Project 365

The view from my room was foggy!

Update: It’s actually foggy for the whole day and evening!!!

I got it!!! It was on SALE for 140 Euro (600 ringgit) including luggage, LCCT bus ticket, and taxes!

To-Do checklists:

• Return ticket to KL. I hope I can get a free one from AirAsia. Planning to stay in KL for few days before or after my trip to OZ, but I need to know my sister’s schedule first 🙂
• Australian tourist visa. I hope I won’t be rejected!!! (It happened to my sister last time)
• GRADUATE before August! The most important thing ever!

The urge to travel is back again!!! 🙁 Help! 911!

Finally, decorating is almost done. I still want to fill one wall with all the postcards I got, but I’m still not sure how to do it — without damaging the wall and the postcard itself. I also bought an IKEA lamp so that I can read some pages of a book before sleep each night, but the lamp didn’t work 🙁 . I was so disappointed!

Oh well… I can feel myself at home now. Sunday is spent here in my room, enjoying myself with a cup of hot chocolate, a book, James Blunt’s music, and some candles that light up the room. It feels so good and fulfilling. I don’t feel like going anywhere. Alhamdulillah for everything.

We always have a lot of things to share. Or to joke about. From serious stuff to some stupidest things that you could ever imagine. We love to talk in broken Arabic, just to make fun of those foreigners (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and even Indonesians) whose Arabic is unbelievably funny! If I’m in Jeddah, I spend most of my time in his room. Every single day. We laugh until our stomach hurts, listen to music (AND sing & dance as crazy as we can!), watch movies, and talk (it’s bloody hard to shut his mouth, seriously).

I miss him sooo much!

A lot of things happened today! I planned to go to IKEA by bike (around 40 minutes to 1 hour long) as I wanted to have a time for myself… just want to be alone so that I could reflect about the things that had been happening and I could refresh my mind! But minutes before I left the house, I checked the radar and I could see a HUGE cloud was coming. It was so huge that it could cover the whole Netherlands! Yes, it’s going to be raining again and most probably STORMS!

So I decided to bike to the nearest bus stop and take a bus from there to IKEA. On the way back, it was a disaster! I cycled with my umbrella and it went all over the place! The wind was so strong and caused my umbrella to break. It was SO bad. I was so wet. It was freezing too! The journey from the bus stop which usually took 5 minutes, turned to be 15 minutes. It was just unbelievable. The weather was crazy!

My day ended with a nice dinner with my former housemates, Mei and Paul at Usine. It was really nice. I had a really great time. We had a talk ranging from cultural issues (Mei is from Taiwan and Paul is a French with a British mother and a Vietnamese father), history, travel, wedding, to a life in general. Awesome evening, indeed!

Eindhoven is the city of light, just because Philips was founded here. Although the headquarter of Philips is no longer in Eindhoven, the city keeps on promoting itself as the city of light. The ‘title’ doesn’t make this small city ‘brighter’ than other Dutch cities in terms of numbers of light scattering throughout the city center. It’s just something that Eindhoveners are proud of.

From 6 to 13 November, the city hosts the annual event, Glow Eindhoven, which showcases art and architecture by means of light. I haven’t really explore it yet as the weather hasn’t been a friend this week. It’s been raining cats and dogs. It’s really cold too! I only went to the centrum (city center) this evening to see some of the shows and they were quite beautiful.

I’ll probably be going to explore it tomorrow. Or this weekend. Can’t wait.

Counting down! Super excited! 🙂

I have been so busy lately with moving out (unpacking, sorting, and decorating) and exams that I failed to notice the beautiful view of Eindhoven! Most of the leaves have now fallen. Before they turn into boring leafless trees, I HAVE to enjoy this view as much as I can!

I love it! Cycling to the university have recently became my favorite 🙂

Before:

It looked so awful wasn’t it?! The good thing was, my room has a smaller room next to this room shown in the picture above. So I left the other one empty. That’s where I slept last night. Apparently, that room was too small for my bed 🙁 It fit just right with the mattress, but not with the bed frame. If the room was 10 cm bigger, then it would have fit!

After: (warning: the other part not too far from the bed was messy as hell!)

So, there was a change of plan. I put the bed in the bigger room, while the wardrobe, study desk, fridge, and cabinet will be in the smaller room. Agni came over to help me to assemble the bed. He did other manly work too! Thanks, Agni! 🙂

Bed was done. Next is the kitchen. Then the study desk, which will be delivered next week. Wardrobe and fridge will follow, hopefully by the end of next week. Then, the fun part: decorating! Oh how I love moving out. Boooooooo! Hahaha.