Presents

Did you get some nice presents? I did! :) First, I got a lot of money, wich is always welcome to pay the university taxes and the insurances at the begining of the year... :/ Hope there is still some left for a good meal! I also got a pair of white Lacoste shoes from the sister, I love them! Also got a cooking book from my father, there are hundreds of recipes, I'm not sure that I'll get thinner next year :P

I was at my grandmothers on the 24th, and had the biggest and best meal ever with the family on my mother side. We had lots of different traditionnal swedish food, with beer, aquavit, and all of that in a good mood, it was awesome! We ate so much... and I had to eat once more the day after at my fathers. He always prepares a lot of food. We were six around the table, him and his wife, the girlfriend of my late grandfather, my sister, and a Malasian friend of my father who was alone for christmas. I'm not sure that he liked the food, for it was nothing like asian food, but he seemed well glad to be there :) My sister and I offered a vintage radio-receiver to my father, it's from 1951 and I got it from a collector. He loved it and played with it like a child for the whole afternoon. Good idea to give it after the meal lol!

I wrote to Guillermo to say merry christmas. He said he was sick, and I wrote a nice message telling him to stay under the blankets and that I hoped that he would get better soon, and asked if he wanted to meet before I go to Italy, and all I got in return was "thanks". Yesterday he wrote "merry christmas" and I answered with another nice text, and I got nothing in return... Well, I think that I know what it means, I'm getting used to it... :/ I don't know what I do so that they run away like that... Bah, I'll come back with an Italian ;)

I'm heading to the seaside on Tuesday! I love Italy, looking forward to eat good food! Some friends of my parents have a small appartment on the seaside in a small village, it's quiet during the winter, and there is some nice walks to do. I'm going with Maria. No doubt that we're gonna have fun!

Bye bye, and happy new year, be careful with the drinks! See you next year!

Luge

The snow arrived this weekend, and has already gone. We had heavy snowfalls during the weekend, enough to disturb the normal life of the city. There is something magic when the busy town and the hurried people are suddenly frozen, everything gets calm, there is almost no cars anymore on the streets, no noises, but the snow falling and absorbing the sounds of the city. On sunday morning, when I woke up (I should say we, but this is coming a little bit later), everything was white, covered with fresh snow, and this is something you don't get to see every year as when I was younger. I called my sister, and we took the train to go over Montreux, in a small station called Les Avants. We were used to spend a week there during the winter with my parents, and go to luge or walk around in the snow. It's a very beautiful place. Hemingway spent some time there in the twenties and wrote about it, but I don't remember in wich book...

We took our luges, and had a wonderful time going up and down the luge-track. It had been a while that I hadn't spent time like that with my sister, and it was really cool :) We ended the day drinking a hot swiss chocolate in a warm restaurant, looking peacefully at the mountains. I never understand why some people have a TV when they can look at such beautiful landscapes instead...

So... back a bit earlier in the week, I met Stan wednesday evening. He came to eat at home. We had some mushrooms rolled in bacon for the apero, the fish I gave you the receipe as a starter, veal meat slices with a Marsala sauce as a main course, and home made vanilla ice cream for the dessert. It was quite enjoyable I think :P What surprised me is that I thought that I had made way to much food, but he ate it all! He said that he was missing good food so much in the UK that he took everything he could while staying here. Yep... I can understand, I spent some time in the UK when I was fifteen, and I must say that food is not really what they do the best... :S

It was really cool to see him. He let his beard grow a little, just a few days, and he looked so sexy like that... I can't help it, I'm in love with him... If only he was a bit curious... We spoke a lot toghether, and had a lot of fun, as usual. The only thing that makes me feel a bit uncomfortable when I am with him, paradoxically, is that he feels totally confortable with me. While looking at some pictures on my computer, he had his mouth like ten centimeters from mine, and I just had to restrain so hard not to try to kiss him :/ I would prefer, in a way, that we would have just a bit more distance sometimes. It wouldn't be so tempting for me...

On Saturday, Guillermo came at my place, and he cooked for me. It was really good. Nothing really special, but good anyway. He had to change the receipe, because he wanted to do some chicken with a basil sauce, but instead of buying basil, he bought sorrel leaves, wich is not quite the same thing... He made a curry chicken instead, and it was really good.

While he was washing the dishes after the meal, I came behind him, and started to kiss and gently bite his earlobe. No need to say that he never finished the washing up :P We mooved to the sofa and gently made out for a long time. He's a really good kisser. It was so sweet, but also so exciting... We made a little break to eat the dessert, and then jumped in my bed for the rest of the night. He really knows how to use his mouth :P You can feel that he has a lot of experience in the domain! Sex with him was awesome...

We spent a lot of time speaking on the morning when we woke up. He wanted us to go jogging outside when we went out of bed... I was like no way! :) Sunday is a sacred day, even for a non believer like me! He went to do his jogging, and then left, and I went to take the train with my sister.

He's cool, although he has all his issues, that could be a bit anoying. But I also have mine, so I think that if he can bear me, I can deal with it :) We'll see how it goes. I'm not expecting anything, it's the third time we meet, "romantically" speaking, and I'm waiting to see if I broke the "pattern" I've been with the previous guys, or if it will be the same. This time, I didn't made any plans, didn't do or say anything to scare him (I hope) and waited for him to take some initiative, I didn't pushed anything, so I hope that things will continue like that a little bit longer. We are supposed to meet this week, so we'll see.

Christmas time with the family is approaching, I'm looking forward of all the good humor and good food! :P I wish you all a wonderful Christmas time with your family and friends!

Questions

Guillermo came here yesterday after work. We spent a few hours together and it was really cool. Lot of it was spent kissing and talking, and the rest doing other things... but nothing too serious ;) He's unsure about pretty much everything, so it's difficult because he has issues and is questionning everything, like when I asked him if he wanted to come over he was "I'd like to but I'm not sure, I'm wondering, what about it would ruin something between us if we go further? not sure were we are going" and I told him that I had no idea either, but if we don't try we will never know... I told him to chill out and take his time. I mean, we're not in a hurry, and it's great just to be with him and chill out in the sofa. I don't know why he's asking himself so many questions that have no answer. If it's gonna go somewhere, then great, if not, well, that's life, even if it has some consequences... But obviously, at this point, either we stop, go a step back and decide to stay friends, or we go further, but we can't stop right where we are now...

He's coming saturday and is going to cook here for me, I'm looking forward :) I think that I will surprise him and buy some oysters, that he likes very much (and so do I). I hope that I wont cut myself like I did last time :/ it's really hard to open them!

Tommorow, Stan is coming back to Switzerland! :) He's gonna be at my place at 6pm for dinner, he's gonna have the meal of his life ;) I'm so excited to see him!

A meal and a kiss

Hehe, good work with Guillermo ;) He came at my place for a nice dinner. I thought that he was going to spend the night here, but he announced at his arrival that he had to leave around 10 pm to pick up his mother :/

We had a great meal and conversation, he told me a lot about himself. He had a lot of issues when he was a kid, because he was fat and gay, and it didn't help in a small village... He still seems to have a lot of issues with his body image, although he is now well fit.

We talked a lot around the table, and then we moved to the sofa for the digestive. He was still speaking, and I stopped him, and told him that I hoped that he had understood that if I had invited him this night it was not just because I liked him as a friend. He smiled, and told me that he liked very much the way all that was happening. It was time for him to leave, but I didn't want to let him go without a kiss. We shared a long sweet kiss before he left. :) I'm looking forward to see what will follow!

Fish

This is a receipt from my father (best cook of the world) that I tested myself tonight. It's certainly the best fish receipt ever, and the simplest one. I very seldom eat fish because it is soooo expensive in Switzerland, but tonight I got some from my father :) It's coming from the sri-lanka, but I'm not even feeling guilty for all the CO2, viva Copenhagen! :P

- A big piece of marlin, cut in a steaks approximately one centimeter thick

- Curcuma (mix of spices, don't ask my what's inside...)

- some shallot, cut in the thinnest slices possible

- a few pistachios (or pistachi??)

- Lime juice

- a very fine olive oil

- chive

Take the marlin-steaks. Spinkle a bit of curcuma on it for the color and taste. Put it on an slightly oiled grill pan (a pan with some "waves" that make lines on the steaks as if you had put it on a grill), at high temperature, two minutes on each side. Take out of the fire immediatly. Cut your steak in some slices. Put it on a serving plate. Put on it the shallot slices, the chive, the pistachios. Pour some lime juice on it, and then the olive oil, some salt and some pepper, and let it marinate in the fridge at least two hours.

Enjoy it, it is so good that I'm sure that I will wake up in the middle of the night to eat some :P Oh my god, I can't wait to eat it!

4 am

Ahah! He's gay! :) After his first answer, I get another one, around 4 am (!) saying "Just so you know, I'm the same as you. Discussion to be followed on our next meeting. Sweet dreams"

I start to love where this is going... :)

Guillermo

Mmm... I'm just back from the restaurant. Guillermo couldn't come yesterday because his competition ended late in the evening and it was in another city. We met today, and went to eat in one of my favourite restaurants. We had a nice meal, and it was a very enjoyable night, we talked without stopping during more than three hours, with a lot of funny moments. This is quite good. The part that I don't like is that I got really confused... He was dressed very well, like for a date, he smiled at me looking me in the eyes for the whole evening, and asked three times by different ways if I was a bachelor, and that made me think that he was interested, but on the same time, he told me about his ex girlfriend... it was quite confusing.

We asked for the bill, and he brought me back home by car, and he asked me another time "so, amongst all the nice ladies there is in your faculty, you never found the right one?" and I was like "mmm... no, I don't think there is a right lady for me..." expecting him to ask for more, but he stopped there. Just before going down from the car, he said "well, Charlie, I had a very good evening, I hope that we'll have meet very soon" and I said I had a very nice time too, and we looked each other for a moment, I didn't know what to do, I mean if he's not gay, I don't want to come a cropper... I just shook his hand and went out.

I wrote a text a few minutes ago, saying "Hi, I had a very nice time tonight. As you aked a few times already, I will tell you something. I'm not really into girls... I don't tell everyone, but I have the feeling that it won't bother you. Just so you know why I don't talk that much about my love life. Anyways, I'm not any worse at giving advices for the studies for this reason, it doesn't change anything :) I hope that it's not a problem for you. See you on tuesday, and have a good night." and I got the answer "It doesn't bother me at all. I had some doubts about it. I'm touched that you told me. I had a REALLY nice evening, and you are someone REALLY nice. Have a good night and see you on tuesday ^=^" hum... it doesn't really bring something new...

Rendez-vous

I'm seeing Guillermo in two hours. I've got to take a shower and get ready. He'll be back of a gym competition.

I found on the internet that he made a regional mister something competition, there is a short clip on a local tv site where you can see him presenting himself. At one moment he's dancing with his top off, not bad at all, I tell you :P

Diploma

I'm gonna get my diploma today! :) a part of the family is coming to the ceremony. I'm a bit disappointed because my father won't be there with his wife. I hope that he'll be there for the next one.

I start to be a bit exhausted, it's been two weeks that I hadn't have a real long night of sleep. Last weekend I was out all the nights and finished very early in the mornings... I went to Lucerne to show the city to some friends of mine, and then to Zürich to visit some friends and family. I think that I have never eaten as much in one weekend!

I also met Guilermo tuedsday. We were eating, and speaking, and he asked if I had a girlfriend. I said no, but didn't know how to say something for him to make sure that he knows that I'm gay. Anyway, we decided to have a drink on saturday night, and I guess that he understood that we're not going to talk about the law all the night long... He's a really sweet guy, and also quite good looking. He's doing some gym competitions, so I guess that there is some interesting material under his shirt ;)

I'll keep you in touch!