Herzlich Willkommen in Wien, Raphlin!

Cheers! My first trip this year, my fifth in my lifetime. Welcome to Vienna! The last time I was here was about four years ago. This is by far the longest I haven't been here. 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005. Uh-oh, I could be wrong. I just felt like it was a long time. In any case, it's been a week already spent in an almost foreign land. I might need to backtrack a few days.



17-Jan, Saturday
Negative 2 degrees Celsius. It's a freezing afternoon at Vienna International Airport. My dad and my brother came to fetch us. Our small apartment unit was a mess when we arrived. We're doing a home makeover. What in the world is jet lag? I ignored that term for a while because definitely I'm not supposed to have one when every thing at home is not in place. So before hitting the sack, we made sure that SOME things were put in place especially the living room cabinet that we had to assemble.

18-Jan, Sunday
With our newly made-over home, this is my new personal space.




19-Jan, Monday
I woke up as soon as everybody did. One by one, I sent my parents off to work and my brother off to school. I'm home alone. Yes, the same old feeling in our QC apartment unit. Feels good.

20-Jan, Tuesday
Dad left me something to do today. He's tasked me to organize sewing stuffs into the brand new sewing box.



After accomplishing my task for the day, I immediately grabbed a plate for my much-awaited breakfast and devoured my sandwich and pasta. Yummy.


22-Jan, Thursday
Time for winter wardrobe shopping! Yiha! My brother volunteered to be my shopping buddy. Aw...how sweet. Haha. We went to Vienna's famous shopping street, Mariahilferstrasse, which is just a few blocks away from home. It's definitely a pain in my a** to buy clothes that I'm not used to wear. We spent more or less two hours trying to find a decent jacket and a pair of boots (yes, boots!!). But at the same time, it's equallt fun to try on these kinds of clothes. My mom gave us a hundred euro to spend. We ended up spending a hundred and forty for two jackets and a pair of boots. Stores close at 7 or 8pm so we just got whatever we saw at the last minute. Whew!


.Raph.