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Double-double – Part 2

Just had a double-double celebrations! Lena’s 30th birthday plus their Baby Gender Reveal Party, all at once! #Celebrate good times, come on! at the place where Hainka celebrate his 30th as well as their wedding. Wo, so many doubles here 😀

Swantje + Alex picked me up at home since officially we are neighbors #Thank you Lena for contacting them auf den letzten Drücker. We arrived just in time before she started her speech. Submit our tip if the baby will be boy or girl. Who do I say hello at the begginning round? another Lena + Julius on Parkplatz, almost went with them had Swantje & Alex nicht funktioniert. It all began since PV so spät geantwortet, caused me bombarding other people for transportation haha. Arrived at the same time with Jana + Lars who put my jacket on the not Asian friendly rack, greets Thorsten, Anki, Lari, Lena’s parents, Papa Hainka literally his father not Andreas Hainka eventhough he will become Papa soon, Mick, cheeky rascals Hannes and Karl 🙂

First announcement, the Buffet is officially open! They not only look but also taste so good, I got each one #Nom nom. Jana asked if we should standing while eating or sitting? Obviously the later, we were the VIP as our table was right in the very front. Somehow we formed a group of 6 with Christopher, Thorsten said it was meant for Children seat. Valid for us too, we are all someone’s children 🙂 PV and Johanna arrived almost one hour later, thanks God I didn’t go with them, look at the food I could’ve missed #Priorität. Later, they joined our table too, from the smallest it became the biggest one to which got evicted as it was meant to be a dance floor.

Leute, this is my first Baby Gender Reveal Party I attended live, I’ve seen enough through the lens of Instagram to know usually they don’t do anything. However not the case for Hainka & Lena, they prepared a funny dance for us. What’s important is the correct song for when the Gender came “I don’t care, I love it” Then the clasical Simba! Nants’ ingonyama bagithi baba Sithi uhm ingonyama. Hmmmm seems the circle ain’t so circle #That’s why it’s called life. It took some time to hit the Pinata. Wowowowo, someone choose violence hahaha

I swear I saw somehow the color was blue, perhaps the light though, it’s a Baby Girl!!!! From our round, all women votes boys and other way around. Even though we know deep down, Girl is better 😉 #Who runs the world? GIRLS!

Right after the gender revealed, we were getting a Tüte with Schnuller went back to buffet to take some more sweets from the candy corners where Jana said “Marlyn, still no one cut the 30th cake” Someone has to do it #Challenge accepted! Hey Netizen, don’t judge me, I got an instruction from Hainka on the Messer whereabout. We are sometwo who has hearts, waited and said it should be Lena who cut it, when we came back for second round it still one piece, that’s a sign someone has to do something. She encouraged me “cut it Marlyn” I was so excited to be back to my 30, this is me defying gravity! Hey Jana, you’re also the accessories of a crime 🙂

We got back inside with our Tütchen this is where Jana found a GIRL PWR Gummibärchen, perfect for tonight, thumbs up.

Woaaa woaa, what is that? she could really bend it, then we started to twist our Zunge until Johanna said “I can do finger spagat is that count?” I said I can do real Spagat! From then on, I did too much Spagat in a day haha

We went dancing until time with Photo Wand, every Pair wants to have picture with each other, I can’t just let it happen hey? Spaagaaaatttt!

Thank you Lena for having me as part of this revelation and congratulations for Baby Girl, this baby will be loved so much! As a proud member of Club 30’s welcome to your best Era! As a supporter of Family, I’m happy a girl will be raised by you and Hainka, you’re gonna be a great parents.

Next time, I’ll see a little Leni 🙂

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Ihr seid verrückt! – Part 2

October 22nd, Chantal messaged me that she and Sophie were planning to celebrate my nachträglicher Geburtstag. She asked if I will be free on 28.12. My initial reaction was “Hä? Dezember? it still far… however knowing I don’t have holiday no more which means I’ll be in Dortmund, I said yes.

I received this message on Christmas. What?!?! was in shocked! #Never see that coming!

Sophie told I need a DE Ticket, maximal I can think is I’m going to their Heimat. This birthday gift was so above & beyond from both of them, voll ins Schwarze getroffen, can’t thank them enough!

Took the train from Dortmund Hbf to Köln at 08:45, mind you they were not from Dortmund ~ both started their journey one hour earlier. Heading to Brühl then took a shuttle bus cost 5 Euro on top pfffff on Lego Land they didn’t charge you more money, I only have 6 Euro on cash #Knapp!

Phantasialand opened at 11:00 we arrived around 11:40 ish. First attraction is Berlin area. We went to Das verrückte Hotel Tartüff, it’s like a fun house where they put furniture upside down, crazy elevator, moving carpet etc. In the end we can slide down only had to took off our shoes, oh yeah, saw it “Sophie, it’s quiet deep” she responded “Ach Marlyn, egal” #Fun 😀

Chantal want take Wellenflug carousel in front of fake ice-ice skating, let’s gooooo. It’s very relaxing to see the view from the top.

Walked passed Mexico, what do they have here? Wasserbahn mehhhh don’t want to get wet; the free fall towers auch mehhh; Talocan 13 x award winning top spin oh neeeee; Colorado Adventure it is! the descriptions were multi award winning family mine roller coaster. I’d say it fits for adults too, the track was outside + inside the dark tunnel, most thrilling was when we were in the dark tunnel, I thought it will go up only it goes down.

Moving on to Deep in Africa, Sophie recommended we must ride Black Mamba ~ the 18 x award winning suspended roller coaster in the heart of the jungle. Bring it on! I like the way we waited for Black Mamba, we do not go to a maze like normal, we “were” in the jungle vibe area, feels like I made a circle to it’s track. Right after, while we casually walking, I said “let’s go here, waiting time is only 5 minutes” it was an Adventure Trail which was easy, yet at the end there is a slide, boy oh boy my Ass hurt! the Slide is not like in das verrückte Hotel Tartüff, it’s made out of round steels like the type where you put your bag into an X-Ray #Poor my bones.

China Town is the area where we sit down in warm inside Restaurant Madschu for refilling our energy. We had a meet & greet with Dragon Wang, went to Europe’s longest underground ghost train Geister Rikscha. It was just sitting, chilling & seeing, we need it for Verdauung.

Reality kicks in, we are still missing 2 areas, Mystery and Fantasy. Los geht’s! Mystery Castle is next, we saw a seat that for me was familiar, reminded me of a screen illusion where they take us to a journey somewhere as if we were flying or tauchen, at least that’s what I expected in mind. We were seated, it was pitch dark, any moment the screen will appears. Holy guacamole! it was a free fall tower to which has awarded 16 times! None of us expected it! My feet clinged onto Chantal’s feet, shocking wasn’t do the justice. Turned on the dim light, we were somewhere on the top, going down, middle back to the top finally back to ground. I thought they will rocketed us again, thank’s God that wasn’t the case. I was gobsmacked “what the hell just happened?!” laughing as it was so much entertainment! The Mystery castle indeed a mystery.

At 17:00 they illuminate whole places, it was wonderful, Christmas spirit’s everywhere, walked around, took some beautiful pictures, absorbing these keepsakes <3

There are still some roller coasters left alas we couldn’t do it, only went in to Fantasy area then gift shop then ab nach Bushaltestelle. Unfortunately we didn’t see any shows, there was a fireworks at the end at 19:50 but since we took public transport, the connection wasn’t in our favor, we need to leave earlier. I think for next time I would stay in one of their theme park hotel and really take the paper Landkarte other than downloading the app. We did have the physical map in the end, only didn’t realized every ride has a descriptions, well! had we read it, we would miss the element of surprise from mystery castle 😉

Really appreciate both of you Chantal & Sophie for thinking to gift me this. What a brilliant way for us ~ me especially to mark the end of the year with Wintertraum.

Wondering what would the three of us would do next year? #alle guten Dinge sind drei.

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Ihr seid verrückt!

I am one kind of a person who sees importance in “dates” as in Datum, be it as it may: birthday, anniversary landing in Germany or any others possible milestone. I’d cherised and will find a way to celebrate it any how, the catch here is: it has to be precisely on that specific date.

Meine Freundin Claudia texted me in October, “Freundin, let’s have frühstück bei uns to celebrate your belated birthday” I was very touched, it is very sweet of her, didn’t even crossed my mind as I already celebrate my birthday on my birthday date. The day will be just like their normal Saturday schedule, I’ll join them for sport then breakfast at their place.

They have a tradition to mix the Alpenzwerg-Bio Schokomilch until it has no sound, on the lid of the milk there is a “Gewinnspiel” back then when Alina and I looked at the options, clearly there are a big prizes like Camera or bicycle something #Can’t even remember. What stands out was “a day with Simon Brunner” who the hell is he? why a day with him could be counted as a winner? He is a TikToker Sport star lalala. Ever since, it became an internal joke that we need to fill in the code so that Marlyn can win a day with Simon Brunner.

On the breakfast day there is no sticker of the Gewinnspiel again #Oh nein! Unbeknownst to me, they moved it to my birthday card. They are very natural, prepare the tables while I only “dabei sein” #moralische Unterstützung 😉

I was sitting, Julius was lighting the candle on Esstisch then come Claudia carrying the jar with LED lights followed by Alina holding a selfmade card singing “Happy Birthday to you”. I knew it was meant to be Frühstück for my nachträglicher Geburtstag however I was never imagined or wish for them to prepare me a gift! That was indeed a successful surprise. Can’t say anything other than “ihr seid verrückt!” 😀

  • Freundin: Siehst du die Gelände?
  • Neee. Ist das nicht seit Dezember schon immer da gewesen?
  • Neee! Das habe ich um 7 Uhr für dich gehängt.

WOW! Even with the decorations, look at the thought they put to congratulate me, the jar + the card + Simon Brunner Photo haha #Very epic!

Once my adrenaline wears off, we could start the breakfast then made einen Termin #Typisch Deutsch hahaha. It was supposed to be on 16.11 but we postponed it to 23.11. They came to Dortmund, picked me up, went to Phoenix Des Lumieres #Expecto Patronum spell. I always wants to go there a. because it’s literally next to Nordwest; b. no b just a haha. We tried to book an appointment together with Hainka and PV yet it never works. That’s why, the moment I knew I got it as my birthday gift, was very pleased, they got me wirklich ins Schwarze getroffen 🙂

The room was an ex-steel factory which means it is a big broad room but not a flat room, you will see a round pipe in the middle etc. All of it was covered by the digital and immersive arts. The thema is “Wunderwelt Ozean – Ein Immersiver Tauchgang” it makes you feel you really inside a Uboot.

When the first round is finished, we feel it’s a bit too quick, was only 30 Minute-ish. We came in like 2 minutes after the show starts, decided to still stay in. We also walked around to watch it from other perspectives.

Den Abend lassen wir ins Treppchen Restaurant in Hörde ausklingen. I will always be sold to my favourite: Muscheln!!!!

I always planned for my birthday or being on someone’s plan to surprising someone. This is my first time somebody surprising me, let alone successfully surprising me. I used to see someone else speechless, now I am the receiving end, I finally understand that feeling. This surprise wasn’t just about the day, it reminded me how lucky I am to have friends like you, from the bottom of my heart, vielen lieben Dank my friendssss, it mean the world to me.

XOXO.

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Cruellnah de Vil

I am a very active Instagram user which brings me to Nicolas’ story, one day he post something in die Richtung of showing his plan to visit Europe, replied “which part?” with a lingering hope it could be Germany. My wish came true, Berlin it is! Never have I ever book DB Bahn so quickly, gotta catch him there #Mission.

He arrived Thursday morning while I was on evening however we didn’t meet until Saturday lunch time. I was staying at Maria’s apartment, did home office on Friday as I only have one day-off left this year. I really don’t have any plan other than meet him 😀 To my knowledge there will only be him + Rick + Sebastian. When I arrived at Scheers Schnitzel this is the exact order of who I saw: Sebastian, Nick, Rick, Anderson, Davide? Whattttt?!?! there are more people??? I don’t mind at all, to the opposite it was a nice surprise! I knew Anderson & Davide from Shanghai but we never really talk much, I’m so glad we had this opportunity! Thank you Nick!

Turns out, there were 19 of them! haha The birthday boy Ty who played archery regularly after Covid hence I didn’t get to know him at all #Rookie vs OG a.k.a us 😉 On the table where I sit there was a new friend called Mischa. In summarize our table were Archery + Mischa, well…. Sebastian is not in Archery ~ he is Nick’s brother #Same same but different.

Then Ty came out to us, casually asking me if I would come to the party, I replied awkwardly “I do not know I was allowed to join you” Being a friendly OZ “Yes, you can come of course” Definitely I’m in. He said the theme party is Cruella de Vil. What?!?! There is a theme?!?! The guys said they would gonna wear nothing too far from black or white. I gotta be creative, had black shirt, need to mention they knew the matter for quiet some time, in addition we have Anderson, he’s always TOTAL. I must at least try to match them #FOMO.

After eating, we originally would go to the Wall Museum, until we realized they charged 14 Euro for entrance. Hell no! Sebs + Davide + me opposed to it, what could be a wall museum when the wall is literally outside and we have walked passed it? Sebs said “OK, if we are in a democracy they already lose the vote”.

Moving on to the board game cafe, apart from our Board Game King-Rick, none of us know much of it. We played Saboteur, Dopple OG + Dopple Animals which I don’t even know the name of each animal. Saboteur was really the fun game especially when we put our suspection to the wrong people. Sebs won all the game even though he barely know how to play anything, quote “it’s hard but I won so I don’t care” haha

During our game, Nick went back to his AirBnB. Nate wanted to go to some second hand shop for tonight’s ocassion. I wanted to go to Uniqlo, hearing that brand Davide was shocked “They have Uniqlo here? I miss that Brand so much!” Yes, the feeling is the same! I must buy another layer because I definitely not prepared for Berlin’s weather. Exactly on Aleksander Platz I found some property for tonight! Reported to Nick, saved for the partyyyyyyy. Doubt if I should wear the hat, had the temperature wasn’t that cold, I wouldn’t do it.

I went dinner with my friend Sunny then join them to “Süss war gestern” Club, Vicky will be there too! Yippii another Shanghai connection. Saw Nate near the entrance door, he immediately recognize my hat fits the essence of tonight’s celebration. I gave up my jacket, Nate said “take a picture of your number” doing it, Nick came out saying “hey, you stole my friend’s hat”.

We were quiet split up, don’t know where we were going. The guys keep saying “let’s go downstairs” Sebs replied “where is downstairs?” we were walking in circle, in theory we just need to look for stairs thats going down. How hard could it be? #Failed! stay where we were until close to midnight when that secret doors open, we finally went downstairs haha.

Where are the Cruella de Vil people?!?! They only wear normal black shirt and black jeans. There is no one, literrally no one with Cruella de Vil, not even Ty. Cruellnah de Vil it is! I’m the only one with the crazy hat that makes me looks like a Russian Tsar. Nick said it fits Mischa perfectly due to he was half Russian.

Davide loves my hat! Sebs commented “You’re hat is the best” Then Anderson said “I’d like to take picture of everyone with your hat”

No no, let’s say “Happy Birthday Ty” in our mother tounge with this hat. He agrees, who has a better iPhone? Nick was around us, thus he became the videographer.

Once we finished, Mischa had a brilliant idea: “we should go ask random people to do it too”. Split second to think, let’s do it, we are tourist anyway, they won’t remember us. It felt sooooo challenging to tap someone’s shoulder, asking “Hi where are you from? can you please do this for our friend?”

Then some of the groups going downstairs joining us, one girl said “it smells like a Pizza” I understood it as “do you want a Pizza?” “No I already eat” realized immediately we didn’t talk the same language, Mischa was laughing his ass off. Hey! it was a loud club of course I could get the wrong interpretation haha.

I wasn’t really planning to stay longer yet I did once they have Super Mario Bross!!!! The couple before me didn’t know how to play it gimme gimme gimme! The video didn’t do the justice 😉 I did get better after some screaming + concentrating + guidance from Rick on where to go #Efforts!

The other guys still continue, according to Nick until 5AM, hufff I need my beauty sleep, me and Rick went home perhaps at 01:00 max. Next day I went to their apartment, only Nick + Rick + Sebs were alive, the other were still sleeping, jetlag hit the OZs hard!

We played three card games, couldn’t remember what’s the game called, I prefer Rick’s card game other than the one from the Cafe. Sebs analyzed the game, asked can we only play these with 2 people? #We don’t have many friends. 100% Sebs! totally agree haha we need a board game where we can play with as less participants as possible 😉

One by one; a divers game which we do not like haha; we do like the 8 animals drinking water game, I was on fire when we weren’t played according to the house rule. On our last straw, we played monkey vs manager game where explanation regarding the meaning of “over-sell” really needed #Facepalm. Once Sebs took notes on his phone about what he thought his card is, we did the same. Rick was “guys, come on it’s not that hard” we didn’t even play the wild card where we can switch the fruits, no no no too many mathematics after a night out, we were not in our 20s anymore, our brain works differently now #Adulting.

My last day before I took my train back, we had dinner at Maximilians then walk to Tophography of Terror when I said “we need to have a picture to show exactly we were in Berlin” what else other than Check Point Charlie!

Thank you so much guys for the weekend! Keep posting so I can follow your next plan #Not a stalker! Just want to put it out there so everybody is conscious 😉

Speaking of hat, there’s always something happening between me & hat 😉 Kann ja nicht alles unter einen Hut bekomme

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Nachhaltig

My colleagues will put a decoration on our table to the one who have a birthday, if one have a round-birthday (20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60) we will collect some money, if not then it’s only a small things as an Aufmerksamkeit.

We always use the same decoration over and over again, after one birthday it will goes to our “recycle” box. Even our Herzlichen Glückwunsch either already re-tape like 100000 times or some alphabet already tear off or the fact that it only cost us 1 Euro to buy a new one, none of us did it haha that’s how Nachhaltig we are.

Obviously when I came back I already know someone or sometwossss should have schmuck mein Tisch otherwise I guarantee we would have such a bad atmosphere in the office 😉 #Better don’t messed up with my birthday.

What I didn’t expect however, is they did have a new decorations, literally someone bought something?!?! #Very surprised! I called it the Hawaii decorations from Claudia as our new Gelande 🙂

To which I have to tear off and move the Hawaii to Monica’s Gelande haha #Nachhaltig

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Unplanned La Bamba

One week before the due day, that’s when it hits me, my Marniversary is around the corner! #Panicked, what will I do this year? At the same time, my sister is currently in Germany so the thought of celebrate it with her + Schwager + Moti appears naturally. My original idea was like this, I went to their place on 25th of August for the weekend, work from home on Monday-the Marniversary.

Shortly before the weekend comes, I decided to cancel it as they are having family time while me… busy with my own event. I’d be back to Dortmund on Sunday instead. What, where, who? Haven’t plan any of it!

One by one, email the Cupcakes store, texted the 3 friends I gained in Dortmund haha definitely in the thema! 3 Years in DE = 3 friends. Hmmm… what could be the decoration for the photo purposes? let me bastelt something 🙂 #DIY

My family always says when you have a birthday you need to eat noodle as it represents long life usw. I couldn’t think of other place other than Ippin Ramen. Few reasons: Located in the city center, Silvia for sure will be lost if the restaurant is not in the center. Felicia works there, it’s easier to request something like “can you please put this cake on the fridge”. Andrea loves Ramen. OK! the where is safe.

One important detail is missing, MY CAKE!!! I called the cupcake store, wrote to other places, receiving no reply. Googled the cake shop that opens on Monday…only to receive… so many closed! Damn!

However, I’m not despair, near my home there’s a place called Oma Rosa. I could come on Sunday right before they closed. One of their Menu interest me, it’s called Törtchen Tapas. It’s a small portion of a cake, precisely 1/4 portion from a 12cm diameter cake. There were 6 different cakes left on the Theke so I took all of it.

Fiuhhh! Planning took quite a toll on me or Felicia haha as I consulted her many times about it but everything is manageable in the end 😉 Cakes + Decorations + Place are all gesichert.

What next? Feli asked if there will be a dress code, yaissss! Let’s do this! Totally! Informed the group the night before only if they want they should dress in any color that exists on a German Flag. Silvia suggested a red lipstick, acceptable too! I have all colors on me, they do too! all come with a German color-ish. Andrea wore red + black + blonde hair + German accent haha she’s a complete package. Silvia had a yellow shoulder bag #on point! Feli wore red top. Me so Happy!!!!

We started before Felicia arrived otherwise we all be Hangry, not good to start Marniversary #wink

She arrived when we were on the middle of our Ramen eating 🙂 cakes + picture time!

Won’t be a Marniversary without a Marniversary thing 🙂 I really called it like this, it has a name in my own dictionarlyn 😉

After we finished with the food and cakes, we went to Hbf. Why?!?! as long as my face still there, it’ll be a tourist spot!

Thank you Girls for spending my 3 years birthday in Germany! See you in my 4 years 🙂 yes girls! we will do it every year now, it’s always something to celebrate. Adding one more beautiful day in a year is not bad heyyyy.

P.S: the Sombrero from Andrea now serve the purpose als one of my wall decorations 🙂

Viva La Bamba!
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The 8 “Working” Hours – Part 2

I couldn’t join Andrea’s birthday in Portugal as her birthday was in May where the Brückentag ist and everyone in Nordwest already booked their holiday. I was the last woman standing, guarding all the office belongings, colleagues should be grateful I didn’t trash it #devil laughs.

The Nachträglich celebration happened on a Saturday 10th of June. She loves Ramen, it goes without a say, the where is clear, our Little Tokyo. Thanks to Anu, I got some more recommendations on where to eat. I can trust her judgement, she’s the type of person who knows exactly where + what to eat.

We planned to arrive at lunch time for our Ramen experience. Took the RE Bahn at 11:09 which delayed to 11:14ish #no surprise. I forget on which stops came a man with his dog sitting on the other side from our seat. We were sitting in a 4 sit kind of chair bzw. in the middle area. This man always talks, thankfully not to us, rather to the person next to him #bless their heart.

Then the train got fuller, one girl sitting next to me with a rainbow bag. I noticed there was many people with Pride make up or dressed up colorfully. This man, out of nowhere ask her if she is a lesbian due to her Regenbogen Tasche. Before I could grasp, Andrea tilt her head, saying some sentence to confront him. I knew, right there and then I understood the question correctly. Seeing my friend stood up for her, I don’t want to feel FOMO, showed him my Phone, proudly said “ich habe auch Regenbogen Bildschirm, und?” he came with another question “bist du auch Lesbisch?” “was für eine Frage ist das? wenn ja, was ist das mit dir zu tun?” “ich habe nur gefragt, meine Mutter immer sagt, immer fragen immer fragen” we didn’t continue the conversation anymore. It was my first experience on confronting someone’s 🙂 #i am proud of myself for doing it.

There is really something going on! I saw a boy holding a “Free Hugs” sign, ofc I rushed to hug him, followed by asking “what happening here?” He said “Christopher Street Day” It’s indeed a Pride, only they called it CSD. We chose the right date Andrea! #So HAPPY!

Back to our Ramen Lunch, I provide 2 options for each eating section. Andrea will have to choose one, yes people! it is like a TikTok Challenge which doesn’t involve any challenge, there is no ZONK options as I also want to eat.

First place, she chose Takumi, yeay! it’s my favorite! We went there during lunch time…meaning one hour waiting in line is expected…heyyy we are not in a hurry! We witness a potential date for the two people in front of us. They came by themselves, he turns to her “are you from here?” während they small talked, we eavesdropping 😉 in the end they speak Mandarin to one another aha! now I’m the only one who do the job hihihi

There was only one table available outside, makes matter worse, this potential date was in front of us, Verdammt! I asked Andrea “should I speak to them in Chinese to not take that table?” Thankfully they were pointed to the sit inside, ours too! but we asked for that outside table. We have a German here who really want to feel the sun 😉

Since we are not ready for the next station, we went to Altstadt to join the Pride crowd. We liked it! There is a guy with glitter on his face, I asked “where did you get the glitter?” “there is one lady who sold it for 2 Euro, oh wait wait” he tried to rub the glitter to my face haha #didn’t work I saw a guy gave another guy a sticker, eitss! me too! me want that, gimme gimme gimme.

Not gonna lie, at some point, the heat starts to strike us, we need to separate from the crowd for a while to go to our next desert station. Andrea chose Soboro, sadly, it was closed T.T , the second options was 850 meters away. But she found the Frozen Yoghurt place called Tenten right next to Soboro, let’s go! not bad ehhh! We definitely need to sit and refresh ourselves 🙂

Andrea remembered the Alt Beer which her Oma still drinks every evening. Yais! we need to have that too! Off to Uerige Beer, had one glass each then proceed to take the Schnapps in the Window thingy. There is no Rhabarber Schnaps, only one type, Killepitsch. 10 minutes after, I could feel, I was definitely under the influence.

Ooopsss what time is it? Dinner is around the corner 😀 Remember when I said Anu knows what to eat in each Restaurant? Andrea chose Hitchoq, they had one special Menu only on Saturday called Chicken and Waffle. Little did I knew, it was only from 12-17 PM, Anu didn’t informed me 🙁 well, to be honest, I also didn’t check it. We arrived there around 19PM. Verdammt!

Okay, not the end of the world, we chose another menu to share. A lawyer and a supply chain manager, yet both of us don’t understand what’s the meaning of 1,5kg of Drumstick chicken thighs. Hmmm that sounds good, we could do that +3 Beilage, bring it! In short, we couldn’t.

We skip the cake from Hitchoq because there was only Cheesecake and Andrea doesn’t really like it so we didn’t have any cake, we only have Toffifee from Rewe. She said I should make an ice cube out of Toffifee tray haha that’s why the tray now is lay low on my fridge 😉

We ate the Toffifee on the other side of the Rhine, saw the sunset then took the train back to Dortmund.

From the time we eat lunch until we finish dinner it was more or even more than 8 working hours but we can handle this kind of “working” 😀

I really had a good time planning this TikTok Challenge, choosing the restaurant and enjoying the food with you.

We are our each other first friend in Dortmund back to year 2020.

To a never ending friend. Cheers to us!

I hope you like my nachträglich birthday arrangement #another memories to cherish between us 🙂

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The Sabotage Cycle

Well well well, Halloween is something that I should say it could be improve, I don’t really like the idea that we have to dressed up as certain characters and than that outfit will become a waste in our wardrobe, I always want to wear sth that I already have or even if I need to buy new stuff, I still could wear that after the halloween. I actually don’t have any plan and don’t know what to dressed up as, I’ve done pirates, superwoman, athena and I really have no clue what I’m gonna be next, until our German friend-Andreas asked me few months before even Halloween “If you’re a Disney pricess, what are you?” and hmmm that question really stayed in my mind for so long, I even listed who are Disney princess out there but none of them got me, not Frozen, not Rapunzel, not Snow White etc until!!! Princess Venelloppe from Wreck-It Ralph showed on my screen laptop!

Yep that girl is a Princess!
See, she has a princess dress

But I ain’t wearing that, I choose her normal green outfit because I already have green jaket and black skirt, not exactly the same but as long as the color match it won’t matter. So, even few months before Halloween, I already know what I will be 🙂

However, I didn’t wear it as a Halloween celebration. I wore the clothes though…just not on Halloween on……. #wait for it 😉

As I already forgot about Halloween and prepare that I won’t celebrate it this year, another flyer just came on the Hungover Games group chat and that is a flyer that our Russian friend-Nikita sabotage.

His real birthday is exactly on Oct 26th but since people had Halloween plan etc so he moved his party to the following week but using the same exact poster as what Cages made.

I was thinking, as my costume won’t be exactly the same like Princess Venelloppe, I need to team up with the other character so I will look like somewhat similar with her. I need to team up with Fix-It Felix Jr and Wreck-It Ralph itself!

For Fix-It Felix Jr it’s easy, we have friend named Felix so he should be it and Felix’s outfit is not that hard, only blau. The trick is to find Ralph and I had to sabotage Nikita’s original idea and asked him to be Ralph haha

Lucky me! They both were agree to be Ralph and Felix, for Felix it’s not be a problem, he just made a shirt with his name, cap with FF logo. For Ralph, Nikita was quiet frustrated as he can’t find the correct outfit and I was worried if he wasn’t Ralph then we are missing the main character so it doesn’t really work. But really thanks to Nikita, he found the similar one and he was willing to take my advise and be Ralph on his own birthday.

And here we are “Wreck-It Ralph 3” DIY version 😉

Some people are really on the other level, the amount of time they spent on make up on their face, hair style and outfit itself, just amazed me! Thorben wore his 550 RMB costume twice so yeay! now he can say that his costume price was 275 RMB and sounds more make sense 😉

Happy birthday and thank you Nikita for letting me sabotage your tarzan or fat Thor idea and chose Ralph instead. FYI people, it’s Nikita himself that said he wanted to be fat Thor, so don’t blame it on me 😉

Proof! 😉
Wreck-It Nikita 😉

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In Pink-ish We Trust

I will not say I live in Shanghai if there’s nothing going on on the weekend 😉 yeap another party is happening… this time is for Jonathan!

So…. Dennis created a group chat (obviously) for Jonathan’s surprise birthday party, from his descriptions it will be a pink party as we all need to wear pink. If not, he will prepare pink bow tie and we just need to wear sth that will fit on with the bow tie.

I have the pink dress that I haven’t wear before but I’ll be super pink…. I doubted to wear it but then it’s the theme anyway soooo here I am, pink earrings and white hand bag with pink pattern and the next things I knew, I was otw to El Luchador Xintiandi. Dennis said that we need to be there at 7:30, I arrived slightly before 7:30 to my surprise Dennis was there, heh? I thought he suppose to take Jonathan to El Luchador but why is he doing here? turns out they living quiet close with Xintiandi so Dennis went back home, pick up Jonathan and go back here to meet us.

To my surprise! the guest wasn’t wearing pink! I was the pinkest among all! Most of them were wearing either black or white with the pink bow tie some of them wear pink but not like super pink like me! I was like damn it damn it damn it! I really take Dennis advice wayyyy too seriously 😉 But then later on there were 3 girls that wear pink wohooo yeah girls! 4 of us were the one that actually follow the theme!

Because we arrived earlier so we trying to help Dennis with the decorations, Tom tried to make a puppy out of a balloons which is at least he tried but then it didn’t work, so we saved one last balloon and put a bow tie on it and who knows turns out this balloon will be used like this haha

Cody kept saying that he’s thirsty and he wants to buy water and I kept saying no to him hahaha I said Jonathan will be here soon! so he kept holding his thirsty feeling for quite some time 🙁 sorry Cody!

Up to the point where Jonathan for real almost arrived so we gathered on the front of El Luchador, squatting! Yeah Jo, my legs hurt yo haha

and then surpriseee! Jonathan finally here! and he’s wearing PINK! wohoooo and so does Dennis, I mean he’s the one that suggested everyone to wear pink so he’d better be 😉 he really clueless and blind (quote from Dennis) he really can’t see that we were many peoples squatting in front of El Luchador #face palm!

after that….. Cody said “I’m hungry, I want to eat, let’s eat somewhere” hahaha suddenly Cody together with 6 other guys already decided that they want to eat else where and so I followed them and there we were separated with the bday boy. One of them, I think it was Henry said “Oh look at us, it looks like we were having a bachelor party” (because all of them wearing the bow tie) but then he looked at me….”plus one stripper” haha!

We walked passed Xintiandi and I pointed at Shake Shack Burger and Nicolas didn’t say anything so ok we went on to Hong Kong Plaza and I pointed at Pizza Hut and again Nicolas says nothing, finally we stopped at Xinjiang Restaurant. I’m not against it, I just don’t eat lamb so I said to not order that much lamb and… when we actually sit down and order the food and the food came, Nicolas said that he prefer burger or American food and I was “YOU DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING!” rawwrrrrr! and the following dish came one by one, Cody said to me “oh this is lamb” so I didn’t eat that. Chen was the one that ordered the food for us so he said that he only ordered one lamb dish. The next dish came and Eden said “this is the lamb, that one is beef” and I looked at Cody, “Codddyyyyyy!” haha and for the next dish Cody really asked the staff what is this and he said “chicken, beef, vegetables” hahaha yes Cody thank you 😉

Since I was with 7 guys so it looks like Snow White and 7 dwarfs and someone I forgot who had an idea of a game. And the game was “creating a pick up line to me” and since I’m the only women so I got to decide which one is my favorite and my fav was Cody’s and his pick up line was “I like honey because it tastes like you” hahaha Eden also good, “You are so hot that I’m melting” haha Nicolas was saying in spanish, yeah for sure I understand that!

While we were having our dinner, I kept looking at the time because the cutting cake was on 9PM and we were still eating at that time, when we checked the group chat, the cake was already being cut! huaaa 🙁

We were back to El Luchador again and we sang “happy birthday” as our entry 😉

  • See the background! that’s us!
  • We’re back again!

I asked Jonathan where is the cake? and he said the rainbow cake already spread and given all the way, of course! who wouldn’t want to miss a rainbow cake! #not pointing to the Snow White and Seven Dwarfs. Don’t get me wrong, we (at least me and I hope they did too) really had a funny time on our dinner, disregard the food, my 7 dwarfs are sooooo funny. I think it was Nicolas the one who said “Marlyn, you can be a stripper for the gays” followed by Henry said “yeah when you and the pole came, we all gonna focus to the pole” hahaha you guys are hilarious! But I still blame on you Nicolas for not saying anything to any of the place that I pointed out 😉

Then we were split up again, some are going to KTV and some are going to another party, while me, I chose to go home 🙂 before we split, Cody said “We need to take picture with Jonathan” and Eden use his bubble gun so we had a bubble effect on our picture, nice one!

Thank you Dennis for inviting me to Jonathan’s surprise party, I am glad to meet your cool friends and meet Cody again!

Happy birthday to you Jonathan! thanks for a nice evening, you are for sure “a star is born” <3

And the night wouldn’t be complete without the group picture! Here we are! the Pink-ish crew 😉

In Pink-ish We Trust!
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Back To Back Cakes

It was Marina’s bday yesterday, Sunday 12th of May and she wrote “I’d love to just have a casual brunch with friends” but I don’t think that how it works girl 😉 you know what?

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Because Thorben got her the present of learning how to bake with one of professional head chef that got used to do pastry for industrial level, the one and only Tessa! Tim also helped Marina to do all the cakes but they are such a good student that followed every instructions from the teacher until they realized that it was too much like TOO freaking much.

But I really don’t see where is the issue of baking too much? And Thorben said because their fridge is not enough to contain all the cakes!

See the German engineering in here? Upside down bowl, pickle jar haha and this is only one side of the fridge 😉

They baked and baked and baked for nearly 7 hours, from morning until sunset. So the bday brunch plan got fast forward to one day before which is eating all the cakes plan 😉

For me, I don’t see any problem at all and not surprise because I know Marina bakes a lot before, their eclair was awesome!! They really did a good job! Here’s the video before you see the final products!


And then I came to her place on Saturday, the guest were me-Boramy and later on Brendan. I never ate that much eclair in my life, it’s awesome! I think I had enough eclair until end of this year 😉 so it means I still can eat some more mwahaha still 7 months to go!

We were there until midnight 00:00 and Happy Birthday to Marina!

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The real and planned birthday brunch is here! Liquid Laundry!

Followed by Viva Ibiza party at the W hotel, Luis arranged the table for us there 🙂 we were so excited to go there…. but before going there… what did we do? We went back to Marina’s home to eat all the eclairs 😉

However, the waiter from Liquid Laundry came and say happy birthday to Marina and brought her the pancakes! we were laughing because we all want to leave but then she got a dessert 😉 it’s still a lovely pancake! I helped Marina to eat it #Marlyn is so helpful

After eating the eclairs at Marina’s, we head out to W hotel! Viva Ibiza and Luis Pena here we come!!! We brought the eclairs there haha I think they really got every way they could to get rid of it ASAP! Don’t worry you will finish it sooner or later 😉

At some point Thorben told me “You can tell Luis that he can bring the cake soon” so yeap!!! there will be another cake!!! within this two days I think I ate more cake than I had last year!!

Luis had to kick out another guy that was sitting on our table that not his guest so that it will be good for the pictures 😉 haha and what cake that Marina got?!?! Chocolate cake!!!

And here is the pictures after Luis kick out some random guy that occupied our table ehemmmm move 8!@#ch!

Marina, if I can guess probably this was your favourite present:

AWESOME Marina! 3rd place of Triathlon 😉 So proud of you!! #strong Marina

Happy happy birthday Marina! Yesterday was awesome! Your birthday literally is the birthday with the most dessert possible! #and I allowed it haha! and you’re the birthday girl that baked her own cake! usually, we-the guest were the one that should prepare the cake but not in your case 😉 thanks for providing dessert for all of us 😉

Marina, thank you for inviting me, not only for your birthday but for every time you bake something, I really like and appreciate it. Going to your apartment is some kind of nutritional improvement for me and I always have a good time with you #oopss also Thorben! haha 😉