I'm pretty psyched. I just came back from copenhagen (which was great in a chillax way) and my bio class just dropped an assignment on me cuz I missed an "important" class. Which no one informed us about. We were only supposed to do 2 exams. And I'm really very dead cuz I'm still super behind in my 500-600 pages worth of single-celled organisms readings. Now there's this assignment as well which my lecturer just dumped 7 extra chapters worth of readings in my email, totally killing my smu inbox.

Out of the 24 days I have left in Uppsala, I have 21 days to my 2nd exam (the 1st exam and assignment I can choose when to do before 18th may). Of which, 10 days or more, I'm out of the country. So effectively leaving me 11 days to do my 500-600 page readings and writing the assignment and squeezing in the exam while I'm at it. OMG. HOW!! I really have no mood to study, especially with the trips to Riga, Vilnius (and the Hill of the Crosses!) and Gotlands coming up. I just want to shop for nice spring clothes, read my books on a mat under the sun and cool weather, and whisk off to pretty places and explore away.

I did have a fabulous time the past few days partying at Uppsala thanks to Valborg to celebrate Spring. That was followed by a fantabulous holiday off in Malmo and Copenhagen spent with great company.

In summary.. Took a train down to Malmo with Junyi and Xin Jie, and we were having pleasant time exploring the place. Malmo is rather pretty, though it was a bit small and all the shopping was closed for that day (phew!). So most of the evening we were there was spent taking loads of pictures!

Headed down to Copenhagen that night and I separated with them to stay with Lincoln, Sue Ling and Howe. Met up with Junyi and Xin Jie again for a lovely walk down to the Little Mermaid, this time in Spring! Too bad they had to leave so early in the afternoon. The rest of the time, I was hanging out with the dear Copenhagen people, terrorizing them to play Munchkins and checking out the famous Tivoli amusement park. Haha ok, that's the pictureless version of the story. Will do the pictured version if I feel like it.

Now the situation is pretty sucky over at the Europe side too. Before heading down to Copenhagen, we just got the latest news flash that all the suspected swine flu cases in Denmark was cleared, so we proceeded with the trip. Then on the train to Denmark, my dad smsed and said there was one confirmed case there! ARGH. In Copenhagen airport somemore!! It was contained there, but I really hope that the person didn't spread it to anyone else then. It was rather worrying, and everytime someone coughs or sneezes, the self-denied pushed-out fear of swine flu just appears right in your face again. Hope that everyone over there, as well as those in the affected areas, will be safe.

I'm just grateful that people in Copenhagen are behaving sanely, and it felt like there was absolutely nothing happening at all. Unlike Singapore which really has nothing happening at all, in terms of swine flu cases, and is being absolutely kiasu "executing draconian measures", taking temperature, doing contact tracing and quarantining people. Not that it's really a bad thing too if it really can prevent the virus from spreading. It's just that it's more troublesome and stressful.

Now most of the exchange students have two big worries on their mind, other than the fear of contracting this stupid virus at this point - is it safe to: