Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival, Vienna
yupp, this post is dedicated to the trip!
but let me digress a little first :D
went for cellgrp meeting and pohchoo's water baptism td (saturday)! and i really felt whoooooooooooo! so loved by God! heh i miss church!
wellowship was only with 5 people, including myself, so we went somewhere comfortable and centralised. din tai fung @ raffles city! haha it was a hearty meal and, yeah i enjoyed wellowship
:D
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wehhhhh, i haven't update on vienna trip. i'm kinda lazy t do so actually. well, all in all, i enjoyed myself, though when we were at vienna, we didn't had time to shop cos of the competition and celebration rehearsals. lucky we had time in saluzburg!
alright, i guess i've finally decided to post up everything at one go LOL initially i wanted to post a few pics only, but why not just do everything?! lol
past few days i was too lazy to do so, that's why this post came a little overdue LOL *caution: highly overloaded with pictures! read the words toooooo laaaa! :D
btw, captions are all under the photos so, don't get the wrong captions for the wrong photos!
NYPSO at Singapore Changi Airport, waiting to depart! we were trying to take a proper group photo haha

efore we board the plane. at the "tunnel" to the plane
on the flight t London!!!

at the london airport, T3, after touchdown.
the london airport staff didn't let us take photos of the airport, but i guess, we still secretly took some! LOL
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whoooooo, part of the band with edelwise!

while waiting for our turn to check through the transit "customs".
at the transit area! flutes plus oboes!

while waiting for the airport to "flash" our gate number at the screen. bahhhhhhhhh they took just a long time to show and open the gate!

cute toddler we met at the transit area
FINALLY! we reached
vienna! and yupp! we got down the plane by that staircase. haha first time in my life! i guess it's because the airport ain't big? or maybe because it's alr late at night?

this is our room for
one night at the
Euro Hotel. yupp short isn't it? apparently we were told that it's the vienna airport hotel but it was still quite a distance fr the airport LOL. the next day we moved to another hotel, called
Academia Hotel, which was quite eeeeeerie :/
strange things happened when we were staying at
Academia Hotel. brrrrrrr the thought of it, makes me don't wanna think about it HAHAA i preferred the first hotel to the second one!

before we went down for breakfast. i kinda love my hair that day LOL
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my first breakfast at vienna! we had the
same kind of breakfast for the next 6 to 7 days -.-
a horse carriage! yeah, they still use this kinda transport device! but it was more of a tourist attraction cos i heard it's quite expensive. but oh well, it made the whole street stink of
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wahahahahah some random signage. i actually stole this from cheryl! :/
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rehearsal for competition! at the
University of Music! the strings had no rehearsals that day, so they got to have free time to walk around while we rehearsed hard!!! ):
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another rehearsal pic

buildings outside the university

buildings outside the university

gay partners at work! lol it was lunch break for the band, our first lunch in vienna.
Musikverien in the day!

random building

some kind of transport. looks like a monorail lol

another transport. i think this is more like a tourist thingy, like singapore's ducktour, hippotour kinda stuff i guess..

at the festival's opening ceremony! everyone was tired, some were dozing off :/

if i'm not wrong, this is called the St Stephen's Cathedral.
dinner time! our first dinner in vienna. lol some asian restaurant set up by a family from china. ehhhhh the food kinda suck. some chicken were not fully cooked, we could see the blood :/
and the rice was...... overcooked. got chao ta smell
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flute section! before the competition. whoooooo NERVOUS
eugene low and i, after the competition, while waiting for others to load their instruments to the truck.. LOLOLOL
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after the competition, back at the university of music, while waiting for our workshop to start.
flute section w mr leonard tan! 
eh han, not young anymore hor, don't make fun of me!

uncle han (:
heh! *inside joke
NYPWO!since they like to label themselves as nypwo :/
that's us while waiting for the next music lecturer to come in.

random building

random building. ain't their architecture
B-E-A-UTIFUL?!
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hahah!
spot me! if you can!

wehhhhhh
handsome waiter! we were having our lunch in some restaurant after our orchestra rehearsal. yeah, that's how busy we are. NO TIME TO SHOP IN VIENNA!!!!
and we thought the trombone pang-seh us for lunch so we went without them. when we return then they ask where we go! lol they were waiting for us initially!

that's alvin and me!

and this's benny and me!
waiting toooo long for our food, we got bored.

next stop!
some fellow's castle lol! it was an attraction and we were on some kind of a city tour. i can't rmb whose castle is it lol but mozart visited the place before!

sar and me. i kinda like this pic. abstract! lol
jump! yeah, my dear jiahui said i looked squashed between the guys. like wanna fly but can't fly! haha
next up: some jump shots! looks very sequential lol
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jump 1
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jump 2
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jump 3
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jump 4
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jump 5
finally we managed to jump! and mr tan wasn't jumping at all -.- yeah, i'm short lol!
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jump 6
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jump 7
amelia and me (:

nice scenary huh?

the
summer palace of don't know who haha
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dinner at some wine restaurant. and this the time when they annouced that
NYPWO WON THE COMPETITION!!!!

after the orchestra performance at the celebration concert. having lunch while waiting for us to go in for the Gala Winners' Concert.
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during the
Gala Winners' Concert (:
can you see me?
Musikverien at night (:
B-E-A-UTIFUL

at the
Gala Winners' Dinner!this is some girl i know while waiting for our turn t perform previously at the Gala Winners' Concert. heh she's a malaysian studying at an australian school!

mr tan and the organiser of the SCL festival

maynard, phileo, hongyee and me. yeahhhhh maynard is TALLLLL

one of our tour guide! his name is
karl. both tour guides followed us throughout the whole trip!

next stop:
Saluzburg! on our wayyyyy

scenaries on our wayyyy

at some garden which was supposingly a scene in the musical,
Sound of Music

that's jonathan, jason, me and zihui

at some catholic church in saluzburg

a view outside the church

hongghee and i outside the
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we played pool at the hotel in saluzburg! oh oh oh! the hotel at saluzburg was the best out of the 3 hotels we stayed at! too bad we were only there for about 2 nights. lol

at the bus stop opposite our hotel the next morning. we were waiting for
bus 4 to go to the town area to
SHOP!!!:D

that's us on the bus!

some random dude that we bought things from at the town area.

this's the guy who did the art work!
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outside saluzburg's supermart LOL

our last night at saluzburg! before that we had a performance at the catholic church mentioned previously. it was a kinda music festival to thank God for our talents.
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wahhhhhhhhhhh
B-E-A-UTIFUL scenary taken from our hotel window!!

on the way back to vienna to catch our flight ):

while waiting at london for all our luggages and instruments.
yeah that marks about the end of the trip. everyone's missing austria! the life there seems so great! but i guess it's partly because we knew that we will come back and suffer with tons of projects and mountains of work that's why we were all sad to leave.
but i guess, it's okay!
at least we experienced the life there! wheeeeeeeeee and best of all, we may get to go WMC next year, even for the yr 3s! go as alumnus loh! save money now! :D
we really had lots of fun although some times there are some crop ups here and there. but overall, yeah! fun!
imagine you get the chance t go to vienna while our school mates are mugging in schooool! but well of cos, aft we gave back, we kinda suffered? with all the work overloading nad overflowing over our heads lol
i freaking got freaked out by my PEM pleaseeeeeeeeee. he told my grp mates that he will be asking only ME questions during our monday presentation's Q&A session. mannnnnnnnn he said he wanted to test our grp's coordination while i was away. in the end, he only asked some of us qns -.- but, thank God for that!
okayyy, it's like late, or is it early? lol!
4.56am in the morning! i gotta slp and wake up early to do projs again!
and tri reminded me tht i've yet to post my entry on Singapore Flyer that happened before i flew to vienna lol! next time next time then post!
p.s. many other photos of the trip will be posted to my shutterfly asap! i've still got a lot of photos with other people! i took pictures with the coach drivers who made me look super duper like a hobbit between them! LOLOLOL
watch out for my shutterfly!!!
the link can be found at the right column of my blog :D
BYE.
i had great fun and i'm missing austria! i wanna go back to Saluzburg!