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letztes Jahr sind wir mit dem Auto nach Berlin gefahren. Wir haben vielen Koffer gepackt. Wir haben in Berlin Picknick gemacht. Auf der Autobahn haben wir zwei Stunden im Stau gestanden für zei Stunden.

Unsere Kinder finden es langweilig und waren sehr müde. Sie haben im Auto geschlafen. Um fünf Uhr haben sind wir im Hotel angekommen und haben im Restaurant fantastisch gegessen.
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Liebe Christine,

du kommst nach Singapur? Wunderbar! Ich will mit dir eine Singapur Stadtrundfahrt machen. Unsere Singapur Stadtrundfahrt ist die Singapur-Exkursion für einen Tag.

Um 8.00 Uhr fahren wir mit der MRT zum Chinatown Bahnhof. Wir können im Hong Lim Complex früstücken. Vom Chinatown Bahnhof gehen wir zu Fuß Upper Cross Street entlang. Hong Lim Complex ist hier links. Das dauert etwa sechs Minuten.

Dann machen wir thematische Stadtführungen für Chinesische kultur in Singapur. wir besichtigen das Chinatown Heritage Center und bummeln durch Mosque Street und sehen einen Flohmarkt in Temple Street. Dann gehen wir zum Redenzvous Hotel für die Mittagspause.

Vom Rendezvous Hotel gehen wir zum Peranakan Museum. Das Peranakan Museum hat eine interessante Ausstellung über die Peranakan kultur. In Singapur gibt es viele prominente Peranakan. Du kannst Peranakan Bücher kaufen hier.

Vom Rendezvous Hotel gehen wir geradeaus die Bras Basah Road entlang. SMU ist in der ersten Straße rechts. SMU ist eine Universität in Singapur. Dann gehen wir an der SMU vorbei bis zur Kreuzung. Hier rechts ist Stamford Road. Gehen wir Stamford Road entlang für zehn Minuten bis zur Kreuzung. Hier links ist Armenian Street und das Peranakan Museum ist in der ersten Straße rechts.

Von 18.00 Uhr fahren wir mit dem Taxi nach Orchard Road einkaufen und Abendbrot essen. Da sind viele Restaurants und Kneipen entlang Orchard Road.

Wie findest du das?

Herzliche Grüße,
SaffronSaris
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It's been a year

Dear K,

How has it been?
For this past year, I'm been half-expecting you to come online on MSN like you'd always did.
If I could turn back the clock, maybe I would be a really bad person and tell you to leave instead of being sucked into that horrible hole.
Maybe if you had taken the time to make another phonecall to one of your close friends, things might have changed so completely.

I never found out what your favourite flowers were, so I've got you candles, because they brighten up a dark night.
Maybe you'd never realised it, but you had brightened up many people's lives through your smiles and personality.

D'oh!

Hormer Simpson I most certainly am not. However I must confess to feeling rather Hormer Simpson-ish.

On Sunday, I wasn't able to catch the race on TV. On Monday, when I walked past the newstands, Jenson Button was smiling his jubilant smile at me from all the newspapers. I kid you not. The Briton's face, surrounded by jubilant Brawn employees were on ALL the front pages. So Button won the Brazilian leg, and the 2009 Driver's Championship, so I thought.

I sat down with the newspapers and read the report in greater detail. No, Jenson Button didn't win the Brazilian leg. In fact, he came in at 5th position. I picked up a couple more newspapers: respected broadsheets and free papers, all with the same screaming headlines: Button wins! I delved into the sports section and started reading about Jenson Button and Brawn's happiness at sealing up the Driver's and Constructors' Championship with 1 race left. Who won the race then?

It was not until the 2nd page of the sports section, away in a tiny corner, where I found it: Mark Webber took podium position with 1hr 32 mins and 23 sec. He also drove the fastest lap in the Brazilian race at 1min 13 secs.

I checked out F1's official website and there was all the Ra-Ra about Jenson Button and Brawn's double championship.

I have nothing against Jenson Button nor Brawn. In fact, I studied about news angles in class and totally understood what would sell newspapers. But still, shouldn't there be some precious print space devoted to the driver who actually WON that particular race? Or how about some post-race feelings of the pole starter Barichello?

D'oh!

Das Wetter ist nicht so gut

Nein, es regnet nicht, aber.....I would really have appreciated some rain in the late afternoons. For three consecutive weekends, die Sonne scheint oh-so-blazingly bright with nary a cloud in the skies. Es ist jetzt Oktober, aber die Temperatur ist mehr als 30 Grad Celsius. Das ist zu heiß!! 蒸し暑すぎるん！！！

Ich habe nicht air-conditioning during die Wochenenden, while die Sonne tries its brilliant best to fire up the bricks of the walls during the day. As the Sun sets, the bricks desperately try to lose the heat accumulated during the day, heating up mein Schlafzimmer, mein Bett, und alles andere in mein Schlafzimmer!

My head hurts, I think I've a little heat-stroke and I'm not writing very coherently here, am I?

It was surreal, to say the least.

I emerged from the Auditorium to news that earlier in the morning, a powerful earthquake with 8.3 magnitude had struck near Samoa, triggering a massive tsunami with waves 4.5m high, washing away entire villages and turning the once scenic pacific island into a horrible wasteland.
Before I could fully digest the horror of it all, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Sumatran port city of Padang while I was walking on the streets. The quake was so strong many reported feeling the effects and seeing items sway in their homes and offices. The evening tabloid papers were awashed with photos of office workers evaculating from their high-rise offices in the business district.

And the day before, Typhoon Ketsana slammed into Manila, turning the areas I was once familiar with into an unrecognisable waterland of misery and death.

30 September 2009 was a black day for SouthEast Asia, and I felt mightily upset with myself that I had even groused about lunch options while Samoa became a disaster zone.

And when I thought the waters would soon recede from Manila, Typhoon Parma swept into the Philippines, thankfully sparing Manila from another assault, although the horror in northern Philippines was no less painful.

The powers of natural disasters is frightfully scary, and natural disasters seem to be occuring with increasing frequency and intensity. What is the earth coming to?

Shamegate

Shame....on the Renault team making Singapore's 1st Grand Prix in 2008 looked at a circus on hindsight.

Shame.... on Favio Briatore and Pat Symonds, who instigated Nelson Piquat Jr to crash his car, thereby bringing out the safety car to work the race in Renault's favour.

Shame.... on Nelson Piquat Jr. What was a promising 24 year-old young man thinking of when he agreed to his bosses' instigation of staging a crash to benefit Renault?

Shame.... on F1. Why was the punishment only a slap on the wrist?

An automobile crash, no matter how skillfully executed, is dangerous, and should never have been attempted. Especially with a highly powered F1 racing car, especially on a street circuit where spectators are merely inches from the track.

Briatore and Symonds' action made a mockery of Alonso's victory (resulting in a very disgruntled Nico Rosberg who continues to insist HE won the Singapore Grand Prix instead) and ruined their reputation steering one of the stronger F1 teams.

And Hamilton takes the pole to the end

Finally, Lewis Hamilton is starting to look like the brilliant driver he was in last year's season.

Starting from pole position, Hamilton steered beautifully on a narrow street circuit which made over-taking tricky business. Nico Rosberg, starting behind Hamiliton, almost gave the Briton a run for his money, but a silly mistake while exiting the pit-stop put paid to the German's chance of a podium finish.

I saw a banner proudly proclaiming "Uniquely Singapore" and had to stop sniggering. It was indeed "uniquely singapore" where for the 2nd time, another driver (from Red Bull? I forgot the name) tried to drive off with the fuel hose still attached to the car. Thankfully, he didn't zoom off like Massa did last year, although the poor technician was knocked to the ground.

Still Timo Glock had a really good race, quite unexpectedly good, in my opinion.

And the grapevine has it that drivers are changing teams next season. I'm soooo looking forward to some vroom from Kubica. His car has totally failed him this season :(

Read more about the F1 here.

Meine Hausaufgaben....mehr

Guten Tag! Ich heiß SaffronSaris und komme aus Blogger. Das ist in Blogland. In Blogger man spricht viele Sprachen Englisch, Chinesisch, Deutsch, Japanisch... Aber ich spreche drei sprachen Englisch, Chineseisch und Japanisch.

Ich spreche auch ein bisschen Deutsch and studiere Deutsch im Goethe-Institut jeder Samstag von halb drei bis Viertel vor sechs seit Juni 2009. Jeder Samstag ich fahre zwanzig Minuten mit der S-bahn zur Goethe-Institut.

Ich bin am 20.02.1990 geboren und woher in Blogger. Mein Hobby ist Reise und ich war schon dreimal in Japan am Frühling, Herbst und Winter. Ich finde Sakura in Japan sehr schön. Ich möchte auch in Deutschland mit dem Zug reise.

Ich wohne in eine Wohnung in einem Hochhaus. Meine Wohnung ist in der dritten Etage und hat 6 Zimmer: ein Wohnzimmer, ein Schlafzimmer, zwei Kinderzimmer, eine küche and ein Badezimmer. Meine Wohnung ist nicht groß, aber es ist ziemlich ruhig. Das finde ich gut für studiere.