How I got involved with the Police

I've not been updating my blog these few days havent I? Well, my as usual my weekends were spent outside with friends. Last 2 Fridays, attended a friend's birthday at Da Vinci Bar, thanks to his brother who works there, we could enter despite the fact that we were all under 20 years old. Got a bit pissed together with my classmates, who by the way can be really hilarious when they r pissed. Thank god we made it for the last night bus home. (I'm known for 'always' missing the last bus....=P)

Last Friday, went all the way to Biel to watch HP 4. I found it quite dissapointing in fact. Dumbledore was too bubbly, the whole movie in fact was not that good. So much for the more than RM50 movie. & the Swiss wonder why there arent much movie patrons. Slept over at Sharmin's place. Had a great time there! SNoW is Just so BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Despite the cold, I LOVE WINTER! Imagine having snowball fights in school! I also managed to make my 1st snow angel!! WOO!!! =D

Ok, back to the topic of how I got involed with the police. My 'involvment' with the police cost my hostparents at least Fr300 to Fr500 ! No the money wasnt' used to bail me out of jail. No I didn't murder anyone nor did I plan a terrorist acttack. No I didn't sell drugs on streets or stuff like that. No I didn't break into anyone's house, except my OWN house, which set off the police alarm. One thing let to another, the police came. No kidding.

Well, I got home from Shar's place in the afternoon. As I opened the door legally with the key mami gave me, the key which I have been using the past 9 months, the alarm was already on. Damn. I only had 5 minutes to off the alarm b4 the real alarm went off. No 1 was at home. The worst thing was I didnt know how to off the alarm!

Wasting no time, I immediately called papi to ask him how to off the alarm. Too late. The alarm went off and it was REALLY REALLY LOUD. LOUD enought to scare off burglars and tempararily deafen me. As I couldnt find the controller, all I could do was wait for the police to turn up.

Within minutes, the police arrived. THe policemen asked for my identidication ,etc. I told them that my hostfmaily was out I didnt know that they had on the alarm. I called papi and the police man spoke to papi. A couple of policemen turned up. They were in fact pretty friendly.At least they didnt think that I was some Asian refugee trying to break into some house.

Papi and Laura came home within minutes too. Explained everything out. Thank god. I was a bit shakened lah. As it was a false alarm, papi had to pay between Fr300 to Fr500! Haih. Well, it was no one's fault. If one good thing came out of this, the alarm really works and it's really efficient. The police turned up within minutes!

As papi put it, it is one expensive story to tell. =P

Only fondue, no Kebab

The Swiss football team won the 1st match in Bern last Saturday against the Turkish team. 2:0.

Yesterday, the Swiss team is officially qualified for the World Cup 2006 in Germany. All papers here have the same headlines : Deutschland, wir kommen(Germany, we are coming). Since the last victory, the Turks were pretty pissed off the the Swiss team won. When the Swiss team arrived in Istanbul for the 2nd match, the Turkes were holding up cards saying ' Welcome to hell' , ' 8:0' etc. I guess the good sport spirit has gone down the drain.

The Swiss team scored their 1st goal in the half 1st minute! It was a penalty goal by Alex Frei coz one of the Turkish player had the ball hit his hand. Well, cant blame him coz it's perfect normal human reaction to raise the hand when an object comes flying towards him. 1st goal for the Swiss team. The Turkish team was certainly motivated coz they scored the following 3 goals. By head. The Swiss team obviously determined to get into the World Cup, kicked their way up another goal. The end result for Swiss Vs Turkey was 2:4.

The Swiss team is qualified coz they won the 1st match, and playing as a guest in another country gives them an advantage. The once ranked 3rd football team is now out of the game. THe Turks actually played very well. Well, just blame it on bad luck.

My piano performance on Tuesday went on well despite my nervousness. I was so bloody nervous! Sweaty palms. I 'm glad that I got through it. Mami, Laura and a couple of my friends stayed back after school to watch me play. How sweet of them. Glad it's over now. It was a good experience though.

Well, gtg for my Deutsch class. Chao guys.

Kuala Lumpur

The November autumn weather is a perfect example of why the Swiss worship the sun. Apart from the cold and thick fog, I see no reason why autumn is considered the season with terrible weather. The sun doesnt come out till 7.30, it's dark by 5pm...I see no reason...yeah right. Imagine when we go to school, it's dark. By the time we go home, it's dark.

School was as usual. Nothing special. Had to do breath strokes for swimming class. Promised myself to go swimming at least once a week when I go back to Malaysia to loose all the BLOODY weight and fats I accumulated for the past 8 months. It's amazing how a lil bit of joghurt, cheese and chocolate and tons of bread can do wonders to one's weight. It's even more amazing that ONLY the FEMALE exchange students are affected by this kind of diet. The Swiss, I guess are immune to this. The Swiss gals eat like a horse(or least the gals I know) and yet they are stick thin! BLame it on my Asian genes.

Physics. One of my worst subjects. Even in Malaysia I've sucked in physics. Ask everyone who knows me. German is not the reason I dont understand the stuff taught by the physics teacher.

Geography. One of my favourite lessons. Learning about South East Asia now even makes it more interesting for me! YOO! PArtically today. Herr Gloor taped a TV programme on KL and we watched it during our lesson. I was really glad that the programme was really well done and projected a really positive outlook on Malaysia. A total opposite from the misleading book on the Malaysian culture.

Petronas Twin Towers is THE only relationship between Malaysian and Switzerland.It was a good thing our ex-PM made it a point to build the Twin Towers. When people talk about M'sia, it's not KL Tower which come to mind.It's the Twin Towers. Watching together with my class, I suddenly felt so proud and patriotic.

What made it even better was we were actually studying the development of SEA countries. Herr GLoor asked the class to compare the 2 countries. Indonesia and Malaysia. The pictures from Indonesia were a complete opposite from Malaysia. Memang ulu and kampung. Therefore, with the well edited documentary on Malaysia, my homeland was seen to be a metropolitan, modern and developed country.

THanks to the Twin Towers, Malaysia is famous.

Finally....Weekend

Well, my weekend was pretty normal. One of the unusual days staying back at home during my weekends. Friday night's programme was kinda last minute coz my piano teacher gave me the details of the Janos Tamas(some Swiss musician) concert really the last minute. Got home after a 35 minute train ride, told mami bout it and we rushed back to my school for the concert.

The concert was really interesting. Really modern music. The kind where I dont mind hearing in a FREE concert, but wouldn't buy the CD and listen at home. Or maybe my music knowledge is under the limit for me to appreciate real modern and abstract music. From my point of view, the music played sounded as if they were playing 'impromptu'. There was one where there were 3 pianists playing together in 1 piano! The performers were really good musicians. THe music itself was abstract. Maybe some people may beg to differ the word abstract. It's something like Picasso, abstract art where it requires a high knowledge of art to comment on.

Anw, I enjoyed myself( no puns intended) . I enjoy hanging out with mami, doing 'mother-daughter stuff'. Not really mother-daughter, but still it was nice.

Saturday itself was spent cleaning and clearing my room. Damn. I dunno how am I going to bring back all my stuff back to Malaysia. Gonna cost a bomb shipping it back. Went out with mami and Laura to the cinema.

Stolz und Vorurteil. That's the German title for Pride and Prejudice. Yeah, that's the ENGLISH literature Jane Auestin movie I watched --- IN GERMAN! Thanks to my biological dad's advice to read at least some English literature and banning me to read no more of those lovey-dovey love novels like Sweet Valley,etc, I understood the whole story line. Most of the conversations too, despite the whole movie was in German(mind you there was NO English undertitles)

What I didnt understand were the jokes, or maybe the sacarsm in the movie. That is what I hate most. Despite understanding the German language now, sometimes I really find it hard to understand jokes in the German language. People say that the hardest jokes to understand are jokes in a foreign language. Maybe my German level is not THAT good. Or maybe my humour is NOT THAT high. Or maybe both.

Today, went up to Pilatus mountain. The weather was real shitty in normal grounds. Thick fog. Something like haze, the only difference is that fog is unfatal(if u dont consider the cold factor). However, the weather in high grounds, like mountain tops and so, was SUPERB! TOns of sun, bright blue sky, no fog. From the top, we saw the thick fog beneath. It was so beautiful and breathtaking. Thanks to the 'suffering' of the folks in the low lands(coz they hafta bear with the fog), we had a great scenery from above. As a saying goes, one man's garbage is another man's gift...or something like that lah.

Didnt go trekking this time coz LAura absolutely HATES trekking. Therefore, went home earlier than I expected.

TOday's the last day of my weekend. Tomorrow's back to square one. School. Damn. At least I get to skip the morning class due to the fact that I have to reherse with my friends for the school concert. Thank god.

Havana Club @ Latin Palace

hey guys, check out this website coz there are 2 pictures of of Paula (my week hostsis) and I at the Havana Club Zürich.

http://www.tropicalvip.ch/deutsch/ver_fotos.php?id=00063&variavel=24

http://www.tropicalvip.ch/deutsch/ver_fotos.php?id=00063&variavel=25

Austauschwoche -- Xchange Week

1 whole week in a whole new different family, whole new different school. In short, whole new different environment. That's y people call it 'EXCHANGE'.

Last week was AFS exchange week. Left on Sunday for Bülach, which is 20 minutes from zürich by train. THe time I met my 2 host siblings, Julian and Paula, we really hit it off! My whole week with my new host family is Bülach was FANTASTIC! My new-1 week-hostfamily consisted of Albert(father), Brigitte(mother), Maja (20, dai ka jie), Julian (18, hot bro), n Paula (17, mega sweet gal!) My hostparents are watch/clock repairers. Not the normal Omega or Rolex kinda watch or clocks. They restore real antique clocks and watches which can cost up to FR40,000 for just 1 ordinary looking wooden clock. Julian, who is doing his last year in the watch/clock school in Solothurn has to build a clock as his 'matur arbeit' which is something like SPM project. Cool ya?! I had a chance to look at his work and my god, it really requires skill, art, dedication, patience and concentration. Everything has to be precise,etc,etc. My god! Anw, his clock is really one cool hand-made clock!

Sch was pretty boring. Most of the people in my class were 15, 16year olds. Not to mention they were kind the quiet bunch too. Yeah, we did chat and stuff, I personally I find them very nice too. But sometimes I just dislike small talks. It's just so cheap. For my 1st day of sch, I skipped the classes after lunch to go to an auction house in Lucern with my hostparents. It was interesting. It makes 1 wonder how can people pay so much money for just 1 wooden clock! Or even better, so much money for a picture which consists of a few coloured streaks?! I can also do that, the difference is no 1 is willing to pay for it =P

Went to Zürich with Paula for salsa lessons. Interesting. The Latinos memang Latinos lah. They can freakin' dance so well. Coincidently, met other 2 exchange students from HOng Kong and Indonesia, Sharmin & Virginia too!

I DIDN'T REALISE HOW TERRIBLE MY MALAY WAS TILL THURSDAY.

I couldn't complete a normal Malay sentence WITHOUT any mistakes or pausing to think. DAMN. For your reference, read on to see how it went on:

THURSDAY- 3RD NOVEMBER 2005- 22.30 - ZÜRICH HAUPTBAHNHOF (mainstation)
Meidy(M) : The Indonesian exchange student
Chong'en (C) : The Malaysian exchange student who USED to speak MALAY till now.

C : Hi! Which country are you from?

M : Halo! Indonesia! Oh, kamu?

C : Malaysia!

M : OH!!! Kamu boleh cakap Bahasa Melayu ke?

C : Ya!!!

M : Apa khabar?(smiling widely coz finally some1 who can speak Malay with her)

C : Khabar baik! Und du?

M : Huh? Oohhh!!! ya, ya, sangat bagus!

C : Ya! Aku juga! Kamu.....(pause)....... ada Gute Gastfamilie und Schule? Scheisse! (started cursing coz the words just didn't come to my mind)

M : Sangat bagus! Saya sangat suka sini. Orang di sini juga memang baik!

C : YA!!! Aku denke auch! (swearing again)Damn! ahhh...(Long pause again. the words just didnt seem to come!) Scheisse, aku tak boleh cakap BM lagi, memang teruk sangat! Tak ingat langsung!

M : *laughing*

C : Wirklich! Shaumal? Kann nicht gar nicht gut auf Malayisch sprechen! Haih! Also, schönen Abend! ( It's true! See? I cant speak good Malay at all now. Well, have a nice evening!)

M : YA! Kamu juga! Selamat tinggal!

C : CHao!! (breath a sense of relief)

MY GOD. & just for your info, the conversation was not that short and I typed in more Malay words now. The actual scene was worse, was longer and was more terrible, in the sense that I was really tongue-tied for Malay vocab. I sounded as if I was some cacated German or Swiss trying to speak Malay. I'm not exagerating. I swear to God I was much terrible than what I typed above.Cant imagine how will it be like when i go home.

Anw, Saturday nite outing was an interesting outing. REal interesting. We went to this Latino disco in zürich, had a great time(interesting for me though, where at 1 point I had to run and hide in the toilet for 20 minutes due to some reason or rather someone......wont go into details...) & of course missed the last night bus home.

Missing the last night bus = taking the 1st train home.

Paula and I stayed the whole night, whole morning in the disco. I was dead tired by 5am. Our 1st train was at 6.37 and we finally reached home at 7.10am. I was almost dead. Dead tired from all the dancing, all the music etc.

Anw, packed and left for Reinach on Sunday.Back to my original hostfamily.It was also great meeting my host family too.Will definitely miss my week-hostfamily in Bülach.Will miss their jokes and laughter.Will miss the humourous chats with Paula and Julian.

Mami's brother from Malaysia and his Malaysian wife came for dinner! WOO! IT was Malaysian-connection time.=P

Anw, will update this place as soon as I get my sleep and time to use the comp. Have been pretty tired these few days. Blame it on the atumn weather where it's pure dark by 5.30pm. Blame it on the cold. Blame anything and anyone but me.

Exchange Week In Bülach 2

My room for the week....well, actually it belongs to Julian...Sweet of him to let me have it for da week! =)

Julian, my hostbro for the week........ Mega funny, mega nice, not to mention hot too! =P

Paula, my hostsis for the week! Same as her bro, mega nice, mega Sweet, hot gal too! =)

Exchange Week In Bülach

Paula, Julian and I ! Had tons of fun with them!

Brigitte, Albert and I. My hostparents for the week. Mega nice people!

Paula and I b4 our outing to the Latino Disco... =)