Being the the first weekday in the Netherlands, and a foreigner with a Working Holiday Visa, I had to register with the Vreemdelingenpolitie (Stranger Police). With my visa sticker in my passport came a letter telling me that I have to register with the Stranger Police in Zutphen, and then within three days of that… Continue reading Day 16: Zutphen
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Day 15: Veluwe / Posbank
Today we went for a walk in the Veluwe which is a kind of National park. I enjoyed it a lot because I was walking in a completely new environment with strange trees and landscapes. The park contains some of the hilliest terrain in the Netherlands and is favoured by runners and cyclists for the… Continue reading Day 15: Veluwe / Posbank
Day 14: Deventer
I was woken rudely at 6:21 by a bird call that sounded exactly like an alarm clock beep. I tried to get back to sleep with no result, my brain hammered by this bird. I listened to its call, a repeating pattern: 5-5-4-5-5-4 (five beeps, followed by a pause, then five, pause, four etc). Being… Continue reading Day 14: Deventer
Day 13: Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam to Zutphen (April 1)
We spent 13 hours on the plane. The food was OK. I didn’t watch any movies as I cannot hear on the plane because of the background noise. The entire flight was in darkness and I slept for over 8 hours, in twenty minute bites. Arrived in Amsterdam at 7:06AM on the 1st of April,… Continue reading Day 13: Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam to Zutphen (April 1)
Paper money
Remember 15 years ago when money was made out of paper? Well now I am reliving the horror. Both Malaysia and Singapore use paper money and I am not pleased with it. It gets all scrunkled up in my pocket and falls on the ground when I put my hand in.
Committed
I am in no-man’s land, 30 minutes from boarding my flight to Malaysia. In the last few hours I have had my first stomach butterflies, and I have to admit that I had a tear in my eye when I said goodbye to my family before going through customs. Thanks to all of my family… Continue reading Committed
Imminent
2 Days 19 Hours 32 Minutes. It is starting to really be real. There is a feeling of excitement, a tension. I am leaving my world to live in another country in less than three days. Last night Chris and Adam took me out for a Last Night Out. Adam had a uni reunion early… Continue reading Imminent
MCSE
This afternoon I passed the exam 70-221 Designing a Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure. Based on my reckoning, this will now make me an MCSE in Windows 2000, the culmination of a process that I started almost six years ago. Of course, six years ago there was no Windows 2000 and so most of my earlier… Continue reading MCSE