heLLo out there,

a new shiny day has startet here already...I love it here more and more just day by day :) its so great. the weather, the colors, the city, the buildings :) why the hell I need to leave this beautiful place for fckn cold vienna? :) hehe

last two days I finished all the formalities for staying here..so only school administration stuff is left in case of formal duties :) I'm some kind of eased now :) I'm not used having formalities done at the first time so I was happy that it took me not that much time and also the communication with the clerks didn't took any nerves :P even though they spoke more singlish than english :))) but they tried to assist me any way...so thats the mainpoint ;) the bureaucracy seems to be the same like in austria - but its more organized and the mood of the clerks don't seem to be that addicted to the person infront of them - so I'm more than pleased :)

After having our duties fullfilled at the immigration department, we had a little introduction to little india. Its funny there. Jason - a local - told me before that Little India is more impressive cause its more authentic and not that commercialised like Chinatown. Yeah. Actually it was. I mean there are lot of shops and so on - but it was not like "hey we have to attract all tourist - whatever it takes" :) They have their temples. At first it was a guesswork to decide which of them are hinduist and which one are buddhist. But after differing one - its obvious which one is which :) what they have in common is their greatness :) I mean all this little items building a one - but anyhow looking so several :)) fun! I mean when u enter the temple it looks like "ramsch-sale" - but the second look catches the spirit :) the spirit of this colors, the joy of the colors, the joy of worshipping their god :) Its beautiful :) We also visited some mosques in little india. they also look great. Some of them were colored white and golden. But the most impressive one was in the color of islam - green! Looked great! We were not allowed to walk in, as we didn't wear proper clothes (although there were clothes provided). In most mosques women are not allowed to go into the prayer room. this rooms are reserved only for men ;) a pitty cause the most interesting part of the mosque would definitely be the prayer room :) so we just quit the inside look on this day, any way the outside of the buildings was enough impressive tough :)

We had also indian lunch at that day - it tastes very good. It addresses my flavour more than chinese food but in the end also this experience ended up in a bad feeling :) Actually it was too heavy, I had some chicken with some vegetables in a spicey sauce with some home made bread! btw bread was fantastique! After lunch I was so happy for going back to the hostel. Even my last step to bed was exhausting :)))) I got to bed and feel asleep :)))) But for now indian food is going to be the top on my "what dudu can eat" list.

So the day was done at this day :) I wasn't able to wake up at night :)) I slept really from 8 pm till 7 am :))) The next day was full of shopping-sight seeing. I did some "dudu alone around singapore"-trip! I don't now how come but I ended up in a shopping mall :P There must have been some kind of a magic spirit attracting me there...because my plan was to get to know the surroundings of the hostel and looking for a coffee shop where I can get a turkish coffee (I needed one after this indian food - I knew that I will need one more urgently in the future :P)! Actually I found a turkish restaurant called "Sufi", run by a turkish man and playing turkish classic music all the time :)) Was nice there. I had "Sigara böregi", tastes not bad - but not the way we would define "Sigara Böregi" in turkey or even in austria:) But okey. I can live with that. I'm sure that I'll turn back to them after I've tasted all the local food here :))))

We met also the core of SMU exchange students by now. Lot of nice people. Many of them are from Canada and from the states. So they're lucky cause they all will study in their native language :)) I should stop comparing me with them...cuz then my english just frustrates me :P! But okey! Today I met girls from France. So nice! I don't know why but u really can feel the difference between european and american people :) Not in a negative manner - but the way they behave and so on ;) I think we europeans are more shy, but also more interested in others - while the others just do their things and yeah Its okey with them you joining - but if not..its okey too - they build up groups very fast as I can see :))) Their also more outcoming than we are I think! But okey...it just the first impact and we all know this doesn't say always the true :)

I'm looking forward to get to know all of them. So many different people, sharing the same "identity" here in singapore. Its a fine experience. I love it!