Jing the wanderlust travels to Europe!: Stuttgart TV tower, Ulm and randoms

today is such a roller coaster day of emotions. we were let off from school rather early, so decided to use the comp in school and felt guilty cos something happened but i shall not elaborate. then we went to the main train station hauptbahnhof and witnessed a person commiting suicide (we think) by jumping off the platform. at peak period. yikes. okay we didn't see him/her in action but we came down a few minutes after, when the train stopped halfway and even boarded the train but was chased out eventually. then we saw some officer holding a torch light shining down on the tracks and a lady in panic mode so we sorta concluded something bad happened.

20 years in singapore and never once saw a train suicide and to think i'll experience it in germany =x anyway it was quite exciting, truth to be told =x they had to inch the train back to erm, reveal the body and so many kaypoh people (like wanwei and i) were hanging around to check out what happens next.

luckily we didn't stay on so we didn't actually see the body being lifted up. i concluded that it'll be too horrifying for me so i nudged wanwei to go up and well, i hope the lady who has identified the body will be fine. =( what a sad day lah.

but then again, when we reached our other destination - this hypermart that sells household stuff, we saw that they have rabbits and guinea pigs for sale in a corner and this huge grey rabbit actually STOOD up when it sees us!! AWFULLY cute man. so i suddenly had this joke about wanwei and the grey rabbit, cos she is also wearing grey, so maybe the rabbit thinks she's one of its kind, so it was very happy when it sees us. hmm i look like i'm crapping but it's hard to type out the full joke. oh well. i laughed like crazy for the next five minutes and really couldn't stop. so there you go, my roller-coaster-like-emotional-day =)

now for pictures haha! going off for a two day trip around baden-wuttemberg region for the weekend so i won't be blogging till next week! enjoy =)

we went to the TV tower for an excursion on tuesday!

ashley and i - she's a classmate in my architecture class =)

zack and i - my german class and architecture classmate haha. i was laughing in the photo cos he actually sorta bent down to accomodate my height =(

tower is 150m tall!

first time i've ever seen a traffic jam in germany

it says it all =)

had another excursion on thursday - to the city of Ulm! i officially declare i love Ulm cos it's stuff is cheaper than stuttgart haha

on bus to Ulm!!!

wow

siew, all your friends - miehhh. and i saw the shepherd too! damn cool man, he really looks like those people in the storybooks. haha

reached!

Ulm's pride and joy - Munster - seen from afar

it's wonderful

adam the tall one trying to be funny with my camera. he uses his sunglasses to sleep in class. haha

romantic town of Ulm - with bridges and pretty houses! i feel like i'm in a movie

cool eh

donau river!

wanwei's gonna kill me for posting this up. HEH

kenny, wanwei and i went to climb the Munster!!!! it costs EUR 2.50. horrendous climb, but it's worth it

vertical spiral marathon

and the journey begins... we took about 15 to 20 minutes to climb up i think. with only minor breaks in between. my legs almost gave way halfway up and i had to drag myself up haha. but it's a good workout, just that i had leg cramps on that night - not a very nice feeling haha