Liechtenstein

Went to this small country between Switzerland and Austria... It is only an hour away from St Gallen... and quite cheap...cheaper than going to zurich... Its very clean... but not as nice as Switzerland... there are only few attractions there... and could see most by sitting the city train...
No need to show passport to get in... but they cleverly tot of a way to earn money from tourists... they stamp on ur passport for a small fee of CHF 2.00... i forgot to bring my passport there...so cannot stamp... wanted to get it stamped... but it just slipped my mind when i was packing my bag...

First stop on the city train is this red house...with a vineyard...its the royal vineyard...
There were some more attractions along the way, but the train din stop for photos... it just introduced the places... we went to the post museum next... it was free... and had the history of post offices, collections of stamps in Liechtenstein... its famous for its stamps...
After that we walked along their shopping street... keep stopping to look at souveniours... they were selling alot of stamps...we practically stop at every souvenior stop to take a look and buy the stamps... I din buy though... I bought smth else... found this Smurf soft toy for only CHF 5.00... It was cheap.... so i bought it...

Post Museum

Finally got to a Vineyard where we could have free wine tasting... it was gd...Point Nior... quite famous type of wine produce by Liechtenstein... bought one red Point Nior shared with daisy... cause we stayed together...so can drink together...

Pictures of the Vineyard

Sunglass gang

Scenary around the Vineyard

Buddy system trip to Schaffausen (6th May)

Forgot to blog about our trip to Schaffausen... a 1 hour bus trip from st gallen... near germany border... The main attraction was to see the Rhein falls... the widest waterfall in Europe... honestly...to me is wasn't tt spectacular... i have seen nicer waterfall elsewhere.... but well the scenary are superub as usual....

Trip to Interlaken

Our trip to Interlaken started off quite well, managed to catch the train we wanted to... but on the way to Interlaken... things happen....firstly, when me and xuan checked the train timings and the platform to change our train at, we thought that the train would go straight to bern, and we no need to change at zurich...so we continue our journey all the way to the train's last stop Biel... upon reaching there we realise our mistake...when spencer told us that zurich is a big train station and we need to check the platorm when we are there...so shitty... what makes it worse is that we can't go back to bern and take the train to Interlaken...because there was a train accident on the way from Thun to Interlaken...no trains will be passing through there...and besides we were too late to catch the last bus there...so we had to go to Lausanne...spent the night there...we actually wanted to saty in the hostel we stayed the other time...nice hostel...but they din have vaccancy only one bed was available...so we had to walk 30-45mins in the dark to the youth hostel which was quite far away... but the youth hostel was very nice...defintely worth the money...and i think that i was part of the olympic village....

the room...it looks like a bomb shelter

Corridor

Poster along the corridor with a very cool light

The next day, had a nice breakfast and set off to the train station... took a bus but we miss our stop...ended up walking 1-2 bus stops to the train station.... but on the way we did some shopping... happy to make up for the misfortune ytd... but what receive us at Interlaken wasn't any better... it started to rain shortly after we reach Interlaken...had to walk in the rain to our hostel... booked a trip for rafting, but it got cancelled as the water level was too high...spend a day rotting in the hostel and walking aimlessly on the streets near our hostel...

Third day, bright and sunny, good weather...wanted to try canyoning instead... but... the morning trip got cancelled due to the heavy rain ytd, the water level was still too high for canyoning... so we decided to do the rafting which was at 4pm... xuan went up to jungfrau, while me and spencer went cycling... but dunnoe whether we suay or what...more misfortune happen...while trying to take a photo...the wind was so strong tt spencer's cam dropped...think the shutter got spoilt...so he can't take pics...only video could be taken... and xuan couldn't go up to jungfrau because there was a technical glitch... but it was ok after a while...but she had to choose between jungfrau and rafting...so she chose rafting... from then on...i think our misfortune kinda ended...

We had great fun during the rafting...super exciting... but the water was freezing...

Before we hit our first big wave

In the big wave (all of us got drenched)
another wave
Group photo during rafting
Last big wave

Must mention that our guide for rafting looks like Brad Pitt....
After 1+ hour, we are back at the base to clean up... went back to the hostel...grab our stuff and run to the train station...to catch the train back to St gallen... took the TGV at one of the transit...

Interlaken

Just got back from Interlaken...did cylcing up the moutains and WHITE WATER RAFTING...too tired to blog abt it in detail for now...

Group shot before we left for the lake

Lausanne

Took a train to Lausanne on sat evening... spencer found us a nice hostel... with a nice view from our room... Lausanne is much more prettier than Geneva... and we were so luckily to be there on sun... cause Tour de Romana was racing through the streets tt day... but it was a time trail race... so the excitment level dropped.... but got to see many great cyclists...they are very fast... and i saw Armstrong's team...

View from the hostel room| sightseeing|
me, shiying and xuan| lake Geneva| me and xuan
Street on Lausanne| castle| Cyclists

Due to a bad night... i was really tired and slpy the whole day... after some sightseeing.... we visited a olympic museum.... did some more sightseeing... and when to this hill with a great view....

Second picture shows the world record for high jump... its really quite high... wonder how the person did it....

Geneva

Boarded the train at 4.34am... after one whole night of partying and slacking... super shag when i boarded the bus... the whole reason of going to Geneva was to attend lectures held by some wto officials... but was so tired that i only managed to survive 2 out of 4 lectures on fri... went straight to the lecture after reaching geneva... and went bacak to slp after lunch...
did some sightseeing and tt's abt it...

Lake Geneva| Flower Clock| numbers|
Lake Geneva| Statue|Scruplture| Europe's tallest fountain
Me @ Lake Geneva| Temple| Shiying

Me | Signs showing all the UN buildings| UN Metrology station
UNICEF| WTO| UN flag
UN building| UN sign

Nothing much... Geneva is quite a boring place... unless u get to visit the UN... we din get to go in cause it was closed...

Boy's Party 27/04/06

Since xuan is sick... i shall blog abt the party we had in her apartment for Belle's brother, Boy...his name is really boy and her name is really belle... Boy came to visit Belle in switzerland....and was leaving the next day... so we decided to throw him a farewell dinner...
he cooked for us delicious tom yam soup the other day... so its a way of re-treating him back...

It was a potluck dinner... me,xuan and armrest cook fried bee hoon... with the help of spencer... nearly ruin the thing... cause there were too much mee fen and the pan was too small... and also... i dun really know how to cook... first time trying... not too bad....
Leslie and Cindy cook, spring rolls and xi mi.... the spring rolls were huge... and very delicious! Uncle Spencer cook sambal vege... lot time since i ate anything tt spicy here in Europe... smells like home... Bahvani cooked some Indian dessert... forgot the name of it... its sweet... not bad... Boy cook something similar to fried wanton... but i think its a Thai version of it... and we only managed to start dinner at around 10pm i think... cause Boy and Belle was no where to be found until 9+...

Finally got to use chopsticks after so long

After dinner, we had wine and some beer... and we started to do stupid things... cause Belle told us that in Thailand to test whether u are drunk... u have to do this... for 10secs... din know what got into us... everyone tried it...except spencer who was away to wash up the kitchen first...

Belle demo-ing how to do it...

Bahvani (10secs.. but she din drink)| shiying (hand too short.. cannot do, and din drink)| Boy | Cindy | Leslie | Me | Belle

Winner... (guess who is it)

Cindy & me| Me, xuan and shiying| Pretty girls
Leslie & me | shiying and me|xuan and shiying

We had lots of fun and laughter that night...the whole party ended at around 1+am and after washing up it was nearly two... and the best thing was... we had to catch a train to Geneva at 4am in the morning...
Din slept the whole night.... damn shag....

I dun really have a lot of pic in my camera.. maybe when the rest send me the photos i can upload some more pics of our craziness...