i am alive...

:) just to say i'm alive and kicking, surviving this week in which i've done almost nothing fruitful, somehow, which leaves me slightly dissatisfied with myself, slightly frustrated, and rather determined to make the next week better :) falling behind wouldnt be good, no, and i want to do my best for the exams - it's the first one, i'm not sure how i'll do, so at least this time round i have to go all out. -nods

days have been passing by rather quickly, attending lectures, practicals, spanish lessons (the highlight of the week :)) coming back to be greeted (usually) by tanja my flatmate, and (sometimes) kevin the other flatmate. having dinner alone or with them, being very german - eating potatos, boiled with butter & salt, or mashed, or fried with cheese & onions, then watching tv with tanja usually, chatting abt our days, commenting abt tv, and learning new german words :) chatting then with other pple online - fid, and the bunch of germany friends. so all in all rather gd, rather peaceful life :)

weather's getting cold (how german to be discussing the weather, hurhur) but suits me quite well still. nice feeling all wrapped up and warm, or even feeling the chill but knowing that home will be around the corner, nicely heated up.

and i will be away for the weekend in aachen. singaporean food beckons (lester!!), good company, dvds (?) and relaxation. :) plus, i must not forget to get my poster of köln. then my room will be the way i want it :)

medppl: congrats on the going-to-be-concluded CAs! :) have a gd rest yea, and gear up again for the next challenge! :) :)

marta and pavlina, me, marie carmen from mexico and the two korean girls in front of the erfurter dom :) 

pretty erfurt :) 

the erfurter dom, a lovely gothic structure :) on this square kids gathered on the 10th of november to celebrate the birthday of martin luther who was born in erfurt, which we marginally missed.. made up for it by drinking glühwein - some kinda wine which is warmed which is great in winter :) 

here's the reflection of some pretty half-timbered houses in the glass :) 

all 30 of us on a bridge in erfurt, which has 23 houses built on it :) rather pretty, especially those half-timbered houses, more of which will come later :) 3 german students went with us, and one conducted the tour in erfurt on sunday on a raining morning :) 

yulong, me, asoss, marta and pavlina from the czech republic - doing english and german studies. dinnering in erfurt in this superb italian restaurants, where i had mussels and was reminded fondly of the good old days in köln with peiwen :) 

asoss from kurdistan (autonomous region in iraq), yulong from taiwan (also doing bio, phd) and me in weimar :) 

a lovely hse in weimar :) nth much, just found it very pretty.. :) 

weimar's most famous sons - goethe and schiller. :) their houses have been (predictably) turned into museums - i went into goethe's and it was really nice i must say, thanks to the tourguide. he was pretty rich, got a house with a front and back part, and horses to pull his carriage which was stored in the in-between space. 

check out this new corner of my room! :) got 2 new posters to replace those un-xizzy posters of my flatmates.. and will be adding a germany map soon to the other corner which is empty now, once i find a nice one.. or do you all have other suggestions? :) anyway fyi the leftside one is van gogh's cafe at night, it used to hang in my rm in cologne :) and the rightside one is random, i jus liked it. :) 

the last, and least interesting part - the wardrobe, and the sofa bed :) lots of clothes strewn all over - i need to do washing!! but gd thing is that the sofa bed can sleep two, so i am always ready for guests!! :) 

the area next to the door - in the corner two bookshelves fit quite nicely, check out the files (which are all empty) and the books! :) hehhs and check out the messy desk! all the breakfast cookies are there, and random junk. time to clear up! :) 

the other part of my bed, next to the window and the heater (the white thing beneath).. and next to the bed is a nice and useful lamp which can light up the room as well as the corner of the bed where i sit to read.. my desk next - it's huge, just the size i need. :) fid - your pics are there! :) on the wall! :) 

a corner of my newly furnished room! here's the printer, part of my bed, and yit's farewell card from last yr! :) 

finally a picture of the people i live with :) from right, tanja from stuttgart who is studying medicine in her 5th sem, kevin from köln who is doing bio in the 5th sem as well, and the other two are christina and frank, the good friend and boyfriend of tanja respectively. we were having spätzle, a typical swabish meal for dinner. it's made of floor, eggs and water, and baked with cheese :) qt qt yummy! we made it ourselves hehh :P 

st. kilian - the first monk who came to würzburg and transformed the city into a catholic one. :) he's one of the twelve statues lining the sides of the oldest bridge in würzburg, die alte Mainbrücke. - this photo & the 3 below are taken by ouch, the taiwanese friend who came to visit a weekend ago :) 

the river Main (pronounced mye-n) cutting through würzburg. 

the lovely red marienkapelle in the city centre of würzburg :) 

the festung on the hill :) on a lovely day with the clearest water and bluest skies.