Random Stuffs...

Life is at times against us.. troubles come and go once in a while.. but it is just wonderful to know that our body and brain are still intact in this period of time.. I don’t know what it is that has begged me to rest and purge.. the laziness, the weather, or the fact that this is a totally different world to me? I don’t know, I don’t even care, I’m loving it..

It gives off a very strange feeling to know that somebody who seems to have almost everything everybody would ever need, feel depressed.. there’s always something to complain about.. we hear “reality hits” and we think “Aha, I actually thought that’d be the last thing to hear from u”… does everybody believe there’s something more to life regardless of what kind of life they have? a hundred people tell a hundred different kind of stories about life.. the question is, if there has got to be sth more to life, what is it?

A friend wrote “I’m 21 and I’m trying to act like one”.. how wonderful it is if our own selves could just grow without us trying too hard? I mean, natural is when the seeds grow on their own.. just water them if needed, leave the pruning shears behind.. we may just need to learn the art of doing nothing (interpret it as “less controlling”, not literally).. things may not happen if we do nothing (now, literally).. but sometimes, it’s only when we’ve stopped trying too hard and focus on one thing that the good stuffs start to happen..

I’m strangely feeling very good in this period of staring at screen all day.. no matter what it is in front of me.. a project, essay, movies or listening to music.. I’m in love with my laptop.. not in my calculator or a bloody thick heavy book full of calculus and stuffs, which btw is sitting on my desk right now, waiting to be read..

And what happened if u knew somebody else was holding the thing u thought u once loved the most? Actually nothing really happened except for the overwhelming sorrow, u might think so.. but sometimes, u just then got to realize that u no longer wanted it anymore..

Jeg Elsker Danmark...

My Danish friend just taught me that, it means “I love Denmark” =P

It’s going to be the end of the semester in no time.. classes ending.. project deadlines approaching.. exams coming.. so there are some points about Danmark that I’d like to write before I forget..

• Speaking of the weather, which took me quite some time to get used to.. I was just wondering how those dogs on the streets could stand the coldness and rains...
• Speaking of the rains, ppl are fine walking in the rain without umbrellas..
• And they love sunny day so much.. I do too, now…
• High prices and taxes.. my lecturer said she paid 65% of tax before.. I myself paid 20% tax when I bought my bike..
• Bikes everywhere.. with special lanes and traffic lights..
• Teachers called by their first names..
• Long day in Spring, even longer in summer (I heard so)..
• Hatchback everywhere! all those cars look much cooler here..
• Buy or bring your own plastic bags in the supermarket..
• Ppl drink more beers than water I suppose..
• A country with a very good welfare system, the danish get quite an amount of money every month even without working.. and I get a health insurance as long as I stay in Danmark!
• Almost all Danish speak English (which maybe is not common in Europe)
• Speaking of the danes, they’re very friendly.. esp the elderly..
• The danes don’t talk that much (at least most exchange students think so)
• Being on time is extremely important for the danes.. It’s an insult if u come late without prior notice.. i've never been late to any classes or appointments so far.. believe me,i hold the record for that now =P

I have quite a number of new pictures but I’m not gonna post all of them now.. next next entries ok.. =)

These are some of the nice people that I’ve been working with throughout the semester..

I realize that the one in the middle looks like my friend (it’s u dewi, yes you.. she’s ur European version..), maybe not so much on the face.. but seriously, everything is so similar.. I can’t believe she doesn’t even eat prawn too..

Ciao..

Too much...

I always have a special fondness for people who are cheerful, I know that.. I am a kind who needs to be dragged into a situation, otherwise, I’ll be more than happy to send u into a time of stand still.. I can’t deny, apart from the idea that life’s not always positive, which I believe in, I’m trapped into a feeling of liking for people who are always positive.. what an irony..

But I asked myself recently, to what extent it was? an amount that’s just nice to make me fond of somebody.. words describe what we do and how we feel.. and by words, we judge how positive somebody is..

I’ve been hearing too much of positive words I just can’t stand it.. what happens to the excessive use of the oh-u’re-so-nice or the oh-u’re-so sweet? after some time, I am really getting sick of it.. If I serve somebody a cuppa tea, that’s bcos he’s a guest, not because I am very sweet.. and if I reply an sms, it’s just a courtesy, not bcos I’m very very nice.. seriously..

Maybe u think it’s bizarre that I’m bothered by such thing.. but I really think that is bizarre.. to the level that I really want to knock somebody’s head and tell him straight to his face that life’s not that positive after all.. I mean, smiles are fine.. jokes are very well accepted.. but shouldn’t them be placed only in certain circumstances? if we don’t know how to say positive things in an appropriate amount.. I’m saying if we really don’t know, isn’t it way easier to just stay silent?

In a way i can't explain...

Time is really flying.. before I know it, I’m almost in the middle of the year.. recently, the thought of going back to spore is somewhat disturbing.. I think I’ll be very reluctant when it comes.. I mean, why not escape forever? (people, not in committing suicide kinda way ok =P).. well, I do miss my siblings and maybe some people.. but pardon my honesty.. apart from that, there’s almost nothing that I’m really looking forward to.. once, I was taught so many things at the same time I didn’t even know how to get up.. no other words could better describe the idea of throwing myself back to the same old thing except.. painful.. it is simply painful..

But I think I should have learnt some stuffs here, shouldn’t i? maybe I just don’t know how much it is and how much I have changed within this half a year… People say u just need to stand at a higher place and from there u will find urself looking at things from different angles..

By the by, let’s drop this and see some pictures.. =P

I lost almost all my high school pictures last year when my laptop fucked up (so, any kind bodies who’s reading and still have the pictures, please take the initiative..).. but I found this.. =)

Some things don’t change

Actually I mean, we still love bullying the second one from left =P

And Happy Birthday to the second one from right..

Norway trip pictures from other cameras..

Several attempts just to make the two last poses..

This is what we did, talking.. like this..

or this..

and taking pictures...

There’s one weird thing I discovered recently, I was extremely uncomfortable staying in small rooms (and i realized, i seldom stayed in small rooms before).. the cabin was really petite and only god knows how often I should get out to take fresh air.. on the way to egeskov, I was almost this close to ask the driver to stop just to catch some fresh air.. i'm not very sure what's going on though.. but now, i fear that i would have been developing fear towards small rooms.. do u think it had sth to do with the fact that i was once trapped in a lift when i was a kid?

Ciao…

The most expensive city...

Weird.. It’s weird that I felt like home in a place that is not my home.. it felt safe when I stepped back in Odense.. It was after the Easter trip when I first felt this.. and yesterday, for the second time..

The Crown of Scandinavia was probably not as great as other cruises that I heard earlier.. but I could say, with the companies of other exchange students, the whole trip was an unforgettable one.. Alcohols were sold in the SEA SHOPS for quite low prices and that pretty much explained why some guys were wandering in the boat, talking non-sense, breaking glasses or shouting at one another.. We just shook our head listening to this English lady who approached us only to talk about her husband.. a Polish guy who usually looked serious came to our table and kept saying “Na zdrowie!” (Cheers in Polish) and forcing me to drink with him.. almost every 2 second he nazdrowied me and passed me his glass.. it was funny.. drunken people always did those funny stuffs and talked a lot.. I had a good laugh..=P

It took 16 hours sailing from Copenhagen to Oslo.. people spent time drinking in the boat, talking, playing games, sleeping, shopping, etc.. The Koreans, me and my two European friends just had a couple of beers and liqueurs, only one of us got drunk.. =P

We’re in Oslo the next morning and had a day-trip before sailing back to Copenhagen in the evening.. Emel, Nicolas and myself decided to walk from the City Hall, the National Theatre, to the Akerhus Fortress & Castle, along the sea-side looking toward Oslofjorden, back to The Royal Palace to catch the changing of guards in the afternoon.. We had a small picnic in the park before walking to the Oslo University, the city centre and walked back to the cruise harbor.. and yes, everything was relatively more expensive even compared to Copenhagen.. no wonder Oslo is the most expensive city for expats..

We’re back in the boat.. again, people got drunk.. blabbed and wandered around.. such life, such life is what they call pleasurable here.. looking at the overall trip, it was probably one of the best i've ever had.. =P

The miniature of M.S. Crown of Scandinavia

The interior of M.S. Crown of Scandinavia

Taking pictures from the deck

Have i mentioned that the sun only sets close to 10 pm at night nowadays?

The city of Oslo, Norway

Ciao...

Point of no return...

What we’ve been doing all our life is to search for the things we’re lack of.. we don’t really know what we need to change.. we just know there are needs unfulfilled and go all that length just to look for them.. they ain’t that easy to get, sometimes we’re just not born with it, sometimes the luck isn’t there.. but we still focus so much on them only to overlook other things.. the whole purpose is not supposed to be harmful in the beginning, we just hope to feel a little bit better-off.. but it turns out that we end up hurting ourselves and others.. what’s fulfilled has often been taken for granted but when we realize it, it’s way too late..

We’re not lost, we never regret.. just laughing.. funny, we find ourselves standing at a point of no return..

We will get used to it...

When I was at a very young age, there were two things I feared the most; somebody, whom I’ll not further elaborate, and going to school.. School wasn’t a fun place to be at, teachers were not as nice, they walked around with a weapon called rattan.. and if u’re not born to be one of the outstanding ones, that’s just it.. well, there’s also a possibility that I was not a very pleasant kid back then and maybe a bit weird on some level, I admit..

After some time, rattan was no longer a horror.. it didn’t matter which teacher standing and teaching in front.. after all, nothing was different.. seniors who bullied were no longer a monster.. once, we didn’t have the gut to fight back.. we got used to our own self instead..

Remember the time when those people in ur life leaving one by one because… I don’t know, they just had to.. they found new lives or they found new friends.. once, we were naïve.. we got hit pretty hard, didn’t we? yet, after some time, it didn’t seem to matter.. we got used to it, to the fact that people drifting in and out of our life..

There were times when we received rejection letters from the universities we applied to or negative responses from companies.. after such a long wait, we finally just ended up sitting and stoning.. how it felt when a hope shattered in a second, we knew it.. but we got used to it too..

The thing is, how painful all the things on earth can be.. although we will never forget, we will get used to it.. just make sure u get used to the right things.. no wonder most people don’t get what they can really be happy with until they die.. bcos they get used to the things they don’t like that much and they live with it as if they we can never be happier..

No wonder..

Finally I went to the Egeskov Castle… it was beautiful..

From the entrance toward the castle...

Here's the castle...

The castle surrounded by parks, gardens and museums..