To go

i took this picture a while back in Rotterdam. although i dont like that people are this lazy, it was a bit funny to see this "forgotten" cup on this statue. after taking some pictures tim threw it away.

so yes, we have these cups as well, but you see them far and far less on the street than in the usa. there i sometimes had the feeling that people could just not leave the house unless they had a cup in their hand (or at least bought it on their way to wherever). i have seen coffee being spilled on other passengers in the subway, and well.... i never understood the need to always have a huge ice coffee (usually only drunk halfway and then thrown away, or placed somewhere, anywhere, and then forgotten).

for my work, i have to take the train and then the bus. its quite the commute (at least 1.5 hours one way), so i have to get up really early (to still arrive relatively late, grrrr), and i am not a morning person!! my tolerance for anything in the morning is very low, and im happy that its not that crowded yet due to holidays (but i truly fear when those days are over). i am annoyed when other people walk too slow, when they are in my way, when they talk loud in the train, when they come sit too close to me, when there is no place to sit, when i miss my train or when the train is delayed..... but!! at least dutch people dont really have this habit of always having a coffee with them, and something smelly to eat in the early morning (so far, i have only encountered a few... :) ). ah, women do do their make up in the train (annoys me as well), or paint their nails (drives me crazy), and there are even people who clip their nails (how on earth do they think thats socially acceptable???!), and on the way back every now and then you encounter the typical sad male with a can of beer.... (i really dont understand that either. someone recently said that those people are alcoholics, but im not sure...?)

Another cup

as my computer is frustrating me (as usual, nowadays) i dont even want to get it out of my bag, and am just using tims. and there i have only a limited number of photos to choose from. so... another cup, taken last sunday. i think this is some electricity pole, and someone thought it was best to just stuck his/her cup there. as you can see, also this one is not empty. they usually arent empty, it seems. is it because they are too big? they realized how gross the milky ice-coffee-water actually is? or...? 

talking of milk and stuff. last night i made the easiest dessert ever, and it was very good! (we just ate the 3 i made, for the 2 of us, haha). even though i made it only once, its so simple i still remember it; over medium heat, dissolve 1/4 cup of sugar into 1/2 cup of heavy cream, add 1t vanilla extract, and if you like, a little bit of almond extract. in a small bowl, mix 1t powdered gelatin with 1T water. once the sugar is dissolved, turn off the heat and add the gelatin/water mixture. stir to dissolve. let it cool to room temperature. once cooled, stir in 1 cup of buttermilk. strain it through a mesh sieve into cups (this is enough for 3, or so it was intended... ;) ), cover them and chill them for at least 4 hours. easy! and very good! 

Thats trash!!

i dont know, but im getting more and more annoyed by the hundreds of cups i see left here and there and everywhere!! theyre usually still half full at least. and its usually this gross watered down ice-coffee with lots and lots of sugar and milk. beeehhh. this morning on either side someone came to sit next to me with a cup of "something" in their hands. and it never smells like a good cup of freshly brewed REAL coffee! no, it smells sweet. beeehhh!!! why cant they just drink a normal black coffee, like grownups in the rest of the world? why does it have to come through a straw? really, i never saw more adults suck on straws than in the us of a... and ofcourse, in the other hand is a phone...

and when they are done with their far too huge cup (really, a small coffee would still be considered large or extra large in the netherlands...), they just put it wherever they happen to be at that very moment. done? lets put it down. i dont care anymore. 

it really annoys me. find a trashcan, please! carry it until you encounter one. while drinking from it it also wasnt a problem to carry it around, so just do that a little longer... pfew. that was nice. but really, i hate it!! i decided to do a little project; every time i see an abandoned cup i need to take a picture of it. dont know yet what i will do with them, perhaps a set on flickr..... :) so this will be photo umber 2. here you can see number one...