Innerpeace

Carnival @ Eindhoven

So glad I didn't plan to leave Eindhoven this morning. The guys have left for France and Switzerland at 3am this morning. That leaves Yixin, Wei Zi and I and we were pleasantly surprised to realise that the Carnival starts today! I enjoyed my last free breakfast at the hotel, watched some makeup artists at work in the hotel ground level face-painting for the locals. I thought it was a free service and was psyching Yixin and Wei Zi to paint our faces together but then we found out that the service was about 10/15 euros. Nooooo. =(




Basically the Carnival is this damn big thing in Eindhoven where almost EVERYONE dresses up in all sorts of costumes for the occasion. The little kids were in such cute costumes! It lasts for about 5 days and the locals dresses up for the first 2 days. I can't wait to show you guys the photos from the Carnival. So we had great fun looking at the locals dancing and singing to the float procession which started at 1pm and went on past 4pm. Dunno what time it ended. But when it ended, the crowd proceeded to the central square where there are tents set up, with food and games stall. The whole place was super crowded. And the confetti was much more massive than Christmas or New Year on Orchard Road. The whole ground was full of confetti, outdoors and indoors. Vehicles and walls were not spared from spray cans. Basically, the streets are very colourful now. Even now at 8.52pm, the usually quiet Eindhoven town is still bustling with activity, mainly in the overcrowded pubs and the bar in my hotel is still blasting the music. Damn happs. I feel so out of place because I'm not dressed up as a particular character.






After the float procession, we didn't join in the fun at the games stall because the tents were way too crowded (from outside, we couldn't even see what games they were playing in the tents). Instead, we made good use of this holiday SHOPPING! Yayyy. Although I couldn't find my adapter (SO coincidentally 2 electronics shop were out of stock =p), I found a department store called HEMA and another called V&D. Damnn good! I can spend the whole day there if I have the money! You can find almost everything in V&D. They don't have my Burberry Brit though. (Can I buy it???) Sadly I still couldn't find a pair of boots for myself. Only sizes 39-42 were on super huge discounts. I saw very nice Esprit boots for about 50 euros. =( I'm still waiting for the perfect, cheap one. haha. So for today, I managed to grab 2 pairs of leggings, warm cotton ones, one thicker black pair and 1 thinner brown pair; 2 pairs of earrings, 1 necklace and 1 cute pair of bedroom slippers for my apartment from Accessorize - 70% discount!!! Damn cheap la the medium sized earrings for about S$5 and bedroom slippers for about S$9. I just had to buy it la. SO so many more things were on 70% discount there, a lot of beanies and gloves including some leather and suede gloves that were very tempting. I could spend a few hours solely in Accessorize loh hahaha. So happy to see affordable, pretty things. I also bought a Loreal hydrafresh moisturizing cream for dry skin. My skin is seriously damn disgusting now, so damn dry and sort of flaking, not as bad as it sounds, but can see white stuff, around my mouth area especially.

So yeap, I'm very happy today cos my day was so fulfilling and I did not miss the Eindhoven Carnival! But now I have to stay up till 23:59 for my Eurolines to London. Sucks la, why such timing. And I have no where to go but disturb Yixin in her small hotel room. Maybe I'll take a short nap then wake up later for my bus. Cya in London!