I just received part of my amazon order which included "A Dance with Dragons"! So after tomorrow's dive I can continue reading the "A Song of Fire and Ice" saga!
Also in the package were the following albums: Piano Magic-Ovations, Arch/Matheos-Sympathetic resonance, and Steven Wilson-Grace for drowning. I've listened to these on mp3 before so it's about time to replace the digital files with actual CD versions.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Steelers surprised me last night by beating the Patriots with 25-17 at Heinz Field. Always a pleasant surprise when they manage to beat a team which has so consistently kicked their ass throughout the years.
Seems I'll have to do a bit more paperwork to get Asnida registered here in Funchal. I found a phone number for the Portuguese embassy in The Hague so I'll give them a call soon. We need the marriage document translated and legalised (aka stamped), just like Asnida had to do with her Malaysian documents for the NL government to process our marriage request.
Shouldn't be a big deal but let's hope the embassy can do it easily in the week that we'll be in the NL.
The best way the avoid the Monday depression? To have a holiday on Tuesday! :-D
I'm going diving again tomorrow morning, probably going to Garajau again which is always a nice spot. I think that will be dive number 47 so I should be able to get to 50 dives before the year is over!
Seems I'll have to do a bit more paperwork to get Asnida registered here in Funchal. I found a phone number for the Portuguese embassy in The Hague so I'll give them a call soon. We need the marriage document translated and legalised (aka stamped), just like Asnida had to do with her Malaysian documents for the NL government to process our marriage request.
Shouldn't be a big deal but let's hope the embassy can do it easily in the week that we'll be in the NL.
The best way the avoid the Monday depression? To have a holiday on Tuesday! :-D
I'm going diving again tomorrow morning, probably going to Garajau again which is always a nice spot. I think that will be dive number 47 so I should be able to get to 50 dives before the year is over!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The documents arrived in Stein safely so everything is arranged now. Once they tell me how many witnesses we need I'll have my dad make copies of the passports and hand them in.
I'll be flying to the NL in 5 weeks from now. Time is marching on!
Now that I have no more book to read I started watching movies again. I've been downloading several the past few weeks but barely watched any. Herzog's "Cave of forgotten dreams" is another great documentary and "Trespass" with Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage is horrible.
Let's see if we get enough guys together to play football tomorrow evening. Only 6 so far...
I'll be flying to the NL in 5 weeks from now. Time is marching on!
Now that I have no more book to read I started watching movies again. I've been downloading several the past few weeks but barely watched any. Herzog's "Cave of forgotten dreams" is another great documentary and "Trespass" with Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage is horrible.
Let's see if we get enough guys together to play football tomorrow evening. Only 6 so far...
Monday, October 24, 2011
We had the first rain storm since March or so yesterday. Howling wind, rain falling for most part of the day. So my car finally got washed again :-)
These storms will happen more frequently now and I'm sure they'll have an impact on whether or not I can dive each Saturday. Guess we'll see how it goes.
I finished "A Feast for Crows" yesterday morning and straight away ordered book 5 "A Dance with Dragons" (plus some CDs) from Amazon. I read the first four books of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series in about 7 weeks, that's pretty fast!
I just called the Stein city hall and apparently the documents from The Hague haven't arrived yet. It's been a week since they emailed me that everything was ok and would be send to Stein...
If the documents don't show up in a week then The Hague might've send them to the other Stein town. Which I explicitly told them not to do... typical.
Either way, I could still book the date and time so now it's official: we'll be married on December 5 at 10am.
For our week in the Netherlands I've booked a hotel for one night in Rotterdam and a hostel in A-dam for three nights. We'll go see Cynic in the Baroeg in Rotterdam on Wednesday December 7 so we can spend the afternoon checking out the city center. Maybe have dinner with some friends.
Once we get to A-dam the next day we can do a few more touristic things that we haven't done yet and also try to have dinner with a few friends maybe.
It will be interesting to see what the Dutch weather will be like in the first week of December. Asnida's hoping for snow... I guess she forgot the blisters that she got last winter :-)
These storms will happen more frequently now and I'm sure they'll have an impact on whether or not I can dive each Saturday. Guess we'll see how it goes.
I finished "A Feast for Crows" yesterday morning and straight away ordered book 5 "A Dance with Dragons" (plus some CDs) from Amazon. I read the first four books of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series in about 7 weeks, that's pretty fast!
I just called the Stein city hall and apparently the documents from The Hague haven't arrived yet. It's been a week since they emailed me that everything was ok and would be send to Stein...
If the documents don't show up in a week then The Hague might've send them to the other Stein town. Which I explicitly told them not to do... typical.
Either way, I could still book the date and time so now it's official: we'll be married on December 5 at 10am.
For our week in the Netherlands I've booked a hotel for one night in Rotterdam and a hostel in A-dam for three nights. We'll go see Cynic in the Baroeg in Rotterdam on Wednesday December 7 so we can spend the afternoon checking out the city center. Maybe have dinner with some friends.
Once we get to A-dam the next day we can do a few more touristic things that we haven't done yet and also try to have dinner with a few friends maybe.
It will be interesting to see what the Dutch weather will be like in the first week of December. Asnida's hoping for snow... I guess she forgot the blisters that she got last winter :-)
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
finally!!
Asnida's birth certificate finally arrived in The Hague and our marriage request has been reviewed & approved! :-D
So now we're officially in "ondertrouw" and the documents will be forwared to the city hall (Stein) where we want to get married. Let's hope the docs don't get lost in the Dutch mail system haha.
I've already emailed the Stein city hall to see if I can book the date and time via email.
As soon as that's arranged I can book the flights.
Now I need a bachelor party....
So now we're officially in "ondertrouw" and the documents will be forwared to the city hall (Stein) where we want to get married. Let's hope the docs don't get lost in the Dutch mail system haha.
I've already emailed the Stein city hall to see if I can book the date and time via email.
As soon as that's arranged I can book the flights.
Now I need a bachelor party....
refrigerator issue found
So someone looked at the refrigerator, determined the thermostat is broken and needs to be replaced. It can take up to 2 or 3 weeks before they'll have the replacement part.
Then he charged me 20 euro and left haha.
Then he charged me 20 euro and left haha.
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