Amsterdam

Since my sister had never been there, and we had never been somewhere together, we decided to spend a weekend in Amsterdam. It was a long time for me, too. For some reasons, the recently city trips, I enjoyed much more and had more fun.

We did a couple of museums visits like the Rijkmuseum (although we were quite disappointed not to see the diamond head) and saw the "Nightwatch" of Rembrant and "The Girl with the Pearl earing" of Vermeer, most of the collections there are really dark arts, a bit depressive otherwise. Afterwards, we went around, window shoppings, I have to say that the people in Amsterdam really make effort in dressing up. Here, in Belgium, sometimes, you go out and you see people wearing night gowns on the streets, I mean it is too casual that sometimes you forget to dress up when you go out, and I think it is always better to overdress than underdress. In the evening, my sister and I went to eat Indonesian rijstafel, and set to visit the sex museum. The sex museum? yeah, it is very informative, and of course, most of the men who visited pretending very focused ;-). We were a bit shocked in some parts but had a lot of fun.

The next day, I wanted to see Anne Frank Huis, how could I escape that? especially when I have heard so much about her diary (I am reading it at the moment). Also I want my sister to know these things. I am reading the Anne Frank's diary, and I think every one of us could eventually find some parts of our teenage years in it. The upset and frustation that parents don't understand us, the questions about sex, boys, girls, the opinions about the surrounding...etc. But I don't think we could think as deep as she was. Maybe because she was living in the war, had to hide, and the constant fear of being discovered, taken away to concentrations camps...It made us feel a bit sad, especially me, always being so sensitive about things happen around. How can we understand the dream of being free, running in daylight, playing with your friends if we can do that easily?

I and my baby sister decided to change the mood, so we went to Madame Taussaud, which is silly, but well, it is a fun thing to do. So, sister got a picture with Brad Pitt though she was complaining why there must be Angelina Jolie so close ;-), having pictures with the Dalai Lama, Robbie Williams, the new James Bond ;-). They looked very real those wax figures!

We ended our trip in China town, had a heavy cheap lunch there!

Well, today I decide to organise a party at my place, it has been a long time since all my friends last gather, catch up...I want to do that before starting my full time job, I can sense that I am going to be very busy, and that is very nice for a super nervous person like me!