haha im finally back home again.... somehow, i felt an intense relief when i step out of the plane in Changi....
Oslo is a good experience, but Singapore is my home, my root... though it sound cliche, but well, its kind of true.. I think i am worn out by all the travelling, its too intense, too overwhelming for someone who has never travel out often. Well, before the exchange i have only been to Johor and Korea.. Hahahaha.. travelling to many countries will sound exciting to many people. But once u embark on the journey, then u will realise, the things that happen around you. Singapore is really just a comfort zone....
Especially the last few places that we went to before we went home, make me felt more. We went to Switzerland, Berlin, Copenhagen and Tromso.
Switzerland was fun, even though it was really cold! We went to catch the swiss alps and it was really freezing cold. It was at this destination that we bought a lot of chocolates!! haha.. mi, my sis and shiwang took the chocs as though it doesnt cost anything! haha.. poor yk n mas have to shop ard while waiting for us... The Swiss Alps is really impressive. Breath taking scenery....
The mountains are covered in snow. Layers and layers of snow overlapping and covering the trees, making it the way it appear in books and photos. As i look at the Alps, somehow, i know i will go back to Switzerland again, for the skiing and also to bring my parents along.. I want to show them the way the world looks like, for they have given mi the chance to look at it first...
After all the crazy shopping in Switzerland, we proceeded on to Berlin. My main aim was to go to the concentration camp. The place where millions were killed, so long as they were considered to be less superior than the Germans, and deviates from the society norms... Stepping inside, u could see all the photos on display. The whole place is full of information and photos to explain the situation in the concentration camp. They displayed some of the victims as well as the mastermind behind the whole ploy...
We went to the infirmary. It was where all the victims received their 'medical treatment'. They werent treated appropriately. The captives were just animals for testing. What i could remember as totally inhumane was when they scan the patients to check for tooth with gold or any other types of fillings. The main aim was to extract their teeth. Not only was their identity been removed like normal criminals, they were subjected to this kind of treatment. Not many survived such ordeal. As i walk on the route within the camp, i recalled them having to work in such cold weather conditions in scantily dressed. I am dressed in layers, i could still feel my feet freezing. And the extreme cold...... This is the removal of human identity to the lowest form that could ever exist!
In one of the room in infirmary, where they check and execute the action on those victims, i could feel something. The pictures, the motions all circulating in my mind. The pain, the helplessness, the thought of home, a sanctuary, of rescue...... And u wonder, how could one person did all these to another human? how could one's mind be so evil? how could one bear looking at another suffering in pain n torture? While viewing the room, my sis actually commented the room smelled like those chemicals that were used to deal with dead bodies... Well, this kind of scare my friends...I'm affected since i could actually feel it....
it was too much... too much for these people to live in years of hell..... i didnt take any photos in the camp site, coz i felt the place was too sacred to take any photos.... the whole place is very solemn, the air is heavy and thick. It just make you feel sad...
when i left, the place is so full of agony, sadness, gloominess.....
In Copenhagen, it was more of a test against the cold... We walked alongside a harbor. The wind was really strong and i guessed it was strong enough to be able to blow us away!!! all the pain was for a mermaid statute that was their landmark.. hhaha... it was really freezing, mi n shiwang were shivering with cold..... face and hands were red.... we were quite glad tat we are only stayin for one night in the airport.. haha.. there is really nth much to do dere anyway... but it looks similar to norway even though they were actually different countries....
Tromso! the northern lights!!! the one thing tat im so excited about!! haha... but we dint managed to catch it becoz the clouds have blocked the lights... But well, as shiwang has said, northern lights are for couple.. i shall go back again, with or without my significant other.. haha.. thx shiwang! for consoling mi.. hahahaha....... but we did tried dog sledding and reindeer meat... the meat actually tasted like lamp meat.. have those kind of raw taste which i don really like.. but i have no choice but to finish the food as i was EXTREMEly hungry.. haha... starving over there as there were not much food that we can eat... haha.... dog sledding was fun, but i made a pact to myself, if i were to try dog sledding again, i will slim down first.. the dogs looked very pathetic to drag us thru the snow.. The snow is extremely difficult to thread, it was think and slippery.... poor thing! they need to do this all becuz of human... and i gt a stomach cramps(is the stomach muscles tat cramped!) coz i was trying all kind of positions to help the huskies tread across the snow, trying ways to reduce the overall burden due to the position of my weight. haha.. i think its kind of useless anyway, but well, i tried!
haha... such a big relief..... home sweet home.....
