my sassy girl, finally? hmm...
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March 2008 Archives
im going home in two days...hooray! much love to amsterdam, which has been feeling more and more like a second home, but there are too many things i miss in nyc. friends, food, and various other words starting with "f". hopefully (preferably) the next time i come back to amsterdam, it wont be in a work capacity. and hey, i might even be able to get out and see the sights for once.
JIMMY WOO
last weekend was technically my last full weekend, so we went oot for some lushing and clubbing. lysha and her friend alice came by the office (i was working til the last second) and we headed out for some indian foodage at purna. the vindaloo wrecked alice (lysha and i got much milder selections), but she soldiered on. we first went for some pre-clubbing drinkies at suzy wongs...which i deduced had an asian theme going on (durrrr). the drinks were good tho, and the lit bamboo encased in glass i dig. we then migrated to jimmy woos (asian consistency!) to get down with our bad selves.
REMAINDERS
i tried making the most of my last week in amsterdam, so we squeezed in one last dinner together with lysha and (new friend!) alice...this time at bird thai in chinatown. we got a selection of dishes, most of which were hotter than they expected them to be. i didnt mind (thought it was just mild), so i kept noshing away at the food. the restaurant didnt seem to have thai ice tea tho...what the dilly. after dinner, we took dessert at häagen-dazs in the rembrandtplein. they luvs their häagen-dazs here...there are actually numerous ice cream parlours where you can just relax and unwind with a wide assortment of teeth-rotting confections. it was yum.
i think we get tomorrow off, as a sort of recompense for the evil hours we put into our current project. so ill probably make one last walk of the city for photography. unless the weather is shit (very likely), which in that case, ill just come back and dick around wikipedia.
work...burning...brain. er...*drooool*. this incessant work and little time to play is melting my brain. ill be reduced to liquified sustenance in probably a week...i need to get out of here.
in happier days, i did go out a number of times for beer, food, or a combination of those two (my brains already lost the details...so, meh). then i decided to break out and head over to london this past weekend to visit hosan. it was supposed to be an ok weekend in terms of work, but yea...that wasnt the case. oh well, tickets were already booked...ciao! so i flew over to london (obscenely fast) for some r+r. oh, first an aside. tube from heathrow=the suck. like seriously, fuck you. nothing better than stalling in the middle of nowhere and not knowing why. what shouldve taken maybe 30-40 minutes turned out to be almost an hour and a half. i hate you tube...learn to express.
so after i finally made it to southwark, i met up with hosan for a late din at...some place somewhere. she had to work a bit the next day, so i spent the better part of the morning and afternoon wandering around areas of london i hadnt been before, mainly the eastern areas which i just never bothered with the last 2 times i was in london. the weather was shit too, so i had to duck into tube stations on occasion. at the monument station, i happened to see posters for the emperor's terracotta army exhibit happening at the british museum. so i was like, woot, im there dude. i tubed it over to the british museum, where i ran smack into the biggest crowd of people id ever seen in london. shit. and as it turned out, the exhibition was sold out too for the day. fuck. aw well, i wandered the halls of the museum anyway...i just didnt leave a donation. ha! take that.
we met up later that night and ate at vinoteca, then headed to a party in bricklane (?) with some of hosans friends where i drank budweiser! except it wasnt budweiser...it was some czech beer named budweiser. right then. the next morning we had brunch (lunch really) in chinatown, then i had to jet off back to amsterdam.
look, pictures! yay!
the more i see these new trailers for iron man, the more im thinking...damn, maybe iron man was destined to be a movie. or maybe favreau's just brilliant...or maybe its robert downey jr whos brilliant. in any case, the new trailer is all kinds of rock. check the "suiting up" portion too. is it an homage to the starcraft 2 trailer as tychus is suited into his armor? coincidence? or the other way around? hmmm...
> new iron man trailer (via ign)
