Love . Trust . Appreciate .

Finally my Europe trip for the past 2 months are over. 53days in Norway & 7 days in France. We all woke up at around 330am to prepare and we have to go out at 430am. Thanks to the Lente family for seeing me off and Thanks to JB for waking up so early to send me and having to work the whole day still. Back to Singapore and face reality. Back to routinue life and of cos back to my 2 babies. Long journey back to Singapore. 2 hours from Geneva to Copenhagen 6 hours transit in Copenhagen 11 hours from Copenhagen to Bangkok 2 hours transit in Bangkok 2 hours from Bangkok to Singapore total: 23 hours A day to reach Singapore. What a tired journey. I have enough of long flight.

The day before leaving for Singapore. Went last minute shopping for all the souvenirs and chocolates. Busy day and before starting all the shopping, meet JB near his office for lunch in the park. Picnic. Fried rice by zhenny. Delicious but then, my face becomes black after the sun tan. After lunch, we walked a very very very long way to the shopping mall. A long way by the lake. OMG it took us almost an hour to reach the mall and this is really a good exercise instead of taking the short cut; by bus. Its nice to walk along the lake and people are laying on the grass for some sunlight. Geneva city is just like ordinary city. Full of people, cars and buildings. Some of the buildings are so old and dirty and no re-painting done. And the floor are dirty too. Litters around. Still Singapore is the cleanest. Last night in zhenny house. We celebrate our 3 gers birthday together with 1 black forest cake. All the aries gers. Happy birthday to zhenny & chelsie and me too :)

Today JB took 1 day off and we went around the lake of Swiss & France. 1st thing in the morning, we had our breakfast and prepare some sandwich for our lunch before invading to the castle. Wonderful lunch. Sandwich with hard boil egg. Sprinkle some salt on the egg and it taste so nice. Next time i will prepare this for picnic too. After the small picnic, we proceed to the castle and this walk takes us about 3hours. This is not a very big castle and we take our sweet time to indulge ourself to experience what the ancient royalty had lived. Their house, home, lifestyle, daily equipment, design and everything. Even the toilet bowl. But theirs is more convenient as they need no flush cos their poo poo is straight to the lake. Its interesting to explore the castle which i have always wanted but this type of castle isnt that magnificient and not what i expected. So big fish but small prawns is also fine. By the time we finished, its amost 5pm. We went to zhenny ex school and to Evian. E...

Tuesday: We went to the town for awhile and even went to the pet shop plus botanical shop. So many plants and decorations and even scents. I bought 1 vanilla scents to put in the office and its smells nice. Not very strong and the smell is on and off. We went back for lunch and zhenny cooked ba gu teh and steam egg. So nice. After 2 months of non-chinese food, this is really great. Home cooked meal. We went for a walk in the evening and its not a park but a small woods. With lots of tall tress and dry leaves. Horses can be seen and their poo poo too. Big poos and so disgusting. When people walk their dog, they have to clean up the dog poos but the horse poo they dont need to clean up. It was a nice walk in the woods and its very relaxing. Wish something like this can be found in singapore but then i dont think we have the land for this. People only think of making money by building more condos.

Monday. I cant remember what we have done.

Everywhere is almost the same in Europe. Sunday is the off day for everyone and most of the shop is not open unless for the cafe and resturant. But somewhere near zhenny house, there's this supermarket which is open on Sunday morning. We went there to shop the day before for the whole week food and dinner we had cheese fondue (maybe) with champagne. But i really dont like wine & champagne. I prefer Coke. The cheese dinner was very nice and we ate until so full. Its so delicious. But before the dinner, we went to the park for a walk. Its called an old town cos the buildings are really old and its some kind of preserve building from last time. Lots of farmers house and small door house. I wonder why the french are so small in size in the ancient times and now the french are so tall and big build. After walking the whole noon, we went for the Crepe. I ordered Crepe Nutella and they ordered a bottle of apple cider. Like apple with vinegar. Nice Crepe. Not Crap.

2 hours flight from Kristiansand to Copenhagen 2 hours transit in Copenhagen 2 hours flight from Copenhagen to Geneva Finally I reach Geneva and my dearest sister came to fetch me with her family. JB & Chelsie. Before reaching Geneva, just before the plane touch down, i told myself to control my tears in the plane. Not going to let the passenger see me crying. Waiting anxiously for my luggage. Looking around for them and see no sight of them. Walking out to the gate and there they are. Family of Lente waiting for me. Finally my tears drop down uncontrollably. Months of tears stored up just for this day? I felt so good and great to see them again. Especially after months and months of separation. Nothing can explain the happiness i had when i met my family in a foreign country. Its really great. 1st stop we went is the chinese restuarant in Geneva. The resturant they always go. Its nice and crowded with people. We spent the whole evening in zhenny house and dinner is the forever del...

Today is my last day in Arendal, Norway. It is also Grant birthday and I have missed his 2nd birthday. Wee has celebrated his bdae in his school with all his friends and teachers. I am missing him so much this morning while looking thru the photos. His looks has changed alot and he is taller now than last 2 months. I hope he still remember me when i return. But next week, I will webcam with him with zhenny & chelsie. Last day in the office, I am happy. But I'm sad to leave the gers. This might be our last chance to see each other and we hope to see again in Manila or Singapore. When we have the chance to go over each country and visit each other. 45mins more to off work and we are having a farewell party tonight for me and the gers are not going to sleep just to company me thru the night. I will be leaving at 345am as my bus is 4am and they wanted to wait till I leave. We'll see tonight. Hardet Bra Arendal, Norway!

My last week in Arendal, Norway. I have finished my last Monday, Tuesday and today, Wednesday, is going to end in another 9.3hrs. I have spent more than a month in Norway and I have survive the winter here. The weather is getting better now and its super sunny and bright outside. It's making me to leave reluctantly. The time i spent with the gers in Doll House and everything and everywhere makes me miss them more. They have took good care of me and I will never forget them. 3 more days to spend time with them and after this week, we might not have chance to see each other again. Maybe I dont have chance to come back to Norway again and this might be my last winter in Arendal. I wont miss the snow but i will miss the time I spent here. So relaxing and peaceful. Pity that I dont have a chance to be here during summer when its more happening and more activity. I will miss the mountain, the white scenery, the place i've been to and the friends and colleague in Arendal. I'm grat...

1st experience of cross country ski is really fun. But my body is aching now and i had a bad fall before i start skiing. I sat on the sledge and wanted to slide down and ended up with a bump on my butt. Think its blue black now. Its so pain. Skiing is fun and to go down the slope is so exciting. When i fall down, i try again and until i can ski to the end. Falling makes me learn and we were all talking about "RELEASE THE FEAR". We fall because we have fear. Afraid of falling and indeed we all fall. This is a good experience. I love skiing. After skiing, we went to Rubi house for dinner and we had a game on Wii. Its was great and i hope i can have one when i go back spore. Its a good exercise and there's so many games. A great way to exercise and having fun. I wanted to do so many things when i return. I wanted to get a braces. I wanted to get Wii. I wanted to cook grill chicken for wee. I wanted to bring to the beach and play. I wanted to bake cookies for everyone. I want...

Its my last weekend here and tomorrow we are going to shop at another town in a bigger mall and with burger king. But i miss KFC. There's only McDonald and no fried chicken. Europe eats healthy food only? I dont think so. They have a strong taste and likes to eat salty and heavy favour food. My hair is falling and i dont feel so well here. When i want something plain and soup, there's none. 1 more week till i leave for zhenny house. I'm so excited but 1st i'm excited about the skiing on this sunday. Not going for the downhill but just cross country. Flat roads and hopefully with tracks. My mentor lend me hers and thanks to her that i dont need to share but maybe one of the room mate will share with me. We are gonna fall down many times and hope to have some video taken. It will be funny and interesting and of cos cold. Even with the sunny sun. Last 2 days were very sunny with big bright hot sun and still, its too cold to just wear jacket outside. Winter coat is still a ...

Been stressing myself since last 2 weeks. Need to rush alot of work and i want it to be nicely done before i leave here. I have no idea what will become of me when i return to singapore. More stress than ever with new manager and no colleagues in my department. I will be the only one who will be doing this systems and any problem i will have to contact the manager in Norway. Suddenly the future becomes so scary. Thinking of it makes me so pek chek. Working with him and the guy who will be sitting beside me is annoying me too. I wonder whats my life will be when i return. ******************************************************* Today is a bad day. Nothing happen but my mood swing is getting worse. Mense delay, PMS creating emotional wreck inside me. Making me tired and getting my irritated by small little matters. I hate this! Why do woman suffer from PMS?

Woohoo.. this weekend we are going for SKI! We are going to try the cross country instead of the downhill BUT, provided i can lend a skiing shoe. I have no idea who to borrow from. This weekend is my last weekend in Norway and next week I will go to zhenny place for a week. Hopefully no more extend for me. I'm so tired staying here. Finally today we are having a big sunny sun and the snow is starting to melt but its still very cold. Around 0 or 1 degree only. At least no snowing now.