Mes résolutions en 2012:
1. Je vais dormir et manger bien
2. Je vais voyager à 9 autres pays
3. Je vais étudier plus
4. Je vais parler le francais plus
5. Je vais voir la neige
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First post for 2012. Honestly I expected my first and probably last new year in Europe to be better! But still it’s a good celebration with friends. Too bad the fireworks in Brussels were sucks and incomparable with like the one in London. And there was no extended train so everyone ran back during the fireworks. Probably I could have just stayed with couple of friends who wanted to stay for the sake of following my ego this time.
Anyway things could be worse and I’m glad 2011 was doing quite okay! Happy new year!
P.S.: I will need to finalize my resolutions anyway.
Fireworks in London:
We left Prague for Vienna on Dec 16. We still got the same train with individual compartments like mentioned before, however it was less sophisticated, the seats were unable to be reclined and there was no power plug. So if there were apparently variations between the trains that were used for different hours.
We weren’t trying to be really ambitious when we got back to Vienna, and we decided only Belvedere Palace and Vienna State Opera that we really wanted to visit.
Belvedere Castle apparently had its own Kerstmarkt but things were more expensive I guess than other Kerstmarkt.
State Opera House was not really accessible except when you bought the ticket so we could only grab some pictures outside. The interesting, even surprising, thing was that there were lots of ticket scalper trying to sell the Christmas Concert tickets for the Vienna grand opera of course with higher price, just in front of the Opera house instead. And according to them, police wouldn’t bother about this activity and it’s totally fine to do this. In fact they tried to buy the ticket as many as possible so the ticket would run out.
For the last day dinner, we went to a restaurant called Wiener Wald in the central of Vienna. Price was quite expensive and taste wasn’t that great except for the Apple Crème.
Vienna State Park was my very last destination on the last day but since it was winter, it wasn’t that interesting except for some pictures of composers and also the Grass Clock.
This would be the final part of the vacation. Central Europe was really interesting and somewhat different than the Western Europe. I would probably travel again to clear out the missing cities and countries next time!
As I’ve been doing this every year, I figure I should write another one for 2011. I wouldn’t call these things achievements or milestones though as their borderlines start to diminish to me. Rather, I’ll just simply say, these are the things I did in 2011:
1. Rejected a scholarship from Dongguk University, South Korea
I was kinda devastated initially honestly with my own decision at the first time and thinking if I did dire mistakes. But on second thought, I guess if you always have better plan in mind, you can always mend it, if you try hard enough. Too bad, I was almost being in the same university with few Korean celebs (one of them the member of Wondergirls).
2. Quitted my first job in Aug 2011.
I was lying that if I wasn’t feeling melancholic about it. It has been a memorable time with great people. But people move on to allow another good thing to happen.
3. Going back to the University in Leuven, Belgium
I was nearly jumping when I got the admission letter in May but soon enough I became anxious if I made the right choice, if it’s worth all the trouble, would I be able to make friends. But so far things have been good. It was rowdy at first with difficulty to find place but now I have enough close people that I can rely, too bad some of them are leaving pretty soon. I also think I do quite well in maintaining contacts with people I left back in Singapore and Indonesia.
The weirdest feeling probably I had was that you no longer receive paycheck at the end of the month but you rely on your own accord. And for me, who self-support myself, this is sorta hurting haha. But I guess it’s necessary pain to pay to relieve my ego, that I would try not to bother my parents financially if possible.
4. Visited another 9 countries, eight of them within less than 3 months.
South Korea, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Czech Republic.
5. Visited Bali for the second time and didn’t quite like it.
Too touristy and commercial now.
6. First time spending my birthday on a vacation
At the world capital of music, Vienna,
7. Almost got drunk for the first time in my early birthday celebration
Nuff said, close, tipsy, but wasn’t.
8. Met more people within 3 months than the people I’ve met during the course of 3 years I was working
Sure they came in and out fast unlike the people during the working time when you become attach and loyal to them. But it’s such a great feeling that somehow you become younger, talking to much younger people and the best, mostly without any prejudice and secret mission. We’re all students anyway
9. Fun things that I did: Paintball and 4WD Car at Ciater, Surfboarding at Bali
