2009 Jervois East Class of 1972 Gathering

The Class of 1972 of Jervois East has their gathering this year @ Eddie's place. Incidentally, we had a surprise that it was also his birthday - on Valentine's Day. Sam brought a cake and we have some fun time with the cake. Almost everyone brought a bottle of wine - a total of 11 bottles (white and red). Fortunately, everyone of us left his place in a sober state.
Enjoy some of the shots (I must apologise that the camera was set at a low speed. Although the brightness and contrast is good, the images are a little ghostly blurred when the object is moving.

The Fotos:

Cake Cutting
Everyone is busy with the cake.

Sharing a light moment before the cake cutting ceremony

Candle all done .... ready for the Happy Birthday song!

Singing

Some are busy with the cake whilst other with the Foto Album.

The proud mother with Eddie

Everyone is cheering the family of Eddie!

One of the Group Foto ..

Another one ... We can see Lay Kwan now.

This is the best picture ... We are all looking in front.

Enjoy these pictures .... until with meet again in mid April.

Posted on 16 Feb 2009

Have the Gods of Marina Bay Helped Alonso to win the Singapore F1 Race?

On 27 Sep 08, Alsonso car came to a halt in front of the Marina Bay Grandstand and hence lost the chance of fighting for pole position for the next day race. He got out of the car in frustration and gave a full 90- degree bow in the direction of the mouth of Singapore River. It a prayer that none of the other racers has done.
The gods of Marina Bay have strategised the race for him to win the first night race of F1 history


. What happened is history.

Great Trip & Great Experience

Today I will be leaving Frankfurt Germany. It comes to an end of my travel for one full month and it has been a great and good experience - sometime I could not imagine how I have managed this, especially with the train strike in France. But, everyday you travel you become more adaptable and smarter.

Not just the sights that I have enjoyed, but the food is a certain pull for me to geniessen - what the German says enjoy and something more than that.

Will be travelling to Koblenz for lunch before coming back to Frankfurt in the evening to take my luggage and go to the airport by the MRT.

Great Trip, cheers.

Belgium in a Day - Liege & Spa

The hotel in Koln is very near to the Main train station and I will stay for two nights. Moreover Koln is very near to Belgium. I visited Liege and Spa for the day.

The Dom Blick Hotel with the Kolner Dom in the background
The flat land of Belgium taken on the way to Liege
Going up these 155 steps to the top
Another way up or down, this is only 135 steps.
What is up there!
A view of the city of Liege

Can you see Santa - What is he doing?
At the market square in Liege
At Spa - Windmill and the way up the hill
My lunch - Lasagne with beer @ Spa
At Spa.

Amsterdam & Holland

From Frankfurt I made my way to Amsterdam - thinking of staying overnight there. But unfortunately, it was quite difficult to find a hotel so I decided to book a room at Koln at least.

I visited Alkmaar and Amsterdam for the day

On my way to Amsterdam with the ICE
At Alkmaar - notice the bicycles
The rivers of Holland - here in Alkmaar
The is a cute statue
At Amsterdam - infront of the main railway station
The building and the ferry ride terminal
Another mode of transport - Dam sqaure at the background

The stand up statue at Dam square
The busy street with the Chinese restuarant
The red light district of Amsterdam - the prostitutes are inside the windows.
The river @ Amsterdam
Another view

Frankfurt & short trip to Wurzburg

I took the train from Singen to Frankfurt with one change at Stuttgart. I checked into the nice Carlton Hotel costing 45 euro near the Frankfurt Railway Station. Have a short walk in the town and took my lunch of a great german hotdog.

Before the sun set, I went to Wurzburg and have a tour around the town.

The nice Carlton Hotel in Frankfurt with free wifi internet access.
My Bratwurst Lunch
The old and new of Frankfurt
Christmas markt @ Frankfurt railway station
Arrived in Wurzburg - the strassenbahn
The great church in Wurzburg
Market square in front of Hotel
Schloss Marienberg

The bridge with many figure statues
The statue with the Schloss
From the other side
The night view of the town
My coffee break at Tschibo

Moving out of Striking France to Germany

Getting out of France is the first priority. I checked out of the hotel and managed to reach the East Paris Train Station after half an hour of walk and another half an hour of Metro ride. Quickly reserved my train seat to Basel, which is the Border town of France, Switzerland and German. From there, I took a train to Singen, where I could pick up my luggage.

Had a good dinner at the restuarant of the hotel, wild raggout with spatzle.

Everyone is trying to catch the trains
Arrived at Basel
From Basel to Singen
Hotel room in Singen - this time I got a bigger room at 30 euro with shower in room, but WC is still outside.
The decoration of the window at the restuarant.
Morning walk in Singen, nice view of the mountain.
An interesting painting of a house in Singen.
On the way to Frankfurt - snow again in the black forest.