Well...Everybody has his or her own notion of amsterdam...the sin city of sex and drugs, the city of liberation, the city which has always been in the forefront of thought revolution and absorbing new ideas. What I saw was how easily the life of sex and drugs blends with the normal life over there. how roaming the streets of red light district is as normal as taking a walk in any park with your children and kins. Well my journey to all these realizations started on 2nd of October (Monday). The day before I had been to Munich to attend the Oktoberfest. Earlier that week i had been impatient with my (lack of) travel plans. and made a marathon plan to go tripping for two weeks including tours of Amsterdam, Copenhagen, brussels and Paris. Had to leave Milan at night. The bus journey to the dutch city was painfully long but somehow survived. Interestingly the bus was almost vacant and i had all my space to stretch myself in all possible directions. Before that I had mailed Soumitra .my school friend who had to stay at this place. I reached Amsterdam in the evening. The traffic leading to Amsterdam from Rotterdam was hopeless. When i landed in Amstel station I headed straight to the info center ..who was quite helpful to find me my metro stop, but i decided to call Padhi up before going. After few unsuccessful attempts and a small help by a german guy I called soumitra and he instructed me to wait there. After a wait of about 20 mins he came and we headed to his home. A nice place well equipped with guitar and amps..i can never complain. Anyways we grabbed some munchies and headed off to see what Amsterdam is famous for. Located just in front of the Central Station with convoluted alleys we saw things never as blatant and well...open;)) Hundreds of tall windows with red lights and beautiful gals behind them soliciting customers. Some were so beautiful tat they could easily and very easily they can give top models a run for their money. Things are totally transparent there. If you want to fuck a girl simply go to her window and ask the price. Standard is 50 euros for a fuck and suck..with additional service very dependant on the request and the girl. Just the fact tat i can get a beautiful girl for 50 euros which i can never get by conventional means gave me a high. But then i decided against it.. We just saw most of the area .. girls and women from al races were visible there. Not just girls behind the windows..there were girls...well tourists outside as well . It was so strange seeing female tourists enjoying the sights of these prostitutes.. Dint seem that they felt offended. Well ...after talking to few of these gals we got bored and simply headed back to our house.. Reaching home we weere greeted by his room mates who had prepared nice indian food.. i was so delighted to have authentic indian food after so many days. Nice chappatis and sabzi and achaar and dahi ...simply hogged.We all slept off pretty early ..considering that all of them had jobs to go ..i just watched a bit of Tv played some guitar and dozed off ..Next day soumitra gave his cell to me before leaving office so that we remain connected. Anyways ...i made a stupid folly and switched if off to put my sim card.. dint know that the system out here requires u to key in the pin number before restarting.. All efforts to call him from outside went down the drain ..and after giving up fully I headed straight to the central station.. Most of the sights tin amsterdam are located near the Central...nearby the RLD. There were lots of coffee shops selling marijuana, hash and magic mushrooms. However i decided to postpone my experiment plans and saw the places around. They werent that impressive to be frank ..but then nobody comes to amsterdam to see monuments ..do they ?? ..By evening i was tired of seeing the same places..and i went back home after changing my euros to Danish kroner..i was supposed to leave for denmark the next morning ..(( Check the Copenhagen scribes )) I returned from Copenhagen on Saturday dawn..Was pretty tired even though i had slept all night.. Reached home simply lied down on the bed.. After a lazy lunch ..we all decided to go to a mall ...while on the way back i decided to call up some ppl in paris and brussels...i could find the cheap phones only near the RLD ..After calling i decided to try out some of the forbidden fruits of amsterdam...(dont run ur minds wild guys..i meant entertaintment drugs)..Was really enthu to try out magic mushrooms but then changed my mind and took home a big joint of marijuana instead..I was really all excited to get high..Now i had smoked pot before and it never was that strong as they sell in Amsterdam..I smoked the entire joint ..which was like 3 or 4 normal joint in about 10 mins.. Man i got high ....My head was totally doing rounds....it was like i was in a roadrash game...with colourful tracks and buildings passing by me.. God it was awesome...My senses got numb .but my perceptions of colours and sounds got enhanced like never before ..I could see colours and hear sounds which no one in room could hear.. I somehow managed to get up and went to my bed with great difficulty..I simply lied down on my bed...Cant explain the high that i was feeling...totally wasted ..no sense to do anything...it was like there were two identitities in my head...one the sensible one ..the other high one...the drug was twirling my brain and childhood memories started flashing before me..memories that had never come back...All was fine for about an hour ..but then things started to worsen..i started feeling thirsty...my tongue and my throat started drying up ..i was just gasping my friends name ...not enough energy left to call aloud ..somehow i managed to call him ..he brought water in a bottle ..by that time my feet was drying up ....like no blood flow ...and that feeling started climbing up my legs...things worsening more..i gulped the entire bottle and strted asking for more... he was refusing to give me more...but i kept asking... finally i stomach got full and when i thought that i am bursting ..i threw up in the toilet ... it was simply water ...i then again asked for water...i kept drinking like crazy ..he refused to give me ..so i begged to him that i wont drink any more and sent him back ...but i kept filling the bottle fromthe bathroom and kept on drinking and puking ..made a total mess of the toilet ...but the puking was not helping me ..the high in my head was still there ...and i was starting to get depresed that this thing..this chain will never end...the drug always multiplies the feeling that u get ...i got depressed even more... started feeling like this is the end of the world and tat i am not goign to see the sun again.,..i started remembering my family and friends before dying ..there was a constant struggle between the two entities in my head...one was trying to tell me that everuthign will be fine ..the other was trying to discourage me and that my time in this world is over...some how i gathered my will power and managed to stay calm ..i drank water and kept on pukiing to throw that crug outta my system..finally the better side triumphed ...and strted feeling well ...i went and slept...Next day i was sorry for my behaviour ..i apologised to every body ...dint go out and and dint smoke a single ciggarette...entire day i was reflecting on wat had happened the previous nite and on how i was stretching my life ..the precious gift that i have got ...on how i became selfish and dint realize that my life is not only important to me but for my parents my family and ppl who care about me.. So many ppls aspirations are tied to me ..i cannot be so careless ...The day just passed ..i had to go to brussels the other morning ...I slept early ..
Next morning I bade good bye to everybody ..they had been really considerate to me..
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