so we live together and we like each other,life here is slowly adjusting-people cook for me cos they think im way too thin, and friends bring food to my room cos again, i eat too little in their opinion. parties are many, and friends, slowly growing. the piano takes up about 5 hours of my day- ive never practised harder in my life. when i take my seat at the grand piano , i always marvel at the end of the day how far i've come. from the inability to touch the piano pedals, and teeny weeny fingers grappling to stretch a full octave, from daddy sitting beside me at every practice, to today, where i can easily sit myself at a grand piano, reach every pedal, stretch a good 11 keys. and now im giving music my whole lifetime, and soon in the next week it will probably be cemented for good. ive come so far-from singapore, to vienna, from the age of 3, to 18 now. sometimes its all so surreal, i wonder if its really my very own life.
anyway. such a torrent of emotions im experiencing just cannot be explained in mere words.
so here's a list of some things i find really odd in vienna.
trams and trains.basically we dont really take straight lines like in sg-where we just switch at raffles or city hall. we switch lines and lanes all the time from trains to trams, just to get to our destination. doors here do not open automatically. you pull them open yourself when you arrive at your destination, or else you press a button to have the door open. so its very different here and sometimes i forget to open the door and i stand there waiting like a silly fool.haha.oh and we dont tap cards or anything here, its just go in. so yes you can cheat your way and not buy tickets, its all on your own honesty.
pricesseriously, why does a roll of toilet paper cost 10SGD?in singapore we can buy tons of toilet paper with that money.
drugsapparently drugs here legal-drugs in my dorm are as normal as day, and so yeah my place is continually bathed in smoke, and beer. seriously, the beer amazingly comes in copious amounts.
foodeverything is just bread, and nothing else. seriously. a serious lack of variety in food.
petspets here take transport with us, go shopping, pets are everywhere. and no people do not deign to dress their pooches, the way i do.
clubbingmusic here is so weird. we have normal english r&b and blah blah, but they mix it all up with latino and blah blah all in the space of 1 hour. its just, so, so weird.
peoplethe people here are lazy beyond belief. they work 3 hours max a day, and that's it. and not to mention, they are money hungry.
okay i have so much to say, so little time. so the next time round, more updates on weird stuff here.love you all!
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danni blows a raspberry right at you.
[`10:11 AM]
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
shining silver star how wonderful you are;
so im at a friend's place using her roommate's laptop-i dont have internet access my house isnt going to give up the strike i think, so my dad brought my laptop home. i should be moving houses soon-ive given up on my place and heck about floor meetings. school life is hard-its difficult to decipher classes in a totally alien language, but i guess things do come along. i get help for homework from my dorm mates, so it doesnt take me long to finish what with my umm, talent for languages. food here is still bread,bread, and more bread-a shocking variety, but who doesn't get sick of eating bread?
and so yesterday i was talking to a friend who's doing his doctorate about my problems.
me:"so you know, blah blah blah blah..."
him:" kein problem!"
me":"was? ach so?"
him" ja, ja! you know austrian men? this dorm all nice austrian boys! blonde, tall, nice. marry!"
me:"NEIN,DANKE SCHON."
it appears that illyssia is taking this route-she's given her boyfriend a 6 month ultimatum to marry her. and now im seriously considering this route. and yes i've found my future prospect! the new place im moving to, haus erasmus's boss.he's young, rich and hot. seriously. so people, im getting married!
right now im considering returning home in april. dad and mom have left the decision to me, and i dont know what ill do. anyway its a toss between singapore, or touring italy,spain,hungary with bryan. so i'll have to decide soon.
what do you guys think? leave me a tag! home, or europe?
dinner with bryan, so tschuss!
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danni blows a raspberry right at you.
[`5:35 AM]
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
no i wont give up sooner than it seems life turns around,for those who usually receive emails or smses or calls from me, most people should know by now how depressed i am here. ive made an effort to keep my blog more or less a happy one, but right now, so much sadness and desperation envelopes me its difficult to mantain any ounce of joy, fleeting as it may be. but ive learnt even more about life, and how tough it can be exactly. true i got the new life i wished for, a whole brand new start, but sometimes its hard to adjust to the -10 degree weather, the snow, the slush, the language, the food, the people-so much i could say. vienna is no paradise. i do wish to give this up, and the 2 weeks daddy was here he has more or less given up and told me to move to shanghai instead, but somehow i know this is all good for me, and i will try my very best to finish what i set out here to do. as those who receive news from me often know, its hard-so many obstacles stand in my way, but i will try my darnest to get everything in order, and i will
not let all that money be spent for nothing. racism is rampant here-today i got robbed, and almost arrested on suspicion of drug abuse. thats how bad life is here for me, on top of the many other things here that my dearest friends know about. chinese, no matter from china or wherever, are discriminated against, and thus anything i do here is just pure difficulty. my a levels- i finally received news after how long!-are okay, nus is available for me, but i wont take the easy way out, because now my heart is set on music, and no matter how hard it is, i cannot give up, because so much is at stake, and i know it deep down in my heart. life is just so, so, very difficult- i would never wish vienna on my enemy. but i cannot give up this fight, and i hope you all are in this with me.
until we meet again,
danni
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danni blows a raspberry right at you.
[`8:03 AM]
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Friday, March 10, 2006
guten tag! its been a long, long while-ive travelled abit here and there in the meantime, and now im back in vienna. just a quick update to let you guys know exactly where i am, and how im doing. vienna is cold, cold, cold-it snows everyday, and very, very deep heavy snow at that. im staying at the 19th district-thats the poshest district in vienna apparently, but it isnt all that great really. my house is essentially quite the ruckus,the amount of partying is incomprehensible-you shoud see the crates of liquor we consume in a night, and we party on each floor, plus we have our very own club on the ground floor, so you can imagine what really goes on.oh and internet is really difficult to get by-i gotta get it from a friends house or a cafe, which is really expensive-my house is on an internet strike so poor people like me are suffering. :( yeah i know, student life overseas isnt that great. ive achieved a permanent strawberries and cream complexion here,and maybe the starting of a rudolph nose. schools been hard-ive switched classes because of the people, and the standard. i wont say life is peaches and cream-thereve been countless times this week ive shed tears and never in my life have i had so many doors slammed shut in my face. but ill get on, and life goes on. i want to be home in april-we celebrate easter for a whole month, but still i may be going to berlin or something with friends, so i dont know.food here is essentally really the same-its all bread, and i cant seem to get used to it, or else its kebap or schnizel. dogs are well loved here-they take the trains, trams, buses,and they shop along too. i miss my dog really. oh nd my rooms essentially pink and satin. i live with a bunch of guys, and its weird sharing toilets but its getting better now. but im essentially the cleaning control one-i make sure the toilet is in smellable condition,haha. and yes, guys here are hot, but not really my type.shoppings quite good-its all london high street stuff, but its prety much a repetition of shops so i do get bored quite esily. and yes living here is expensive-cabs have a starting fare of 16 sgd, and all cabs are mercs e240 only. haha. so yes, lifes been pretty much strikes,parties,german,and lots of chocolate. haha. very studentin, do you not agree? its time to go home, and so goodbye, and i love u guys. leanne,dilly,julia,pris,mervyn,cherry,libby-i love u all. always here in my heart. call u guys sooon!
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danni blows a raspberry right at you.
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