Cologne..

This post supposed to be up Ages ago but now also not too late lar.

Our last destination is Cologne :)

Warning !! heavy picture blog ahead.

The most convenient way to travel within Germany would be by using their Bahns ( train) . It is better to get a German Rail Pass ( gosh I love this name so yiing) as you can simply hop into any train and go. Except for night train lar ( you have to reserve your seats/beds). But it is super expensive. :( but worth it. Now what am I talking about? 

For Chinese, go where also have to find food to makan. So once we reached Cologne Hbf, here we go find food.  It's dinner time ok.

The main point of this picture is not me, it's the sign good food guide here which made us ended up in this stall. But I think their potato so so only. *regret* maybe Europeans love potato whenever they go.

Our hostel. Damn rich lar we all got a private ensuite room, actually made not much difference only expensive around 4 euro likedat. For a peace of mind cox me and Jenq Uei also not a social person. We will freak out when it comes to socializing.

Got complimentary chocolate from Air Berlin and the hostel itself. Damn syok when sometimes you get free gifts.

We opt for the breakfast buffet for 5 eur per pax. Jenq Uei said I so not worth it, eat abit only.

It's breakfast lar, who go appetite to eat wan.

See the food. haha I prefer Malaysian buffet with the nasi lemak better.

All sorts of ham for you to choose.

Free and easy day. Can drag long long only go out, camwhore somemore.

Got a big mirror, not really that big lar. :)

Advertisement time?? Just let you know that the service really not bad.

4 pictures on the exact same church :)

Breads everywhere. When you go Germany, must try their Berliners. Damn nice ler.1 eur for 5 biji. So worth it.

 

 Shopping district, My heaven. :) But didn't buy much things though.

Cologne Dom. Unesco Heritage site. Wonder how they built it thousands years ago. Really Impressive.

Jenq Uei and his Kiki-lala pose. I just love the glass window inside the church.

Actually was supposed to go makan in Buffet Chang the korean buffet but it was closed for renovation. *FOL* So we ended up with subway. All my sis fault. She made me addicted to subway but I think the one in Malaysia not so nice.

4711 Eau de Cologne. The ever flowing fountain of perfume. The smell was not so ok for me. The one that the smell ok for me the price not so ok. Ended up didn't buy anything.

Potatos again. Very nice.

Legoland. See all the budak-budak so happy playing. Reminds me always play lego with my sis and bro. We got one helicoptor lego also. 

You can assemble lego human somemore. Last time we got one lego-racing computer game , my brother loves that game and he always win. Damn angry wan always lose to him.

You can use power somemore to "fly" ahead of other car one. Memories...

  

The dom at night. Not exactly night. The sun sets pretty fast during winter. It's actually around 4-5 pm only. But whatever. Actually you can pay 1 eur to climb up to check out the view of Cologne. But We are so tired and I think I will die somewhere in the process of climbing up , so we did not climb up. But if you were to visit cologne, you should try it out.

In the plane flying back to Ukraine. German Wing  :) Budget but WAYYYYY better than RYAN air. 

In Kiev Borisipol airport. :)

My first class "hotel" where I spend the night :)

That's all about my winter trip. Hope you enjoyed it :)

Short update guys.

Guys, sorry for the long gap. I am guilty because most of the time I will start my blog with sorry guys or sorry for the scarce update bla bla bla... just because I didn't update much. Actually, it's just an excuse because most of the time I do not know how to start.

Short update of myself.

1. Weather

Oh man, the weather for the past few days was insane. It was negative 19 but because the wind keep blowing * like a tornado with snow storm and for an instance I thought the world is going to end earlier than 2012* and the windchill is -28 degree Celsius crazy!!=.=My runny mucus froze in my nostril when I walk to class wtf.Luckily the weather was better today but my classroom was so cold. Kanasai punya heather. Cold weather malfunction, when the temperature is 18 degree Celsius, it went bizarre blast till giler.

**Enough of rants**

2. Despite the bad weather, we ( Group 630) went and took photos in the park.

We are also an insane bunch of kids, weather tak giler tak nak ambil gambar, bila weather naik giler baru hangat-hangat nak pergi park ambil gambar. Kena frost bite III degree baru tau!!

Anyway , we tried a few pose mainly for the year book and the pictures were not bad.

We even tried the jumping pose and oh man it was one difficult picture to take. NG a gazillion time before we got a quite ok and not too bad shot.

 Sitting on the snow is literally placing your butt into the freezer and all you get is nothing but 9 perfectly frozen butt , not exactly 9 but 8, Adrian cheat one he squat only.

So funny when the auto timer snap the picture, everyone jump up because too cold.

The Ukrainian very cacat wan, got chair they don't sit, they do it like what the guys doing sit on the upper tier of the chair.  Everyone is smiling but actually it's freezing cold -28 ler what you think and at the end of the day, everyone smile fro-zed.

 The susah-payah only get wan jumping pose. But Jessica failed. hehe but she also look cute lar.

The last shot, everyone very very cold edi. Somemore got bongok Russian come and kacau us. Luckily our group got lotsa tall guys muahaha... and they are just short immature Russian school boys that doesn't have enough nutrition to allow normal development of their brain.

3.Oh yea, I forgot to mention that class finally started. Errr. like 2 weeks ago . So far all the things that we learned are interesting, except for endocrinology, the teacher so long-wind, can die talk non stop for 6 hours and I don't know what she talking, wow for the first time I feel that why the time pass so slow one.

4. CSMU HOW Medicine presentation is OVER!!

Finally Over, how amazing is that. Before that I got nightmare for 3 nights berturut-turut. So stress you know! Glad it's over and hope that it'll help some of us in our future undertaking. I was so happy on the day 24/1/2010 because it was a relieved, you know like the feeling like a rock (big big one) was removed from your shoulder. Then on that day itself, Jeffrey fix the annoying spoiled pipe, no more leaking pipe, double joy!!!

I want to Thanks everyone ( my presenters, central committee, all participants that sat through the long long lecture) for your effort and hard work. I am very happy working with you guys :)

Part of them that made it happened  thanks guys.

5. We had our graduation robe measurements

Only 5 more months and we are gonna be Doctors already. Having the additional DR. in front of your name means that you would have to sacrifice your sleep, your leisure, your family for your patients. The hospital will be your new home and it will be till the rest of your life until the day you decided to quit being a Doctor. By reading the Hippocrates oath in the graduation ceremony, we are promising ourselves to treat our patients as our family members and do no harm... so much responsibilities to bear. No more med-school and welcome the working life.

Sad to say, but I think I'll miss the days I spend here although it is very lousy with PMS like hot water and the forever noisy North Indians and Yahya... hahaha But I think it's too early to write graduation thoughts and feeling, Krok also haven't pass, final exam also haven't pass lahz.

6. CNY coming

CNY coming and it's time to make CNY cookies........woo hoooo.....

Time for numerous parties and time for gambling.....woohooo....

Last CNY in Ukraine :)

Oh well, this update isn't short after-all.

Munich travel guide

I've been rather lazy this few days. Lazy till don't even feel like moving even an inch. I think I am gonna rot till death if this quarantine thing still persists. But still enjoyed staying in the room and getting up late. Self contradicting as always.

Here's another story about my trip.

On our way to our superb host's house. Couch-surf is so amazing. Thanks to my first host, she made my stay in Munich a fantastic one.

On our way, I spotted this damn cool house. It's not paint but actually there's paku- pakis( I don't know what it's called in English fml) on the wall and amazingly it survived winter.

ICE train. German Technology . Nah, actually we went to haufbanhorf ( central train station) to reserve our next train to Cologne, but just to find that we need 20 euro to reserve 2 SITTING seat to cologne on a night train. (fRM ) .

Being as kiam as we are ( we are poor students alright), we thought that it would be more worth it to find a place to stay, can't get a place to stay and at last we decided to reserve the sitting seats and sit the whole night through . at least won't die in cold.

But too late, all seats taken, next choice, 6 person sleeper 40 eur . Wahz siao arhz. Then, after that we still decide to get that, by then too late all trains were full. Have to get on an early train to Cologne and find a place to stay there. Happy already now, found a hostel and 50 eur gone.

Moral of the story:Don't be so kiam . Decide things fast.

I love Christmas Market.

Munich is in Bavarian area of Germany. And it's famous for of course the cuckoo clock. It is hand made and certified Made in Germany.

With a wild boar, actually we mistaken this for the Deutch Museum. Luckily it was clarified later on.

Munich got lotsa churches. We went in numerous just by walking to Marienplatz.

City town hall. Gothic structure. It's actually about the deadly Plague that hit Europe centuries ago.

This is how the people battle the deadly disease that killed 1/4 of the world's population.

Take five, two pictures to show you how romantic the city was.

There is an enormous Christmas tree and I love this picture so much. It looks so magical.

Katherina, Our Munich Coach-surf host. She was a nice nice host that hosted us for 3 days.

Everytime we go to a new place, the snow will follow us. fol.but it's beautiful.

In front of Nyphemberg Palace. Apparently Kind Ludwig II who was very fond of fairy tale castle ordered his men to build numerous castle in Bavarian area. The most famous one would be Neuchswanstein castle but we didn't  go there.:) Cinderella castle was drawn based on it btw.

All of his palace is filled with fairy tale design and guess what...

there are Chandeliers everywhere you go. My sis so gonna love this.

And bright painting everywhere.

even on top of the bed.

This Bavarian King has a special hobby too. He like to collect pictures of pretty girls. These girls are princesses. All sort of princesses.

There are lotsa mirror everywhere.

 

On the balcony.

He has these very beautiful garden where he usually goes hunting during the summer.

 After that we went to Olympiczentrum. Germany once hosted the Olympic games many years back

But it is not the stadium that we are interested at. It's BMW well **confession, it did not interest me but someone else**

My dream car.

my dream motor wtf.

 

It was BMW gallery that we entered. We didn't enter the museum though. The design was so futuristic that you can even test drive on the second floor.

Then after that, we went back to Marienplatz and walk around.

So happy that day everything was OPEN!! but too bad, we miss the last entry time for Residenz Museum

And at night, we actually head to the hottest club. No lar, it's actually a Big grand noisy beer hall that was very historical. Apparently many years back, only royalty can go and drink beer here.

Germany produce the world best beer!!

And I've made my sis proud. Successfully converted into an alcoholic. Minimum have to order 1 L you say crazy or not!!!

**confession: it's only light beer with lemonade somemore**, but the alcohol in German's beer is very high ok, so consider as beer. THE END.

Germany famous pork knuckle to go with the beer. Before this, I once thought German's pork knuckle is steam one. It actually goes with the potato dumpling but I think the dumpling has went into my stomach.

And the so so only apple strudel.

The beer hall was packed and people we talking and laughing and it was very very noisy. When you want to talk, you might just as well shout. But it was fun, there was a band and people will sing once the band play the famous HB beer song.

Totally worth a visit but I suggest you visit it after the free tour ( it operates everyday at 10. 10.45 and 1 pm , gather point is in Marienplatz in front of Mary's statue, it's free, go try go try !!)  if not you gonna have a very very very hard time finding the place .

People will just tell you it is very big and you won't miss it, but it took us 2 hours IN COLD just to find the place. Now,  our problem or the map? hmm...

People, our last stop coming up. Cologne. Shopping heaven ** eyes open wide**

Hope that you enjoyed this post. :)