Another week has gone and time really flies.

In university I had to fight with some stupid bugs in the program I use for building electrical circuites. That was really annoying.

Wednesday I was out with my flatmate Evelyne and some of her friends. In many clubs there is a so called ladies night. You pay about 10€ and can drink as much as you can. Crazy somehow, as drinking is allowed indeed, but not being drunk. Unfortunately my Singaporean mobilephone was stolen in this evening, too. (Low crime != No crime!)

Thursday I had to be at university at 8:30, because there was a seminar, where my Prof wanted us students to got. Nobody told me that it was in another part of the university and not where we normally are. So I was there at 8:30 for nothing. (And as I lost my cell the evening before I couln't call anybody...)

Friday was a public holiday because of the so called "Hari Raya Haji". It's a moslem holiday where they celebrate that when Abraham wanted to kill his son, because Alah told him to do so, the son turned into a sheep and he killed only the sheep and not his son.
For lunch I was at the very famos Bavarian restaurant in Singapore "Brotzeit" with Nadine, a girl from Munich I met here. It's weird to be welcomed from Asian people with "Servus". But Paulaner sometimes tastes really good!

In the evening I went for eating the best dumplings in the whole city in a restaurant called "Din Tai Fung". A dumpling is a dough similar to noodle dough filled with different things like meat, vegetables... They are available in every food court ore hawkers center in Singapore in many different ways (fried, in the soop, steamed..). The dumplings I ate on friday where filled with soop. So when you bite on them, the soop runs. Really, really amazing!

After that I saw someting quite rare for Singapore: A street fight. Some drunken guys fighted with each other until one of them fell to the ground. The poor guy was bleeding nearly everywhere and a girl that stood next to him just shouted that everyone should go away. She didn't want anyone to call an ambulance. (Of course anybody called them anyhow, but that's what the fear from going to jail makes with civil courage...)

Yesterday I went to the Botanics Garden. A really nice park areal, where you can find small parts of primeval forests. In the evening I was at a trance club called "Stereolab". Not really my music, but for those who like it, it should be a great club. (I was on the guest list there *wooo*).

Today I finally managed it to go for sailing. The first time in my life sailing on a Cat. (It was no Hobie Cat, but quite similar, called "Dart".) After some minutes of being afraid, it was really amazing how the boat increases its velocity by just little wind. And of course I was also swimming in the sea again. I really like it :-)

Singapore - 3rd Week

The passed weekend was more ore less relaxed. After going climbing at Saturday morning with my flatmates, I decided to go to Sentosa Island. It's an small island south of Singapore and it has all you need for your free time. There are lots of beach bars, clubs, artificial beaches and lots of sports acitivity offers. The beaches are really nice there and I put my feet in the water. The only thing is, that everywhere you go for seeing the sea in Singapore you see thousends of ships, queing for the harbor entrance, in the background. It's unimagable.

In the evening I went to a really nice roof top bar in china town, called "Screening Room" for having a cocktail. Then I went to Clark Quay to a club called "China One". They have a live band there every day that plays really nice rock music (e.g. Muse!).

Today I was at Singapore East Cost, where there are some artifical beaches, too. And I swam in the Indian Ocean. It was SO exciting! (Ok, besides all the ships in the background...)

And I found out that Muse will be in Singapore at the beginning of February. I'll buy the ticket tomorrow. I'm soo looking forward to it!

Singapore - Impressions from the Weekend

Sorry for being so lazy with writing new entries in this blog. And thanks to all who are waiting daily for me to write someting new.

The elapsed week was not really thrilling, as it has turned a little bit to normality now. But of course some things to write had happend.

I was forced by my colleagues from university to eat something really disgusting. They told me that it wouldn't be thrilling and it was just pork, but it was pork's organs like stomach and intestinals. But it was not like you know it from sausages but more chewy and... And in that nice mix there were also some really, really fat pieces of pork skin. I think I will stay on chicken rice, noodles and that stuff in future. :-)

I booked also a ticket for Greenday for 14th January 2010. My flatmate Evelyne will go there with some friends, and so I can join them.

Next friday (27th November) there will be public holiday because of any Indian festival. I was thinking about going to Bintan Island or Puketh for that weekend. Bintan Island is an Indonesian island south of Singapore with white beaches, palm trees and all that stuff. Form Singapore one can go by ferry there in about 45min of journey.

On monday evening a colleague from msg arrived here in Singapore. We were out a little bit during this week. (Wednesday at Clarks Quays...) And he bought the same Camera as I have. I really love this Camera. Today we will meet another colleague who stays in Manila (Philippines) during the week. And tomorrow I will go for climbing with my roommates in the morning. So will be a great weekend.

And: the most important news from this week!!!! My father booked a flight for me to Germany over the Christmas holidays. So I will arrive in Germany on 23th December and return to Singapore on 3rd January. I'm really looking forward to see my family and maybe some of my friends then. (And to see some snow on my birthday!)

So, have a great weekend, too. Cheers!

Does really everyone want to live in this bloody city? And to officers always have to be unfriendly? I had to go to the Immigration & Checkpoint Authority tody, in order to get my Student Pass - which now allows me officialy to stay here for the next 4 months. (Normaly you are only allowed to stay for maximum 9 days). So I went there into a 7story building where nearly every store was full with people who were willing to immigrate to Singapore. And I filled in some other forms. (I think in summary I filled in about 20 forms since I applied for the stay here). And of course I had to wait a lot. The appointment I made - which was not really necessary, as you have to pull a number nevertheless - was at 10.00am and I came out at 1.30pm to only get a stupide card. (Ok, at least it's really hightech with fingerprint and all that stuff.)

Yesterday I walked along the Quays and through Colonial District where you can find a lot of art. I think I didn't see really everything of it. (e.g. a Sculpture made by Salvador Dalí). But I was in a really impressing photo exhibition from Asian Geographic (must be the Asian version of National Georaphic), called "Asia without borders". And I saw the very important fat bird at the riverside, made by Fernando Botero.
And I found out that every weekend there is a free concert in front of the Esplanade, Singapore's Concert Hall, with a really nice Marina Bay view. I guess, I will go to one of the concerts next weekend.

So, again there are some pictures of Singapore:

Singapore - Colonial District and the Quays

Today I pimped my room a little bit by hanging some posters onto the wall. Immediately it looks better :-)

Singapore - My Home

In the afternoon I went to Little India in the center of Singapore. It's full of small colerful houses, dirty streets and it's really busy. Ok, Singapore is busy everywhere, but Little India is like beeing in another place. They have their own shopping malls there, where you can buy Sarees and lots of golden jewels for Indish weddings. It's not the part of the city where Europeans feel comfortable, but it was interesting to see it.

Singapore - Walk through little India and Raffles Place

I've moved in in my new room where I will finally stay till 7th March and it's really exciting. After I packed out all of my stuff I went swimming in the pool and it feels so good.
With my flatmates I watched at America's Next Topmodel (It's even worse then Germany's...) and I think that it will turn out really funny.

At university I did some first calculations and considerations about the project I will join probabely.

And I took some pictures of the campus. Ok, most of them I took of the Design and Art School, but the building is really exciting. And I promise that I will take pictures of the rest soon.

Singapore - NTU Campus

I've got a room! I've got a room! I'VE GOT A ROOOOOOOM! *sorry*

It's so cool. The three guys I wrote about yesterday told me that I can move in tomorrow evening. I'm so happy. It seems, that they are really cool. The Swiss girl goes also climibing every now and then and I will join her next week. (Unfortunately I left my climbing stuff at home, but it should be possible to rent something.) And she will organize tickets for the gratest dance music festival in Asia at 12th December at Sentosa Island "ZoukOut 2009".

And the house itself is even better. It's a so called "Condo" (Condominium), a type of block that is built by private owners. (Normally blocks in Singapore are built by the government and are - normally - really, lets say, basic. These houses are called HDB.) And it has the full condominium amenities like:

• Swimming Pool
• Gym
  
• Fitness Studio
• Tennis Court
• Jacuzzi
• Putting Green
• and so on.

For more details and some pictures of the house you can look at this page.
You see, in the end everything is getting ok.

At university I began with making my presentation about the TUM's underwater project. I was asked to present it within the next weeks.

Students here at the university are very awestruck when they talk about TUM. It seems that it is very famouse for people from Asia.

And I forgot yesterday to enthuse about the fruit juices that are available at every corner of the city and even in the cantines at NTU. They are always freshly pressed and you can choose between about 10 different types of fruit that you can mix as you like. (0.5 liters cost about 0.30€)