaned up the place when everybody left cus they went to another party.
but by then i was too bashed to even moved. (the previous day had like two coffee in the evening and couldnt sleep till like 4++ am and my sleep was rather fitful and woke up rather early that morning too.. :S)
so yups.. that ends my thursday!

crepe making session

ok im gonna do this like even by even cus later too much photos and all that crap.. so ya..
anyways on thurs had crepe party. apparently this period of time, in france, ppl there actually have like this crepe season whereby all the meals are crepes. so like yup my two french flatmates decided to have this crepe party.

my flatemate diane
another flatmate of mine - remi.
so then apparently to make crepe, you have to grease the pan with oil using a potato. (i have no idea why potato but ya, potato it is!)
them in action. initially they started off using 2 pans.
the little entertainment that we had during the crepe making session.




after that they kinda upgraded to a total of 3 pans cus time was running out and the party's gonna start soon and they are not done yet. :)) cool shit.
yup. so that took few vids of them in action but aint gonna post it up cus like a bit big and like dunnoe whether even you guys interested in seeing it not. so ya..
made a total of like 50 crepes? lol..
so basically the party was like with people coming over and like having crepes with jam or nutella or even cheese and ham. not bad not bad..
sat around chatted..
oh ya.. so then they (diane and remi) actually had like their specialised job to do.. diane was in charge of pouring the batter onto the pan and taking them out when its done. and remi was just incharge of unsticking the crepe from the pan and flipping them. qte interesting watching them.. and apparently i was in charge of counting the no. of crepes they've made.. lol.. ya
and taking photos of course.. :))))

monkeys and hunters *scoffs

i just bought a bike.. second hand mountain bike without the stand (0.O) for like 60 sing dollars? diaos.. dunnoe whether good bargain or not but HOPEFULLY it will spur me to do more exercise rather than just bumming around in my room/apartment all day long.
on the other hand.. im seriously considering a trip down to switzerland sometime next week. -.- ridiculous i know.. but what's with idza going off to london and next week having some winter festival that i have no fucking frens to hang with its kinda depressing. tho they have some activities that im rather interested in.. hmmm.. what should i do?

ok i desperately need to sleep early tonight (its nearly 1130pm here now) cus tml there's a trip down to yokkmokk winter market.. where they sell reindeer thingamobobs. you name it they'll probably have it.. so ya.. excited.. but at the same time dreading it cus the weather's gonna be fucking -20 and below over there.. :((( its even higher up in the north than where i am.. (i cant believe that's even possible but oh wells)

had "reunion dinner" with meiyan just now.. aha.. ok more of like a late lunch/dup heavy tea for me and like supper for her.. and we aint even eating the same shit!!! she was munching on chips and i was eating like real meal.. aha.. but oh wells.. fun fun~~ not bad not bad.. kinda miss you people back at home now tho...

chiam saw pictures posted up by idza and said that the ppl here looks like hunters and monkeys.. lols cans.. hilarity..

ok gotta go.. wish me luck.. pray that i dun freeze and die there! ciao babes~~~ will update soon with pictures.. i hope.. hehe.. luv luv~~~

me swed composition bout me self

ok so this entry is like long overdued.. but im really etting qte lazy to post photos and type ands tuff.. aha.. wad to do its the air here mans.. its making ppl (mainly me actually) lethargic and all.. aha.. okie doks.. updates like i promised..
this time round didnt take much photos with all the parties and all.. i mean the place is dark everybody's crowding everybody its kinda hard to take decent photos under such conditions u noe? so anyway.. for the past week. many many sliding.. after the first slidding.. i had bruises on my inner thighs.. and like i said. i look like ive been raped.




ya.. doesnt seem so bad now.. looking at the photos.. but ya.. u get the point. so then anyway.. after tt first slidding, i went slidding again.. like twice within the span of 3 days.. so ended up my inner thighs got even more bruised.


ya.. u get the point.. so now ims wearing off slidding until like at least the bruises heal or something. -.-

oh and just a side note.. i really think that like ginger tea works.. cus like when i go slidding i tend to have like snow in my ass and and like in my face.. so like at the bottom of the hill half of my face is covered with snow and stuff.. (ya sorry din take any vids cus its rather stupid to say like "hey can u help me take a vid of me slidding down?" when others also wanna slid.. and its rather unglam looking hehe) so like ya.. then i go back to me room.. take a hot shower and like make ginger tea from those lil packets my dad insisted on me to bring along. and i feel better.. think without the ginger tea i'ld be bedridden like within the first week of arriving here.. so ya.. thank god for dads.. aha.. naggy dads that's it.

so anyway the weather's been rather ok these days.. minus 5 thereabout.. with occassional dips into like the tens and stuff but its fine.. more or less.. at least these days there's sun about so like yayness anus..

so then had like a swedish test (like i stated before) and then we kinda prepared in advance like one part of the tet.. the composition part where we had to write a short introduction about ourselves. so like ya.. the results of my "back-to-primary-school-way-of-learning" mugging.

ya.. the repeatedly copying of the same shit. what to do im kiasu.. like a typical singaporean. hehe..
so basically since im so free and i refused to do my readings tho i have an assignment due on sunday and for the next few days im gonna be rather busy, im gonna demonstrate thy power of primary-sch-learning-style and im gonna type out the bloody composition. so feel free to like click the little "x" on the top right hand corner if u guys are too busy studying and couldnt be bother to read swedish. :)

Jag heter Nicole. Jag är ifrån Singapore. Jag är tjugo äns och jag är kines. Jag studerar Sociologi i NTU. Jag är utbytesstuderar i Luleå Tekniska Universitet för sex månads därfär jag är mycket intressant i Sverige. Jag talar lite svenska och engelska. Jag bör i Väderladen 9. Jag går till universitet därfär jag inte få cykel. I Luleå, gå jag på fest veska helgen. Jag älska festa. Min mamma heter Lily. Jag dotter till Richard. Mina systrar heter Jessica och Ivy. Min mamma och pappa är femtiosex äns. Mina systrar är tjugoett och sjutton äns. Jag älska min familj.

literal translation: i am nicole. i am from singapore. i am twenty years old and i am chinese. i study sociology in ntu. i am (an) exchangestudent in lulea technology university for six months because i am much interested in sweden. i speak little swedish and english. i live in vadeladen 9. i walk to university because i no have bicycle. in lulea, go i for party every weekend. i love partying. my mum is lily. i am daughter of richard. my sisters are jessica and ivy. my mum and dad are 56 years old. y sisters are 21 and 17 years old. i love my family.

ya.. sounds very primary-school-ish. but what to do.
aha.. at least its over.. hiak hiak. aint gonna take any more swedish classes.. totally killed me.. :P
alrighty.. back to readings.. ciao babes~ till next time.. :))))