Spring is finally here!

I see green leaves growing out! Definitely a great feeling for me as I hate cold weather!

Will start bringing the girls out to the playground more often :-)

Spring?

It should be spring now. But the weather is still pretty cold. 5-6'C in the morning, and we are lucky if the temperature will rise till more than 10'C in the afternoon. Anyway, I can see that it's getting warmer, just slowly.

Plan to have a day trip to tulip farm, hope that we can make it as this is going to be our last spring in Holland. Wish to take pictures with lots of Tulip!

Spring!

After been staying at home most of the time for the past 3 months, I glad that Spring is finally here. If you know me, you should know that I hate cold weather! I am so happy that I can switched off my heather now and open my window enjoying the fresh air out side!

It's time to plan for more outing before our family vacation to Vienna!!! Yes, we are going to Vienna! Our first family trip this year! Can't wait for it!

Weather forecast...

This is the weather forecast for this week until 26th December.



This is too cold for me... I have been staying indoor for 4 days already... Yeah... I refused to go out in this kind of weather... Now, I am counting down to the day I go back to Malaysia!!! Might be snowing on Sunday somemore!! Eeeeee....

Sinterklaas Party

We just got back from Sinterklaas Party. Sinterklaas is Dutch People's own Saint. It was a fun event where children can sing and dance together with Sinterklaas and his helper - Black Pieters. Anne got a present from Sinterklaas. It's a Baby Set. She likes it! All children have a present, even adults also get a small present which is an alphabet chocolate. Nice huh! :-D

No mood to write...

I am so lazy to write! Not that I do not have opps to take, but I just do not like the topics and decided not to take opps that I do not feel like to write. That's why I am writting less.

Weather in Netherlands is getting so cold now. Yesterday, it hitted -2'C in the morning. I remember last year I only started to wear my winter coat arround december. This year, I wear my winter coat as early as end of october! I just wish that I can get my ID ASAP and "fly" back to Malaysia NOW!!!

Another problem!!

We noticed some annoying sounds from the roof since the recent strong wind in Netherlands. We suspected maybe due to some roof tiles were swept away by the strong wind. We can clearly hear the rains drop on the suspected area too. Loong informed the incharged person before he went to Geneva. Today, until now still no one come and do any inspection. Well, I just wish that they will fix the problem soon. It's ready noisy when the wind blow!!!

View from our living room

This is the view from our living room. I like this room because of the view. More things to see and not facing another building or a bicycle shed! Anne can see buses, train and tram from the windows too. As you can see, all trees are turning color... It's autumn, but I feel like it's winter now. Rain will pour any time!

Learning Dutch!!

We started our Dutch lesson last Tuesday. Not a good start, because we were late that day. Loong thought the class started at 10:30am, but actually started at 10:00am. We only found out at 9:55am. So, we were late for 15 mins and the class had began. Feel so shy to enter the class!Tomorrow, only I will attend the class. Loong has to be a tutor for a hydrology class in IHE. Anne will go with me, I hope this time she can have a nice time playing with other kids.

We earned one hour!

Heehee... We earned one hour today. Why? Because Europe turn to Winter time which turn our clock backward 1 hour. Normally Anne wakes up at 8am. Today, she actually woke up at 8am, but the time turn backward 1 hour, so the time was 7am only. So early! Just now, she dozed off at 8:30pm, which is 30 mins before her normal nap time. I just cannot understand why Europe need to adjust the time like this. Time will adjust back to summer mode in March when we need to turn our clock fast-forward 1 hour. Then we will loose one hour!

Finally the heater is function now~

As the title tell, finally someone came to fix our rooms' heater after we had been cooling every night for almost 2 weeks. They sent someone here after our second complaint! That person used less than 5 minutes to fix the heater. What he did? He open one screw at one side of the heater, release some gas, and that's it! So easy! Why not come earlier?

Well, at least during the last few night Anne is willing to cover herself with blanket! :-) Before this, it's difficult to ask her to use a blanket!

still in old room

We are still in our old room. No care-taker came to inspect the sticky carpet. According to the email sent by the housing agent, she said that the carpet is sticky and wet might be due to the reason that cleaner had just washed the carpet. This morning, we Loong saw the cleaner, he asked her regarding the carpet. She said she didn't wash the carpet. She only vacumn the floor after the previous tenants moved out. See, how can the carpet be so sticky if it was washed?


Loong went to the agent's office straight after breakfast. After some discussion, they agreed to assign a cleaning company to clean the carpet on next monday. We are allowed to stay in old old room until the carpet is clean and the new room is ready for us to move in.

p/s: we already moved some of our staffs up.... I think I will just leave it there!

How to stay?

Just got our new room's key. Went up for an inspection. Quite disappoited with the cleanliness of the room. The kitchen is an open kitchen and may be due to the reason that the previous tenants are family from China which cook a lot, the living roon and kitchen area are pretty sticky and oily. I used whole morning to mop and clean the area. But, I do not know how to clean the carpet. The carpet at living hall is so sticky. I really do not feel to step into the area!

Anyway, we inform the care-taker and he promised to come and have a look. Hope that he will help us to solve the problem...

One more thing, the heater not functioning! DuH!

Autumn!

It's officially autumn in Netherlands now. We were lucky, because last weekend we had great weather. Temperature avarage 20+'C which was a great for outing.

Anyway, according to the weather forecast, this week will be a rainning week. Rain for one whole week, 7 days until Sunday! I have to think of some indoor activities for Anne to play with else we will be too boring to stay at home all the time!

Rain, rain go away, come again another day!