The Book of Memories: Playing Catch Up

Sorry peeps….as you all know, this blog has been pretty dead over the months and I didn’t manage to find any time to update on it…TONES to update on…so yea!Catching up with the present I shall… ^^

Let’s see where I can start….

FASNACHT (19.02.09)

Well….Fasnacht’s basically a traditional costume party celebrated by the Swiss people and they play dress up….they really do and it’s from young kids to senior citizens…NO KIDDING!how cool is that?maturing people play dressing up….pretty similar to Halloween but so unlike is that MATURING people doesnt dress up in Halloween…if not all then MOST. hmm…where was I again? OH….yup…it’s a celebration believed to chase away the icey-cold winter and welcome the breezy-flowery spring *UNFORTUNATELY…..spring didnt came and it was straight to the early summer….how sad is that??* (Icey winter ate up breezy spring…T.T) PLUS……it even continued to snow till late march….sad sad case…and it’s so not fun to see no flower when it’s supposed to be blooming…=S

Anyway…Fasnacht’s a pretty interesting celebration but it’s also pretty scary if you’re not so into costumes and scary + weird looking masks (hehe)…btw…did I mention that this event lasts for a week?? A week of binge eating, a week of costume parade in the town, a week of beer drinking (building up their beer bellies…^^), and 3 days of no work!pretty long huh?but oh well….it’s tradition, even when it comes to traditional events, no-night-life swiss people party like crazy during that week. sadly WE students from IMI gets no special treatment to the holiday….study sessions like there ain’t no holiday….T.T

However, not forgetting to get us international students a touch and feel of Fasnacht, they made an event themselves and was celebrated in nowhere else but our very own Uni…*ok…i know that didnt make me sound very anticipated and excited but more on the side of disappointment. But it wasnt that bad after all….we had a great time dressing ourselves up too for that event and we got to eat some Swiss FOOD!haha….some pay-off session….OH OH!!before i forget….the band whom they hired to play for the event were GREAT….they were AWESOME!like seriously awesome….no doubt hands down….

let’s cut things short and off we go to pictures instead….it’s an occasion to celebrate so we shall celebrate it with pictures!! Off we GOOOO…..

Note: morning Open Ceremony was @ 5 a.m but we went for the experience and yea…we had an experience as well as being cramped up like a hot sandwich during winter…..

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Night Trip to Zurich

Believe it or not, 5 of us went took a train all the way to Zurich at 7 something p.m just for a night out and some singing + eating…..interesting and exciting enough, we came home at 2 something in the morning (where everything was deserted and we actually WALKED home….as for the guys, they took a cab back to uni after walking us 2 girls back to our apartment.

Dining at an asian - singapore restaurant after quite some time triggers your taste bud for wanting more after that you know…..not having any makes it better at times so you wouldn’t think much about it….but it was really a satisfying dinner….had all kind of dishes and the all-famous singaporean fried rice…mmmm NYUM NYUM!*drooling*

Food was great and off we went for a singing session just next to the restaurant (a.ka sing K back in msia). NOTE: TOTAL DIFFERENT

Similarities:

SINGING

Differences:

sing in the public (not closed in a box where it is SOUND PROOF)
in a half restaurant and pub
LOTSA people (obviously…it’s a pub + restaurant = crowd)
ALL kinds of songs in multiple language for you to choose from… =S
Uses traditional mic transfer

SO……?a big difference huh?back in msia…even if you suck in singing you can still go for a singing session with your friends and have a fun time….but for here….TOTAL DIFFERENT…..if you cant ding DONT sing here…..you’ll only make yourself embarrassed. a pure pressure is that the people there can really sing….their voice are….*speechless**gulp gulp*

Well, my friends can sing…and as for me….i don’t sing (even back in msia….what makes a difference if im here? ^^) so as an entertainment….i took pictures…lotsa pictures….but of course im only posting some up….^.^

Pictures time it is……

Before moving on to the next catch up….I forgot to mentioned that I passed by and had a look at the World Cup Stadium that was built there for the previous World Cup….*grinning widely – fully satisfied*

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Geneva Motoshow

Hallelujah! It is the motoshow that everyone has been waiting for!At last it came and I HAD THE CHANCE TO GO! hahahahah! I know…many has been telling me that I dont like car and why am I so excited in going?well…it’s a ONE OFF opportunity to go for such a big event…it’s one of the event-of-the-year kinda thing ok…dont play play….and luckily it was at a part of swiss so it made it easier to arrange for us to go….^^b

Anywhoo….it was great and sad to tell you this new but Bastian…I have the means of taking hot chicks’ photos for you but so sorry they only have ONE out of all the cool and branded-sporty cars…(hahaha….I have been controlling on my laughter bas…keke….it’s funny cause there’s only one for me to take when there’s SUPPOSED to have TONES….=S)

Besides the “chicks”, obviously the main purpose to visit was to have a cool experience with the cars and get up close with them!HOWEVER…it was quite a disappointment cause there weren’t much chance for us to go up close and sit in them CAUSE there were TOO many people….!!!it’s like a HUGE version of PC Fair…you all can try imagine the crowd then….even the halls available for all the car displays were waaay bigger than the ones at KL Convention Centre….nothing that can be compared with….

AND who says i don’t like cars???I do like them ok…I even like LOOKING at them….it’s just that I dont like EXPERIMENTING them or COMPARING them (if that’s what it’s called for you guys who always does that whenever you all see a cool car passing by)

Overall the trip was amazing because i got to see many cars and expanding my knowledge not on cars but on the brands….hehehehe! but hey….at least I still recognize them…some girls dont even give a whipped of their eyelash to know them…=]=] As a knowledge at the end of the trip?I didnt kn0w there were so many cool cars out there for those wealthy-superly-duperly-freakingly wealthy people to buy them….(wait…did I mentioned wealthy twice?…oh well…that’s the only way that I can think of to describe them….that shows a sign of the prices of the cars there….*faintish*)

Mind you…I was wearing high heels for the event…and we were there from morning till evening….so if I bared with the pain to see the cars, it shows how much interest I have in them (not more than guys but enough) ^^