Thursday, April 29
ok, life is stressful. less than 36 hours from the due date of my SECOND YEAR REPORT (ahh, caps... makes it feel big and scary, doesnt it?), and i'm starting it right now. from scratch. dennis (my project partner) isnt very reliable on this case... so ill be doing alot of this on me own. ahh, the wonders of life. but anyway, i find myself here, bloggin, and ill continue on some of my amsterdam story right now. so lets continue from day 1.
so we've arrived in amsterdam, ate our wonderful franchaise breakfast... and now, we're off to the hotel. i had a bad feeling about this already, me and the gang wanted to come amsterdam and find a place here, but NOOOOO, stupid cousin had to go about booking one. not that the hotel is bad or anything.. its just not cheap, no en suite toilet (i can live with that, but not for this price), and a lil further than the horde of hotels on damrack road (which is the happening spot right outside the train station). even cooler, they accidentally gave a 3 person room to gary and me.... and since pityful cousin of mine decided to cram 4 ppl in a 2 person room, i decided to swap wif him. but NOOOO, he got scared he might get caught for their mistake, so he says he'll manage, and leaves me to the room, and of course, running the risk of getting my ass hauled out of the hotel because i payed for 2 in a 3 persons room. but anyway, check in time was 2pm, and it was 11, so we had quite abit of time to roam the city. considering the group was relatively large.... big.... huge!! i mean, 10 peeps is like, wow!!! so we split up, me and my bunch going our ways, my cousin and his cronies going his. i bought a map during breakfast, and was looking thru it when i decided, heck, ill just ask the porter for hotspots in amsterdam. i mean, he should know, shouldnt he? so i was wrong. so much help he was. i'd get better guidance following a blind man walking. but anyway, we took one of his advice and went on the amsterdam canal cruise. so its smelly and murky waters, with us on a tour boat, going thru the whole amsterdam. its quite nice actuallly, alot of sights to see, new things learned (did you know amsterdam houses have these hook-like things on their roofs, so they can lift up heavy stuff thru to the top floor without going thru the crammed corridors? that explains pianos falling from the sky). so after that was done.,... went to da hotel.. took a nice long sleep till bout 7 something. decided to go out for some holland food, only to find the shop in our travel guide (1997 publicaiton, argh! thx anyway kev) had closed down. pity me. so we joins my couz for dinner. had some steak and potato stew thingy... tasty stuff, alot of potatoes, very filling. not cheap. haha, anyway, after that was over, i see me running off to the highlight of the day, and amsterdam itself.
kawasan lampu merah. *ahem*. i mean red light district. wanna know what happened therE? hahaha, thats for myself and mua gang only. then we went back tidurz.
and so will i now. tidurz. ta.
derek
7:27 AM
Wednesday, April 28
i've been having a few problems lately, which i cant seem to get off my back. its really killing me from all aspects, health, studies, relationship, etc... i'm having issues in every one of it. its a really stressful time, which might explain my absence from blogging.. and the worse part is, i'm not facing it. i can't. i don't dare. quite stupid of me actually, to run away from such.. problems dont disappear, they just get bigger and bigger the more i run. how i wish i could just turn around and face it. anyway, just needed to get this off my back. off to bed (one of my top methods of avoiding and running away, yippie!). ta.
derek
10:54 AM
Friday, April 16
amsterdam is my beat. and damn it's good. sorta. well, the daytimes there are pretty much what you'd expect from a daytime trip in holland... windmills, tulips, museums, clogs, cheese and stuff. night, on the other hand, has another very different load of activitities, namely weed, magic mushrooms, space cakes, sex shows, strip clubs, and prostitutes. so i've pretty much summarized my entire trip in 2 lines. for those who havent clicked on their browsers 'back' button, or totally closed their browsers, heres a lowdown on my first european excursion.
Day 0
the annoying part was here. 14 hours or so before the flight, i find myself headed to london, or the outskirts of london, to the airport. 3 hours in the train isnt the most pleasent thing in the world, and whats better to boot, i gotta wait another 10 or so hours in the airport for my wonderful 6 am flight. so instead of paying a little more money to get a flight from manchester, i blow the extra difference between both in getting my arse kicked in Time Crisis 3 and Burger King. so what do i get in the end? more hair pulling frustration from dying to a sloth zombie, more fries and oil in my bloodstream, for the same amount of money. not to mention i didnt get any sleep the whole time. fug. oh yes, did i mention this was a joint trip to amsterdam with my cousin? well, now i did. he arrived at 2 something...him taking the bus instead of train, and costing him, oh... about 20 quids more. but anyway, it was good to see him. havent seen him since i left from malaysia. i think he put on weight tho. see, now, the main issue comes into hand. the original plan was just to have a nice backpacking trip overseas. cheap and fun. but now, he comes in the picture, and brings another 5 of his friends, so this automatically becomes HIS trip instead of mine. they have the veto of choosing the hotel, which is an oh so miserable place... (ill get to that later). anyway, so i met him, saw him, and first thing he says is "your hair can be used to sweep the floor". fine greeting.
Day 1
and so it starts. flight leaves right on time. really short trip, 45 minutes or so. we wouldve been out of the airport earlier tho, if his friends didnt decide to carry a suitcase meant for a months stay in amsterdam. for gods sake, u're here for 3 nights! how much clothings much u bring???? from the moment i saw his friends, i knew this trip wasnt gonna be nice. oh yes, and gary. hes not very nice to travel with. more kiamsiap than mac, and he bitches more than me. he can really complain and groan and moan all the way. this is the first and last time i'm travelling with him. EVER. oh, and of all luck, i met paulyn! i havent seen her since form 5, and shes on the same flight. i didnt really remember her tho.. i was kinda busy looking at this sweet looking girl with her, when i saw her and thought.. hey, she looks familiar. where have i seen her before? next thing i know, she walks up to me, says hi, and my memory shoots back up. and her friend walks off first. bah. how sad. her friend was cute. anyway, i got paulyns number, shes studying in imperial, and i was hoping i could get her out for dinner tonight. ok, maybe the plan was so she'd bring her friend out, but so what? i gotta look like a nice guy and call her, not her friend only, right? ok.. i'm getting off topic here, where were we? oh yes, so we arrived, and after the gruesome baggage delay, we were on the train, headed to centraal station in amsterdam. finally! 30 minutes on a train, and we're there. stepping out of the station, taking a nice deep breath of
fresh air *gasp* very smelly air. u could just smell it everywhere. the distinct smell of ganja, coupled with the stinking smell of the canal water. well, ganja's legal here, so i guess everyone would go all out smoking it, and even venice's water smells bad. so its excusable. so first plan, breakfast. tried to find some wonderful holland food, but every shop we went seem to favour serving english breakfast. heck, they promoted it like its hollands speciality. so we ended up eating frence baguette at delifrace. convinient, that we travel all the way to holland to eat french franciaise food. sad.
and now.. i'm bored... i'm lazy.. so ill stop here, leaving everyone in suspense. wait for my next post. ta.
derek
5:29 AM
Sunday, April 11
just came back from kingdom. gotta admit it, its boring tonight. the music was almost perfect for clubs in UK, it can't get better than this, really. misery is, the mood, well, nada, tada, not there. blew enough money to buy a train ticket to london, drank alcohol like water, smoked ciggs like oxygen, and still no high. and no girls adds to the mood killer thing. of course, there were loads of babes.. but being the typical me and my racist preference for asians, its quite upsetting. all girls there (asian, oh course) could be counted with my fingers, and pratically all the hot ones were with thier boyfriend. and next best thing was raksasas, which my standard WILL NOT drop to.
one good thing about not getting drunk tho... i dont have to worry about flying to amsterdam with a hangover. oh ya, did i mention i'm going amsterdam? tomorrow!!! yeeha... weed, mushrooms, and all sorts of magic. here i come.
derek
11:19 AM
Friday, April 9
my leg gash hurts. my wrist hurts. my ears hurt. my heart hurts. life's a wonder these days.
derek
9:52 AM
Tuesday, April 6
havent blogged much lately.. my pc's giving me a heck load of problems, so its kinda frustrating to try bloggin. anyway, heres updates for the past week from me, as much as i can remember. it mainly inbolves getting pissed in both the alcoholic sense, and the emotional sense, so read on if u want.
2 wednesdays ago - massoc footie tournie. stressful, hurt my leg, and our qualification depends on the outcome of 2 teams next week. anxiety is killing me. at night, went to 'celebrate' our gameplay at halifax bar. got piss drunk... almost.
2 thursdays ago - halifax again to watch liverpool lose. sad. drank abit, not pissed. but pissed at liverpools performance.
2 fridays ago - went to lake district. want to get pissed that night, too tired to bother.
2 saturdays ago - lake district is fun. its ying hui's birthday today, but i don't know her well enough to bother. she's kinda cute tho.
2 sundays ago - came back from the lake. boring day, castle visits and such. bla bla.
last monday - lee mengs birthday. went for dinner, followed by watching massoc karaoke session. eddie got lee meng a graveyard, although its a piece of shit compared to the malaysian one. came back to halifax bar to get everyone pissed, me included. high abit, and quite amusing.
tuesday - boring day.
wednesday - final session of massoc tourney. we got into the semis after watching the very stressful game between the 2 teams. won semis in penalty kickout, thanks to our brilliant keeper and his wonderful saves. syabas chow hao. and lost in finals against the malay team samsa. sad. but ill settle for 2nd place. didnt play today tho, ban replaced me. why? did i mention i gashed my leg pretty bad in lake district? no? well i did. went for a drink at halifax at night, didnt drink too much, since we were prepping for the big friday.
thurdays - boring day. oh yea, alex came down today.
friday - eddies birthday. notice how theres 3 birthdays in a week? wow. and also another massoc social. social was quite the failure. pissed off at zhou wei, and gave him quite a screwing for fucking massoc up. life is still good. went to kingdom afterwards, got pissed, as did everyone, great drinking master eddie included, and feeling really disgusted afterwards for some reason. wont explain. oh ya, satpal got rejected from the club. sad
saturday - recouperation from yesterdays nightmare and stuff. boring ol day. very relaxing day tho... lepaked at a dead halifax the whole day. its like nothing in the work mattered.
sunday - relaxing day no.2. halifax bar to relax, bar is closed for easter, so we were just there, crapping and stuff. bought some beers from outside tho, and you guessed it, got pissed.
monday - today. boring and such. pissed off at something tho. not explainin.
this is a very boring post. i know. but my brains half dead from alcohol this week. so sue me. ta.
derek
9:40 AM
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