Archive for the ‘EN’ Category

Annual hobby: setting stuff on fire

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Last year my friend and me set loads of sparklers on fire. Of course we needed to top that last fire, so we decided to attach the sparklers to something this year. The thing turned out to be a toy police car, mostly because it was only 2 euros. Afterwards ...

… and about this week

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Today I quite unexpectedly heard that tomorrow is the last day I will be working at IBM. I was supposed to have a spot there until February, but the work coming in has dramatically decreased, forcing them to keep only a few freelance translators, and I'm not among them. There ...

So about last week

Monday, December 15th, 2008

A number of things have happened the last days, so I thought I should recap. I turned in my OV-jaarkaart (free traveling for students) because I had no more right to it (you can get it for 7 years, mine are over). I hate having to pay for the train now, ...

iStuff gets you guys (or chicks I suppose)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

In the train this morning I took out my brand new iPod, since I needed a good dose of metal to wake up with. There was this really cute guy sitting across from me, who kept looking at it. As I usually do when people stare at me (it happens, ...

YMCA

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Sometimes my friends can be rather weird. My friend Sim has dedicated her time to positioning her kid's male Barbie dolls in the YMCA-positions and taking a picture of that. I wonder what other strange hobbies she has ;) [caption id="attachment_304" align="alignnone" width="300"][/caption]

Shopaholic

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Sometimes a woman has to stop and realise 'my god, I bought way too much stuff'. On a sidenote, this trait is no longer only characteristic for women. However, my sin isn't shoes or make-up, but hardware and gadgets. Because I started getting an income in April and my geek ...

That darned road

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

It's my 25th birthday today, so I figured I should give an update. Birthdays always make me think of how old I really feel. I can't actually call myself a girl anymore (though I still do), but I'm not exactly a grownup either. At this point I'm sortof in between ...

Review: Simon Schama’s Power of Art

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Simon Schama's Power of Art BBC, 8 episodes, featured artists: Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, Rothko. Note to Simon Schama: Please make more episodes! *****(5/5) Art and me have a love/hate relationship. On one side, I can love art a lot, but on the other I hardly understand any of it. ...

Evil scheming (or just finding a place to live)

Monday, August 25th, 2008

My friend Bram and me have been planning to move for a while now. Not like moving in with each other, just in the same area if that's possible. As soon as I get a stable income we can put such plans into action, and since that won't take too ...

Dead Can Dance

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Whenever I want to completely get lost in dreams, Dead Can Dance is very nice music to play. This is one of my favourite songs (although there are other jewels too). [audio:the_spiders_stratagem.mp3] (See post to listen to audio)