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Blessed The Food… I mean THE CHEF!-Part 5

New Years! New Menu! Thorben switched the menu from steak to pork! I am not a big fan of pork, like pork belly and stuff because I don’t like to eat fatty stuff but when it come to Thorben is the cook then I believe it will be worth to try and worth to put my “I don’t eat this on my diet” aside 😉

It all started when Thorben still in Germany, he brought all the ingredients from there, wohoo I will eat 100% imported stuff, finally! I feel like a King haha. He wrote us the things that he brought with him.

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Thorben always so German, he started to cook 24 hours before the day hahaha on Friday he blanched the kale, the 6kgs of kale #shocked!

Saw that it was a lot of kale, I asked Thorben how many people will it be? are we having a full house (read: 8 people)? and he said 12, so we will have an overload house! but my mathematical side came out, oh 12 people and 6kg of kale so each people got 2kg, should be OK. Mind people, it was in the morning, and my brain doesn’t work well in the morning with math’s issue haha 😉 but somehow Thorben’s brain works well in the morning haha he still on jetlag mode but he’s still able to corrected the math #face palm!

I arrived first, obviously haha who else it’s gonna be 😉 followed by Yves and handsome Freddoy, Boramy, Aggy and last one was Luis and Ben. Yves brought the beer from Luxembourg, Luis and Ben brought a lot of 胖叔 cakes *droollinnggg. Freddoy become more and more handsome and I just squeezed and hug him a lot so cute! 😉

Due to the table only has 8 chairs so they have extension table but this table was low, they called it baby chair and they want me to sit there but nope nope nope, Marlyn Praseli ain’t sitting on that chair, I need to sit on the middle, the center of all the food 😉

Marlyn IS the center of the foods

Thorben gave the explanation of what is what, we had pork belly, pork neck, sausages and not real sausages because we can’t eat the skin.

There was wayyyy a lot of food for everyone but for the beginning, we share the sausages and since I was sitting on the middle, I helped well… Yves said to me that I need to do the cutting of the sausages….. (hmmm it doesn’t sounds right….) but yeah I cut it up until the point where Rich asked me “Is it your plate or is it the cutting plate?” haha

I like pork neck the best because it’s not that fatty, Aggy and Boramy like the pork belly the most, Yves eat everything 😉 and surprisingly Thorben also prepare the dessert! wohooo when he said “I also have dessert” Freddy replied “But Marina is not here” hahaha 😉 Marinaaaaa come back pleaseee! Here is Thorben’s dessert!

We had the pink and yellow color: Rote Grütze mit Vanille Soße, the snow white bread: Christstollen, Marina cookies and whole Pain Chaud 😉

I was really really full after the dinner! Syuke came after we finished the dinner, he came for dessert and we just spread around after that. This home has many games! Thorben just bought I guess 6 packs of Cards Against Humanity! but we didn’t play that, we played the game called The Mind.

This game is rather odd hahaha, Thorben explained it and me, Aggy and Boramy was putting our hand so fast and so loud and he kept saying “We don’t need to put it that fast and loud” haha but still it’s the fun. Long story short, we sucks at the game, only until level 4, idk how Thorben played it with his family until level 8 hahaha. how how how?!?!

Then we heard a story of Boramy’s grandma and I got a conclusion that she is a magic grandma because when she was 85yo, somebody tried to robbed her but they failed miserably! Her grandma hitting him with her cane hahaha idk if I should laugh or how but I admire the courage of your grandma 😀 I’d better be nice to her, because like grandma like granddaughter (if this idiom does exist anyway hahaha)

And some people gone to another farewell party or birthday party, I was staying and played Awesomenauts with Thorben’s and then when I became confident with my skill, we increased the level and we suckssss! we need help from Brendan haha Brendan came after midnight with Nintendo switch and with Brendan we won some battle.

After that we played Mario Kart, at some point three of us became team, the goal is not to get caught because if you get caught you will be put on the prison and need the other team member to free you up. When Brendan say it, Thorben looked at me as if I’m the one that will be caught, hey guys! I know I’m not good at Mario Kart but….. haha and then 3-2-1 HA! BURN! Thorben and Brendan get caught first! Suddenly I felt like I’m the hero that saved both of them #proud of myself 😉

Then we moving on to another game, Mario Smash Bros Ultimate. We also choose characters, I was Kirby but then Thorben became Kirby and I was Pack Man. I thought it was also a team of three of us, but Idk why Brendan was kicking Thorben and he said “Because he is kicking me” and then I realized that 3 of us were enemies and should attack each other hahaha

Then, after so many yawned, it was 3 AM! It’s time to go home, while we were getting out of Thorben’s, Brendan said that Thorben’s apartment is really good and really big, does he need a roomate?! and I said “HA! if he ever need a roomate, I will be the first one that apply! Brendan replied “He won’t choose you, you’re too intense!” well well, I don’t think he’ll choose you either! 😉

What a good food at the beginning of the year with the best people in town 😉

Thanks Thorben for the dinner, NEXT! HAHAHA 😉

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Rich’s Mansion

Everyone that I know from the Hungover Games had been to Rich’s home while me…I’ve never been there! WHAAATTTTT! *mindblown
Up until on Saturday, while we were having dinner at Thorben’s, Rich asked me what will I do on Sunday? He said he’s having a happy hour party at his home and I was over the joy to finally able to see his home haha. Yves was there and he said “woww Marlyn Calm down” hahaha waitttt Guys the reason why I was over the joy was because I always heard sth bizzare about Rich’s Apartment hahaha the decoration and stuff, his collection of 150 bottles of vodka and the list goes on and on and on and I was super curious to check it out 😉

There you go the F(S)UNDAY poster, it is very very typical Rich to make poster of his own event, like soooo TOTAL, I like it!

Thorben, Aggy and I, we came together to Rich’s home. They’ve been there before but still couldn’t find the right building at the first attempt haha and when we finally there and the door opened it was EPIC!

He indeed has his own mini bar with around 150 bottles of drink, it was a bloody marry night and he brought it directly from USA unfortunately Im not a fan of bloody marry therefore our lovely bartender Luis made me another drink that involves proseco, campari…right? and sth orange-ish kind of things and it was gooooodddd!
I asked Rich to give me a tour of his mansion, saw the bar I mean its hard to miss it when it was directly at the entrance haha living room, guest bedroom and guest bathroom that you might need to change the lamp, main bedroom that somehow become the place where all of us playing mario kart hahaha

and NO dining table everyone hahaha 😉

We played game in the living room, Brendan explained the game called Jungle Speed where we need to take the stick if we had the same card, Uliana was very good at this game, she was so calm and so concentrated, this game is too much for me I cant control myself of not screaming while I’m taking the stick.. well on my defense, I need to match myself with the game name right? “Jungle” haha and Uliana match herself with the second name which is “speed”. Nicolas and Rodion had to remind me that this is a card game not a screaming game #facepalm.

Moving on to the next game, we wanted to play another card game named Saboteur, Thorben was reading the instruction but somehow it was printed weirdly so he kept flipping it up till the point where Rich asked “what are you doing? cleaning up your hand or what? hahaha the instruction will not change no matter how many times you flip it” ahahaha then he gave the instruction to me and indeed it was such a weird printed way.

Therefore we did another game that does not require highly concentration at all, Alice game! 😉 and then followed by another “overthinking” 1up 1down, two up and two down game #very very facepalm emoji please hahaha
We also did the meme’s game but I was tired of sitting so I moved to the main bedroom to join Freddoy and Uliana played mario kart.

Honestly, Sorry no offense, I was never liked Mario Kart! I mean, my mario generation was very much better, Super Mario Bross that I played in Nintendo! therefore I was always the last one among the 4 of us huhuh T.T When I was playing somehow a scene from TAKEN 1 happened!

I was the one that got taken by Rich by pulling my leg to the ground ahahaha and he said “Marlyn, its time, leave the game it doesnt matter come on come on it has to be now!”

I was like what the HELL is going on?! and then he took me to the guest room with Nicolas, Boramy and Thorben already there and he said “you need to touch all of us” put your legs, hands, anything you just need to be able to touch all of us! Boramy said “She can do split, it will be easy for her to positioned herself” Feeling so bizzare, I kept raising each other legs to see which one is which and positioned myself so that I was able to touch everybody. I still not understand why do I need to touch everybody but yeah I did it anyway and then we watched such a very lovely video <3 but somehow we missed Dasha! so I need to grabbed her and told her the same things but then Uliana came and the rules still the same, followed by Aggy, Luis and Ben! hahaha at this point Nicolas run away already 😉 and here we are
It was a super fun party to kick out year 2019, not to forget the muffin and bread that Uliana baked wogghhh so good! the guacamole, Thorben’s leftover dinner that Boramy took and I ate the pork neck 😉 , the chocolate candy that Luis hide it so that I didn’t see it but I did see that HA! andddd the taco bell deliveryyyy! wohoooo oh also the Ayi that kept cleaning all the things 😉 Also (how many also already haha) Rodion for trying to re-make the taken scene again while I was watching Lars’ played the mario kart haha and I appreciate your defense / compliments by saying “She was on the game, not winning or not a good player but at least she was on it and Rich just pulled her legs” hahaha

Thank you Rich for having me at your home, it was a very fun night with all the games and the rules that you made haha I genuinely cannot imagine what my life in Shanghai without all of you, thank you for choosing me to be your friend among any other people that you could choose <3 lots of loveesssssss kisses and huggssss from me XOXO

The Mansion’s Owner

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The Blue and White VIPs

It all started when Siti (the star of one food app) asked me if I want to go to an event called Zaku Night.

The location was at M1NT, I am not a fan of night club so when I first saw M1NT I was a bit skeptical but yeah I clicked on the link and read the descriptions and find out that it was quiet interesting so I signed up 😉

Up until the moment I signed up, I only knew Zaku is Teru’s event, Teru is Eiman’s roommate (now become ex roomate because he moved out haha) that we knew and he was the organizer for this event so yeah I came.

The attendance list was Siti, Julia, Eiman, Phil, Gordy, no Thorben and no Aggy hahahaha 😉
From the description, I know that there will be free ice cream, free soft cake or whatev its called and some foods and drinks. Thats enough to convinced me to go 🙂

So here we are, at Zaku Event!
They gave us this bracelet and coupon to use for foods wohooo free food on a rainy Friday, what more can I ask.
We had the soft cake and then ice cream and the third icon was nails? I mean… what is the connection between ice cream, soft cake and nails? hmmm idk somebody please explain! haha

The decoration was nice actually, the color was dominated by blue and white, I mean it has to be match with Zaku’s logo right hahaha Thanks to Siti that quote “I was here since 4PM helping them with ALL of this” yeah sure M1NT only has chandelier before you came right? hahaha

Then here is the main star of the night, Teru!

Not sure if 11th Jan was the first day that Steve Jobs launched apple back then…hmmmm need to check it out, but this year 11th Jan marked the first anniversary of Zaku zaku! wooooo *clap clap clap

With this first anniversary they also announced their new menu which is Zaku Latte, with the caption of BEST MILK EVER! from Hokkaido with the best cow ever! hahaha

This is the situation during the event, I mean its a fun event, Eiman! Idk why you looked so serious, this is not in class where you need to answer teacher’s question and got additional points hahaha

The food on there was great but not as much as its written on the descriptions I guess….or maybe there was too many people and they grabbed the food faster than us pfffff therefore we were hungry and we went to Xinwang restaurant just 30mins before the business hour closed, idk is it the people power that made them still let us in very late or what haha.

We were on the second floor with a small table for 10people haha! and Eiman ordered the food like a boss.
E: 我要这个咖喱something something (pointing at the picture)
XW:几分?
E:随便.
What is 随便?hahaha don’t order too much! we had 3 portion of ducks I guess and then all other food was doubled portion, we had 12 dishes in total. Surprisingly, we kind of finished it all.

During the dinner we discussed about Zaku’s event and how everybody on the table was invited as Teru’s VIP list hahaha *facepalm. It does feel very special when we can share this VIP list together, doesn’t it? #should be a rhetorical question, not sarcasm 😉

But at least in this dinner I gotta met the awesome crew like:
1. Nick, who apprently quiet upset that Zaku Latte is the new product other than Zaku Americano but hey you gotta taste the best MILK ever for once right haha otherwise you really missed something in life haha
2. TeeJ, the Korean guy that was carrying his spicy sauce around and for the sake of Asian’s I also carry my spicy sauce around sometime lets have spicy sauce battle later on hahaha. Special thanks to not choose fast food chains restaurant such as hahaha you named it.
3. Ken, from Japan that insisted we ordered too much food and wanted to cut down all the food to one portion only hahaha thanks God we didnt do that otherwise it wont be enough
4. A very cute husband and wife Vincent and Sonia that apparently came back to China (according to Eiman) too f$@!ing soon 🙂

Phil we missed you on the dinner!

Even though none of us won the lucky draw of free dessert for 365 days but we all know Teru and we made it to his VIP list (wonder if the VIP list does exist when everyone was on the list hahaha) then why dont we just came to Zaku’s shop and asked for it haha use the People’s Power one more time 🙂

Above all Congratz to Zaku Zaku for having their anniversary and thanks for having us there!

PS: pics was taken by the link that Teru’s shared and camera 360 from TeeJ.

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Gone (not) By The Wind

This is it! the first swap clothes in year 2019! Last Saturday, Ying held a swapping clothes event where you can bring your old but still good clothes to the swap and then other people will also bring their clothes and we just swap with each other, no restriction on how many clothes you should take, you can also bring your shoes, bags, accessories etc.

This is one of the reason why I succeed of not buying too much clothes in 2018 *thumbs up and I shall continue it in 2019 hahaha

You can see many many many clothes thats available here! from different sizes, style and even things you have no idea what the HELL is that haha and look at all the happy ladies on the paradise of clothes!

Unfortunately, theres a mystery that need to be solved and up until now not solved yet. Ying and Seth’s down jacket was taken! inside Ying’s jacket there are keys, metro card and gloves but nothing on Seth’s. So it will be easier to know that white long down jacket is actually belong to somebody, while for Seth’s it will be hard for people to realize that yours are not belong to the swap. #sorry

We asked all the people there but nobody see it, perhaps the one that took it already left and not in the group chat so it will be hard to trace them.

However we are still trying to find out where is the jacket, maybe somebody moved it and put it somewhere but the result is a no, they searched the whole corner of the bar but still couldn’t find it.

Seth is a photographer so he took a picture when the event started and we try to see if we can identify someone sitting around that area and then we find out that it was only less than 10mins after the event started and the jacket was taken and there werent many people at that time 🙁
I know its sucks when people mistakenly take your stuff especially in this winter time and you dont have a jacket 🙁 but what I like about Seth and Ying was they still able to find the positive and funny words regarding this. They said “now we are able to narrow it down to only 6mins so few people were there between 2:12-2:18PM” wohooo yeah good progress!So it was only within this 6mins and the down jacket gone! (not) by the wind specifically but just a methapore you know 🙂

and he continued with another funny alibi “now I need to find the clue from the floor maybe the feather fall down and I can trace it” ahahahaha *face palm
I know there was a family that sat around that area a baby that is less than 1yo and the parents I said maybe the parents remember who were sitting or standing next to them and Seth said “maybe even the baby know it! in the next 5years when he is able to speak he can come to us and explain the crime he witnessed” yeah Seth for sure that what the baby will do 😉

Anyhow until the event finished, we didnt find it and nobody came or reply in the group that it was somebody somebody that mistakenly took it 🙁 huhuhu

Look at the leftover!
This is only parts of it and what will they do with it? they will donate it to the rural area. I guess this is a very good idea sometimes people buy stuff and then dont want to wear it again and dont know what to do…well then this swap is the answer, maybe it will fit better in another person’s closet and even if its not you still do a contribution by giving it to the people who need it more 😉

Thanks Ying for voluntarily organizing this every month! and thanks to Seth that also supporting the swap, we need more people like you. And thanks God you didnt put your key inside your jacket ahahaha so at least you Guys can go back to your Apartment safe and sound 🙂

This is Ying, picture taken by Seth hahaha!
Sorry for your down jacket but if I ever see somebody wear it on the next swap, we know what we should do haha from now on, detective mode on!

On top of it, I would like to use this opportunity to say thank you to Pewa that became the pioneer of this swapping event on Hangzhou and then she moved to Shanghai and she started the first swap here. Pewa is not in Shanghai anymore and I dont know precisely where she is now but I hope you can see how much your swap idea grows, you should be proud of yourself.

ANNOUNCEMENT!
News update at around 8PM somebody reached Ying and that she could get her and Seth’s jacket again! wohoooooo so its a happy ending! 快递 will do the delivery. we all are so happy that their down jacket go back to their home and the mystery solved! now we can all turn off our detective mode 😉
#swapnotshop

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This Is The Greatest Show!

Meeru Resort Welcomes You!

This resort located 45 km, approximate about 1 hour away from Velana Airport is really the best! It has the best services, food and staff!

Thanks to my sister that booked the Jacuzzi water villa room so that we can enjoy the beach directly under our room! the feeling where you just jump to the beach right after you wake up was amazing!

While we were staying there, my sister booked the resort together with buffet, so for breakfast, lunch and dinner it’s already included and the good system from Meeru is they put us on the same table everytime so we don’t need to be afraid that we came late to the dining hall and we don’t have any table to eat or so on and they also have the same staff that responsible for each section of the dinning hall, the dining hall is really big btw which means they also serve many foods! many good foods! 😉

On dinner time, they put LED lamp on every table with the same color which is yellow, but because it was dinner time so it’s a bit dark and I got lost so the person in charge of our table-Nasfah asked “what is my fav color?” and he changed the LED light to green so that I won’t get lost again haha

This resort always have somethings to do, some events to see, etc etc they never running out of idea of how to satisfy the customers! awesome 😉 Me and my sister did the free trial breathing exercise for diving, they did it on the swimming pool with the diving gear and when I carry the oxygen tank I swear it was so heavy and I almost fall down carrying it, it was more like the oxygen pulled me away hahaha.

We did the exercise on this very cool swimming pool

Then, we went to do snorkeling coral reef, they took us on the speed boat maybe about 15 mins away from the resort and we snorkeled on the ocean, we saw a lot of fish! many finding dori around, seems she didn’t get lost this time hahaha but we couldn’t stand on the reef because it is sooo deep.

We also did sunset on yacht and they provide some snacks on the yacht! perfect!

This time we went further away probably 1 hour from the resort, I saw the gradation of blue colors from light blue to darker blue to navy blue! To all the garment boss out there please visit Indian ocean first so that you can adjust your navy blue color of clothes hahaha 😉 because the real navy blue is really beautiful! hahaha during this sunset hunting, we met some dolphins! the dolphins jumped in group, did salto and the staff on the yacht said that dolphins like the noise so me and my sister, also my mom and dad was screaming when we saw one dolphin and we made some noise! hahaha and the dolphins jumped again 😉 I was like don’t worry Ibrahim (one of the staff’s name) screaming is my area of expertise 😉

They also have the buggy or golf car every time. So from our room to dining hall even though it is close but due to some reasons (read: excuses) for example the weather is too hot or I just want to feel like I’m a king 😉 hahaha I always call the buggy pfff….not me calling the buggy but I always asked the staff to call the buggy hahaha

At Meeru we can also go anywhere barefoot haha this is the best! just like at home 😉 because the floor is decorated with sand, it literally everywhere including the dining hall, the staff also barefoot…well, except the buggy’s driver.

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It was really a relaxing and refreshing time in Maldives, this place is really 10/10! Btw just FYI, the raining season starts from Feb-July so better not to go on that months and maybe…..just go directly to the resort, unless if you want to see the city 😉 hahaha

As 2018 is about to finish within 24hr, I hope you all doing good, people 😉

Get busy living!

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The Falsifying Advertisement

First of all, alert! alert! there is no wifi at Maldives airport everyone! WHATTT!! *shocked! They have free wifi but you need to register with your local number which is of course we don’t buy it so I can’t tell my sister where I will wait for them, the airport is small btw so you can’t be lost unless! you were not waiting on the arrival hall nor on the place where you said you would be 😉 HA! I said to my sister that I will wait them at Starbucks or some cafe shop to have the wifi and so on bbuuuuutttt I was on the lounge 😉 so there was a bit of hide and seek part between me and my sister but she was the one that seek me more and me, I’m just hiding under the cold AC with cookies, fruits and wifi from the lounge 😉 haha but long story short, we were able to found each other 😉

And we met the driver that took us to our hotel called h78, the hotel was nice, right in front of the beach. Btw this is not the resort yet, we went to the city called Hulhumale. The receptionist of this hotel is a woman from Nepal. My sister knew that this hotel provide the city tour and we wanted to go there but when we arrived the city tour has finished and we were kind of sad but the woman told us that we can go by ourselves and she gave us the map of where to go and what can we see there. We became enthusiast when we heard her explaining the touristic places. There are parliament building, city garden restaurant, presidential jetty and park, sultan mosque, souvenir shop and fish market and she suggested us to take taxi to the park and then walk around and that’s exactly what we will do!

The taxi driver named Ahmad came and he became our “tour guide” by saying this building is Maldives bank, ministry of foreign affairs building, jetty blablabla. But during the way to our Presidential Park, he suddenly stopped in the middle of the road, take a bottle of water, get out of the taxi to the sidewalk, rinse his mouth and came back. We were confused if he is fasting or what but yeah nobody knows what is going on with him….. Anyway we arrived to the one that called “park”. I was like…this doesn’t seems like a presidential park and I said that we want to go to the presidential park and he said “oh this presidential park is behind the mosque” and he dropped us there. Before we got off he asked how long we will be here and I said maybe 3 hours and he said “No, it’s too long. Everything here is so small only 500m walking distance, 1 hour is enough” I was like hmmmmm this is such different energy from the receptionist and the driver.

And here is the Presidential Park, they have the what so called “Fountain Bridge” which is…. See it by yourselves people 😉 the fountain was just like this and this height, doesn’t go any higher and the lights are blue, green and red ahahaha

They have a unique swing and a man-made tree.

Then this is the Sultan Mosque, Jetty and another park which has many birds and the ministry of foreign affairs 😉

The souvenir shops was not appealing at all, because all the shops are darks so we didn’t go there. And the highlight was the so called artificial beach. Our receptionist said many people take pictures of this artificial beach and I was just curious how did they make the artificial beach in the middle of the city? And here it is people! Hahaha

See the sand, the salt water aka beach and then see those rocks act as a border between the artificial beach and the sea and the sea! haha

So…..the winner of this city tour explanations goes to the driver! Hahaha the way the driver explained everything to us was very simple and the way it is. But it is still good that we visited this city, because we got to know the places otherwise we will be curious about how the city will looks like and no wonder why the city tour already finished by the time we arrived there, I mean….there’s not much things to see anyway hahaha 😉

But we got to know that the people that we met in Hulhumale they all are very friendly and helpful and they can speak English! Wohooo so this makes our life easier haha and time goes really slow here #times goes by so slowly, times goes by so slowly lalalalalla by Madonna.

Next day we will go to the resort! To the real Maldives where you will see on google or any other search engine when you type Maldives. THIS BETTER BE GOOD! 😉

 

 

 

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The “Nightmare” Before Christmas

HO HO HO this Santa Claus laugh almost changed to Hu Hu Hu or Hiks Hiks Hiks crying voice for me hahahaha I really need to have some drama juussttttt before Christmas to make this movie title more real in life haha 😉

It all started with the very not prepare trip from my side, me and my family will meet up in Maldives for Christmas and then we will move to Bangkok and Phuket until beginning of January. My part was buy ticket for myself, going to Maldives and return from Phuket, my sister bought the middle part which is Maldives to Bangkok and Bangkok to Phuket. She will take bus from Canberra to Sydney, and then flight from Sydney to Singapore and Singapore to Maldives. My parents will take flight from Jakarta to Singapore and Singapore to Maldives. I think both me and my sister are getting lazy to check each other so we just gooooooo and when I was otw to airport I texted her to send me the other flight ticket, but she only sends me flight ticket from Bangkok to Phuket and she send it twice so she thought she also already send me the Maldives to Bangkok one and then maybe she went to sleep right after due to she’s been travelling far enough hahaha.

And when I was waiting to check in I just suddenly think “hmmmm do I need visa to transit in Sri Lanka?” and I checked on the internet and for Indonesian they need to have the travel authorization….I’m not sure about transit though…. therefore I called AGGY! haha but she didn’t pick up the phone and the waiting line got shorter and shorter and I panicked haha she was on the Christmas Eve party so of course she won’t check her phone so I texted on the group “Aggy! Pick up the phone!” hahaha the panic side of me started to use every way to be able to reach her. But she was able to calm me down by saying as far as she knew, it was only Canada that needed visa even for transit, so fiuhhh okay. First drama finished 🙂

Second drama started when the check in counter guy didn’t let me check in because I don’t have the flight out of Maldives. And I can’t call my sister using WA so I called my mom using wechat but she didn’t pick up *nervous stage 1. Then I called Aggy again to ask if she can call my dad’s Indonesian number unfortunately her phone cannot do that but since she was on a party so I asked her “can you ask somebody from the party if anyone can do that?” and she just shout “does anyone of you can make international call?” and someone saidd yes! and that someone was Hutch! yeayyy! Then I got another report from Aggy “the number is not valid” whoaaaaa *nervous stage 2! I gave her my father’s other number and she tried again but still 0 answer.

Thorben asked me “what is going on?” sorry bro, your little sister is in the middle of something! hahaha. Then I asked Gordy to call my sister on WA but she still didn’t pick up and his phone will run out of battery soon so he cannot call my sister anymore! *nervous stage 3. In the meantime while me, Aggy and Gordy kept calling my family member, the other Indian passenger looked at me and asked am I OK and I said NO! how do I look like OK hahaha I asked him “can you do international phone call?” and he said yes! sooo….the last candidate that I called using an Indian guy’s phone was…..my sister’s boyfriend hahaha! It was maybe 2AM in Australia but yeah I’m in panic hahaha and obviously he didn’t pick up either *facepalm.

In the end it was 23:07 and there was a ticketing guy that said “maybe you can buy again the ticket” I was like duhhhh! why I didn’t think of that! hahaha so I said to the check in counter guy that I will buy a new ticket and come back to you, and he said “but you need to do it latest 11:20 otherwise you will be late” and I ran with this ticketing guy to the counter ticket and I said “please buy me the cheapest ticket as I won’t use it anyway” hahahaha and then voilaaaaa! the additional ticket was printed, and I ran through the immigration. The immigration was only 1 opened and there was 2 people infront of me I felt like rrrgghhhhh this is just like in the movie “in time” when you just keep running otherwise you’ll running out of time and then security check and gate! woghhhh I finished the security check just in time when they start boarding…fiuhhh such an exercise on Xmas Eve 😉

Time to report then to everyone hahaha I called Aggy again to say that I’m safe now and because she’s my big sister she’s also panic and she texted my father saying “Hi this is Marlyn’s friend. Please ask your first daughter to call your second daughter” hahaha thanks God she didn’t mention anything about the ticket to my father 😉 otherwise it will be a longggg lecture about how to do travel preparation blah blah blah hahaha #sorry dad! I learned from my lesson, next time I will print every flight ticket and hotel reservations! *determined emoji.

I said to Thorben that I just started a TV soap opera involving Aggy but of course he wouldn’t understand so I called him to explain haha what so not German I am. And then I texted Gordy to said that I finally boarding and I saw the Indian guy again and he was glad that I made it to the plane haha I also said thanks to him.

After that I still asked Aggy can you do me the travel authorization for Sri Lanka, I give you my passport info hahaha and she said “no it’s too late, you will arrive in the morning anyway” hahaha true though and she said “how could you…” with 3 dots haha 3 dots is the official way to say that she doesn’t have any more words to say to me anymore mwahaha sorry sister! I’m in panic 😉

On the bright side…..seems this “nightmare” only happened before Christmas because now is Christmas day wohoooo! and the flight went really well, the service from Srilankan Airlines was really good, they continuously gave me water while I watched the movie without even me asking for it, they have a very tasty small biscuits and the cutest animation of the flight 😉 and I sat on the aisle just in front of the bathroom so I don’t need to wait in the line for going to the loo…nice!!!

My university friends called me 麻烦玲 (my chinese name is 李房玲-Li Fang Ling) they said because I 经常给人家麻烦 (often bother other people) hahaha and it might be right at this point, but ONLY this point 😉

Then I arrived Sri Lanka, transit and fly to Maldives.  And while on transit, my sister replied to me saying “I’ve already sent you the ticket” and I said “both of them was from Bangkok to Phuket” and she said “F#!k me” hahaha but it’s OK now the situation is under coonnntrooollllll 😉 besides, if nothing happened the night before Xmas, I won’t have this story anyway 😉

Now, everything went well, I arrived first and in next 3 hrs my sister and parents arrive so I treat myself by relaxing on the lounge, taking shower, have some snacks and life is good again! hahaha not that it was bad before, not at all but at least I can chill now 😉

Marlyn already chill

Besides, there is no movie called Nightmare during or after Christmas right? hahaha

😉

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The Diary of Marlyn Praseli

The Diary of Marlyn Praseli only for Marina Kern! Yes, you Kern! hahaha I wanted to write “Yes, we Kern!” just like the photo frame on your home but then between me and you, the Kern is only you haha so I changed the “we” to  “you” got it got it? 😉

This is the things that both of us like! FOOD! *droollingggggg 😀 But of course sometimes I eat with the customer and I cannot really take picture ya because I need to behave! hahahaha so far this is the max pictures that I can documented 😉

Starter!!! We need to have Schnitzel! However, the first meal I had in Germany wasn’t German food but Turkish food as lunch ahahaha 😉 so I haven’t officially arrived German unless I had the Schnitzel haha but the Turkish food was good also, so can’t complain 😉 In Oberammergau I had some meat with potato salad, it should be a typical German food which is good also! So I don’t mind to postponed the Schnitzel until dinner 😉

Next! We moved to Poland, the city called Ustron. The highlight of Ustron was when I braved myself to eat someting called Osobuco which means knee haha and I tried the knee of the deer, I didn’t expect it’s gonna be this big!

I sent the picture to Marina and her comment was “the potato looks good” ahahha don’t you see the deer knee hellooooo lady?! Aggy comment was “It looks good, just like what we had back home, oxtail soup” Well, ladies and gents this is the moment you’ve been waiting for (hahaha suddenly remember one the soundtrack of this is the greatest showman movie) the taste was rather unique I will put it this way, but if I got a chance to do it again, I probably would choose other food hahaha so hope you got the point 😉 wink wink, no offence to all the deer knee fans out there #if there is any hahaha!

Besides this deer knee, we also had dumplings the polish name will be Pierogi which is good! The decoration of the restaurant itself is really good, it’s like the Victorian style kind of haha it’s not special in polish food but more like a fusion. We also had some polish  special shot kind of which sorry but I prefer Jagermeister more 😉 hahaha

In the office, we have Lukas that made a corn flakes with chocolate wogghhh Amazing! I always eat this when I was a kid with sprinkles and stuff so this is goood! and Julia made a vegetable train toottt tooottt! I thought its called hummus but its not, she searched it on linguee the translation of how it’s called but yeah I don’t even remember it haha.

We also had doner kebab like 10 mins driving from office, the portion is big and it’s owned by a Turkish guy (supposedly) hahaha but somehow I found the entrance to the restaurant looks like a prison haha and this is where Lukas hurried me up so he appeared on my pictures HA!

I had the very typical kebab doner with beef 😉 the decoration of this restaurant is very unique even though it looks like a prison from the outside but the inside is they have many ornaments of BVD football club.

As Christmas is around the corner so some restaurant has their own Christmas dinner specialty and I ordered the goose leg 😉 haha it was soooo good! After the dinner, our colleague order a very cute desert 🙂 the hearts and hats of the snowman was the most delicious one (hmmm sounds like a psycho 😉 ) and they also had pocky! my childhood snacks hihihi

Then before we visited Dortmund Christmas Market, we had Italian dinner, with Italian food, it really hard to go wrong. In this restaurant they had a very fancy sparkling water bottle haha, Italian, always with style 😉

And then at Xmas Market, I had Gluehwein but Julia got a Cocoa with some alcohol inside, if I’m not mistaken it’s called lamomba or something like that and turns out it’s better! I didn’t know it, I only know if on Xmas then Gluehwein is a must, maybe because they don’t have Cocoa with alcohol here so that’s why I didn’t order, but next time I know what I should order haha

After 2 weeks of Western food, the Asian part of me came out haha, we had Japanese lunch at Dusseldorf where then I bought my Yves Rocher cosmetics stocks for a year hahaha. The restaurant called Yasabe, it was a small restaurant but always packed! or maybe because the size restaurant itself is small? haha but anyway the food was yummy slurp slurp!

What is more surprising is that in Dusseldorf I found many mobikes around! but the style are different than what we have here in Shanghai, and I just wonder if I can open the mobike and turns out yes I can open it! But then I forgot the size of European and Asian are very much different, I already adjusted the seat to the very low but I cannot touch the ground, my foot was maybe 15 cm above the ground and it simply hard for me just to get on the bike itself 🙁 pfff I need to locked it again and it charged me 7.8 RMB I forgot that Euro is so expensive hahaha!

Before saying goodbye to Germany, I need to have another proper German food and the last meal that I had was a very nice beef! I google translate the main menu and it was beef something but it came with salad and so on and the salad came first and I was like “where’s the beef” hahaha I didn’t pay attention to the sides other than beef but then the beef came with potatoes, I just need to relax 😉

So Marina…. here it is! the food documents that are able to be documented, of course there were many snacks, beers and other food that I didn’t take picture of, I don’t want to surprise you with what kind of food and beverages I had in Germany hahaha.. but I’ll give you some sneak peek 😉 continue scrolling!

Then…. time to say…. Hello to Shang Hai!

P.S: I haven’t had cheese cake so far 😉

Cathay Pacific will take me back to Shanghai 🙂

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Thank You Germany!..and Poland and Milano…well thanks EU!

In this December, I got a very nice opportunity to go to Germany again for 2 weeks. I mean, December, cold winter… what can I ask for more, it’s literally the best things for someone that came from tropical country to be able to experience winter in Europe, that’s just exemplary! *4 thumbs up!

Even though this 2 weeks was a business trip, but we managed to have some free and fun time 😉 like come on, it’s Germany yo! it’s not like I can go there every time I want, besides who can go to Europe as much as they like?! So, better seize the moment! 😉

We also visited customer in Milano and Ustron-Poland so wohooo I stepped my feet to 3 different countries within this 2 weeks that’s AWESOME! 😀

As always we will fly to Frankfurt but then we went to Oberammergau! I found this name is very funny haha and turns out they have the tounge twister for Oberammergau, Marina texted me in afternoon (SH time) which is morning (DE time) and when I heard of it I was like whattt?! that’s really scary tounge twister haha! it might be because she said it pretty fast but when Thorben write it down it wasn’t as scary as before. This show the comparison of real German and someone who tried to speak German hahaha!

And then meeeee!!!

It was mostly rainy Germany but then in Oberammergau the rain changed to SNOW!! This is the best feeling ever! Snowing in Europe! It’s just like seeing on the TV shows where the snow fall down from the sky and then I finally can feel it, super!

Then we drive down to Milano, 5 hours drive, we passed the Alps the view is breathtaking but the downside is the road really had many detour and I got really sick so I need to take a break first otherwise there would be another type of perfume on the car hahaha 😉

Next, we say hello to Katowice Airport-Poland! We visited one city called Ustron, the weather was sooooo wintery in terms of really cold but super cool! a quiet touristic place, the air is very clean and it’s just nice there!

Finally back again to where all the vibes begin, Germany! We watched double game! Football and Basketball. One win and one lost. Leverkusen won 1-0 against I don’t even know who hahaha and Telekom Bonn lost against again I don’t know haha. Thanks to Stefan for showing your fans club it was a really nice place with good food and good people even though I don’t speak German haha. I think this time was better than on March because Tom was there! 😀

Tom was very cute for the whole time, he was playing football game on phone while we were on Red Black Lion fans club and he kept shouting drei-null and then up to acht-null haha. On the stadium, he was also worried about the performance of Leverkusen, I secretly took picture of him 😉

At first I thought that he doesn’t want me to take selfie with him but after I found out that he was OK then all the selfies started hahaha but he always stick out his tounge hahaha funny Tom! As you can see maybe he got bored haha look at his face degradation 😉 Tom is such a sweet boy! <3 When Leverkusen finally scored a goal, I wanted to have high-5s with him but he was eating his pretzel and he put down his pretzel and then gave me high-5s, such a polite boy.

While on basketball match, the atmosphere is not as crazy as football but it’s still very vivid to watch! They had the cheerleader, singer, game for kids etc.

Besides the game, I somehow met “Chloe Moretz” made in Germany 😉 she looks really similar!

I also met another kid, Lisa! She is very calm and such a sweet bigger sister to her brother Bruno. We made some things, idk what it’s called… but we put it one by one, they have the moulding and I don’t speak German, she doesn’t speak English but we managed to communicate what color to put on and how many pieces haha we made 2 of it and in the end we were making a truck but her mom called her out to go to bed and she just said “Tschuess” and went up, very sweet! either she’s very obedience or she’s bored with me hahaha but I choose the obedience one 😉 While Bruno was going to bed with a bit upset hahaha! he also made something with this things according to his imagination haha Bruno is so small he’s only 2.5 yo, sooo cute!

Next will be another football match with Lukas! He supports Schalke team and this one is against Moscow, it was a last minute that I decided to go with Lukas and only 1 ticket left so I am very lucky to get it. Here we are!

Lukas has his seasonal ticket so he always get a seat at the same place, the stadium was in Veltins arena and the stadium was very mesmerizing, it is crazy big! There was 48,883 people on the stadium according to the number that showed on the cubes haha I became very German by remembering all the numbers. And here is why I took many pics Lukas! so don’t complaint 😉

For the whole 90 mins game there was nothing still 0:0 but then they had additional 2 mins and Schalke scores after 1 min! and it was such a nice goal and it happened really fast and for sure Lokomotive Moscow’s goal keeper tried his best to catch it but yeah they made it, congratz Lukas!! It was good that Lukas was freezing so we left the stadium after the game otherwise we would have stuck due to the fight that happened 5 mins after we left woghhh!

And because this is the season to be jolly it won’t be complete until we visit the Christmas market 😉 We went to Bonn and Dortmund, it was -1 degree but somehow I wasn’t freezing, cold yeah but it just felt so brilliant! The atmosphere, decoration, food and of course gluehwein 😉

This year can’t get any better 😉

Love Germany…well, EU! If you know what I mean 😉

Until next time 😉

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The League Has Spoken

There you go!!! The 3rd round of Hungover League. There were flyers in wechat moments in every players and I will copy the sentence from our Katniss-in Chief Tim 😉 #permission should be allowed haha!

Three weeks of carnage and incredible skill.

Because this is the 3rd league so the stakes are higher and people are getting more and more serious!

Like all the previous leagues, all 6 teams (consist of 7 people each and need to have 2 girls on the team) will have their own team logo and team shirts. I always like the team shirts because they are so creative and so funny in some way.

Thorben was in John’s team and Aggy was in Aaron’s team and mind you that I’m not get chosen for the league so I will be the narrative of this league drama 😉 It’s a win-win anyway, I won’t get hurt and I watched their playing with the supply of Bormione’s dipping sauce and Marina’s healthy oatmeal cookies.

I remember Thorben said that John wants the team name to be as short as possible while Aggy said that their team came up with a very long name one of them was “To Old For This $h!t” haha because Aggy’s team consist of the earliest people that ever join the hungover games. But in the end their teams names are:

Cher‘s team was “Catch You Must” with a logo of someone from Star Wars that I don’t even know because I don’t watch Star Wars! huaaa sorry for all the SW fans out there 🙁 But at least I know Cher’s character, Cherbacca it’s like Chubaka sth like that haha. Andy was Stormtrooper at halloween but in the league he was Andy-wan Kenobi, then we have Raoul as Darth Burger, Tessa as Princess Tessa, Tammy as Queen Tamidala, Agent Toni as Toto C-3PToni (why suddenly it seems like coding stuff), Qi as R2-Qi2, Luis as Luis Solo.

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John‘s team was “The Fantastic Beast” with the Harry Potter hand writing style of logo which I found it really cool and the names of each person were: roomies John as Johndledore , Marco as Mad-eye Moorco, Lucy as Lucy Lovegood, Thorben as Dementhor, Boramy as Bormione, Hudson as Hudsini, Syuke as Severus Syuke, David Chadsey as Chadsey Shacklebolt. They even got Bohai as additional supporter that came with hufflepuff coat and a wizard stick! haha winggardium leviosaaaa!

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Christine‘s team was “The Heartbreakers” with a black and pink touch because quote from Miguel “We will break somebody’s heart” let’s see if you can do that 😉 The team that will breaks your heart is Christine as The Drop Dead Gorgeous, Brody as Bro-die! don’t die yet please, Benita as New Girl, Adam as Puto, Nikita as Nya Kita, my running buddy Miguel as My Jelly and Kun as Only Hunting Bear? Seriously? Bear?! ahahaha

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Jason‘s team was “Archery Anonymous” with the uniform of the beer name. At first I thought they buy the shirt directly like that hahaha I don’t know if they customize the clothes but Thorben said “they did, they put Archery Anonymous there” but it wasn’t so obvious I think haha sorry guys! but at least you were the colorful one. They have Ben as the Australian Beer, my neighbor Lars as Probably The Best, Felix as Cupid, Eric as Works Every Time, Kwaki as Extra Cold, Kayla as Bullsey and Jason as Pink Elephant. I am so sure that this is not even a beer name hahaha

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Gene‘s team was “Magnum Shang Hai” with very Haiwaian clothes and it looks so comfy just like you are going to the beach haha and I need to take pic of them behind the bar and not on the field haha! Zara brought a new fashion sport haha look at her! she’s wearing shorts over the legging and somehow it looks good on her! this will be a trend I guess 😉 And also Anderson’s beard was purple actually hahaha he has purple glitter on it. This fashionable team has Hutch with his movember look that looks like father of Bella from Twilight hahahaha, Radu, Anderson, Viktor, Gene and Tonic 😉 Brenda and Zara.

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Aaron‘s team was “Retro Rockets” with a very interesting logo and name of each team players for example hahaha Fredoy as Asstro Boy and yes it’s a double s, I didn’t do typing mistake 😉 , Yves as Lord of Uranus, Aggy as Princess Laid Ya, Brendan as Luna Corn, Rodion as Darth Vaper, Aaron as Hand Solo and Viki as Venis Fly Trapa. Well well well, people see by yourself 😉

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I watched the kickball of the league on 13th Nov, I mean the 1st day of the league, maybe I should not say kickball as there is no ball to kick 😉 hahaha.

There were a game where The Heartbreaker vs AA and it was only Kwaki left if I’m not mistaken and from The Heartbreaker still either full but at least much more people like 4/5 and she caught two arrows in one time therefore 2 of her teammates back in the game, and the 2 arrow shooters from The Heartbreaker need to step aside and then another arrow got caught by AA and the situations was flip around, you go GIRL! all of the spectators went crazy and we were like “Kwaki! Kwaki! Kwaki!” Thorben arrows was being caught a lot so he need to step aside from the game 🙁 huhu I was like why Thorben is on the side again? I don’t see he got shot but yeah turns out his arrow got caught, but it’s OK still 2 more days to change the situations goooo Thorbinator!! Aggy’s team doing pretty well, RR is neck to neck with The Heartbreaker which is really surprising to me ahaha. The Heartbreaker played very well in the opening game, seems they succeed on breaking someone’s heart today. Well, well the winner for the first day of the league was Retro Rockets! yeayyy congratz Aggy and teams of course 😉

I missed the second day of the league on 20th Nov due to all you can eat Schnitzel hahaha! it’s not even BOGO deals, it’s infinite number of Schnitzel! *droollinnggggg 😀 .Marina kept me update regarding the second day of the league and Thorben was doing pretty good! she said that he didn’t step aside like last one and on the first game he even stayed until it finished! wohooooo there you go Thorben! but then Aggy’s team wasn’t perform well 🙁 huhuhu my handsome Freddoy, you should’ve wear the mini shorts again for the finals! hahaha At some point because I was asking Marina “ok now who against who?” and she said “Okay gotta watch” ahahaha yess! be my eyes for today girlll! later on she updated me with the list and Magnum SH is the new winner! Hellooooo Hawaiian shirts, let’s go to the beach each, let’s go get a wave 😉

As what I heard from Aggy, on the second day of the league, Viktor was so awesome, he can catch the arrow from different angle from the top, in front of him, bottom, behind him like everywhere. I saw Viktor caught arrow before so yeah if there was an award for MVP player it won’t be a surprise if Viktor got it.

This is Viktor! haha It’s hard to see who is who behind the mask 😉

The finals was on 27th Nov! and I was there to witness it! What a surprised that team AA was on the bottom of the rank but they played so so soooo crazy well! There was a game where Eric was the only player left against Fantastic Beast and somebody tried to shot him but he caught it! and this kept going on and on and in the end AA won that match, I was like this is such a joke, many players from FB against Eric! gezzz and they won against almost everyone! If I allowed to judge the final game, I think Eric saved their team very much. There was also a game with FB against heartbreaker I think, and idk why Boramy just sit with us and watching. And then there was one bow and 2 arrows left in the middle…. Marina said “who’s bow and arrow is that?” and then Boramy finally realized “OMG its my team!” hahaha and she ran inside the cages 😉 such a silly Bormoine haha

During the match, AA points are getting higher and higher. I really think AA performed super well on the final day. And then there was last match for Retro Rockets against Fantastic Beast. If RR win this last match then they will be the winner of the 3rd league, if RR lost then AA will be the winner. So I can imagine how nervous was Jason as this is the moment between his team or Aaron’s. Thorben asked me “which one you choose to win? its me against Aggy” and this is such a hard question haha I cannot even answer that.

Last man standing was Hudson, he was hiding and trying to catch some arrows behind two bunkers and only few seconds left but RR team was getting more and more aggressive and unstoppable arrow was pointed at Hudson, on the last few seconds he got shot first before he caught so that’s the game. It was such a debate because both arrows pointed at him very fast so as the spectator we might see that he caught the arrow first but 3 referee said that he got shot and then caught. And RR team was cheering because their points was 21 and AA team was 20.5, it was sooo sooo sooo close! Congratz Retro Rockets for winning the 3rd League! Aggy stayed quiet long time on the league yesss! make Indonesia proud ahahaha 😉 Aaron played really well on the final game, well done captain!

Go get that trophy Retro Rockets!! Aggy was a warrior in this video, Thorben made an appearance on this video also but he gracefully exit the field 😉 haha I was also on the video with the RR! wohooooo

I am so happy to become the spectator, shouting 8!tch3$ all the time with Marina, sang “stay aliveeeeee iveee iveeee” with unnecessary echo, ate chicken sticks, complaint, became the commentator that for sure no sports TV want to hire us haha , watching players slammed their mask, arrows, bows, hands etc whatever it is hahaha but be in mind that me and Marina we were not annoying 😉 we were farrrr from falling into annoying categories hahaha. Well done to all the 6 teams! You must be proud of yourself that you just finished the very intense game! thumbs up!

We also need to thanks Tim, Chenzi, Wyatt that has prepared the game, trophy and be a referee for this league is such a pressure! I bet Tim’s blood pressure for this month has raised hahaha

As for me, I am happy that Aggy’s team won, because the ratio between Aggy-Thorben and me was 1:1:1.1 winner, 1 participants and 1 didn’t even get drafted 😉 hahaha Well, at least I’m on team Leyfa the mamacita! Yeah 8!tches, Por Favor is Coming 😉 *snap snap.

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See you on the next league Archers!

PS: All the pictures were taken from the group, either took by Wyatt, Sveta, Uliana, Lu with her unique camera and from whoever that shared it either on the group or on their moments haha 😉 the professional video was made by Michael Sun.