Pathways

What a delight for you all, more personality tests! Now we all know how much you enjoy these. But seriously, I know you do. I've seen the stats. (Psst, click here for the others ones I've done before) Plus, who doesn't love to indulge their own narcissistic tendencies from time to time, imploring the need to know more about themselves.

Well, perhaps not quite as needy as that, but still, these are fun, so have a go!

This one is all about explaining your outlook on love. Aw, cute. (Again, all of these questions and such have been found on the internet, so, yeah, don't blame me for your failings, the internet has spoken).

Imagine that you're walking to your boyfriend/girlfriend's house... (if you don't have one of those, I guess, like, imagine a fake one, that could be fun...)

Right. So you're imagining that, I hope it's good.

1. So, there are two roads that you can take to get to your boyfriend/girlfriend's house. Two delightful options for you here, you get to take the shorter, but quite boring road to their house, so you can see them soon. Or you take the curvy and interesting route. Full of interesting things on this path, but it takes you forever to reach them. Which path do you choose? Short or long?

2. On your way, you happen to see two rose bushes, and because you're a bit of a romantic, you decide to pick 20 for your partner. But, like, one bush is full of red roses, the other is full of white. What sort of colour combination can you come up with? Do you go for all white or red? Or a nice mixture? How many of each?

3. You finally arrive at their house. And you ring the bell, but instead of them, you get the maid answering (I don't know how odd you might find imagining that, who even has maids?? So maybe imagine, like, their Mum answering or something. Don't think that affects things too much) Yeah, so, the maid answers. You can either ask the maid to go get your boyfriend/girlfriend, or you can just go get them yourself. What would you do?

4. You make your way to their room, but for whatever reason, they're not there (Bit rude of them, although this might be a surprise call on your part, I don't know). But you still have this big ol' bunch of roses to be giving them. You can leave them either on the window sill or on their bed, what do you do?

5. Later, it's time to go to bed. (Don't worry though, nothing frisky is gonna be going down, you have to go to separate rooms in this little scenario). Thus, when you wake up in the morning, you go to their room. Are they awake or asleep?

6. You've had a great time with your boyfriend/girlfriend. (Despite the separate rooms). Now it's time to head home. Those cheeky pathways again, you can go either the long route back home, with all it's exquisite views for you to behold, or you can head home the short, albeit boring way. Which path do you choose?

Analysis:

1. Which path did you choose to take to their house?

This represents your attitude towards falling in love. The short route, and it would appear you tend to fall in love quite easily, and also quickly. However, the longer route, you take your time, not falling in love so easily.

2. What combination of lovely roses did you choose to give?

Apparently, the number of red roses indicates how much you expect to give in a relationship, whilst the white roses are how much you expect to receive in a relationship. If you happened to be giving them a bunch of all red roses, then you're a pretty giving person. On the other hand, if you were giving all white, then maybe stop being so damn needy, gosh.

3. Did you ask the maid, or did you find your boyfriend/girlfriend yourself?

This indicates your attitude to handling problems within your relationship. If you're asking the maid, you might be the type of person to beat around the bush a bit, avoiding your problems. But, choosing to get them yourself means you prefer to handle situations yourself, confronting and dealing with them directly. You want to be working that shit out right away.  

 4. Where did you leave the roses? On the bed or window sill?

The placement of the roses represents how often you'd like to be seeing your boyfriend/girlfriend. By placing them on the bed, it shows you may need a lot of reassurance in the relationship, and if you could, would see your partner everyday. Placing them on the window sill, however, shows you don't expect, nor need, to be seeing your partner everyday.

5. Did you find your love asleep or awake when you went into their room?

Finding them awake may mean you expect them to change for you, whilst finding them sleeping happily means you accept them the way they are.

6. Which path did you choose to go home?

The paths now represent how long you stay in love. If you choose the short one, then you easily fall out of love, whilst taking the long path means you plan on being in love for quite some time. 

There you go. Hope you enjoyed that. Please comment about what your findings were, I'd be interested to hear them. I'd supply you with a badly drawn version of my own answers but I fear I may be judged too much. Who knows. Maybe I will later. Over and out. 

Source: Basically just google personality test on Google or whatever and you get it.

Oh.

Perhaps a touch of
A self fulfilling prophecy.
Is it all in a name?
It's just I'm not really
Feeling the same.

Amsterdam

My experience of Amsterdam... Well. Erm... where to start.

Having booked this trip quite spontaneously with my partner to celebrate a year of being together and stuff, I really didn't know quite what to expect.

But it was perfect.

Now, we all know the reason most people decide to take a short break to "the city of freedom".  And yes, those sorts of activities were pursued, however, ultimately, that wasn't what our trip was about.

Amsterdam is a beautiful place. Seriously bloody beautiful. The architecture and basically all of the structures there are stunning. And on a bright, cold day, the canals shone like thousands of tiny stars had fell into the streets. We were absorbed in the interior design of most of the livings rooms that could be observed from the streets. The high ceilings, the mountains of books. Everywhere had its own unique charm.

Then of course, there was the gorgeous food that was sampled at every single meal we ate. I would highly recommend Humphreys Restaurant. I was treated to some of the best food I have ever eaten there by my boyfriend. The chocolate fondant is most likely the closest I've come to what can only be described as a foodgasm.

We visited the Nemo science museum, which was a very entertaining experience. Aside from the giant scary robot, known as "Elektra". Whilst there, we watched a demonstration of a chain reaction that was rather fun to observe. There were also dozens of personality tests taken. I certainly recommend the "iamsterdam" card we purchased, that happened to give us free admission into the museum. Most of our time, however, was taken up by just walking around and experiencing what the city had to offer us. Every street you went down had something interesting to look at or do, so that's just what we did.

Some of the things were more interesting than others. During one of our walks, we stumbled across a small alleyway and decided to follow it. Unbeknown to us, we'd found the Red Light District. It's quite the experience having half naked women suddenly appear at windows either side of you when you're not expecting it. Although, having experienced it only during the day, we decided to go back at night. That's when the real action starts. There's most definitely a lady for everyone, let's just say, they seem to cater to all tastes. And having eavesdropped a bit on some blokes conversation he had after emerging from one of these establishments, well. It would appear some things will cost you more...y'know, like, another 50 euros for a "facial".

Of course, we had to visit a coffee shop. And we definitely weren't short of choice. It's very hard to walk around Amsterdam and not find a coffee shop. Or, at the very least, smell one. The offer of their "special menus" is something you won't see often. And yes, that was a good experience, although we weren't actually in there very long...

Our hotel did happen to be a 4 star place. When we had booked it, we didn't really take notice of this fact. So, we were very pleasantly surprised by it. Despite the oddness of the frosted glass bathroom door...kinda left little to the imagination in a Sims-esque style blur whilst on the loo. Good job we're comfortable with one another.

Amsterdam is definitely somewhere I'd like to go to again, its beauty, its great transport system, the culture, the food, the nightlife and the freedom of the city all make it a destination I would recommend for anyone.

I had the most perfect time, but it did help that I was accompanied by the perfect person. Yes. Happy one year of love to us. May there be many more.