Thursday, February 26, 2009
few days after my birthday was matthias's bday. and since they put in so much effort to make nice dinner for me, i thought it would be nice to make them dinner too! but the master chef is the birthday boy. so we decided to do steamboat, chinesische fondue (directly translated as chinese fondue) as what the swiss calls it! easy and nice!
people who helped out to prepare the vege, soup, pizza, fish etc.
food! :D was glad that everyone loved the things that we prepared that night.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
i went skiing at flumserberg! my first time on skiis. it was fun, despite the fact that i fell down numerous times. as beginners, we only tried the gentle slopes, meant for kids. but i don't think i'll dare to ski on those steeper slopes. i'll freak out. haha. cause i still can't control my directions.
on the way up! cable cars! with nice view of snowy mountains all the way up!
andreas managed to exchange ski passes with some couple. with that ski passes we could take the cable car to the peak of the mountain. more than 2000m above sea level! we only had 3 passes. so we were supposed to take turns. some of them didn't manage to go up cause we were running short of time. the view up there was just magnificent. and we were fortunate enough to see some sun when we were at the top, considering the fact that the weather that day was not very good. it was snowing throughout, so visibility was quite poor.
at the top of the 'world'! :D i don't know why i blinked in most of my pictures. boo.
more pictures while waiting for our trains back to zürich, when it was getting a bit dark. didn´t get to see sunset though. what a waste.
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Friday, February 20, 2009
this year's birthday is another memorable one. thankful to have great friends around me to celebrate my birthday with me every year. this year, the group of people around me are people that i've only known for 2+ weeks. was glad that they spent so much effort to celebrate my birthday.
it all started at 12am when someone knocked on my door. when i opend the door, there was candles which spell YC at my doorstep. then there were one whole big group of people singing happy birthday, the english version, chinese version and german version! it was accompanied by andreas on guitar. davina with the flowers, ruili with the present and card, and yaowen with the cake. was really sweet of them.
the flowers, swiss army knife with my name engraved!, candles and cake.
people who were there that night, tamisa, davina, matthias, may ee, erlin, anitha, yaowen, andreas, ruili, bernard, sherlock.
and the best thing of all, i had no lessons that day! :D went to Uetliberg with ruili and may ee. Was 871m high, the highest point of Zürich. pretty view!
and they had a surprise dinner for me!
chefs for the day, matthias, davina, tamisa and erlin. got the behind-the-scenes pictures from davina.
there were a lot of food! grilled chicken, pizza, green curry, vege, and CHOCOLATE FONDUE! :D super yummy.
THANKS everyone! and not to forget the 2 special guests, teddy and yi bing.
Labels: birthday
Sunday, February 15, 2009
had a class outing with german classmates to the zoo! it was coldddddd. like wat my bro said, i pity the animals in the zoo. haha. the whole place was covered in snow. but the penguins were cute though! haha.
went to a nearby city, winterthur. it was still snowing when we were there. walked around the old town and shopped! made another mini snowman at a nearby park and had snowball fight! :D
what is swiss without chocolates? hehe. i love the choc from this store, merkur. being the cheapskate ones, we always go get free samples from the store. love the dark chocolates! :D
Saturday, February 14, 2009
some outdated pictures from the first two weeks in zürich. internet has been crappy. so sorry for the lack of updates.
taken on the first day of school. in front of ETH Zürich's main building.
river at dietikon, the small town where i live in right now. it's only 20 mins away from zürich city by train. i love the swans! they always come in pairs. and those ducks with green head. haha. i just love them. ocassionally i'll take a stroll to the river before going back. and i fed the ducks too (when i have leftover bread)!
and the 2nd week here in zürich, it was snowing! me and ruili made snowman! a tiny one though.
Monday, February 09, 2009
blogging from zurich! :D
this city is just beautiful. love the scenery and the weather. it's not too cold and not too hot. just that we have to wear at least 2 layers to go out. can't wait for spring and summer to come when it's warmer!
so far school has been great! having 2 weeks of intensive german course and the first week was great! am sitting with an australian and a norway guy in class. they're super hilarious! :D have been laughing too much in class. am probably the noisiest group of ppl in class.
somehow it's not possible to upload pictures on facebook. but will upload as soon as i'm free. german courses are pretty intensive. 9 to 4 everyday fr mon to fri. plus a lot of admin stuff to settle. so tat explains for the lack of updates. but the company here is great, room is nice. everything is fine.
will post pictures asap. so wait for pictures okie. for the mean time, just look out for pictures tagged by other ppl on facebook. :D
cheers!
