Pinky Promise No More

In June 2018 I made a pinky promise with someone, we agreed “no matter what and where we are, we will meet each other again”

But first lets not go to that point yet because we need to pull back to the beginning of 2018 where I had a new intern in my office 🙂 I was so happy finally it will be a girl other than a (normally) French guy, you know stereotype of French people yeeahhh don’t even try to go that direction, nothing positive coming out of it haha

I picked her up from Pudong airport, I haven’t met her before but it wasn’t so hard to recognize a Dutch lady right? Screened through a coming passengers, excuse me! Are you Oda? Jackpot! Took one guess and bingo #detective

Oda was our intern for about 4 months, I was really happy to finally got a friend in the office! We even watched Breaking Bad once when our boss is not around (or twice or haha who knows how many times) both of us were so addicted and in love with Jesse Pinkman!

She also joined me and my archery guys for an almost all you can eat Laksa day, however we both were too stupid to wear a white top, we need to take care not to spill it! We also joined the evening where Hungover Games won the award! And not only our sport won, we also won free lunch! our friend Rich won this raffle but he gave it to us, since we were both broke we took it without hesitation, thanks to him we can eat like a king! 😀

One day around CNY I was sick, I asked Oda to came to my apartment, scratch my back with a coin haha! I showed her how my back supposed to look like after she scratched it, oh boy she was in shocked! Haha thanks to her I came back healthy again, even able to go to April’s home and celebrated together 🙂

However, her internship come to an end, time to say goodbye is just around the corner, we had dinner at f.r.i.e.n.d.s cafe. Its a serious thematic cafe from TV series friends. After that dinner before we parted ways we made our pinky promise. We don’t know when or how but somehow we believe that we will meet again.

Oda and I are not the type who keep contact all the time, oh please we got life! haha we are not even do it from time to time but thanks to social media we can still have each other and somehow update about what the other side is doing. First attempt was to meet her in 2019 where I went to Amsterdam but it didn’t happen. Aahhh so close yet so far away.

Then the Universe heard us, Oda and Philipp moved to Hamburg! I was about to visit Hamburg in July but why should I? I can just wait for her in Sept! So we can fulfil our pinky promise!

The wait is now over! After 3 years and 3 months, we met again 🙂

I dont have the very first pic of us together but she still remember that I brought her to Bar Centrale to eat pizza too! First, Italian food is never wrong, I don’t want to give her a culture shock, she just landed yo! And second, the wifi is good there so she can let her family and Philipp know that she’s safe!!

I met Oda every day after her work or during her lunchtime but on Friday and Saturday we got the full day, maaaannn…..I feel like we both on work because we walked for full 8 hours! From 10:15ish to 19:00

On Friday we joined a walking tour from Sandeman with our guide Umut. He explained us so many interesting stories like “Why we have Swan-father (people who protects Swan) in Hamburg?” because we believe that Swan brings prosperity to the City of Hamburg. He explained that (almost) only in Hamburg that citizen are more important than the emperor and it shows from the Rathaus that they put citizen statue (normal people with normal jobs) above their emperor statue. The running gags why Hamburg and Bremen don’t like each other because Hamburg is the door to the world (as it’s where the Port are) and Bremen said “yes but Bremen has the key to open that door” Umut showed us in Deichstraße where the fire began and by the end of the road it’s finished. We also went on a 1,8 Euro “cruise” boat haha! to “Portugal” 😉 , Elbphilharmonie and Landungsbrücken.