About

Hello, we are the Fantasia family, a multi-cultural couple and their two children living in Switzerland. In this blog we are going to show you how our life is a daily struggle against the evil forces of international bureaucracy, and we will share with you our successes and defeats. Most of the times defeats.

Usually we live a relatively happy life, except when the bureaucracy demons come screaming and tearing our flesh apart with some obscure, ridiculous process that threatens our path to a peaceful existence and forces us to a fight for survival. When this happens, we will exorcise our fear and our shock by saying ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME (AYFKM in short).

We are:

Mario Fantasia: an ’80s guy from Spelunca, Italy with a PhD in tech, who moved to the big city of Zerneve, Switzerland, around 2017, pursuing new career opportunities and dreams of shitloads of money which never came true.

Mei-Lin: a 90’s gal from Taileng, Taiwan with a passion for food and manga, a real otaku with deep knowledge of Japan and its culture and language. She abducted Mario in 2018 and turned him into a personal cooking slave.

Penelope: our firstborn girl, born in Taiwan in 2021.

Serse: our secondborn son, born in Switzerland in 2022.

All the above names and references are absolutely not made up. OK, yes, they are. We will try to keep a minimum of dignity and privacy in this blog, although people who know us can easily identify us by this description. Whatever.

How To Read This Blog

This is probably going to be a boring read for you, unless you like pain. In any case, this blog recounts facts and experiences in chronological order, starting from early 2023 onward, and adds some background on events happened before that where necessary. You can jump to random posts if you like, but that would probably leave you confused. The best way is probably to start with the Preamble and follow from there. If you get lost, check the Glossary.

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