there was a tiny little pub-like place that was full of locals, young and old. we stepped in, and the entire pub turned and stared at us...it was awkward. we looked around for a table in that tiny place, while everyone watched, half-amused. a super-friendly couple decided to help us out and called us over, so we joined their table, which they shared with another couple, and sustained some sort of a conversation using hand signals and broken sentences over a lunch of schnitzel and fried chicken (:


sacher torte from hotel sacher! yumm.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachertorte)


we spent an entire day in the schonbrunn palace. we weren't allowed to take photos in the rooms - it looked a lot like the palace in versailles.


i dont quite know why but i was terribly excited about open-faced sandwiches - there's a greater toppings:bread ratio (: we ended up ordering 3 with gherkins :s because the labels were all in german ):












okies. back to work!
3h till the rad cam closes.

back from vienna! (: 




1 more week of classes before easter break (:
~3 weeks till i head back to singapore!

i think i need to go on a veg&water detox diet for a week.
we went down to waitrose over the weekend and bought a 1 kg chunk of beef forerib, roasted it with salt and pepper (yumm) and finished all of it in one sitting :s and yesterday, we roasted a shoulder of lamb (double yumm)- we poked holes to bury garlic and rosemary beneath the surface, all you could see was little sprigs of rosemary at the surface that looked like little tufts of grass - and braised a sheep's heart stuffed with mushrooms and garlic. not sure why we decided to try it, we just saw it at the farmer's market and decided to give it a go. it's all right, but not spectacularly tasty, or maybe we just didn't cook it well. hmm. actually, the thought of eating a heart is quite a nauseating.

i also had my college's subject dinner last night. I'd completely forgotten abt it, until my tutorial partner gave me a call. My tutor told him to tell me that I -had- to turn up and that he "didn't care what i was wearing". So there i was scruffy and all while everyone else was in their suits and dresses (: We had parsnip soup, guinea fowl and ginger cheesecake, followed by fruits, chocolate and coffee. I didn't really want to eat much because i kept thinking abt the roast lamb back home.

there's a talk by tim keller tonight in the town hall - "belief in an age of scepticism"! (:









the weather was lovely over the weekend but it's going to be cold and wet for the rest of the week ): oh well, 1 week till classes start!