Hello everyone, I would like to kick of by letting you know that from now on forward I will be writing this log in English so my German, Indian, Malay and Indonesian friends can also follow the journeys as this is much requested. It has been a while since I updated this travel log and since then a lot has happened and a lot has changed.

I almost finished my study here in Bali, only one assignment left and there is still my assignment from the school back home. I am looking forward to be working on the assignment from school back home. I also created a projects page for this so please check that out on http://schaftenaar.com/projects/. Furthermore I updated http://schaftenaar.com and a lot more is to appear in the upcoming time. I am still busy with Arie.nl Werkkleding & Werkschoenen and Schaftenaar vd Heuvel Design also takes up more and more time these days.

I want to start writing more nonsense and thoughts so this log will no longer be a travel log only but a complete blog where I will post anything that interests me. Ok, but I think you guys also came to this place to see what I am doing far far away.

Let me start with last year when Eric & Luuk visited me. During that time I had a lot of classes and was really busy with presentations and more school stuff so I couldn´t spend as much time with them as I would have liked but none the less we had lots of fun. After they left it was time for Christmas and a break. This was a relaxed time because my class just finished final lectures and only had some assignments left. The entire class celebrated Christmas at the villa of the head professor with a very nice dinner and with Secret Santa. During the holiday I often went out and had lots of dinners, good meals in numerous locations. Our New Years celebration consisted again of dinner at a restaurant and after this party in a place called My Room. There was lots of alcohol The weather was pretty bad during midnight and luckily I was not at the beach as these people got soaking wet because of the rain. After “My Room” I went to several other places and around 6 a.m. me and some class mates called it a day and we went home by taxi.

Not only during New Years it rained. I recently moved to a new house because my old room was filled up with mold because of the raining season with too much rain. My new room is a lot smaller but I don´t have to share the house with that many people and as of next week I will have the crib for myself as my room mate will be moving out. With a cool crib also comes cool transportation and because my contract finished with the transport I had from school I went out and got myself a Honda Tiger. I never had the urge to drive motorbikes but I can only say now: it´s awesome.

My birthday was lots of fun. The night before I went out with some classmates and we celebrated it thoroughly until early in the morning. On my birthday I had dinner with Mena, Jan and Wenny. We had dinner at an Italian restaurant. To get to the restaurant we had to drive through the rain and the next day all of us were sick because we caught a cold.

I will be leaving Bali march the first and then will be traveling Singapore and Malaysia for three weeks. I might even go up as far as India but I am not sure about that yet. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Last week I have been to Jakarta with my class mate Jan. We went to see the shopping malls, shopping malls and even more shopping malls because somehow that is the only thing you can do in Jakarta. We also met with Sammy´s family where I stayed before. It was good to see them again and we had lots of fun. We had dinner at the NAMANAMA restaurant(I actually forget the name). This is an all you can eat place where for IDR 75.000 (€ 6,-) a person you have to prepare your own food. This was lots of fun and afterwards we were overfed.

The coming month I will be working on finishing my assignments. After that I will go and travel Singapore, Malaysia and maybe more and I hope to find a good location for writing my Bachelor thesis. I feel really exited about the last thing and I think I will have lots of fun doing this.

Just for now…

Cheers,

Jeroen

P.S. If you have any comments please leave them in any language you prefer.