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April 18, 2009

Switzerland

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Hey, after a long time! I’m struggling with the German computer Keyboard, so bear with me. As you might know, I went to Switzerland a week ago and had just come back off the Swiss Air from the Suvarnbhumi airport, Bangkok, Thailand. I will write about each city in each paragraph. Then, I will put up some interesting things, and my future projects. They will act as a wish list for my site, and will be crossed out when achieved.

GRINDELWALD - We took our car to the airport, pretty obviously. Aunt Hoong and On came with us, and she said that she’ll tell us one of her famous funny stories when we come back. So, skipping all the way to the Swissair Plane, it is as luxurious as the Thai airways one. The reason why we didn’t choose Thai this time is mostly about their behaviour. They didn’t care anything about the Thai people (why do they call it Thai International, then?). Okay, that’s all the rant. All the rest is pretty boring, we arrived at the Schweizerhof Hotel in Grindelwald, blah blah blah, and we went to ski for our first time. The second day, all we did was ski and shop. I’ll leave out the shopping, because all we bought was just a glacier room scent, a few souvenirs and a box of Swiss Rocks sweets. My first ski class was boring, with all the little kiddies and an immature-mannered teacher. I then moved myself up to the group who have learnt for a week or so, and did pretty well. The last day, we went up to the high ski slope and scared ourselves to death.

GENEVA Pretty boring, at first. I’ll make this short, in one sentence (Because I’m lazy). We stayed at an apartment which smelled like burnt stuff and cigar smoke, ate McDonald’s everyday (Bleurgh), went on a tour on the mini train (I especially loved the botanical garden: lots of rare plants!), and a super-kind Thai bookseller gave me a plushie St Bernard’s dog with adorable eyes.

Gruiyere I’ll make this short, too. We didn’t stay there, we just visited a few St Bernard’s dogs and went to a cheese factory to watch how cheese is made and learn to make delicious Cheese Fondue (I’m eating some now!). I lost my camera at the restaurant, but luckilly, the counter lady had sent it to the lost and found and I got it back.

Strasbourgh This city is in France. That’s all I’ll say. We missed 2 train trips and had to arrive back at Strasbourgh from Paris at 12:00pm! I liked the hotel, though. The Best Western.

Zurich We hardly did anything here. We stayed at another Schweizerhof hotel and toured all day. Most of the time, shopping for souvenirs. Most of the shopping, chocolate and clothing.

Future projects:

  • A Randomness Competition
  • Reads
  • Recommendations
  • "Things I use"

Interesting things:

  •  Thanks to Georgina, I know how to put ALT symbols in Tweets. If you don’t know ALT symbol codes, just copy and paste from http://www.alt-codes.net/
  • I won’t get hosted. I won’t even get into the real web world! I’m fine here, in the middle, with Wordpress and Blogsome.
  • Fruity-Sweets.webs.com is closed, and affiliates please move here! I’ll get all your buttons up soon.


 

March 22, 2009

Horseriding Grading 2009

The Polo Club (the local sports club near our condo) held an annual Grading today, and I was in the level C3 test. I was surprised to be 4th place, I thought I’d be around the bottom 10! The 4th place rosette was green, and I put a photo of the team testing for C3 on my PhotoBlog, so you can see me in the middle with the green rosette. The routine was pretty basic, though I had to remember it! Luckily, I didn’t forget it, like the girl that started cantering before she even changed rein from M to K. The routine went like this: Rising trot until judge rings bell; Come down the center line A and stop at X; Halt and salute when judge stands up on X (center line); Proceed sitting trot at C; Circle 20 m. at B,E,B; Half circles at B,A,B and B,C,B; Walk long rein at B; Take up reins and proceed working trot at A; Change rein at F sitting trot; Canter beyond C and M; Sitting trot at K; Change rein at F to H sitting trot; Canter at C and H; Sitting trot at F; Come down center line at A; Halt at G; Salute judge; Lead horse out of riding arena 3 on long rein. Long, huh? I rode Tawan, who I thought would be hard, but my teacher gave me an easy horse, that had been ridden by another girl, which would make it safe for me. Also, Tawan was extra kind today, and he obeyed my orders effectively. Last Grading Session, I came second place on Sangjan, the chestnut-palomino. But that level was easy, and Sangjan was too easy! Sangjan’s nice, but I have found the nice side of Tawan today!

For some strange reason, I always seem to type in some shade of purple. I don’t know why!

Okay, now about Twitter. If you haven’t got it yet, you really should! Here are a few things that I use as "plugins" for Twitter, and I think regular Tweeters would like!

  • HootSuite - If you have multiple Twitter accounts, or want an easy way to update, this would be a must! It gives you an easy Button called a "HootLet" that allows you to drag onto your toolbar and click anytime for a quick tweet. It even lets you set the time when it goes live on your tweets and lets you "shrink" a link on.
  • TweetDeck - A docklet on your desktop!
  • TwitterFox - A plugin for FireFox!
Some others will appear here soon, so twitter addicts, check back soon!

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