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forgot to add on before i posted yesterday. I am okay, no worries ;)

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new semester started. can feel the furies. assignments are still on hand, workshops, and OSCE the killer coming soon. many thoughts are crushing in my mind. i know i have many things to be done. just didnt want to do anything today, Saturday. i embrace it, but it's a really really quiet Saturday. after had skype session with family, i know cny is near, and i know i have to miss the other time of cny, kinda homesick. i miss all of them. my favourite of the year to spend with family. need to go back home. but nope. staying here. lots of things to catch up. come on, cheer up Yeeyin!

Food in Germany and Switzerland

Just a post about the food I have eaten in Germany and Switzerland. Most of the food comes from German Christmas Market. We hunted food in all of the christmas markets in Germany. In Germany, speaking of christmas markets, there were nicely decorated! the atmosphere, lighting, musics, foods, people, performance and a huge christmas tree at the center! What i can found the most were German sausage, beef/pork, with bread or with sauce. sausage everywhere. I have been to christmas markets in Berlin, Rothenburg ob de Tauber, Munich, Frankfurt and Cologne. rated the best food was in Berlin, and the nicest decoration in Cologne! let the photos speak!

one of the christmas markets in Berlin

proffertjes: traditional dutch fluffy pancake with vanilla cream

Schwenkbraten: German grilled pork steak 

Schweinshaxe: roasted pork knuckle served with white cabbage(only managed to finish half of it~ )

Schneeballen: snowball made from shortcrust pastry which is famous in Rothenburg

to satisfy my sweet tooth 

Bratwurst: half meter long of a sausage 

brezel: salty pretzel sanwiched of butter, in Germany

continental breakfast provided by the hostel

forgotten what is it called but it is potato chips topped with fried onion and garlic sauce

gluhwein: mulled wine made with red wine and mulling spices. served in hot, it warms the stomach immediately! 

spiralkartoffeln: Spiral potatoes with garlic sour cream as topping

langos: deep fried dough with cheese and ham as toppings

crepe: very thin pancake filled with banana and nutella

bratwurst: two sausages with a bread

Augustiner Weissbier: 500mL, Most popular beer in Munich

another crepe: filled with five Raffaello chocolate

Currywurst: pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with sauce and curry powder

we were craving for hot asian food and there it goes, laksa! (it did not taste like laksa tho) 

Pastry with cheese and egg slices on top 

Reibekuchen: German potato fritters served with apple sauce

krapfen: berliner, similar to doughnut with no central hole

fried mushrooms and onion with topping of garlic sauce

BBQ marinated pork with bread

Cheese fondue in Switzerland: bread to be dipped in the pot of melted cheese

rosti: traditional Swiss dish mainly made of potatoes with cheese! 

Miss the food in Germany! The food in Switzerland is too cheesy for me. But it's good i get the chance to try the traditional Swiss food in Switzerland, and also the traditional German food in Germany :)

Hello 2014

first day of 2014. staying in room enjoying the beginning of the year! first day of every year is my parent's anniversary! today is their 24th anniversary! i have wished them happy anniversary! wish them can be safe safe, healthy healthy and happy happy! :D

Goodbye, 2013

Last day of 2013. Still, in UK, same like last year.
2013 is a great and happy year. awesome! i have had experienced many things in this year that i have never thought before. i had white chinese new year, trip to Paris with friends, got over the PP3 nightmare, passed year 3 exams, got to gain experience during summer pharmacy placement, meet up with hometown friend and travel to Manchester and Liverpool, trip to Highland, Scotland with bestie, back to Malaysia and reunited with all family members again after so long, meet up with friends, dates with my love ;) , and had a once a lifetime chance to tour Germany and Switzerland for 13 days during winter with 11 of us! it was an awesome one! a really really good year. i don't demand much for 2014, it will be good enough if it's like year 2013. GOODBYE 2013, HELLO 2014! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014!

Glasgow→Ipswich

So travelling alone ✓! It was very exciting! One backpack and a handbag, got on to train, underground at london, few changes of train to arrive at Ipswich train station after 6.5 hours and finally walked for a distance to a meeting point. yay meeting point! Guess who I was meeting? A guy, who gives me a lot of suggestions, personal thoughts and positive advices, play and eat together. hehehe my brother!

This is the underground in London

 Stayed in his room for two nights, and his room is in a mess. I won't blame him, a guy's room used to be like that. we chat, we talked, we played games, we Skyped with family and we eat together again after so long. [and ya, he tickled me as usual]. I feel the warmth when staying with him. 

After two nights on weekends, I left in the morning. As usual he has to go to work. Plug in earphones, sit on the train seat, the music player was playing a sad song randomly. Suddenly, tears began to well in my eyes. Yea, kind of homesick, I guess. I was getting better after an hour on the train. Back to Glasgow after another 6.5 hours. 

The morning view of Ipswich

Hello December

here it comes the end of the year. it is not the end yet, but almost. what i have done through year 2013! nightmare at the beginning, fun during summer, and hopefully it will end with happiness!
what so special on December in UK which cannot be found in Msia. the Christmas atmosphere! the decorations on the streets, the christmas trees, the displays, the lights, the songs and musics, the shopping sales and the food have presented a joyful atmosphere!  

random

hahaha how i wished the exam is at 1.30am later instead of 1.30pm tomorrow. hohoho.

逗陣ㄟ

kinda homesick after watching this 2013 taiwan movie 逗陣ㄟ. the kid 汪筠書 is very good in acting! so natural. this movie is a comedy film with touching storyline. no doubt, tears as companion tonight. love from family is always an infinity. omgggg i miss home seriously. this movie is strongly recommended!

Nottingham games

now i know why my friends whom went to Nottingham Games last year never want to go this year. generally that was just a sport event where all Malaysian students assemble. it will be fun if you participate in the games, or meet up with friends there. Neither of those, then it will be bored. and i am shocked with the amount of people, at least few thousands. 

we departed from Glasgow at 12.30am, it took 6 hours to arrive Nottingham Uni. that was torturing! i miss my bed. I have no idea why Nottingham was so cold that day. feet and fingers numbed, could not feel anything. we had to walk like 20 mins from bus stop to the sports hall where all people were waiting. the different thing was that all are speaking Malaysian languages, as in English, Mandarin, BM and any languages in Malaysian style, especially sentences ending with la and lo. oh ya, opening ceremony started with Negaraku. 

we went to city centre to had breakfast, had a short walk and back to the uni to wait to go back home. surprisingly, there was an coincidence when i bumped up few friends! again, it was torturing while waiting the time to pass. all of us were in sleepy, cold, tired and hungry state. no food to eat. went crazy that time. luckily i had chocolate as a relief from a friend. finally it's 7.30pm, got on to the bus and took another 6 hours to reach back home. totally exhausted. but we had fun, at least for the first few hours. hehehe.