Killing time after the opening concert 

Anyone remembers Pulp Fiction? :D
Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f*** a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules: Then what do they call it?
Vincent: They call it a Royale with cheese.
Jules: A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent: Well, a Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big-Mac.
Jules: Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent: I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King. 

A sunset shot of the Trinity Column. 

Tour de Europe! (7/6 - 8/6)

This June, it's an exciting month for me as I've gone to Europe for the Festival of Songs choral competition, held at Olomouc, Czech Republic. I know, I know... the only place in Czech that you heard of is Prague, right? Well, Olomouc is a rather tiny town, but it's definitely not forgettable, as we shall see in the next few posts.

We left Changi at 3am on 7/6 and had to transit at Dubai airport, which was quite an eye-opener coz I have never imagined an Arab country would be this advanced (no offence). 3 hours later, it's off to Vienna!

Since there's no international airport near Olomouc, we had to take a 4-hr bus ride from the airport to Olomouc. The jet lag caught up with us soon after we'd boarded the bus. But what a view to miss! Look at the photos I took along the way and you'd think that I just bought postcards and scanned them!

We arrived at Olomouc in the evening and checked in to Hotel Sigma, a tiny little hotel with 2 elevators that you must never, never overload. How do I know? I found out the hard way when 8 of us took the elevator down and got stuck in the basement! Talk about a good head start for our first day in Europe!

It's me, at 6am Dubai time... 

"Oh Arabian niiiiiiiiiiiiiights..." 

Dubai airport is a freaking alien mother ship, man... 

The belly of the mother ship is a shopping mall, in order to make humans forget time... 

They try to create an earth-like habitat on the mother ship, but I ain't getting fooled... 

Another alien device 

Ah, the mines of smoky pleasures... 

Starbucks Coffee, it's like you've never left home at all! 

Vienna Airport. Even the airport looked cultured. 

It's the Vienna Mozart festival! 

Outside the Vienna Airport 

It's chasing us! It's chasing us! 

Sea of red flowers~! 

Like a WinXP wallpaper, only better :) 

A flock of wind-powered generators! 

Peeping from behind the trees...