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The (Non)Fairy Godmother

Remember Silvia? The crazy “Italian” lady from my German class who I just figured out that she is actually a Swiss-Italian rather than an Italian, oh well, nothing is as straight as an arrow with her 😉

I wanted to go to her place for the weekend, this is the second time we tried to make it happened. First time it was cancelled due to Dortmund City found a potential bomb around her area so everyone living within the parameter got evacuated. Second time is this weekend, we finally made it happen…..wait for it…. We met up at the City Center, it has to be always there otherwise Silvia will lost!

But she carried another bags with her..hmm.. I know she was somewhere before so maybe she didn’t go back to her apartment yet. I told her “Let’s go to put your stuff and mine into your place and get out again” because her place is exactly in the City Center. She said “Actually there is something I would like to say, we don’t go to my place” I thought OK then she can stay in my place, then she added “I already booked a hotel for us, it’s around here” I was drop-dead shocked “Whattt?? what the hell do we need to stay in a Hotel in Dortmund? Where both of us live in Dortmund?” She told me that she tried to cook a steak on her new electrical stove however it caused an electrical splash on her socket, smokes comes up from the cable, activated her smoke detector, in the end power went off.

Long story short, she booked a hotel just 5 mins away which means still in the City Center and she can’t cancel it soooooo I’d got to stay in a hotel too! Wohoooo a surprise Staycation in Dortmund 😀 really not bad eeehhh!

The hotel were just right in front of the Football Museum and this was my first time staying in the hotel since forever I forgot that I need to insert the key to have power on…pfffff… don’t know how to behave haha!

After checking in, entered our room, got ourselves refreshed, we went out to…..the City Center duhhh and had dinner in Maximilian Cafe. I went there before and I sooooooo like the BBQ Chicken Wings, it’s an antipasti but more like a main dish because it’s big!! I feel something weird that night, something like really good to go out, eat in restaurant, not worry about not catching the bus back home, just chilled and enjoy the day! I think this forced or surprise Staycation is not a bad idea after all, perhaps I will do it too but ofc not in the City Center where my apartment is located haha somewhere else 🙂

The next day both of us woke up really late, already at brunch time haha and we did a lot of stuff on that day! what a productive day! We’ve done 15K steps! where and what did we do? Silvia bought me a mug due to I moved to a new apartment so this is the present for my not yet “housewarming” party. When I opened it I really like it because the mug is so me! the color etc, love it love it love it! Thank you Silvia!!! She also said that when she saw this mug it reminds her of me <3

As you can see, first stop is my place, then we went to IKEA due to I need to buy 3 drawers for my new Kleiderschrank that wasn’t available last week. I surely need help because one drawer is 6kg, I carried one hihi and Silvia carried 2 haha She had 5 kids before so for sure as hell she can manage 12kg 🙂 During our bus trip to IKEA we passed by my office and my old apartment that was our “sightseeing place”

Then we go back to my place to put the drawer and back to our hotel yes! one last Staycation day! We had dinner again in the City Center but this time I felt sore not only on my legs but also on my shoulders due to the “weight” that I carried. No weird feeling this time, just tired. Nevertheless, we had a nice dinner, Spaghetti! Italian dish is never wrong!

I brought my laptop because Silvia said she will study German and do her homework but she doesn’t have the age anymore (quote from her) so she just watched some series in German and went to bed #bloody woman!

All in all, it was a funny weekend, I like and enjoy it! We don’t have a terms of “Godmother or Godfather” in Indonesia but if we have it, it should be her. We talked a lot about each other during dinner and brunch time and I’m really lucky that she was one of my classmates who become my friends and again… if I can choose, I’d like her to be my Godmother, regardless fairy or non fairy 😉

Merci beaucoup Silvia!

P.S: Don’t be afraid if I tried to come to your place for the third time, I’m looking forward of what will happen next! haha #devils laugh

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When Life Gives You Lemon-Part 2

Beginning of March, there was an email from our board saying that NW will have an event called “Autokino” which means you watch a movie inside your car and they projected it on a big screen. I really think this is a very good idea because cinemas were and still closed until this moment. Actually this Autokino ist ganz alte Schule! existed since my parents generation mwahaha but no harm on bringing it back on 🙂 good stuff does exist longer!

Julia directly called me and asked if I wanted to join because…… I don’t have a car, I can’t just come and standing in front of the screen, if that’s the case then it will be hmmmm Stehenkino haha obviously I said yes to her. This will be my first Autokino experience!

We chose the Wednesday 24th March and the film that we watched called Nightlife. Since I am not in home office period so I could see their preparation before! they put the big screen in our parking lot, bin so aufgeregt!

Behind the screen 🙂

The film started at 20Uhr German (on) Time but we were advised to be there since 18Uhr. When we entering the parking lot, they gave us plastic with wet towel and flag hmmmm ok flag… Then we passed through a drinking station and to our parking spot. Our cantine provide us with nachos, popcorn, currywurst and ice cream! and the good thing is all kostenlos! do I need to tell you what did I have? auf jeden Fall, alles! nyam nyam nyam 😉

When the time getting near to 8PM the sky is getting darker and the atmosphere really suit for watching movie on a big screen.

Before the movie start, we saw our board standing in a “stand-thingy” holding a mikrofon and gave us some speech. I thought it will be just “welcome and now we will start” but nope nope, mistaken! He did a presentation about NW, I was quiet shock when he said ” Präsentation” heee? did I mishear? there was not on the email that you will do presentation! haha its quiet funny when I see a slide with an “agenda” for today event. #very German :p

Btw there was one important slide which is the increasing number of employee last year, the number is +7 and Julia said “Marlyn you are one of the +7” yes! I made a “contribution” to the ppt 🙂

After that, the movie began! it was no subtitles but to my surprise I can understand it! not all words but approximate and this is good enough for me. The most impressive things is during the movie if we want to eat something we don’t need to come out from the car, we just…..raise our flag! that is whyyy…. and when we finished we all drove out and there were 3 people standing holding a garbage can. My comment was “wow this is very organize! they did a very good preparation!” soooo German! 😉

I really like when Mr. Simon gave the speech and there was a slide about Corona, he said “please not only see the negative side from corona and just waiting this to end because we can still do our best during this bad time” and this Autokino is one of the good thing that can happened in a bad situation as for sure no-one will bring this event back when we can einfach go to a real Kino.

Overall, I am very happy and did very impressed with the preparation for Autokino event. I am so proud to be part of Nordwest employee, thank you for coming up with this idea. Nevertheless, thank you Julia and Moritz for inviting me to join your car 🙂

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The Willing Victim

Dear Netflix, one song just right for you: right from the start…. you were a thief, you stole my heart…. and I your willing victim…. #dam dam daradam. I let you see the parts of me that weren’t all that pretty (ofc, who will looks pretty when you’re binge watch the whole season in one day haha)

I have been obsessed with one TV series during this Covid-19 pandemic. Sneak peak what is it?!

I don’t have Netflix account for the 7 years time I was in Shanghai because I need VPN and meh the internet with VPN is not fast enough so I don’t feel the necessity of having the account. But now the situation is different, I’m in Indonesia, I don’t need VPN and I’ll be jobless soon so why don’t I watch something at Netflix? At the beginning I only want to watch Narcos Mexico 2 which released on Feb 13. I knew my sister is on Netflix and I asked to use her account, turns out it wasn’t hers, it’s her fiance, my kokoe- Dom that has the account. He shared it with my sister and now with me! haha He thought I was the “Kids” section but no no I have my own section!

Honestly speaking I’m not a big fan of TV series so I didn’t realized that Money Heist was already there since few years back and I knew it because it was on the home page of my section and they automatically played the trailer and I said to myself “why not?”

When I watched it on the first time the audio was in English and with English subtitles- Yes! I do need a subtitles! I realized the voice of the actors doesn’t match with the text but only some words, most of the words were matched so I still didn’t realized that it wasn’t an English series. Then I started to searched on google about actor who played The Professor and Berlin then I realized it was a Spanish series! From then on I switched the audio to Spanish 🙂

I like their song “Bella Ciao” and it stuck in my head for a looonggg time, although it’s an Italian song but… the Spanish version is also beautiful! Mixed with the scene when Professor and Berlin sang together and when Moscow succeed on digging the tunnel that deserve a four thumbs up! The song got stuck so much until I willing to learn how to play it on a keyboard 😉

And then I kept continuing to Part 2 and Part 3 and following their instagram and found out that Part 4 actually coming on April. Since I’m not familiar with Netflix before I thought they will release one episode per week… at least that’s how I remember from Game of Throne Season 8 where people keep waiting every week instead of binge watch it. But they released it all together! wohooo 😀

My second fav characters after El Professor is Berlin! I’m sad that he’s dead on Part 2 but on Part 3 he reappears so I’m sure I will see him on Part 4 and again, the song “Ti Amo” stuck in my head and guess what? I learned how to play it as well 😉

Thank you La Casa De Papel for having an amazing songs and thank you sooo much for marijan piano and musichelp youtube account that post a tutorial on how to learn that. I owe you bunch!

I really can’t wait for their Part 5 and I don’t know when will they release it and it’s such a tortura to wait for it. Well… until then we can all enjoy the hype of instagram filter about la casa de papel from netflix_in 🙂

Hmmm what name should I choose?