Why ...

... have I hardly been blogging the past few months. That's an easy one to answer: all I do is work and commute and sleep. And since I am not supposed to blog about work, I am not left with a whole lot to blog, am I. Hm, actually, that's not entirely true. But you know what it's like once you enter the professional jungle. Gotta be prudent. 

Anyways, next to working like a normal person (I am trying really hard right now to ignore my neighbors having the hugest fight ever - this couple has been yelling at each other for the past forty minutes. She's been throwing extremely bad words at him and been trying to kick him out. Oh geez)  - I spend lots of hours in trains, trams and b

uses commuting every day.  Ah but who doesn't, right? So I am usually quite tired by the time I get home. 

Luckily, there were some highlights as well the last couple of weeks (which consisted in a lot of discovery of my own country, and other roadtripping): 

• Bernina Express Train Ride with my Dad, the entire route - totally recommendable
• Train ride from Geneva to Locarno, including a scenic trainride through the Centovalli , a drive up the Vallemaggia and Val Bavona to take the the cable car from S. Carlo up to the Robiei, and hike back down again. Stunningly beautiful landscape. Spent a weekend in Locarno with my baby and his best friend plus girlfriend, and went to the Lenny Kravitz concert at the Moon & Stars Festival on the famous Piazza Grande
• Roadtrip in a minibus to Bosnia, to attend Sue's wedding! Sixteen or eighteen hours ride down on a Friday evening, arriving Saturday morning, then the wedding celebrations from 3pm until 1am or 2am, sleep for four hours, and take the minibus back again at 6am on a Sunday. Back to Geneva. Mamma mia !! But totally worth every second of it :-)) And seeing Nadja and Peter again there too ...
• Meeting up with mi Sarita again in Solothurn, haha. Again, travelled by train!
• Small roadtrip with my Dad and sister from our place across the Sattel to Reichenburg (SZ) and back to see my Godfather and his wife, after too many years of not seeing each other
• Rock Oz Arènes Festival last Friday with my little sister! Line-Up: DJ's Yves Larock, Axwell, Martin Solveig and Fedde le Grand !!! A trip to heaven that lasted from 9pm until 4am. But the travelling back home was hell, especially waiting in the cold at Avenches trainstation for 1.5 hours. Ah well, but then some random guy claiming to be a house DJ entertained us by blabbering about his ex-girlfriend and his many clubbing trips to Ibiza, so the time did go by rather fast after all

My internship is ending on 29 August. And I have booked my ticket to the Philippines!! My well-deserved vacation, a year overdue. Leaving on 5 September, I am ecstatic about it :-) Would be much better if my man could join too though, sigh. But that moment shall come too, someday :-) I am a proud holder of the Filipino passport since January, travelling there and within the Philippines will be a breeze. Going with my mom, my sister and my sister's best guy friend. So it's FOUR girls on the road ;-) Or island hopping, rather. Which island I especially look forward to ? This one. And I cannot wait to visit my mother's hometown.