Archive for the ‘Rants/Raves’ Category
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Wow, some things are too good to be true. Our big (no, huge) tomcat Yoda just came back home after he ran away about two months ago. I only saw a glimpse of him two weeks after that, but he just ran off again. We thought he was lost forever. ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
1 juli gaat bij mij de vlag uit. In mijn hoofd dan, niet op de voorgevel, want mijn ouders zijn kettingrokers. Net als mijn broertje, die hard op weg is beide ouders te verslaan. Zo trof ik hem laatst om drie uur 's nachts in een duistere huiskamer aan, het ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Ik was op het werk dus een beetje ingestort en ik had besloten om naar huis te gaan, want op het werk was ik even waardeloos. Stap ik in de tram, staan er twee van die halal-meisjes naast me. Je weet wel, het type 'gebrekkig nederlands, arrogante houding'. Van die ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
I honestly need a new alarm clock. As some people might know I have a few weeks off to take care of my brother, and part of that means getting up at 5 am to see him off to work (in case you're wondering: my brother is 21 but at ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Well over a month ago I ordered a Bluetooth GPS-receiver from the website navishop.nl, because I've got a PDA with TomTom navigation software and I want it to work properly. I decided to buy this offer for a Globalsat BT308 receiver, and it arrived within a week. It came with ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
You know the scene from Love Actually where Harry (Alan Rickman) tries to buy a gift for his secretary but meets a salesman (Rowan Atkinson) who takes so incredibly long with packing that Harry just has to leave it at the store?
Well yesterday I was buying a gift... first I ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Someone out there, either among my friends or among those who know my info through some other source, has ordered three dresses (size 36) at H&M for the amount of roughly EUR125,- and sent the bill directly to me. They picked it up on another adress, one of those pickup-points ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
In a little less than a week from now, I may acquire a new piece of freedom: my driver's license. Then again, I may not.
Somewhere along the road I seem to have convinced myself of the solid fact that I'm not going to pass this and I'm going to ...
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Ooit kon het me geen ruk schelen hoe ik eruit zag. Echt niet. Ik verzorgde mezelf toen natuurlijk ook wel enzovoort, maar of mijn shirt zwart of rood was maakte me niet uit. Of ik dik of dun was, een puist had of een gaaf gezicht, het kon me niet ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Gesproken taal en geschreven taal hebben een duidelijk verschil: het is veel moeilijker om subtiele bedoelingen, zoals sarcasme en ironie, uit te drukken op papier dan in gesproken taal. Een regel tekst mist bedoelde intonatie, gewicht, accentuering en pauzes. Je kunt het lezen zoals je wilt. Sinds gisteren is hierin ...
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