Feldberg!

..::*+ Small Talk +*::..

Sometimes it IS provocative, but one doesn’t realize that. I wonder what’s the motive of that alone. Not that you won a lottery or something.

But apart from that, this week has been quite tiring, especially fell sick on days which I wasn’t supposed to. Hrmm.

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So on the Friday evening of last last week, 20.08.2010, we had our stuffs packed and went to Karlsruhe-Durlach to stay at Jia Jin’s place. We had good, snoring sleep, which everyone complained about. And the next day early morning we headed to Feldberg. Imagine we had to wake up around 5am just to get prepared up… sweat.

Okay you might ask why Feldberg? It is because Feldberg is the highest point of the Black Forest.

But anyway, we arrived at our destination around 9am if not mistaken. Hmmm, what was so nice about Feldberg? it has the geographically highest train station in Germany. 967 meters above sea level wow.

See how nice the sky was! How I wish that nowadays we still can have this kind of weather. But really, praise the Lord for such a wonderful weather!

So we started our hiking journey. We talked, we snapped photos, and we chatted. The scenery was very very awesome and I couldn’t stop but to admire how great our Creator is. At first we walked thru some forest area. Quite dark and my camera didn’t really able to capture enough lights. But the pictures are still awesome!

nice flower can.

Well well, it’s even better if you come to see it yourself! Anyway, after a while walking, we came to the Feldsee. It’s a lake, but with nice scenery!

These 5 pictures… ummmm, you stitch it yourself, then you’ll get a nice view of it =) Well, it’s not just a lake, but also a small river flowing AWAY from the lake. So the question is, how the lake gets its water?

      

After a short distance walking we came to ermmm… a big open area and some weird carvings and some huts.

 

   

We had our rest at a restaurant-hut nearby.

wise man with magazine and a slice of cake and a cup of cappuccino. what else more you can get?

what is this…? cow with a pig head?

 

 

     

   

As you can see, from open area we went into forest again, across rivers and waterfalls….

 

king of the world, I supposed. Haha.

and we came out from the forest!

 

we had our lunch before climbing the hill. But hey, the käsespätzle was AWESOME, apparently they use Bergkäse, a kind of cheese from mountain? lol.

 

 

 

And we saw our destination, far away.

 

 

Finally, at local time 1400h something, we reached the peak of Feldberg!

The thing is, according to James’s shadow, the sun is shining from the ‘süd’ direction, which means south. So who says sunset is at west? =S

If you go up the tower, you’ll then be officially at the highest point of Feldberg, but who cares? lol.

mooo, but poor cows cannot touch the electrified wire. Jonathon’s camera touched the wire. Maybe it’d improve the potential of the camera? haha.

 

This is not German Black Forest Cake, schwarzwäldischer Kirschtorte.

After that we went back to our starting point, by that time we were a little tired.

     
poser haha.

We got ourselves some souvenirs, which I couldn’t find my spoon, again. Anyway, we waited for the bus and headed to Titisee.

       

I want to play water! Haha, but anyway, we took the boat pedaling thingy and went for 30mins ride. I didn’t capture anything using my Sony, ‘cuz I used James’s better camera.

But anyway, after that we had ice-cream and went back.

The train station is sorta quite high place as well.

*m. ü. M. means meter über das Meer, meter over sea level

Tata! Hope you enjoyed this. It has been a while since my last photo-update right? I’ll try to come out more pictures okay? hehe.

The world we to choose

I felt guilty. =S

we are the first generation forced to find a balance between letting technology improve our lives, or risk allowing it to dominate us. Whatever you choose, remember, in this game, you only get one life,

Busy busy busy busy busy

After some complaints by my brother, I decided to give Blogspot's Template Designer another try. The last time I tried and it wasn't so appealing like my previous designs, despite the control over the flexibility of the blog is easier. But it's not that I know zero about HTML-codes so oh well.

But this time I decided to give it another go, and well, you can rate it yourself, and don't forget to leave some comments on it. I'll find some day to improvise the layout but I've already officially ended my summer break.

Yesterday went to find 2 of my professors to discuss about the possibilities to start my "Laborarbeit" and "Semesterarbeit". Okay sorry if you don't understand those two terms and I don't really know how to translate them into english, but I guess the nearest words are "laboratory projects" and "Semester project"? It's not one-to-one translation though.

The discussion went great: We discussed about the possibilities of still getting an internship, and about the projects. Both professors had agreed to joint and supervise me, covering 2/3 (still undecided) Laborarbeit and my Semesterarbeit into one big project. So far I have only given the Semesterarbeit, which is about converting analogue voltage into digital and display on BASYS-Board and then convert back to analogue voltage and then as input for an automatic control system.

So my Semesterarbeit is the conversion parts;

Laborarbeit Digitaltechnik is the display on BASYS-Board;

and Laborarbeit Regelungstechnik, and possibly Laborarbeit Antriebe, is the automatic control system.

It means there'll be tons of works starting from today, not to mention some other new subjects that I have to take in this coming semester, but working with those two deep-experienced professors just make me smile :) 

Busy weeks ahead, or I should say busy semester ahead, but actually I'm quite looking forward to it. Mixing with smart/genius people just make me feel smarter/ more genius. 

Until then~ Oh, I'll upload some pictures (finally) of my Feldberg, Titisee in Freiburg trip soon. If you can't wait, go to my Facebook photos and view it yourself :)

Starcraft II best replay

因为时间可以冲淡一切。


不过，开心是由自己创建。

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updates~

"You have changed!"

A line I heard from a deary friend.

It made me wonder though,

The sort of changes I have made,

Both actively and passively.

A stream of thoughts flooded me,

A little panic, a little worried,

"Am I... am I...?"

A little shower cleared the mist.

It's not because I do not see you as a friend,

but I no longer see you as a must-be-head-down-with-respect older people;

It's not because I see you all not competitive against me,

but I realize what I should be competing against/with;

It's not because I am egoistic,

but because I want to boost my confidence in doing stuffs;

But then again, I realized that life needs a purpose, a goal, a direction,

Chinese wise said that " 言必信，行必果 ", which means, words must be trust-able, act must be determined.

And I lack of that determination. Drastic changes might come along, but I want this determination; determination to do things, and persevere on whatever choices I have made. I have been always having the thoughts 'what if...', like;

"what if one day I were to find a better job?"

"what if I didn't get accepted for this scholarship?"

"what if I didn't break up with her?"

"what if I God wants to do something greater in me?"

"what if I gone into learning music, my talents would be in better use than studying engineering?"

But in the end, I find that I can start doing something, I can start up a hobby, an interest, a plan, or anything, I can do it well at the beginning, or having the so called beginners' luck. But in the end, after listed down of those that I've done, I find that I like things to have good start, good kick off. Else I would just restart the whole thing if can. And thus I'll be having a great beginning, but as things getting more complicated, and my luck starts to dry out, I would just give up and leaving things undone.

Because I lack the determination to push on. I'm still not knowing how to pump in the ignition fuel, but I want to find out the ingredients that will season my life with tastes.

Just some random update of my brain.

updates

well, it has been quiet for quite some times here.

Target for this new coming quarter:
1. cut down interests
2. sell away all the unnecessary
3. concentrate on studies, reduce hobbies to hobby
4. find a job.

Argh. Far-fetch'ed ain't unreachable. Have been telling myself that.

Talents vs. non-talents.

smart vs. stupid.

Yet, still finding. Still searching. It can't be. It must be.

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Have been talking to friends and they all are coming to Europe for visits. Hope to see those faces again. It has been long time since we all last met. I wonder how everyone has changed?