Long weeeeekend!

Number of visa required: 3

Number of visa at hand: 0

Boohoo. My passport is still stuck with the Austrian Embassy because they’re short-handed during the holiday season. If my visa is still not ready for collection by this Friday, I wouldn’t be able to go home as scheduled and need to buy another ticket! *horror of horrors*

Yet assuming I can go home in time, will only be left with 3 weeks to get my UK and Slovakian visa done. Wonder if that’s enough. Urgh. Blame it on the inefficient host university who only issued my acceptance letter (which is required for the Schengen visa application) 3 weeks ago.

Met up with Cheryl and Min Dan last night to settle our itinerary, and we didn’t even manage to confirm our Easter Break’s because (1) We don’t know whether there’s an affordable direct flight from Ireland to Lisbon -if there isn’t, gotta return to London first before flying off to Portugal, (2) We’re still undecided as to how many places we should squeeze into the 3-week break -we don’t want to have a rushed trip, (3) As a consequence, we still can’t decide which Eurail Pass to get.

Eeeks. Why would the host university release our timetable only next month?! How to plan, man. This whole trip is starting to frustrate me :( Anyway, tentatively, this is how our itinerary roughly looks like:

Feb 4 – Feb 11: Italy

Feb 14 – Feb 25: The Netherlands, and maybe Greece and Luxembourg

Mar 31 – Apr 22: Slovakia, UK, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium

May/June: Denmark (Ayu temenin jalan2 ya hehe), Norway, Sweden

July 1-6: Czech Republic, Germany

Will squeeze Switzerland and exploring Austria into the weekends during the semester. Hope there’s enough time!

Anyways. Was at DXO @Esplanade on Thursday for Overdrive. Ayank and I didn’t stay long enough to find out who emerged as the winner, but I thought the Dubious Brothers (who won JamX earlier this year) are really something, man. Totally rocked the house with their rock ’n roll style, this band. 

Stentorian was one of the guest bands, which is clearly the better one, hurhur.

                                     
                     

                                    

Watch their really catchy original here, Contemplations. The video is a tad dark, but you’ll love the song. It’s my second favourite after Fancy Girl. 

And oh, if you happen to be a regular at the event, is it just me or is the Overdrive crowd getting smaller and smaller every year? Heh.

On a holiday note, got to leave the office after lunch yesterday. Although work has been rare these days, I think it’s really kind of the firm to give us a half-day before Christmas *grins* Enjoy the long weekend, peeps!

C’est notre deuxième anniversaire, aujourd’hui. Jusqu’à la fin de ma vie, toujours =)