The Frankfurt Book Fair

FuFu Life in Frankfurt - Chapter Three
18th October 2009

Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest trade fair for books in the world which is held in mid of October at the Frankfurt Trade Fair Centre (Frankfurt Messe) annually. It's the hallmark for global publishing companies represented in the field of culture. China as the Guest of Honour this year attracted more than two thousands traders from the mainland participating in this book fair, setting up a new record of the number of publishers.

Though still new in Frankfurt, we certainly didn't want to miss the opportunity to pay the world's largest book fair. Thus the four of us decided to went there on the last day. It was crowded with visitors and traders. By the time we got there at 3pm, the many of the pavilions from over 100 countries had already started to close though the fair was until 6pm.

Hoping the publishers would give out some of the books we looking for on the last day, we were however only able to get couple of souvenirs back home. Nonetheless, i had a great time there.


Juan (Colombia) & Claudia(Chile), representatives from Latin America.


Ying-han (Taiwan) & FuFu (Malaysia) representatives from Asia.


China is the Guest of Honour of the book fair this year.


This is for the visitors and traders from China.


The theme of the book fair this year.


China - Tradition and Innovation.


It's not cheap attending this kind of event.


The student ticket costs Euro 7 (RM 36).


Hall 5 - The International Publishers.


Representatives from Chile and Colombia.


The Pavilion of Chile - all in Spanish.


The Pavilion of Mexico - the staff don't speak English.


One of the small pavilions in Hall 5.


The publisher was too lazy to explain.


Guess it's time to proceed to Hall 6.


FuFu spotted Malaysia!


Yeah, that's FuFu homeland.


She found her Taiwan Publishers either.


The book fair hall is HUGE.


The Pavilion of Taiwan Publishers.


The first gift from the Pavilion of Taiwan Publishers.


It was drawn by a Taiwanese Artist in two minutes. Awesome!


The Pavilion of Singapore - boring books.


The Pavilion of Thailand - lack of its identity.


Malaysia Boleh - the pavilion was closed too early. DAMN.


Anyway, moved to the hall of European countries.


FuFu wanted go to Hall 4. For what?


Closed up. Insane!!


Ouch. Who wanna be the shark?


The Pavilion of Italy - very nice organized.


The Pavilion of Turkey reminds FuFu to visit the country again.


The Turkish massage chairs.


The GIANT books.


The Pavilion of Poland - Guest of the Honour of the fair in 2000.


The Pavilion of Czech Republic.


The VIP Lounge.


Too many books to bring home.


These people distracted the attention of the visitors.


It read as "Freedom for Iran".


"Hallo, young man, let me show you something.", he said.


He's inserting piece of paper into the machine.


He rotated the paper and gave it to FuFu's friend.


FuFu then printed this himself.


Moved to calligraphy corner.


Found a greenboard on the ground.


FuFu couldn't wait to proudly write his name.


Honestly speaking it's not easy to do this type of calligraphy.


You may ask what normally FuFu does after school?


The answer is watching the live pingpong games.


Qatar VS Colombia.


FuFu is not good in any sport but has fun playing pingpong.


Out of the expectation, FuFu is digging this invention.


FuFu kicked off the match.


Qatar is way too strong!


Colombia VS Qatar.


Trying hard to GOAL.


Yeah, first GOAL!


It's the mid of the match now, FuFu gotta work hard.

Well, life has been so far treating me well. I had just back from several field trips. Learned pretty much by watching it myself rather than reading the books. By the way,it's getting cold here in Germany. It was snowing couple of weeks ago when i was heading to Tübingen. Had a little snowball fight with my lovely coursemates. And visited the gorgeous Mecerdes Benz and elegant Porsche Museums in Stuttgart (pictures will be uploaded soon). Ops, my German still has no improvement. Yet i will have the test next Tuesday. Okay, gotta off for the revision. Bye for now.

The GTZ Seminar

FuFu Life in Frankfurt - Chapter Two
2nd - 31st October 2009

The GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes, its corporate objective is to improve people's living conditions on a sustainable basis. One of GTZ's strengths is advising on the development of effective strategies and efficient solutions.

So a group of master students of Urban Agglomerations from Frankfurt University of Applied Science was invited to attend the Students' day on Decentralisation, Regional and Local Governance in the headquarter of GTZ in Eschborn together with other master students from Berlin and Darmstadt.


Taking S-bahn train to Eschborn.


Entering the GTZ building.


The lobby.


Registration session.


FuFu's tag for the seminar.


Fruits and biscuits were served on the table besides the beverages.


Still the tropical fruits rock.


GTZ has several big projects in Africa.


The seminar was going to be started soon.


The introduction.


What's decentralisation? Ask this guy please.


FuFu's coursemates were fully paying attention.


Coffee break.


This lady giving speech about the regional and local governance.


This lady was explaining the job opportunity with GTZ.


Lunch break. Euro 6.20 (RM31).


Fried cheese with strawberry yogurt sauce and bread.


Salad - mushrooms, potatoes, beans, corns, etc.


Friend's meat ball with smashed potatoes and purple cabbage salad.


Master students from all over the world.


Taiwan, Venezula, Iceland, Qatar, Ethiopia, Chile, Brazil & Colombia.


The future Urban Planners.


Waiting for the tour of the office.


While waiting and not wasting time, FuFu started taking pictures.


FuFu and Ying-han (from Taiwan).


Majd Abosamha from Doha, Qatar.


Claudia (Chile), Juan (Colombia) & Erla (Iceland).


Erika from Caracas, Venezuela.


Explaining to coursemates how to take pictures with my DSLR.


FuFu was ready but well this picture was not well captured.


The future statue for FuFu should somehow look like this i guess.


The shadow of the six of the gang.


Still waiting the tour to be started.


GTZ was showing the students its high-tech sustainable concepts.


The toilet bowl, separating and recycling human waste into fertilizers.


FuFu was taking video.


Polyana came from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Erla from Reykjavík, Iceland.


Tanjung Malim, Malaysia is FuFu's hometown.


All students then went up to the top of the building.


The company is located outskirts of Frankfurt.


The group was too big, FuFu couldn't listen to what was explained.


One of the coursemates kept taking pictures.


FuFu then snapped couples of random shots.


Smile~


FuFu is going to be a professional photographer.


Sinidu from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.


Juan Ricardo from Bogota, Colombia.


FuFu and his lovely coursemates.


The tour ended up with number of pictures and laughters.


FuFu was the last to leave.


Ops, took too many reading materials from GTZ.


Walking to the train station.


It's getting dark from 5pm here in Frankfurt.


On the train heading to the downtown.


Went out for a nice dinner with coursemates.


Had a great Italian pizza and german beer.


FuFu's key chain is NWA mini aircraft - FuFu likes to travel.

The Next Stage of Life

FuFu Life in Frankfurt - Chapter One
2nd - 11th October 2009

Hey folks, it's been a while since i updated my blog here. Life has been quite busy for me the whole October as i am trying hard to settle down in Frankfurt, Germany as well as adapt totally a new life and learn German. I reached Frankfurt on the 2nd and classes started on the 5th with introduction week and presentations kept eating up my spare time. By the way, i am studying Urban Agglomerations at a graduate school in Frankfurt.

Alright, i just got the laptop from the university ten days ago. I am getting used to the weather here. Hence i think i could start to update my blog very often. I need to manage my time with my assignment well so i could share everything that happens here in Frankfurt with you guys. Anyway before i go into details, please have a look of those pictures taken during my first week in Germany.


Round tour of the redevelopment areas around Frankfurt city centre.


Römer, one of the important historical landmarks in Frankfurt.


FuFu and his coursemates.


The redevelopment area of the Eastend Harbour.


Visiting a well known architectural office, Albert Speer & Partner.


A brief introduction of the projects of the company all over the world.


The urban design of the city centre in Abuja, Nigeria.


The master plan concept for an automobile city in Shanghai.


FuFu wish to work in this brilliant company in the future.


The working environment in Germany is perfectly nice.


Ponder if FuFu could be able to work in Germany or not.


Welcome dinner at a typical restaurant in Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt.


We had a big jar of Frankfurt's famous apple wine. Great.


Received roses from the engaged couples outside a church.


The coursemates decided to have a small picnic on one sunny day.


The CBD of Frankfurt, and its skyline along the Rhine river.


FuFu planted the roses where they had picnic.


FuFu's coursemate had bought a bottle of wine.


Bread, wine, cheese, chips, biscuit, corns, coke, beer, etc.


Life in Frankfurt is real great.


FuFu loves wine.


Yay...


It's nice to have coursemates from all over the world.


From Taiwan, Chille, Iceland, Brazil & Colombia (photographer)


Now, FuFu has friends from every continent on this planet.


It's nice to chat with coursemates with beer.


German beer is delicious but FuFu always gets drunk easily.


Visiting the Roman settlements in Frankfurt with Professor and staff.


FuFu shows off his love to Malaysia even visiting the settlements.


The first field trip was great though it's showering once a while.


Ops, it's Sunday. FuFu heading out to downtown alone.


However all department stores and retail shops are closed.


Sunday is very quiet throughout the country in Germany.


FuFu spotted a futuristic department store - Myzeil at Zeil street.


The roof design makes it one very sustainable shopping mall.


The interior is marvelous.


Even the tourists flocked there visiting its nice architecture.


FuFu spent an hour walking around the dead shopping mall.


It's so much to see and snap pictures even the shops were closed.


Remember to visit Myzeil if you ever come to Frankfurt.


One of the best shopping malls that FuFu loves.


Bet you guys would also love Myzeil.


The escalator that brings one up to his heaven.







It's always handicapped-friendly everywhere in Germany.


Street on Sunday in Frankfurt is quiet and empty.


Next, FuFu moved to another shopping mall.


That's the tallest building in Frankfurt.


The motorcyclists gathered together on this Sunday.


FuFu met up his coursemates after lunch.


It's free to visit Deutsches Achitektur Museum.


Photography is not allowed (taken from the entrance).


Visiting museum is one good activity FuFu likes much.


There's number of museums along the river facing the CBD.


FuFu will explore all the museums during his stay in Frankfurt.


The underground station.


Waiting the train back to the student house.

Skydiving in New Zealand

** Since FuFu is still trying hard to settle down in Frankfurt, Germany, adapting a totally different new living and studying environment in Europe and also while waiting for a new laptop, he would like to share some of the previous posts. Here is the old entry written in Taupo after the thrilling skydiving and exciting bungy jumping. Wish you guys would like it. **

FuFu Skydiving
16th - 17th January 2008 | Taupo, New Zealand |

Just right after jumping off the plane.

Hey folks, skydiving is very exciting! Love it very much. Just simply can't put the feeling in words now. It really is unexplainable. You have to come here and do it yourself to feel the real excitement! It's though worth to pay NZ$ 409 (RM1000) for the diving with a video for the whole process till landing and pictures in DVDs plus a tee shirt.

Whoa...

Have nearly spent all the money i hard earned from strawberry picking on transportation, accommodation, tour, skydiving, bungy jumping, food, etc. Only little left for Australia, nevertheless, i must have fun first. Well i am just back from bungy jumping. It was very awesome either! Anyway, i will let the pictures below explain everything for the skydiving! Bungy jumping later. Have a nice day my friends. I need to catch the bus for Wellington in half an hour. Ciao.


Hi Mum, 16/01/08. FuFu.


Believe me, Earth is really ROUND.

Here is the video of FuFu's Skydiving.

It's 10 minutes long, wish you guys would be patient for the loading.

Hohoho... one more, here is FuFu's Bungy Jumping.

Make sure your heart is in good condition before watching this clip.

Strawberry Picking in New Zealand

** Since FuFu was busy for the preparation to Germany and couldn't get the Europe World Tour updated, hence he would like to share some of the previous posts. Here is the old entry written in New Zealand while FuFu was working parttime picking strawberry in Albany almost two years ago. Wish you guys would still like it. He is now waiting the flight off to Frankfurt, Germany at Bandaranaye International Airport, Colombo, Sri Lanka. **

FuFu Working Holiday
Albany, Aukland, New Zealand
27 December 2007 - 22 January 2008


Gerelja Bros Strawberry Orchard.


Strawberries. Huge, juicy, and sweet.


Yeah, the strawberries FuFu had nicely picked.


Friends were busy picking while FuFu was busy taking pictures.


Strawberry picking buddy, Syu Jin (Korea).


Strawberry picking buddies, Yumi and Miyuki (Japan).


Strawberry packing that going to be exported to Australia.


Strawberry picking buddy, Kimmy (Malaysia).


Strawberry Jam Washing Team.


Off for sightseeing on Sunday - Sky Tower, Aukland.


In front of National Musuem, Aukland, New Zealand.


Mount Eden, Joey, Joe, Jack and FuFu.