Birthday Girl

I got a funny pink thing for Sinterklaas from Vic, after i dropped choclate letters in all their mailboxes for a surprise. He gave me that weird pink thing with chocolates and biscuits. Really weird...

Finally, GJ & I went out for a long overdue date before my birthday. We had unlimited spareribs, delicious and strolled around delft on a pretty clear night. When we got home, he surprised me with my birthday and christmas present all rolled into one. YAY!!!

I got an iPod in ear earphones because my ears are so small, the normal ones hurt me and slide out at the drop of a pin and an armband for me on the treadmill. I LOVE THEM!

it's easier to shop for me now I guess, since I got an iPod.

Long Live Apple.

TeQUILA

Cathy's leaving for her Europe Trip and going Home after! So for a farewell dinner, we had DRINKS and marcela broke out her bartendering skills and we broke out the liquor store. Victor brought Fernando, his friend from Mexico and Tequila and Guacamole (HEAVENLY) and refried beans and chicken with mole. I bought amaretto with orange juice and we had mojitos and rum a la Marcelaa.

It was just a bad night of drinking after drinking. We played manutaso, and the loser takes tequila shots...when we ran out of that, we did rum with strawberry shots (GROSS) , and later whatever shots of alcohol we could find. It all ended really drunk and really fast. BEcause it gets dark here at 5, so you think, okay let's start drinking.
Believe it or not, we got home at 11, and slept and was pretty sober the next morning, which is of course the day I fell off my bike...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Yes. It's not december Yet. But not if I can help it.
We've been checking out christmasty hats and I got a reindeer headband, which broke because I'm frantically nodding my head to hear the bells ringing (Can you hear the bells ring?)
Marcela has been trying on her tiger claw sloffens and I got GJ a penguin slippers for Sinterklaas. Of course, we decided to head back up north with Marcela to visit his parents and it snowed!!! But Marcela was too dead in the car to notice. The next morning, we were sitting around having a breakfast and talking while GJ's mom picked up a receipt and went, who bought a penguin slipper? Hmmm...I can see here, PENGUIN SLIPPERS FROM BLOKKER..I was going red just trying to eye her and make her stop talking ... but of course...doesn't work..EVERYONE was laughing like hell, and before she realised it...the surprise was ruined. He got his present way before he was suppose to. OBLIVIOUS...
Went up to Zwolle with Marce and came back all nice and relaxed.

A few days later, after a long day of lectures, we decided to head to Ikea, but not before I fell down from my bike, after my front wheel kissed Victor's back wheels and according to eyewitnesses (V & M) I BOUNCED, SLIDED and was all on my face when i fell. Luckily, I got off with a VERY BRUISED right knee and scrapes, but no bad cuts or fractures. THANK GOODNESS it was winter and I had a coat and jeans...but my poor white MNG coat needs dry cleaning now.

Beverwijk

Decided to head up to Beverwijk with Cathy and Marcela for cheap CD's DVD's and good oriental markets. On the way back , we decided to take site photos for our projects. Of course, I egged Marcela to climb up an abandoned water storage tower for her site photograph, hoisted her up there manually and threatened to run away in the car while she was up there. Any one intersted in the hilarious video, email me.

Poor Marcela, she climbed up there to find no view of her site and a scary dusty surface which she had to climbed down of. Of course, on her way down, her toggles get stuck on the pipes and she was just hanging there, half up. - half down.

Hilllaareeious

Rorrrttterrrrdaaam

Went to Rotterdam with Andres, Marcela and Victor on a whim. To buy pens ...yes pens....drawings pens...expensive ones..mind you..at Harold's...your very own designer/drawing candy store. We ate and shopped, checked out Stella Mc Cartney's newest collection at H&M, got Victor to model a winter coat and played with interactive lights near the central station.

Cathy's finally back from Bordeaux, we met up for a chicken rice dinner and of course, had one of the girl's nice nights in again.

Our newest playground, the IKEA store. I love that place, cheap food, good atmosphere, I'd like to work for IKEA...you hear?? IKEAAAA?

Amsterdam - Almere

AMS trip with led by Gerhard, one of our studio tutors, a little after school exploring with a lot of fun and beer drinking. After all , we're in holland, if you don't get propositioned for cocaine by a street dealer in the dark alley of the Warmoestraat with the lovely gay fetish shops, what are you doing here for?

We started with good clean fun, VERY cheap fusion food of japanese, thai and chinese 2 doors down from the famed Nam Kee which looked really dirty, so we chickened out and went to this cute clean place instead which was opposite a temple in chinatown in the middle of EUROPE ...imagine that.

the entire group met up at Dam square and started to explore AMS by nightfall. We went towards Bijlmeer, which was suppose to be your ghetto area, but really, we saw closed shops and not a lot of people, but ..of course, we were just on the periphery. We went towards the Arena and a giant furniture mall, which had a GIANT bed, which of course we all ended up on, why not?

Followed by ending the walk down the alleys, to the Prostitute Information Centre which seemed all very legit and official, other than the mode of business they support. To give ourselves the ultimate reward, we got sodding drunk in a Beer Place, I don't know the name anymore...I drank that much, but really, the selection they have there is AMAZING....think about it, your bartender offers you types of beer like a wine selection, do you like dark, what flavours you like...etc etc...LUUURVELY.

Met G's very lovely boyfriend, they seem like a lovely couple, then struggled to go home to Tra My's in Almere for the night, because we were avoiding the Night Train back to Den Haag. The rest of the Group went of for Musuem Night in AMS, but of course, we're spoiled so we choose for the warm bed and the dad-driven car to Almere Muziekwijk, where we were fed like pigs for slaughter by Tra My's mom and dad. They can cook..fantastically. I've not had such good Vietnamese foood for ages.

Before we left Almere, we took the obligatory look at Koolhaas's new urban design area for the town, had a lovely Creme Brulee coffee in the square and just wasted the afternoon away with coffee and sandwiches. I miss Coffee Bean.