There are many great escape stories from the east germany to west germany hehe.. U should go to the musuem.. really interesting.. which I will go later.. haha..

Aroma cafe... where our lunch is..

Ham & Cheese sandwich haha..

Aroma ice blended coffee... not really tat nice as publicised..

Icon in Berlin haha.. a pretty cute car.. but noisy..

People who voice out their opinion in east germany are subjected to violence.. so ppl escapes to west berlin.. Hence, in order to prevent more from escaping to west berlin, berlin wall is built.. The wall above is the 4th generation wall.. Swamp pipes are used to defray ppl from climbing..

These are the path that marks the previous existence of berlin wall

Nazi architecture..

Picture showing the faces of the jewish.. despair.. and sadness..

Visible bullet holes on the wall..

Buidling where Valkeryie is being filmed.. By tom cruise.. so cool rite haha..

Stones of various heights..

Feeling really negative while walking thru the stones..

I think its the museum where u can find out more info.. so do go there. haha I din have the chance..

This is the momerial for the muder of 27m jewish of europe.. really sad thing to know.. I know the jewish were tortured and killed during the world war period.. but din noe that there were so many.. hmmmm next time i shld really go to the concentration camp to see... and experience..

Walking through the stones... not sure if its becoz after what the tour guide said.. i do feel sense of negative.. not sure if its sad or pressured feeling.. tour guide mention its the type of feeling that the jewish felt during that period... OH YA pls DO NOT STAND ON THE STONES and SMOKE...

The above car park kinda marks the place where Hitler's bunker was previously.. pretty big place..

Carvings on Brandenburg gate..

Parliament house.. wif a really cool dome @ the top... its free entry juz that its a long queue.. so be smart go after dinner or early in the morning..

Another view of pariser square..

Heard from tour guide its a protest.. seems to be against nuclear energy..

u will see on the street 2 rows of bricks on the road.. its showing where previously the berlin wall was..

Check in check in.. so we can start our trip....

Haha.. after getting down from train haha.. its time to get the map, a must have I realize haha.. to move around easily haha... so we went 2 tourist info & got a map & museum guide for 2EUR.. not too bad..

Havin a city mobile pass EUR6.10, you will be able to get ard on tram, buses and metro free... funny thing is that you need to validate the ticket before using it haha.. If u get caught on the rides without a valid ticket, no mercy its fine of EUR100+..

But then the funny thing is that we took several rides for the whole day, I haven't seen any ticket checkers haha... bet they are dressed as commoners waiting for ur guilty look haha...

Check in counter..

Very modern lobby.. nice..

We made our way to our hostel haha.. warmbats is our hostel's name.. pretty cool. we got a 4 room mixed private dorm.. it has lockers in the room so u can lock ur personal and valuable stuff. There is a toilet in the room which is great.. walking distance to metro station.. u shld consider tis hostel if u wan to come to berlin..

Our tour guide (very animated speaker)..

After we checked in, we waited for a while in the lobby for a free walking tour haha (to be exact) its not really free haha.. u will give a tip to the tour guide (voluntary amounts) haha gave 10EUR coz she is really gd.. man... she practically has the history textbook scanned in her head.. so much details.. I'm lost...

If you are interested in the walking tour, just proceed to the Pariser square (where the brandenburg gate is) at about 11am. Look out for starbucks the group are waiting there. Go get your ticket from the guide... Highly recommended tour for those who are in Berlin for the 1st time.. U will know how to get around beta after tat..

Besides this tour, there are others like the concentration camp (too bad we dun have the time), its a tour to show how was the Jewish being kept and tortured during Hitler's time.. i will tink its a great experience.. u nid to pay for tis tour....

Brandenburg Gate.. impressive




Popular Hotel Aldo where MJ threw the kid off.. remember???? And.. its EUR 12,500 a nite.. coz it has butler service & many value added stuff. the most ex hotel in berlin

Yay Berlin.. here we come..

Yes our train has arrived... Berlin here we come... its a pretty cool ride haha we get to sit in room.. remember those type of movies you see people sitting in rooms and ticket checker opens the door and asks for tickets... haha we got to do that.. its pretty private haha.. gd point u dun have to pay extra for that.. if the room is free u can take it haha..

Tink we are really early haha so the cabin room is available..

Cool ms Jessie..

Me & Minghui..

Passing by scenery in the train..

Berlin Central station

Haha.. yay we have arrived in Berlin.... we slept through the journey haha of coz.. having 3+ hrs of sleep is totally tiring haha.. Now on to exploring Berlin.. exciting another new place..

Aaaawww waking up @ 5.. its been ages since I done tat

We decided to catch the 6+am train.. so we had to wakie like 5+ in the morning.. got a cab to drive us down to the station.. not far away... Man haha.. the meter in germany's cab jumps like almost every sec haha... my eyes were kinda glued to it for a while haha..

Sun is not out yet..

Can you imagine.. the sun is not even up yet haha.. Pretty cool cause we can buy tickets from the machine and pay with your credit card.. its pretty convenient haha.. after buying our tickets, we got something along the way to eat. Journey is 2hrs.. coz we took the slower train.. If you happen to go to Hamburg next time and want to catch the train, look out for ICE trains.. CE are the slower ones...

Haha... @ least we are not the only early ones haha.

Proof its 6+ haha.. in the morning guys haha.

Shops opened pretty early at least for the food.. Thank god.. hungryyyyy

Ticket machine.. quite user friendly...

I'm so gonna ostracize Radisson

Well.. this trip's planning isn't really that well done coz there were are a couple of stuff we were pending for confirmation.. me & minghui had book accomodation in berlin for the nite that we will take a train from hamburg to berlin..

But as we arrived quite late 11+pm.. we decided to stay over in hamburg.. man.. u juz couldn't believe it.. the hotels (I don't mean 1 or 2), its like 7-8 that we asked.. all were fully booked.. there wasn't really a festival going on coz I asked the receptionist.. so everyone is going to berlin the next morning??? haha....

well in the end, we tried Radisson Blue as its the largest looking hotel that we have passed by.. we asked for the rate.. guess wat its EUR160 per room per nite.. they dun allow addition of beds.. (which i dun noe y).. so we had to get 2 rooms instead.. They still charge the same rate for a double and a single room.. what kind of logic is that???

In addition, for this kind of rate you are paying, you have no internet access (or even wireless) in the room... U can't believe tis i'm tellin u... there isn't even a phone in the room for rooms to contact one another.. How crazy is that??? I'm so going to ostracize the radisson group if I'm coming back to Europe.... TOTALLY RIDICULOUS... Still feel very angry now..

Impressive looking lobby

Porsh Checkin counter.. I guess tis accounts for part of the EUR160

Toilet... not really not impressive.. I realize hotels so far I been too there isn't really bath tub..

Study desk corner..

Bed that is quite comfortable.. lotz of pillow for u to hug haha I tink coz u can cry ur heart out for the expensive room haha. opppppssss

Yay.. a road Trip... to Hamburg

After settling down in our apartment, a little checking of email and unpacking of stuff.. though its a little little it seems.. we took abt an hr or so haha.. wanted to juz stay for 15mins or so and move on.. BUT haha the power of internet & our hook up on chat & facebook seems to just drag the time away..

Anyway hehe today marks my 1st road trip (in Europe) haha had 1 previous road trip to JB wif the HR gang haha... Its a 3+ hr drive to Hamburg, where we will stop for the night before taking a early morning train the next day to Berlin..

Having this road trip reallly motivates me to really get my driving license haha.. I tink it really saves you money if you travel in europe at least in a grp of 4-5... coz you juz nid to pay for the pertrol... border fees there might but from Denmark to Europe there isn't... The trip to hamburg is just EUR 35.. for the petrol..

Gd to have friends so u can chit chat along the way. then 3hrs+ is a wheeze.. gd to have multi drivers too haha so its not so taxing on the single driver..

Wind Turbine.. something we can't really get to see in Singapore.. there are lotz of them..

3 in a row.. its really impressive to see them turn..

Passing by scene....


Haha.. I dun really like to take self portrait pics.. but something juz came over me haha.

Haha my blog back up and running

Hey guyz.. after the orientation, I checked in to my new apartment.. its really nice.. small and cozy.. tink its like a studio apartment.. own kitchen, own toilet, own bed (haha its a sofa bed so its like a 2-in-1 concept haha...)

Its resided in Jelling another town in Denmark. Abt 30mins drive from the office haha.. I need to rely on my colleague Jessie to go to work haha coz I can't drive as yet.. Luckily there is a GPS that comes wif the rented car.... Phewwwwwww if not we will really nid to figure how to get to the apartment from Hotel Legoland...