Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Chinese New Year celebration at Uppsala!

If you think Steam boat, Bak Kwa and Pineapple tarts can only be found in Singapore.....look at the following pictures and THINK AGAIN...

3 Steamboats or you call it RICE COOKER BOATS

Bak Kwa! (Oops the coin there...errr No we are not playing blackjack!)

Pineapple tarts and prawn roll!


Cheers!


8 Singaporeans, 1 Malaysian, 1 Swedish and 5 Honkies! HUAAAAAAAAAAAT AH! Gong Xi Fa Cai! This year's Chinese New Year was the first time I spent away from home! Missed alot of things...the food, the mood, the ang baos, the holidays...But luckily we had a make up celebration at JD's place at Uppsala! Thanks for the free accomodation and hospitality shown! (45 minutes from Stockholm, 4 hours from Linkoping by bus) Lots of food as you can see, including a fruit platter which I don't have the picture with me yet and of course lots of blackjack, in-between, poker and guitar-karaoke singing. Though tiring, it was really a fun and enjoyable evening. I had to wait until 3 am (10am SG time) before i went online to "BAI NIAN" via webcam!

Uppsala is the 3rd largest city in Sweden, with the Uppsala University as the oldest university ever! Skype came from this university... so we all should pay kudos to UU! And because its the 3rd largest, and Linkoping is maybe the 50th largest...we found everything different there! Bigger area, bigger shopping malls, bigger buses, this big that big everything big. The list can go on forever and I shall not lower my morale lower by doing more comparisons. (They even have a ski slope in the town DAMN IT! ) But still we always welcome you all to visit Linkoping! hahaha

Some shots from Uppsala before I end this post...

The apartment that they stay in....DAMN BLARDEE FAR from school and town


He is smiling so happily because I nudged him and he thought he was going down! hahaha


Anatomical Theatre....Ghostly figure behind....

Uppsala Church...So big that my camera cannot fit in!


Me and the Botanical Gardens...supposed to be more beautiful in summer....


Diao simi Diao! (At the top of Uppsala Castle)


Trying to be funny....that's a cannon for you information...


And to end it all....Me with a swedish chio bu!

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