Volendam is so pretty!

We started by visiting a cheese factory





So much cheese and some are as hard as rocks...



Cheese tasting...



Making wooden clogs





Acting Dutch...







Hanging out...










Yay! :)

Pub crawl on Thursday

Went for my 1st pub crawl today with Gloria, Kirk and Oscar, Yay! My drinking abilities are still as low as ever though...

Came back at like 12.30am and started to sort out my AIESEC EP contract stuff till like 1 plus am. Then I realized I rushed for nothing because the TN that I wanted to apply for starts on 1 NOVEMBER 2009! Oh crap...

And now's it's 2.55am and Clement's korean song is stuck in my head...

Meeting at 10am tomorrow... So exciting...

A Wednesday in Rotterdam

Once upon a time, there lived a weird statue in Beurs. Reminds me of the TKGS statue, only this one looks errrr......







Some river/bridge at Coolhaven.







First time I saw a bridge open.











As usual, done at Dutch pace, by the time the bridge closed, the sky had become 2 shades darker. Hehe...





I love my new boots!




Also, Jackie Funny, Jacky Clever and I went to Clements' to make Korean pancakes, but unfortunately, I forgot to take any photos... Though they didn't really look like pancakes and looked more like prata...

I want to steal Clements' microwave oven, rice cooker, mirror, speakers and seating cushions, in that order...

It was an enjoyable Wednesday! Yay! :)

Shopping and food and stuff

Really warm coat with a super huge hood, which I can wear to the North Pole
Risotto which my flat mate from Italy, Sara, cooked, which is so delicious!
Black Mango jeans, which I altered myself with my lousy sewing skills
Blue mosaic dangling earrings, which Gloria calls Mahjong tiles
Bling bling dangling earrings from Six
Way too much fries with mayonnaise
Chocolate biscuits from Belgium
Funky and cool long black boots
Sausages and sauerkraut
Kroket and bitterballen
Green mosaic ear studs
Mussels and pasta
Stroopwaffles
Postcards
Yay! :)

I'm supposed to be finishing 2 assignments now... At least some things haven't changed from when I was in Singapore... Still the same procrastinator as usual...

What I never expected to learn on exchange

- Want to go for MT
- Rude Cantonese words
- Buy bikes from thieves
- How to cook Singapore curry
- Hara Buji, Chu Kay So and Ojipa
- Steal salt, sugar and pepper from KFC
- Think of stealing toilet paper from school
- Find Japanese dramas with English subtitles
- Tell the difference between Korean and Japanese
- Tell the difference among different countries' tap water
- Figure out the difference between an ulcer or wisdom teeth growing
- Feel perfectly fine with walking everywhere cause public transport is too expensive
- Feel a strong sense of inadequacy cause of my lousy Mandarin reading and speaking skills

1 month mark

I just realized I've been overseas for 1 month now.
I left on 9th Aug and today's 9th Sep!

to amsterdam, to amsterdam, to buy a pack weed, home again, home again, dancing a jig.

Last Sunday, we went to Amsterdam. Being in Amsterdam brought back memories when Cheryl, Cathy and I were here last year. It was around the same date when we were here meeting Suki and Jessica. I looked at the same central station we traveled to from Schiphol airport. I walked down the same street where we bought fries with mayonnaise. We went to the flower market and I saw the same flower shops we dropped by. I'm not sure if I remember correctly but I think we bought wooden tulips for Lucia, Han Ling and Esvi. I even tried to look around for the Singapore Girl boat but I couldn't spot it. I remember the amazing Anne Frank Museum, drinking pea soup and walking through the red light district, though it was still too early and we couldn't stay late because we had to return early to catch our flight back to Singapore.

Wonder how everyone is doing back home. Hope everything is well and good!

This time round, we went to the red light district after sunset and it looked really different. We also went to the I Amsterdam statue and the Van Gogh museum, which was the best catch of the day, though I wish I had more time there.


I took this in 2008.


And this last week!


View from my room


My room when I first moved in


Clean and tidy

After being in Rotterdam for about a week, it's pretty comforting to have found a dozen good friends.


Met this old lady who talked to us for half an hour straight. Most of the time, we didn't understand what she was saying.


Am having a really enjoyable time so far, besides the occasional rain and wind. Heading to Antwerpen and Brussels this weekend! :)