Away from Home: September 2006

City Hall Dinner Buffet (27 Sept 06) This is the City hall dinner buffet organised for the international students here in Stockholm. There is around 1600international students who went for the dinner.. The whole place is pack. The food is nice but it seems abit not enough. Maybe I was too slow to grab the food, was not that full after the "buffet" haha.. Well here are the pictures taken..

The City Hall.. Group photo outside City Hall.. Salmon..

Me n Uwei..

Inside the city hall..

Friends..

Flea Market (23 Sept 06) Went to the flea market the entrance fee cost 15 Sek.. With nothing to buy in mind and just wanting to take a look. Ended up.. Bought a winter coat and a badminton racket.. haha.

Entrance to the Flea market..

Inside the flea market..

Coat bought at the flea market.. cost me less than 10 Sgd.. Good buy.. haha. I also bought a badminton racket for less than 2 Sgd.. shiok.. can play badminton here le.. haha

Lucky bought some things.. make the entrance fee of 15 Sek worth it..

Corridor Dinner.. Great Food! This post shall shows some of the corridor dinner I had over here.. Pictures of nice food.. shiok!

Theres pork ribs, pasta, salad, sushi, fried rice.. follow by dessert..

Apple pie, chocolate cake..

Close up of the pork ribs..

Tiramisu..

Group picture of Uwei's corridor.

Group photo during the celebration of Kevin and Diana's birthday.

Copenhagen, Demark ( 15 Sept to 17 Sept) There is alot of first time for this trip.. First time staying over night at the train station waiting for the morning train.. First time travel with someone I have never meet before.. First time book my own hostel and train tickets.. First time going into a Green House.. First time staying over night at Burger King.. First time to Demark.. We spend 2 days 2 nights over at Copenhagen.. Think its just enough.. not too long not too short.. manage to went quite a number of places. Walk till my feet got blisters. Went to eat buffet on the first day.. Had been quite some time since I have eaten so full. haha..

Buffet.. First serving.. haha The following will be some of the places that we have visited..

Copenhagen City Square..

The Opera House..

The Palace..

A church where one can climb up the spiral stairs to get a gd view of the city.. Too bad when we reach its close..

Nyhavn Street.. Cafe and resturant by the river..

Christiania.. A small town rule by its own without government control..

Church..

And its interior..

Top view of the city from the round tower.. Pay 25DDK to go up.. A tower the spirals 7.5 times before it reach the top.. able to get a good view of the city.

A visit to the Botanic Garden.. Green House behind me..

The flea market.. Nothing much actually..

The famous little mermaid.. Don't know whats so special about it.. walk so far just to see it..

The photo speaks for itself.. haha

A typical street..

Taken when crossing one of the bridge..

Ok.. thats about it.. Take too long to upload too many photo..

Stockholm City Hall tour (10 Sept 06) Got to know this girl from our class who is working at the City hall. She volunteer to bring us to the City Hall tour. City hall is where the Nobel Prize Dinner is held at and its also the working place of the government.

City Hall from the outside.. Main hall.. where the Nobel Prize Dinner is held at..

Inside of City hall..

Room where members of the different party has their meeting and do the voting over National Issues..

One of the room inside City hall..

View from the window..

Lastly the dinner set used during the Nobel prize dinner..

Drottningholm Palace (9 Sept 06) Today going to take a boat ride to Drottningholm Palace, which the Royal Family are still currently staying in at. Stockholm consisits of Archipelago so how can u miss taking a boat ride. The journey takes about 1 hour and cost around 100 kr for a one way ticket. Abit expensive (as usual).

Group photo before boarding the ship.. Building behind is the City hall. Together with me are people from HongKong and Singapore. Glad to have know them..

My "sister".. as she has the same surname as me.. haha

Scenery along the journey...

The Palace..

The Palace Garden..

Museums Visiting day (7 Sept 06) School start in the evening today.. so have quite alot of time. Decided to go visit some museums. Sound quite boring but there is alot of museums here. So might as well visit some..

Army museums. Display of modern and ancient weapons, history of the war etc.. History museum.. History of Sweden from Viking times to modern days.. Opera House..