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Saturday, May 29, 2004
So, the "avond vier daagse" is over. Four evenings where you walk a route of 5, 10 or 15 km. The first and last night they passed us - first night was rather harmless...but the last night!!! Man, with bands and samba dancers and... *moan* ...I took some pictures and suddenly realises how much I want a Canon Ixus 500 camera. Maybe I should wish for financial contributions for my up-coming birthday? --- Tomorrow it's STRAATFESTIVAL again. The inner part of Leeuwarden is turned into a big weaved carpet of theater/music acts. I bet it's going to be quite something - just like last year. And I will bring my camera! --- We got the ticket for Denmark from SAS now. We'll be leaving from Schiphol 21st June. Around €350 for the both of us. That's the same as if we took the train! The airplane prices certaintly dropped the last few years! I'm looking forward to be able to use only a few hours of transport instead of the usual 13 hours (by train). Germany might have a beautiful countryside, but when you pass it for the 12th time, it suddenly seem less breathtaking....if you know what I mean. And I'm SO looking forward to see all my Danish friends again! *kiss* *** - | posted by Tommy on 1:28 AM ---ooo--- Friday, May 21, 2004 Just wanted to congratulate my good friend Rikke with her new (and second) auntship - I know how much she loves that first niece of hers, so that there now is a second will only improve their lives - AND Rikkes! I'm posting this here, since I mysteriously can't comment at Rikkes blog. *** - | posted by Tommy on 3:16 PM ---ooo--- I got myself a new CD. A while ago I looked through some of my old stuff I had dragged along from Copenhagen to here. Among that I found this weird cartoon book I bought in a bar a few years ago. A really cool little piece. Studying it a little further it turned out to be created by an artist collective called Twang. I wanted to found out more about this collective, so I checked out the internet and found that they had created this CD - Enado - a few years ago. I finally got it - together with the 32 page inlay with more stories (one for each track). Twang is cool! The CD contains a mix of many styles from Electronica to hard rock... Now Tobi Twang has make a new record under the name DJ Legba "dj legba - electronica compilation". I'm thinking about getting it. It even got a decent review... --- Right now I'm in love with The Dandy Warhols. I knew I should have checked them out way earlier, but I never really came around to do it. So now I'm making amends by listening to a rotation of four of their five albums. *** - | posted by Tommy on 11:24 AM ---ooo--- OK, it seems that the next step on the reality ladder has been reached. In Singapore they have created the new "Make a baby" concept - a show called: Dr Love's Super Baby Making Show. 10 couples compeat in being the first to procreate. The problems from Big Brother in making people have sex on tv (even though it happened in ao. The Netherlands and Denmark) seem to have been surpassed in this concept. The "Bio-communication" guru, Wei Shang Yu (www.meggpower.com) says that he doesn't think it will contain any pornography - "It's about conception, not about birth" he adds. Slightly conflicting statesments? Oh, I forgot to says what the grand prize is: $100,000 AND a baby! *** - | posted by Tommy on 10:46 AM ---ooo--- Tuesday, May 11, 2004 For those who are intersted in the more lyric sides of the internet's functions. Blather is words. bunches of words, strewn about in a twisty tangly web of pontification, insight and nonsensical delight. I found several quotes I could recognize from other media. F.ex. under "Lady" I found this piece from the movie "Almost Famous" where Penny Lane says to William when she finally reveals that her real name is Lady Goodman: ""marry someone grand...and that's why she named me Lady. Lady Goodman" *** - | posted by Tommy on 9:10 AM ---ooo--- Monday, May 10, 2004 R's birthday is done now. We had a flower power themed party called "Temple of Love" - complete with Ravi Shankar and Summer of Love music + a home-made curtain made of straws. Indian food was on the menu and I got some new recipes that will stay on my repertoire like potato-curry, Jamie Oliver curry and banana/chili-dip. Yum! My milk allergi of course is totally out of control after an evening like this, but it was definately worth it. Now it's back to the study books - I'm still struggling with the dutch language and a party like we had this saturday only spurs me to get it learned faster. It is hard for me to understand dutch when many speak at the same time, and even harder when I'm being tested in my language skills too ("do you know this or that expression?"). --- We bought a new lamp the other day which I simply couldn't resist buying when we saw it in the lamp shop downtown. It's made to look like a fly, and that is accomplished with a few materials of which the tea maker is the most prominent. Ckeck it out here - it's created by Sigi Bussinger. Be sure to check out the love story (requires Flash)! --- I got done with the newest addition to our PS2 collection Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II. It's a very cool game with great graphics, humour, level design and environmental design. It also has a pretty steep learning curve, so it doesn't take more than one try or two before the options in the game becomes obvious. BUT...it has a re-playability around zero. It simply becomes boring to re-play with another character. It also lacks a better differentiation between the three different play modes (easy, normal, hard). All in all: I loved it...until I wanted to play it again. *** - | posted by Tommy on 2:37 PM ---ooo--- |
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