Picnic with Ann's Mentor Group

Its a sunday already! Ann's mentor group is so happening lah... they have arranged for a picnic session in the botanical gardens on a sunday morning.. We meet around 9 plus 10 to get the food and walked to the AF building to meet Ann's group. It felt kinda weird that we're inviting ourselves.. oh wells it was pretty fun just sitting together talking to new people. We met two more NTU girls there and some Taiwanese. There was even this French guy (Seb) who looked extremely like Ben Affleck! My gosh!! But i still think Juliana's Swedish neighbour (Djorhan) looks so much better.
Seb aka Ben Affleck is infront of me and Ann.

Lund, Malmo, Helsingborg and Copenhagen.  

And more flowers! 

Hibiscus... 

White Roses... 

Pink Roses 

Roses at the Fredriksdals 

McFlurry Strawberry Surprise: Tastes just like the Yoshinoya Frozen Strawberry with condensed milk instead. If you haven tried it, you better do.
 

The Helsingborg Church  

At the steps of the Tower 

The only Tower left... 

At the Helsingborg Castle 

A trip to Helsingborg

Helsingborg is about half an hour away from Lund. Its the nearest point to Denmark (opposite Denmark's Helsingor) and supposed to have been through loads of destruction when Denmark used to attack Sweden. They always attacked Helsingborg since its the nearest anyway.

Its really a bad time to go to Helsingborg today. All of us are still tired from yesterday's walking and the skies are all dark and gloomy. Well what to do when you've already spent 100 SEK on transportation? Tahan lor.

We visited the only 16th/17th (forgot when) Tower left (the rest of it was torned down) and it gave us a magnificient view of the city and we could even see part of Helsingor. We also visited the nearby church and got to witness a baby being baptised. We went on (took a bus) to this open-air museum called Fredriksdals. They had flower gardens, farmlands (pigs, chickens, horses, cows... like a zoo u know?) and it costed us 50 SEK to get in there! Well it was pretty worth it though.

The day ended with us strolling along the Helsingborg harbour...

The fireworks.  

Malmo Festival 

Chinese Mini Mart 

Malmo's smallest house. They certainly have not seen Singapore's smallest house.  

St Peters' Church: A ceiling full of pencil drawings.  

At the Ribersborg Beach 

How i wish i own this car mans..  

Wayne (aka Bean!) , Clement, Me, Steph, Yan Ling in front of Turning Torso 

The Turning Torso. Supposedly all the windows are custom-made due to the curvature of the building.  

Clement, Steph, Me, Yan Ling 

Happening Friday

Today is the closing ceremony of the Malmo Festival! 6 of us headed down to Malmo early in the morning (not so early actually) and decided to explore the Malmo vincinity in greater detail.

We've already been to Malmo once ( for IKEA) but there's still so much to see. We first went to see the famous Turning Torso. The archi students must have been marvelled ( so was i ) by this master piece. The buildings here are really one of its kind and you probably will never get to see them in Singapore.

We headed to the Ribersborg Beach which has this beautiful field where dogs run free and people picnic for the afternoon. We were so 'inspired' that we too went to the nearby supermarket and bought some bread to have a mini picnic by the beach. It was so relaxing and enjoyable!

We walked on and discovered some Asian mini-mart and promptly bought some mee sua and tom yum paste. Always good to have on some cold and windy night... Well we continued walking.. walking.. walking.. Its amazing to see the distance we covered man. I never walked so much in Singapore...

We went to check out the Malmo Festival (city centre) where they had 2 or 3 amusement park rides (reminds me of the days back in Cedar Point!) , bumper cars and a dunking machine. We actually spent half an hour watching people come by to pay to dunk people. The interesting thing is the person is dunked into the Malmo canal, not the small tub of water we always use. There were a few rock concerts (in Swedish, totally didnt understand) and many stalls by the road selling food. Seems that Thai food is pretty popular here?

After a good dinner ( i had some yummy salmon fillet) we decided to seek refuge in the train station. I was so tired i almost fell asleep there ( i know steph did, she was swaying left and right) . Why didnt we go home? We wanted to stay to watch the annual fireworks. It was beautiful i tell u! The fireworks were right in our faces and there wasnt a huge crowd like back in Singapore.

By the time we got home it was already 1230am. Gosh im so tired my feet are aching like mad and we are still going Helsingborg tomorrow! Shall update again later.

Rainy Onsdag

When it rains it sure pours.. Its been like this the whole day... I didnt do much, except research on Amsterdam and Copenhagen the whole morning to see if there are any cheap flights and hostels this week (we have no sch from thurs till sun). Today's wednesday, so its really damn rush. Well we couldnt find anything so we had to postpone our Amsterdam trip to next week (29th - 31st Aug).

I also did up my calendar which includes my lessons and breaks in between. Hopefully i can make it for the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany in last September. I'm only taking 1 module in September anyways! The way Lund works is they spilt yr sem into 2 parts. So if you wanna take 4 mods in total, u can take 2 or 3 from sept-oct, then 2 or 1 from oct-dec. Yan Ling even squeezed all her 3 mods in sept so she could go travelling after that!

And finally we settled on what to do over the week.

25th - 26th Aug:
1. Helsingborg, Sweden
2. Karlskrona, Sweden

Both places are in the landscape of Gotaland and are pretty near Lund. I would say about 1-2 hrs train ride away?

29 - 31st Aug:
Amsterdam, Holland

We're finally going Amsterdam!!! After so much discussion and all. Phew!

The crypt. 

The big clock. Supposedly the only one of its kind in the Nordic countries. 

Me and my new kiddy bike  

Superman Poster!! Argh he is so good looking!