Virus Festival

Was at the Virus Festival in school last week. Its basically an Arts festival: live bands, dance, films, and street acts. Had a special guest from Delft.. the virus herself! Hehe! Look at that pretty tights. She's got a grey one for sale. Hehe.



Sitting on the grass, enjoying the sunny weather.. we'll never do this in Singapore/Brunei. WHY?! Oh yeah, coz its bloody humid and you'll get attacked my killer mozzies. Haha.


(you can see Yixian that doesn't really know how to read, hehe)

Street act 1: Lindy-hoppers in the city

Street act 2: Lindy-hoppers at the Virus Festival



The real deal.


Dinner at the eatery.

Ciao Ciao!

This is HOLLAND!

Hello, hello again! Went to Zaanse Schans last weekend with Mun Yee and Kitty. Its THE place for tourists to see real windmills in Holland. Its one of those nice little rural towns that have been preserved but have also become a tourist attraction.

Little Zaanse Schans

Some Holland pancakes in the morning to give us energy. Money sucker! Each plate cost 6.95 Euros! Madness! Poor Asian exchange students had 2 plates to share among 3.

The first Albert Heijn from 1887! (its like the first Cold Storage in Singapore or the first Hua Ho in Brunei). Little grocer has been turned into a (free!) museum.



Look how cheap things were then! Rent for 1.50 Gilders per week! Why can't things be as cheap now?!

One of the Dutch icons: wooden clogs! They were less glamourous then, equivalent to yellow rubber boots in Asia. But they've evolved and come a long way!

Wedding (or proposal) clogs. The groom had to carve these intricate details onto the clogs for his future wife! Now modern men, can you DO that? Consider yourselves lucky to only have to buy a ring.


Pointy tips were in fashion then too! Haha.

And clogs now.




And finally, our reason for going there.


We visited a windmill that produced oil from crushing peanuts. The windmill itself is rather small. Its all business inside with all the gears and mechanisms. Rather dark and smoky too. Downstairs was where most of the work was done while upstairs is just platform probably just for checking the gears and parts and leads to the 'balcony'.
Upstairs (the whole of it is like that):



From the 'balcony' (the windmill was so huge that I couldn't take a full picture of it):



Downstairs:


Raw materials:
On the left- Dried peanut skin (do not touch!)
On the right- Raw peanut nut (do not eat!)

Outside the windmill


Old Mac Donald had a farm, ee-ai-ee-ai-oh!



Cheese farm museum



Duie!