11
Sep

Eyes Opened

By summerain 1 Comment
Categories: Little Path Called Life

An ex-colleague of mine gave me a certain music album for my birthday last year. He thought I’d love it. Back in the days we’d use to talk endlessly about music and such, and my colleagues and I had a habbit of bringing our favorite CD to play that day, make the others listen to it and share what . There’s always these little this and that that would jag my memory to make me miss them :)

Anyway, with the big stack of music piled away and the huge mess from house renovation, I never got to play the CD. Until tonight. I listened to it, and the only thing that came to my head was how good my colleague knew my taste. Even then he already had this way of joking about my quirky habbits which I wouldn’t really realize about before. The music he gave me was a mixture of upbeat an mellow, somewhat mainstream, but still had the haunting quality that gets me into wishful thinking mode. Thus this blog :)

In the past few years living in Holland, I’ve got to know several people, none had really become a really really close friend, someone I’d call up impatiently every time something exciting happens. Or did that change when Its came in? I have pieces of stories I scatter here and there, but there’s nobody who really has a lot of anything. In my race against the clock, accumulating knowledge, honing skills, did I leave out the more essential things?

Or do I leave it out because it’s not that essensial to me anyway? Right. Since when did I not crave for intimacy? Or, is my need for intimacy so fulfilled that I only leave scaps behind?
I’ve got a wonderful husband, whose main goal in life seems to be to make me happy, even though it means listening to my jabbering for hours a night, or follow my whimsical wants - he’s like a drug that seeps in slowly, before I realize it’s already too late, he’s become an addiction I can’t get rid of, even if I wanted to. There’s nothing I don’t share with him.
I’ve got a group of such dear friends whom I’ve known for over a decade. We’re scattered in different continents, but these girls are in my blood, the words we share keeps on cruising through my vein, and I can laugh and cry and feel so alive just because of a few lines. They’re my shoulder to cry on, my cheerleaders, my mentors, my sisters.

Maybe that’s why the need isn’t that crucial. Because I already have more than enough.

..thanks angels…

11
Aug

Remind Me

By summerain 2 Comments
Categories: Floating in the Air

My saturday:

- wake up at 9
- have breakie (ham and cheese toast made by hubby)
- make phonecalls to get the day planned
- put on the wash
- go to the city center for shopping and grocery
- get back home
- hang out the clothing, clean up the kitchen
- get on the train to Rotterdam
- panic call to hubby, telling him that the garden door is still wide opened and the wash was till out
- have fun at the Dance Parade
- have dinner at the Golden Palace
- go to Thalia Lounge for the afterparty

Hubby’s saturday - as far as I know it:

- wake up at, eh, 8?
- make ham n cheese tosti
- start major cleaning up in the small bedroom upstairs
- have late lunch
- go to help a friend move furniture back into newly renovated house
- got panic call from wifey
- rushes back home
- go back to friends to move more stuffs
- come home, then go over to another friend’s house to chill out

Somewhere past 11 I checked my mobile, there was an sms from him, saying he just got home and was happy to find the very clean kitchen. He also said he loved me much and joked whether he should wait up for me - which means he knows I will be coming home way past bed time.

It gives me a warm feeling right away.. He doesn’t put me on a guilt trip or even scold me for being careless and giving him extra things to do; instead he gives me total freedom to go out and have fun, had a hard working day and still remember to thank me for something as minor as having a clean kitchen.

I’d come home and hop in to bed and he’d hug me like I haven’t been around for ages, then let me rattle along about my day, while he’d laugh and listen, commenting here and there. The special thing is, it’s not even somthing special, what he does. Thats just the way he is. And I’m just the luckiest girl in the world to have him.

I married him hoping for a love that lasts, but in His wisdom far beyond mine, He gave us a love that grows..

07
May

sunshiiinneee!!!

By summerain 1 Comment
Categories: Uncategorized

The weather’s so amazing…last year it had been like this in April, but then it boiled down to a gray rainy summer - this is the first time since April that the weather got nice and sunny again.

So I’m trully embracing it - bbq, dinners in garden, flip flops, since well, you really don’t know whether this bit will be the only summer you’ll get this year!

Vie, gua pesen cuaca kaya gini dong ntar di Ireland!! ;)

Weather

21
Feb

big ball of happiness

By summerain 0 Comments
Categories: Holland Ho!

Yaaaaaayyy…welcome SUNSHINE!!!

It feels soooo good being able to go to and from the office when it’s still light!!  Really, it’s THAT good!! The joy of waking up to find sunshine behind the curtains, being able to cycle in the bright sunlight…and no need to worry whether you have your bike lights with you when you cycle back home…it’s such a blessing :D.

There are two types of lights on bikes here, one that works with a dynamo, powered by the rotation of the wheels, and  the other is clip on light, working on batteries. I have the latter, which means during dark days, I have to be sure to carry the lights in my bag if I don’t want to end up walking my bike home - the police here can fine you for biking in the dark!

The only minor part of the sunshine is, with no clouds above, the past few days has been FREEZING COLD!! When you look outside you get this sunny and warm feeling, and the forcast preditcts 7-8C sun, so you go out in your stocking and skirt, only to find that it’s frozen air out there - thin steam coming out of your mouth when you talk…brrr!!! NOt to mention the moments I get over-enthusiastic and dare the cold without handgloves, biiiggg mistake!! Oh well, the only remedy then is to take out long coat again, then I’m ready for the FREEZING SUNSHINE!!!

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20
Feb

Loudspeaker

By summerain 2 Comments
Categories: Pedal to the Gas

I really really love open air rock concerts.

So ever since I landed in Europe, with the absence of fear from being trampled down and long trips back and forth with scary mobs, I’ve managed to form my own support group, and together we’d usually somehow end up really close to the main stage and the speaker - I’m half deaf anyway hehe… I just cant let go of it. I mean, I’ve also been to several classical concerts in lovely buildings with great acoustics, and I’ve bought opera tickets this year, but they touch a different string. When it comes to music, I can’t choose either or, none is better than the other. They’re just different.

So last Monday me and a group of friends went to Smashing Pumpkins concert, yaaaaayyyy!! Img_1384_5

I didn’t even know they were playing until last week, since I don’t really check concert schedules regularly – I don’t know, seems that there’s always so many things going on at the same time that I hardly do anything regularly. So last week, right the day before Its n I left for Brussels, a friend of ours came over. He’s been out of the country to Far East for several months, and the first question he asked when I entered the room was, ‘Do you want to go to Smashing Pumpkins this Monday??’ Whoa…’surprise’ concerts are always the best!! The concert was a blast, with Billy wearing his metal skirt ;) - they started of playing lots of their old ballads then built up the tension to ahem..more speed and sound :P.

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After encore, Billy went to the side stage and greeted the audience with a namaste before he left. It was a great night, and going home we were literally floating on the clouds – the highways were SO misty that you could only see the red rearlights of the car in front of you!

Anyway, I don’t check concert schedules regularly, right, so even Rock Werchter began with a whim. So I haven’t really figured out what concerts are going on where and when. During the gap while they were arranging the stage after the opening band, my friend ask whether I’d be going to Werchter this year, since apparently the lineup for PinkPOP is much better. The only thing is, the concept I get of PinkPop is younger audience (ABG gitu loh…) and mainstream music. Not exactly my cup of tea. But the lineup is just fabulous.

I am so confused…

And the tickets are selling like crazy, n they’ll be gone in no time, which means I better decide right away!

Anyway, as you see, I’m really into peer to peer info - so if you’ve got any concert plans on this side of the globe, let me know!! :D

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