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It's been so warm for at least a week now. I haven't slept very well because of this heat and certain behaviour of nice ground-floor neighbours *sarcastic*. So whenever I can, I open all the windows h...
Continue reading: Scots Barn Dance here...
I meant to write a follow-up about Beck's Canvas exclusive preview party last week but I found myself being busy redesigning the gloves online shop which seems to be a much bigger design project than ...
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Last Monday I was on the phone for two hours with my aunt in the Lowlands, she is my friend, my 'mother', my mirror. We always seem to have deep conversations about life and lessons to learn. That day...
Continue reading: Reflection here...
The weather has been pants for a few days now: I've had thunderstorms and vertical rain. I don't really mind because I don't have to go anywhere and have been extremely busy sorting out chores that ha...
Continue reading: Mental Detour here...
I received an invitation last night from Barbara and one a while ago from Inci, both good friends and both (ex)student Graphic Design at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam where I used to work. I can't...
Continue reading: Beck's Canvas here...
'The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.'
Wilson Mizner
I went to the Summer Fair yesterday and was extremely disappointed about the whole thing. I thought i...
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Matters from the heart today...
I received a lovely email last night from a sweet and very talented fellow blogger and friend: Ismoyo. We met up earlier this year when she came to London to work on h...
Continue reading: Sentuh Hatiku here...
There's a distance of 6100+ kilometres between our two worlds and on a good day like today there is no such thing as time, space, limitations, borders, laws, regulations, worldly matters, continental,...
Continue reading: Eternity here...
I've met up with my friend Karin yesterday. We've known each other for quite some time but while I was still living in the Lowlands she decided to move to London at some point, came back to the Lowlan...
Continue reading: Networking Images here...
If you wonder where I've been... Well besides being busy I had to come to terms with a few issues so I needed time to reflect. Things have been slightly rough again lately or perhaps they still were: ...
Continue reading: Nature's Wonders here...
I received a gift from a sweetheart this morning when I woke up, one that made me smile from ear to ear! All the way from MI... The softest white fuzzy blanket you can imagine. A blanket that clings t...
Continue reading: Icing On The Cake here...
A while ago, I think it's about two years, I registered with a Lowland version of something similar to Friends Reunited here in the UK. It's a website to find childhood friends again, I registered jus...
Continue reading: Juggling Words here...
I'm still recovering from an intense Easter Sunday so I'm not sure if what I will write in my post will make any sense. I guess I shouldn't even try... Yesterday I went over to Maurice and Warren's to...
Continue reading: Easter Eggs here...
I've noticed something a while ago and have been thinking whether I should write a post about this or not but it has been on my mind for some time and I would like to hear other people's opinion as we...
Continue reading: A Thought [or Three]... here...
I think I'm addicted... to games and coffee... You see, I have this new game and I have to play it each and every day for an hour or more. It's relaxing in a way although I still need to use my brain ...
Continue reading: I'm Addicted here...
I've been hanging out with Stuart Friday last week and yesterday which was fun. Yesterday we spent half the day walking around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Covent Garden and China Town. We went to Tu...
Continue reading: Mac vs PC here...
To some they might be scary but I have loved them ever since I was a kid. He has stolen my heart the day I ran into him and his little mate and not just because he was in my favourite colour. He was a...
Continue reading: Mouzy here...
I spent xMas at Maurice and Warren's this year and had a great time. I went over at 14.00 and met Stuart [no not the Stuart] who arrived shortly after me and who was there for dinner as well, an ex-co...
Continue reading: xMas [2007] here...
Today I received a most wonderful surprise from a most wonderful person. A parcel delivered to my door with a beautiful message and non-bitter, macho and orange/chilli contents... I was happy and exc...
Continue reading: Sweetest Sweetness here...
[edited version 28/10/07]
Complaints:
I haven't been feeling well for five weeks. It started the day after Maurice his birthday and back then I thought it was a stomach bug so I didn't think much of i...
Continue reading: Three Days In Hospital here...
This week has been hectic so far and I will be happy when it's Friday night and I will be asleep. Just too much going on at the moment. I promised Paul to test his project for him last Monday and Tues...
Continue reading: Short Update here...
I had to get up early but couldn't because I was still tired from staying up half the night while I should've been in bed asleep. But I had more important things to do than sleep so the night owl in m...
Continue reading: Birthday Maurice here...
I have a hangover today... (what's new hey?!) I was invited for dinner last night by Maurice and Warren. I was also invited over the weekend but wasn't feeling too well so I decided to stay home and s...
Continue reading: Home Early... here...
I can be a stats [to those who aren't familiar with this word, it is short for statistics] freak at times... Just out of curiosity, because I'd like to see where my visitors come from. Lately from all...
Continue reading: A Post About You! Yes You... here...
I'm so hungover I need at least a week to recover, I should cut the crap really and stick to lemonade instead of booze. I know I sound like some moron alcoholic but trust me I ain't. It's just that I ...
Continue reading: The Fool here...
I wasn't pissed... honestly!
I was in trance!...
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Continue reading: Cockney vs Amsterdams here...
What a diff'rence a day makes
Twenty-four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain
~Dinah Washington
I seem to be in some kind of vacuum after my visit to the Lowland...
Continue reading: The Pleasure Of Mini Rice Tables here...
It's Wednesday and I'm still feeling tired and drained, I think I haven't had enough sleep last week; going to bed late and getting up early. I have a cold since Monday, I'm trying to fight it: I don'...
Continue reading: Maid Of Honor here...
It's Saturday morning, the day of the wedding. I have to get ready in a while so I won't be writing a long post. Yesterday morning I met up with Christiaan at 'De Prins' to have a chat with him, a per...
Continue reading: Wedding Day here...
Things have been hectic for two days and I was really tired last night [Wednesday] when I came home, I didn't feel like writing. I just went straight to bed asap to catch up on sleep... So I will try ...
Continue reading: Busy busy Bee... here...
I tried to get up early this morning but I seemed to be as quick as the speed of a really, really slow snail; it took me ages to get ready. I reckon it had to do with the fact that it was pissing down...
Continue reading: Pampering here...
It feels great to be back in the Lowlands... when I arrived at the airport yesterday it was raining but Dutch rain never felt this good before and it's so totally different from English rain, I swear!...
Continue reading: I'm Here! [or there...] here...
It's been a bit quiet on here lately: I haven't written anything since last Thursday when I found out about the recent infestation of Dutch caterpillars in London... I haven't written much since then ...
Continue reading: Meeting Of Minds here...
I received the wedding announcement a while ago but forgot to put it online. I have designed it, created the artwork and send it off to the Lowlands to have it printed there. I'm happy with the result...
Continue reading: Bold Print here...
I have no respect for lies and dishonesty. I don't understand why people feel the need to lie to each other no matter what kind of degree of lying, there is in my opinion no such thing as a white lie,...
Continue reading: Deceit here...
I didn't sleep for two nights in a row. I know it would've been better if I had, especially after being seriously ill for a whole week. Monday -last week- I decided to work on my website and once I'll...
Continue reading: Live... here...
I have been invited by Kimm to come over and spent Queensday at the usual spots, Vondelpark and Cafe The Soundgarden but it would've been a last minute [therefore an expensive] decision. I wasn't real...
Continue reading: Hollandse Gezelligheid [Dutch Pleasantness] here...
Things are still a bit weird although he is there for me when things do get rocky and I am there for him when he has a bad day like yesterday... [Yes, he has really really bad days too, it takes two t...
Continue reading: Rocky here...
It's almost amusing to notice how people tend to back away from you when something 'bad' happens in your life. It almost seems like you're not allowed to feel sad, depressed, moody or any other, by so...
Continue reading: Appreciation here...
I've been invited by C. to another event organised by a client of the Times [where she works]. No Christies auction this time but a photography preview. So I will be ready for another evening of too ...
Continue reading: A Private View here...
How to fit your life into 21[+] categories? Well manually, one by one... It took me about three days to assign each post [638 by now] to a category. There is no other way to do this with Movable Type,...
Continue reading: Squeeze A Bit here...
I'm still getting slightly frustrated by my last employer, well I reckon 'slightly' is quite an understatement really... I'm so happy I made the decision to quit the job and leave the country, it has ...
Continue reading: Stone Age Employer here...
Just got a call in from Tjalling, Carla is at his place, the huge river barge in Amsterdam West where she will be pampered with the finest care possible... I'm happy for both of them. The headaches ar...
Continue reading: Update Carla here...
I feel like I'm on some emotional rollercoaster lately. One moment I'm fine and the next I'm not. Reading other people's blogs is a nice way to distract myself from the madness that is going on and to...
Continue reading: Jeez here...
I've called Carla this afternoon, although she is off the machines and off the morphine, she didn't sound right to me... She asked me to spell something and repeated it after me making spelling mistak...
Continue reading: Right or Wrong? here...
It's time for some bubbles, congratulations Stuart on the launch of your new website!!! [Take me there -->]
[Use your mouse and click the bubbles, before you start and get addicted, better set your v...
Continue reading: Bubbles! here...
I just called Tjalling in Amsterdam, he told me Carla is off the machines *finally* and moved to a different section of the hospital. The surgery went well last Friday, they were able to narrow a bloo...
Continue reading: Update on Upgrade here...
It's one of those days again... I'm feeling slightly stressed because there's too much going on. My friend is still in hospital and I'm waiting for Tjalling to give me a call about her condition. They...
Continue reading: One of Those Days here...
When we came home tonight I received a phone call from Tjalling, telling me that my friend Carla is in hospital with something that resembles a stroke [that makes two].
She is still conscious but in...
Continue reading: Life here...
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~Immanuel Kant
I've been exchanging emails with J. again lately, she's my personal guide at times. Whenever I have issues she will be right t...
Continue reading: Quest here...
I finally finished uploading all the pictures for the gallery, that's why I didn't publish this post earlier, so here it is... [the link to see the gallery is all the way at the bottom of this post]
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Continue reading: Science Museum here...
I've received a really cool letter from the Lowlands yesterday! Awesome! It came from my ex colleague [Gerrit Rietveld Academy] and friend Christiaan. I can't explain what it means to me because some ...
Continue reading: The Letter here...
Carla called, she packed A.'s jeans in her suitcase... I don't think they will fit her
She asked me to design their wedding announcement card and of course I said yes. I'm going to be busy... but a ...
Continue reading: Announcement here...
I have been seriously ill over the weekend, I reckon it was the side effect of the flu vaccination that I got earlier. So I ended up having a terrible cold which then turned into a nice sinus infectio...
Continue reading: New Year's here...
Hi all,
may what you see in the mirror delight you, and what others see in you delight them. May someone love you enough to forgive your faults, be blind to your blemishes, and tell the world about y...
Continue reading: Happy 2007! here...
I was on the phone with Carla tonight, she needed my personal info to arrange her wedding next year since I will be her bridesmaid, when the neighbour rang the door bell to tell A. that he accepted hi...
Continue reading: We Have a House! here...
13 Seems to be my lucky number/day; Carla called me this evening and announced that she and Tjalling are going to get married next year, now isn't that great?!!! I'm so happy for them. And then she as...
Continue reading: Maid Of Honour here...
Carla called earlier, she got a really cool pressie; a laptop with a webcam! Guess what we'll be doing some day soon?! ...
Continue reading: Carla here...
Jeez, I have been faffing half the day because I screwed up some stupid script. Basically I was just too blind to see the mistake that I made and to be honest I still don't know how a little bit of 'g...
Continue reading: Leprechauns here...
We went for a walk in the forest. I guess I've never seen that many mushrooms, all sorts of colors and shapes, have a look yourself and go here.
[If you'd like to see more pictures of Funghi please s...
Continue reading: Sunday, Bournemouth here...
Been working most of the day on a template for Inci. I got all of it working but had to install some plugins to make sure that she didn't have to change certain areas of her Movable Type blog in the n...
Continue reading: Admire Me!!! here...
The mailman has been good to me today; all these wonderful parcels!!!
First I received a parcel at the door from Christiaan with a really really cool gadget in it, thank you again Christiaan!!! It's ...
Continue reading: Sweet Mailman here...
C. invited me to a party tonight, a farewell party for a -now- ex-colleague of the Times. We would take the bus so C. would come over to ours. Because she was running a bit late I. brought her over an...
Continue reading: Horror Night Wasted here...
We celebrated C.'s birthday yesterday at Royal China, Canary Wharf. The food was absolutely delicious! Here are a few pictures... Btw, it's me balancing those two peas, I did three too but A. wasn't q...
Continue reading: Birthday Chris here...
I've found him again... We lost contact for some time and the other day when I was downloading stuff from a Hotline server, we ran into each other and had a Hotline chat for a while. It was totally co...
Continue reading: Benito here...
We were supposed to go to Marianne and Steve for the weekend and have a BBQ and huge bonfire. But we both don't feel very well, just a bit ill. Must be a slight cold or something, don't know... They w...
Continue reading: Not... here...
I hereby declare that the picture which can be found here, has been taken by my dear colleague and friend Alex Barbaix. Look Alex... here's a picture of you, at my goodbye party, taken by Joyce...
Hi...
Continue reading: To Alex here...
Gosh, I didn't realise it's been a while since I've posted. We've been extremely busy doing fun things and now I'm tired of doing fun things and would love to sleep for hours... Well I can't because I...
Continue reading: London Bridge here...
We met up with Steve and Marianne and the girls today. It was really nice to seem them again. We met up at the Natural History Museum and had a lovely time there. Amazing building, so beautiful! And a...
Continue reading: Natural History Museum here...
I took the bus today which was cool! It took about 45 minutes to get to Oxford Street where we were supposed to go shopping. It's cool to be in a London double decker, it's the perfect way to do some ...
Continue reading: Oxford Street here...
I called Carla today and my aunt. Both are doing well and I'm very pleased to hear that!!! Been on the phone for two hours and a half. I hope A. won't mind me racking up the phone bill... I just need ...
Continue reading: Phone Calls here...
I finally sorted them out and put a few online... It's impossible to show them all because there are too many [only three memory sticks of 512Mb, had to buy a new one while we were in Vis on Vis Islan...
Continue reading: Croatia 2006 Piccies here...
Hi dear friends,
it has been a very hectic time and I would like to thank each of you for helping me, supporting me and being there for me! I wish I could've seen each of you personally but that was ...
Continue reading: We're Here! here...
Well, I guess this will be my last entry for now. Things have been hectic and I will be happy if it's all over. Tomorrow evening I will hang out at the Irish pub with some of my friends and ex colleag...
Continue reading: Last Entry here...
We sold the car to Dina and Erico. It's better like this, selling my first car feels weird although we already have a Lexus in the UK waiting for us. Not sure, if it will replace my Red Monster becaus...
Continue reading: Car Sale here...
[See also previous post] Chantal told me about this so I Googled:
The Bambala, these missionaries found, regarded as special delicacies human flesh that had been buried for some days; also a large, t...
Continue reading: Cannibalism here...
Dina came over this morning at 10.00 to pick up one of the workbenches that are in the spare room. I took it apart but left the bottom bit because I wasn't sure if it could fit in the car. It would on...
Continue reading: Spree here...
Chantal sent me a really sweet email a while ago [in reply to the group email that I sent about the change of url] asking me if we could meet up before I would leave the country. I wasn't sure back th...
Continue reading: A Welcome Break here...
I allowed myself to use the internet for half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening. Just to relax a bit and write something on here or surf the net. I need my daily dosage of interne...
Continue reading: Half an Hour here...
I've met her through the store she used to be a customer there, a very special person who helped me find my path by passing on the messages from my ancestors and dad that were meant for me to listen t...
Continue reading: Lama here...
I received an invitation from Inci last week to come over to her place and have dinner or brunch. I had to check with A. what day and what time so we agreed on meeting up Sunday the 16th which was yes...
Continue reading: Brunch here...
I met up with Christiaan this morning at cafe Kale, which used to be one of my favourite pubs to have dinner or meet up with a friend. Time changed and so do pubs, it was not the pub that I used to go...
Continue reading: Coffee and Dinner here...
for your support; the flowers and the sushi! That was such a sweet gesture!!! xxx...
Continue reading: Thank You here...
I've been in bed since Wednesday afternoon because I have a high fever again. The moment my colleague came in I told him I had to leave straight away, go home and into bed. I cancelled my appointments...
Continue reading: Oh Well... here...
It's been a hectic day. I contacted my friends a few weeks ago and asked them to set a date because it has been about a year since I saw them [at my birthday party]. So I'm going to have dinner at Bar...
Continue reading: Girls Night here...
I had a bad day at work. Just the usual Monday annoyance. Rude and nagging people testing my patience. Trying to be kind and not let it get to you is a skill I tell ya! I normally just ignore the rema...
Continue reading: Silver Lining here...
Back into the land of the living. Well... almost. I had a bad cold and I finally feel a bit normal again. I have been in bed for about a week, feeling one moment freezing cold the next burning hot. Lu...
Continue reading: It's Oh So Quiet, Ssh Ssh here...
We missed our plane tonight due to circumstances and a witch at the airport... Actually 'witch' is an understatement but I won't start calling names here. I realise I did that before but I'm in a good...
Continue reading: Hilarious here...
This is going to be my last post from here. We had such a wonderful day, bright and shiny weather. We went out to the New Forest, brought bikes along on the roof and then went into the forest on our b...
Continue reading: Last Post here...
This morning we woke up by the sound of a little car driving on our bedroom door. It was Anya [5.5 years] playing... Her sister Talya [almost 9] told her not to play on our door because we could be as...
Continue reading: Wild horses and Woodpeckers here...
We're in Hampshire with Steve and Marianne and the children. Guess what, they've got wireless here, isn't that cool? We arrived early in Bournemouth yesterday. I had been faffing a bit to get ready so...
Continue reading: Saturday Morning here...
I can't sleep yet; I'm just not tired which sounds funny after 10 hours of hard work, so I guess it's okay to write a bit... I had a wonderful evening last night. A. came home earlier, I was about to ...
Continue reading: Friday the 13th, The Day After here...
We've watched these two movies today; Alexander and The Polar Express. Alexander was quite impressive, a movie that makes you think and wonder, cruel at times and also confusing if you don't know much...
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