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Random girls, 2

Random girls, 2

A night in Amsterdam, a pub in Leidseplein.

So many people inside, isazi knows some of them, but they aren’t close right now. Our guy is definitely blazed, looking for something more to drink, walking to approach the bar.
He manages to get a spot in the front row, and a stool. He doesn’t use the stool, but he appreciates the fact that it is there beside him. At some point he hears someone speaking Italian.
He spends few minutes talking with these two guys, one Italian and one Argentinian. Time is not an issue tonight. She has all the time that she wants to reach the bar and take the spot beside him. She is at his right.
For one reason that we don’t know, or maybe for many reasons that we still don’t know, the guy ends his conversation with the two adventurers and gets back to his mission: getting something to drink. She sits on the stool at his left.
They both look at the bar, waiting for a bartender to give them something to drink. They both look at the busy bartender, that never looks back at them. Their legs touch, his left, her right. They look at each other and, unfortunately, they start talking.
I told you already that time is not that important tonight. They just talk, the bartender does his job and they don’t look at him, they just talk about their own lives. They are two polite kids, they even look at each other while they talk. I swear, the guy told me the day after that she enjoyed their conversation and even said that he was a cool kid. I cannot confirm, probably he was just wasted.
She is cute, blond, and comes from the unapproachable North. He is, well, simply him, and comes from the far South. She is just visiting, he is staying.
She decides it is time to order her drinks. A beer for her, something else for her friends. The poor guy suddenly realizes that this should be the end of their story, he’s sure that she’s going back to her friends with the drinks. Every season has an end, as the Greenhornes used to sing when we were both young.
Unfortunately, she decides to stay and keeps talking with him. The conversation is their secret, these two poor drunken souls, but I managed to extort from him the permission to publish just an excerpt of this conversation.
Everyone stops talking, the place is silent like, well, the typical pub in Leidseplein, Amsterdam. No sounds, no movements. Everyone looks at them. She looks him in the eyes and tells him “I don’t love my boyfriend, I just don’t feel anything for him anymore“. He looks her in the eyes. For a while he just looks her in the eyes. He looks her in the eyes and tells her “I’m sorry“.
She stands up, hugs him kindly and says that is time for her to go.

2012

2012

So, it is 2012. I don’t like to think about the end of a year or the beginning of a new one, as I see the time as a continuous flow (and IF I need to split a year, it is Summer for me splitting it in two parts).

Anyway, 2012 will be the Alan Turing Year. Time to celebrate 🙂
I am planning to visit the UK again this year, and take a look at the exhibitions of the London’s science museum and the museum of Manchester, other than try to visit Bletchey Park.

The past months were plenty of events, and just to join the crowd of people stating their resolutions for the new year (and inspired by this nice article) I think that I want to keep my home cleaner, work out more regularly and start eating healthier. Not sure about become a vegetarian, but I would like to reduce the amount of meat in my life.

Oh, and apparently I will visit Shangai this year for IPDPS 2012 😀

Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht is a town that I like. Don’t know why actually. Well, if we should analyze this thing I can say that has always been connected with people leaving (the country the first time, my life the second time). So better not to go with me to Utrecht if you fancy to still be in touch with me 🙂

However, thinking about Utrecht made me publish a picture on the Internet after quite a while. Weird.

Random bubbly bubbles

Random bubbly bubbles

What a cool title 😛

Anyway, has been a while since I last posted something, short summary of my life here:

  • I live in Amstelveen, again 🙂
  • I went to Italy to vote for the referendums, really happy we won, anyway on the flight back to the Netherlands an Italian-Belgian woman said that the economic crisis in Italy is due to “those Romanians and Albanians that come here and took our jobs”. So, a half win for this country. Damn man, they took our jobs!
  • Trying to get rid of Google more or less. I like Google but anyway, better to disseminate services around than to rely on a single entity, and I got quite pissed when they introduced the feature in Gmail that evidence the “important” mails; so I got into this daydream in which I write to the typical pub girl that I had met the night before and she does not receive anything cause Google thinks I am less important. Nice reading on the IEEE spectrum magazine: “How I Learned to Live Google-free“.

Nothing more to say for now. Bye 🙂