Yesterday was the last day that my mum was here. Since her flight didn’t leave until the evening, we got spend most of the afternoon together.
I met up with her at her place because she needed me to help her carry the suitcase down the stairs, just like I had to carry it up when she arrived. We walked to the train station and left the suitcase in on of the lockers there.
We then starter off at the diamond district where we walked around and I thought my mother was interested in the stores, but apparently she was more curious about the people living around that part of town.
We only went into two shops since I am not that much of a shopper. I got myself one nice top and one summer dress. My mother didn’t find anything either. We quickly moved on to just more walking around the city.
We walked to a small botanical garden. Which was really pretty. A nice little breather from all the city workers. After that little adventure, we walked to a place to eat. This time we ended up at a small bar inside a pretty hotel. We didn’t have as big of a meal as we did the day before. We both went with the burger and some drinks.
When we had eaten our meal, we headed back towards the train station and I just helped my mother to find the right train and help her carrying the luggage up on to it, and then we said our goodbyes and I headed home again.
I had a nice few days with my mum. Despite it being a bit stressful from time to time, I still appreciate her flying out and being able to spend some time with her. We did have some lovely moments. I have relieved to being going back to my usual day and spending time with my friends again.
Yesterday was a shorter day than the others since wee started later due to the day before, and my mother wanted to end earlier since she was traveling back the day after.
I met up with her at around 2:30 pm. The plan was do a bit of shopping. We started walking down a street and just kept walking. We stepped into a few shops, but didn’t end up getting anything. I did get a nice new bag, but that was about it. Since it was a Sunday not all the shops were open, so we decided to move the shopping trip to the next day since my mother’s plane wasn’t until in the evening.
We ended up just walking down a nice street next to a small park, and then we walked back along side the canal. While we were walking it started raining, which is very normal here in Belgium. At first it was just some moderate showers, but then it started really coming down since I didn’t have my umbrella I ended up getting soaked from top to toe. I did thankfully have my raincoat with me, but that one was also soaked due to all the intense rain.
We eventually made it back to where we started and decided to sit down for dinner at an very cozy Italian restaurant. They had comfortable chairs and also heated lamps. Since this was going to most likely be our last proper meal together, we went all out.
I ordered some tempura shrimp for starters and a huge entrecote as my main. My mother ordered a small salad and pasta with shrimps. Everything tasted delicious. After our meal we parted ways for the day and I got to go back and relax with my friends which I haven’t been able to do a lot this weekend.
My friend Seyaca and I continued our playthrough of “Split fiction” together. The game is so good, but it does throw a lot of variety stuff at you, so it’s easy to get overwhelmed. We make sure we don’t have too long sessions, also because we don’t want to rush through the game. Just want to take our time and enjoy it all.
Yesterday we took a long walk towards a sculpture park which was located all the way in the southern part of the city. The gps said a bit over 1h, but it took us more like 2h.
The weather while walking was on and off rain. My mother lost control of her umbrella due to strong wind. I tried to retrieve it, but it happend over a hug crossing, so it quickly got caught by cars and broke. We thankfully found a store that sold an umbrella and she got herself a new one.
Some time later we were standing in front of a bike lane and a crossing and when I was going to cross the bike lane my mother suddenly let out a huge scream. She thought she saw a car coming to hit me. It startled me quite a bit.
But after those two events and a lot of walking we managed to get to the sculpture park. They seemed to have some sort of event going on cuz there were people in costumes and a big crowd of kids.
We walk around and looked at the installations. Some of them were very interesting indeed. Since we got there a bit late, we didn’t really stay too long. We had a some drinks and then headed back to our place. We could thankfully take a buss all the way home.
When we got home. My mum and I just sat in the sofa chatting about different things while Nathan sorted out dinner. We discussed stuff like job hunting, house cleaning and other things. It got a bit heated there for a moment but that almost always happens.
Thankfully, dinner didn’t take too long to make so we ate the food and since it was already 10:30, my mother ordered a taxi to take her home.
It was an alright day up until we got home to our place and started chatting about certain things. I ended up feeling very exhausted and a bit frustrating, but other than that the rest was good. And the food that Nathan had prepared was delicious.
This Thursday my mum arrived in Belgium for her planned visit. She decided last year that she was interested in coming back to explore more of the place I live and to be able to spend more time with both me and Nathan.
Her plane was delayed already by 1h on the day of arrival so we didn’t get to Antwerp until noon. I met up with her at the train station and we walked through the city towards the place she was staying. She got to see the shopping street and the “Groenmarkt”. When we finally got to her place we realized that the stairs where super narrow. In Norway we would call them “Chicken stairs”. So it was a good thing that I was with my mum at that time since I of course had to help her carry her luggage upstairs, which quite the workout for sure.
After we had relaxed a bit we went out for a nice lunch and a short walk around the area. We didn’t have a long day since my mother was tired from traveling.
Yesterday was the first day of proper hanging out together. Nathan and I met her at KMSKA which is the place Nathan had is first performance with KARO, but this time we were here for the actual museum. They were some really nice paintings and sculptures. We managed to see everything right before they closed.
Then we were planning on heading home and have my mum over for dinner later, but plans changed due to my mothers phone acting up. After walking while being in a queue for almost 45 min to talk to customer service, we decided to just go out for dinner and do the appartement visit the next day. My mum wanted to take us to the place she recommended called “De Pottekijker”, but they didn’t have any free tables. So we took her to the Takumi ramen where Nathan and I always go whenever we eat in the city.
She ordered the spicy miso ramen with shrimp. She said that this is the best ramen she had tasted before. For dessert she tried Taiyaki and I tried a Taro (Japanese sweet potato) cheesecake.
After our dinner Nathan and I said our goodbyes and head home since it had been a long day. We needed to rest up for the next day too.
This weekend was really fun. I had been looking forward to this for a long while, because a group of my friends came together to plan a big meetup at FACTS. We were 9 people in total, and some of us were even meeting each other for the first time.
We woke up semi early because our friend was arriving at 10 am to pick up Nathan and I and take us to FACTS. It was about 1h drive from our destination. The drive itself wasn’t bad and we arrived at the convention around 11:30am, after struggling with finding a parking spot.
Our friends were gathered outside and it was REALLY nice seeing familiar and new faces. I met my friend Sunni and Gortax for the first time, since Sunni had flown in from her country to attend this event. After our first greetings, we headed into the building. We started right in the middle where all the big stalls were. You could skip that if you wanted and just enter it by the artist alley.
We started walking around and looking at what they had. There were a lot of everything. TCG stands, T-shirts, Plushies, Posters, Cloths etc… We ended up splitting into smaller groups cuz of different interest and walking pace. We visited the 18+ area which was the first for me. I thought it was sort of cool that they had a dedicated section for those type of stuff. After a while, we all met up at the food hall to get something to eat and drink, and just to share the stuff we had bought so far. We then checked out the artist alley, where I ended up buying a lit up picture frame of Totoro (Japanese movie). I also walked around looking for more League of Legends trading cards, but only found one stall that got them.
Just like that it was already almost 6pm. We met up one last time before we said our goodbyes and left. It was really fun and I enjoyed meeting up with so many of my friends, BUT I did get super overwhelmed with the entire thing and I also felt like I didn’t get to see anything (Which was ofc, my fault for rushing through it all) If I do this again I will focus more about seeing everything rather than just sticking around my friends and just go where they wanted to go.
The drive home was just as smooth, but when we finally got home all the walking and overwhelming feelings caught up to me and I started feeling a bit sick. I also hadn’t eat a lot throughout the day. I just had 1 egg + bacon sandwich and 1 onigiri throughout the day. As for drinks, I only drank 1 monster and 1 cola. I also just felt overly exhausted and it felt as if everything in my body hurt xD.
After a much needed rest I felt much better. Sunday I joined the band boys for their photo shoot. That was also very fun, because they had such a great and goofy vibes.
Overall a great weekend with a lot of fun and I used a lot of energy XD Had a lot of fun and can’t wait to hopefully do more IRL things like this in the future.
HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS!! I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas + New Year, regardless if you celebrated or not, with family/friends or just by yourself. If you all the very best for this new year to come!
This Christmas we had so much food that I almost had daily stomach aches due to all it. The food was just that good and I really enjoyed it.
For Christmas eve I made the traditional Norwegian Christmas crispy pork belly. I had it with a small side of mushroom stew and a potato gratin. The next day I ate a HUGE 700g salmon with a very small side of spaghetti. Then on what some of you would call “Boxing day”, Nathan and I had been invited to a family dinner together with the brother’s family at their dads place. They a nice cold started with smoked salmon and surumi (crab sticks), and then a nice assortment of various foods such as lam, chicken legs, veal, beans, mushrooms and croquettes. We also got some nice Christmas gifts. I got a gnome and Nathan got 2 boxes for sugar canes.
The day after the dinner we started on what would be our dinner for the next 4 days. The famous Dutch + Belgian Christmas meal: Gourmet. It where you buy a bunch of raw meats, veggies, bread, cheese etc… and then then you cook it all on the middle of the table on a small grill. Grocery stores usually sell like different sets with different meats during the holidays. We got one from out local store and one that we ordered from a butchery. All that food lasted us 4 whole days.
For new years we just decided to do a takeaway order, because we didn’t really have any proper meals left and I didn’t want to have to make something since I was streaming, so we just ordered some Indian foods. I had lamb tikka masala and Nathan tried their strongest dish called “Bangalore lams phall”. He said it was indeed really spicy. After we had eaten and when the clock was closing up to midnight. We went out on to the bridge that we always go to, to see some fireworks. There were a lot more than last year, which was nice. We stood there for about 10 min before heading in. Spent the rest of the night doing some more gaming and wishing all my friends a happy new year.
To round it all up. This holiday was filled with so much delicious foods and great moments with friends.
As some of you might know, I lost my dad at the beginning of the 2025 due to his terminal illnesses (Pulmonary fibrosis) and many of my friends has also lost someone close to them, so I felt quite early that this year were going to be a rough one. Within the past 6 months both my sister and my mum got into a car accident where they both got hit by cars, plus my cousin who just gave birth to her first daughter also had a lot of issues where the infant couldn’t breath properly due to an unknown infection. They are all doing alright and recovering, but yea. It has indeed been a rough one and I can’t wait to just move on and hope that this one will be better and filled with less sadness.
So I wanted to thank everyone who has read my various post throughout the year of 2025. Thanks to the ones that stopped by one or several of my streams. You all made my year so much better than I thought it would ever get. Cheers to you and to a better new year!!
Last week I got back from my very short Norway trip. I was only gone for 3 days and those days went by so fast that I didn’t see the need write daily, but rather just sum it all up in one post.
So I travelled out on Sunday evening. Did the usual bus into the city and then train to the airport. The plane went as schedule and everything went smoothly. It was an evening plane from around 7-8pm. I arrived at my family home at around 10pm. Not much happened since it was late.
The first official day was spent on going for nice morning walk with my mother and a friend of hers. We didn’t walk up to “Grefsenkollen” this time, but different one. It doesn’t have a specific name, but it’s another one I used to do a lot growing up. It was nice 1h walk, then the rest of the afternoon was spent on completely defrosting and cleaning out the fridge. We moved all the food out, took out all the shelfs and cleaned the entire thing from top to bottom as well as putting a pot of boiling water in the freezer to remove all built up frost and ice. Evening was just spent with chilling and continue watching “Ginny and Georgia”.
On Tuesday we went for yet another walk, but not with the friend this time. We walked a bit longer than the previous day. When we were done with that, we went shopping at the nearby shopping mall. It was a late birthday present from my mum. We walked around in some clothing store and I eventually got myself 4 nice jumpers/long armed shirts. They looked really nice and I liked the fit of all of them. I also got a small wallet which I can use when I don’t want to drag my huge one around. My mother had an appointment at 5 pm, so we didn’t take too long. This evening was mostly used to repeat some stuff for my exam the next day and watch more Netflix.
My last day was the day of my Psychology exam. The day didn’t really go to much else. I met up at the mentioned place at 4:30. I registered at the front and then it was mostly a waiting game. I had to wait a bit over 1h before I could pick my assignment, and then I got 30 min of prep. I ended up getting the assignment to discuss “nature vs nurture”.
I was given a case about a pair of twins who went to the same school, were both well liked amongst their friends and extrovert, but one of them didn’t enjoy school and found it hard to go to class while the other one was doing great at school. Their parents divorced when they were 4 and that’s when the twins started living separate from each other, which was hard for the one that was also struggling at school.
I tried my best to answer as well as I could. I brought up a lot of different points and some theory, but I did have a hard time of remember the name of some specific theory or model. I felt bad about how I almost couldn’t answer any of their follow up questions. It was however given a word I had never seen in my 1 year of studying. However, I ended up getting a strong 3 out of 6. It’s not the best grade, but it does mean that I pass, which was the most important thing. After my exam my mother and I ordered sushi, finished the 1st season and then I just spent the entire night watching a different series until I had to leave for the airport again on Thursday morning.
On Thursday I spent the first half of the day just arriving back home to Belgium, and the second half I spent on attending Nathans concert. It was really fun. Despite being quite tired since I only was working on 2h of sleep, I tried my best to be energetic. I even jumped and danced during KARO’s performance. I did have a lot of fun and I also took a lot of photo’s which sadly didn’t turn out as good as usual since I was using my own camera, but they weren’t half bad either
Today is my last day here in Norway. It’s the day of my cousins wedding and then tomorrow morning I’ll be flying home. This has been a really nice trip. Being able to help out my mother with some of her chores has been a bit tiring, but I know she needed the extra hands. I am looking forward to come back home to my own place.
Nothing much has happened since the last post, which is why I haven’t written anything. I decided to just mention them all in one longer post, instead on multiple short ones, since a lot of days was just spent chilling or minor events.
My mother was gone last weekend on a girls trip to Sweden, so I got to have the house for myself. It was really nice to both get a little break from mum, but also be able to hang out with my friends that I usually hang out with. We played some games and I got to order kebab for dinner. I ordered for the usual place and to no surprise, it tasted delicious. My mother returned back on Monday and I made dinner for the both of us.
The following week, not much happened. We planted some new flowers on my fathers grave, and picked up my cousins wedding present on Tuesday. On Wednesday we sorted out all my dads cloths and put them in big bags to give to charity and then in the evening my sister and her boyfriend came over for dinner that I was cooking. On Thursday, my mother and I delivered my dads old cloths to Fretex (aka charity) and then we had a nice walk down to Grünerløkka and had a nice dinner. I had some spicy Won tons followed my Crazy Duck.
Yesterday however was a nice day. I made plans to hang out with some of my old friends that I had before moving to Belgium. After meeting my mum in the city to go shoe shopping for the wedding, I hopped on a tram and met my friends in a park close to where one of them lived. Since one of them was recovering from a concussion, we just decided to keep it chill. We tried a lot of different Asian snacks and talked about what has been going on in our life’s for the past years. It was really nice seeing them again and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I’m always a bit nervous when it comes to social gatherings due to my social anxiety, but this was nothing but nice.
Today is the big day so a lot of things will happen. We are scheduled to head out at around noon. I need to run some small errands and then it’s probably just going to go very fast with the wedding ceremony and the after party. I was tasked to take a lot of photos which I’m looking forward to.
So that was basically my last week quickly summed up. As I stated, it’s been a nice trip, but I’m looking forward to be going home. Be back with my boyfriend, my pc, my own bed and back to streaming again.
We are back in October aka the month of celebrations. We started with my birthday which was on the 8th and then we just recently celebrated my boyfriend’s birthday on the 19th.
My birthday was really nice. I had an event over at my twitch channel (twitch.tv/yannani) that I called “Subtemberthon”. It was to take advantage of the platform’s Subtember event.
Subtember is an event that Twitch does every year for the month of September. During that event one can save up 30% on subs and gifted subscriptions. So it’s the prime to give your favourite stream a bit of extra support.
Since the event lasted until Oct 1st and my birthday is on the 8th I decided to have a 3 week long subathon so that people could contribute while the discounts were active and still have it count towards my birthday stream.
So the day started of really nice. I did a nice 6h stream where I was even wearing a cute little birthday hat while playing games. Then at around 6 pm I got ready to head out since boyfriend and I had made dinner reservation at a place in the city called “Seoul club house”. We arrived just in time and got seated at our table. We already knew what we wanted since we had already looked at the menu. They sadly did not have the drinks that we wanted so we had to pick something else. When it came to the food, everything looked and tasted really good. We happily enjoyed our meal and when we were finished we headed upstairs to play some pool. Boyfriend told me beforehand that he was really bad, but I guess it must have been his lucky day, because he won against me 3-0. Despite the fact that I felt a bit annoyed to have lost we still had a really fun time.
Fast forwards to the 19th aka boyfriend’s birthday. We had a normal start to our day, woke up and played some games. At around 4:30pm we got ready to ride our bikes to the bowling place and meet up with the rest of the family. We played two rounds of bowling where the nephew got total 2 strikes and Nathan’s brother got 3 strikes in a row. I only got 1 spare and so did Nathan, but at least we weren’t last (I was for the first round, but we don’t talk about that xD). After we had played it was time for dinner. We had raclette with a variety of meat, some champions, coleslaw and potatoes and then we had a small chocolate pudding for dessert. When we came home we continued the celebration with some Piña colada and some lemon merengue pie.
All in all, both birthday were a success. I also got an amazing present for my birthday. I got my very own violin. For those who doesn’t know, I used to play the violin back when I was growing up and I have always wanted to return, but since those instruments are usually quite expensive I have never been able to afford one. Together we my boyfriend we found some really nice ones for just above €100 and he said I could get one for my birthday this year. I have been practicing and having a lot of fun with it.
My next post will be in around 1 week time, because that’s when boyfriend is doing a new concert together with a friend of theirs which means more photo jobs for me 😀
Hope you all have a great rest of your week and get ready for Halloween if you’re celebrate that ^^
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