The Stress of Leaving

For the past week, I've been having nightmares about leaving! One night, I dreamt that I couldn't get a taxi to the airport on time. Another night, I had some weird dream that had something to do with rail passes (been so stressed about deciding whether or not and which passes to get for the past few days). I think the stress of it all is just that much that its invading my subconsiousness.

Besides that, packing is a NIGHTMARE itself. I've got all my clothes in my luggage and its already touching 30kg, which is the max. Any more excess weight, I'll have to pay $50-60/kg! I don't understand how the others aren't even near that yet. I've got my bedding (pillow, blanket, sheets), winter clothes (which are a bloody lot! haha) and normal clothes in the luggage now. I think I'm overpacking. Need to lessen the load. But I can't leave anything out! I'm already not bringing my beloved kettle. Plus, I still need to bring my electronics and chargers and stuff, as well as my toiletries (I've decided to just get travel sizes just to last me the first couple of days). And I also wanna bring over some bak-kwa and ba-hu. Those would probably weigh another 2kg or so. Argh! *pulls hair out* Why can't they just let us bring as many things we like!

About a week now, and I'll be off! Can't wait but can't bear to leave either. Mixed emotions.. Life!

Blog Virigin

Wow, never thought I'd be blogging but here I am! Thought I'd start a blog to write about my travels and experience of my trip to the Netherlands. For those who don't know (like I didn't), the Netherlands is the same as Holland. What's it famous for? Amsterdam, original red light district, LEGAL 'soft' drugs like marijuana. That's right, you get to smoke weed legally! Before I left Brunei, my friend Sze Yee always said to me 'you're not gonna consider doing such things, are you?' and I always say 'don't worry, i won't do anything illegal'. Haha! And then Monica will go (with a smirk) 'its overrated'.

But seriously though, I'll be staying at Eindhoven, which is like pretty far from Amsterdam about an hour and a half away. Hope to do LOTS of travelling and please, please, please, I WANNA SEE SNOW! I'll be flying off on 31st January, so that's still some time away. Got LOTS of things to settle like tickets (yep, not completely settled yet!), insurance, visa, packing (should I or should I not stock 6 months' worth of toiletries?!).

Well, that's about it for my very first blog. Come back soon for more ADVENTURES WITH JOYCE!