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October 30, 2005

saturday night with the boys

i took an evening train to amsterdam to meet robert, remco and jim. after fasting all day and torturing myself with food photos on flickr, i was in the mood for some okonomiyaki.

the boys were all okonomiyaki virgins, and i was pleased that their first time was with me in the japanese pancake world. haha! that sounds dodgy, doesn't it? like i'm harboring secret thoughts of foursomes! eek!

i had the tori karaage, the shogayaki special osaka and japanese ice-cream (macha, black sesame and white sesame flavors). it was soooooo yummmm... and green tea milkshake of course! i think i ate the most, and fastest, because i was so hungry from fasting all day.

afterwards, we ended up in de vrije vork, a few doors down from where we ate. de vrije vork specialises in organic and vegetarian dishes. there's a daily selection of freshly made dishes, which you buy by the weight (€1.80 for 100g) and they have lovely organic wines, tea and coffee.

when we came in there was a duo playing jazz/brazilian music on guitars and sax. i had a small glass of chocolate-orange liqueur, called the texel voorspoed *prosperity* and remco had the texel liefde *love*. this is where people would frown and ask, "isn't alcohol forbidden during ramadan?"

ho hum, i really had a craving for chocolate, and the texel voorspoed really did taste like a liquid terry's chocolate orange. ah well. to quench my chocolate thirst further, jim and i shared a luscious double-chocolate brownie.

we listened to the music and chatted away for a couple of hours or so. it was fun! with jim and remco being single, the conversations always veered to the subject of women, and girl-hunting. i thought it was funny!

jim and remco seem to have an attention span of 10 seconds. we're talking and i can see their concentration waver and then lose it completely when the female of the species walk past. it's so different how boys and girls look at ogle people.

with boys, you can always tell that they're looking: their heads turn, their eyes swim in their sockets, they stop mid-sentence. with girls, we just flick our eyes up for an initial gaze, and then discreetly undress the target with their eyes without losing concentration on the conversation topic at hand. or at least, that's how i do it. in their defense, jim and remco say that men can't multitask. hahaha. :)

Posted by Yasmina at October 30, 2005 03:00 PM

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Posted by: chia at October 31, 2005 04:29 PM