So call "hardship" in Italy

Today is Earth hour day in Malaysia.
Last year, I had it in Milan, Italy.
And today my friend mentioned about the train station incident we had in Milan.
Hmmm...It was a disaster to us..hahhaaa..
People only see my travel photo in facebook..
but all of you don't know the hard time I had when I was in Italy.
So, today I would like to share the hardship I had/we had during my 6 months internship in Italy.

1. Overnight at the railway station in Milan.
My friend Thayalan put his bread and toothbrush beside him while he was sleeping on a chair. The railway officer came to him and thought that we are beggar or people with no place to sleep. The whole night they keep disturbing us and made us can't even sleep well. Sigh, overnight in a cold railway station with no water, sleep on chair was pity enough, somemore misunderstood as a beggar by other...

2. Overnight at airport in every country we visited.
Since the flight was at the morning, so we decided not to overnight at hostel and sleep in airport.
London, Madrid, Paris...

3. 6 months time didn't have a haircut in salon.
Since I want to save money, so I myself became a barber.

4. 6 months time didn't have a proper dinner at restaurant.
Everynight cook myself. A person who only knew to cook maggie mee have to cook 3 dishes and 1 soup for every dinner. Cook until don't know what to cook, cook until no more idea and keep cook for the same dishes for 6 months.

5. Never have a proper meal while travel.
The only food we eat is McDONALD's. And the only burger we order was cheese burger which cost for 1 euro. Never had a BIG MAC McValue Set. Only burger!! Somemore need 3 burgers.. >.<

6. Cheap is the main priority.
Bought mineral water, chose the cheapest one. Only 0.18 Euro for 2 liters.
Bought cookies, chose the cheapest one. Have to really calculate the price/gram.
Bought Body Shampoo, chose the cheapest one. Only 0.99 Euro for 1 liter.
Bought Ingredient/food for cooking, chose the cheapest one. Potato cheap, everyday potato.

7. Never buy the bus ticket, became an illegal customer for 4 months.
We only bought the monthly ticket for first 2 months. But after that my friend get caught because our ticket was student ticket which was not eligible for us. Since that day, we all didn't buy bus ticket but everyday still using bus as our main transport. This is called illegal customer for 4 months throughout the Italy. From Venice to Milan, from Milan to Florence, from Florence to Rome, from Rome to Naples, from Naples to Palermo. Everywhere we went, no ticket please, save money.

8. Being treat like an "Indonesian worker".
Same in Malaysia, we all scare of Idonesian worker. When you are alone and got 6 Indonesian worker walk toward you. You also scare right. This is what we experience in Italy. Just the role are different. This time we became the Indonesian worker.

So far so good, I still alive.
I still love Italy and miss Italy life.
Haha...I tell you, It's not easy man. =)

Italian Song, La Solitudine

After the whole full day facing my thesis..
Now I would like to relax for a while..
listen to some nice songs..
Hmm..life is still not too bad, haha..

Today I would like to share one nice Italian song here.
People said spanish is the most romantic language in the world.
Italian also not that bad actually.
If spanish can rank no.1, with no doubt, Italian can rank no.2!
Listen to the song, feel it, haha..
Name of the song is "La Solitudine" by Laura Pausini.
(Actually she also sang this song in Spanish, called "La Soledad".)

Here is the lyric..

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Italian lirica
Marco se n'è andato e non ritorna più
Il treno delle sette e trenta senza lui
È un cuore di metallo senza l'anima
Nel freddo del matino grigio di città

A scuola il banco è vuoto, Marco è dentro me
È dolce il suo respiro fra i pensieri miei
Distanze enormi sembrano dividerci
Ma il cuore batte forte dentro me

Chissà se tu me penserai
Se con i tuoi non parli mai
Se ti nascondi come me
Sfuggi gli sguardi e te ne stai

Rinchiuso in camera e non vuoi mangiare
Stringi forte al te il cuscino
Piangi non lo sai
Quanto altro male ti farà la solitudine

Marco nel mio diario ho una fotografia
Hai occhi di bambino un poco timido
La stringo forte al cuore e sento che ci sei
Fra i compiti d'ingliese e mathematica

Tuo padre e i suoi consigli che monotonia
Lui con il suo lavoro ti ha portato via
Di certo il tuo parere non l'ha chiesto mai
Ha detto: "un giorno tu me capirai"

Chissà se tu me penserai
Se con gli amici parlerai
Per non sofrire più per me
Ma non è facile lo sai

A scuola non me posso più
E i pomeriggi senza te
Studiare è inutile tutte le idee
Si affollano su te

Non è possibile dividere
La vita di noi due
Ti prego aspettami amore mio
Ma illuderti non so

La solitudine fra noi
Questo silenzio dentro me
è l'inquietudine di vivere
La vita senza te

Ti prego aspettami perché
Non posso stare senza te
Non è possibile dividere
La storia di noi due

La solitudine fra noi
Questo silenzio dentro me
è l'inquietudine di vivere
La vita senza te

Ti prego aspettami perché
Non posso stare senza te
Non è possibile dividere
La storia di noi due
La solitudine

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Translated English lyric (of cause not by me, i'm not that pro, haha)
Marco's gone and won't come back
the train of 7:30 without him
it's a metal heart without the soul
in the cold of the gray morning of the city
At school the bank is empty, Marco is inside me
his breath is sweet between my thoughts
enormous distances seem to divide us
but my heart beats hard inside of me

Who knows if you will think of me
if with yours you never speak
if you hide like me
you escape the looks at you

Locked in your room and you don't want to eat
you hold your pillow tight
you don't know what you're crying about
how much more pain the loneliness will make you feel

Marco,I have a picture of you in my diary
you have the eyes of a child a bit timid
I hold my heart tight and I feel you there
between my English and Math homework
your father and his councils that whisper
him with his work has taken you away
for sure he's never asked your opinion
he said one day you will understand me

Who knows if you will think of me
if you will talk to your friends
to no longer suffer because of me
but you know it's not easy

School is too much to bare
as well as the afternoons without you
studying is useless
all I can think of is you

It isn't easy to divide
our life
I beg you wait for me my love
but to deceive you I don't know

The loneliness between us
this silence inside me
is the inefficiency to live
a life without you

I beg you wait for me because
I can't stay without you
it's not possible to divide
our story

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An email from Rome

Today I recieved an email from my supervisor in APS Engineering Company Roma. =)
It's great can receive his email!
And I felt warm while reading the email. =)

Ermm..I'm a person who not really good in socialize.
Therefore I not really build a very strong and good relationship with my colleagues.
But I respect everyone of them and I love them.. =)

My supervisor said that "Toshiba is a great company and I think you could not ask for more!"
Hmmm..This is a word of wisdom.
People always up, look for a better thing, look for more.
That's why we will never satisfy.
Current satisfaction is only a begin of next un-satisfaction.
but today my supervisor remind me that, I should satisfy with my current condition.
Yes, I could not ask for more!

Honestly, after get the job offer from Toshiba, I was happy.
But I'm thinking, will I get another better job offer?
Hahaa..
But today, I decided to stop think like that!
Thanks Fabrizio for remind!

And I want to mention again,
I felt warm while reading the email. =)
Really happy to hear from him and hope we can meet again in the future. =)


Last but not least!
I never never never expect that my supervisor actually read my blog!
I still can't believe that..
Because he didnt have a facebook account,
so impossible he knew my blog url..

Or..

May be.. may be other colleague show him my blog.
But I also never never never expect my ex-colleagues to read my blog!

Or..

Whatever is the reason..


Ooh Lord, It's my honor! =)=)