Amsterdam!!!
Before disembarking to a total strange, we found out that the destination is famous for her canals, boathouses, canal boat rides, open markets, flower markets, rivermarkets, legal prostitution, legal porn, legal drug, legal-whatever-else-that-the-norm-thinks-they’re-no-good and most of all, the art and history.
Although I may seem to be an artistic person, I am a mere appreciator of art displays and historical events. Oh well, that’s to begin with before anything else…
Just as we arrived, the lovebirds Koo and Lee Siew, as well as Doreen rested at our hostel while my hommie and i went out jalan-jalan. Oh well, he’s obliged to, coz if he didn’t i guess da gang back home will klonk his head and shout “Apala u! U left peikz alone go jalan jalan at Amsterdam streeeet?! What kinda man r u?! what if a pimp take her to pose at one of da windows coz she’s so sexyyyy?!” So… thanks Hoong! We walked so much that we actually walked around the borders of the New Side and Old Side, like the borders along SS2 and Paramount. Along the way and through all the dodgy lanes we had to cross we came across coffeeshops in a MORE dodgy areas and of course, the brothels where they have women posing in lingeries looking out the window and glaring seductively at any passing men. And kids, kids… coffeeshops ere do not just look as they sound… Coffeeshops are shops that sell soft drugs. So if you wish to walk into a coffeeshop to order your daily kopi-susu, I suggest you go to a CAFE instead. Not implying anything or any sorts, but this is just a warning.
and… to have our whole trip seemed more wilder we have a bunch of American loonies staying with us. OMG! screeeeam out loud! They are sooo so sexy without their tops on that even our guys droooooool! ok…that was a lil’ way-over but the truth is they did have fab bod coz they’re in the armies and they were just taking a break like us. The bald guy jumped off our room window into the chilly canal with the other two getting audience at the canal bank to watch. Definitely men with guts and GUTS.
As I’ve said, musuems and the arts are stuffs we must do when we were there. So we went to Anne Frank Huis (The house of Anne Frank) depicting the Holocaust and the experience of a 15 year old girl seeing it happening to her; followed by the Van Gogh’s musuem that had hundreds displays of his masterpieces as well as approx 200 displays from other artists who were affiliated with the man himself. So cool! He painted my favourite flower!!! Ice skating was next, canal walking followed and there were many markets to go too! Btw, we saw an Asian street with many Asian peoples’ stores and i didn’t even mean chinatown. It’s really filled with asian stores like Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean, Cantonese (presumably Hong Kong?) and Malaysian restaurants! We’re everywhere, doesn’t it seems?
So you see… even how boring you may think musuems may be, with blur Doreen, her abuser Koo, the joker Peikz, the laugher Lee Siew and the entertainer ZHoong, we seized the days of our stay in Amsterdam. Even getting lost in a strange area in a part of the city was easily made up by just find-something-to-do-before-getting-lost-again-lah, which explains the photo above *pwned!* That’s because my clever ego told me I was about to find one of the great sights in the city, The Planetarium, somewhere out there, when really… we actually missed out the f***in’ bumbung (roof)! When we realized that the planetarium was just in front of us, Koo cursed out so much that we laughed out so loud that a passerby must have thought we were ghosts because soon after she stumbled upon us, she instantly clasped onto her chest and chanted some sutra… Oh well, such is life of a Dutch’s misfortunate encounter with “happy” foreigners like us.
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My trip did not just end there although the gang went back to England where they’re staying as for me the Glasgow girl ended up at Leeds and went off to Blackpool for a winterfunday and a night at Newcastle before returning to G on the eve of Christmas Eve.
cooool… amsterdam. curious, why is zheng hong there? does he study in a nation nearby?
Rainier, on 1-2-2006 @ 7:22 am |