I had one of the best weekends ever.

I spent the Saturday on Noordwijk Aan Zee beach, because my company arranged an office weekend outing. It was really FUN. We spent the day doing some games and sports, for example volleyball, Frisbee, baseball and rafting. To my surprise, it was extremely HOT that day. The sun was shining ALL DAY LONG. But still, I was in deep shock when at the end of the day I was TANNED. Not that my skin was fair before, but I’ve been trying to make it fairer for the past EIGHT MONTHS. And now it’s gone for JUST ONE DAY. And the worse thing is I’m going back to Indonesia next week, with DARKER SKIN!!! My mom will kill me… Huu. But anyway, the day was great, so it was worth it.

Later that day, we had party. We had to wear white clothes because that’s the dresscode. It’s funny to see how my colleagues’ skins become reddish like lobster. I couldn’t help to feel a bit proud of myself because they envied my skin tone hehe. Even tho I hate it. Well, that’s some contradiction we have between east and west right? Eastern people try so hard to have fairer skin with help of numerous whitening creams while western people are so dying to have darker skin that they spend hours under the sun only to make their skin look RED. Hehe.

Anyway, the party was great. There’s even a cocktail workshop where I –of course- participated and made myself one glass of banana-martini and two (or maybe three?) glasses of Mojito. AWESOME! It’s surprisingly easy; I can actually make one at home hehe. So, free cocktails, free wines, free beers, great music, what else do you need? So everybody danced, drank, danced, drank again, until it was dawn. It’s time to go back to hotel. BY BYCICLE. I was surprised how I managed to cycle back with very limited level of consciousness.

I woke up in the morning. Headache. Hangover. And in a great need of caffeine.

Long story short, I ended up in my friend’s house because some of my friends were crazy since they cycled all the way from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. And it is around 60 or 70 km!! I stayed there, eating delicious soto ayam made by Nanda, our top chef of the day, drinking Absynth, the most devilish drink there is which I have made separate post about later, and finally we went to see a movie called The Hangover. Ain’t it just perfect??

I have seen the trailer and I really looked forward to seeing the movie. And my expectation was completely fulfilled!! It was hilarious, purely funny joke and not just a typical let’s-go-to-Vegas-for-our-bachelor-party kind of movie. I laughed hysterically almost during the whole movie. It’s highly recommended for those of you who want to sit down, relax, and be entertained with genuine humors. Especially for you BOYS!! This movie is for you!!

Ah well, after finished watching the movie, I went home, completely dead and exhausted. Time to have some good sleep after a great weekend.