the flight to Berlin was about an Hour..
was flamished by the time i reached Berlin..
bought a yummy hot dog for 2 euro...in the metro station...
one thing that is different from Singapore is that, they allow food on the metro...



Our hostel


our room was 32 mixed bed bunks...like army style...
and it was our meeting place...
Duan, Yong, Jackson, Rong wei, Shun Hong was staying in the 32 bed bunks room too...they went out clubbing...
me and mindy slept like a pig... too tired to even call and ask where were they...
I chose a good bed...like a pent house..the ceiling above my bed was a glass panel.. good view of the sky...

ZZzzzz
ok to introduce some new friends i made

left to right: ROng Wei, Duan, Yong ,Shun Hong...
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Next morning 30 March 07
In the morning we checked out of the hostel cos we r intending to crash in together with those Guys at night...felt that's it's quite stupid to stay another night since of train to Prague for the next day was early in the morning...
we reckon that there's gonna be some empty bed in he 32bed bunk...and yeah we were right...and no we are not cheap skate...hahahaha

The guys surprised us with this:

yeah!!! made my day...


woke up rather early, went shopping...my first stop





I bought 2 pairs of birkys as i had mentioned earlier, one for me and one for Charmaine(my bro's gf in case anyone forgets)... it's my first pair..
i am going back to Berlin in June..should I waste money an but another pair??
The one I bought was only 20 euro compared to those in Singapore which cost about 40 euro or perhaps more....*thinking*....ok the weight of my luggage will decide....

Cars...





Anyway, we had subway for lunch...


Some interesting stuff that i noticed...


the traffic man wears a German Hat..


At about 1pm, we stood in front of the Brandenburger Tor, also known as the Brandenburg Gate, for free city tour...

This is our tour guide... he is from England..Studying in Berlin...

his shirt wrote" New Munich Tour"

But he was giving us a BERLIN TOUR....hahaha

Anyway, the dome behind him was the Glass Dome of Reichstag..some political builiding...

The track pointed by the red arrow below is the track of the Berlin wall
Ok here comes my history lesson again...
Berlin wall was a long stretch of wall that separates the East and the West Berlin. This wall was built in one night, ok maybe a few nights, but the important details was it was a sudden decision to build this wal..
The reason was because the Educate people from East Berlin kept going to the West Berlin and so there was more efflux then influx....in crude terms, all the smart ppl went to West of Berlin so the East Berlin ppl Buay Song... wanted to Keep them from the West Berlin..West Berlin was also the route to other parts of the world...
Very bad right...it's like if u r from West Berlin and suddenly the next morning you found that u no longer can go back to the West.. Isolated, sad case...so guess u have no choice but to stay in the East for the next decades..:P
The below pic showed the remains of the Berlin wall..

the edge of the wall was made of rubber tubings so that it's harder or almost impossible for the ppl to climb across...it was said that's Barbed wires are probably easier to climb over then rubber tubings..

and the ironic thing was that the Rubber tubings was imported from the West Berlin (more affluent than East Berlin) and it was the people from East Berlin whom wants to isolate themselves.




If u really must pass to the other side of the West Berlin, u will have to explain ur reasons to the soldier at the CHECKPOINT CHARLIE



This is Bebelplatz..


In front of this site was a library...and next to it was a church
what's so interesting about this place was that it was the site of the Nazis' first book-burning on 10 May 1933...
the top right picture is a transparent glass on the ground.. it's not very clear though..but underneath this glass are empty book shelves.. again to remind oneself of the importance of books...
the glass is reflective and so one can see his own reflection...this again shows the significance of self reflection..i hope i didnt forget what the tour guide said though...if i am wrong, just ignore ok ...hehehe

The French(Franzosischer Dom) and the German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom)


This is the French Cathedral ...hmmm.. or the German Cathedral...
I am not sure cos they looked exactly the same and both are facing each other...

anyway to it's right is the Konzerthaus=Concert Hall


and to the right of this concert hall is the other cathedral



Here's the story, one cathedral built first..i think was the French Cathedral and again the German Buay Song so they built another one for the Germans...
hehehe

The Berliner Dom




behind this dom is the Tv tower,shown by the green arrow below.
if u r observant enough, we will see that the top of the Dom is not a cross...
so where is the cross??

the cross is on the ground beside the Dom, shown by the red arrow...
apparently the cross was too heavy and unstable to be mounted onto the DOM..
I dunno if the tour guide was Siao Kianing us but he said that the monuments of the DOM appeared green cos Hilter loved all the monuments and he didnt them to be destroyed by the Bombs..so he kept all the monuments in a safe place...after war, these statues was taken out again and place back on to the original area of the DOM...hmm....
So Hitler thought Non-living things (Monuments) was more importance then the lives of Human....??!!!!

Anyway Hitler commited Suicide...

..under these apartment...in the underground bunk...


The Memorial To the Murdered Jews of Europs






Attentive students


after the city tour, we continued walking around Berlin..
had dinner







At night we had Pub Crawl...nothing interesting i would say, just some free Vodka orange... went around the pubs in Berlin for free and between each stop, they will give out free shots of Vodka orange..i dun drink so...Boring for me la..