Can't you be believing now?

i need something to keep me moving.

Life as a nomad.

Ever have the feeling of being homeless and not knowing where to spend the night. This is totally what I feel now.

I can't wait to snuggle up in my own bed, have my own wardrobe and study table. I can't wait to decorate my soon-to-be lovely room. I can't wait to go HOME.. :(

I speak with confidence when everyone ask me the question "What are you going to do after you graduate?". I know I have to because I can no longer avoid this question.

Is it wrong to answer what I want to do? I could no longer bother to think about what other people will think about me, whether they agree or disagree. I just want to follow my heart and do all I can to achieve it because I choose what my heart wants and I know this will lead to my happiness. I can compromise anything but I can never compromise my own happiness. This belongs to me and not anyone else. I will fight for it and if I failed I know I tried my best and I have no regrets.

The Law of Jante

As I was reviewing points for my Danish reflective journal, I came across something really unique and only found in Scandinavian country - The Law of Jante. According to wiki, this law shows a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities, which negatively portrays and criticizes success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate.

Honestly, it kinda sound like Moses's 10 law of commandments in the bible, except in a more inferior way... but I like it ;p

The ten rules state:

1. Don't think you're anything special.
2. Don't think you're as much as us.
3. Don't think you're wiser than us.
4. Don't convince yourself that you're better than us.
5. Don't think you know more than us.
6. Don't think you are more than us.
7. Don't think you are good at anything.
8. Don't laugh at us.
9. Don't think anyone cares about you.
10. Don't think you can teach us anything.

An eleventh rule recognized in the novel is:

11. Don't think there's anything we don't know about you.

Cool huh?! Oh and this is not a joke, it really exist!

flowers...

when i move into my new place, i will place a vase with flowers in it. I will get new and different flowers every week..tulips, daisies, lilies, iris, sunflowers and many more.. in the process i will discover some new flowers... yeah, that's what i'm gonna do..!

a little fish in a big pond

Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I'm across

Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't mean I'm hurt
Doesn't mean I didn't get what I deserved
No better and no worse

let's sway to the rhythm of love

ZARA Europe vs ZARA KL

I bought a shirt for rm 69.90 with a tag on top of this tag, after tearing it up i saw the price in euro after conversion it should be only rm 60 and now we're talking about law of one price, how ironic. Still, I miss shopping in zara in Paris and Berlin.

The Encounter in Europe continues

My next destination was Denmark whereby I spent most of my time (2 weeks). I was at Copenhagen city for 1 night and honestly the city is really small. I could just walk the entire city center for 2 hours. But one rewarding thing about Copenhagen is I finally got to eat real good chinese food which I have been craving for 1 week. We were lucky enough to have a chinese restaurant located directly opposite our hotel, We had two meals there and the price was actually one of the most reasonable. There was nothing much to explore in Copenhagen at that time firstly because it was winter and it is really cold, second it was a Sunday and everything is closed!, thirdly it's not a really happening city. Luckily people there spoke pretty good English but everything else were pretty expensive. FYI, I finally saw the little mermaid too!

My main destination for the entire travel plan was actually Aarhus whereby I will spend two week on exchange in the university there. Aarhus is a the third city after Copenhagen and Aalborg in Denmark with a population of 300,000 only. A really small pretty and peaceful city. It is 3 and a half hours train ride away from Copenhagen. The Danes are really unique people, probably typical scandinavianish. I stayed in a really cramp hotel with my roomate Carissa, I had hard time adapting to the limited space in the room. I never stayed in such a small room in my entire life before and I had to stay here for two weeks. The toilet was just so cool whereby you can do your business, wash your hand and shower at the same time because everything was just within reach. Imagine that!

My routines for the two weeks was to wake up at 6am get ready by 7 am and walk to uni which is 30 mins walk away from my hotel every day and have 6 hours lecture and attend uni activities after class. Basically I hadn't really seen daylight for that two weeks because it gets dark at 4pm. Despite that, I really enjoyed being a student there and the topics taught was really interesting because I learnt alot about Denmark and the EU, the after school activities was really fun as well. To sum it all, it was a great two weeks of student life there, but I was pretty sure I was prepared to return to Melbourne to continue my student life :P

Overall, Denmark is a really clean, discipline, peaceful and beautiful country. I have gained so much knowledge through my two weeks stay here and knew some great people from different part of the world. One more thing, the Danes are really IT savy people, you won't believe how I sat for my exam. I actually had two exams and both were conducted using my own laptop and we could use internet for searching info for the exams. The Danes really prioritise practicality and have great trust in the students that they won't cheat during exam which explains why Denmark is the country with the lowest corruption in the world. I would love to stay longer in Denmark but unfortunately my study grant won't last long enough for any extended stay.. so I had to move on to my next destination.. DEUTSCHLAND aka GERMANY! Before that I would rate Denmark 3 out of my 4 destination visited maybe.. because I just got too sick of eating rye bread everyday...? :-/ haha

Here are great pictures form my two week stay in Denmark which include Aarhus:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=326661&id=639640249&l=19f0e21c10

My final destination was Germany. The homeland of my boyfriend. Obviously, there was no escape in visiting Germany. Honestly, I had pretty high bar set from my previous countries so Germany would need to try really hard to impress me. Amazingly, it did! Germany is my ranked no.1 country out of 4. Don't call me biased because my boyfriend is a German. I judged based on my experiences. We basically covered all the major cities in Germany: Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. Luckily we have a good tour guide and organiser to make sure everything is well-planned and work smoothly and who else could he be :p In my opinion. every city is special and unique in its own way and it wasn't boring at all travelling from city to city. Despite the long haul travel journey, I was always anticipating to see what the next city has to offer. Germany never fails to surprise me. Thanks to my so-lala German language it wasn't that hard to understand what's going on there. Well, Hamburg was the first city that we visited, it is a habour city and the second busiest habour in Europe. It was like a city build by a big river or sea. Then, we headed to the capital of Germany, Berlin. Berlin kinda felt like the perfect balance between modern city life and the historic city. I loved the old monuments which are still standing since WW2. We saw the Berlin wall and Brandenburger gate which are iconic to the world. I like the semi multicultural thing going on there, it was a much opened-minded city than I expected. Then on our third day we headed to Munich, one of the most beautiful city I've ever seen in my life. It's like the kind of fairy tale city every small girl read about. The snow covered historical churches and monuments are just mystifying. It feels like the perfect setting for a fairy tale that are always described in story books. The city was anything but modern, busy and hustle.We even went to the Neuschwanstein castle close to the Austria border, the castle was built on the mini Alps mountains. The view from on top the castle was just breath-taking. Since Munich is under the Bavarian territory, we had heaps of pork (pork knuckles & suckling pork) and they just tasted soooooooooo yummy....! I won't mind gaining an extra 5 kg for eating them.

On our last destination, we drove to Frankfurt where I will depart from. Frankfurt is a city like any other financial hub in the world, with high rise everywhere. Big banks mushroomed the entire city. Kinda felt like Singapore to me. Funny thing is while walking to one of the restaurants for dinner we saw bunnies hopping around on the grasses in front of these high rise. I meant everywhere!? It's just so weird.. hmm they are like bats which only come out at night except they hop around. You definitely don't see that in any other modern cities in the world. OooHh AS a Master of Finance student, I can now proudly say I have been to the European Central Bank too!

As you all know, Germany is my top pick among all four countries. Reason? my bf? NO!!! you have to find it out on your own to understand SERIOUSLY! ;) FYI i'm not getting paid for promoting Germany.

I present to you pictures from all over Germany;

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=327252&id=639640249&l=1316d0c766

The Radical Dreamer came back to live

As I mentioned one month back, I was on a study/travel mission for one month and I promised I will share heaps of pictures and experience in my blog.

Well let's first go through them one by one..

My first destination was London..I had four days there and we went to all the must-visit-place such as Buckingham palace, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, London Eye, Madam Tussaunds, London & Tower Bridge and Harrods with the Knightsbridge shopping area. Lucky for us we had many days to spare, we took a day tour to Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath- the roman city. So basically I have covered most of the London. Overall I find that London is a city which is kinda overrated and things are pretty expensive. As for the food, it is pretty expected and standard. Maybe I have stayed in Melbourne for a while, the feeling London gave me was pretty similar to Melbourne so for London A I would rate it 4 out of the four countries I've visited.

Here is the link to the photos from London:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=326362&id=639640249&l=c80a75dd4d

My second destination was Paris, the whole trip was pretty rushed and short. We took Eurostar from London to Paris and the entire journey took 2 hours only. Pretty impressive huh. Wait.. Have I forgot to mentioned that I got a really bad bruise on my left leg when I was carrying my 20 kg luggage up the train. I fell on the platform..On top of that don't be deceived by the cool ride. I had a really bad first impression once I got down from the train at the Paris main train station. We totally had no idea how the entire subway worked and how exactly to get to our hotel. So our natural instinct was to ask the information counter and guess what?! Although they spoke English (really badly) they were rude as well maybe because we spoke in English. (French hates English). We had hard time understanding her instruction and had a really hard time getting to the subway near our hotel. While we were at the subway my hand got caught at the barrier and I was yelling for help and no one bothered to help me because they were just simply shouting French at me and I freaking don't understand a crap. There goes my second bruise. Great just got to Paris already injured on leg and hand. What's next!? Oh yeah.. rainy weather... yes alongside with our 20 kg luggage searching for our deserted hotel. The fact that no one speaks English just made things worst. We were drenched, tired, cranky and battered when we finally found our hotel. OK enough of my series of unfortunate encounter in Paris.

Because we only had two days in Paris, we were on express tour plan and we only visited the must see places such as Museum Du' Lourve, Eiffel Tower, Versailles Palace and Arc de triomphe. I guess that was enough for our tour in Paris. Oh yeah not to mentioned, the food in Paris is YUMMMM! it was definitely 10x better than English food and don't expect to find any asian food along. And for you girls out there, Paris is definitely a shopping heaven. Prepare enough Euros before heading to this city because I can guarantee that once you start shopping you can't stop!

I really likes the whole romance city of love in Paris concept apart from the people unfriendliness and language barrier. I would like to go back to France one day and visit the souther part which is Monaco. I would rate this destination 2 out of 4.

Check out pictures from Paris:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=326381&id=639640249&l=3099a4b4ee

i came across this song in Karaoke today and it totally nailed me!