Exchange in Europe

2006-12-08T16:19:00.000-08:00

Versailles Palace in Paris... the model for many palaces in Europe.
~dk

2006-12-08T16:16:00.000-08:00

Autumn in Oestrich-Winkel. :)
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2006-12-08T16:14:00.000-08:00

The indian party at the knight klub in oestrich (germany)... it's a small student-run club where events are held... this was a celebration by the Indian exchange students. :)
~dk

2006-12-08T16:12:00.000-08:00

There is a large muslim community in Mannheim... chanced upon the Ramadan festival ... it's always heartwarming to see cultural integration abroad! :)
~dk

2006-12-08T16:10:00.001-08:00

Mannheim has one of the top universities in Germany.
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2006-12-08T16:10:00.000-08:00

Visited Mannheim in a fast 2 hour expedition on the way back to Oestrich-Winkel
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2006-12-08T16:09:00.000-08:00

snapped a quick shot with a young fan beside me... :)
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2006-12-08T16:08:00.001-08:00

Ha... me in the celebratory atmosphere when Kaiserleuten knocked another goal into the net! Woo
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2006-12-08T16:08:00.000-08:00

Kaiserleuten versus a team from Bayer region... it was an amazing experience... my first every, which began with boarding a wrong train and finding out about the match from the enthusiastic and excited fans heading to the stadium... it was really exciting... 4-0!
~dk

2006-12-08T16:07:00.000-08:00

Wanted to go to Heidelberg... but we ended up in Bad Munster (and eventually at Kaiserleuten to watch soccer)
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2006-12-08T16:03:00.000-08:00

A beautiful sunrise (on my way to the railway station)
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2006-12-08T16:02:00.000-08:00

It's really much more spacious than I had imagined. :)
~dk

2006-12-08T16:01:00.000-08:00

a look at my room...
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2006-12-08T16:00:00.000-08:00

The beautiful sunset along the river rhine in Dusseldorf.
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2006-12-08T15:59:00.000-08:00

Usually on a weekend the shops are all closed... so the favorite hobby: window-shopping
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2006-12-08T15:58:00.000-08:00

i think the logo of dusseldorf city... heh.
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2006-12-08T15:57:00.000-08:00

During weekends, most shops are closed except for restaurants... i tried these crepes (yummy)
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2006-12-08T15:54:00.000-08:00

An abstraction and probably according to "dadaism" (i'm not sure)... it's of venus... the artists uses abstract and non related ideas in his works
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2006-12-08T15:52:00.000-08:00

Picaso's drawing of a lady... it's a bit of cubism in the art
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2006-12-08T15:51:00.000-08:00

Bismarck!
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2006-12-08T15:50:00.001-08:00

This looks interesting
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2006-12-08T15:50:00.000-08:00

Yup... the palace was called the Corps de Logis Schloss!
~dk

2006-12-08T15:49:00.000-08:00

I think it is the first musuem of gardening!
~dk

2006-12-08T15:43:00.000-08:00

Awesome
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2006-12-08T15:42:00.000-08:00

Beautiful Dusseldorf Palace (that focused a lot on symmetry)
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2006-12-08T15:41:00.001-08:00

Outside a palace in Dusseldorf
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2006-12-08T15:41:00.000-08:00

A bit similar to the ending scene of Ocean 11 right? By the way, one of my dream companies' german HQ is located in Dusseldorf. Notice the rainbow... beautiful!
~dk

2006-12-08T15:40:00.000-08:00

In Dusseldorf (a city of many MNC hq!)
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2006-12-08T15:39:00.001-08:00

Reminds me of the movie YL and I watched before coming to Germany :)
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2006-12-08T15:39:00.000-08:00

posersssss :)
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2006-12-08T15:38:00.000-08:00

At the Ecke (so uptight right) ha...
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2006-12-08T15:36:00.000-08:00

Celebrating the Chinese National Day!
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2006-10-30T07:32:00.000-08:00

Berlin!!! the capital
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2006-10-30T07:31:00.002-08:00

This is where koblenz is located... dusseldorf is the regional capital
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2006-10-30T07:31:00.001-08:00

Bremen.. where a prof would be teaching
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2006-10-30T07:31:00.000-08:00

I am in this... hessen
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2006-10-30T07:30:00.000-08:00

The monument at the intersection of two rivers
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2006-10-30T07:29:00.000-08:00

One of the castles in koblenz... we tried visiting one of these but found it a bit far and too lazy to climb up..
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2006-10-30T07:28:00.001-08:00

Koblenz is further down the rhine from bonn and cologne... ha... :)
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2006-10-30T07:28:00.000-08:00

I am flying
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2006-10-30T07:27:00.000-08:00

Rathaus... Bonn used to be the seat of the Western German (and later Germany) government... before the capital moved to Berlin in late 1990s.
~dk

2006-10-30T07:26:00.001-08:00

Max Friedrick Plague
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2006-10-30T07:26:00.000-08:00

MinoritenKirche in Bonn
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2006-10-30T07:25:00.004-08:00

Really lovely watching family and friends playing soccer... those little children.
~dk

2006-10-30T07:25:00.003-08:00

Beautiful... autumn coming
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2006-10-30T07:25:00.002-08:00

An institute of the university
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2006-10-30T07:25:00.001-08:00

The cycling culture is everywhere
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2006-10-30T07:25:00.000-08:00

Me... almost knocked against the signboard while jumping up to photo...
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2006-10-30T07:24:00.002-08:00

The university campus
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2006-10-30T07:24:00.001-08:00

The Beethoven Festival
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2006-10-30T07:24:00.000-08:00

Me with Beethoven... :) He's great... even at his deathbed he was thinking of his music
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2006-10-30T07:23:00.001-08:00

After Cologne... on to Bonn (land of Beethoven)
~dk

2006-10-30T07:23:00.000-08:00

Orchird in greenhouse in museum... it's really beautifully bloomed... but not charcoal as bottom
~dk

2006-10-30T07:22:00.001-08:00

Trumpeter
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2006-10-30T07:22:00.000-08:00

Scarry
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2006-10-30T07:21:00.003-08:00

All those chocolate television advertisements...
~dk

2006-10-30T07:21:00.002-08:00

How many have you tried?
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2006-10-30T07:21:00.001-08:00

Schokoladen
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2006-10-30T07:21:00.000-08:00

There was a greenhouse in the musuem... really stuffy inside... with double door-seal.
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2006-10-30T07:20:00.002-08:00

Dispensable chocolates... the dispenser is old... really!
~dk

2006-10-30T07:20:00.001-08:00

Marketting of Chocolates is Art!
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2006-10-30T07:20:00.000-08:00

Lindt!!!
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2006-10-30T07:19:00.003-08:00

Truffle machine... those little sweet, sinful and lovely fluffy
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2006-10-30T07:19:00.002-08:00

picture of old lindt factory
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2006-10-30T07:19:00.001-08:00

Someday... you'll be eaten too?
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2006-10-30T07:19:00.000-08:00

These are lovely... hollow inside... they are made by spinning the chocolates in the moulds such that they stick to the mould and thereafter solidified... yummy
~dk

2006-10-30T07:17:00.003-08:00

Fondue... chocolate... yes!
~dk

2006-10-30T07:17:00.002-08:00

Amazed... I would be if I were so young and watching how those "melt in your mouth, not in your hands" things are manufactured.
~dk

2006-10-30T07:17:00.001-08:00

Finally... Lindt Chocolates
~dk

2006-10-30T07:17:00.000-08:00

Step 8: Bosch Robot (the wrappers)
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2006-10-30T07:16:00.002-08:00

Almost finished chocolates
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2006-10-30T07:16:00.001-08:00

Step 7: Moulding Machine
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2006-10-30T07:16:00.000-08:00

Step 5: Rolling Mill
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2006-10-30T07:15:00.004-08:00

Step 4: Mixer
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2006-10-30T07:15:00.003-08:00

Step 3: Cocoa mill
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2006-10-30T07:15:00.002-08:00

Step 2: Milling machine
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2006-10-30T07:15:00.001-08:00

Step 1: Roaster
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2006-10-30T07:15:00.000-08:00

1883 machine for making chocolates... history!!!
~dk

2006-10-30T07:13:00.000-08:00

so what goes into chocolate...
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2006-10-30T07:12:00.000-08:00

In the Chocolat Musuem... still bumming around Cologne... didn't really know chocolate had such a big history... there are three key types of chocolates... btw, the museum is an intiative of sorts of Lindt... this is a boat on which choco seeds are transported.
~dk

2006-10-30T07:11:00.001-08:00

Together with Jeff and Chenjun
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2006-10-30T07:11:00.000-08:00

Vitality-picture
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2006-10-30T07:10:00.001-08:00

The place we went up is called kolntriangle... koln = German name for Cologne... i didn't realize until i wanted to go there.
~dk

2006-10-30T07:10:00.000-08:00

This building tastes delicious... yummy
~dk

2006-10-30T07:09:00.000-08:00

Together... Cologne skyscape
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2006-10-30T07:06:00.001-08:00

At the top!
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2006-10-30T07:06:00.000-08:00

Ausschits... tower to watch cologne skyscape... it's really worthwhile... learnt of it from the lady at the violin shop... i enjoy talking to the locals.
~dk

2006-10-30T07:04:00.001-08:00

There's Oktoberfest at Cologne too
~dk

2006-10-30T07:04:00.000-08:00

Together for peace.
~dk

2006-10-30T07:03:00.001-08:00

Coincidentally... i saw a plague like this which seemed like peaceboat...
~dk

2006-10-30T07:03:00.000-08:00

helped a demonstrator... he was setting up displays to educate public on the violence of Israeli against Lebannon...
~dk

2006-10-30T07:02:00.001-08:00

inside the cathedral
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2006-10-30T07:02:00.000-08:00

Procession...
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2006-10-30T06:59:00.001-08:00

Watched a procession outisde there.
~dk

2006-10-30T06:59:00.000-08:00

Me... at the Cathedral... Gambate!
~dk

2006-10-30T06:58:00.003-08:00

Japanese...
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2006-10-30T06:58:00.002-08:00

English
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2006-10-30T06:58:00.001-08:00

A monument in front of the cathedral with different language plagues.
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2006-10-30T06:58:00.000-08:00

Beautiful glass windows inside Cathedral
~dk

2006-10-30T06:57:00.000-08:00

at the cologne cathedral which took hundreds of years to build i think... it's the longest building cathedral
~dk