on updates

Okay, before this blog goes hiatus. A few updates for the first quarter of 2009.

1. On January I’ve received an invitation to visit Europe, Netherlands to be exact. I went to Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Enkhuizen and Hoorn, the details are here, here, and here. From Netherlands I flew to Singapore and then Jakarta. Me and family went to Bandung, where we stayed for one night.

2. February is my birth month of course, so, no fancy celebration, just had pizza with my housemates, and receive a lot of wishes from my family and friends.

3. March was month of concerts! I went to the over crowded Javajazzfestival on the first weekend, and followed by Mosaic music festival at the Esplanade. I went to see Brad Mehldau Trio performance. The series of concerts and shows was closed by the most awesome concert I’ve ever watch, COLDPLAY live in Singapore. It was definitely the best.

4. Moving on to April, I went to Sepang to watch Formula 1 live plus post-race Jamiroquai concert. I remember once said to my mother, while we are driving to one of the malls in South Jakarta and a car, one of my favorite car, was in front of us, it was sometimes on the end of 2005, “Mom, within 3 years, I’ll be driving one of those.”. And indeed, I can get myself one within 3 years, well, a little over.

Thanking God for all the blessing and blessing in disguised.

on a little note from the Netherlands

Here are few little notes from the Netherlands,

Although it was cold and windy, but the air is dry. Better prepare yourself with moisturizing lotion and lip balm to prevent skin drying and blistering lips.

I went all the way to Netherlands only for being bitten by a dog while I was walking in the park. The owner however just stood there while the dog chasing after me, and bit my jeans.

It is better to take round trip tickets for trains if you planned to go back and forth from one city to another. It’s cheaper.

I haven’t smoke for 12 hours, by the time I arrived at Schipol, I rushed to get out from the terminal for smoking and I forgot that I haven’t wear my thermal underwear and only wear jacket and jumper. Damn, 5.30 in the morning the temperature was sub zero.