Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Mowing Day

Today we spend our time at home doing some housework that need to be done, is part of dl's contract to rent rooms in Johannes' house, every week dl have to do some housework for 1.5hours. So today we mow the land in Johannes' backyard... i told u, this is a big house and ppl call it Johannes' Castle... hehehee

Pic 1: Dl mowing land

Pic 2: I tried too.. all this things how can left me out wan... kakakakakaaa

Pic 3: Johannes' backyard

Pic 4: Another part of the house that they keep things in it like store house.... The whole house only have 3 ppl staying, Johannes, Kindi (Johannes' nephew) and dl...

Pic 5: Johannes' house taken from the backyard

Pic 6: After mowing the land, we need to sweep those grasses and throw them...

Pic 7: Our delicious dinner, hehehee... we have sup with ginger pork....

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Donautal (Danube River)

Papa pick us up at 1.30pm and travel for about 1 hour to Donautal to hike and enjoy the beautiful scenery there... Yes, papa alone who are still suffering from backache who still want to bless us and bring us out.... ''Lord, pls heal papa and bless papa and mama abundantly.''

Pic 1: After 10mins walk

Pic 2: The River of Danube is the second longest river in Europe. It is the only major European river to flow from west to east. It rises in Germany in the Black Forest as two smaller rivers called Brigach and Breg, which join in Donaueschingen and are called Donau henceforth, flowing south-east for a distance of about 2850 km (1770 miles), to the Black Sea in Romania where the Danube Delta is.

The Danube is an important international waterway. It flows through nine countries (Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine), with tributary rivers in seven other countries. It flows through the following large cities:

  • Ulm - Germany
  • Vienna - Austria
  • Bratislava - Slovakia
  • Budapest - Hungary
  • Belgrade - Serbia
  • Braila - Romania

The Danube is mentioned in the title of a famous waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss, An der schönen, blauen Donau (By the Beautiful Blue Danube).

Pic 3: Another hiking day... good exercise for me... heheheee

Pic 4: Continue hiking to have another view of Danube River

Pic 5: Another view of Danube River

Pic 6: A red train is passing by the Danube River

Pic 7: A mushroom that we saw on our way back to our car after 1 hour walk...

Pic 8: Drop by to visit a Catholic church on our way to hike another hill...

Pic 9: We hike another 1 hour here at this hill to see different view of Danube River....

Pic 10: Danube River

Pic 11: Me so blessed...

Pic 12: Papa taking a rest on the hill

Pic 13: On the way back to our car, passing by a farm with cows...

Then we rush back to papa's house where mama prepared dinner for us before we go to church. That night is a presentation night for dl and gang who went to Slovakia for mission trip to present the pictures that we take and explaning it to the church members.

Pic 14: Dl's church... the pipe organ and piano

Pic 15: The pulpit

Pic 16: After presentation, packing to go home, is about 10pm already...

Pic 17: Still talking and refuse to go home.... some of the members in dl's cellgroup except Annerose.

Monday, August 29, 2005

Metzingen and Ikea

Jürgen and Beate bring us to Metzingen to shop at Esprit and Nike shop... there are a lot of branded shop there but i did not buy anything, basically can't find things i like so i didn't buy... saw a beautiful blouse in Esprit, tested it but is too big for me... clothes in Esprit and Nike there is very cheap... alot of 5€ blouses in Esprit but i didn't get them because i have a lot of blouse already... i dont need them so i didnt get loh.. hahahaa

Well, dl bought a shirt in Esprit and Puma socks. After an early shop there from 10am to 1pm, we proceed to Ikea to have lunch first. Jürgen treat us this lunch, tq Jürgen... then we continue to shop in Ikea, basically not dl and i who need to shop here but Jürgen and Beate to get a lot of stuff for their new home... We walk from 2pm to 7pm in Ikea itself... it was a tiring day, really tired of walking but dl and i had great time there, we walk and talk about things while Jürgen and Beate busy shopping for their household stuff... ahahahaa

This is a pic on the way back home after a long long shopping day... in between us is a carpet bought by Jürgen and Beate for their new home.

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Dinner at Siegfried and Annerose's home

Siegfried and Annerose invited us for dinner in their house. Those that are around the table are Siegfried, Annerose, Ankatherine (Siegfried's daughter), Marilyn (Siegfried's daughter), Michi, Johannes, Dl and i.

We had a very delicious and interesting dinner, we have a wok in the middle of the table which are heated up and each of us have a small pan. Then around the table are small pieces of ham, meats, sausages, corns, and some vegies and we are suppose to put all those small pieces of food that we like in our pan then on top of all the small pieces of food we take, we will put cheese on it and put on the wok to heat it up..... then when the cheese melted unto our food in the pan, it look like pizza... kekekkeeee

Pic 1: Fellowship around the table.

After the dinner, Siegfried and Annerose bring us around their house, their garden, their pond and see all the pets that Ankatherine have. She like animals very much just like me so im enjoying myself playing with all this animals... hehehehee...

Pic 2: This is Ankatherine's cat that sleep with her at night.

Pic 3: Playing with rats... i have the black one

Pic 4: And Ankatherine is having the white one on her shoulder

Pic 5: A ferret too... But this ferret is a bit thin because she just recover from skin desease... now is completely healed by still very thin...

Then we played with guinea pig too but i didn't take pic... wasted... heheheheee...

Well, after walking around outside their house, Annerose bring me to visit her whole house from the bottom to the top floor, it is a 3 storey house also... hhhmm, ppl in Germany likes to live in 3 storey house i think... hehehee, is a very nice house that they build themselves when they just got married 36 yrs ago... They have the land and the foundation of the house, the rest of the form, rooms, walls are build by themselves.... this is German ppl... they like to build house themselves... every typical German's aim is to build their own house.

Pic 6: Marilyn playing with her doll

That day we stayed in their house fellowshipping until 10pm then Johannes drive us home, on the way home, the sky was full of stars.... so beautiful.. When we reach home, suddenly Dl and Johannes plan to go to the top of the hill in Albstadt to look at the whole Albstadt so we went out again, had 2 mins drive up to the hill and had a night and dark walk for about 10mins up to the tower and climb the stairs in the tower to get up to the top of the tower....

Wow, beautiful scenery, with strong cold wind blowing our hair... We are at the top of Albstadt and we can see the whole Albstadt but too bad my camera can't take the pic up here because the view are too far and my camera can't focus....

Pic 7: Only manage to captured Johannes' face in the midst of darkness on top of the tower of Albstadt.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Men's fellowship in Mount Switzerland

Dl woke up at 5am today to gear up to go for mount climbing. He didn't had enough sleep because we chatted until 4am... ohhh... poor dl... They have to reach church at 6am. Dl and Johannes walk to church which is just 10mins walk from the house. They have to drive for 2+ hours to get to Switzerland.

Pic 1: View from the cable car before they start climbing.

Pic 2: All the church man climbing up to the top...

Pic 3: Beautiful view...

Pic 4: Snow on the mountain

Pic 5: Rocky steps, very hard to come down...

Pic 6: Tiring Johannes

Pic 7: Jürgen were there too...

Pic 8: The men's fellowship

Pic 9: Beautiful view

Pic 10: Moo moo...

Pic : Dl at Mount Switzerland

ps: I'm not there with them but dl told me what they did so im able to blog it out ok... hahhaaa...

Men and women's fellowship

Men has their own fellowship, church event, climbing Switzerland's mountain today and what did i do?? Oh, i went out with Beate, we have our woman's fellowship... hehehehee... firstly to mama's house for lunch. Praise the Lord that papa discharged from the hospital on Thu... so im in their family with papa, mama, Michi and Beate... hehehehe...

After lunch, Beate bring me to go for short and relax hiking somewhere which i forgotten the name... hehehee... very very nice view that i can see from that mountain.

After hiking, i went to Beate's house to helped out... ohhh, im happy that i helped her a lot with house work... helped her in putting some files at some new rack, the whole house still very messy because the renovation haven't finish yet... helped her in wiping some stuff and vacuumed her living room, study room, bedroom, entrance, toilet and kitchen.... and just help her to place things properly in the living room, now the whole living room is very tidy and not messy anymore, tmr they will have some guests so now the living room is nice and presentable... their house has 3 floors and there are so many rooms still not ready, waiting for renovation....

And guess what?? papa is there doing some work!! Oh, he is having his backpain and yet he still want to work........... hhhhmmmmmm..... no words can say.... he just can't sit still. He patched up the floor properly and did some hard work...

Beate and i had a great time together working and talking about some deep topics about marriage, the country of Germany, things in the church and some general things... great fellowship with her, she is very nice.

She send me home after light dinner at her house eating bread and sausages...

Oh, my stomach is not feeling good now because i took some milk just now.... and im tired, dl and i chatted until 4am ytd... dl wont be back so soon, received his sms, he will be back about 12am.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Kon loo mee (dry noodle)

We went to cellgroup tonite without eating dinner because we are quite full and no time to cook for dinner. Before cellgroup, we went down to the town to get some stuff.

So after cellgroup, we reach home at 10pm and dl decided to cook kon loo mee (dry noodle)... it is so yummy......... hahahahaa... with some chilis that dl made few days before, cutting those chillies into small pieces and put it into vinegar....

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Delicious meal on Wed

Today we decided to cook ABC sup, a dish of vegie and a dish of meat... simple and nice meal... Thank you Lord for your blessings everyday...

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Johannes cook

This morning, we went out shopping with Johannes buying house stock, mainly food for the whole week. Then lunch prepared by Johannes...

Pic 1: We had meat, mashed potato and some beans and carrot. Delicious meal.. hehehe...

Pic 2: Johannes and his beer

After lunch, i played computer game with dl, we played (Need for Speed, Underground 2), it is a car racing game... hahahaa.... then we cooked our dinner and play computer game again after that.....

Monday, August 22, 2005

Working day

Is Beate's offday today and we went to help her in her house doing some small work hoping that her house will be ok soon. They have to do all the renovation by themselves so i think they will take 1 year to finish the whole house. So we want to help out if we can, they are very good, they blessed us so much... we just want to help.

Before Beate fetched us to her house, we went to mama's house for lunch first.

Pic 1: We had spätzle again for lunch. Yummy...

Pic 2: Dl explaining something during the lunch...

After lunch, we went to Beate's house. Today we help to build Jürgen's office. So first we shifted out all the boxes that is in that room. Then we bring in some Ikea's racks and start to assemble them...

Pic 3: After work, Jürgen came home and showed us the better way to assemble it.

Pic 4: After assembling all the things in the office, we clean the glasses of one of the table... This word written by Jürgen.

Pic 5: Things that we assemble today, a smaller book rack and the glass table

Pic 6: And this bigger rack

After completing this office, we prepare our dinner at 8.30pm...

Pic 7: Wwwahhhh.... this is the nicest dinner i have ever had, maybe because im craving for spicy food very much and today i got to eat rice with curry mutton... ooohhhh, i tell u, i had 2 plate of rice and im enjoying my every bite...

After a full delicious dinner, we still chat and talk and laugh and listening to music and suddenly Jürgen pick Beate up and start dancing with Beate... and i go.... ooohhhh nnnnooooooo..... because dl like to dance very much so here he comes.... ohhh... nooo..... dancing with meee..... oohhhhhh...... but we enjoyed ourselves while Jürgen coaching us how to dance waltz, tango, and 2 more other dance...

Pic 8: Waltz

Pic 9: Waltz

Pic 10: Forgotten the name of this dance... but we learn it so seriously while Jürgen imparted to us his dancing course that he learn for 3 years

Pic 11: AArrrhhh... wrong steps again.... hahahahaaa

That night we dance until 11pm and Jürgen send us back, it was a real tiring day for him and he need to go to work tmr at 7am...

Thank you Lord this blessed day that we can help them with their house.