i saw a grand total of 39 shooting stars tonight. in 3 intervals. and i made wishes for a good 36 of them? wishes for all the special people around me. amongst them,
i wished that your wishes would come true.
and i wished that someday you will be wishing for me too.
I woke up to soft fluffy snowflakes descending from the sky, taking their own floaty time to fall to the ground. The ground was cover by a thick sheet of white snow, the sort of comfy snow that you could lie in and feel warm and happy.
next to me I had awesome company, people who have been so tired from all the fun and excitement the past two days - they were still sound asleep.
I'll miss days like these. Happy days. (:
before you become a stranger. Its my decision to (try to) walk away.
so that before you have a chance to walk out of my life, I can at least leave first.
But I would like to be there for you, to listen to you talk when you need someone. Maybe i will just appear when things go wrong.
To tell you that things will be okay.
after spending 9days mostly alone, I'm going home. But surprisingly I'm not really excited about it.. I'm looking forward to the comfort, but I'm not really sure if its going to be really comfortable.
If I tell a tale and lie to the whole world, would that make me believe too?
at some point in time when I couldn't sleep last night, I actually wondered about the consequences of missing my flight.
ok, i have been away from home for almost two months already. surprisingly, im not a single bit homesick. Maybe sometimes, i miss the food and the cheap prices. and the comfort of being at home, where the people around me are people whom i have been around with for the past like 21 years. but im coping really well, i believe. :)
I wish i had the discipline to start bloogging the moment i was in France, because now i owe myself like a France post and a Sweden post. But im just gonna cheat abit and talk about how oktoberfest went. after all, that was probably one of the biggest highlight of my exchange. :)
We went off in the wee hours of the morning on fri, got to munich after a long bus ride + plane ride + bus ride at like noon. first meal at a shop near germany's haufbahnhof (impressive right, finally can use the german words i have been learning so hard!). shared a pizza, which was almost timbre's standard. and had a mixed (dark + white) beer with david. which was, totally awesome. i mean thats the kind of life i would like to have. awesome weather, maybe not so friendly waiter, good food and beer and great company. we went to collect our beer steins and tshirt and then headed off to the campsite. germanys railway system is a huge mess and it was quite comfusing at first, but like all other things in life, it got easier after we used the line for more times. but its reallly damm inefficient, i spend like 20mins waiting for the train once. not that i really mind, cos the 20mins was spent comhoring cos they had old school railway tracks, like the kind that the couple lie on in inception and be run over. in fact, i thought the rails at my camp site was such a pretty setting, it might be a great place for proposals and such. ^^ oh but i was hypenventilating for like 10mins at the campsite, when i saw that my period came. like 1 week early, i really wanted to scream and shout. i hate this feeling of being not in control. thankfully things got better after a while. or maybe i just resigned to fate. the evening ended with the start of the beer challenge. it was a tour of the bars and places with beer. like the pubs and the beer gardens, and at each place we had at least half a litre of beer. the last stop was a pubbish clubbish place, pretty bad music but we were all kind of tipsy, despite how i controlled drinking slowly and peeing alot din help much. i guess i kind of blacked out abit, but things were back in control after i saw that someone else in the group needed more help and i shldnt weigh everyone down. sleep for the first night was bad, 5 of us girls were in a tent, which was considerably ok, i think i had gotten used to the technique of sleeping well in a small space. but it was so so cold, i really thought i would just freeze and die, and not see daylight.
the second day we started the morning at a really like restaurant, it was an outdoor kind. like a perfect place to laze there with beer, loved ones, good conversations and good food. went shopping thereafter. but dint buy anything cos i was rather lazy to try on birks or boots and i was too lazy to carry stuff. headed to the beer tents around the afternoon trying to catch the parade but missed it cos of the many distractions along the way. that day we walked around the tents, it was a really huge carnival i can barely tell my way around actually. then we headed back to campsite to dump our stuff and dinner was at the food tent. we had german sausages pork knuckles and alot of potatos and sauerkaut(sp?). food was awesome! we went back to the carnival to catch the night scene at the tents. kind of split up with the group and things got quite bad from there. all i can say is probably thats one of the nights i lost my rational thinking and made bad decisions. but i guess we all learn, it made me appreciate what i have around me much more.
the third day started out lazy cos we decided to sleep in after all the hectic action the night before. we went for the free food and beeer, and went for the walking tour. the tour was pretty interesting although i wish i was a bit more awake cos at some parts all i really wanted to do was to let my eyelids touch each other and sleep, even while standing up. the day ended well with packed food from all over, mostly bk and macs (cheap!) and we bought some alcohol from the alcohol shop. ate and chatted a bit before falling to good sleep.
the fourth day was just spent travelling back to oslo. we had to take a bus to airport. a flight and then another bus back to oslo. each of the journey i KOed and slept like a log.
it was probably a weekend that i drank more beer than i ever did the first half of the year. there were rough parts but pretty much enjoyable, and memorable - the things we did. :)
i know this is gonna be so so damm freaking outdated, probably long time ago that it has kind of removed itself from alot of ppl's memory but im gonna talk about my birthday. haha. better late than never!
anyway its like the only birthday party of my life that i can remember, apart from those really long ago 3 or 4 year old birthday mini parties i had with the family. this was one gathering (more than a party) that i planned and racked my brains for, and i probably never wanna celebrate again LOL. for the very reason that that birthdays are now a reminder of how far away im drifting from being a teenager :p
anyway after alot of searching, i finally settled on the ns home team chalet, really cheap. but i wish i din screw up my booking, then i would have gotten a sat night party. but it ended up on the friday, one day before my birthday. but thank god alot of people who mattered still managed to make it :)
the whole party was kind of crowded. the best thing that happened that night was probably the surprise that i got from the tmsgang, with the shirts saying i love line. DAMM SWEET. and they looked so adorable!
but of cos, i was dead drunk by 2am, it got so bad i just vomitted and vomitted. almost close enough to make me wanna quite alcohol the next morning when i woke up and felt so hungover. but of cos i was happy. and i hoped my guests were happy. thats probably the most important thing. :)
two more months.. to spending (practically) the rest of 2010 in europe :D
if you haent been out with me for a while, you probably cannot imagine myjoy and excitement. i think about it most of the time. i started reading up on europe, on touring around europe, bookmarked many of the webpages concerning the norwegian language and oslo. when im out shopping i keep a lookout for colour basics that i can layer on in winter, and i keep a close eye on the fluctuations of the euro dollar and the norwegian kronner, and the newspapers for any winter wear sales to come.
hokay i feel extremely kiasu. :x
anyway the online acceptance is done. applied for housing. the whole package thing is here. and ive applied for residence permit. whats left wouldbe the registration of courses (1/3 done), and for the housing contract to reach me, plus packing.
WOOOOOOO suddenly 2 months feels short. too short to be true.
ive met a few of the oslo people, like ling brian and amira. really nice people, i feel comfortable with them and im glad we are all going together! theres a couple other people too but havent gotten the chance to meet them all!
as of today, i shall self teach myself norwegian words a day! :) yippeeee!