Friday, January 2, 2009 - 3:06 PM
Happy New Year with love
Was talking to my Darling through msn! Missing you!!!! Arghhhhhh, yes yes our date at Wala Wala (:
My previous post pretty summed up where I've been to for the winter break. I delibrately dropped my trip to Budapest cos it was where I've spent my Christmas. Christmas was meant to be celebrated with ppl you love, checked. Christmas was meant to be 'special', checked. Christmas was supposed to have turkey but i had Thai food so it's ok, checked. And Christmas is srsly not about huge celebration. In Budapest or any EU country, it's about spending time with your family members. So, Budapest was like a dead city with completely nth on christmas eve. haha. And nope, i did not have a white christmas, but definitely a freezing cold one. But Budapest is gorgeous, rather unkempt but it's all good. We counted down in a pub playing bluff. Merry Christmas to you if I've failed to get to you.
We normally travelled around by train (yes, very time-consuming but it's the cheapest way to travel around europe) with our eurail passes. All the train services were good I would say. However, all hell broke loose on our way to the last destination, krakow, poland. Dark, dirty, gloomy and vacant, it was like a haunted train, haunted by the most evil creature you can imagine, the homo sapiens. The boys were stolen not once, not twice but trice! It was traumatic. If you have a choice, try not to take a night train in eastern europe, unless you have a strong heart. lol. what an experience.
But if Budapest is unkempt, Krakow is worse. One of the days there was spent at the Auschwitz concentration camp. We got the best tour guide ever. We were as if brought back to time. It was so saddening I don't feel like talking about it. I'm just very very very grateful to every single lil thing in life.
New year eve was celebrated at Sylwester 2008, Krakow's countdown party. I still couldn't believe we stood 4 freaking hours for leona lewis and were not frozen to death. In the end, leona lewis was not all worth the wait but the experience was err, unique. but pls dont try this celebration if you are clastrophobic.
2008 has been like the tower of terror ride in Paris Disneyland - lots of ups and downs (literally), but defintely more ups this time round. 2008 was spent in more than 10 countries around the world. 2008 has the best memories in life which I'll definitely hold on to for a very long time. I've changed quite a bit in 2008, learnt a lot too. The exchange is coming to an end, it's like I'm finally going to wake up from this dream. And I really can't wait to wake up (:
Since I've taken like 1800 pictures (amazing right i know), I'll TRY to filter and only post, pictures about makanan! (albeit many of the times we had pizza, kebab and pizza, again) yoohoo!
My previous post pretty summed up where I've been to for the winter break. I delibrately dropped my trip to Budapest cos it was where I've spent my Christmas. Christmas was meant to be celebrated with ppl you love, checked. Christmas was meant to be 'special', checked. Christmas was supposed to have turkey but i had Thai food so it's ok, checked. And Christmas is srsly not about huge celebration. In Budapest or any EU country, it's about spending time with your family members. So, Budapest was like a dead city with completely nth on christmas eve. haha. And nope, i did not have a white christmas, but definitely a freezing cold one. But Budapest is gorgeous, rather unkempt but it's all good. We counted down in a pub playing bluff. Merry Christmas to you if I've failed to get to you.
We normally travelled around by train (yes, very time-consuming but it's the cheapest way to travel around europe) with our eurail passes. All the train services were good I would say. However, all hell broke loose on our way to the last destination, krakow, poland. Dark, dirty, gloomy and vacant, it was like a haunted train, haunted by the most evil creature you can imagine, the homo sapiens. The boys were stolen not once, not twice but trice! It was traumatic. If you have a choice, try not to take a night train in eastern europe, unless you have a strong heart. lol. what an experience.
But if Budapest is unkempt, Krakow is worse. One of the days there was spent at the Auschwitz concentration camp. We got the best tour guide ever. We were as if brought back to time. It was so saddening I don't feel like talking about it. I'm just very very very grateful to every single lil thing in life.
New year eve was celebrated at Sylwester 2008, Krakow's countdown party. I still couldn't believe we stood 4 freaking hours for leona lewis and were not frozen to death. In the end, leona lewis was not all worth the wait but the experience was err, unique. but pls dont try this celebration if you are clastrophobic.
2008 has been like the tower of terror ride in Paris Disneyland - lots of ups and downs (literally), but defintely more ups this time round. 2008 was spent in more than 10 countries around the world. 2008 has the best memories in life which I'll definitely hold on to for a very long time. I've changed quite a bit in 2008, learnt a lot too. The exchange is coming to an end, it's like I'm finally going to wake up from this dream. And I really can't wait to wake up (:
Since I've taken like 1800 pictures (amazing right i know), I'll TRY to filter and only post, pictures about makanan! (albeit many of the times we had pizza, kebab and pizza, again) yoohoo!
Dumplings from Austria and Czech Republic are a must try! (i know that's a lot of food but it's a 14-day backpack so what do you expect, lol)
sweet stuff and soups!
coffee, tea or me? (or beer? or stout?) ICE CREAM anytime! (:
lots of love for the new year to come, another splendid one maybe? *hugseveryone*