Estonia, Tallinn Day 1

The Danish Delights Yh n SY arrived on thurs night to helsinki, finland. Upon arrival, we took a picture with this lovely girl who had a cat on her head and a dog on the leash..

then we started walking around Helsinki. We only made it to the Tuomiokirkko [the Lutheran Cathedral] before we were overcome by hunger and cold. Of course, the DDs could not take the cold as compared to the strong Finnish Fantasies. Compare the night shots with the day 3 shots of the same church.

After a Macdonald meal AND a HEsburger Meal, KSY finally called it a day and went back to room 301 to loot my snacks and chicken. B4 that, We went over to JF's room to have an intellectual discussion on SY's master thesis and review up some Nanyang Poly's assignment before we moved the sofa into my room. After a couple of X-japan songs and some 'heart-to heart' talk til 6 .. AZURECHIM!, we only slept 3 hrs before being woken up to miss the bus and catch the 2nd bus..then we 'ran' to the railway station n ate bread on the way! It was akin to amazing race... we had to run so far to Viking line, then have to queue up for tickets then go thru customs still need to queue... I was so afraid that we would miss the ferry cos' when we started queuing for tix, the ferry was scheduled to leave in 10 mins.. well the ferry left 20 mins late and Swaykia 'rds' of the trip Yh (who lost a FX8 in the trip) was the last one to board! We went on board the Viking line ship called Rosella. It was very crowded and there were no places to sit so we took a couple of pictures of the scenery b4 finding a place to lie around and interact with our newfound frens from tampere. Sabri, Ah Soon, Juan, Lisa, Jenny, Amy, Eliz, Nathan.. a mix of msian n HK n sg..



After disembarking DDFF went to collect the keys from keytravel, dirtying the floor in the process while the others went to look for the hostel itself.. Despite making an extra one hr trip to get the keys, we were still earlier than the other group who lost their way.. We were told it was room 21 but when we tried the key we could not open the door.. it was damn funny scenario.. imagine in spore, some bangladeshi worker try to open ur door wif some key and cant but 5 mins later his fren also tries the same thing.. hence the old lady at home shouted at us.. i bet she was scared stiff and prob armed herself wif a shotgun or something.. We called up the travel agency and was told it was room 22 instead.. The place was very nice and our beds look so so homely and it was only 10 euro per nite.. therefore we put down our stuff and went out to look for the rest. We spotted them in the streets and then brought them to eat at Hesburger where we met our 1st (and ONLY) frenly Estonian guy Jeremy who was at the counter talking to his ex gf and it was his bday.. He was going for some drinks and then to this men's party.. We talk until like his brother/comrade cos his english was very good. After that, we went to the nearby shopping centre ViruKeskus where we exp our 1st taste of hostility. It was very odd because we were such a big asian group and there were not many ( or rather NO other asian pple ard).. there were these 2 gals who blatantly shrieked 'china' as they walked past, not to mention the 2 guys who approached us wif chopsticks and started asking qns.. We bought groceries and left asap, cos the place was sort of a hangout for young punks. it is better to be safe than sorry.. i also went to my 1st mixed toilet.. we evacuated the place and headed home and played stupid games in the safety of our BAltic Apartments.. i think we were pretty rowdy.. poor jon had to watch tv until we were tired and went to bed at abt 12 plus.. And some preview of the nxt day!!