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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Carcassonne: The arrival

hey mei agian,

so i read your email about lies and living a fake life. well you will love this one.

Day 14 - Get a load of this ;)

wanted to stay for another day at la rochelle but the hostel was fully booked. so i tot great. go to toulouse then. but the chick at the reception said, no u cant, the hostel was recently burnt down.
urgh.

so i said fine, "how about tours ?"
she called the place, "sorry fully booked for the day but u can go to blois ?"
i was like i m trying to avoid someone who lives there even though the thought of
making a call, putting up a front to just to get a free night's accommodation ? nah i am not that low.

finally i decided, what the hell, lets go to carcassonne then.

being smart:-
so i thought who the fuck pays for public toilets. i was at the train station. there was these cubicles where u have to slot in 0.30 euros. so i thought. i'll be smart. i will wait for someone to co
me out and when some old lady did, i held the door open for her and she kindly said "merci" and i went in before the door shut. genius. as i began to pee, the whole cubicle began to clean itself and suddenly i was being splashed all over! fucking hell. so much that. come on who the fuck pays to use the loo !!!

the train ride was interesting. took me 5 hours to get there plus had to change trains twice.


(dark clouds following the train)

being smarter:-
i settled into my seat. there were these 2 chicks sitting on the other side. i noticed they were wearing name tags with blah blah blah jesus christ blah blah blah written on it. after establishing a couple of eye contacts and smiles, they couldnt resist me any longer (hey i cant even resist me) the came to talk to me. i was like great. some one to chat to. they spoke pretty good english.
they were like "hi we are missionaries .. " yeah and all that introduction shit.
so i was being friendly and i just played along. trying to avoid th
e big Q.
it was all find we talked about france and traveling etc etc. and then came the big Q !
"do you believe in god ?"
i looked at them, "yes. i believe in many gods"
"huh what do u mean ?"
"i believe there are many gods, u know god of thunder, goddess of love, medicine god etc..?
"huh ?"
i looked at them and whispered, "are you a god ?"
they looked at each other and shook their heads. so i said, "look that that guy sitting there looking at us. he could be a god spying on us !"
"i have never heard this before can u explain some more ?"
"well, i believe gods are everywhere, they watch and help us. and they bring balance and harmony to our lives. but sometime they bring us may surprises."
and i went on and on about the ying
and yang and then about the goddess of love for instant, she can hit you when you least expect it. i went on to tell them about my lesbian lover who has licked more cunts then they have ever said "amen" and how she sucks me off only to ... in her own words "swallow some holy water to cleanse her soul". and how she is off making some porn film with 50 other chicks in italy and before i could continue to tell them about the dungeon i own in sydney, the train arrived at my terminal.
i got up and say goodbye and left. i didn't even had time to tell them its rude in australia to stare at people with their mouth wide opened.

i got off the train, it rained on me. suddenly my after life dont seem so bright.


(random city shots)

i walked into the old city, i saw the castle walls, i told myself, i had to stay one more night. so i checked in for 2 nights.

xxx. j.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

amsterdam: me gateway to europe

dear mei ...

so i promised u that the first post from europe is to you but more importantly you wanted to know my opinion on amsterdam. so here it goes...

DAY 1 - the arrival
my plane was delayed by 2 hours because the plane was waiting for 25 people from auckland. damn kiwis.
well, got interrogated at the immigration (as usual). its not easy being good looking because everyone wants to interact with you. so i really don't blame them.


(my bag - 11kgs and the arrival)


still recovering from my cold (coughing and blocked nose) i arrived at schiphol air port. dont believe i actually made it out of asia pacific. as i was figuring out where the train ticket machines were and how to operate it, there were people more clueless than me. people were actually asking me questions like i belong. again, more because ... interaction. sigh. if only they were cute too.

i arrived at susanne's place, dropped my bag, said hello and literally left the unit and went exploring. i was so fascinated by rows of 4 storey buildings running the whole length of the street
and they were the entire city. took me a while to figure out that there were dedicated bike lanes on walkways and people driving on the wrong side of the road. almost got run down by cyclists (many times too).


(amsterdam & bikes)

found the van gogh museum and really enjoyed it. spent the rest of the day just looking around exploring. even the rain didnt slow me down.

VERDICT: i love this city even though by the end of the day i found the 4 storey height limit abit annoying. very monotonous. after a while i kept walking back to the same place. is the city that small ?

DAY 2 - lucky day
It was a beautiful day. apparently the first nice day in summer. whoa. lucky me. hung out with susanne all day. We went to the Rijksmuseum. enjoyed van gogh better but the rembrant's stuff was pretty cool.

found the proef amsterdam place you sent.
http://www.proefrotterdam.nl/proef_nederlands/proef.html
again. they were supposed to have closed till march next year. they only open for a particular season but the amsterdam indesign is on and they opened just for this event. we tried the picnic sampler which consist on a sandwich, pumpkin soup, some crumple desert and some organic drink. it was great sitting under the warm summer sun (still about 25C).


(proef amsterdam)


(proef amsterdam food)


(proef amsterdam surroundings)

after spending hours sitting under the sun catching up, we went to the old central post office. the elevator is amazing. will post a video sometime somewhere. and the entire ground level is filled with graffiti. made it all the way to the top through restaurant 11 to see the view.


(post CS)

walked by and saw my first architecture feature. a renzo piano building. pic to proof it too.


(renzo piano - so i was told)

walked though the red light district and made it back home.

hows everything back in sydney ?

xxx.jxe