SEP in Zürich

GUYS CHECK THIS OUT!! I AND GG ARE LISTED!

2008-11-17T18:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.mavt.ethz.ch/education/mobilitaet/studyreport/incoming_reports

lol.. we made spore proud.. hahaha

Nach Hause

2008-06-24T06:50:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,
currently in the middle of sandy desert in scorching Doha. (I do advise anyone on transit here on Qatar Airways to stay in the airport for as long as possible. The outside temperature can go to 54 degcel.) Haven't seen you all for quite some time and hope that everything's fine wherever your travels lead to.
Would like to express my deepest thanks to everyone who has helped me in every way during through this journey. Really heart-warming to know that there are people who care when you are faraway from home and alone in a foreign place. Will never forget the moments we shared and the happy moments of KKRF (albeit from a commoner's point of view), dinner/birthday gatherings, studying/cooking sessions, and AAA.
May we still see each other around back in school, despite busy schedules, FYPs and other committments. Thank you all for making this exchange period so full of life and laughter. Miss you all!
P.S. forgot who needs which photos, so please feel free to email/msg me if you need photos. :)

Her Majesty The Queen's Royal State Visit to Berlin and BENELUX

2008-06-15T15:22:00.001-07:00

占领他方！
Conquered KKRF Nations!

女皇历时26天的其中一些官方照片。
The Queen and her royal escorts undertook a 26days visit to the nations of Germany and BENELUX.

向Berlin广大民众讲演。
Her Royal Highness making an official royal statement to the beloved people of Berlin.

向Belgium的人民问好。
The Queen then obliged with a walkabout in Brussels, Belgium where she met the local KKRF citizens.

感谢人民对KKRF的支持。
KKRF would like to express our royal appreciation for the support from all our beloved citizens.

亲民的女皇，纵使下雨，也坚持出来向久等的广大民众挥手致意。
Despite the pouring summer showers, the Queen insists on making her royal appearance to her adoring citizens, who have waited eagerly for a glimpse of her royal visage.

小学生兴奋地和女皇照相。
Excited student coming out to greet the Queen and clamoring to take a royal photograph with her.

女皇对新占领的国家人民讲演。
The official victory ceremony where the Queen makes her speech to the newly conquered lands.

2008-06-10T17:10:00.000-07:00

K.K. ROYAL FAMILY Press Releases

K.K. ROYAL FAMILY ANNUAL SPEECH ON THE RETURN OF THE CROWN PRINCE TO THE HOME NATION

11 June 2008

THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE CROWN PRINCE

Mu Qian, Mu Hou, Little Prince, members of KKRF, ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed my pleasure on behalf of KKRF to update you all on our kingdom as well as the measures adopted to curb the pressing uprising of the rebels from the land of Gruezi mitenand.

Till date, our army has been victorious in conquering neighboring land, especially Scandinavia. This was achieved during the Easter week, where our queens, together with my brother and I, led our royal troops against Swedish, Danish and Norwegian troops. Though the wars were all hard fought, high morale of our royal troops, despite occasional setbacks, together with exemplary leadership of our Queens, saw us through all. We emerge victorious!

Below are some photos of KKRF addressing our newly seized lands:
KKRF is so well accepted by the citizens of Sweden that postcards celebrating the end of their ex-leader’s dictatorship rule and welcoming of KKRF were made.

Queens addressing nation outside their Kronberg Castle in Denmark

Mu Qian with her royal jewelry collection.

The Gruezi mitenand rebels up north has recently been creating lots of havokk along the border, posing dangers and disrupts the peace our citizens once enjoyed. Even taking trains, something once seemed so routine, can become a challenge, having to keep a constant lookout for these perpetrators. As such, declaration of war against these Gruezi bunch is inevitable, with Mu Qian and I calling for the support of you citizens to join us in the fight against these Gruezis, until they are totally eliminated from this planet.

Together, we shall Gruezi them back!

Now that Mu Hou personally is out leading royal troops to seize more land, may we look forward to our nation expanding, prosperity, and brighter future to all our citizens. More importantly, long live KKRF! And for my younger brother, adopted brother, our Royal scholar and other Royal members(Okasan etc.), I wish you all havokk in traveling. Citizens should not be overly shocked by the presence of Royal members sighted at popular tourist attractions in our nations. They will be there to listen to citizens’ woes and suggestions. Do give them your utmost support.

TMD

As I will be leaving, I shall declare a national rest day tomorrow.

Crown Prince,

'Coz the hardest part of this ...

2008-05-30T12:20:00.000-07:00

IS LEAVING YOU ...

It's kinda unbelievable ( and sad) to realize that our journey in Zürich is coming to the end..
Like it was just yesterday.

And as Esther wrote in her blog, we all, sooner or later, will be leaving this junction where we met, chose to spend our time together ... It's kinda fate.

How I miss all the gatherings, cooking and eating together, studying together, traveling together and coming up with all the havoking ideas like KKRF, AJG, you name it.
It's really fun to think that after SEP, each of us will carry a piece of new identity,e.g Queen Suzanne Stierli aka Penpen, Crowned Prince JH aka CTK, or myself Okasan .. and a lot alot of amazing experience and beautiful memories.
If I have a chance, I do want to re-taste each and every moment with much more appreciation, to etch them all in my memory.

@ everyone, really feel happy and thankful having you around. It's really really nice.
I do hope that we will find another junction to meet again, hang out again , havok again ...

Disclaimer: Since my dear pet is gonna leave in like 16 hours, I can't help being a bit nostalgic. So bare with my lameness for a while. Haha.

P.S: Gambatte for your exams... It's pretty stressful nowadays but it will soon be over.
( look like i'm consoling myself, haha)

Memories

2008-05-25T16:07:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry that this is not in English, as I lazy to translate it. It's originally from my own personal blog post. Just wana say, I really appreciated all these...muacks!
Will miss you all terribly...

于千万人之中遇见你所遇见的，于千万年之中，时间的无涯的荒野里，没有早一步，也没有晚一步，刚巧遇见了，那也没有别的话可说，唯有轻轻问候一声，原来你也在这里。
《爱》-张爱玲

这段话，我想不仅仅可以用在爱情里吧。一群原本互不认识的人，却刚好一起，选择了同一个学期来交换、选择了同一个国家、选择了同一个城市、选择了认识对方。
天时地利人和都俱备了。

同一个十字路口，大家见面了，认识了，相处了，直到现在相互依赖着了。
可是下一刻，大家又要分开了。
见面的下一个路口，没有人知道会是在何时何地。
我不贪心，只希望回忆会一直烙在脑中。
谢谢你们陪我。
这是一次心的交换。
我会珍藏着。
爱你们。
永远。

2008-05-22T13:05:00.000-07:00

This is really going through on and on my mind so please be patient with me. I've gotta get this off my chest. This guy, this cheat, this person who made me gamble... and cheated me of 150 euros. It's like a double slap to my face.
We were at the Sacred Heart Church and already there were a lot of these people selling eiffel tower keychains 3 for 1 euro and many friendship band makers. I didn't give them a chance to stop me. Then the 1st time I saw a gambling den I was so surprised I went to take a photo. I thought it was surprising to have gambling dens here in the open. Then the person told me to come. I thought he wanted me to take a photo with him. I said no. Then he started doing the guess the black chip which has the white paper pasted on the bottom. It was easy enough since he only did it 2 or 3 times, I thought. There was this lady who betted on the middle one and was wrong and it turned out like where I thought it would be. I thought this is too simple. How could she have got that wrong? The guy with the cap then asked me to guess which is it? I said the last one and he shoved 2 50 euros in my face. I didn't know what to do. He asked me to show him 50 euros. Then the next guy went to bet on the next round and won 50 euros. Anyway this is repeated a few times before I thought hey that's easy money and just showed him 50 euros.. I didn't know he would take it and then open the chip and there was nothing there. I was so speechless and struck dumb.. How could I have lost 50 euros. and how come the chip wasn't there? I wanted my money back and then he did the same thing again. He shoved me 100 euros and one of it is my money, asking me to guess. I was angry and showed him another 50 euros and then he took it away again! I was such a fool to do it one more time, such a fool to stay there longer. I was thinking this cannot be happening! 100 euros gone in a flash! I wanted to at least gain some money back. I thought to myself if I win back my 50 euros I'll stop and go. I was too naive. I should have known that the people around are in cathoods. What "Zusammen" (together)? That guy who asked me to bet zusammen.. IDIOT! It was only when I realised that then it sinked in that I have just been conned of 150 euros. I was led away by J who had asked me to stop playing during the last time. Then along the way I saw more of these things. It then sank in that this is a common con trick.

This thing has been going on and on my mind for so long. What I should have done, I should have grabbed my 100 euros that he was tempting me with. The money was mine and there he was asking me to show him 50 euros to get it back. I should have argued and shouted since there were so many people there. I should not have even gambled. I should have known that there is a trick going on. I should have known the people are in cathoods. All these thoughts just kept on going in my mind and whenever I think of them I feel really frustrated.

Now, all I can do is to warn everyone. Do not let anyone tempt you. There are no free lunches and you might think you are smart, but there are always someone smarter. I think guys will always fall for this trick. Anyhow, there is also the friendship band things. In conclusion, if anyone just stop you for a chat asking where are you from, just ignore them. Paris is really too dangerous for naive people.

But on the bright sight, I managed to see the Eiffel Tower and there was even a rainbow there, and we went to the Museum of Lourve and saw Mona Lisa. It is so much better to travel with someone rather than travel alone. The burden of being cheated was halved and the time spent are much more fun. I like eating the breakfast of bread and more bread. Coz there are nothing else to eat, it is better to eat it with someone who shares the same sentiment. At least you can play with the bread and spread all kinds of different jam.

Anyhow, I'll be studying for my exams, it'll be on the 29, 30 of May, and 13th and 19th of June.

2008-05-12T13:46:00.001-07:00

If you guys want to see a picture of Esther being lifted off the ground by a yoga instructor, please pester her. =) I had it but I think I cut and pasted it into Bernard's HDD. hohoho..

2008-05-12T13:28:00.000-07:00

Kami in Torture

2008-05-10T03:49:00.000-07:00

AJP 1st album photo shoot

2008-04-20T11:12:00.000-07:00

Sechseläuten

2008-04-15T17:46:00.000-07:00

This is for those who missed the burning of the snowman. According to the newspapers, this year actually took 26 minutes for the snowman's head to kaputt, close to the record set in 2001 as said in wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sechsel%C3%A4uten According to wiki, the head supposedly didn't explode too. Brr.. and it snowed today.. remember to wear more warm clothing. Looks like it'll be cold for a while.

Weiguang and the Duck

2008-04-15T16:25:00.000-07:00

Queenly Moments

2008-04-15T05:51:00.000-07:00

Faded memories..

2008-04-11T11:13:00.000-07:00

Youtube can cook, so can you!

2008-04-06T07:16:00.000-07:00

How to make rosti. =)So far It's estimated that one person will eat 2 medium sized potatoes. Rem, add salt sparingly as this will be your main dish

2008-04-06T07:14:00.000-07:00

JEFF can COOK, so can YOU

2008-04-05T13:48:00.000-07:00

BROCOLLI WITH CAULIFLOWER

Ingredients:
500g broccoli
500g cauliflower
Salt
Slices of cooked hams (150g)
300 ml Milk
3 eggs
125g double fresh cream cheese with herbs
Freshly grounded pepper
40g grated Gouda cheese

Step 1:
Wash the broccoli and cauliflower and cut to smaller stock.
Cook separately in salt water for 8min
Pour off water and chill with cold water

Step 2:
Cut ham into cubes
Mix eggs, fresh cheese and milk, spice with salt n pepper
Put ham, broccoli and cauliflower into a greased pan
Pour the egg and milk over
Sprinkle the grated cheese over the top

Step 3
In a preheated oven, 175 -200 deg cel, air circulation 160 – 180 deg, bake 30min

I WAN TO LEARN ROSTI FROM GG~~~

K.K.Royal Family

2008-03-31T13:12:00.000-07:00

Nice sunset scenery of a river in Stockholm, Sweden. It's really like a postcard. In Europe, even camera idiot can produce magnificent photos. But of course, this picture was not taken by 路人甲, it's taken with Uncle Ryan's professional camera with the so-called L-series lens.

This is our K.K.Royal Family collage. Taken by Uncle Ryan's camera. The lighting effect was just nice. His shooting skill always give the photos a tinge of royal feeling. That's why we appointed him as our Royal photographer.
(p/s: it's a miracle that he managed to catch the always-act-cool's Crown prince's smile.)

Queen and prince. But it looks pretty lovely and sweet.

Queens and prince.

K.K.Royal Family's dinner in Sweden-Mongolian Asian Buffet.

I think the shadows are not clear enough to show our silly poses of K.K.R.F.

K.K.Royal Family in front of their summer castle-Kronborg Castle.

The ugly side of the Queens.

(p/s: K.K.=Kok&Khaw)

Alpha attempt at tomatoes with egg!

2008-03-13T15:46:00.001-07:00

Here I present the work of Bernard, throwing in a bid in the International version of Tomato with egg. So far the only challenger to Esther's Tomato Scrambled Egg.

2008-03-08T15:45:00.000-08:00

Toking about Paparazzi shots.. I got a ton in my arsenal! haha.. But dun wori, moz of them are glam ones.. with an artistic touch some more! ;)

lol.. enuff of it.. heres sum nice pics from my meanmachine..

snowman buildin in honggerberg!

wad migros n coop supporter!? i support..

hehehe..

Adrian's farewell party.

2008-03-08T12:53:00.001-08:00

Nowadays' Guys

2008-03-08T12:23:00.001-08:00

Oh my gosh...
Look!

Our Guang Guang...he really have a crush on Kami's gloves...
and what kinda of expression is he giving?

And our dear Adi...this is the so-called Adi's pose...
Guang Guang seems enjoying it....haha...

And the famous Muthu....His bag is so matching with his shirt...haha...
He must be a fan of Stierli so he bought an exact same bag as Stierli...haha

Is really gosh...what happen to the guys nowadays yeah?

(p/s:Tim...n d others..i will have paparazzi snaps on you all one day...haha..)

2008-03-07T06:58:00.000-08:00

Spotted: Suzanne Stierli with friends and personal assistant in Locarno

Tuesday 2:30 AM

2008-03-03T17:38:00.001-08:00

Migros Supporter

2008-03-03T15:39:00.001-08:00

PS. Coop supporter can't even spell Prix Garantie? Boooo.

Rice

2008-03-03T06:29:00.001-08:00

So on saturday I went to NAM and bought 5kg of rice.

Earlier today Kami took me to Denner in Dietikon, where apparently rice was on Aktion.

So I bought another 12kg.

*Quick. Applaud!*

Random Pictures

2008-02-28T12:26:00.000-08:00

For those who went to the zoo. I have forgotten why we took this photo. =p

Prix Garande Supporter! =)

Zoo!

2008-02-24T13:56:00.001-08:00

For those who missed the Zoo in Winter....here are the penguins in action.

They really spazieren snobbishly around the whole Zoo.
And a bunch of kids just chasing after them.
I think GG has more penguins' photos and videos as he actually went chasing after the penguins...I think Bernard as well right?
Sorry for the later part of the video clip as my height limited my camera angle.

Riot Polizei

2008-02-23T16:01:00.001-08:00

Near Zurich's main train station, quite a number of riot police was there; traffic was diverted; crowds gathered at the Limmat River to gawk. Apparently there is a crowd of overly enthusiastic soccer fans. Heard this from Adrian when I met him at Migros! =)