The Brain and Heart Balance: Kudos to my parents + Prague Trip (Budapest on the way)

After I came back from my trip to Prague/Budapest, I sent an email to my dad. I felt bad for not calling home but that's because I didn't have my computer with me in Prague and I couldn't use Skype to call home. So anyway, right after I sent the email, I called home but it was engaged. Which only means...... the phone at home is still spoilt. It's been almost 2 weeks and it's not fixed!! So anyway, my dad promptly replied my mail (super high efficiency dad) and he told me that my mum showed him my blog! Yay!! I'm so happy mum is reading this blog. I made a shortcut on her browser so when she clicks on it, she can read updates about my life.

Ma, if you are reading this, I want to tell you I'm so proud of you! You are now internet savvy! =D
By the way, you can leave me messages on the right side in the small box. Just type "mum" in the box with the word "name" and type in the message you want to leave in the box that says "message" then click "go"!

So about my trip... Dong Joo and I had a dinner with Petra (Czech), Aneta (Czech), Kyle (Taiwanese), Sandra (Austrian) just the night before we left for Prague. I cooked 鸡饭，蚝油香菇芥兰，苞菜排骨汤 and we had some other instant dishes like swedish meatballs and frikandel (Dutch hotdog). They liked most of the food, but the girls didn't seem to like the soup. I loved the soup, it reminds me of my childhood days when mum would cook 苞菜汤。 So yummy. Kyle thinks it's not salty enough. Anyway, we slept at 2am, but we had to catch the earliest train to Amsterdam to check-in at Schiphol airport. So I took Dongjoo's keys and he took mine so that when one of us wakes up, we can check on the other and make sure we don't oversleep. We cycled to the train station at 5.15am!!

We reached Prague by noon time and we went to the hostel. Our hostel looks like a castle!! Only 7-8 euros!

In front of the National Museum.

That's the Tyn Church in the old town square. It's one of the more beautiful structures there.

This is the astronomical clock of Prague. It's very interesting. When the clock chimes, there is a skeleton figure will start pulling the bell. And two windows will open and the apostles will start moving across the windows. So every hour there are many many people gathered to watch. But my friend also warned me that's the most dangerous time. Very easy to get picked-pocket. So I was very wary while taking photos. =P

This statue is outside Rudolfinum which is like a concert hall. That evening we went to watch a concert in Rudolfinum. It was not very expensive, around 15 euros for very very good seats. They played classical music, and many tunes which I've heard before when I was very young. Tunes by Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi and some others.

This is the church in the Castle. It's a very important church because there's a lot of history in it. Buried in this gothic church are 5 Czech kings. It has many treasures and precious relics too.

This is the golden lane in the castle. There are many small houses lined next to each other. One of the house was the residence of Kafka, the famous Czech artist.

We climbed up Petrin Tower to see the city view. I was panting but I can't tell whether it's because the view is breathtaking or simply because we ran up the tower. =)