You know how everyone goes 'I've got sinus' when they start to sneeze alot like the air's filled with pepper, dust and all else that tickles. It could be a bad climate and they go 'I'm sensitive to the weather..it triggers my sinus'. The term 'sinus' is so loosely uttered and someone's gotta set the myth right. That person has got to be someone who knows what the fuck is sinus...and that person's me. Not trying to be a brag and miss know-it-all, but until you know that you are actually suffering from 'sinus' (medically known as 'sinuscitis), you will then realise that your perception of what sinus was is all bullshit. Sinus is experiencing prolonged throbbing pain on either side of your cheeks. You have some kinda tubes all over your face that is connected to one function to another. These tubes help to create the sound that you make when you speak. I know its hard to visualise here and it may not sound like it makes sense, but without these tubes, you will not have an avenue to vibrate the sounds that you are making. Take example for a coconut, if it is hollow, and you have holes on top of it. Take a blow into one of those holes, do you hear a sound? Yes right? Like wise, we have all these tubes connecting around our faces that help to produce the sounds we make because our skull is hollow.
So back to sinus.
Sinus is a tube connecting from your nose to your cheeks. Well, apparently my recent bout of flu caused my sinus to have some infection and it is currently inflammed. The inflammed section of the sinus is touching and causing pressure to the roots of my teeth, thus i'm experiencing a bad irritating pain on my right cheek and its perpetuating into my head and causing me a bad migraine.
There you have it-sinus is what i'm experiencing now. sinus is not flu. sinus is not a perpetual bout of flu. When you sneeze alot, it is simply termed as nose problems. Nothing as fanciful as sinus. Sinus is me. And I'm fucking grouchy=(

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Luckily the trip to the dentist wasn't too expensive.
I came out with a million dollar smile -look i've got sparkling white teeth!
Isn't it great that Spring is here?

Everyone say'awwwwwww'to this cute little itsy bitsy pooty pissy poosy cuddly fudgly pupsy.( ok i'm acting irritatingly cute here..)

Huiling and I are thinking of buying one to keep as a pet. Maybe it's because the motherly instincts in us are kicking in. Or perhaps we are just bored and need some form of entertainment in our dorm. Reckon that maybe it's fashionable to have a pet when you're staying alone? To me, I would like to keep a pet because I've never owned a dog before in my life and would like to take it as a form of sneek preview in view of my future.

Pernille, my best buddy on my floor, disagrees with my idea of having a puppy. She thinks that it's firstly against the kolleigium rules to keep a dog and she thinks it's crazy of us to be so selfish as to dump the dog to someone once we are done with our exchange. After all, dogs have feelings right?

An aquaintance from Lithuania, whom I happened to have met on a train ride heading from Copenhagen to Aarhus, told me that she bought her dog from a newspaper stand. A newspaper stand?? Whatttt?
She explained that the system is such that the newspaper vendor would show u a catologue of dogs for sale. Then you choose the dog that you like from the pictures and purchase it for a rather reasonable price of 1000 kroners. That's a steal for a dog dontcha think?
Hence, Huiling and I went around the town of aarhus today, walking into newspaper/convenient stores and asked them whether they sold dogs (I had to do the embarassing act..by the way...). Almost everyone of them starred at us blankly and perhaps exploded into laughters the moment we muttered a thanks and made our way to the exit.
Ok..maybe I was taken for a ride to believe that tall story. But if fate has it its way...I say-Why not?
I've been twirling with my mind for some names for my soon to have puppy. For a start, how about brownie ( if its brown)? Or ginger, pepper, ermmz...onion? *grinz* ok i know its spastic and cliche but come on, I've never had a dog before hokay?! Help me with ideas!

The past week had been an eventful and fruitful one.

My Danish course has finally ended. And we ended it off with a grand finale at a cosy, warm restaurant called sidewalk cafe. Honestly speaking, danish is not the coolest language to learn. It is too convulated for my liking and i'm glad the food at this restaurant made it up for it. But I think the best part of the course, was that I managed to have little bonding sessions with 3 other lovely girls-Mira, Khadija and Negore. And of course the Danish song was a great bang to the end.

My Danish class. The red guy at the back is my instructor, Simone. A nice guy but kinda boring.

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A spanish spread

We were also invited for some Spanish dinner at a kollegium by three wacky Spanish girls by the name of Paula, Anna and Marybelle. Two of them smoked so much because they were so stressed over preparing for dinner! It was nevertheless a great chance to catch up with some exchange students who disappeared after orientation and of course, I got to know a pretty hot spanish guy too. heh. *whistles* Photos

The best thing I like about Aarhus is that it is situated near the seaside. That makes the place all the more romantic and serene. It was a great chance for Anne, Aigerim and I to explore the beach and forest as our EU law teacher cancelled his class for the day. I enjoyed my time tremedously abeit catching a cold from the chilly weather! (it was really a suicide on retrospect)

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And best of all, my neighbour of room 24, Pernille ( there are 3 pernilles on my floor), was so kind and generous to lend me her tv and dvd player for the rest of my time here. That's it. I'm going to stare at the google box the moment I wake up. Someone, pass me the controller.

Approximately 4 days before my departure to Holland and subsequently Belgium, I made the hasty decision to go on a little short trip to visit Debbie and her friend, Ee Kean. I was on a tight shoe string budget, however it was good to know that every money spent was stretched to its fullest worth. We visited Netherland's Amsterdam and Rotterdam and Belgium's Leuven(where Debbie resides in), Brussels, Antwerp and Brugges. Lovely places and most importantly, the friends who were with me made up the best part of the trip.

Of overall impressions-

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Amsterdam

one of the many unique cities of Netherlands that is built on a dam.

A land of




tranquility


historical footprints

I certainly did not like sitting on it. (Me at the Erotic Museum)

And liberal openess

In the realms of sex, drugs and homosexuality.

Speaking of drugs, I finally understood what Bridget Jones was talking about when she tripped on 'magic mushrooms' at a Thai beach. Influenced by society's liberal and hackneyed attitude towards drugs, we stepped into a 'drug store' and legally purchased a packet of 'magic mushrooms' which cost us about 13.50Euros. That night's regular evening chi tea had a little something extra in it-'magic mushrooms' gravy (basically we boiled the mushrooms for 30 minutes)! With less than 5% of the concoction in my drink, I didnt expect my body to respond much to it. Boy, was I ultimately wrong. Within 20 minutes of consumption, my sense of perception was terribly warped. For a start, I mistook people queuing up for the ATM as waiting to get into a club; felt as if I was stuck in a vacuumed time capsule in which I saw a strand of white hair/string/fur suspended in the air whilst the surrounding was totally blur; I thought it was perfectly normal to explain the theory of static electricity to Debbie at 3.30am in the wee morning. (Sorry Deb, I know I made you berserk!) Ee Kean was in a worser state than I was. She hallucinated psychedllic colours on the walls; her mind began to think very fast and economic theories suddenly made complete sense to her; and she saw people around her moving at extreme speeds. It was crazy of us to make ourselves crazy. Geez. But all in all, it was an experience I will never forget! Caution: Not for the faint hearted.

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Belgium

A mini London. That's what I perceive of it. A historical setting peppered with all things cosmopolitan, old and new. When I think of Belgium till this day, I can't help but reminisce its

orgasimic chocolades

Pipping hot and mouth watering waffles

Picturesque sceenary

Lively city and its people

And its regal architecture (many in which have significant historical and political importance to it)

Here for more photos.

Comparing both countries, I preferred Belgium more. Maybe it's the chocolates, or the waffles or the architecture, the fact that it is less mordern than Rotterdam, its beautiful sceenary, less complications in its society, more political stability, the rivers of brugges...whatever it was I can't explain the affinity I had with the place. I'm glad I'm visiting Brussels again during Easter break, but this time together with the other exchange students. This time round I'm sure I would have an even more meaningful trip because the school is planning to take us to the parliament and explain to us about the EU system and Belgium's involvement. I know I sound like a nerd, but I really really really do like to learn something as important and relevant as this and best, to be in its environment and witness everything at its core. Thank God for this opportunity.

Oh, and on a side note, after this coming visit to Brussels I will be meeting up with Debbie to tour Barcelona!! ZARA here I COME!!!

Time for an enormous update.

And so I thought I would never see you again, Pan, for a whole lonesome 1 and a half years. But I'm just so grateful for Ryan Air, your parents' money and your love for me that we finally met in Aarhus! Though the time spent together was short lived, it was one of the most spontaneous and fun time i've ever had in Denmark. And I just can't wait to be 'europeanlized' like u!

We got lost a many times, wearied from the lack of rest, slipped and fell and broke our backs, but nothing can stop us from the fun we had. Photos

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Three exotic girls from Kazakstan have become good friends of mine during this exchange. I like the way their country is located between Russia and China and hence the blue eyes and asian skin; I like the asian values in grained in them but yet they possess the light and spontaneous attitude of europeans.

For 1, we go for wild parties together.

Partying at Waxies. A tuesday thang

From left to right: Mira, Assem (both from kazakstan), Katerina from Czech Republic and Aigerim from Kazak too.

We create havoc together at the Mellow cafe ( an international students' hang out place every Tue as well).

Aigerim and I.~We gon' sip Bacardi

We savour good food together and share with others from around the world

A joint cuisine affair between kazak girls and singaporean me.

Clockwise-Anura and Mira (kazakstan), Nagore(Spain), Myself, Aurel, Cecil, Aurelie (all from france), Julia and Nadine (Germany and Aigerim and Assem (Kazakstan)

And with all else common, we like to dip into the dressing-up box and be a little different.

Costume Party aka 'Festelavn' ( A danish equivalent of Halloween): at Brabrand

Spanish girls donned in muslim costumes and spastic signboards, me as an oriental chic and aigerim as a cowgirl.

Together, we all caught the infectious travel bug.

Aalborg: A spectacular town in Denmark. The girls and I tormented ourselves with non-stop partying at one weekend away from Aarhus.

Looking foward to more fun and laughters!