the short wanderer

Helmut Schmidt once said, "The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." At this point I wish somebody can actually tell me how well or how bad I have improved on my writing skills after pursuing my fairly inconsistent part-time career as a blogger for almost 20 months. If I am to assess myself now, I would say I don't think anything have changed much ever since. I started blogging with the thought that practice makes perfect; that the more I write, the more I will get better in putting my ideas together and translate them into words. It is not entirely wrong, but I guess I need to take a step back and give myself a deep thought on how to really improve writing skills because merely letting myself write doesn't seem to be the ultimate answer to advance my existing skills. Recently I have been reminding myself that one of the invaluable 'hows' is reading - reading is the key to knowledge of everything, and it's through reading that I w...

Hallo, Guten Tag! Author's note: There will be some random mix of German words as you go further into this reading, as I try to put my 6-month German lesson with Dr Linda and another 3-day German revision with Faris into practice.  This is a very long overdue post - of a trip I had undertaken a few months ago - but I still insist on writing about it as I have spent so much time trying to sharpen my knowledge on German language while I was on the trip and it had successfully sparked my enthusiasm in learning Deutsch again, and I love reminiscing the recollection of my excursions so here we go! So, what drives me to Wien (Vienna)...? Well, since I have got a free  Woche (week) in the winter break before the term started, so why not a Reise (trip/travel) to another Stadt (city)? Tag eins (Day 1): Donnerstag (Thursday)  I arrived in Wien Flughafen (Vienna Airport) at around 11 in the morning.  Flughafen , like 'air-port', is a combination of 2 words, f...