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Day 6: Poznan to Krakow, Krakow to Auschwitz

I have to say this leg of the trip was pretty heavy, like the mood and all, because I guess the tour guide wanted to convey the severity of the atrocities suffered by the Jewish population in Europe during WWII. He was showing Schindler's List on the bus - although it was a great movie, it did give this part of the tour a more serious tone.

Sooo, am now about a week in after my trip to Europe. There're posts on that coming soon, I promise. I've been caught up with this course and exam this week (long story...) so I'll have to save the pictures and posts of Europe for the week after.

But in all seriousness, Europe was so awesome. I think I didn't really appreciate it as much when I went to Spain/Portugal in 2015 because I didn't put in as much effort absorbing all the culture and remembering the details of all the architecture we visited. So what happened was that I couldn't really differentiate all the various places when I looked at the photographs of the Spanish trip. This time round, I was really determined to make the best of the holiday and not be as overwhelmed, so I spent a lot of time on the bus reading up the historical facts of the places we visited. And also honestly I wanted to be able to talk about the destinations I visited to people who would ask, which I wasn't able to do for Spain (which I regret tremendously...!)

Just a teaser of the posts to come, we visited the following places on our 2 week tour of East Europe (in this order):

Czech Republic: Prague and Czesky Krumlov

Germany: Dresden and Berlin

Poland: Warsaw and Krakow

Hungary: Budapest

Slovakia: Banska Bystrica

Austria: Vienna and Salzburg

Germany: Munich

I can't wait to do the posts of the trip! But I have to get back to my books now (which are btw, killing me T_T). It's all going to be over by Saturday so I thank the heavens for that. Also, I am kind of missing work and the routine of it so looking forward to that on Monday.

Till Saturday,

S

So I've been really busy lately and have not had much time to post. I'm down with the flu today and tomorrow so I thought it'll be nice to come on here once again to do a little update.

These are pictures from May and June! Can't really remember the exact dates and who I've gone out with though...

(Now it's time for our wrap up
Let's give it everything we've got
Ready? Begin)

Artificial amateurs, aren't at all amazing
Analytically, I assault, animate things
Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat
Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding
Casually create catastrophes, casualties
Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing
Detonate a dime of dank daily doing dough
Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low
Eating other editors with each and every energetic
Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette
Furious fat fabulous fantastic
Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics
Gift got great global goods gone glorious
Getting godly in his game with the goriest
Hit em high, hella height, historical
Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy
Imitators idolize, I intimidate
In an instant, I'll rise in an irate state
Juiced on my jams like jheri curls jocking joints
Justly, it's just me, writing my journals
Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on
Karate kick type brits in my kingdom
Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is
Learned lame louses just lose to my livery
My mind makes marvelous moves, masses
Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered
Niggas nap knowing I'm nice naturally
Knack, never lack, make noise nationally
Operation, opposition, off not optional
Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals
Perfected poem, powerful punch lines
Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime
Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quantum
Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got uh
Really raw raps, rising up rapidly
Riding the rushing radioactivity
Super scientifical sound search sought
Silencing super fire saps that are soft
Tales ten times talented, too tough
Take that, challengers, get a tune up
Universal, unique untouched
Unadulterated, the raw uncut
Verb vice lord victorious valid
Violate vibes that are vain make em vanished
While I'm all well what a wise wordsmith just
Weaving up words, weeded up on my work shift
Xerox, my X-radiation holes extra large
X-height letters, and xylophone tones
Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws
Yesterday's lawn yard sell our yawn
Zig zag zombies, zoom in to the zenith
Zero in zen thoughts, overzealous rhyme ZEALOTS!...

(Good... can you say it faster?)

The snacks on the street leading up to Fushimi Inari.

Saturday

Took a connecting flight from Singapore to Shanghai and then Osaka. We spent the morning in Shanghai and spent some time with Grandmamaw and Grandpapaw at Hongqiao. :) Pictures from the morning there!

Hi everyone! Currently halfway through my Osaka and Kyoto trip. Currently on a train to Kyoto. Some impressions of Japan thus far.

1) The MRT stations are like mazes. Like seriously, I would totally be lost if I were to come alone to Japan. Not only are the maps full of lines like a bunch of coloured spaghetti, the different lines on the same stations are also notoriously far apart, sometimes requiring you to go up and down several flight of steps.

Just a snippet of what's to come...

Friday

Really impromptu dinner at Nuvo + drinks. Had the most epic (?) night I must say in the most different kind of way? Almost thought I lost my life (to be dramatic about it) and ended on kinda a bad note but oh well. Dinner was good - kurobuta pork and codfish, then kyo after. Shitty handphone photos (should really think about changing to a better phone).

Had a ball of time with #chesnami as per usual talking about everything under the sun.

So have been meeting friends over the weekend and the Monday from this week. Busy busy! Was such a fun but tiring weekend. Still trying to figure out how much detail I should be revealing on here. 'A good story should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.'

 Scones and latte at The Daily Round Up.

 Night time dinner at Jekyll & Hyde. Here's the tuna and preserved veg starter that we ordered.

 Deliciously done wagyu beef cubes. Too bad they were kinda chewy though.

Back to UTown residences and met Joy Joy! Haus party like there was no tomorrow. I swear I got even more smashed than I already were from the red wine. 

 Hola!

Then we went to this party at Alibi, the Fullerton pavilion after. Guess it's like the new Avalon what with the submerged pavilion design and glass windows? Can't remember much except that it was super super crowded. 

Sunday

Went to Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park thereafter to check out the Chingay parade. The floats were super bright, almost like getai? There was this one performer though that looked like Balang from the Philippines and we were all super amused at that. 

Monkeying around. 

Monday

Went bar-hopping on Monday night and really really had a ball of a time. Checked out a couple of places that were so indie they didn't even have names. Like the first bar we went to was literally a door in the wall amongst a bunch of shop houses... and its name was 28 Hong Kong Street aka the literal name of the address. How cute is that? Don't really remember the cocktails that I was getting because there were so many and I felt like the next few bars (jigger and pony, bitter and love) looked the same to me. Idk maybe it's just me. Same feeling with the wine and liquor shelves and ladders. Just that they got progressively brighter. Didn't have much food either but had tons of banter to fill me up. :-)

In the midst of booking air tickets to go to Japan in April to see the sakura! I am so excited I can't even. Haha. And it's probably going to be the first time I'm staying in an Airbnb so there's that to look forward to. 

Time to say byeeee. Heh. 

xoxo