{"id":1220,"date":"2008-03-20T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T09:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:19:25","slug":"almost_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"almost home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">im going home in two days\u2026hooray! much love to amsterdam, which has been feeling more and more like a second home, but there are too many things i miss in nyc. friends, food, and various other words starting with \u201cf\u201d. hopefully (preferably) the next time i come back to amsterdam, it wont be in a work capacity. and hey, i might even be able to get out and see the sights for once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>JIMMY WOO<\/b><br>last weekend was technically my last full weekend, so we went oot for some lushing and clubbing. lysha and her friend alice came by the office (i was working til the last second) and we headed out for some indian foodage at <i>purna<\/i>. the vindaloo wrecked alice (lysha and i got much milder selections), but she soldiered on. we first went for some pre-clubbing drinkies at <i>suzy wongs<\/i>\u2026which i deduced had an asian theme going on (durrrr). the drinks were good tho, and the lit bamboo encased in glass i dig. we then migrated to <i>jimmy woos<\/i> (asian consistency!) to get down with our bad selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>REMAINDERS<\/b><br>i tried making the most of my last week in amsterdam, so we squeezed in one last dinner together with lysha and (new friend!) alice\u2026this time at <i>bird thai<\/i> in chinatown. we got a selection of dishes, most of which were hotter than they expected them to be. i didnt mind (thought it was just mild), so i kept noshing away at the food. the restaurant didnt seem to have thai ice tea tho\u2026what the dilly. after dinner, we took dessert at <i>h\u00e4agen-dazs<\/i> in the rembrandtplein. they luvs their <i>h\u00e4agen-dazs<\/i> here\u2026there are actually numerous ice cream parlours where you can just relax and unwind with a wide assortment of teeth-rotting confections. it was yum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">i think we get tomorrow off, as a sort of recompense for the evil hours we put into our current project. so ill probably make one last walk of the city for photography. unless the weather is shit (very likely), which in that case, ill just come back and dick around wikipedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jwoos1-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>im going home in two days\u2026hooray! much love to amsterdam, which has been feeling more and more like a second home, but there are too many things i miss in nyc. friends, food, and various other words starting with \u201cf\u201d. hopefully (preferably) the next time i come back to amsterdam, it wont be in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7361,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/7361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}