Summer in Amsterdam

Back in Singapore! Slept most of yesterday after spending the whole of Saturday on a plane back, next to a (mostly) happy baby! Summer is a happy time to visit Amsterdam indeed! The weather does affect people and when it's grey and dreary outside, so are the people :S It was a super productive week for me, and I'm glad I made the trip, but I'm also super glad to be back!

The temperature reached 30C one day in Amsterdam, and everyone just took their canteen trays out to the field to enjoy the sun! I braved the damn pigeons for this, but it was a very nice experience! :)

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Team dinner at Stacey's the restaurant just opposite the office. If you wanna talk about fengshui and luck, this restaurant is making big bucks off the company due to the many team dinners held there haha. Talk about strategic location as well! And also here I found out that "it's a boy!" LOL.

Had the chance to visit the pop-up Magnum store on Rembrandt Square, also hello hello near our office! It costs 4 Euros to create a customized Magnum and there was always a queue! It was also a mini-Magnum museum sort-of, with some really wacky Magnums on display!

Here's Laylay's customized Magnum, I think, with dried raspberries, pistachios and Dutch cookies!



Us pigging out at a steakhouse and ending the week at Freaky Friday! :)

And as the city grows dark (no earlier than 10pm that is), it takes on a whole different feel and look.

 

Groetjes uit Amsterdam!

Hello from very hot and very sunny Amsterdam! It's so hot I'm damn surprised, I seriously OVERPACKED. I've always been too cold here, but imagine, it's going to be 30 degrees C tomorrow! Everyone is half naked and suntanning on their boats or on the grass. I was joking that lying on the grass in Amsterdam is cool, but lying on the grass in Singapore = bangla worker :S

Some sights of summer I captured today:

 

And *glee* I bought my 2nd Pandora bracelet here cos it's slightly cheaper than Singapore. It's damn addictive sigh.

 

Tata! Off to battle my jetlag now. Zzzz. 

Weekend

Recently the weeks just roll by like a bullet train. Whenever Friday approaches, I am still in half-believe mode, like wha...it's Friday? Since when? Wasn't it Friday yesterday? Gosh. So it's always fun to hang out with ma Nettie and ma pals for a casual drink and meals.

On Friday, after ramen, went to Club Street for some drinks. It's so cool now that they close off the road on weekends for al fresco dining, the atmosphere is a little European and a little Lan Kwai Fong. Previously you really had to watch out for cars while dining there.

On Saturday we found a hidden gem for fresh sashimi. I'm so reluctant to share this place because it's literally sold out 2 hours after they open, and I don't want a queue to form there. Haha. Anyway it's a really small family-run place in the middle of Bugis, let's just leave it at that :P Good for you if you figure out where this is!

And then we just really slept our weekend away. I didn't know I was so tired until I just conked out from 4-8pm, woke up for dinner, and then slept right back from 10pm to Sunday. Zzzzzz. Well I really need the sleep, it's non-stop from here on out. Will be back in Amsterdam this weekend and I think we are moving house real soon, so omg *deep breaths*