Kehidupan Perantau

its saturday afternoon and i havnt done anything much. i made myself lunch though. egg sandwich. i planned to do laundry but i dont haf 3 pieces of 5ocents. so there goes my laundry for the week. im scared to go down to the basement to do my laundry alone anyway. so since the others are still snoring away, im sitting in front of my laptop chatting with my loved ones.

since i have nothing much to do, so ill tell about this place here. its much differnt than back home. it makes me miss home much. and my mum n sister. i cried reading changis blog just now. so silly girl. badan jak besa, ati kedak taufu fah. hahha. well, its not wrong to have a soft side. just to know the right time to show it.

culturally, its totally the opposite in this land. most of us got a shock the first time we landed in the Frankfurt airport. the toilet is equipped with a condom vending machine. usually back home it will be the sanitary pad machine but here its different. Asian culture is not so open about sex and stuff but well, welcome to Europe. its tag line was "makes enjoyment better" or something like that. wad the?? there is even an erotic party advertised publicly. VERY eye-catching. it also comes with porn stars. err.. OK.. God please guard my heart!

talking about Germany, cars will surely come in mind. yeap. they have whatever series of BMW and Mercedes here. its like looking at Proton back home. very common. the only Japanese car i see often is the Toyota Yaris. Besides that, the list is topped by Opel, Porsche and VW. Call this place high-tech huh. very. people here are left side drivers so everything is on the opposite side. even the road is terbalik. so i have to really watch out while crossing. pening aku. being a 'maju' land its brands are famous worldwide. but here its cheap. so i get to use Schwarzkopf shampoo which only hair professionals use back home. hehe. siap can cuci jamban.

everything is so precise here. the timetable for the bus says 1:08pm. and exactly it comes at the exact time. well Malaysian time is only 5 minutes or consequent. 1:08 means 1:10pm. but here, every minute and second counts. the professor enters class 2 minutes earlier and exactly at 8:30am, the class immediately starts. its like whoa..

people here are very friendly. its not normal back home to greet everyone you meet but here, they greet everyone that walks past them. odd eyh? when we go down to town, its quite quite unless the sun shines brightly. i feel very funny here when i see cars with loud music and teens going around with techno music. i still have the mindset that its only the 'ah-bengs' that do that. i should always remind myself that techno comes from the west, not east. ministry of sound and so on. ;)

despite being so high tech, people here appreciate visual art and stuff like that. yesterday in town they had something like a street art festival. there's tight-rope, jokers, people walking on stilts, a street band and stuff like that. of course im excited about it because im interested in it. hehe. so i went running from one show to another. then my friends had to follow behind. hehe.

so a new place gives me something new. now, this is my life as a 'perantau'.