[Wednesday, July 07, 2004]
As i have predicted, the meeting in Den Haag was such a blessed! Together with Elda, FX Ari, Dedek, Berly, Icut, and Dian ambon, i spent some quality time all the day. A little shopping there, foods here and there, and of course chit-chat to update the latest gossip we knew *grin*. Speaking about the food, we ate bakso at KBRI, and some Indonesian foods from Jimbaran Restaurant. Nice food and 'nice price' *sigh*, but still not as better as the Eindhoven one.
And today the journey continue as Dedek accompany me to visit Dayang restaurant, a typical Indonesian restaurant with various Warteg menu. Don't compare it with the similiar menu in Indonesia, coz the price definitely much more higher. But though it's expensive, i didn't mind at all coz it taste really great. And compare to the 2 previous restaurants i had visited earlier, it was cheaper. So i will definetely go back there in the future.
Tomorrow Joice and me will arrange some dinner for our closest friends here; Quyen from Vietnam, Sadath from Bangladesh, Fitri from Indonesia, Ping, Guo, and Li form China. It's mean to be a temporarily farewell party for both of us, since we will leave to Portugal next week for 3 months. It will held at Joice's room and we'll cook some Indonesian foods, just wait the complete report later ^_^)v
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[Sunday, July 04, 2004]
Did you remember my previous posting about shopping thing? Well....it's not over yet, indeed it's still continue along the week *grin*. Yes, i went to Nijmegen with Fitri and Joice at Friday with basic intention to get our SOFI number (note: it's a number that we need to get a job here, some kind of tax number). But then what we found there, we couldn't have our Sofi number that day because a lot of people intented the sam, so we had to arrange an appointment to have it the following week. We decided to take it in Wageningen instead and pay 7 euro rather than going back there. So there we went off and headed to the city centrum directly.
Next...of course you can guess. Three girls, city centrum, summer sales, early date of a month, and end of study period. It's definitely resulted in bunch of clothes, a pair of shoes and mules, boxes of perfumes, webcams, subwoofer speaker, and USB port. That was all of our shopping list, not just mine by the way. Nevermind the weather, though it was raining, windy, and really cold, we kept walking, shopping and don forget to had a lunch at chinese restaurant, and coffee every here and there. It was sooo nice. The city centrum of Nijmegen was definitely great, much better than Uthrecht though still not as good as Eindhoven.
And speaking about Eindhoven, i finally manage to go back there yesterday to meet Frank and Ky. I was picked up at the train station by Frank, and later together we picked Ky from the hairdresser. We're having lunch at Pannekoekhuis, doing some shopping *again*, and ended up with dinner at Indonesian restaurant called BALI. It was definitely another one fine day for me. They're such a nice people, nice places to visit, and nice foods indeed. In fact the Indonesian restauran we visited is an original one, with Indonesian peole worked there. So finally i went home with very full stomache and droped by Frank and Ky at my own room. Yes...they're sending me home by car! They didn't have a heart to let me went home alone by train and bus, especially when they found out that it takes 2 hours on the way for me to get there or get home, meanwhile it's only took an hour or less by car. So they decided that next time i go there to visit them, i should give them a call so they can pick me up here. I am definitely will do that, i want to visit and spend some weekend at their new house later after i go back from Portugal.
And speaking about Portugal, it's really a good progress. Finally i got a confirmation for everything. I booked my flight to Lisabon for July 16, and i got a letter of acceptance from the University that stated my internship there, which will be last since July 16, to October 16. Three full month, just what me and Joice expected! So we can spend some time on the last weeks of October to travel to Spain, and then we can take a flight back home from Barcelone. It was sooo great. Everything seems to run really smoothly. I have spend money like hell this week, but no regret at all. I have gain a lot of fun and satisfaction than ever and it pays a lot. And it's not even ended yet, i still have some plan left. I'll visit Den Haag on Monday to have a date with FEUI'ers who currently study here in Netherlands. Such another good plan for sure, gathered with old friends in a new place away from home. That should be fun....i just can't wait to meet them ^_*
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