Love the street. So calm.








Mozart's chocolate (don't know what it's called)





3 words to describe: HAIX HAIX HAIX

It's so HARD to attend lectures in GERMAN!!
#1 Hard to catch what the lecturers say cos either too fast or too muffled.
#2 I don't know the statistical terms in German.
#3 Their handwritting is slightly different to ours. Their "1" has that slanted stroke before the straight vertical stroke. Their other alphabets also has a curve before the start of the alphabet. haix. can take me quite long to figure out what they are writing.
#4 Lousy technology: no visualizer so whatever the teacher prepared on paper, he needs to copy out on the board. and since their handwritting I can't read, I take very long and it's super tiring to follow the lecture IN GERMAN as well as copy the notes.
#5 So, most of the time I cannot understand what they talking about. The highest level that I can reach is make sense of the stuff they've written on the board.
#6 The tutorial totally don't know how to do. ):

So what have I been doing?
#1 Photocopy the reference book. THANK GOODNESS all are in English. BUT, I had problems finding one of the book in the library and was soooo sad. Until I got my friend from another University to borrow from his University's library.
#2 Translate my notes into English. I'm RE-WRITING everything in English on another book so that I can read in English when it's nearing the exams.
#3 Making a vocabulary book of german statistical terms.
#4 Reading the English reference book.

All these are taking up a lot of my time. I'm like mugging everyday and totally no life. So sad here. I'm more hardworking here than in SG lor. Which is not what it's supposed to be. But no choice. STUDYING HERE IS MAKING ME DEPRESSED.

BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT, I'm still trying to have some life and make my exchange a memorable one. Have been initiating some trips and asking if anyone wants to join, initiating dinner gatherings like prata dinner (: etc.

Guess another thing that is making me not enjoying to the fullest because I don't have a fixed group of friends or friends whom I can show my "siao-siao-ness" to. I guess this can't be help since I've only been here for <1 month. Hope the coming 3 months would be better! (:

p.s. Friends from SG reading this, I miss showing you my craziness!

Oh and I met a group of NTU students here!! YEAH more Singaporeans to speak Singlish with~~ They are really nice and had invited me over for dinner. And their friends are really nice too!! YEAH! More friends. haha.



These are the food that I've made for myself ever since I'm here. Some are nice but some not so. haha.

All of these weren't made by me though. Only the tomato fry egg is made by me while I was at my junior's place. The rest were made by her and her house mate. We had bak kut teh that day!

My first spaghetti when I moved into Munich.




Fried rice!! NICE!! Cos the mixed vegetables had butter so poured in and fry together and woohoo~~ Super duper nice!!

As days were cold, I thought having tom yam soup would be nice so decided to cook a pot and share it with my friend.

Lunch: Rice + tom yam soup + watch online show! The tom yam soup was REALLY good *double thumbs up* I almost finished a new pot of rice for dinner with the leftover soup. Credit goes to the paste, not my skill. haha

Another fried rice but this time round is prawn fried rice!! Not so nice because it was a bit bland but the prawns were nice. And see, healthy living. Broccoli!

I had the pasta above with this! (ok aLOT again) It's chicken nuggets + fish with broccoli garnish. The fish didn't turn out well in terms of appearance cos I didn't have an oven to bake it. so I had to make it into small pieces and cook it. But overall TASTY! Lecker~

Fried noodles (spaghetti was used cos there's no such thing like the yellow noodles that we're used to here) using some maggi seasoning. Nice! Taste like mee goreng when it's supposed to taste like chinese fried noodles.

Had this seasoned chicken wings with the fried noodles above. (see, ALOT again)

Bought this new winter collection from Ritter Sport chocolate. It has biscuits inside but not the normal biscuit flavour. It's ginger biscuit! Very nice! (at least I loved them except for the fact that it's not dark choc)





Finally the long awaited first day of school.

Since it's at 4pm, had time in the morning and went shopping with friends. Before shopping, it's time for lunch so tried out the Mensa (canteen) food. oh man. what a lousy system of getting food. will try not to step in there unnecessarily. it's way better to come home to cook (:

ps. xueting has fell in love with cooking for herself cos she gets to decide what she wants to eat and more often than not, the "instant" mixes or her own creativity creates tasty food and so she normally overcooks and whoa, she's so gonna be fat when she's back in singapore.

so after shopping, headed to class but couldn't find the classroom. so was late for class and whoa, it's just a small tutorial room where lecture was held. it's called seminar room. my god. statistics cohort small la but also no need so small room right? not only all the tables were taken up, people sat on the floor behind the tables. and i STOOD throughout the lecture for 1.5 HRS!! why didn't I sit on the floor? cos i'm too tiny to see the screen if i sat on the floor.

what's next? my biggest fear: lectures in german. During orientation, I could understand almost everything the teacher had said in german and I thought I would be fine for lectures. HAHA I'm wrong. cos lectures use specific terms. and I totally don't know the german statistic terms. so the whole lecture, no matter how hard I tried to catch the FAST GERMAN lesson, I still catch no ball. and I've decided to follow my initial plan: get the English textbook and mug at my own pace. I may be faster than lecturer oh. haha. I wish~

so, since I have the drive to read textbook now, I better get them tomorrow before my drive fades away. haha.

and people, please help me solve a shopping problem. today, I saw a SUPER DUPER nice coat.

#1 it's beige white colour => easily dirtied
#2 it's 72% polyester => not very warm
#3 uber nice => chic look (it's REALLY PRETTY!!! like REALLLLLYYYY!!!!)
it's 49.90 euros = more than 100 sgd (but this is the cheapest winter coat i've found so it's considered reasonable for winter coat)

should I buy? pretty or warm more important? haha. my canadian friend justine said mayb looking chic does pay off. hahahaha. help! thanks!



finally..

I've bought my boots and stockings. so that it wouldn't be sooo cold.

finally..

I bought chicken wings and can cook chicken rice and herbal chicken.

finally..

I've uploaded pictures on Facebook.

and finally..

I'M STARTING SCHOOL!! haven't started school for like donno how long. about half a year i guess. not that I like school but I finally feeling the status of being a STUDENT!

though I'm dreading to have lessons in German. Will update you all on how it feels to have lectures in German. haha.



YEAH! it snowed!! Xue Ting sees snow for the first time in her life! She is excited since her name has the word snow (xue) in it. haha.

Walked in the snow today and no matter which direction I'm heading, the snow ALWAYS snow towards my eyes unlike rain. Can someone explain why?

Inside the National Theatre

Nice design









Me and my shopping!



The 100 Euro orientation course had begun and ended. Met a group of friends from China, a girl from Korea, a guy from Japan and a girl from Canada. And in my orientation group, I'm the only Asian. ): Not so happy in the group at first cos like nobody come and talk to me except there's the canadian girl whom I always hang out with. In the second wk of orientation, things were slightly better. Through pair work and group work, I got to know a bit more European friends.

There's an Italian guy who studies Chinese. He's interesting. When there were German words that I did not understand, he checked his german-italian electronic dictionary and explained to me in Chinese. haha. And he calls me 黄雪庭 (full name--surname and name) in a Beijing accent. haha. Guess that's how they address people in China. Full name.

Also, I did a presentation (in German -.-) about Singapore. Oh man, super miss Singapore. I miss the food, the weather, the language (singlish rocks ;-)), the convenience, the cleanliness, the people, the culture, the familiarity of the environment. the safety, and many many more. Guess you must be out of Singapore to appreciate all these. Ok back to the presentation. I prepared a slide about food in Singapore. it's like OMG. I did it at midnight 12am and I was super hungry. I want prata, milk tea, kaya toast, hokkien mee, mee rebus, DIM SUM, EGG TART, bubble tea, and many more!!! I don wanna name them le, if not I more hungry.

yep and school is starting next week. which means very soon I'll be heading back for Singapore!











It's the Natonal Day here and the last weekend for Oktoberfest. IT"S CRAZY HERE! The main train station is FLOODED with people. And trains were delayed because there was overload of people. Every train that arrived in Munich were PACKED with people.

Met up with Joseph and his friends and we walked to the Oktoberfest. It's a large fun fair with rides, beer tents and stores selling nuts, chocs, sausages etc. There were also lots of people wearing the traditional Bayern costumes. Beautiful! Here are the pictures:






However, we couldn't get into the beer tents as every one of them were overfilled. So we decided to go to the Hofbräu Haus (HB) at Marienplatz where they served beer and food and there was a live band playing.

Horses outside HB

Inside HB. Filled with people too. We had to share seats to get a seat.

The live band in traditional Bayern costumes.

Girls dressed in Bayern costumes who shared seats with us.

After finishing our pork knuckle, we made our way back to Oktoberfest to try our luck for the tents again. And after a long wait and free tickets from a lady, we made it in! We went to the Paulaner tent. Inside the tent:

IT WAS A PARTY!