Blog entries by eriols
It's 2025, and I don't understand where my dental hygiene goes wrong. Three months ago I pushed myself to wear braces as i am afraid that i may get gum receding if my crowded teeth weren't fixed. Three months later, my dental hygienist alerted me that my dental hygiene wasn't great. I have an...
I recently finished ff7rebirth (93 hours - dynamic), and thankfully, one time before the release of final fantasy tactics remaster next week.
Suikoden seems relatively short and i hope to finish within a week or so.
Revisiting this game makes me appreciate the theme even better compared to my...
So someone recently recommended me to watch re:zero because it is different than any other isekai. The main character is transported to different world and only can loop time after experiencing death.
The writing is really good, and it's closer to psychological thriller + dark fantasy...
I went to the Dutch embassy today and submitted my MVV visa. It was simpler than I expected. I could pick up my visa next week since I already got approval from the immigration department. So different compared to Malta!
I guess one problem is over. Hunting flats in NL is my next headache.
One...
Fortunately I got my approval from IND this week, all I have to do now is applying MVV visa at the Dutch embassy. Should be smooth.
However hunting affordable housing in the Netherlands/Amsterdam/satellite cities is really hard. I think I will hire a housing agent to find me a property.
I decided to remove about 300 games from my steam library. Most of them were bundle games that I bought as far as 8 years ago. Ironically, I haven't played like 95% of them in the past decade. I finally press the nuke button, and now I left with 84 games that I like. I am going to be careful of...
Last week I finally signed the offer, and I have submitted the necessary documents to process my HSM visa. from what I read, I expect to get a result within 10 days, and then I can collect my visa at the local dutch embassy.
I also just made a contact with the relocation agency. I am glad I...
Can you believe it? I got the formal offer letter today. I accepted it without any second thoughts. I am moving to the Netherlands next year.
Finally the job hunting is over. After 2800 job applications, I cracked the EU job market as a non EU citizen, thrice.
after applying jobs, almost 3000 times, I think I could breathe a sigh of relief: I am finalizing a job offer for a role in Amsterdam. I have always preferred to relocate to the netherlands due to its historical relationship with Indonesia, also, I have cousins there, so I wouldn't be feel to...
I haven't read any of Dune book, maybe I should. I find the movie breathtakingly beautiful. It reminds me of the visuals from The Fall (2006), except it's used in a high fantasy scifi context. Also, maybe because the plot is so condensed, there are a lot of terms that I don't know why they keep...
the salary is so low. Like 46K euro/year. That's quite ridiculous given that I have 5 years experience in analytics. My peers told me my market rate is around 55-60K euro/year. But given that the company is a startup, maybe they just want someone senior with an entry level salary. Well the...
Well in the past two weeks I think I applied about 250 analytics jobs on linkedin. So to recap, I got the following interviews:
- two interviews from companies in the Netherlands (my ultimate goal is this country anyway - since my extended family members are there)
- one company in Malta (the...
well I had expected this happened sooner, but finally my future manager replied (and apologized) that it came into this. Unfortunately my situation has become complicated to the point that it will take 6 months for me to start working after I got the offer. So after I got the skilled worker...
I swear this is the longest two months in my life. If you followed my blog a bit, you probably read that I got a job offer in Malta as a skilled worker, I got a work permit, but not the visa because my country is classified as Dark Red country. My employer's HR doesn't seem able to navigate this...
I thought this year will end with a victory. I got a job offer to work in Malta with a salary twice the locals and basically will have the expats life that I have been wanting all my life. After I got my work permit approval issued last month in 3 days, everything was nothing but a disaster:
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I thought there would be no other games could top Alien Isolation. Well, until I played resident evil 2 remake. The game's atmosphere is terrifying. The lighting, the sound design, the music, the zombies, the music, EVERYTHING is terrifying. I bought a DLC to unlock all the bonus (infinity...
so a few days ago my future employer sent me an email, my work permit approved (as expected). now here comes the nastiest part: applying a visa to visit Malta (my passport doesn't have free visa access for schengen zone).
In normal times, it seems third country nationals only need to come with...
today I logged in to Malta's Singlepermit website as an expat told me her work permit was approved in 3 days. I submitted my work permit last thursday, and yes, I have been restless ever since even I don't have the reason to do so. My salary, as stated on the contract will be twice than the...
So let's see, in personal circle, 3 people already got a tech job in europe. I got a job in Malta, my friend got a job in Germany, and she just told me her friend got a job in Estonia. I used to be interested in applying jobs in Estonia, but canceled my mind after I just knew there's no Estonian...