Thursday, July 17, 2008, 1:22 AM
no lessons for today! woohoo! for we are going to the ideenpark (pronounced as 'ee-day-en-park). the NUSlers(referring to NUS students as we were affectionately called over there) were accompanied by our teacher (Frau Grieser) and the techy guy called David whom some girls have a crush on! hee not telling. oh anyway, ideenpark is situated in messe stuttgart beside a HUGE bosch carpark. can't miss it.
inside, there are many different-themed exhibition halls showing the future of our lives and the various new technology that could somehow or rather CHANGE our lives. something like that. you know those futuristic stuff they say. haha. most of us were really tired walking around and although some of the exhibtitions were interesting and worth looking, most of it were really sciency techy stuff. so some of us were turned off. haha and and.. everything was in german unless you make a request to the staff tending the exhibition to explain the exhibit to you in english. The designs and exhibits were lovely to look at. There were mock-up deserts, outerspace, north poles, machines, rockets, huge vehicles, cars blah blah..
lunch was great. i ate a half meter hogdog. obviously they folded the sausage into half if not i would be dragging it on the floor while eating. my friends and i plopped ourselves down on a patch of grass and started eating away. we felt that the grass was quite wet but did not really mind as so many other people were also sitting on the grass. just then i said, 'erm guys, i think i know why's the grass so wet..' i pointed to a girl just a few metres away. she was pee-ing on the grass :/
breakfast: crepe with quark(pronounced as 'k-vark') and.. poppy seeds! i got high after eating this.
U-Bahn. i love the colour and the clean interior. Destination: MOHringen!
teehee. big cucumber for sale! ok sorry a little mean here :x
movenpick hotel! yes it is made of ice-cream!
ideenpark meaning ideas park. naomin and me here. erm just below the sign.
this precious stone is named after me with a little modification. it's MOLYbdan!
participants go up the treadmill connected to a machine and ultimately a computer somewhere. it is a cool cartoon simulation of you running on a long and mudane path filled with big and small puddles (should suggest to the techy ppl behind this to add a bonus poo somewhere along the path) and the objective is to.. yea you're right! jump over the puddles duh! haha.
stainless cooking booth where kids get to cook for a live audience. the guy tending this booth looks like harry potter! so do not contact me unless you are the director for the next harry potter movie instalment.
you can eat this. i'm not joking! it's called PlayMais which is basically coloured corn puffs you can play with. omg. how unhygienic.
look at the length of those sausages. if i'm not wrong they are longer than your intestines.
a very cool futuristic model by mercedes benz.
challenge this programmed goalkeeper! no balls could get past him. this is the mini version. the life-size version was just next to this but not shown in photo here.
this boy is a natural model. he kept trying different poses. i just can't let his efforts go to waste!
our tour guide and me!
the banner says: dear ideas, welcome back home! haha. ok cheesy.heh.
in a studio watching a live talkshow!
proving the theory that the pendulum loses energy as it swings so it will not go back to its original height and whack the boy's head off. argh. if only we could defy the laws of physics.
'my hair.. MY HAIR!!' shrieks the pretty blond lady.
the muscle arm invented by a japanese professor. now that's a cool invention for the elderly. soon you will see elderly carrying big bags of rice home by themselves. hee. the german host kept on saying 'arigato' to the japanese prof and his students. HAHA.
the cool bionic merc again. it does not have a windscreen wiper as the windshield is made of a special type of material which magically dispels away water. it does not have side mirrors too as it adversely affects the whole streamline shape of the car. Instead, it has small inbuilt cameras. ok, i feel as if i am writing a thesis here but this is cool stuff so yea :)
Lightning man to the rescue!
we thought the brown balls round her necklace looked like dog poo. hee.
'help me.. i'm going to faint..!'
very cute boy on the tram. i am NOT a paedophile.
dinner in the oven! it's called 'Flammkuchen' with onions and bacon bits. yummy!
let’s doodle
Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10:04 PM
oh yippee. itinerary for today is a briefing in the main campus of stuttgart university and then a welcome party specially prepared for the summer university students and their respective host families.
i ate lunch at home first before my host mama fetched me to school. we had asparagus soup, oven-baked maultaschen (which means mouth bag in some german dialect) with tomatoes on top and salad. super-duper delicious! my host parents observed the way i ate and said i looked like a hamster which stores so much food in its mouth before starting to chew. ha.
the welcome party commenced at 6.30pm with an introduction of all the summer school teachers. nus was one class by itself and we saw our teacher for the first time. i made a sketch of her which should be quite well-known by now within my class. haha. it so totally looked like her. we were treated to a big buffet feast complete with outdoor american-style grill. cool. made a few friends and met a couple of german hosts as well. one of the friends i made was simon! and he is only 3 years of age! he is actually xueting's host family's son. there is this hilarious story linking simon, his mum and my host mama. please skip this part if you are just intending to see the pictures and read on if you want to know the story!
ok here goes: the 2 main characters of the story are Sabine Grutschnig (Simon's mum) and Sabine Michel (the 60-year old-looking lady who was partly responsible for organising and matching up host families with summer students). after the welcome party, i told my host mama that i made a very good new friend called simon. i thought that the various hosts should probably know each other so i went on further to ask her whether she knew a lady called Sabine MICHEL. my host mama said she knew her of course. and i replied her, 'yaya! she is simon's mum!' my host mama gave me a weird look and said nothing more. the next day, i felt that something was amiss so when i met xueting in school, i asked her what her host mama's surname was. she told me it was 'GRUTSCHNIG'. #*$@(*$!@(#@*$*#&!!!!!! oh nooooooo.... i had mixed the names up! wth! i went home quickly to clear this misunderstanding. and my host mama burst out laughing. She said, 'OH NOW i understand! i was very puzzled because Sabine Michel is not even married she is already nearing 60 and how in the world or WHEN in the world did she have a 3-year-old son called Simon!??!?!' wahahhaaha. omg. how could i be so blur. o.O
simon, his dad and me!
briefing in the LT
the graffiti on my table. duck kills duck. hmm interesting.
look ma! 2 pairs of arms!
the tram station outside my school.
graffiti just outside my school building. cool stuff.
the cheap bakery round the corner where we frequent during school breaks. there's really a wide range of breads. the biggest bread is like bigger than your face.
stuttgart turmforum 21. we went up the mercedes benz tower! leeseefei and me here! and i've got strands of hair tickling my nostrils. hee.
me = schlecker which sounds like SLACKER which is true of my character. HA.
ooh i like this. so creative. i hope you can see more than just the SUGAR word.
main shopping street with the castle on the left and king's building
(koennigsbau) on the right! and some random white umbrellas along the way.
i love this photo. look at the how this cloud actually 'shines' onto the angel statue. just look.. LOOK. haha. nice.
love the hairstyle dude. was actually trying to take the busker at the back when this man walked unknowingly into my picture. i thought the hairstyle was 'cool' so i decided to keep the picture and make him famous here. hmm. maybe should send this to david gan.
the math a level tys.
guess who!
we could only hang out at the children's books section and read THIS. and we still could not understand everything :x
the video monitoring sign amused me. cock-eye!
the packet drinks look like big lego blocks of volume 0.5L.
ferrero rocher garden edition! ok obviously the chocs don't grow in the garden. it's just something like a summer edition. flavours include lemon and strawberry. yum
these two pigeons kept playing catching at the train station. good entertainment.
noodle with erm meat. lunch after school at alfresco cafe. we took quite a long time to figure out where our food was coming from because there were no visible restaurants in sight! hmm.. maybe from the dustbin somewhere.
champinon salad. yum.
my camera on sale! wow. it's more expensive here.
spiderman came to my rescue! i forgot what dangerous situation i was in. oh. i thought i saw dr. octo somewhere.
haha.no comment.
my house from the outside!
let’s doodle
