Summer School @ Capo Caccia

Its really nice to be able to go for conferences at super nice location. Capo Caccia is a small village in Sardegna and the waters there are really spectecular. End May is perhaps the best season to be there – warm but yet quiet without crowds! We stayed at Hotel Capo Caccia – the rooms are so so but food is pretty good, loads of fish/meat everyday.

Anyhow, the summer school was great – got to learn quite abit of T-cells, B-cells, and DCs. I think the best part of the school was interaction. Talking to the profs and tutors over meals, while walking, over a pint of beer, or at the beach is pretty cool. Interactions with students was perfect too, I had great fun meeting with Germans, Spanish, Czech Repulic, Italians (of course), SGers (10 of them!), Norwegians, Swedish, French, and many more. There was like 27 countries or so…

Athens getaway…

Trip to Athens was quite uneventful… Hotel was okie, food was okie, and weather was perfect. Would hope to go to Santorini when got cash, Aegina (the one near Athens) is not exactly very nice.

Pantheon @ Acropolis

Another structure @ Acropolis

Lighthouse @ Aegina

Vougliemenis Lake

Nice beach near Athens

Greek Beer

Greek food – fried codfish with garlic paste is perfect!!!!

1 day in London City

We did the typical 1 day London City tour visiting all the must-sees. Anyway, to me, London city is like not part of Europe – maybe coz everything is in English, everything is relatively new, alot of different races/people, international food cusine, modernized, drivers seat on the right, etc… I hope to be back one day to visit the countryside of UK!!!

Big Ben and Jaron

Nice double decker bus

Red telephone booth, like the one where superman change his clothes

London Eye under huge heavy clouds

TUBE!!!

They copy our SG London Cab

NOT London Bridge

As usual, Em insist on local food – fish/chips and english pie

Singapore Day @ London

Long overdue post but take away point is SG day rocks – finally able to get some of the taxes paid to our gahmen. Free food, drinks, goodies pack, t-shirts, performances, cds, caps, etc. The gahmen really did spent alot of on this event. The take home message of this event is as Jack Neo puts it very nicely, Sg is changing, our gahmen is changing, there is more freedom, and feel free to return home.

The setup of the event was actually quite nice – ERP gate entry (with beep) at the entrance, food are categorized into diff sections e.g. lao pa sha etc. We had (everything in timespan of 5 hours) chicken rice, bak ku teh, rojak, char kuey teow, nasi, satay, muah chee, chill crab, kuay chup, or ni, curry puff, or bi bur – there alot many other food but we either had no space for it or the que was too long. Performances was also perfect with Jack Neo/Mark Lee, Dimsum Dolly, Broadway Beng, and of course MRBROWNSHOW!!!

Roadsigns along the way ($$$$)

Ushers for carpark ($$$$ again)

Waiting and queing outside

Each hawker got 1 personal FT helping one ($$$$ again again)

Huge picnic

Some of our food

Atypical Sgers

Photo with mrbrown!!!!! How cool

Photo with mr makansutra

Dimsum dolly, I couldn’t ask for pic coz I was queing for Em’s char kuay teow!!!! I miss taking photos with many other actors too coz I have to que for Em’s food…

WKS there too, he nv annouce that he caught mas selamat lei…

Mrbrown performing on stage!!!

The event was @ Hampton court, very nice

Flowers @ Hampton court gardens

Finally… Napoli

First impression – dirty and indeed the people have these “thief head thief face” look. Everywhere you can see papers, cartons, plastics, etc – hard (and probably don’t want) to imagine the times when mafia ordered all nation’s rubbish to be placed in Napoli! We also saw 2 pickpockets while twice on the bus – one of them in action right in front of us!

We didn’t actually spent much time in Napoli, just walk around a little and eat pizza there – think its good enough to have a feel of the city.

Napoli Underground, a place where people hide during WW

“Naked” Church

Gulf of Naples

Spanish quarter – they say its the most dangerous place in Napoli

Sex in the national archaeological museum!