On the way home for 56 hours and still counting...

I'm right now in Changi airport in Singapore...I have to stay over night here...but I will get back to that later...for now, I will continue the trip updates from the previous post

So, my amazinggg trip around Europe is pretty much done by now...was closed in an even more amazing ways..
There was always something "big" in my last 3 stops (Budapest, Vienna, and back to Prague)

Budapest: June 27 -29
I happened to be there when T-Mobile sponsored a free concert of Carlos Santana (June 28th). They held it in Heroes Square..it was like sea of people were there....it was beyond cool...!!!!
You can see the pictures from the Budapest picture link by the end of this post (I uploaded the videos in Facebook).

Vienna: June 29 - July 1
June 29th..Yes, the final of European Cup... Spain vs Germany!
Went around the stadium before the game..but if course the ticket was too expensive (500 Euros for the bad seat...no thank you). So I went to see from the big screen together with the rest of the people...and then joined the celebration with the Spanish people after the game..!! =)

Back To Prague: July 1-4
My first stop on the trip was Prague. I left my big luggage at Viktor and Yuliya's place (thanks again you guys!!!), and then went for the trip with my small luggage. So by the end of the trip I came back there for a few days before I took my flight back to Sofia (where I have my flight back to Jakarta).
The "big" thing in Prague was I met a lot of people from AIESEC that I haven't met for quite some time...even had a short reunion of my Icelandic MC team with Thordis and Svetla. Also with a lot of people from WENA (Western Europe and North America) and CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) as they were having a meeting at that time in Prague...again, the timing for me to be there couldn't be better =)

The Going-back-home
On July 4th I left Prague back to Sofia, but I can only stay in the airport because my Bulgarian visa has expired already....and since my next flight was still 18 hours later, and there's not much to see in Sofia airport, I really had to entertain my self..thank God I still have my books and movies...and I could "steal" some wireless signal from the business lounge =)

Then July 5th finally took my flight to London for 3 hours...then transited in London Heathrow for 5 hours.

July 5th at night, took my 13 hours flight to Singapore...arrived in Singapore on July 6th around 17:00.

My flight from Singapore to Jakarta was still on waiting list (though I've ridiculously booked it for more than 2 months ago), and still I didn't get it...

So here I am now, again staying over night in the airport (though Changi airport is 10 million times cooler than Sofia airport), hoping to get the flight July 7th at 07:50 in the morning...which is like almost 4 hours from now...

So yeah, until this post is written, I've been "on my way home" for 56 hours...hopefully it will not be more than 60 hours in total...

A good way to see it? At least I know my last stop would still be home sweet home =)

Pictures from the rest of the trip:

June 21-22: Going to Rome (train to Patra --> a ferry to Bari which is now --> a train to Rome)
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June 22-24: Rome - Italy.
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June 25-27: Ljubljana - Slovenia.
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June 27-29: Budapest - Hungary
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June 29- July 1: Vienna - Austria
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=130492&l=c0b99&id=670545590

July 1-4: Back to Prague - Czech Republic
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=131761&l=0b5ce&id=670545590

with smile,
ali

Finally.....

........a time to write again! =)

I’m right now in a ferry somewhere between Greece and Italy. For those of you who know the updates from me from chats or sms or Facebook you probably know already. While for those of you who know my updates from this blog, the question would probably be “what the?” or “what about Bulgaria?” or whatever…

Anyways, there were so many things that I wanted to write since around 6 days after my last post (not including the “test” titled post)…. but yeah, I haven’t been able to update my blog at all due to some errors until finally that “test” post came in. So now I will just sum up some important updates in 1 post then…and try to put pictures =)

#1 Final presentation of my project in Orange: May 9-11

So yeah, I’m very very happy that my job went out successfully. We (the whole company) went out of town to a resort in Rusalka one weekend. It was the final presentation of my project in the company, and also we went out for a trip to Kaliakra…which is an amazing place..!!!

After this weekend my job was pretty much done..so I took some days off to go to some more places around Bulgaria ( I visited total 17 cities in the country..haha!)

me and the -almost- the whole Orange gang =)

#2 Beauty, The Legend Continues =)

About 3 weeks after saying good bye in April I randomly searched in Google, just to see what will come up, because I know last time you were produced was years ago. So there it was on the top on the list in Google, it was read e-Bay Philippines. Someone has exactly the same with what I had: same color, same size…and apparently it’s not the size of the owner’s in The Philippines’s, that’s why he’s selling it in e-Bay. So it’s brand new as in “never been used”.

So I registered to e-Bay Philippines, contacted the guy….and 3 days before I left Bulgaria…well, there it was =)

new ones in the middle...well, of course it is =)

#3 My Long Coming Euro Trip

Last year on my way back from Iceland I was planning to go for a trip to some countries visiting some of my AIESEC friends, but then I had to go home a bit earlier because my brother was getting married. So of course I went home =)

And now being back in Europe, I’ve decided to finally do this trip after I finished my internship in Bulgaria. So here I am now, already in the middle of the trip, writing this post on my way from Greece to Italy.

I started the trip on June 2nd to from Sofia to Prague, and at the end of it I will be back to Prague to go back to Sofia, because my flight back to Jakarta is from Sofia. Here is my route (click links for pictures):

June 2 – 4: Prague (done! Including METALLICA’s CONCERT!!!)
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June 4 – 10: Helsinki
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=123761&l=1385c&id=670545590

June 10-15: Barcelona
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June 15-17: Malta
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June 17-19: Thessaloniki
June 19-21: Athens
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June 21-22: Going to Rome (train to Patra --> a ferry to Bari which is now --> a train to Rome)
June 22-25: Rome
June 25-27: Ljublana
June 27-29: Budapest
June 29- July 1: Vienna
July 1-4: Back to Prague!
July 4-5: Back To Sofia (only in the airport..yes, I need a visa to go out from the airport)
July 5-6: Going back to Indonesia…motherland..home sweet home =)

with smile,
ali

test...

this is a test. I haven't been able to make a post for over 3 weeks now...I hope this time it works...

with smile,
ali

Come and go...and come..and go again...

Been quite some time since my last post...couldn't really find the right time to write as I was most of the times out of town and had very few time to connect to the internet.

Been going to Burgas and Kraimorie, in the East Coast of Bulgaria...in the beaches of the Black Sea....
Very nice...
and (at that time it was also) very quiet...almost no one there.
So it was good to be able to runaway from the busy life in Sofia for a while :)

Then went back to Sofia for less than 2 days, then left again to Plovdiv to chair the National Planning Conference of AIESEC in Bulgaria. Arriving a night earlier, then went straight to the venue which was actually on the mountains just outside Plovdiv, very nice and cozy place...and GREAT conference!!
Thanks again for the MC Team of AIESEC in Bulgaria for inviting me and to everyone in the conference..really really time well spent! :))

Well, that's just a short updates of what's been happening. It's now 4:10 in the morning already, and again, today I will be leaving out of town to somewhere in the north of Varna for the season wrap up of my company, and to do the presentation of my project as well :)

Hope to write again soon....and for the time being, I will leave you with some of the pictures during these trips :)

with smile,
ali

Kings Of Convenience...

I had 3 songs of this Norwegian band, and I like 'em...but somehow only until more than a week ago I finally thought, "hmmm...how come I never checked their other songs?"

and so I did...got both of their albums, and my oh my, I can't stop listening to them...I mean, check this song below, how beautiful is this.....




with smile,
ali

Your grand farewell, my love...

It's been years and years we've been together...
Through heat and cold and mud and sand and rain...
Over 20 countries we've traveled together...

It's never about the look,
Coz lots of people said we don't fit :)
It's about the comfortness...
and it's always have been..

Through all that reparations :p
Through blood and shit..literally...

I think you need to have a deserving farewell,
So though it seems like a lot,
These are only some of the moments we have had together...
Ciao bella! :))



with smile,
ali

PS: I know some people are very glad with this :))

Another writing from the present history...

It's what eyes can't see
It's what freedom trying to set free

As it turns out, invisible means it exists
As it turns out, existence can still be invisible

The feeling feels how it felt

Sucking the air you're about to breathe
Brutality of softness

A message to the sun not to forget
To break in even to the tiniest hole of cold and unlightned

It's what freedom planned with me
It's what freedom needs from me

Setting free the naked eyes
The visibility on the invisible

The feeling felt how it feels

Envisioned abstract beauty
Unspeakable truth of an existence

It's what freedom trying to set free
The reason of our identity

The white cloud comes, proved the weatherman wrong
The brightest darkness
The revelation of abstract beauty

-ali-

with smile,
ali