Amsterdam! NC16

Date: 14/11/08, Flight Duration: 13h45Min's, Destination: Amsterdam.



First thing everyone did when they woke up was to grab a cab down to this "famous" joint by the name of Oceania. Foods quite pricey @ 30Euros/head well to me it was more for the fun of eating as a whole group =) the only nice dish was desert!

Right after a few of us went down to the Heineken brewery! entrance fee is only @ 10Euros and boy was it worth it!

Adriaan~ thats me muahaha

things that go into the beer making process...

we tried fresh beer (its bitter sweet)

a toast!

You get to custom make ur own bottles @ 5Euros!

And so thats the end of day1 ... got back to the hotel and to my SHOCK! a colleague she YES i said SHE plays WoW (she played till 2amoh man and i got a glimpse of the expansion =( iam so resisting till today cause i know once i top up my World of Warcraft account its "Hello! online family!"

And so on the 2nd day, the plan was to go for "a walk" and that lasted all the way from later morning till dark! here where we went

Food in europe is a must try esp. if u are a cheese lover!

Dream house~

haha this teddy outside the store blows bubbles! Carol looks kiddy here

to the market place to look for cheap stuff and we found more that what we bargained for

OMG the real deal? no way

Walked all the way to Dam and the redlight districts (SRY didnt get to take any pics of the girls flaunting their stuff behind those glass wondows) But we did get a few winks. haha

We visited the Sexmuseum too. Entrance is @ 3Euros. Its kinda small but there some interesting stuff going on inside. Its like history just that its all about sex and sex related stuff.

brace yourself!

oh well just small lill pictures...

bigger more interesting pictures...

BIG... haha

and sweet treats~

Oh well thats more or less the end! next time iam so gonna go to the country side.

Next trip India =)

*Iam thirty my wife is thirty two* figure this out =)

4gotten city ALONE!

well just back from dinner on my 3rd day in Amstradam so i figured ill spent this time to blog bout my previous destination - BeiJing (2nd time there). This time round i went out alone and it was to the forgotten city. Was quite an eye opener iam glad i made the trip down! its seriously alike to what we see in those epic chinese movies!

this is the path ull have to take inorder to reach the forbidden city

the doors are HUGE!

This 2 trees have grown in a really unique way - like some kind of lovers tree




you guesseed it!

The courtyards have also got like rooms which you can visit. each one has a different display of stuff! here are some of the rooms ive visited.



layout of the forbidden city

cool architecture

the emperor blog too alright and its not just in books...

but on jade too!

"love" chambers oh la la~

sun goes down... and

the guards come out!

the end!

02/11/08 Milan part2

Didn't make it back that night to blog cause... i was having too much fun! yes awesome company and finger licking good food with tonnes of great shopping places and sightseeing locations what more can i ask for?!

after lunch we took a tram down to town. Shopping was priority number.1 (had to grab a pair of shoes from salvatore feragamo for my aunt) the lady in the store was kinda "cocky" probably cause its some random Asian fella who's kinda under dressed after a long flight... in all bad customers service! compared to Chanel, LV and Gucci etc seriously dress code is the last thing they should ever consider and most of the customers in the boutique were Asians! BAH... that didn't spoil my day cause next up was a visit to the Duomo Cathedral! its the 2Nd largest cathedral in the world, here's a link if you wanna know more bout the place - http://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/milan-duomo.htm. gonna shrink the pics a little.





















rendezvous with the guys after my cathedral visit to the building beside (btw @ the top level is where the Milan fellas hold their MTV VH1 so if you happen to go to Milan and see a bunch of people yelling and screaming... yea that's what it is) everything inside looks nice guess what just when you think MC Donald's was in red and yellow... think again its GOLD AND BLACK so cool! totally matches the high end boutiques in the area. The structures inside and this... BULL







The best part of the end of day one was we had to get stuck in this demonstration which involves the citizens mostly students going again the new education system oh bummer... we were stuck for like 2 hours in the cold before we managed to take the tram back. back @ the hotel by 10pm+ had dinner and that was the end of day 1.





Day2 i got up early to join another set of colleagues for buffet breakfast before heading out during lunch time to this pasta joint thats a few block down from the one we had the day before and i have to say this new joint is so much better! FOOD!!!

The 2nd day on was all chilling out and shopping i got myself some stuff from H&M... this time round something caught my eye but i resisted the temptation just for that day... as time in Milan came to a near end after my quick 3hours Barcelona trip on the 2nd last day i knew i had to get it! and so here it is haha! man i so should not have cause i felt like ive overspent (H&M - 150Euro++, Food its like 20Euro/Meal so x 5 days and now THIS!) better save up on my next europe flight!

























just randomly pastein the pics... really really lazy this time round dont ask me why i really dont know!