2023年11月1日

day 2 started strong with a message in the main company #general channel asking me to start speaking dutch in the public chats so that the company's official language didn't degrade into english 😭

i know that she didn't have bad intentions but that was a strong onboarding process for sure to the dutch directness...

anyhow, i headed to haarlem in the afternoon for visiting the place of the dead person 💀

and decided to apply right after! (we had already been rejected from too many places and we wanted to move in anywhere...)

and to my surprise, i managed to drag myself to the gym after two months not having touched it! wao, consistency 🤡

2023年11月3日

- visited Q42's second office in the hage while they were having their yearly hackathon and got my first corporate massage! truly the best company perk of Q42
- it was nice that i got some company merch in the office including some sweatpants, because my trousers DOUBLE CRACKED on the bike back to the station...
- what wasn't that fun either was that NS cancelled the last TWO trains of the day for going back to almere and i had to take a taxi! back then i didn't know i could have get this reimbursed since it was nuisance caused by NS. all of this after waiting for over an hour in the freezing platform 🥶

2023年11月5日~8日

- cats sleeping/neighborhood watching glass hammocks 😺
- happy xto with a pastel de nata 🧁
- following cleo's coffee recs ☕️
- missing japanese toilets 🧻
- rencounter with 2015 izadi photo spot 📺
- nice lighting 🕯
- deeper than toei roppongi (jk) 🚂
- (not pictured) GOT MY BSN NUMBER 💪 --> for context: you need a bsn number to get an apartment and you need register for an address to get a BSN number (each apartment has max num of registrable spots, so hotel and temporary places don't count. a coworker had to let me register there). BIG WIN DAY 🎉
- bikes 🚲
- got our haarlem apartment keys!!!! 🔑
- got furry allegations at work 😭

- mortadelo y filemón is PALING EN KO in dutch??? 😮
- xto suffering from dutch food 🥗
- tangyuan to make everything better 🍡
- aesthetic ams centraal station's bike parking 🏍