OFFA Fair

Went to a Spring Trade Fair which took place in St Gallen about one and a half weeks ago. It is one of the largest fairs held in St Gallen and has products ranging from food (read: wurst/sausages) and wine in the 'degustation' section to clothes and bags, to household appliances as well as electrical appliances.

View of the exhibition ground

Also, I think they had this competition where displayes were made out of chocolates!


Looks like it was inspired by 'Ice Age', the cartoon


A closer look at one of the frames


A pianist! Look at the white chocolate balls!

A chocolate horse carriage!!!

And here's the real one!

Forgot to mention, there were also horses and horses related things shown at the fair.


'Horsey'! - kinda reminded me of my RDA comm service.

Giant Ferris wheel! Saw a Singapore carriage, but didn't manage to get on that.


View from the top of the Ferris Wheel

10th Day in Schweiz...

The snow is melting!!! I see green leaves!

Check out this photo...

and compare it with this one.

Take out of the same window, this was taken about a week ago.. when I woke up to snow.. See the snow covered leaves and the green leaves! Hahaha.. So... I thought.. the snow may is melting and will be gone soon. So I decided to venture out of my house in slippers and make...

Tada! A mini snowman!!! :)

I'm guessing the snow will be gone by tomorrow or Tues... unless it snows again.. Cause it's quite sunny now.. .

Went over to Germany, Lake Constance yesterday... Not a bad place.. about a one hour train ride away. Will post pictures up seperately...

More nice pictures of the view I get from the hills

Yeah.. the snow vs no snow thingee again. It's interesting how we can have a couple of days without snow, then one week of snow.. and now, no snow...

And then, here's more picts from around town...

Oh ya!!! and before I forget, I heart Fedex!!!

Heh... I was so excited to get my adaptor a few days ago that I tore the package and only took this photo after that. Hahaha...

Anyway, I was just thinking... I don't miss home as in the 'I want to go home now' thing. But I miss everyone back home. Just wishing you all would be here to share this experience with me... But no regrets lar... this place is so beautiful.

And I'm getting used to the walking, getting to the bus station before the bus arrives on schedule, trudging through the snow... hanging out with the other exchange students. I'm enjoying the experience and it's fun being with the other people. It's like besides learning German, I'm going to improve my Cantonese and Mandarin cause there are some of them from Hongkong and a girl from Taiwan.

But besides this whole fun fun thing, there is also an 'alone' side to it. Esp when you wake up early in the morning. Nothing much to do. Or it gets a bit emo when I read emails or talk to family and friends at home. But yeah.. I term it 'morning sickness'. Hahaha... but give me a couple more days/weeks and I think I'll just be fine.. hahaha...

Anyway, to end of... eye candy! :)

My housemate or 'housies' as my sis terms them. Simon from Swiss and Anders from Sweden. Heez... :) (I bet this is what you all have been waiting for right?!)

Saint Gallen

Wow!!! my third post of the day!!!

Just to showcase some pictures I took of Saint Gallen, the 6th largest town in Switzerland, a one hour train ride from Zurich.

The main tourist attraction is the cathedral with the abbey library. I haven't been into the library yet, but we walked to the cathedral and honestly, the sight of it took my breath away! Check out the pictures!!!

This was taken on Sunday before the snow came... Don't you think the sky complemented the cathedral so well?

Beautiful right? So picture perfect!

The view from the other hill - one which I took like 2 hours plus 3 hours to climb to reach this lake. But isn't it magnificent?

Can't omit UBS - Union Bank of Switzerland

Yawn.. feeling tired.. shall leave you with pictures of pretty flowers that survived winter...

Ok.. shall leave you with this.. I'll update soon... meanwhile, tag or leave me a comment!

Tchuss!