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The Last Man Standing Crew – Part 3

Have I learnt from last year? The Last Man Standing Crew – Part 2 I think so 🙂

How was the Ubahn situation? I do not know because Robinhood picked me up + dropped me off #Ganzes paket. The office situation, you will see some new faces but the O.G were still there, someone need to hold the forth 🙂 Meet the Squad from 2.2: Christin + Robinhood + Pörtner + Sebhil + Dennis + Tanja + Anna

I also wanted to involved my non direkt colleague who has to take the offer of early retirement. Christiane + Sylvia + Martina. Hope the best for you, enjoy your free time now 🙂

I’m proudly took a day off on last working day ~ the 30.12.2025. On top of that, left my laptop in the office! #For the first time in 5 years. My shoulder feels so relax not to have to carry it. Thank you for the 2025, colleagues 🙂

Marlyn is completely shut down, ready to fight in the new year 😀 #48 Hours later.

Will we see us again at our last working day in 2026? Only time will tell #Bis dahin… or not haha

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I’m Just a Kid

Every December I got a new hobby: spending moneyyyyyy!! I like to look on deals whether last minute or not, what could be die passenden Geschenke for my squads 😉

Was celebrating Christmas wie gehabt ~ full package with Claudia. On 24th zum Frühstücken at Leuthold’s 1910 in Castrop Rauxel. Took Sbahn to Hbf + almost private Bus to Castrop Markt as there was only two people then only me and the 61 years old Bus driver who are very healthy. We chatted a long the way until I arrived, he tried to guess where I was from, his Rheinfolge was: China, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philipine, approaching my station he said “oh nooo, please let me know, I’m running out of countries” he was so peinlich he couldn’t named Indonesia especially when he went there in 2023, overall was a very nice and angenehmen fährt 🙂

Heiligabend came Dominik and Guido for Würst und Kartoffelsalat + Jenga game until level 31. I continue the festives on Christmas with Claudia & Julius’ family. They are always very TOTAL, table manner was on point, Antipasti placed beautifully, every possible drinks were there, was very very very professional.

On the 26th Dominik and Guido came für breakfast, we exchange gifts with Alina. Then dinner at Dom’s place only the two of us 🙂 Our first Christmas together #Kuschelabend.

I know Christmas liegt nicht um Geschenke zu beschenken but hey, I’m just a kid, I loveeeee opening & receiving gift, knowing my friends curated it solely for me. At the end of the day, the thoughts are whats counts ~ or not, if its goes to your work related connection, it’s rather a “must” #Think I would behave nicely? #Think again haha

My modified version of our mandatory Christmas song:

  • Last Christmas, I don’t give anyone my heart.
  • So the very next day, nobody can gave it away.
  • This year, to save me from…. hmmm everything haha…,
  • I give it to someone special 😀

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Sugarbomb – Part 2

We wanted to be at Christmas Market in Aachen, because during our first visit ~ Sugarbomb I got the impression that somehow it will be good. Was I correct though?

On the way there, Dom already half happy, he just need the Soda. Good I was already Germanized, made a booking at Warteg, otherwise all 3 hours on the way is umsonst! #They were packed! Very happy to see the restaurant thrived 🙂

Feli followed their IG Account to know they have Adventskalender, for the day we were there, it will be Es Campur für every zwei Hauptgerichte, aaahhh schaffen wir es locker! #Nomnomnom

Now we both has aged hihi our average number is 32 🙂 revisit Aachener Dom ~ still the best one, touch the door #Again. Unfortunately my guess was incorret, the Christmas Market was rather a disappointment. No mühe whatsoever given, I understand everybody wants to cut corners, but really… to the point they didn’t even have plate for Crepes? Dom just got a paper? It’s too much saving money hey.

They don’t have Christmas Tree ~ only Printen as Aachener Printen is famous #Yep, not getting it… Brigitta (Warteg’s employee) said actually there was a Photobox with background Printen, according to her it was very good ~ I however didn’t see it.

We need to cure our Zonk experience, back to the place we know how ~ Warteg for dinner 😀 I need to have something warm, opted for Bakso. Two Hauptgerichte wieder, meaning another Es Campur! How many happy soda Dom had? Three! He was gesodad.

I’m pretty sure we will come back here during Christmas, not only for the Printen Photobox, rather for Warteg’s Adventskalender and their Stempelkarte #Priorität #So many reason to look forward to 😉

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Sweat It Off

A glimpse of a Belohnung for 261 days of hard work, Nordwest presented their annual Christmas Party 😀 sponsored by Monicita’s Tequila, and her “komm, andale andale” slogan.

Regarding the food choice itself, it’s deutlich weniger, they must have chosen the Sparplan. Not complaining, purely serve as #Zur Kenntnis genommen.

Moving on to the dance floor. For some reason, I braved myself to go right on the first row, have never done it previously. Was there with Sharin, Monicita, Katrina and Axel.

All of the sudden, Sharin turn me around, pushed me while giving my hand to the lead singer, while shouting “hier“. Next thing I knew, he grabbed + pulled me = I was on the Bühne… Oh WOW, how… didn’t even catch if he asked something. They were laughing their ass off right below me. It was a full 02:30 Minutes song, I was pleading, please please do not ask or give me the mic because I don’t know this song!

What a party, Dominik picked me up at 00:45, my back + clothes + hair TODOS was sweating #Two hours pure dancing, my feet was sore. Monicita also agrees that this Party is way more fun than last one.

I was very confident, gave it all in, enjoyed while it last 🙂

See you next year Nordwestler… or not? hmmm…. #We shall see.

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The Credits – Part 4

Shout out to Irina for not only taking fully charge of Poland’s trip but also for taking all pictures because either my finger or my phone could handle it.

Recap of what had we done?

Above All Else, Take In Any Daily Light Chance

Sun’s appearance is something we have to cherished on, do German outside activity a.k.a spazieren gehen around the pretty buildings, tried to pay attention to Gdansk’s mysterious bridge opening time or opt for other directions.

Iri said she hates the fact that our beannie will always go up, so I used two of my hairclips to keep it down. Did it work? Meh… not so sure. Long story short, it became really complicated once we got inside to a restaurant I need to take it out one by one ~ thick gloves + giant bottle + scarf + Ororo + hats. That’s why they said ~ if I was a toy, it’ll be written Accessories Are Sold Separately

I Can Love You in the Dark

Around 16:30 the sun has gone, had it not for Roberto and Zibi for sure we would already go back to our AirBnB at 18:00 😀 Not because the city wasn’t pretty, more like our body automatically think it was already 23:00.

Brought two colors of Beanie, wearing red is the better one. Roberto always found her first while Zibi founds me, thanks to my red beanie, it made me visible 🙂 or even part of somethings bigger or smaller 😉 Mr. Gnome

Indoor Chance

I always aim to the mall instead of our AirBnB if I want to use the loo mwahaha ~ if I was back at my place, won’t move out into the coldness everrrr.

Went to a Pierogi place, their Menu looks very fantastic, Irina reminded me “Marlyn each is 300 gram, are you sure you gonna have 6 pcs?” I ended up with 5. Ordered their beer, OMG it was sooooo good!

Tis the Season to Be Jolly, Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

At first we didn’t grasp the size of Gdansk Christmas Market because it was splitted into some sections, it was the largest they ever got.

Saw some stand I never saw in Germany before, Oysters! not gonna leave Gdansk before I had it. And one other where people always wait in line, for a small sweets? Marlyn, are you really gonna wait? Yes I am. It wasn’t sweets at all, was cheese! Definitely two pcs is enough.

Learn About #Solidarnosc.

Poland’s non violent social movement who challenged the communist government and fight for democracy. It’s important to visit this museum, very well explained about when the strike started in Lenin Shipyard Gdansk that caused another chain of strikes, how they got their 21st based requirement fulfilled only to be taken away few years later. There are some people Polish need to be proud to have, Lech Walesa is one of them.

Uncomfortable Facts

We experiences some rasistic behavior from mens in Gdansk. You do not need to be able to speak Polish to understand if someone mocking at you. One guy outside the train station while we were lost at finding our street and one guy while we were taking picture in the dark screaming at us. We didn’t bother anyone, maybe we were too sensitive? No! I walked by three guy with a pumpkin on their hand during day light, one of them looked at me saying “cang cing cong” insulting my Asian face. You three put Polish people on shame!

Fazit

Poland really has some history for a quiet young country. I shall revisit you… perhaps in Summer where I’ll know I’ll Survived

Thank you Irina, I won’t have these beautiful Poland Express memories without you, love you Bitch! <3

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Survived

Oh Marlyn, it’s written: better to be overdressed than underdressed for the walking tour ~ informed Irina. Allright, I put on double layer in everything: socks + pants + clothes. We spent 3 hours walking on -6 degree, many people gone in the middle of the tour, had to take a break in a Cafe to buy some drinks or use the bathroom because at some point I wasn’t gonna make it.

While Irina was on the cashier line, I was on the toilet line, it was only one, we had to squezze, behind me was a guy name Roberto ~ at that time I didn’t know his name yet. Switch position with Irina, I heard her speaking Spanish to…. Roberto! Then I came with our chocolate + rum drink “oh it’s you again!” he also really needed the break for the same reason ~ he wasn’t going to make it. Not long after, his boyfriend called all of us to come out as the tour has to be continued.

We were enduring for the last one and a half hour of cold Gdansk. Ended up in a restaurant, I had my calamari rice whereas they were only drinking tea. We were talking about what was our plan, turns out we have similar one, we wanted to go to Sopot the next day so we all went together 🙂

Roberto asked “are we going to rely everything on my boyfriend or we do actually have a concrete plan”

Oh I’m happily chose the first.

Zibi is Polish so we do not have to think about which train, platform, when to get off #Pampered.

Behind the Sopot sign was a church, don’t know if its opened. Roberto mentioned “it’s the house of Lord, you can always come anytime”. He was correct, three of us entered the church, Iri said “cute” + Roberto “Wow” + me “guys, there is a coffin, I think we need to get out”. It’s all make sense now on the type of car parked outside of it. We were so cancelled, Zibi next time informed us so we didn’t crashed someone’s funeral!

Off to go to the famous Sopot bridge where Zibi kept sliding as if he was on the ice rink, we went quite far like almost reached the end until our stomach called us, we need to act up. He found a very good restaurant.

Roberto ordered Zupa la Zupa, can’t remember which type, it was the one with bread, very delicious. Then main courses came, the waiter want to take the Zupa, NO! We are still eating it. I like my food, just not the potatoes. In the end I was very happy we still have the bread from the Zupa.

They went back to Gdansk while we went to Gydnia. You can fell the Communisim in this city is still pretty strong, it didn’t take us long time, let’s cut it, went back to gathered with them again haha.

Zibi bought Roberto an Amber pendant from Sopot and Roberto bought a necklace to which he doesn’t need the pendant. Iri said “give it to Marlyn, she will take any free item” yessss! Now I have your supposedly pendant 😉

Zibi managed to book the very fancy + always full restaurant, even my drink came in a Glass cage with smokes. Irina’s friend introduced a very cool bar, it took us some efforts to find it but it was worthy!

We met on our last day in Poland for Pierogi dinner. Me & Iri went the previous day for soury taste, so happy we could try their sweet taste too. Closing the night with Glühwein right next to it #Literally, I shouldn’t have placed back all my accessories haha.

This evening, I found out Zibi’s ability to sleep through the entire flight without using the bathroom so he never know how does a toilet on airplane looks like. Irina dragged Roberto to listen to “She’s on the money” Yaaiisss!! We need rich friends! 😀

Believe in the magic of survival skill, from “we were not gonna make it, our toes gonna have frosbite, to we did made it! “

I hope to see you again, read: come to EU please XOXO

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Accessories Are Sold Separately

One Castle Irina wanted to go: Malbork Castle ~ approximately one hour away from Gdansk. Bought the ticket however…. there was no chance to understand the where and what type of train, it was all written in Polish. Google mentioned one train right in front of us ~ red colour, looks way too fancy for the price we paid. We were 100% sure our ticket couldn’t take this. Let’s wait for the next one… waiting… waiting…. it finally arrived, you could directly see it was more budget ~ blue color, showed our ticket to the conductor, he said “next one”. The next one arrived ~ another blue. Well…. how long will we wait then? let’s just hop in.

Read our confused face, a guy asked if he can help, yes please! if you can tell us if this train go to Malbork, got double confirmation from him and a mother who also wanted to go there with her son. Since we didn’t buy seat reservation, we always moved to the next empty seat. It was only two long stops from Gdansk, we have moved three times until the conductor checked our ticket. We weren’t supposed to take this one, great! Yet, our stop is on the way, they couldn’t really kicked us out. Once arrived at the station, hmmmm where to go? I said “let’s follow the mother & son, I saw they were going that way” turns out she was also searching for us and Irina became our Shepherd.

She bought audio book. Wow, more accessories on me #Facepalm.

I’m very glad she booked it, without it we would certainly be lost, there was no clear sign on where to go next. I started to enjoying it, it takes 4-5 hours to complete the whole castle. In the middle of the story, it said we need a break #Thoughtful.

Walked around outside the castle, nothing to do there, decided to get closer to Madonna and Child statue. Tried to replicate it haha.

While walking back to train station, we passed the very interesting Malbork sign, ought to have a photo of it. How? We thought to do copy paste as do not want to ask passerby ~ why simplified while we can complicated it 😉 Put one of my accessories into the use.

Boah… the struggle of taking it

#Worth a thousand words 😀

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Mr. Gnome

My favourite Bitccchhhhhh texted me for one purpose: sychronising our holiday… we do still have some days left! Neither Germany nor Amsterdam are not cold enough, let us hit Poland hey! 😀

She was already there a week earlier with her friend, I jumped into the Wagon afterwards. Played my Uno Reverse card this time a.k.a table has turned, meaning I didn’t plan any, nada, niente, null. Not bother to know where we’ll stay, what kind of activity we’ll do, what to eat etc.

First stop was Wroclaw. I arrived in the evening around dinner time, Irina asked if I want to eat Polish food? Perhaps later, I wanna have Ramen now! Who searched for the restaurant? her #Obviously 😉

While she was waiting in line, she pointed:

  • I was there in the Galeria-Hof, there are animals, you can have a look and touch it.
  • Why would I touch an animal at this hour?
  • No, were only a statue
  • Ahhhhh! Ok Ok

Saw it, backed at her still on the line waiting. The place doesn’t have good ventilation so we were stinky right after, the Ramen itself was good though! We hang our clothes for two nights in the balcony to reduce the smell. Next day, we did walking tour, ready to learn some Polish history.

Something very funny about this place is the number of Gnome scatter on doorways, alley, windows, street corners etc. What was started as a peaceful protest became an invasion 😉 so much so till the number reached more than 1.100. Forget about the churches or castle, we were on Gnome hunting!

The first Gnome ever to honor the movement is Papa Krasnal. So many distractions during our Papa Krasnal hunt; must buy new gloves ~ obviously can’t pay with card, had to go to ATM; being tempted by Popcorn smell; wait! we have another factor need to be considered here: The Weather, once it got dark, we couldn’t see Papa Krasnal or any other Krasnal anymore. Set our priorities straight and Papa was found!

How wonderful it was to be on the Christmas market freely without feeling like a sardine #Köln experience. Speaking about Germany, why do we have a Bavarian Lion? #Confused.

Wearing a red beanie was the correct choice, it made me visible or genauer gesagt made me Marlyn Krasnal #Part of Krasnale Tribe.

Mr. Gnome, you are such a creativity, thank you for the entertaining 🙂

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It’s Not in Vain

Relax wasn’t at my card that evening, saw Stadt Dortmund has another campaign to write a sentence: DO, wo…. Given myself some thought of what Dortmund meant for me then I followed the instructions. Few seconds later, my IG was suspended. What?! Was I scammed? Immediately asked Dominik if he could see my page ~ he couldn’t. Damn! shit shit shit, what did and shall I do now?

I was 100% sure it was because I send the confirmation stating I participate on Dortmund Motto to my IG that somehow considered as “collecting sensible information”. Regardless, I don’t need to know the “Why” all I want to know was the “How” to unblock it. Read the instructions, need to submit Selfie with white background etc I had to search for my old photos then only the agony left… waiting…

Within one day I got it back, yes! What a relief, had I not… I’m gonna do Instagramfree life. One week later, I got another Email informing my sentence was one of the first 30 chosen! Whoaaaa, at least all the shocked are not in vain 😀

Since it’s still a running campaign, mine would only be projected for three days, next batch are coming. Unfortunately I couldn’t witness it because I wasn’t in Dortmund but at least one of my reason could 🙂

#Proud Dortmunderin!

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Revenge

We registered to a free public viewing EM qualification Luxembourg vs Germany by Check24. There were many freebies: 1*Trikot + 2*Beers + 1*Bratwurst + Fansartikel (like a scarf or hat). It’s written Geschenke auswählen, perhaps only one of those?

The Stadion opened since 18:15, we arrived one hour later. Went through the security checked where I was dammned because I had pepper spray on my pocket, rrrghhh I think they will take it away. They did, she asked me to emptied my pocket, hold it, asked what’s that? Protection against big dog, oh! it’s verboten. Then she asked me to open my bag, there I had my 150ml mini bottle, same question, answered water. I had to throw it ~ not the water, the bottle. Oh noo! This Baby Flasche has been with me since 2023 🙁 I think she was already in a bad mood because of my pepper spray.

What was an originally Kostenlose event resulted of me needed to buy new pepper spray + Baby Flasche. Once we officially inside the stadion, I realized turns out we could get all those perks. Hell yeah, won’t stopped after the Bratwurst. I’m not a fans on collecting some Werbung stuff but that has fade, for the stuff they took away ~ I need to make it breakeven. Don’t care how long the queue to get those stuff, I’m getting all of it!

The game started at 20:45, until that time we got our Bratwurst + Trikot + Rubbellos to get the Fansartikel (mine scarf and hat while Dom got only scarf) + 2*Free drinks. Check24 had two screens, in the middle there was a stage with entertainment like DJ, Singer, Dancers etc, there were round about 15.000 people on the spot, not bad hey!

When we took a selfie, the guy sitting next to us were funny, he was posing as if Dom took picture of him, he proceed to take Dom’s phone and then make a selfie of himself ~ after that he made a picture of us, for me that was the highlight of the evening 😀

First half of the game was rather boring, passiert ja nix. Told Dom we could just go…? during break time we let other people to leave first whilst the singer came back to stage, sang völlig losgeslöst von der erde, followed by Kiss Cam. Well, once it’s done, the second half started, let’s continue watching. We saw two goals were made, OK safe, 10 Minutes before the game ends, we collected the last 2*Free drinks from my coupoun then proceed to walk home.

At the end they were throwing away the Fansartikel, I picked up the hat from the floor, can give it to Finny 🙂 I couldn’t get him the size L Trikot but at least I got him something haha.

Very big advertisement by Check24 for sure, well there are always pros and cons to a free event. Stadion rule: only bring your G-E-L-D.

Now that I downloaded the App, I will come to their next event to get my revenge 😉 #use it to the max! Sometimes when it’s free, it wasn’t really free, you paid it in another way. Thank you Baby Flasche, I hope I gave you an experience of your 2,5 years old lifetime #Breaking heart.

On the way back, because of our costumes, people were wondering what was happening? was there a play? More or less, it was a qualification. We have watched the beginning of it, let’s see how far Deutschland can go 🙂