Willkommen in Deutschland!

It means "Welcome to Germany!" At least this is what I got from the German-English Dictionary from my Ops room. Guten Tag to my friends. It means "good day".

I was sent onto a work trip to Germany and have been in Germany for about a week and have taken quite a few pictures. I am currently in Bergen, Lager Horstern Camp. I have tried to upload them but the internet is too slow to upload the usual big pictures. Today, the unlucky Friday 13th prove to be a different luck for me. I was able to upload my pictures! Though they are little smaller and lower quality than usual, they are really nice pictures of my lot till now.

Germany indeed is a very beautiful country. Maybe it is because they have larger land than Singapore, and that their building looks more spacious. Their scenery here is definitely much more prettier than Singapore. At least they have plenty of lands around. And most importantly people here have very good work life balance!

Unlike Singapore, people will work till late nights everyday, and even weekends, people here will serious close their shop sharp on time like 5 pm. Saturday is half day for them and Sunday is a total rest day and it is total dead town in Bergen. When asked what they do on Sundays, they said it is house cleaning etc . Very good life balance.

We came in from Hamburg and this is the City of Hamburg. I took a private car rented by my unit and headed back to camp, and the moment we got out of the airport, we met up with an accident. It was only a small scratch on both cars but still the German old man wanted to call on the police to report. In the end my first destination in Hamburg is the police station.

This is a rest point by the side of German AutoBahn (Expressway). Unlike Singapore, driving at 100km/hr on the expressway is considered fast. In Germany, 100km/hr is considered road hogging, the normal speed is about 180km/hr!
Sun set in Camp
Sun Rise in Camp
Night sky of my Camp. Day sky of my Camp. Even my camp has such nice scenery.
Railroad at Bergen
This is the Pond at Munster. Munster is about 25km drive from Bergen, it is where our liason training centre is situated.
Town of Munster

This is my favourite picture of all, "The Peek-a-boo Sun". I managed to take this while my doctor went to check out on a bus stop. I guess this is one of my best picture of all times. I shall blog more if time and the connection permits me.

Lights

Lights play a important part in our daily lives. It can make one moment as beautiful as heaven and the next moment it is gone.

I was hanging out at Raffles Place one morning and I started taking this picture.I like this picture because of the morning light peeking out of the building. You can guess where is this taken. But the lights was just as crimson as the sun is setting. The moment was only less than 5 minutes.

This goes to say moments are to be treasured and not wasted. Sometimes people just have their pace too fast that they actually miss the real good gist of the world.