amsta-damn!
got ot of the heathrow airport at about 8.30 pm london time last night, a little after my last post. and the ‘getting out’ of there. sheesh, what a nightmare. we had to walk and walk and walk. and walk. and walk, some more. and then take a bus to a train terminal, and then a train to a bus station, and then a bus to the hotel. by the time ammi and i reached the park inn hotel to spend the night before our flight to amsterdam, it was way past 11 pm, and i was feeling like they might as well have asked us to walk all the way from sri lanka.
would have well been almost the same thing.
so anyway, we slept over, and woke up early morning to catch a 6.30 am flight to amsterdam. the flight was short and uneventful, except for this boy andf girl who were flirting in rather audible tones in the seats behind us. the view was so different than from flying from sri lanka to london. the fog and the clouds were unreal. sometimes you just couldnt see anything, you were smack bang in the center of just sheer, swirling fog. when you were above the clouds, the clouds were so many in number and so dense that they looked like huge formations of ice and snow frozen weirdly in mid air. it felt herculean, to be so high above the clouds. holland, even at 30,000 feet beneath me, looked and looks so unbelievably different from sri lanka. everything is so neat and orderly, so pretty and quaint, so proper and ‘developed country-ish’. i can remember very little from my last trip here (hell, i was 6…?) but i certainly feel the familar pang of ’sigh…how perfect’.
i love this city. we arrived at home (friend’s apartment) at about 9.30 am. i took a long shower and systematically made sure that the layers upon layers of dirt that had accumulated in the last 24 hours on me were violently scrubbed off. then we sat and just enjoyed the view. the apartment is right above this huge body of water, and the view is just fantastic. the weather isn’t great, cloudy, cold and gray, but it’s not freezing or raining or wet, so this is actually a relief from the sunny tropics of SL. then we (this dutch friend of mine, 16 year old girl, linda) took a bus to city, and just window shopped a little, and generally checked the scene out. it’s right out of all the picture books and postcars you grew up seeing. i can’t get over the buildings, their so beautiful and majestic. some are more than 300 years old, and so well maintained. the insides of these buildings are mostly refurbished to be modern and well equipped department stores etc, but the outsides remain regal and ancient. dam square was nice, the usual square scene. people flocked around clowns and jugglers, pigeons and and the fountain and pond. there are little cafes and restaurants every two centimetres. the aroma of coffee and from the bakeries are so yummy. we had lunch with my mother at an indonesian place, the food was good. we looked around a little more, didnt buy much. on our way back home, we stopped and joined in this salsa class being held in another square, being taught free of charge by this lady. that was nutty, but fun. we came back by tram, then bus. the public transport here is magical. the roads are a dream.
need to buy a bottle for someone, hash cakes for someone else and a sex toy for yet another someone. ok, the sex toy bit was a joke.
kind of sleepy now, so going to crash for awhile…tomorrow we’re going to try and catch a movie, and then later on in the night hit the red light district…*muhahaha* 
electra did u take ur computer with u on holiday?
i’m amazed at how u manage to update ur blog even whilst travelling.. wats the weather like in dam?
i’m still not over Tash’s post.. the tears hv stopped coming but i’m still scared, hurt, confused and feel like my life is not worth living cos Tash is disgusted with me so give me some time to reply ur email
it’s gonna take me ages to get over the opinion of someone i don’t even know.. months, years maybe a lifetime.. who knows?
Comment by savi3 — June 26, 2005 @ 2:11 am
savithri : i didnt, but it isnt exactly hard to find one that i can access the internet from you know?
get over it. he he…
Comment by Electra — June 26, 2005 @ 11:18 am
Savi3 : Why don’t you get over the “sarcasm trip”? its getting a bit old now. So tash said something. Tash had the guts to tell it to your face. At least you know she’s not a back-biting bitch. You also seemed to have gotten over all that kiddish writing with LOL’s and the likes. Good on ya…!
Its a bloody comment, so get over it. Just imagine if you had a blog and you got trashed? oh! what am i saying its hard for me to imagine you writing as it is…
Comment by Scourge — June 27, 2005 @ 4:34 am
scourge: LOL i was just being dramatic about Tash’s comment.. so don’t get ur knickers in a twist..
i’m not a writer and i don’t hv a blog no need for u to imagine anything.. why don’t u just carry on ‘kissing and cuddling’ Dee at delifrance and mind ur own business.. when i want ur opinion i will ask for it!!!
Comment by savi3 — June 27, 2005 @ 8:48 am
ding ding ding… end of round one…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 27, 2005 @ 9:24 am
Immaturity at its best.
Do you have trouble reading? cause I wasn’t kissing or cuddling or anything at Deli France. Get your facts straight before you throw a punch.
In case you forgot, the commnets area is where I can say what I want when I want and make any of the other comments completely my business. So in fact, logically i was minding my business; or was that statement too hard for you to understand? Shall I give it to you in a way you can understand?
Besides, I don’t think Electra’s blog should be a place for us to take hits at each other. Why don’t you open the comments window on my blog and bitch about things there. Or do you not have the guts to do it?
Comment by Scourge — June 27, 2005 @ 11:03 am
Hey Scrouge, stop picking on the girl - she’s droll and its entertaining. You on the other hand seem to be having an aneurysm. Something hit a little close to home perhaps?
My advice to you…dont get into a battle of wits when you are unarmed.
BTW Electra, try visiting the Sex Museam - its more anthropologically erotic rather than nasty. The Chinese had some awesome toys in 400BC
Comment by Dmitri — June 27, 2005 @ 11:24 am
scourge: knock urself out with the comments buddy… LOL. oops sorry u were kissing and cuddling at Cheers pub then… my bad
if electra’s blog is not the place to take hits at others then stop it will ya !!!
Comment by savi3 — June 27, 2005 @ 11:28 am
scourge: ur right i just cut and pasted an excerpt from a masterpiece u wrote on ur blog.. the maturity of the writing stuns me !!! i’ve never seen anything like it.. where did u learn to write like that???? ur right i did get my facts wrong… u were not kissing and cuddling at delifrance at all.. u were in fact hugging, cuddling and kissing at Cheers pub… how could i get that wrong????? duh
‘As much as I was looking forward to seeing Dee on Saturday, I was a little uncomfortable with it; what was I going to do? She had to drop her sister off at a class so I met her around half passed nine. Hugging her felt like I’d gone home after months away. The welcoming feeling of her arms around me and the familiar smell of her perfume paved the way for a brief visit to wonderland. We walked to Deli France and had coffee and smoked salmon sandwiches. We talked, laughed and cracked jokes. That awkward feeling was still around. We left Deli France and went to Cheers Pub. I ordered a Corona and she an Orange Juice, which cost more than my beer. We sat and chatted, our hands brushing each others every now and then. We touched lightly ever so often and forced each other to leave some space in between us. Then I crashed. I looked at her sweet face and said “Hold me!”….
We spent the entire day together, hugging, cuddling and kissing. ‘
Comment by savi3 — June 27, 2005 @ 11:35 am
Savi3: Yes it was cheers. Now, the point of you copying and pasting the entire first paragraph from one of the posts on my blog would be? Is it so that you can easily let all electra’s readers know that you have a problem in comprehending perfectly simple english?
I love people who are eager to jump into an argument, while they get their emotional strings tied up in a huge mess are completely oblivious to the fact that they themselves are making a complete fool of themselves, as their opponent sits and enjoys the show. Much like the Jay Vee Pee… You must have a relative or two in the Jay Vee Pee.
You are also as sarcastic as my 3 year old cousin. It really isn’t impressive, coming from a thirty one year old doctor (almost 31) who reads blogs at the Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases… I’d have expected a more articulate approach. Perhaps you are incapable…
Comment by Scourge — June 27, 2005 @ 11:48 am
hmmm… i think that’s uncalled for… from the little i’ve seen of scourge on this blog i have to admit he doesn’t have the greatest sense of humor… but what he writes on his own blog is his choice.. one doesn’t have to be a mature established writer to maitain a blog.. plus what he does with whom and where he does it, aint up for anyone else to make fun of…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 27, 2005 @ 11:52 am
oops.. that was written before Mr. Scourge published that last comment.. hmmm.. this has suddenly taken an interesting turn..
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 27, 2005 @ 11:58 am
Thank you SpectralCentroid. My perspective of this lady has changed dramatically; since her only mode of attacking me has been via my ex-girlfriend. She can’t even get creative and come up with something to insult me with. How shallow do these people go?
Comment by Scourge — June 27, 2005 @ 12:01 pm
c’mon scourge i wasn’t attacking you.. i was just getting my facts straight as u said i should do. these blogs are a source of lunchtime entertainment… and urs has been the best so far in terms of doing just that.. bring it on
LOL…
Comment by savi3 — June 27, 2005 @ 1:26 pm
what the HELL ia going on here?
spectralcentroid, hold them back, will you? you seem to be the only remotely sane one around.
scourge, savithri : WTF? back off each other. lets not turn my blog into a battlefield hmmm?
as enjoyable as this is…really. arent we being a little too violent? YOU’RE BOTH GROUNDED!
dmitri : i was mildly curious, but didnt get around to it. i think i saw enough though…!
Comment by electra — June 27, 2005 @ 5:09 pm
scourge: i’ve got a relative in the PEE A i’m told but yet to find out abt the JAY VEE PEE
Comment by savi3 — June 27, 2005 @ 5:40 pm
but why ??.. the second round barely finished
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 28, 2005 @ 4:27 am
oi spectral centroid… i’m ‘hurt’ so the fight’s off.. sorry
Comment by savi3 — June 28, 2005 @ 9:30 am
come on woman.. drop the sarcasm and throw some punches…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 29, 2005 @ 4:38 am
hahah no wonder… the bitch is 31. isnt it a bit pathetic for you to be reading blogs at that not so tender age and actually create playground kinda immature little quarrels? rnt you seriously too old for this? why dont you do something more productive which will compliment your age and profession? maybe learn sign languages which will enable better communication with disabled patients or something. i know MOST doctors do stuff like this but this has got to be the first time ever that they go back into their kindergarten years. shame on you savi3. and how dare you make fun of other people and their significant others? is it just plain jealousy of not having any or is JAY or GEE or JOE a possible option which electra beat you to.. oh my gosh woman. you are too old for this shit. spare yourself some humiliation and go for some botox maybe hehe
ps- sorry electra.. and spectracentroid round 3 bing bing bing
Comment by Tash — June 29, 2005 @ 8:57 am
lol Tash thanks 4 ur opinion.. but i don’t recall asking for it. u carry on with round 3 but i can’t be bothered..ur not a worthy opponent.. ur just a coward so bing bing bing
Comment by savi3 — June 29, 2005 @ 9:36 am
Oh! dear. I thought this thing was over. Savi3 picked on a sensitive spot of mine, i gave her an insulting comment or two, she gave me a few blows and so did I. then it stopped. Fizzled…just like a bottle of soda…it burst up bubbling and its now flat.
Well, she’s 31. Soon, we’ll be 31 and I presume we’ll be reading blogs and writng them too. So chill tash, let the woman have a break.
BTW, its not that i have a soft spot for Savi, but your last comment was slightly too harsh no?
KEEP IT CHILLED PEOPLE!
Comment by Scourge — June 29, 2005 @ 10:00 am
Opps! I just realized how bad my earlier comment sounds…
i gave her an insulting comment or two, she gave me a few blows and so did I. then it stopped. Fizzled…just like a bottle of soda…it burst up bubbling and its now flat.
I promise I didn’t mean it the way it sounds…!
Comment by Scourge — June 29, 2005 @ 10:04 am
THANK YOU scourge! sheesh.
tash, is there some ancient rivalry between savi and yourself that no one here knows about, and you’ll just rake out any opportunity to kick her ass? i think not, somehow. just leave it. what savi wants to do, no matter how old or what her profession, is much more her business than your’s. and the fact that you dont even know each other just makes it more and more an invasion of savi’s privacy and right to make decisions. i mean, i get the nasty sarcasm, i even get the below the belt comments about her age/job etc, but i dont think i’m too comfortable with someone who has the nerve to call a complete stranger a ‘bitch’. i mean, but WHY? what do you get out of this? i’m just going to tell you what i told scourge. let it slide, its just a futile waste of your time and your energy. save your anger for something that’s worth it girl! you have ZERO impact on savi’s life. so why bother?
in the words of the wise scourge (pah. what is the world coming to?) keep it chilled people.
scourge : i cant deal with your perversity right now. i did however take the liberty of editing out some wrong english in your earlier, earlier comment. hee hee.
Comment by electra — June 29, 2005 @ 10:07 am
just for the record i’m NOT 31
bing bing bing..
Comment by savi3 — June 29, 2005 @ 10:33 am
now aint THAT a pity… women in their early 30s can be extremely HOT and truely interesting….
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 29, 2005 @ 11:37 am
oh really spectral.. and how did u come to that conclusion? was it something u read or…?
Comment by savi3 — June 29, 2005 @ 12:09 pm
Gotta agree with you on that SpectralCentroid. Women in their early thirties can definitely be mind-blowing HOT…! Wonder what savi3’s like eh?
Comment by Scourge — June 29, 2005 @ 1:14 pm
what about women in their late 30s then? hot or cold?
Comment by savi3 — June 29, 2005 @ 2:10 pm
yeah i always thought that men had the notion that women in their early 30’s ‘could teach you a thing or two’?
now everyone is hitting on savi? drastic change of climate…
Comment by electra — June 29, 2005 @ 5:52 pm
well savi3.. there’re certain things reading can’t teach you… there certainly are some sizzlin lookers but dunno much more about the ones in their late thirties…
hmmm.. electra.. am i really hitting on savi3 ?? cuz she bowed out of my ‘hot n interesting’ bracket of women herself….
Comment by SpectralCentroid — June 30, 2005 @ 4:41 am
spectral: where DID u learn abt the 30 yr old hotties if not from books?
Comment by savi3 — June 30, 2005 @ 11:58 am
when you eleminate the impossible, you arrive at the probable… use that grey matter a bit savi3….
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 1, 2005 @ 3:32 am
Perhaps Savi3 ought to enlighten us and let us know whether the 30’s thing is accurate or not.
Electra : darling, there’s very little for guys like me to learn in that sphere. TRUST ME!
Comment by Scourge — July 1, 2005 @ 5:05 am
errrrh… i dunno how savi3 can enlighten anyone on that matter… unless she’s ‘inclined the other way’….
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 1, 2005 @ 6:30 am
Spectral…dude you got me totally wrong…
Comment by Scourge — July 1, 2005 @ 10:41 am
spectral: u actually use grey matter to work out stuff abt women.. that’s so sweet..
Comment by savi3 — July 1, 2005 @ 11:24 am
if you got it why not use it?
Comment by Scourge — July 1, 2005 @ 11:49 am
gosh, you people are relentless
scourge : darling, since when do you know ANYTHING about gray matter?
savi : beat them off with a pole if you have to…i see them lustily advancing. now’s the time to start running, or bring out the kung fu.
spectralcentroid : another man that’s turned on by lesbians? not bad…
Comment by Electra — July 1, 2005 @ 3:01 pm
electra: it’s water off a duck’s back
scourge: ya i guess some men like to think they r ‘using grey matter’ even when they read PLAYBOY.. each to his own grey matter i guess.. hehe
Comment by savi3 — July 1, 2005 @ 4:31 pm
whoa… wait a sec.. i aint advancing on no savi3… for all i know it could be a guy with a twisted sense of humor !!..
what i meant was.. if savi3 was indeed a woman, the only way she could really ‘enlighten’ us whether women in their early 30s are hot is that she herself admires them ‘that way’.. hence the pre-requisit of being incilned the other way..
savi3: yes i do use my gray matter for these things… hopefully you do too..
electra: show me ONE straight guy who’s not turned on by lesbians…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 1, 2005 @ 5:59 pm
spectral: stop using ur ‘grey’ matter to worry abt my sexual orientation.. and no i don’t use grey or white matter to wonder if ppl i don’t know are gay or straight
Comment by savi3 — July 2, 2005 @ 11:19 am
well savi3.. that’s all good.. but if you just used a little bit of grey matter in reading comments you’d probably realize that i was never trying to guess your sexuality… the reference to it was just to question the validity of something scourge said…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 3, 2005 @ 2:33 pm
spectral my dear i think it’s a waste of my grey matter using it to read ur comments
and pls refer to ppl u know when questioning the validity of comments made by ppl u don’t know.. USE that grey matter u keep telling us u got…
Comment by savi3 — July 4, 2005 @ 1:46 pm
savi3 dearest… see this is where the grey matter comes in… one doesn’t need to personally ‘know’ everybody else to carry out a meaningful discussion (which involves agreeing with, questioning and forming opinions)… but wait… you just said you don’t use your brain to read comments.. that explains a lot.. maybe you could start your own blog called “mindless mutterings”… (sorry loki, had to borrow that..)
oh btw… one has to worry about wasting grey matter only if they are running out of it… so….
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 4, 2005 @ 2:36 pm
that’s entirely the point spectral dearie ur discussion ain’t ‘meaningful’ at all.. it’s just endless drivel consisting of name dropping and silly comments about ppl u don’t know
i certainly do not use my grey matter when reading ur comments..that would be such a colossal waste of neurones
‘mindless mutterings’ eh? but that would mean taking over ur slot in the blog world… i couldn’t do that
suggest u go read up on ‘grey matter’ u seem to know NOTHING about it… u personify the saying ‘empty vessels make the most sound’ ..hehe…
Comment by savi3 — July 5, 2005 @ 9:35 am
hey savi3.. guess what… not a single bad thing you say about me carries any value… know why ??.. cuz you don’t ‘KNOW” me !!!.. awwwww…. sounds familiar ??
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 5, 2005 @ 11:46 am
spectral: u didn’t mention ‘grey matter’ in that post..maybe u forgot?
if u haven’t found a textbook yet may i suggest Snell’s neuroanatomy…
wat ‘bad things’ sweetie?
Comment by savi3 — July 5, 2005 @ 2:31 pm
if you can figure out how to scroll up a web page, maybe you could read the thread and realize that i just mentioned it in one of my comments and you started getting obsessed with it…
and if you stopped being such a book worm and got out a bit more, you’d probably start to understand the difference between day to day phrases people use and scientific explainations…
oh.. and while you are at it.. why don’t you mention a coupla more books you have read and impress the nerd community all over again…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 5, 2005 @ 4:40 pm
spectral: sweetie u really need to take ur own advice b4 u dish it out to others
as for the neuroanatomy reference well u brought up ‘grey matter’ so many times knowing NOTHING about it… u probably don’t even know why it’s ‘grey’..so before u wax eloquent about the topic don’t u think u should go read up on it first..
Comment by savi3 — July 6, 2005 @ 9:29 am
oh man.. all this time i was trying my best not to say this but i give in… you really ARE ‘dense’ aren’t you… lemme put it in a deifferent way…
if someone ever calls you ‘honey’, do you ask them to go read up on the differences in elements and the molecular structures between you and honey ??… or in case of ’sweet heart’, do you ask them to do an experiment on the actual taste of a heart ??..
pls read the following notes before confusing yourself and putting down a totally irrelevant reply..
1) NO.. i’m NOT calling you honey OR sweet heart.. they were just hypothetical scenarios..
2) please… don’t go into a physics lecture and cite text references on ‘density’…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 6, 2005 @ 11:41 am
oh dear… neuroanatomy refers to the BRAIN..u know the grey matter u bring up in EVERY post
i didn’t even notice u calling me honey and sweetheat !!!?? ewww…
Comment by savi3 — July 7, 2005 @ 12:21 pm
no way !!.. because pertrol prices are upto 80 bucks a litre..
and stop calling me honey… ugh…
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 8, 2005 @ 6:52 am
make poverty history
Comment by savi3 — July 8, 2005 @ 12:45 pm
polar bears it is then….
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 10, 2005 @ 7:44 am
hehe… its 29 C today more like safari weather
Comment by savi3 — July 11, 2005 @ 1:06 pm
its gonna be a briiiiight briiiight… bright sun shiny day….
Comment by SpectralCentroid — July 12, 2005 @ 4:26 am
yup. happy bday Sahani
Comment by savi3 — July 12, 2005 @ 9:59 pm
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