it has been one week since i last blogged. i have not been taking many photos because there were not much to take.
in the past week, i started my september intensive language course. everything seemed to go back to square 1. people were new, awkward smiles, 'hallo, ich komme aus Singapur (i come from singapore)..' thankfully, my classmates are nice. but they are a rather quiet bunch. our teacher can go on talking for 2.5 hours our of the 3 hours class. it trains my listening and between my classmates and i, we insist on speaking german only. sometimes very tiring.. but when u got people who are willing to speak german with u, just be thankful and practice and learn together.
anyway, i have long wanted to blog about cooking and eating together. when i stayed in hostel in nus last time, the only thing i cooked was maggi mee when i was hungry at night or i was too lazy to have a proper dinner. meals were always simply settled in yih canteen or science canteen or dover market or wherever i could buy take aways.
In germany now, cos eating out is expensive, i cook almost every meal. breakfast consist of flakes with fruit cereals with milk cos i can't be bothered to wake up too early to make something elaborate. on sunday mornings, i will pamper myself and prepare american style breakfast (toast, ham, egg, coffee), sit at the balcony and read my book. take about 45 mins to 1 hour to enjoy my breakfast n the scenery. lunch will always be sandwiches which i prepare in the morning and bring to school. cos mensa (german word for canteen) food kinda sucks. at night, i will prepare good dinner for myself, or if we eat with friends, we will cook several dishes and try making anything fun.
so below, are some photos taken of friends cooking and of us eating together.
we had the party which i had blogged about. the pple from different countries had to prepare home-cooked food. so here u go..
the norwegians prepared this dish whereby u have bread (above), scrambled eggs and salmon. they fried 40 eggs!!!!
and of course, the chinese combined forces and made jiao zi! shioooook. most of us ate like 15 each before we left for the party... hahhaa. we made like 150 of them!
and where i stay, 12 people in a 'bungalow' share one kitchen and two toilets. most of us share utensils and cooking stuff cos it is just leftover equipments from previous exchange students. so, since pple share almost everything, u wash up what u've used!
some dishes i cooked... just like what i would cook back at home. with the wonders of oyster sauce i bought from the asian market... yum yum!
and of course, sweet and sour pork!!!! it rocks. i am very very proud that I can cook this dish. despite the tedious procedure required to prepare this dish, i love it. in one month, i cooked this dish 3 times. once in stuttgart, this one was for miriam, and once last week for wang tong and my housemate cos wang tong was leaving for st gallen, and my housemate happened to return home in time for dinner and there was more than enough for 3 to eat.
curry vege.. it was probably the healthiest dish i had... potato, carrot, celery in curry sauce with rice.
it was sunday so it was pajamas day. u can see that muhan and bianda are so messy cos they refused to clean up. bianda is from indonesia.
my investment. hahaha.... everytime i walk along the streets in the city, i am so tempted to buy ice cream lah!!!!! one cone is around 70 eurocents. i thought about it and decided that i can't go on forever and keep buying cones everytime i go to town. so, i went to Kaufland (German NTUC) and bought this. Movenpick ice cream!!! it ROCKS!
On last monday, a few of us from the summer course who are still in konstanz cos we are exchange students are Uni Konstanz decided to have dinner together. So, we went to Europahaus and had an italian dinner. The difference in the hostels is such that mine is 12 single rooms sharing common toilets and kitchen. In Europahaus, students stay in apartments. It is the most common in Germany for students to stay in such apartments called Wohngemeinschaft (short form WG). around 3 to 4 bedrooms per unit, and the students will share toilets, kitchen and living area.
i was fooling around with the lemon that angela, from NZL, brought from her unit next door, while Max was preparing authentic italian food. Spaghetti with pesto sauce.. he plucked the basil leaves from the plant at his window, den started chopping up. the pasta was fantastic. and it is so easy to make!
and so, there's the four of us! max from italy, asami from osaka, me from singapore and angela from new zealand.
okey okey.. hope that u guys are not getting hungry reading this... hee hee.
after the museum tour, we had time for lunch. and yes. germany is famous for its bread. and look at this bread. it's bigger than my face!
and then, the blackforest cake is also ginormous. it's about 20cm tall i think...
and this is the largest blackforest cherry cake in the world. It weighs 2 tonnes with a diameter of 5 metres. i think u can swim in this cake... hahaha. it's like up to the waist lah! eat until u scared.
yeah. and of course, i had my own cake as well!!!! it's been years since i last had blackforest cake. chocolate cakes were always first on the list. but then again, nothing beats eating blackforest cake in the Black Forest. it is a must-try food... 
of course... satisfied! shall update regarding my oktoberfest trip soon!!!!
we needed to fill our water bottles. so we asked someone where we could find water... he told us to get it from this tap. 
and a ginormous dog. i was so scared i was standing so far!
and finally, we were heading home. 