This is my 2nd post on this blog..and I decided to write a little about my recent trip to the Netherlands. On the night of 26 Jan, the PUB delegation headed by DWSN flew off to Amsterdam, marking the start of our 1-week study trip. We stayed in a hotel located at the city of Utrecht, which is ~30mins drive from Amsterdam Schipol airport. On the first day of arrival (which was our only free day), Tzeweng, Yunita and I dashed off to Amsterdam by train as we wanted to make full use of our time to visit Amsterdam. We walked around Dam Square and visited some places of interest like Madam Tussauds Museum and Anne Frank House. When the sky became darker at ard 5+pm, we finally managed to find the red light district, which I think was indeed an eye opener for all of us! haha...^^ Despite feeling quite tired after the near 14hr flight, I suppose the 3 of us had lotsa fun in Amsterdam.
The next 5.5 days was pretty tiring for us...as our schedule was almost fully packed with discussions and visits to water companies. Our host was really nice enough to bring us for some sightseeing though...and we also had dinner at his place! On our 2nd last day, we managed to spend some time shopping at Utrecht Centraal (which is unfortunately the only happening place in Utrecht). We had dinner at the same Chinese restaurant located at Utrecht Centraal for 3 consecutive nights because DWSN missed chinese food so much..haha..But well, I didn't like the food there either. It was always bread with ham/cheese for lunch, and the 'extremely dry' lunch was totally not to my liking!! *Like what DWSN said, no wonder their per capita water consumption is so low!* And Phew heng I managed to buy some souvenirs/food for my family, colleagues, friends and of coz myself. 
Overall, I'm glad to have had a chance to go to Europe for my 1st official trip and it was good exposure for me. Although such trips don't come free (ie. there are lots of followups, reporting etc. to do), I'm still happy that I had a chance to go to the Netherlands with my bosses and the 2 very intelligent Tzeweng and Yunita, who helped to ease alot of my load with regards to writing reports etc.! :) Oh Yes...Special thanks to my mentor Mr Tze Weng for helping me take alot of photos with his v gd camera; although he always gave me THAT look when I requested for him to take my photo, I'm glad he still helped me to take quite a no. of nice pics! LOL~ And also thanks to DD(NO), who seemed to like taking my portraits very much. haha...Featuring one of my fav photos below: The Little Pink Riding Hood and the terrorist! 
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MIss Xie, I DISCOVERED ONE TERRORIST IN UR ENTOURAGE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For a while, I thought one of my ex-bosses wrote this post.
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YW, thanks for the post. Indeed, you are fortunate to be able to go to Europe on your 1st working trip.... I haven't even been to Europe!!!
heh^3...twas my 2nd time in Europe!! 1st time was 10 years ago in Sweden & Denmark..went with my schmates to perform there. :) Guess I wouldn't have chances to visit the v expensive Europe if not for official reasons. lol!
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