Lugano

11th July, Monday-2nd week of my summer hols.So schnell eine woche hat schon vorbei. Damn. I hate it when they say that 'time flies when u r having fun'. Y does it have to pass so fast?

Our main form of transport.Train to Lugano. Woke up, not even at the break of dawn to catch the train. Ppl who know me know that I can sleep. I'm a good sleeper.Long sleeper.Thus I slept in the train during the 3 hour journey from Zurich to Lugano to make up for the lack of sleep I had the nighte b4.Missed all the spectecular scenery though on the way to Tessin. What was I suppose to do? Sit up for the first 2 hours just to wait for the mountain? I need my sleep ppl! =P

Reached Lugano. Lugano is in Tessin.Tessin is the south part of Switzerland. The Italian part. I find it quite interesting here in der Schweiz.So small, yet so many languages can be heard throughtout the country.Most of the Swiss speak Swiss German & high german of course. But in the west Schweiz,eg Lausanne & Geneva, every1 speaks French. Being there made me feel like I was in France.Not a word of German of Swiss German could be heard. Even if there was, they would have come from the mouths of ppl from the other side of Switzerland.

Tessin is another part of Switzerland where every1 speaks Italian.No kidding.Coz Tessin is so close to Italy, Italians come to Tessin to shop.Hang out..It seemed that I was in another country-again.Couldnt understand a word, except for Grazia and Chao.Same feeling I had being in West Schweiz.

12th July, Tuesday- 1st stop.Fox Town. A paradise for shoppers.Or rather branded goods shoppers.They 'claimed' that stuff there are cheaper than normal.Yeah, maybe some stores like Reebok, Adidas, Tom Tailors.Got a Nike bag.I was desparate.Needed a bigger, but not too big bag!(Haih gals.When it comes to shopping,can hear tons of excuses=P)Esprit. Got another bag & T there. Not bad a price--comparatively.

Next stop.Lugano.Another shopping paradise.My friend decided to go back coz she wanted to swim,while I wanted to continue stying in Lugano.In the end, we went our separate ways.Hung around in Manor for some time.Found some pretty good stuff.MAn, sales here memang sales lah.Unlike Msia,the 50% off stuff are either A)XL @ L B)too ugly or too wierd a colour.ME, a sucker for shopping of course did have some good purchases.

At 19.00, said our goodbyes to the ppl in the vacation house.THis time, I din sleep in the train.Din wanna miss the scenery from the train. Saw Gotthard.Saw a church built by a cliff 3 times--different angles--above, same, under.Unbelievable.Tessin is a place where the houses are built by the mountain.The only higher building u can see is the church.Tessin is Mega Schön!

Reached home feeling tired, yet satisfied.I can officially say that I've been to all 4 major parts of Switzerland. The German(duh, it's the main part), the French, the Roman & the Italian.

Guten Nacht.