Journey

Round of Oktoberfest is coming, meaning journey of visiting friends located in the South of Germany has arrived 🙂 Very happy to see you all!

My highschool friend QQ, thank you for letting me stay at your place, cook Indonesian noodle, took me to Taylor Swift concert stadium, followed by free BMW Museum. Last but not least the 1972 Olympic village, some people really give Mühe on painting their Apartment!

My childhood friend Krisma, he came with his Tracht, ready for action!

My Brother Thorben, was very happy to meet you again after more than two years! I’ll ask where you two will ended up staying, I mean…. being #On Budget Traveler, need some free accommodation yo 😉 For example: Celina please stay in Switzerland! haha

My Shanghai friend Nora, we have been friends for 9 years yet this is the first time I know you studied engineering #Face palm. When one has been friends for so long, we passed the basic knowledge way tooo far to the point we forgotten it haha.

My Lästerschwester friend Shelly who now became my friend too! Good idea of choosing a Tibetian restaurant, what a great Momo we had #Yummy!

Janine & Thomas, it was fun taking all the Quitten to the Juice shop! hard work in the afternoon rewarded by a very satisfying hotpot dinner. It took us 2,5 hours to eat yet still many left übrig. Janine said “it’s good, otherwise it would be embarassing for Asian to let guess left hungry. Thomas commented “also for Italian, they will take everything out from the Keller, if you’re still not full, they would ask the neighbour” 😉

My Dortmund Home: Feli + Katrina + Selina thank you for your home made food; cookies or bought made chocolate 😉 when stomach is full = heart is full <3

I cherished the openness in our conversations, every shared moment of time. Good luck, my friends ~ may each of us find the journey we deserve in the end.

Till that moment arrives… keep fighting!

Nachhaltig – Part 2

We have a new decoration in our office for the Birthday Gelande! whhhaaattttttt, who bought this? I suspect no one, most probably we borrowed it from Milena’s Abteilung #Wir sind nachhaltig 😉

Obviously it was only last for a day because Monicita’s turn is around the corner, keep recycling!

Nachhaltig

Timeline

Phone buzzed, WA message from my one and only Amigo, a link of his & Cindy’s birthday party information. Whoaaaa! I have missed some timeline of his celebrations, can’t afford to let it happen this time, directly booked the day in my calendar, adjusting my Marnniversarlyn, confirming my attendance.

Me being me aka someone who doesn’t own a car, asked who I know will come, not because Im nosy, rather I need to arrange my logistic. The options are either I go with someone or I stayed at their place haha. Going out with me must include the whole package, Lieferung + Übernachten 😀 Es hat sich schnell geregelt, I’ll go with my colleague Aileen and her husband, Vielen Dank! We were super on time ~ except one, you’ll find out who; arrived at 18:00, Aileen’s husband put away their presents while we drove to the Parkhaus that took us forever by car, via foot it was actually so close.

There he was, standing at the corner helloooooow Amigooooo was very happy to see him, he always hold me high #Love it! It didn’t take long until The Buffet is open, great! if not I’d taken down all the chips! There are one particular that tasteeeee really good! #Nomnomnom

While we were eating, Amigo always on the phone, Cindy said “Daniel, talk with our guess!” I sat down with his friends and one asked “is Daniel’s colleague here?” to which I replied: “His ex is here, his current one dunno”. We wanted to wait until everyone who chipped in for the gift to be present to present their gift. Later Daniel’s current colleague arrived, he introduced her to me, “you guys came from the country that starts with I ~ Indonesia; Iran” that very second, it was clicked on my head “oh! Warte Mal!”

She is the Warte Mal kollegin!!!

His “warte mal” was and still so contagious.

Finally the last person aka Denis aka Daniel’s friend since Grundschule arrived, his longest friend yet we were waiting for him the longest #Tried to be rhymed 🙂 Can we do the Übergabe? Nope! Because right now Daniel & Mananda were away to park her car in the right-ish location. Patience is virtue, they said ~ not me haha

They were happy about our gift! Yeayyyy! Someone shouted “invitation for Grillen is coming right?” Daniel’ shocked facial expressions “oh no, please don’t, too stressful to plan it”

Continue the night with Beer Pong, Team Ausländer vs Deutsch! We almost won! Groarrr had Amigo didn’t play, we could be the winner, so close! Followed by Impromptu Karaoke of 99 Luftballons, me + Cindy + Tanja need to see the lyrics whereas Denis knew it all. They continued for second round Beer Pong, I had back home with Aileen & Kevin.

Cindy, I thanked you to be invited to both of your celebrations, glad you like the grill, just text me the when & where, I’ll be there mwahaha. Amigo it’s my pleasure to know you in person since 2020 & still counting, I miss our Chip & Dale Team at the office or maybe I don’t need to miss it…. because…. warte mal 😉 Hope our timeline will match in the forseeable future! #Finger crossed.

W.T.F ~ Who Turns Forty?! Mi Amigo!

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