"You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughta be.”
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i survived minus twelve degrees! (and showered every single day, hee)

europe took my breath away. first it was the scenery in switzerland. everywhere you turned, it was a postcard perfect view. we went up to a few of the highest mountains in switzerland, and it was snowing really hard. like a blizzard. the feeling you get when you lie in blankets of snow, the tingly sensation when you stick your tongue out and experience the snowflakes melt into ice in your mouth, and all around you are just mountains and mountains of white, and above you just the blue, cloudless sky - it's surreal, almost like you're as close to heaven as you can ever come to when you're alive. then to milan in italy, which is nothing spectacular actually apart from the fashion there. then florence, pisa, rome and venice. venice is my personal favourite. the whole place is so old. the cathedrals are magnificant, dating thousands of years back, and even the architecture of the normal buildings is beautiful, being built in ancient gothic style. plus the pidgeons and gondolas, the canals, the music from the baskers, really there's nothing not to love about venice. it just has a very happy atmosphere to it, like the moment you step on the island you feel a wave of lightness wash over you, like you've been transported back to another century and left all your worries behind. it sounds so cliche but it's true! the people love venice so much that in toilets, they vandalise the walls with stuff like "venice is not sinking!". ironic huh. haha. the only drawback are the prices. you know in singapore, sometimes you have to pay ten cents to enter the toilet? in venice, you have to pay two sing dollars! and a meal for four at macdonald's there easily costs over fifty dollars?! super expensive. i guess it's to maintain all those ancient buildings.

aye i'm so tired. jet lag probably, i just arrived back here earlier this afternoon. off to rest now.