First surprise: I actually met Wenjie on my flight back home. Talk about getting a taste of Singapore before even reaching home.
I must admit that I had quite a strange feeling as I touched down home. As I got out of the plane, not even out of the air-conditioned comfort of the airport, the first thing that struck me was, how warm it was! (ok that is probably something that every animal that comes from a wintry land experiences when plunged into summer's warmth). Second thing was, I no longer have to look up so much when I talk to others. (nope sadly I haven't grown taller.) Third thing, the multilingual singapore again!=) Had to figure how to express a lot of things to my dad in hakka, ended up speaking to him in half mandarin, half hakka instead. I love hakka. It is just so...right. A tongue from your childhood.
As my pa drove down the expressways, into the neighbourhoods and all, I thought I was looking at my home with foreign eyes. Truly, Singapore seemed so 'fremd', as in, so orderly! Must have been gotten used to all that little bits of mess in Konstanz, especially with the Karneval going on and the strike of Verdi (the street-cleaners, they have been on strike in many parts of Germany, so you see streets strewn with rubbish in the city, as well as terminally full rubbish bins). The Karneval or Fasching, or Fasnacht as it is called in various parts of Germany, is a time when the normally quiet, let's-keep-to-ourselves germans would come out in droves, dress themselves up (as chickens, witches, clowns, devils, fish, bears, tigers, you name it they have it, but haven't seen an amoeba though) and celebrate. They march through the streets dispensing sweets to passers-by, and play typical karneval music. It is really fun to see them all, with self-made masks and costumes. The kids look especially sweet with their tiger, bear costumes=) You see, they look like a bundle of fur with a face peeping out from nowhere.
Here are a few pictures of the Karneval=)
Oh, and let's go back a few weeks, just after my exams ended. We went out quite a lot to party, and I took the opportunity to take a few pics of my friends. Here they are!=D
From left to right, Girls then Guys:
Johanna, Ingrid, Sara (behind) and Marlene
Constantin, Simon (face half covered), Johannes, Ivo.
And at the Karneval: Isabella, Stefan, Thomas, oh-dear-i-forgot-his-name, and Rebecca
OK fast forward to Singapore again. Went out with the Choir pple=) Shopped for Jiayan's pressie with HC and ZW, and we were at Suntec with ZW said that he wanted some Ben and Jerry's icecream. So we walked around Suntec, going high and low, detouring, looking thru exhibits until we finally got to the ice-cream shop. And guess what ZW said when we got there? "I don't know if I want ice-cream anymore." I couldn't help it; I gave him an incredulous look and just laughed.
We got Jiayan a great-looking necklace, HC chose it, his taste is really improving! =) Guess the guys got great 'tutorials' from "URBAN". Met up with Shaun, Becky, then went to Jiayan's chalet...it was great to see and hear them all once again, I must say. I miss singing in a choir too. The part about being a component of something big, making music together. Sigh.
Went to MPS last night with my brother. Was funny in that everyone thought that he was my bf, gosh, can't you all see the resemblance? I am just the female version of him. They all thought that he was from some JC too (that's great flattery to my bro i think=)) Nice to mix around with the crew again, Alex, Cheng Cheng, Enghwa, Derrick, Rene, KH (back from Saudi Arabia), all the familiar faces. Too bad I can't stay for the elections=p It would be highly interesting I think.
Right, really should get started on my hausarbeit now. BLEAH. I think I would have concentrated much better on it if I had stayed in Germany. Then again, life would be half as interesting. =)
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