happy birthday SIYING I.FEED.YOU

Haha, Siying! I can’t fit the word birthday into the picture, because its too hard to write small words on snow, and my fingers almost dropped off writing it lor! hahas.. So I added the word in!

ČEŠTINA esej a veselé vánoce

Jmenuju se Hazel a jsem ze Singapuru. Ráda cestuju. Minulý týden, jsem tady nebyla protože jsem jela do Španělska, byla jsem v Barceloně a Madridu. To je zajímavé. Mám mnoho nových kamarádů z Anglie, z Itálie, z Korey, z USA. Jíme snídaně spolu, máme kukuřičné lupínky, kávu mléko a chleba. K obědu, jím Paellu Španělska rýže, tapas, Španělskou omeleta a vepřové masové jamon. To je dobré. Oni nemají knedlíky , protože já neráda jím knedliky. V neděli, tam je fotbalový zápas mezi FC Barcelona a Real Madrid, ale já nejdu na fotbal. Já jdu na koridu a do muzea, protože nemám ráda fotbal. Mám ráda basketbal více , ale v Praze, hraju basketbal jenom jednou, protože je zima. Tloustnu, protože málokdy cvičím a často jím.

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As part of the curriculum to get the credits for Czech Language 1, we had to write a 150 words essay about ourselves, and after the teacher corrected it, we were supposed to memorise it and say it out like a speech. That freaked Derrick out (because he missed 4 out of 9 lessons ). Of course, I was abit scared as well, but I had much longer time to prepare for it. But all was good, teacher gave me 28/30! She was so nice, even organized this Czech Christmas party to let us know more about their culture.

Spot the teacher!

So I will write 5 special things about Christmas celebration in Czech Republic:
1) A housewife is considered a good housewife when she bakes at least 10 different types of cukroví (cookies).
2) The main Christmas holiday is celebrated on 24th December. 25th December is still a public holiday though.
3) Traditional Czech Christmas dishes consist of lots of fish (and they are fishes from Czech Republic! which means they are freshwater fishes from the lakes): fish soup with fried bread, fried carp with potatoes salad.

4) There is an old custom where people try to predict what awaits them in the next year, by poring molten lead into water and see what shapes it forms. But this is highly dangerous, and therefore not so popular nowadays.
5) Another custom where people cut apples open and crack walnuts. If there is a star shape in the apple, or if the walnut is healthy and good, then they believe the year ahead will be superb.

And finally, a Czech Christmas song for all of you: Půjdem spolu do Betléma (Let’s go to Bethelem)

a list of FOOD that i wanna eat when i’m back

PEOPLE in singapore, start jioing me out for breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper!!!!

let it SNOW, let it SNOW, let it SNOW!!!

Although it was officially winter season one month ago, but it only started snowing a few days ago. And today is the day there was enough snow to make the whole place look so white! Being the sua-ku Singaporean who only experiences sweat and more sweat the whole year round, I went around with my camera, excited to capture my first real day in a city in snow. Previously, I only went skiing once in NewZealand, and went up part of the Swiss Alps at Jungfrau, and those were my only encounter with snow. It was freezing cold at -6deg Celsius, but I continued staying outside with just one jacket and no gloves on. The day was too beautiful to be staying indoor. And it’s gonna be like that all the way till the time I would pack my luggage and say bye to this fantastic place.

the view from my seminar room

look at the snowflakes! they look like dust from a distance

on the way to school! the 5minute walk left me cold inside out

cars all had a new shade of paint

special vehicle to sweep up the snow on the pavement

loves

: )

poor plant

People who have snow for winter every year were dreading it when they saw it this morning, but people like me and Monica, from the hot part of Brazil, was so happy when it was snowing so much today! Haha.. It will be more! Yeaa ice ice baby! I think I need more warm clothes and windproof shoes!

happy birthday, ERNEST LEONG

Handsome (but irritating!!) brother has birthday today! and its 18th birthday! So Daddy Mummy booked a chalet for him to celebrate. Just that I can’t be there.. BOOHOO. But it was nice of them to put my name on the cake!

Hope you enjoyed your birthday (and the present I sent). And get Class3 license as soon as possible! On second thoughts maybe not, if not, there will be 4 people in the family fighting for one car. Hahaha.. Okok, kidding, get it. Then, if I get my 2A, then I can buy a bike (I hope)!

ASIAN christmas party

Aaron jio-ed us for Sichuanese dinner at Narodni Trida. Yearning for some authentic Chinese food, plus he jio-ed the other Asians from the University of Economics, so I went along! 4 Singaporeans, 2 Hongkongers, 2 Taiwanese, 1 Korean, 1 Chinese, 2 Portugese, and 1 Peruvian.

spread of food on the table

3 portugese-speaking people using the chopsticks

Christmas Party at Ocko after dinner, managed to persuade Ivan to go! Wahaha

he say he look like YE BU QUN in FENG YUN

chulchong manton ivan me

fooseball

Manton is such a sweet looking girl lor, typical taiwanese girl

know what we are gawking at?

the bartenders set the bar on fire!

fire-spitting

Flora from HK

fellow Singaporean look so cui without his cap

after downing one glass of beer at one shot, Manton became very drunk the whole night

this SINGAPOREAN doesn't want his girlfriend to see pictures of him sleazy dancing with other girls

we just danced and camwhored the whole night away

me domingo sundro

And when we came back! We saw the first virgin snow of winter. The smell of autumn leaves have long disappeared and now time for some snowww!!!

at -3deg Celsius

the STRONGEST person in sinkule dormitory

Národní technická KNIHOVNA

To show you the place where I have been mugging hard these few days.

The exterior. The design of this library was the result of a architectural contest

official opening date

The interior

its a technical library, so there are dimensions everywhere

and these are all around on the walls

communism

F off

java codes?

shh!

history of Czech Republic

the PORTUGESE dinner

So, the long awaited Portugese dinner is finally here! Tiago invited people through facebook, and even though I didn’t reply him on it (because I don’t log in), it was nice of him to ask me when he saw me. So, when I came back from the studying session in library, I went to help them, because he was cooking for 16people! We were peeling 6kg of potatoes, imagine that. HAHA..

the host - Tiago. He has the sharpest nose I've ever seen

Camwhoring while waiting for the food to be cooked. We had to pull Tiago into the picture

salted cod fish with potatoes!

The whole process to prepare it was long and tedious, first you have to fry the potatoes strips in oil till they are soft, and then cook the fish, which you soak one day ago, and then put in the potatoes and some eggs. It tastes like our carrot cake, because the potatoes are the cake! HAHA.. And we had this drink that is mixed from beer, orange juice, and sugar water.

The stupid receptionist didn’t allow us to eat at the lobby again, because it was after 10pm. So we just ’stole’ the table and moved it up to the room beside our kitchen. And squeezed 17 people into the small room. After dinner, they were talking about ‘Mari Kita’ being translated to ‘little gay’ in Portugese, and wanted to hear our national anthem. And KahMeng ‘cleverly’ tried to reject the request by asking everybody to stand at attention, which everybody did, and so we started this round of national song singing. There was the Singaporean anthem, and then Slovenian, Spanish, Portugese, Chinese, Russian, Kazakh, Lithunian, Peruvian songs. It was quite hilarious.

Lithunian representatives

Naaaa-zdraaaavi (the Tiago style)

:)

And then after that, it was followed by more drinking and sleazy dancing at Domingo’s room! Haha. Reminded me off the night in ChunRong’s room after Jash. Haha.. Everybody was so drunk and doing stupid things, like firemen lifting me, for god knows what reason.

the INVISIBLE man

As I waited for Yahoo! homepage to load, I saw this news on the top of the screen. This man, from China, who specialises in disappearing into his surroundings.