just another personal blog of a bisdak
Not sure if other grade schools organize similar activity but ours do. Every year. And we always participate together as a family. It is after all a family hiking day or Familienwandertag. Germans do love to connect words together. 😵💫 Basically, we set up a meeting place for us to drive to and park our…
We had big plans today that involved hiking and exploring the beach area, metro hopping, etc etc. But everyone is feeling jet-lagged still and was awake by 11 only. Then it was raining cats and dogs so we spent the early afternoon sweating at the UpWall in Downtown East instead. First of all, it seems…
Finally able to make use of flight and hotel vouchers that was booked since 2019. So for the Autumn school break, we are in Thailand for 2 weeks. Currently we are in Pattaya staying at Avani Pattaya Resort. I was able to find a promo rate of 160 Euro per night for a Family room…
One thing a tourist can do in Singapore when it’s raining hard is to go metro hopping that ends at the Jewel in Singapore’s airport. That thing is cool. Like really cooling the place down with all that water falling and the green plants all over the area. What I find more interesting is seeing…
I went nuts this morning when girl said she cannot play a song if there is no number on it. WTF?!? 🤬 So I went over their notes. Left is violin notes and right is piano notes. Boy is learning how to read music notes and what the symbol means and how to be aware of…
There are 20,000+ castles, palaces and ruins in Germany. And one of them is Castle Hartenfels in Torgau which has been around since 1500. It used to be a one rectangle building only but it was attacked, rebuilt, burned, rebuilt, modernized until what we see nowadays. Not all castles/palaces are maintained in Germany because that…
Search for “castle” in google map and Sachsen or Saxony, the region where I am in, does not disappoint. So when we had spring-like weather in February (Sunny @ 18C), we went out on a day trip. First stop is Karl’s Erdbeerhof which we love by the way. Parking is free and there is a…
We were watching a netflix magic show of Justin Willman and one of the episodes is moving a shopping cart behind the car if the shopping cart was not returned properly. And there are a lot of people who just leave the cart after using it as if expecting someone to come and pick it…
