- Had a reflection of 2006 together with some of my housemates
- Experienced unstable electricity supply for a few days just b4 n after new year
- Went to Swiss for hol, went with a fully energetic body but an empty brain; came back with a brain full of sweet memories and useful lessons in life but i was physically exhausted
- Went to City Hall to countdown, came back with wet body (due to heavy rain which happened at the 1st second of 01012007, wat a 'perfect' timing!)
- Got a new phone contract with a new hp - samsung D900, and then bz exploring it.
- Preparing for my anatomy final exam which is on 080107 (1st day of my spring term, haha!)
- Finished reading a wonderful book by Mitch Albom, 'Tuesdays with Morrie'.
- Tidied up my room to make it look more like a bedroom than a storeroom. I m a human, not a stored good!
According to our initial plan, we were supposed to go for a boat trip around Zurich Lake at around 10am. However, we woke up at 930 am as we were too tired to get up at 7 sth. Well, we din have any other choice but to skip all the excursions in Zurich and left for Lucerne after having a good bfast at the youth hostel.
The bfast served in Zurich Youth Hostel...yummy!!!
We reached Lucerne in the afternoon. As usual, we went to the tourist info counter to get some maps. Usually ZL n Lav will b goin straight to the counter to ask the staff what can we do in the place. Caroline will b busy collecting every pamphlets displayed on the shelves. I wud either follow Carol or just looking at souveniers (ya...i was a bit lazy.. =P).
Then we found our way to the hotel. I couldnt remember exactly wat was the name of the hotel but then i quite liked the room as there was a balcony overlooking a river.
WK, the balcony and the river.
Lucerne was a very beautiful town. It wasnt v ulu yet it was not a busy place. There were two bridges which symbolised the town. One was named Kapellbrucke and the other 1 was called Spreuerbrucke. Both bridges were made of wood and were very very old already.
Lav. U can see there is a wooden bridge in the background. However i m not very sure whether it is Kapellbrucke or Spreuerbrucke. =P
After a short walk in the town center, we decided to go to the Verkehrshaus (the Swiss Transport Museum). Just b4 we entered the museum, we were attracted by the beautiful sunset at the lake region which was just 200m away from the museum. So as usual, another photo session for us. Haha...
As the name of the museum suggested, we saw planes, boats, trains, cars, bikes and etc etc (except for UFO) in it. Most of them were very very old except for sportcars and motorbikes. I was carrying an aeroplane of the Swissair. Ho ho ho...
After visiting the museum, we then jln jln in the town b4 went back to the hotel to tidur.
After spending a night shivering+slping at Heathrow Terminal 4, my neck muscles were aching when i woke up at around 5am. I was the one who slp the most compared to ppl in my group. They only slp for 2-3 hrs.
So we all woke up at 5am, wondering whether our luck will be better to hop on any planes flying to Swiss, either to Geneva or Zurich. Some morning flights to other destinations in Europe were cancelled due to heavy fog again. However, there was a flight to Geneva at 650am which was in 'waiting' status. We were quite anxious about this and seriously prayed hard so that the only morning flight wouldnt been cancelled. IF it was cancelled, we will have to change our 'Swiss Trip' to 'London & Cardiff Trip'.
Thank God, our prayers were answered well. We were so lucky to be given the seats on the only morning flight to Geneva at 650am. And so we were leaving on a jet plane....
We reached Geneva safely at around 9-ish in the morning. After purchased the 8-day Swiss Travel Pass (CHF 272 = roughly GBP 136), we then took a train fr Geneva Airport to Zurich Train Station.
I was reading 'Lonely Planet - Switzerland' on our way to Zurich. Photographer was Lav. =P
It took us around 2.5 hrs to reach Zurich. The train station was really really huge compared to Victoria Station in London or KL Sentral in KL. Trains arrived and departed fr this station very frequently. This would explain why we needed to pay so much for the travel pass.
We took this pic on our way to Zurich Youth Hostel. Lav was again the photographer. Thanks, Lav!
After checked-in to our room, we left our luggages there n quickly went to the city centre. Zurich was a big city where u can shop non-stop for one whole day. Well, i dun really fancy shopping but i still liked to jalan jalan on the highstreets as it was interesting to c the locals walking and shopping. Most of them were dressed up nicely as the living standard there was very high. Zurich and too-rich sound quite similar, don't you think so?
Part of a busy shopping street
Me n ZL standing in front of a stall selling Glühwein(boiled wine, it tasted like wine but it wasnt chilled but was boiled instead, a bit like chinese herbal wine =P)
Due to the delayed flight, we werent able to travel much in Zurich bside window-shopping. Well, it was pity that we din get to explore Zurich properly but i think we all got an experience in the airport which we will never forget. 'Everything happens for a reason.' For every lesson that we learnt in life, we need to pay for it. We wasted a day of our trip, but we got to know each other better and went thru a hard time together-gether.
