GONE Dutch...: June 2007

Friday, June 22, 2007

krakow, euro trip 2

our only few pic of the castle in krakow... cos it was raining and it was a sunday so meaning things are all closed, SUCKS

flowers of the castle...

hey, its a real road sign... hahaha

this too...

cool number plate...

castle from the outside...

according to our (fake) guide yix, the tiles on the side with names are the pple of royal family... up to u to believe or not, heh

pic of krakow from the helicopter we took... i wished.... haha

the square

who is fuck is this? our guide Yix failed to answer it. Boo

Auschwitz - Birkenau (Krakow trip)

Auschwitz - Birkenau

It was the biggest concentration camp i have seen in my life! Imagine they had 3 camps there, Auschwitz 1, 2 and 3 (which is just a factory to process the hair and all of the Jews and produce other Nazi items) . However, U might wonder why i have swayed off my usual style of the 1 pic 1 caption. Ok, truth is , there is too much depression information which i think is better to omit and also there is a too many pics to upload :P. Anyway, the thing one should appreciate is that this place, Auschwitz, is actually quite a beautiful place and one can even think about living here if not for the history and bloodshed that has plagued this scenic place now.

The famous words "Arbeit Macht Frei" is clearly seen here. It ironically means "work brings freedom" ??!!! Auschwitz 1 was the headquarters, which is also where u will see the sign. However, the famous camp was in fact Birkenau (A.k.a Auschwitz 2). It was so huge there is a railway running from north to south of the camp, thus the name "death railway". The living conditions in Auschwitz 1 was horrible and in Birkenau, it was beyond words and comprehension! it was so bad that the average lifespan of a prisoner was about 2-3 months only! people only had 2-3 mins per day, 2 times a day to so their "business" daily, in the place where toilets are simply holes on concrete (seen in the pic) and no one clears them regularly. Also, many people suffered from starvation diarrhea, which makes them shit on their beds as well. Thus, this camp was also called "death camps" beacuse people just came here and almost never make it out alive. They have 4 fumigation chambers which were destroyed when the Nazis left the place in 1945. the ruins can be still seen (in the pics). It was truly a depressing sight hearing the guide explain how the Nazi tortured and killed the Jews and other prisoners in ways that are totally inhumane! Hope that reading this is a msg to any neo-nazi out there... WAKE UP UR FUCKING IDEA! Nazism is not cool and certainly not genocide of any scale!

kinderdjik and more...

look at the shear length and size of the windmils vanes..

talk abt being compact...

giant spur gears...

overview

Kinderdjik's windmils up close and personal

blast from the past...

duckies... everywhere...

what a view..... crystal clear waters...

ah ha, see, i now can say i am have truly Gone Dutch...

old sch... definately...

our first homemade curry (authentic Man! ) and fried rice (not so impt)

some chicken i cook ba... haha

iori yagami saying happy birthday to my friend Yves.. too bad i dun have any pics of his party...

the dudes who went to kinderdjik.... trust me, its a whole new experience with them man! :p

stupid goat... now see what u have gotten urself into...

Monday, June 18, 2007

ramdom images...

some cool car in sch....

presentation exchange students.... poster presentation

random pple in teh clubs...

why dun they have more bar-top dancing in sg? :(

a bored sunday and we went to explore eindhoven... this was wad we found... triangle thing..

at some park... same sunday...

my name in jap... written by my dutch fren... haha.

the same park, diff view... it sure looks beautiful...

BUT there are LOADS of mosquitos... tts the main minus..

At TU/e fast, some sch event and they brought in a F1 car to let us try changing the tyres, dun ask for the time yah... haha

looks familar... think the guy repainted his car or something

in Barca, at gaudi's hse...

the world's longest bench...

Cockster who loves flowers.... well, i just love human beings i guess. haha

party after a party?

so... after the batavierace (185.5 Km relay), i came back "home" to another party ...

Thanks so much BRO! i really dun know how to repay him other than.. ahem, haha

ok, the next day, we brought our friend from Lyon France to the all-famous AMsterdam. Guess wad, its queen's day! thus party music was all over the streets!

check out the streets, not ur usual amsterdam

of cos i had to take a pic with my bro...

and with our fren from france, after being such a good host. :P anyway, the river was also filled with music from passing boats. HAPs Amsterdam INDEED!

so... that was the end of my b day... and back to studying for the upcoming exams.. Yucks

bata race... the race for my 24th birthday!!!

my teammate Jeroen (pronounced U'roen) cooking up some brunch for us after the long night of running...

this is AUTHENTIC dutch pancakes... cos it done by a dutch of cos.. haha

upon arriving at nayade huis...

look at how prepared we are for the long night ahead, food, drinks and MOre fOOD!

just b4 dinner...

just after partying... just look @ the diff!! haha

val napping... sunnies are mine thou... haha

delibrately sunken clock tower at enschede uni, our end pt after 185.5KM of running

val and her insatiable appetite! imagine this is after dinner...haha

me b4 running off at 5 degs temp, start pt = Nijmegen uni , end pt = enschede uni. Total dist = 185.5 KM and split abt 25 persons... start time abt 1200 and end abt 7am ba. This was how i celebrated my birthday!! haha...

aparently, having the biggest student party in the year later is not enough, pple just wan to do more! like this team mate of mine, who became the mascott of the team cos he was the last runner! p.s. there was even 1 guy w/o any pants. too bad this blog is PG rated. sorry babes...

mass suntan after the run... ha... wad a feeling!

dinner...

and my friend Gerald after the dinner.. does he remind u of someone famous? haha

another one of a kind person from nayade, this guys does not even drink one drop of alcohol man!!! and he can be even more high than most pple. Cool.

lets get the party on...

Ops... too much partyin? haha

ah ha... now the party is really in full swing! gerald on top of a phone booth. P.s he was the only onewho got up there and was not showered by beer from the ppl on the floor.