that little small town in belgium called brugge...

brugge is a pretty small place where one can easily walk around town in 10 minutes... cobblestone roads... dutch people riding their bikes... the town square that had everything... my first realization that fries are actually called chips at this part of the world and that it's best eaten with mayo...


seriously... this house is too cute to describe... but i guess it's typical if you're from brugge... the dutch and their canals...

belgian mussels!!! i couldn't get enough... i think we got two orders of mussels provencial... i think i spelled it right... i think we finished it off... if i'm not mistaken one pot of mussels was about 20 euros... yes, i am willing to spend that much for a pot of mussels...

i really can't recall what his significance is in brugge... so sue me!


who hasn't heard of rin tin tin?!?!

yup! that's one side of the town square! i think that's the post office back there... i know, cause i sent a bunch of postcards to peeps!






i'm going to kick myself over this... but the most memorable experience for me in brugge was meeting a lesbian jewish prostitute from san francisco... and apparently... it cannot be denied... she had a thing for me... oh dear lord! now why can't she be a man... a manwhore!!!

back to 2005 quick recap.... let's go to amsterdam!

just want to make a quick recap of my travels on 2005... i guess i should just post my fave photos on each of the cities... might take a couple of entries before finishing... but hell! its my blog... my life!


ok... so ive posted london... moving on to amsterdam!!!





my fave food in europe by far!


its raw herring in a bread... i love fish... i like bread... can't ask for more... although i know that it wouldn't suit well with everyone's pallet, heck i still love it!





how can anyone go to amsterdam without drinking a heine... downed a couple of glasses at our hostel, hans brinker, where people smell like weed in the morning, afternoon and evening... people! there are other things in amsterdam besides weed... like um... er....


anne frank house!!! im really into the history of world war II but i never really appreciated reading her diary while i was in elementary until i visited their hiding place... i think everyone who has been there agrees with me when i say that it's one of the loneliest places on earth... to be in a cramped space with a lot of people and yet not being able to share a loud laugh and have a shouting fest with them...

for some culture... ofcourse i went to the van gogh museum... i think they were having an exhibition about egon shiel... erotica baby!!! very different from the subdued pieces at rijks musuem...



i'll leave you guessing about this last pic...

2007... that's soooo last year...

Just checked my blogspot account and realized that my last post was sometime on july 2007 and i was still writing about 2005... too late to catch up now... a lot has happened last year... and this will be my attempt to summarize all that i can remember at the top of my head...

went to egypt on april 2007... rekindled my romance with my travel shoes... i had travel withdrawal sypmtoms and made some horrible decisions after that... i should have learned from my first travel withdrawal on 2005... wtf?!?! somehow, i managed to screw things up both my professional and personal life... stupid stupid stupid...

well, here are some of my egypt photos...

i took the camel photo while going down mt. sinai... my knees were already starting to shake... the temperature was increasing minute by minute... and needed to take a piss soo bad... then all of the sudden... there was this huge camel parked on a post that caught my eye... the post had markings saying "may peace prevail on earth" and i just couldn't get over the fact that the camel was looking towards the sky as if it saw something bigger than itself... remarkable!

this is half of the egyptian group, aka younglings... thats (top) matt, pilar, dave, (bottom) me, van, taylor and marna... it was good times on our boat m/s melodie... we just had our second egyptian night i think and we were all drunk with our stellas... oh, i do miss stella!

i have way too many photos that couldn't possibly fit in this entry... well, here's one of my jumping photos at one of the temples at luxor... and another jumping photo with my official travel buddy van at the colossi of m????? oh dear lord, i need to research what the place is called again...

there you have it for now...