Switzerland Day 1: Zürich → Uetliberg Mountain → Lake Zürich → ETH Zürich → Grossmünster → Lindenhof Hill → Hiltl → Olten

18th May 2018, Friday

We landed early at 7am. However we were stuck at the customs for almost an hour! There were just a lot of ppl... In the end when it was our turn, zj went ahead first but the officer asked if she was there alone, she said she's with me so I got asked to go to the counter too. After she processed zj, which involved asking quite a number of questions and also scanning of fingers, she scanned my passport and said "oh you used to live here". Me "yup". Her: "and you speak French?" Me: "un peu". She smiled and bid me a pleasant stay. Maybe staying there once has its perks. Hahah

We took our baggage, spent some time in the toilet and headed straight to the train station. It was somewhat cold, like when we visited London last fall.

Switzerland Day 0: Changi Airport → Hamad Airport → Zurich Aiport (+ Costs breakdown)

17th May 2018, Thursday

Worked from home in the day before heading to the airport. Our flight was at 9.20pm so I went to pasta mania for dinner with my parents before proceeding to check-in my luggage. This travelogue will feature mainly zj and myself since we are the ones going on this trip :P

Trip to Prague - Part I

This... is a long overdue post. I wrote this many months back, but only got around to writing about the first day. Fair warning: my memories of the trip has faded, so for the later part of this trip, I didn't add much content, just pictures. (On hindsight, I think I procrastinated because I had so many pictures and my Wi-Fi in Switzerland was not very stable so blogger kept giving me problems when I tried uploading the pictures and I just didn't want to undergo that unpleasant experience.)

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Remember my last minute decision to go to Prague?

Never mind if you don't! I went in late April for 3 days (Sun-Tues. Yes, I skipped my Monday class for this). It's a long story so here's the cliff notes version: Prague is a really beautiful city, its architecture is stunning and at night, the city is alive with music.

Trip to Prague - Part II

Instead of posting part 1 before part 2, I will do it the other way round so that readers can read in sequential order. Hopefully there's no confusion. Here's the link to Part 1.

Day 2

Schedule:

• Breakfast
• Petrin Tower (fake Eiffel Tower)
• Crepes for lunch
• Market selling lots of stuff like clothes, household items, bags, etc.
• Market selling cheap souvenirs
• Pedal boat
• Dinner with live music 

Guide to FMEL Marcolet

Hey guys!

I'm back in Singapore and I thought I'll write a post for those people who will be staying in FMEL Marcolet in the future, mainly because the website didn't have enough information for me at that time. I was curious about how the flat, room, kitchen and bathroom look like and was unable to find much. So here are pictures! :D I'll also be giving some directions / how to get there (which is correct at this point in writing) to Marcolet and other helpful locations, which were hard for me to research since I only knew minimal French at that time.

Oh yes, first of all, be warned that there's absolutely no lift. So if you are going there with a very heavy luggage..... :D

Room
When I first entered the room, I was really happy as it looked really big compared to my room in PGP back in SG. I had an amazing 5 months living in that room.