Date : 12 January 2012
Time really flies like a bitch when you are enjoying it. I have spent almost 5 months in Europe and yet it still feels like I have just arrived. I really hate to leave.
Vienna is a fantastic place to live in, and she was recently recognized by Mercer (http://www.mercer.com/press-releases/quality-of-living-report-2011) as the city with the best living standard in the world. The city is very clean, and most importantly, it is a very safe city. Furthermore, the city has one of the best public transport system I've seen so far. The services run very frequently and the trains/trams/buses are very clean and punctual. Best of all it is never crowded on the public transport!
For a capital city of a country, the prices in Vienna are surprisingly cheap. Nothing is really expensive, and we can always find a cheap supermarket down any road. In fact, I always tell my friends that Vienna probably has the highest concentration of supermarkets per square km: billa, merkur, penny, dm, hofer, lindl, interspar etc...
If the opportunity presents itself again in the future, I will not hesitate to come back and live in this fabulous city.
Anyway, back to my last 24 hours in Vienna.
After waking up late at about 12 noon due to a late night drinking and movie watching session with a friend, I began to finish packing up my belongings. It's amazing how little I need to survive because I basically lived with whatever I've got inside my luggage for the past few months. Nonetheless, it is very depressing to pack everything up.
One funny thing though. because we cook a lot in Vienna, we have quite a number of food and utensils left. So I threw them all in the kitchen and put up a "FREE" sign. It was all gone within hours. Hahaha.
Finally, night came, well it's not that long since it turns dark at 5pm, and I went over to my friends place for dinner before heading over to the much talked about pub called Travel Shack. I have heard so much about this place and all the crazy shots that they have, so I was quite excited to go. The place did not disappoint.
I had so much fun playing the games there, and drinking the different shots. The picture on the left is a game where we have to hammer in a nail using the thin end of a hammer. It is really hard but I won the first game anyway, beginners luck I suppose! The shots on the right is called Hiroshima, because it looks like the atomic cloud.
There are so many funny and weird shots around, I tried the Viennese Blood (which is like listerine because you have to gargle it for 30 seconds before swallowing it) and the fire shot (where I had some liquor in my mouth and they light it on fire, video below. There's of course the super crazy shot called "Great Balls on Fire", which the name literally means what you have to do, guys only. I'm not crazy enough to do that but I know a few people who did. They all said it hurts like hell! Lol
I also took the opportunity to take photos with all my fantastic friends whom I've met during the exchange:
Time really flies like a bitch when you are enjoying it. I have spent almost 5 months in Europe and yet it still feels like I have just arrived. I really hate to leave.
Vienna is a fantastic place to live in, and she was recently recognized by Mercer (http://www.mercer.com/press-releases/quality-of-living-report-2011) as the city with the best living standard in the world. The city is very clean, and most importantly, it is a very safe city. Furthermore, the city has one of the best public transport system I've seen so far. The services run very frequently and the trains/trams/buses are very clean and punctual. Best of all it is never crowded on the public transport!
For a capital city of a country, the prices in Vienna are surprisingly cheap. Nothing is really expensive, and we can always find a cheap supermarket down any road. In fact, I always tell my friends that Vienna probably has the highest concentration of supermarkets per square km: billa, merkur, penny, dm, hofer, lindl, interspar etc...
If the opportunity presents itself again in the future, I will not hesitate to come back and live in this fabulous city.
Anyway, back to my last 24 hours in Vienna.
After waking up late at about 12 noon due to a late night drinking and movie watching session with a friend, I began to finish packing up my belongings. It's amazing how little I need to survive because I basically lived with whatever I've got inside my luggage for the past few months. Nonetheless, it is very depressing to pack everything up.
One funny thing though. because we cook a lot in Vienna, we have quite a number of food and utensils left. So I threw them all in the kitchen and put up a "FREE" sign. It was all gone within hours. Hahaha.
Finally, night came, well it's not that long since it turns dark at 5pm, and I went over to my friends place for dinner before heading over to the much talked about pub called Travel Shack. I have heard so much about this place and all the crazy shots that they have, so I was quite excited to go. The place did not disappoint.
I had so much fun playing the games there, and drinking the different shots. The picture on the left is a game where we have to hammer in a nail using the thin end of a hammer. It is really hard but I won the first game anyway, beginners luck I suppose! The shots on the right is called Hiroshima, because it looks like the atomic cloud.
There are so many funny and weird shots around, I tried the Viennese Blood (which is like listerine because you have to gargle it for 30 seconds before swallowing it) and the fire shot (where I had some liquor in my mouth and they light it on fire, video below. There's of course the super crazy shot called "Great Balls on Fire", which the name literally means what you have to do, guys only. I'm not crazy enough to do that but I know a few people who did. They all said it hurts like hell! Lol
I also took the opportunity to take photos with all my fantastic friends whom I've met during the exchange:
During my exchange, I have traveled over 22.000km and visited 33 magnificent European cites, some cities twice. I truly love Europe and the people whom I have had the honor to meet along the way. I am really sad that this wonderful and amazing chapter of my life has ended... I wish all of you the very best for your studies, your career, and for some of you, your relationships. Really hope to see you guys again!
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