stress-reliever...

for everyone having their exams now, all the best!

Steven Colbert for President!!!!

no offence intended... but this is equivalent to jack neo participating in the presidential race in singapore...

Presenting.... Steven Colbert (american comedian) for president!

traveller me....

ok, if there is ever an award for flying the most number of times in 10 days, do you think i will win it?

just received my online credit card bill, and guess what? i wiped out 80% of my credit limit with just air tickets... here's what i bought over the last 30 days...

(i) copenhagen-istanbul-singapore return air ticket (13th dec)
(ii) aalborg-copenhagen air ticket (13th dec)
(iii) copenhagen-krakow (poland) single way ticket (11th nov)
(iv) warsaw (poland)-copenhagen single way ticket (14th nov)

and presenting the latest flight ticket.... aarhus-london return ticket on the 17th nov!!! hey, this is not my fault... but the return air ticket + taxes cost 10 euros... of course, after adding in the hidden cost, i am looking at a bill of S$60 for flying from aarhus (denmark) to london...

omg, what am i doing!? been bitten really hard by the travel bug... to summarize my travel plans for the next 2 months...

aalborg - hamburg (9th nov) - copenhagen (10th nov) - krakow poland (11th nov) - warsaw (13th nov) - copenhagen (14th nov) - take a short break - aarhus - london (17th nov) - aalborg (19th nov)

then kel will come over for the visit... and the proposed trip will be as follows:

aalborg - copenhagen - malmo (sweden) - stockholm - gothenburg - aalborg

i am so going to (i)be broke (ii) not have enough time for my project (iii)shacked cos i need to spend some nights over at the airports...

cold-resistant me...

think i must have developed some resistance to the cold... through (i)thicker skin? (ii)accumulation of fats? (iii) or is it that the temperature is not as cold as the previous week?

think i can comfortably take 10 oC now... i am so going to wither when i get back to singapore in dec...at least for the first couple of days...

12 hours apart

look what happens in just 12 hours...

see the video which we took during the BBQ on 14 Oct...

the case of frozen grass + acorns

from the look of it, think i should be looking at some snowfall sooner than rather... the first thing that greeted me this morning when i opened the door....

and where is this bugger?! look, we have acorns (or equivalent) too!!

end of autumn...

bbbrrrbbbb... it's cold....

the temperature had not pass the 10 oC mark for the last 1 week, and it looks set to continue for another 1 week...

=) project work

lots of things to read up and prepare for my project, but i am loving every minute of it... as say that it has been a long time since i feel this way about school work... after 2 semesters of lectures-only timetables in both portugal and germany, it's a wonderful change for some project work...

hovering close to my credit limit

the rate at which i am chalking up the bills, i'll be broke before i even know it...

things bought over the last 2 weeks...

(i) return air ticket back to singapore ... xxxx amount (the amount is enough to pay for 5 months of rental in denmark)
(ii) return air ticket from copenhagen to krakow/warsaw (poland)... 250 dollars
(iii) return air ticket from aalborg to copenhagen for the trip back home... 180 dollars

ok, here's the crappy part... joy at seeing everyone back home and the opportunity to visit poland... priceless... but to be on the safe side, think i will either (i)send my credit card into cold storage or (ii) cut it up before the spending bankrupts me...

Tour de Denmark - Skagen (part 2)

just got the rest of the pics from clare, so here's more of SKAGEN...

usually i travel alone, so it's nice to have someone for company... not to mention that i get lots of candid shots too... =p

Tour de Denmark - Skagen

ok, it has been a long time since i did some traveling... and finally, after 5 weeks in denmark, i made my first foray into the exploration of denmark, starting from SKAGEN...

SKAGEN is a projection of land and a town in Region Nordjylland on the northernmost tip of Vendsyssel-Thy, a part of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. See pic for the location.

In the train to Skagen, and with Clare looking intensely at the packaging instructions...

Armed with our rented bicycles, we started from the main town of Skagen and made our way to Grenen... along the way...

The headland at Grenen, the northernmost point of Denmark, is a spectacular setting where the two parts of the North Sea, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak meet. it was nice observing waves in 2 different directions colliding with one another...

After lunch, we made our way to St. Lawrence's Church (Sct. Laurentii Kirke). The church was built around 1400 in the Gothic style. And because of the drifting sand, the church had to be abandoned in 1795. The nave was demolished, however the tower was retained as a landmark. well, this church was located at such an isolated place, that we had to endure the countless uphills and downhills... this is not healthy for my ass... =(

arghhh!!! i don't wanna cycle anymore!!!!!

on the tree outside the church...

made our way to the old town next... the sand dunes are amazingly high... and the view can simply be described as fantastic!!

the sun sets at 6 plus nowadays... me looking into the sunset... 2 of my favourite pics...

oh, the harbor is nice too!!