A nostalgic trip to Prague….

After getting back from the combo-trip with Mu & Yanto on 23rd December 2007, I celebrated Christmas in Bonn. Actually Bonn & Köln. On 24th I attended a Christmas mass in Bonn with Vina & Eddy (and Mu also ), then on 25th I attended an Indonesian Christmas mass in Köln with Vina (Eddy had to work at that time).

On 29th I travelled to Prague by bus. Since Czech Republic was already a member of the Schengen countries, I didn’t need a Czech visa After 7.5 years, I finally had the chance to step my feet again in Prague. I arrived on 30th and was fetched by my big bro. Yup, I stayed in my big bro’s apartment until 4th January. It was so nostalgic.

in front of the national museum @Vaclavske Namesti

my favourite Czech dish: knedlik & gulas

new year party with my big bro’s family & friends

the leaning building of Prague

Vltava river, Charles bridge, the palace

at the Charles bridge

cafe Louvre (the last time I was here was around 8 years back)

So, I’ve retransmitted all loss segments in a congestion window of 2007’s Christmas holiday, just like Reno TCP… or maybe even New Reno… hahaha….. goshhh… I’ll have my Convergent Networks seminar presentation on Thursday…..

Combo trip to Luxembourg, Brugge, Bruxelles (again)

One day after being present in 3 countries at once , on 21st December, I, Mu and Yanto took a combo trip to 3 cities: Luxembourg, Brugge, Bruxelles (again). We took a direct train from Köln to Luxembourg city, travel around, and stayed for a night in a youth hostel.

Luxembourg – the big map

Luxembourg city has so many bridges. We could hardly distinguish the bridges.

Luxembourg – peace….

Luxembourg – the many-bridges city of Luxembourg

Luxembourg – where’s the other guy?

And another cool thing about Luxembourg city is that it has many internet hot-spots surrounding the city.

Luxembourg – the internet hostpot’s access point

After getting tired wandering around the town, we had our dinner in a Chinese restaurant (what? why the hell should we eat Chinese food in Luxembourg?). Yeah, it’s because of the very high price of traditional restaurant. Just imagine, it’s about €25 for a dinner But no regret since we had had a traditional food for our lunch
Early in the morning, we headed straight to the central station, and took a train to Brugge (in Belgium). It was very cold, I saw a thermometer at the sidewalk: it’s -7 °C

Brugge is quite famous for its canal crossing the city. But the canals were all frozen

Brugge – the frozen canal of Brugge

Brugge – captain Dafferianto….

Brugge – the city square

Brugge – lost in Brugge?

Before going to a hostel for a night, we went to an ice museum (I forgot the name). So beautiful….

Brugge – hey ho…. I’m gonna slide down fasstttt…..

Brugge – howdy….

Brugge – don’t follow these 2 devils….

Brugge – instead, follow Dafferianto the sailor man….

Drielandenpunt => my presence in 3 countries at once :D

OK, like Reno TCP which employs the Fast Retransmission and Fast Recovery algorithm, I’d like also to try to retransmit the lost packets, i.e. the lost important activities But instead of writing long sentences, I’d just consider putting some pictures.

So, below are some pictures of my trips on 20th December 2007 to a spot called Drielandenpunt, which is a border of 3 countries: Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium. I went there with Caryto, Mu, Vina and Yanto.

The 3-border-point is located in a hill. So we went to Vaals (located in the Netherlands) from Aachen, and walked up to the spot. Actually the spot itself is the highest point throughout the entire Netherlands (no wonder since some parts of the Netherlands are below sea-level). On the way up, we went to a post-office. I was surprised that the post office in Dutch is called “postkantoor”. In Indonesia it’s called “kantor pos”

postkantoor

on the way up (Yanto, Vina, me, Caryto)

the Drielandenpunt (3 borders point. My feet are in the Germany’s territory )

the highest point of the Netherlands

Mu & Yanto enjoying life….

stupidos in action (me, Mu, Yanto)

On our way back, we went to a supermarket. I bought a pack of Strepsils and 2 packages of kroepoek.. haha….

the “kroepoek”