"Atlantica Supersplash" against the cloudy sky; weather was superb for both play and photog!
"Euro-Mir" roller coaster, a twist of a life!
On Euro-Mir; This is a funny picture. The mat-salleh in front look damn cool and with little expressions. and we were like a bunch of soh-poh. From the last row on the left-Siu Ann&Sarah; 2nd last row-Me and chuey Ee;)
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
"Vindjammer"; the ship swings from end to end! Second row from behind; Sarah, me, ChanSee, SiuAnn, ChueyEe
Chan See and Jun Wei at the front row!
The birthday girl (Siu Ann) in her birthday hat.
That's Siu Ann (in white) and Chan See (in dark green-brown)
"Silver Star" this is the only picture that is not taken with wc's camera. ;) it's computer generated picture which wc bought at the end of Silver Star ride. (back row : me, WC, chueyEe, sarah)
*More about Silver Star : It's the largest megacoaster in Europe, height 73 metres, and it moves at a speed up to 130km/h. Sliding down from the highest point really made us feel weightless!
After an eventful day...
A picture of SilverStar, sillhoutted against the bright evening sky to conclude the day.
Lan-yeng pose from left; chueyee, siuann, jennette, sarah, jinwerne, michelle
butt-ery pose (pun intended) from left; pLing, chueyee, siuann, jennette, jinwerne, michelle. *Both were taken after exiting GSC. Yeah, we looked innocent, didnt we?
Have been in Glasgow for quite a while, and I realised something very different about the general public system here (UK and a couple of other western countries we'v visited) compared to the type we have back in our homeland.
I mulled over some incidents lately, three examples to follow...
1) I visited Glasgow's cinema twice so far. Havin' the reputation of being the world's tallest cinema, i thought there would be a strict and rigorous system here. Surprisingly, we were checked for the tickets only at the ground floor before the elevator.
And even more surprising to us was that the door to enter the cinema screen is also the door to exit the screen.
Hey, DOES THAT SENTENCE PROMPT AN INSPIRATION IN YOUR BRILLIANT BRAIN? The corrupted part of us (perhaps “naughty” is a nicer adjective) would have immediately cooked up with some cheeky conspiracy yea? Pay for a ticket worth a movie, and get in and out of the cinema screens as you wish and watch as many movies as you can in that one day. Wow, how cool could that be??
Nah, we didn’t do it.
We don't have this kind of things back in Malaysia, do we? (that is why we exit a cinema screen to some other part of the mall or a car park). Correct me if otherwise. If we do, our cinemas will chap-lap very very soon huh?
2) okay digress. Let's take the train as another example. You see, most (but not all) of the train stations here do not have the check-in kinda machine like the ones we have in Malaysian's LRT/KTM stations.. It's fairly different here. There are some trains which you can board without having to punch your ticket until the conductor comes to you, that also being infrequent sometimes. My own statistics : Out of the 10 times i boarded short-journey trains, i was checked on my tickets only perhaps 4 times? Hey, that is like less than 50% of chance man!
And in this city where i am located right now, there are even trains of which you can just board without a ticket, and buy it from the conductor in the train itself. (If such system were to be reproduced in our country, what would we possibly do if the conductor doesnt come to check on our tickets? Feel lucky, smile silently, and walk out of the train like nothing happens??)
3) Next, this is a classic example. So, one of my housemates’ friend was here in Glasgow for visiting lately. We decided to bring her to the Science Centre since we had not been there before. At the parking lot, we saw the price quotation to enter the Science Centre.. It was pretty expensive, so we decided not to enter the Science Centre, and just walk along the nearby river while enjoying the scenery.
As we walked towards the rear end of the huge building, we saw a cafeteria and we thought of we could find some toilets in there. As we walked in, nobody was really bothered and finally we found toilets, around 200metres down the cafeteria.
After easing ourselves, we noticed a flight of elevator up and the signboard says “To the Science Mall”. We thought, “Hey, sounds interesting wor. Shud be for public view eh? Heck, just enter-lah!” Elated, we went up and it was really cool, we spent so much time in there and played with all the canggih stuffs and experimented almost every gadget we could find in the Science Mall.. After an hour or so, we decided to leave...
Hey dudes out there, have you forgotten mums always tell us NTH IS FREE!? So you could have guessed as much what had just happened yeah?? We, 7 girls, were actually in the Science Centre building itself! Those things we saw and played with were part of the Science Centre! And we didn’t know until we walked past the ticket counter just before exiting the entire building.. lol.. We couldn’t believe it, so we were trespassers for that two hours without knowing?? Blissfully ignorant??
So moral of the story???
1. Keep all your movie-time and watch them abroad in one go?
2. Pretend innocent in the train until the conductor comes to you?
3. next time to any places of interest, enter it free from the rear door?
NO, peeps. They are all wrong. I don't even mean to corrupt anyone. I just want to raise up a point, a very important point, right here. You see, such systems are applicable in western country. Ever asked why? Well, it can survive here because people here are civil-minded. They are brought up in such an environment so much so that they have a more refined mentality. They are generally better educated.
Wow. Taken a deep breath??? Really, education is the key thing. We need education to be civilised. We need civilisation to be developed. We need development to advance. We need advancement to live in such globalised world. If such a basic thing is missing in our lives, how do we progress?
Common lounge
At dining table, we would have several languages in our conversation. This is also a nice blend worth noting.. My aunt would speak to me and WC in english and hokkien.. She would then automatically switch to her German tongue when she speaks to Uncle Siegfried (her husband) or to my cousins.. WC also speaks to my cousins in German, and it's fun to hear them converse and i always try to catch their conversation. most of the time, i would know the gist of their conversation, but not the entire story. then one of them would have to translate the whole thing to me. ahah..
i always love to see how different cultures mix and match. my extended family is huge, and i am fortunate to have many relatives who introduce new culture to the family. WC always says that he would be drown within my big family. ahaha.. Many pictures to follow.
Aunt's Haus (house) from the garden view
Chopped firewood, for winter use.
An apple tree in the garden, a birthday present for Uncle Siegfried from family.
The truth:the pumpkin has already been there in the green house for a few months!; Muehlacker, Germany.
A fly on a flower; Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Raspberry; First shot with macro lense
Green juicy tomatoes; Muehlacker, Germany.
Raindrops on leaf; Esslingen, Germany.