outside LT 6

took this picture a few hours ago right outside of lt 6... my eyes saw a crescent moon, but my camera captured a full moon... guess it is not powerful enough... nonetheless it was a beautiful view up there. =)

tmr is noc dnd... can't wait to be fed with some good food... =)

roadtrip to sabah with my family on 21st -23rd last month

decided to take a 30mins break from my fyp reading... somehow got the urge to edit some of the photos i took in sabah last month...
last month was my first time seeing my family and friends in brunei after coming back from stockholm... i gave them a lil surprise as i didnt tell them that i was actually going back then...
it was hari raya period... so dad decided to take the family for a short vacation...

we set off after 16 hrs i arrived in brunei...

dad said the total journey was about 400+ km...

that's me dad in the temple... (i personally believe in salvation by faith, in jesus christ...)

under the lantern...

souvenirs... one could get these from the stalls along the way to mount. kota kinabalu...


saw her running through the stalls... and eventually found her playing on her own....

view from the apartment...

the market place...

- many many thanks to sing yueh, jovina and yin for picking me up from the airport...
- keeping dear yin in my prayers that you will have faith in God's plan for you...
- okay.. time to get back to my fyp readings... =)

paris (19th - 22nd july 2009)

we reached paris at around 10pm... the train tickets were really expensive...


to save some cost in the trip... we managed to have one kind soul, junzhe, to lend us his hostel room for the few days when we were in paris...


his hostel was in Lozère École polytechnique...


it's situated up on a hill... and we werent warned beforehand... when we reached his room, we were all pending... but hei.. cant complain.. free accommodation...

so 6 of us squeezed into a single room... suba and i had the bed... =)


second day, monday, we bought the wrong train ticket for 8euro... we didnt know that those tickets were weekend tickets... so we couldn't tap out after alighting.. they have to let us out through a gate... we had a good lunch 12 euros... and we joined the free guided tour...







those were the sites visited during the tour...


after the tour... we did some shopping as we made our way to the arc de triomphe...





we climbed up the arc de triomphe for 5.5euros... and we g0t to see paris on a higher ground... cant missed the eiffel tower...





we wanted to have a closer view of the eiffel tower...




the eiffel tower lights blink every hour... we reached the eiffel tower exactly at 12am... so we didnt get to go up... we spent about an hour to try to find a way back to the hostel... we ended up taking the very much avoided mode of transport... the cab... 40 euros each cab, we took two... the drivers didnt know the way, he dropped us one train-stop away from our hostel.... we had to walked back to the hostel... to comfort ourselves...we were got the free accommodation after all...


third day... we went to settle our train tickets to barcelona... that was already 4pm... and we walked around the town of paris... not the touristy sites...


those streets seemed like little india and little africa to me... the one regret in this trip that i have is i didnt get my hair braided... wencooked pasta that night... and it cost us only 15 euros... did our grocery shopping at leader price...


we spent the evening in souvenir shops... and walked around Louvre museum...


on the fourth day... 3 guys continued their journey to nice...


and we went on to bordeaux...

- thanks to junzhe for the his room...

brussels (18th - 19th july 2009)

18th morning we left amsterdam... and within a few hours... we reached brussels...


we didnt have much time in brussel... but we managed to cover the central of the town (i dont think brussels has any free guided tour)...






and the nearby park....




and of course we wont miss the highlights...


waffles...


ice cream...


ice cream + waffle...


chocolates...


and chocolates...


and more chocolates...


mussels.... (picture from edmund)
on the second day... the guys just couldnt wait to have their fries.. the fries were really cheap... im not a fan of fries...so no photos! and suba was complaining about the squarish shapes of the fries...

before leaving we managed to see the atomium from a far.... angry faces...

next stop.. paris...

amsterdam (16th -18th July 2009)

opps.. the amsterdam photos are a little bit over edited, i think... so on the 15th julywe left stockholm c in the evening and we reached amtersdam on the evening of 16th...

bicycles were everywhere... that's the first thing i noticed... and i started to miss my green bicycle in Lappis....




suba, one of our two navigators... led us to our hostel...

we rested, cleaned up and we went to search for our dinner...

we ended in some good restaurant... i cant really remember what we had.. but it was good... we walked a lil bit in the town during the night... i didnt sleep that well on the first night... the room was stinky and warm...

next morning... we went on the "free" guided walking tour...

the tour covered the red light district, a few main canals, and the buildings...

mind you, they get offended if you think amsterdam is like venice...

we were told that each house was taxed according to the width of the front of the house...


this is where the first corporation started... dutch east india company...

oo.. and the famous triple X... no one knows the truth behind it... but we were told that it could either mean “valor, resolution, and mercy” or "water, fire, and pestilence"...



notice that the very last building is leaning forward... many of the buildings in amsterdam meet the same fate... this is due to the method of transporting heavy stuff into the higher level of the building by the pulley system using the extended hook attached to the front of the building...

we walked pass anne frank's house...

street in amsterdam...

after the tour... we went to heineken experience... where we got to see the beer brewing progress... and learned about its entrepreneurial founder... heineken is now managed by the fourth generation...


they tried to be innovative over the years... once, they thought of using their glass bottle to build walls~~~

that's about all in amsterdam... next stop... brussels....

europe summer trip (15th-29th july 2009) - part 1

i would love to share my europe summer trip photos... suba and i started to plan the trip in june... from the very beginning we had already decided to do interrailing around western europe...

we bought our inter-rail tickets @ 239 eur each...

so 95% of the time we travelled by train...

4% of the time we drove... 1% of the time we took the plane...

to ensure lots of fun in our trip... we brought...

the 6 awesome people...

good pair of shoes...

travel guide book...

water, sunscreen, documents and stay connected, a phone...

and we were ready...

for a great summer trip...

and our first stop - AMSTERDAM...

10th of aug 2009

not a faithful blogger, i am... i am thankful that i have finally gotten my accomodation... a new laptop... yay!... so i should really get started with my fyp SOON... the pictures for today are a lil bit outdated.. they were taken a day after singapore's bday @ east coast park...

yup... singapore is 44 this year...

a few church friends and i decided to spend the monday morning at east cast park...

we were wondering if the kayak rental was still there...

so we rented bikes from area c...

and cycled to area d, where the kayak rental was supposed to be...

we didnt find it... but we came to this garden area...

with beatiful flowers... it started to rain during noon time... we cycled back and had lunch together before heading back home...

it was a cool day to cycle...