Tag: life

Wedding administration, almost done !

Well well, 2 posts in 2 days … who would have thought !

Anyway, a quick update, I “survived” the mental check up we went for this morning. Of course, it didn’t have anything to do with me being crazy or not, go figure. It was quite straight forward, if not a little awkward in fact. After filling a little form to say who I was, we were measured and weighed. Then, a little heart beat check to make sure I was still alive … and then … I had to take my pants off, for the doctor to “peak” to see if I had any sexual diseases … awwwkwaaard.

And that was it, 30 mins later we received our “mental” check up approval letter! This was the last document we needed to be able to finally apply for the marriage. So, that’s what we did just after this “joke”.

The marriage application, will take between 30 to 40 days to be processed apparently, and we were booked for individual interviews. I will need to hire a translator to get through this one though. Our interviews are early next week, so we are almost done with the all the administrative part. All that will be left will be some little waiting!

Next week, I will need to look into renewing my VISA for Vietnam. I initially got a 3 month one (which is the longest you can get for a tourist visa), and it’s been 2 months already, time flies when you are having fun !

That’s it for today, don’t want to be writing too much or you will get used to me giving frequent news, and expect some more often ^^

Cheers!

It’s time for an update !

It’s been a while since my last update on this blog, and it seems I only come here when something big is happening in my life.

According to my previous post, I was about to start a new job for Perfect World Entertainment. Well, after a few months there, I decided that was not the perfect world for me, so I resigned from it and left the company at the end of July 2011.

Luckily, I had already a new job waiting for me, and I started immediately on August 1st. I’m now working for CouchSurfing International as a software developer. I discovered CouchSurfing mid 2010, a few friends of time were talking about it. At the time I was still working for Hyves, and although there was a lot of social activity going on out of the office, I wanted to meet new people, from everywhere. So I decided to join the CouchSurfing community, and started hosting “surfers”. And I’ve had a blast since. I’ve met loads of people coming from Vietnam, Finland, Australia, US, France, Malaysia, Chile, Germany and Canada. I’ve hosted people from a single night and up to 6! Sometimes having only a single day break between 2 visitors, just enough time to clean some sheets. I’ve also attended a few local meetings. I haven’t hosted that much, but I hosted a lot in a short period of time, and it has been a great experience. I haven’t had the occasion to “surf” myself yet, as I’ve been kind of busy with work, but definitely something I want to try some day !

And now, a little over a year after I discovered CouchSurfing, I’m working for them. It’s been a month now, and I haven’t felt like this about a job for quite a while, I feel good, and I love the job!

With this new job, and other changes in my life (which I’ll talk about in another post), I’ve decided I had spent enough time in Holland, and left Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Europe altogether. It’s been a week since I arrived in Hanoi, where I should be spending the next couple of months, while working remotely for CouchSurfing. And if everything goes well, I should end up in San Francisco in a few months, with a possible detour by Costa Rica.

That’s it for now, in the next post I’ll try to talk more about other great changes in my life !

Cheers!