Spring is coming soon!!

In Germany spring begins on 21st March and end on 20th June. That means after today, springtime will begin. Springtime is seen as a time of growth, renewal, of new life (both plant and animal) being born, and of the cycle of life once again starting. It is also used more generally as the start of better times. Everyday when I walked along the street to the bus stop, I can see a lot of flower e.g. Tulip, Lily… start to blossom. I feel very happy when I see my Tulip start to blossom too. Moreover, the weather here is more comfortable during spring, I think it will fluctuate around 15°C. Yesterday it was snowing heavily here and we heard from the news that it is because of the Orkun.

Last Sunday, my dear and I went to Wesser Ems Halle to visit Blumenshau 2007 in Oldenburg. The big hall was crowded and I could see a lot of beautiful flowers e.g. Tulips, Lilies, ‘Tao Hua’, ‘Mu Dan’, Bonzai, Roses, Orkid, Daisies, Canna….. I like all the flowers very much. We walked around the hall and we have taken some photos. Moreover, we also watched the musik fountain show.

Hihi….After this week, I have long Easter Holiday. Huhuh…..I can take a break and prepare for my Deutsch Exam. Hopefully I can do well for this paper. God bless me!!

Chinese New Year is coming soon!

Time flies...Chinese New Year is coming soon. This is the 1st time I am celebrating CNY in Oldenburg. Sure, I will miss my family and all my friends back home in Malaysia. I also miss the time as my brothers and sisters decorated the house with plum blossom, bamboo and we went for shopping with my parents to buy some drinks, biscuits and cloths. I miss the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve where members of my family, near and far, get together for celebration at my grandparent’s house. I also miss all the foods which my mum and aunty prepared which were very sumptuous and traditionally includes chicken, steam fish, prawn, Siew Yuk, Sea cucumber with mushroom, Buddha’s Delight, Roasted Duck… and also miss the time as our family playing cards together. And of course miss the ‘ang pao’ too!


Haha… I also miss the reunion with my friends and the annual dinner because during that time I can meet a lot of friends. Anyways, I wish all of you a prosperous, healthy, wealthy and Happy Chinese New Year!!

It’s snowing today

As it began snowing here this afternoon, my dear called me while I was shopping in the town to make sure that I knew it was snowing. I was impressed, probably because I like snow very much. This is what I’m waiting for in the last few months. Hihi…I am really happy today. While I was taking the bus home after shopping, I purposely chose a window seat in order that I can see the snow falling down from the sky, it is such a beautiful scene. In the night, I was staring out my window, watching snow falling. This is a very nice scene because the trees in front of my house have worn new white cloths and leaving a white blanket over the cars and roads.

My second semester German course ended today. Our lecturers will bring us to a Café for a cup of coffee. Haha….I was so surprised because my dear passed a present to me when he came back from his work. He told me that this present is for finishing my second semester German.

Temperature today is 0°C

Oh….thanks God, finally Orkan has passed same as those wet rainy and windy days. Therefore, we seldom went out for shopping after school. haha…. Today, when I walked to the bus stop in the morning, I saw some ice on the road and I felt very cold although there was sun shine. When my bus passed through a building which I almost watched everyday showing the temperature, I was excited because today the temperature is 0°C and that means that the snow I am waiting is coming soon!!!

My second semester German course is ending this week. Time flies by too fast and I have to make use of the break to improve my German since I just heard that my 1/3 of my master programme is conducted in German…scary!!! Hopefully I can manage.

Happy Birthday to me!!

This is my third time having birthday at overseas... :) The first time was in Szeged, Hungary and the second time was in Oldenburg.

Every year my dear sure will prepare some surprises for me. Hihi…guess what is the present for this year? Haha…in the midnight, he sang ‘Birthday song’ to me and passed a big present……a backpack that I always wanted, a nice pullover & a beautiful scarf. He also made a fruit cake as a Birthday cake for me...Thank you very much my dear! In the afternoon, we went out for shopping and also had lunch in an Argentian Restaurant. The food was very nice and delicious. In the night, he made a pizza for dinner and we had a great time with Champagne.


Many thanks to my lovely family for calling and all my dear friends who had called or smsed me and sent me e-cards (PWei, Loryln, Sau Feng, Green, Ah Soon, Pat, Kah Ling, Teopag, Tian Kooi, Tian Fu,Audrey,Yawai, Ivy, Hui Sim, Chung Tuck…) to me since 0000 hr...:p So happy that you all still remember...


I enjoyed my Birthday this year very much that I am sure that it will be even better next year...Hoping for BIGGER PRESENT AND MORE!!!

Happy New Year 2007

First of all, I wish all my friends Happy New Year and hope that you have had a good start in the year 2007. This is my second time celebrating new year in Germany. The first time was in Berlin and we spent new year's eve at the Brandenburgertor. Although I celebrated new year´s eve this time at home but we did enjoy the Silvester fireworks at midnight. Eventhough the weather was not optimal but the people here had welcomed 2007 with 10 minutes fireworks display which It is a tradition here.

There are a lot of things I wish to accomplish in this year. I need to work hard to improve my German and hope that I could get through the German language test in the middle of the year and start my postgraduate study by the end of the year. My friends, let us work hard this new year and wishing you all and myself :P all the best!!!

Rewind...48 days in Germany (2)

Always wanted to travel to Netherlands, didn't have the chance 4 years ago while travelling around Europe. We decided to visit the nearest town on the 31st of September - Groningen which is one and a half hour journey from Oldenburg. We started early in the morning and arrived around 10 am. The weather was pleasant and we headed straight away to the town center, 10 minutes walk from the railway station. To our surprise, there was a weekend market with around 100 stalls. But what that caught my attention at the first moment were the flowers markeeter. I had to convinced myself that those are real flowers as their colors were so outstanding, just like those plastic ones in Malaysia. I couldn't resist myself to capture these scenes with my camera although it looked so strange to the locals who are so used to these flowers and perhaps even forgotten to take a careful look at them and to admire their beauty. We spent much time wondering around the market. There were still alot for us to explore. The vegetables were so fresh and relatively cheap. Groningen is also rich with seafoods. We stopped down at a stall serving fried fish nuggest and calamaries as we just had some biscuits for breakfast early that morning. After that, we decided to make use of the remaining time visiting the opera, cityhaus, cathedral etc, that were on our lists of 'must-sees'. I also managed to grab some souveniers and postcards from the tourist information center. We finished much earlier as expected and what to do? My dear and I walked back to the market place to hunt for snacks...we had some Australian home-made icecream, pommes... All are real calories bombs.
We had our dinner at Burger King at the railway station. It was not a spontaneous choice but we indeed planned that. We actually stopped by at Groningen three years ago when we visited London. We also had our dinner at this Burger King before taking the train back to Oldenburg. It was the tastiest burger I have had and the reason was....one could pay extra for some extra cheese...I think it must be local product...It just made a prefect combination with the burger. What a dissapointment that we could not do that anymore this time (the action was over) and we have to settle down with just a normal conventional burger.
We arrived home that day exhausted but with thousands of Calories more...it was a nice trip anayway! what's next? AMSTERDAM!

Köln one-day-trip

Köln is one of the nicest town in Germany. I had the chance to pay a visit to this magnificant city that lies on the bank of Rhein. Since we had no plan to spend a night there, we had to make full use of the time we had. Normally me dear is doing all the planning whenever we go travelling but this time I am in charged as he is 'too busy' with his work... We departed early that morning and arrived before noon. We could already see the Cologne Cathedral as our train was approaching. It just sits next to the railway station. We set up our newly bought camera tripod and started shooting, of course together with my dear. I have been always complaining that we took photos together too seldom. I think we shot at least 10 photos together just at the Cathedral. I must admit that it was a bit strange taking photos this way but looking at the photos, it definitely worth the effort. We then walked towards downtown and arrived at the famous shopping street. Actually we planned to have asian buffet at a restaurant for lunch. But guess what, we had KFC... KFC has been always my favourite fast food and I have been missing it since I arrived here. It is a pity that KFC is not so well established in Germany as McD or BKing. I managed to persuade my dear to change our plan although my dear scolded me everytime I ate KFC in Subang. Though we were a bit pessimistic with the KFC in Germany as we tried once three years ago in Hamburg and it was quite disappointing and they only served original recipe. But this time was different, we realised that they served 'hot & spicy' now! It was not as crispy as Malaysia KFC but when you have been hungering for it for the last months, you just enjoy the finger lickin' good experience without taking care of too much details. We even ordered some extra hot wings...We ended up so full and it was therefore not a bad idea to continue our walking tour around the town. I like particulary the town hall and the 'altstadt' (old town). After a few hours of walking and souvenir hunting, we settled down for the famous 'Koelsch" (a local beer speciality brewed in Cologne). We spent some more time shopping after that and arrived home midnight! Ah...almost forgot, my dear finally bought me one more my favourite 'metoyou' bear as I left the bear home.