Came back...

I have came back to my home town, Malaysia. It's hard to get used to it, once you are in a foreign country for 3 years. So the policies, hygiene, I'm not used to it. Even the language I'm not used to.



So there's a lot of diffrence between Europe and Asia. It's hard to get used to it. But in a while, You wouldn't want to go back to the place where you were staying years ago. I guess once you stayed at a place for days, you would think it as your home. So home isn't that boring, you can do a lots of revising and playing outside, even using the computer.

Do not think Europe's adventure has ended, (psst, there are still 20 countries to be written)

Home town of Josef Lada- Hrusice

Have you ever read the book 《The Good Soldier Svejk》 ? If you had ever read it, you must know the writer Jaroslav Hasek. But did you ever knew the book's illustrator Josef Lada? If you don't, this is what we are going to talk today, But mainly about his hometown- Hrusice.

Josef was born 17 December 1887 in Hrusice - 14 December 1957 in Prague, Josef and Hasek are very close freinds, and his name is known because of illustraiting the book 《The Good Soldier Svejk》.

The city Hrusice treats Josef like a celebrity. You can find at least 1 picture of his drawings almost 1 every km. of course, at parks, boards, sometimes even at menus and restraunts you can find his pictures. They even had his own musuem! Let me show you pictures.

Rust- The town of Storks

I went to the city of Rust, which some of the houses rusts(not really). But this is not the main point. When I looked up the sky, There were many storks resting in their nests, but it's not at the trees, it's on the chimneys!







Luckily those 'volcanos' aren't active anymore. If they are, those eggs up there would be scrambled in less then a hour. I saw that those stork have a 'sea' of their own. People protected a lake only for storks which contained lots of fish that they can enjoy. Some storks stand very still. They stand without moving that you can't tell if it's reallife or fake.







So why are storks treated like celebrities?

In Western culture the White Stork is a symbol of childbirth. In Victorian times the details of human reproduction were difficult to approach, especially in reply to a younger child's query of "Where did I come from?"; "The stork brought you to us" was the tactic used to avoid discussion of sex. This habit was derived from the once popular superstition that storks were the harbingers of happiness and prosperity, and possibly from the habit of some storks of nesting a top chimneys, down which the new baby could be imagined as entering the house.

Since Austria was Western, This myth was believed.



So long!

Boxes!

Boxes, boxes, boxes on the floor,

Boxes besides my bedroom door.

Something tells me I have to leave,

Cause there is no books, no toys, nothing to see!





This poem is written by me. You get what is going on. I'm going back to my own country, and I have to say farewell to Czech republic forever (thats what I think). So the family has to pack and there is nothing to do accept for TV , Computer and some reading on boring magazines.



Days left to the country: 16

Chocolate Musuem Prague

So, At my journey to Prague I stopped by to go to the Musuem of Chocolate, which is one of my favourite food. That musuem is opened by people who work at the chocolate musuem at Belgium. Then again,This is not just a musuem which just shows choclate bars, But it is a extreme musuem with various collections of choclate, cool info, and best of all, free chocolate samples!

So I walked in the rainforest of cacoa which was not even 1m far and tons of information about chocolate(the info comes at next paragraphs). Then there was a table which showed lots of accesories for chocolate. Then,(Best Part) I went to the counter and get to see how to make chocolate and got chocolate sample, and get to watch chocolate television! After that, it's a path about sometimes chocolate is good; that's all of the muesuem!

P.S. Don't imagine it very small, I'm sure it's bigger than your garden.

Choco Facts

• Chocolate prevents cavity


• If you eat 2 pieces of dark chocolate a week, it will extend your life


• From healthiest to unhealthiest chocolate: Dark, Plain, Milk, White


• Chocolate was originally a spicy mexican drink


• Chocolate got it's name by a Spanish who can't speak Mayan well and misunderstood "choco' as hot and "late" as drink

So Long folks!

Toy Museum Prague

Yesterday, I went to the Toy Museum in Prague. It’s not a boring old museum which just displays brand new toys; it’s a museum which shows rare toys 200-50 years ago.
It contains history about toys, a special surprise on the second floor, and also animatronics!

So let’s get started!

Who says robots are war machines?

The First kind of dolls.

Farm houses from 20th century

Here comes the train!

En Garde!

Special: Barbie 50 year annivresary

Bonus: Animatronic!

Apricot Disaster

Have you eaten Apricots? Apricots are delicous aren't they? Not to mention a close friend of peach's.

But this year's Czech apricots are turning bad, by meaning bad, I mean the apricots turning black and not riping.Do you know why? It's mainly because of heavy rainfall. Not just apricots, Other fruits are getting worse, So was my apricot tree.....

Nata

Nata is a popular Portugese pastry, which was also known as Egg Tart, but Portugese do not know what is "Egg Tart".

I tried Portugese egg tart at a pastry restruant in Lisbon. Guess what? I was so addicted to it's flavour and demanded more. But after that I reached my limit. Not that I couldn't eat any more, but i am banned from eating more.

Nata is like this:

Recipe coming soon...