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This blog was initially set up with the intention to improve my writing skills. But now, it is more abt reflecting on my life regularly, knowing that today, God has written a chapter o my life and I wanna live my life to the fullest for him. He is the one that creates every step in my life and I'm in full anticipation at what he will reveal to me slowly. I will be patiently awaiting...=)


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Last day in Svanevej

time is passing REALLY fast! im back in copenhagen for the past 2 days after my eastern europe trip and have been busy packing since then. I have been eating ice cream everyday when i was travelling.. my daily endorphins:) Eastern europe is THE place for a fun and budget trip. The scenery is just breath taking- the rivers, bridges, palaces and castles.. I will update on those travels soon:)



Gonna embark on my last and final 10 days trip in a few hours time! It will be fun cos caryn, ruo, jinny and jackie are travelling together w me. I'm sure that we will be indulging the chocs and waffles in belgium.. shopping in porto and hopefully, we will visit the walt disney, neushwanstein castle in munich.


as time goes by..

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In 5 hrs time, I will have arrived in Vienna. I can't bear to leave copenhagen now.. knowing that after 10days, most of my friends would have left for travelling or back home. There is a million things i still wanna do.. like visit the carlsberg museum.. the read a book in the botanic gardens.. drink a cup of beer, sun tan and people watch at nyhavn...

Copenhagen will no longer be the same without u guys...

Exchange brings u through a whole cycle of emotions in just a short 5 months. I'm glad that I took the leap forward to leave my comfort zone. Overcoming numerous challenges along the way just makes u a stronger person. Changes can only happen once u have learnt to let go.

God is in control..

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This is the black diamond library in copenhagen that is situated next to the river. It is really pretty. One part of the building is constructed with a modern design and state of the art, the other part of the building gives an ancient, victorian feel. It feels like esplanade library- located next to the river with concert halls inside it. Alot of people sat in beach benches just outside the library facing the river to sun bath and read a book around noon time. Yeseul, my black diamond buddy, would join me for lunch to have picnic by the river.

This is another favourite library of mine. It is the library that is very harry porterish. Studying in copenhagen is a real joy.. being able to look up and admire the various architectures when im tired of studying.. taking a stroll outside the library when im bored...& people watching too:)

Soaking up the last few days of copenhagen...

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Dear camera,

I know that u have been serving me well during my times in europe and travelling, but can u please don't break down on me now? it is just another 6 weeks more.. i still need u in my june travels! im so sorry for ill treating u w the occasional falls and bangs.. but at least i did not lose u right? Although i did lost your cover... :S

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Ah..sorry for the crappy msg.. im just vexed w things like my cranky camera. so pissed that it is now dying on me. sigh...

Last wk was rather eventful. I did something that i would never have done back in spore. To travel with my friends to Martin's ranch in Svendborg, I urgently emailed the professor and some of my marketing course mates to change time slots with me for my marketing presentation. I lied that I needed to attend a cousin's wedding in London and I managed to pull off. Immediately after my marketing presentation, I rushed home to pack and headed straight to the train station and we catched the regional train to my danish friend's home. We had an enjoyable 2 nights at his ranch. It is a small town.. cows grazing in the fields, horses galloping across grasslands, fields of yellow flowers, cobbled streets, a blanket of stars at night, sun bathing under the cloudless sky in the day.. it is just a relaxed 3 days .. enjoyed the fresh air and the bird chripings when u wake up in the morning. We had the most 'danish' experience there too! The pastry and bread for breakfast, the mum prepared and taught us how to cook some traditional danish meal for dinner. We picnic at the lake near by, ride on the farm tractor to till the land, did horse riding. The simple pleasures of life..:)

It all ended before I can begin...

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Enjoying life in the midst of studies









13 may, studying in Kobenhavn University library

These photos were taken when i was studying in the library one day before my exam. I really like this harry-porterish library. It inspires me to read more.. this is where the essence of knowledge is. The rows of books stacking up to the ceiling with the wooden ladders hanging at the rail to climb up the shelves. Even the ladder to the second floor is a narrow wooden row of stairs that creeks! hmm..





16 may

Today we handed in our marketing report on Ben and Jerry's business and we decided to indulge in some B & J's ice cream near the campus. I just love the chunky B & J's ice cream.. my fav is still strawberry cheesecake. I tried baked alaska then and it tasted like hershey's white choc- really delicious:) Do u know that B & J is actually a community conscious organisation that is environmentally friendly and socially responsible? After doing a project on B & J, I will be more supportive towards B & J for all its efforts.

Yiling and I had a shopping spree on thursday to reward ourselves for completing the marketing report. We visited 2 shopping complexes and these are my harvest. Retail therapy really gives me endorphins! I'm really happy to find cheap deals here during their small sales sections. I spent S$70 in total that day. The 3 bags are the best deals i have seized that day. They were around S$6 each!! it was like 80% off? The sun glasses from accessorize was 70% off too and it was around S$17.

17 may

BBQ at amager beach

Saturday was a cold day for BBQ. It was windy and there was no sun!! We all unanimously believe that it MUST be kian fong's fault because he arrived back in copenhagen recently and the weather was getting worse ever since he returns. hahaz.. there is just bad weather everywhere he goes..lol. Nonethelesss, we all still came down and huddle around the BBQ grills. The 1st time at Ama beach on the 9 may has better weather. We were bbqing sausages and danish meatballs. It was not too bad.. just that the bread gets burnt most of the time.

Baking for dinner before watching the ballet, Onegin.

Markus decides to bake chocolate cheesecake for dinner and we prepared vegetable soup to go along with the cake. hahaz..Maria is just busy licking the remaining ingredients that did not manage to enter into the oven. The cake was not as well as expected but we had a fun time preparing it. It is the long baking process that was enjoyable. We have decided that we shall try a different wine every time we meet for dinner because wine in Europe is generally cheaper. That day, we had rose wine.. not too bad. It's rather fizzy and tasted milder than red wine.



Onegin- The ballet that I watched in the evening

Plot:

Eugene Onegin, a Russian dandy who is bored with life, inherits a country mansion from his uncle. When he moves to the country he strikes up an unlikely friendship with the minor poet Vladimir Lensky. One day Lensky takes Onegin to dine with the family of his fiancée Olga Larina. At this meeting Olga's bookish and countrified sister, Tatiana (Tanya), falls in love with Onegin. During the night Tatiana writes a letter to Onegin professing her love and sends it to him. While this is something a heroine in one of Tatiana's French novels would have done, Russian society would consider it inappropriate for a young, unmarried girl to take the initiative. Contrary to her expectations, Onegin does not reply by letter. The two meet on his next visit where he rejects her advances in a speech that has been described as tactful yet condescending.
Later Lensky nonchalantly invites Onegin to Tatiana's nameday celebration promising a small celebration with just Tatiana, her sister, and parents. At the celebration Onegin finds a grandiose ball reminiscent of the fast-paced world he has grown tired of. To exact revenge on Lensky, Onegin proceeds to flirt and dance with Olga. Lensky leaves in a rage and in the morning issues a challenge of a duel to Onegin. At the duel Onegin kills Lensky, then flees.

Tatiana visits Onegin's mansion where she reads through his books and the notes in the margins, and through this comes to believe that Onegin's character is merely a collage of different literary heroes and so there is no "real Onegin". Later Tanya is taken to Moscow and introduced to society. In this new environment Tanya matures to such an extent that when Onegin later meets her in St Petersburg, he fails to recognise her. When he realises who she is, he tries to win her affection despite the fact that she is now married, only to be ignored. He writes her several letters and receives no reply. The book ends when Onegin manages to see Tanya and is once more rejected in a speech admitting her love for Onegin while professing absolute loyalty to her husband. In echoing the speech he previously gave her, she also demonstrates her emotional and moral superiority to Onegin- wikipedia

Queen Margaret came to watch this ballet too! Probably because it is the closing ballet performance. The queen seats at the red box shown in the picture in the top right hand corner of the collage. It feels special to enjoy a ballet together with the queen. She is sitting alone at the red box. I wish I could be sitting beside her in any of the 2 empty seats. The view is definitely superb from there. I have paid only about S$10 to catch this ballet because it was a special deal but as expected, the seats were super far behind at the fourth storey. We changed our seats after the intermission and we moved to the empty seats in front. The costumes were elaborate and the dance moves were so smooth. Watching ballet really reminds me of pris.. i could understand her love for dancing now. After watching the ballet, I felt inspired to learn dancing but it's too late now. I'm really envious of people who could dance. It is a way of expressing themselves and perfecting their footwork - this is probably the spirit of dancing.


18 may

Brunch at the SMU people's place with the Singaporean christians.

This was the BEST brunch I have ever had.. because we never meet for lunch gatherings, only dinner gatherings.. hahaz. But david is seriously a good cook! He bakes the apple pie and I could still remember the taste of it. We all agree that he could open up a bakery store here in denmark now and charge the danes an exhorbitant price for the delicious cakes he baked. Elaine cooked bee hoon, which reminds me of home. The colour, texture and taste was just so right. The bee hoon i cooked just taste like mee sua. I shall try to perfect my skills and seek from professional advices like Elaine. We had crepes too- with chocolate, strawberry and banana. Jinny and Mi young prepared the Danish dream cake, which contains coconut fillings. It was not too bad, I thought that their culinary skills have reached a new level but I realised that they had actually bought the premixes for the cake! lol.. k, i shall give them credit for mixing well and baking at the right temperature and time.

With just one last marketing paper on the 2nd june, I actually feel as if my exams are over already. I guess I am just taking things more easily now and I will just study as it goes. I am gonna find my love for studying and how to enjoy studying w/o feeling the extra stress to do well.

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sigh..tired and restless. can´t believe that my oral exam is next monday! most of my sporean frens have almost ended their exams and im gonna start mine..:S i need to get to the momentum of mugging soon.. still hooked on to all my taiwan drama serials from mysoju.com... my main source of entertainment in the wee hrs of the night.

been eating really sinful lately..yock song cooked a curry feast for all of us last saturday.. we had 3 different kinds of curry using different curry paste and the NTU girls made the curry puff. its pretty easy actually.. my 1st successful attempt to prepare a dish fr scratch (no premixes!). We knead the dough.. melt the butter.. fry the fillings.. wrapped the curry puff n deep fry it. ok.. this is really fattening.. need to start jogging soon! My sunday dinner was fabulous! yiling, ruo, jia yun and i had our wkly cooking time at their cosy house. boccoli and cabbage soup.. braised chicken (which was really soft).. prawn pasted chicken..rice.. red wine.. apple muffins.

going off now to yeseul´s place for another feast. yeseul will single handedly prepare the korean dinner. yiling and i will bring along desserts- our newly created fruit fondue:)tata!

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SJ dear..! happy 21st bday..:) may u be blessed on this special day. The day of independence and the signalling of adulthood! I really missed both of u.. I pray that u will have a fruitful year ahead and may u find the peace in our lord as u study for the looming exams. really missed u:)
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Today the weather forecast said that it will be raining heavily.. I felt so cheated by BBC. It was a bright warm day as yiling and I head to chinatown for our weekly grocery shopping. I still cannot get over the fact that my 2 most favourite vegetables.. xiao bao cai and long beans really cost a bomb here!! xiao bai cai is DKK37/kg (S$12/kg) and my long beans cost DKK50/kg (S$15/kg)!!!! ahz... i can't stand it. I'm not really a person who fancies vegetables in the 1st place.. now I think I have to go for cheaper, awful vegetables like cauliflower.. cabbage.. brocolli and carrots.. yikes.. mummy I will stop complaining about the veg u cook for me at home.. I don't mind having long beans for the next 2 wks when im back.

The only shopping we do now is grocery shopping..we r waiting for the summer sales here in june. But I reckon that we can build back muscles with the heavy groceries we carried back every week. We will always head out with our sling bags and some plastic bags to put the wet food in it. The supermarket here does not provide free plastic bags to advocate environmental-friendliness here in denmark. I really appreciate the efforts of my mum and kor for bringing back the groceries from NTUC weekly to feed the entire family.

Ever since I arrived back in copenhagen, I have not eaten out yet. Even when we head to school, we will make sure that we wake up early enough to bring along packed lunch.. which usually consist of bread, lettuce, tomatoes, tuna salad, hotdog, ham and cheese. Not bad at all! Think I will try to cook fried rice the next time for lunch.. but I must wake up even earlier :S

Tonight, I will be going for an Irish dinner. Some Northern Irish from church invited us over! Tomorrow I shall head down to the 3 castles in Denmark.. one of them is the Hamlet's castle! Next wed.. i will be going to see the queen waves her hand from the balcony and danish people waving the flag cos it is the queen's bday!! I will probably tour the city and see the little mermaid statue after that. yay~

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