So, here I am again, last time I talked mostly about my new job, and where it’s taking me, now I’m going to give a little update on my personal life which has changed a lot in the last year !
I met this wonderful woman while I was hosting “surfers” with CouchSurfing, we got on pretty well, and after some time we got together. She ended up moving in with me in Amsterdam in December 2010. My life changed completely from one day to the next, and it’s been amazing! And we got engaged on July 14th 2011 in Paris while watching the fireworks.
She is vietnamese and we will be having a fairly traditional wedding which will take place in Hanoi on January 31st 2012 for the engagement day, and February 3rd for the wedding day. I’m not going to go into too much details about vietnamese traditions here, as this would probably require a separate post, since there’s so much to talk about.
I know the distance will not make it easy for my friends and family to make it to my wedding, so we will probably organize a party in Paris next summer. More details about this later, this is just an idea for the moment.
Anyway, I started my new (remote) job in August, and my fiancee having her residence permit expire on September 1st, we decided to move to Hanoi for a few months, until we can move to my jobs new office in San Francisco. This should give us some time to organize the wedding, take some wedding photos, do some paperwork for the wedding, including posting my notice at the british consulate, learn some vietnamese, get some clothes tailored, etc… All this while working evening and nights remotely.
A couple of days ago, we were invited to the wedding of some friends of my fiancee in Hanoi, which took place in the same place we booked, so it was a great opportunity for me to see what to expect from a vietnamese wedding, and for us to have a look at the place. Well, it looks very nice, and we are both very happy about the location.
Here are a handful of photos I took from the wedding, to get an idea of the place:
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I started 2011 (I mean it all started 1 hour into 2011) in a critical condition, with a hiatal hernia, that prevented me from eating for a couple of weeks, but life has been good to me lately. I’m looking forward to the upcoming events.
Cheers!