I don't like Mondays

Sorry for the lack of posting, but I'm swamped today at work! In the weekend I've been enjoying the sun, and figured I'd post at work as usual, but my collegue is on leave, leaving me with everything!

There's been a million calls, a million passport and visa applications, unexplainable bills, a missing person, and to top it all of the alarm is messed up and keeps beeping every 30 seconds. Fun!

I haven't been able to relax and read all your blogs once! I'm getting seriously behind on the stories.

What a crappy Monday! I'm going to be absolutely knackered tonight. Also I forgot to bring my laptop charger :( noooo will be a long boring trainride of two hours. Working life is hard! When people say college is the best time of your life, they are pretty much right. So much free time! All I have now is the weekend and 20 days off a year, which is pretty low compared to several months in college. Life as an adult sure is hard. But at least I have money.

If you're still in college, enjoy it while it lasts! It will be over before you know it, and then it's working until you're retired. And the way things are going, we'll probably be working till 70. Fun! I might be a little less enthousiastic over the phone by then.

Oh night out was fun by the way, although I forgot how insanely smokey the bars in Gent are, and I didn't get to dance :( Friends of friend kept taking us to boring bars. How dissapointing!

Friends will be friends

It's so hard to find a really good friend, the kind of friend who you can have a blast with but who also be there to pick up the phone and listen to your distress or who will go drinking with you when you really really need a drink.
You learn very quickly that some friend are not willing to go through much trouble for you. Like an Irish quotation I once read in a pub, to some people, "friends in need are a bloody nuisance".
Unfortunately many friends I've had were not the supportive kind. Especially as a teenager, which was a rather difficult phase in life for me, friends were mostly just there for the fun. Support went as far as a pat on the back and saying "you'll be ok", or "well that's awful, but you'll get over it!". I guess many people have difficulties in knowing what to say to help friends feel better, they just get awkward and mumble something and RUN AWAY! Monthy Python and the Holy Grail-style.
I think I understand now though, a lot of people just don't know what to say or how to help when someone is going through something they don't understand or can't relate to at all.

Luckily, some friends know exactly what to do, and those are the keepers, the ones you can count on and won't make you feel like you're a bit mad in the head and you really should get over it already and please not talk about it.
I've got a great friend right now, who is always there to pick up the phone, who threatens to hack off mean people's thingies off with her archeological instruments if they're not nice to me, and who is more than willing for an alcoholic night when needed!
In fact, we're having one tonight! Hooray! Looking forward to it very much, been having a few tough weeks, so I really need to let my hair down a bit! We're going to a well-known bar in Gent, my college city, with a few other people, for drinking and dancing. I loooove dancing! If the music isn't crap anyway. No techno crap! Will be wearing my pretty going-out dress, the one that magically makes my boobs look twice as large, hooray for that!

Of course I also have other good friends :), like my old friend who although slightly out of touch now, used to cheer me up by just making me laugh my ass off over the phone. He had no idea how to deal with emotions, so he made up for it by being hilarious. Worked great for me! Talking about sad things just makes you even more sad really, laughing is the cure!

I hope I get to meet more friends like that, they're priceless.

Enjoy your weekend!

Bucket list

The whole blogworld seems to be doing these lately, so I thought I shouldn't be left behind and join in the bucket list parade. Also I'm going mad here at work doing the accounts and I can't think of anything profound to write about, also my head hurts :p so trivial post it is! I'll try and keep the list within the range of the possible. How about ten things I'd like to achieve by the time I'm thirty. Which is 6.3 more years, loads of time.

1. Go on a trip to Australia for lots of exploring and see wild kangaroes! Also meet up at last with my Australian friend in Perth

2. Find a place to take singing classes and take it up again, as I used to really love going as a teen

3. Move out of parents house, either alone or with someone (the latter is preferable, all alone is all alone really, unless I get a cat or something.. but a cat doesn't help with the rent or other things :D!)

4. Have a great someone to spend life with

5. Adopt a pet of my very own, preferably a dog as I grew up with dogs and love them, but a kitty to sleep on my lap would be great too. Let's say I get both! Even better.

6. Visit Saint Petersburg in Russia, which is said to be beautiful, and speak in Russian to lots of Russian people. Hopefully I will not have forgotten all the Russian I studied by then.

7.Save up for a nice house with a decent garden for hopefully late twenties

8.Get proposed to (I'm counting on you, the men in the world, to make this happen)

9.Find a lovely house after saving up, in which I will put a giant book closet, Beauty and the Beast style, filled with all my books.

10.Have a baby

Alright this is the list, I know lots of cliché settling down items, but I guess I'm just overly romantic that way. No clue if it will turn out that way, previous future fantasies have definately not always become reality. But that's the way of life. Like John Lennon once said: Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

Oh, and speaking of bucket lists, the movie "the bucket list" with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson is great! Very funny, sad and touching all at the same time, gem of a film. If you're into non-commercial films, check it out, you might really enjoy it.

The child within

If you were born in the late 80's like me, you did most of your growing up during the 90's. Thanks to my great memory I can recall lots of childhood memories, so I thought today I'd share some, as I don't have any deep blogging ideas at the moment. But random can be fun too!




As a child I looooved to watch cartoons and disney films. That tv madness has continued throughout my life and I still looove tv. I'm not going to bore you with Belgian cartoons I watched, as most of you are from the US you wouldn't know most of them. Except maybe the Simpsons, hugely popular while I was in primary school. Thanks to the Simpsons I had a good basic knowledge of English when I had English classes for the first time. It is where my profound love for the English language started. "Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart, I dooooo." Yup I watched it a looooot :p Ah tv, the great educator.

My main childhood toy, before teenagehood, was of course Barbie. I'm sure many of you also have fond memories of playing with your barbies. I used to invite my friends over and we'd all play in the attic and act out stories. My friends were often frustrated with me because of my flair for the drama. Acting out perfect lives bored me, I needed me some action and drama and bloodshed! I still have memories of playing single mother, in love, but my o my the boyfriend was also the boyfriend of all the single mothers of the street, a man who lusted after easy prey. Or I'd make my friends be poor and let their children be taken away by the child services! Or I'd accidentally get my friend's barbie in a car crash or have their poor child drown. Yup I liked some crazyness. I didn't have any Kens, so I used my brother's action mans as husband or evil seductors. Unfortunately the actions mans tended to have an unusual look, one had a gun stuck in his hand, one was a military dude, one was a ninja. One of my friends was totally freaked out by ninja action man, because the eyes moved, she felt like he was possessed. Totally hilarious, I used to chase her with it.
I also had a baby doll with her eyes permanently closed, so I played the baby was blind. Fun!
The last barbie I bought was at 12, there were suddenly all these new types of barbies and I just had to have some before at 13 barbies were deemed uncool and playing with them when in secondary school was not done :D I also remember that in the later barbie years the stories me and friends were acting out started getting a little sexual, very funny to remember, I guess it was the hormones and the curiosity appearing. Hey, better to act out sex with barbies than what then actually already doing it as many young teens nowadays. At least we were still kids.

My favourite music in the 90's? I must admit it was:

Yup, I looooved the Spice Girls, all the girls did at 11-12 years of age. We performed rehearsed danceacts on the playground, I was Baby Spice. I wanted to be Ginger Spice, but everyone said I should be Baby because I was all sweet and sugary and poneytaily too. Sigh! Labels even at that age!
I'm sure loads of you secretly loved the Spice Girls too. "I tell you what I want, what I really really want.." Go on, you know the rest ;)

As a young teenager the computer era suddenly came into existence. Yes, I'm old enough to have known non-computer days! Wow. I think I was about 12 when my parents got our first computer.
I spent many many many hours on it playing:

And when I say many hours, I really do mean many many many. Me and my friend spent an entire summer going back and forth to each other's house playing the sims. I still remember our parents saying "It's sunny outside, go play outside." "NO, siiiiims!!"
Yes, very addictive. What isn't fun about playing God and be in charge of fake humans. Making them have jobs, children, lovelifes..until everything was perfect. Now, as perfect stories tend to bore me, I sometimes had the idea of "what would happen if I let him swim and take away the ladder.. or remove the door and let him fire a toy rocket..or prevent the child service lady from getting the screaming baby by removing all doors.." mwhaha

I recently saw they made a whole new sims, the Sims Medieval. It said it was totally different, with quests and everything. You're in charge of a monarch at first and you need to build up a kingdom and do quests, and the more you do the more new characters you unlock and can be in charge of, OOoooOO. Suddenly my inner child was awakened, I just had to play it. Unfortunately games costs a fortune now, so I did the evil deed of illegally downloading the game. After a lot of confusion trying to figure out the crack, I made it work! Only got to play it for very short due to the need to get to bed early, but it's looking fun! I'll probably get bored of it in a few weeks, just as what happened when I had another childhood fallback when the Sims 2 came out, but right now I can't wait to get home to play it! weee

"Scandal on Steroids... Well in this case.. Viagra"

Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is under a lot of "heat" right now, as former model Patrizia D'Addario claims she was paid by Berlusconi to attend his private parties (aka 'sexcapades'). She was apparently one of the 32 women involved in the scandolous act. In a response to the allegations, Berlusconi retorts with, ''Behind Patrizia D'Addario is someone who is out to get me and she (Patrizia) has been paid well, they have a deliberate campaign against me." Despite the fact that the 42-year-old 'vixen' supposedly has video and audio from the parties, he still stays strong to his word. There is not much in this 74-year-old's favor though, especially now that a businessman in Bari, Giampaolo Tarantini, is being investigated for being associated with the alleged prostitutions. Giampaolo is accused of delivering the goods (AKA the women) to Berlusconi's house, but he says he simply reimbursed them for their time and travel. Also, two months ago, his wife divorced him, claiming that his attraction to younger women was unhealthy for their relationship. She brought to light incidents like her husband attending an 18-year-old's birthday party in Naples, when he didn't even attend his own children's. Well isn't that convenient for this story. Either Mr. Prime Minister is lying through his teeth, or D'Addario is taking advantage of all of these factors, and making herself a strong case. However, the fact that the Prime Minister is suggesting she is getting paid off to create a stir could hold strong because as we all know, things like this have been done before. Surprisingly (speaking sarcasm), D'Addario denies all allegations made against her (fueling the fire, of course, making for a GREAT story). Essentially, no one is fessing up to ANYTHING.

But wait, you can't have a TRULY successful scandal without a little bit of namedropping. Not just any names, but people like George Clooney and Cristiano Ronaldo as being a part of the fun. Apparently, Clooney was named as a witness because he was seen at one of the parties with his girlfriend. Clooney responds to this by saying, "It seems odd since I've only met Berlusconi once and that was in an attempt to get aid into Darfur." Smart, George. Very smart to use a third world country in your defense. I believe him, though. TEAM CLOONEY! Cristiano Ronaldo, however, has yet to make any claims about the situation.

A shot of happiness

Yes, that there is me! On the beach in Oostende, enjoying a beautiful summer night. It's one of my favorite pics with me in it, because it's a shot of me in a happy carefree moment. My boyfriend took the shot then, two years ago nearly. My life was pretty perfect at that moment and it shows in how happy I'm skipping across the sand with the wind in my hair. It's great how pictures can capture a perfect moment. That's why I love photography, I'm not an expert at it, but I love going through old photo albums and remembering all those moments caught on camera. Moments that will never come back again, but thanks to those pictures always remembered.

So right now I'm going to show you a little collection of some of my favourite great moments pictures (that are on my computer, I'm too lazy for childhood photo scanning right now :p hey it's weekend, at least I'm posting something :p) As the pictures are a bit big, you'll have to click on them to see them in full :)

That's a pretty old picture of me as a teenager, just 17 I was. My mom took it, I remember the garden had lots of flowers that year, and outdoors shots are always so much prettier. And I do love flowers, later I want a big garden with lots of them. I was wearing one of my favourite outfits, I got that outfit for a special occasion (my brother's confirmation I think) and I just loved the romantic feel of it. I like that sort of thing. And well I always thought it was a lovely shot of me as a romantic naive dreamy teenager.

This is a picture I took myself of my beautiful Ireland. I took this in Renvyle, Connemara, which is deep in the countryside of western Ireland. At that moment I was at the beach, sun was going down, and the view just took my breath away. Ireland has some lovely beaches, not hot and Caribbean like , but with islands in the distance, mountains in the background, silvery sand and so quiet and peaceful. I think this picture shows that feeling.

Paris by night. In 2009 I went to Paris with my boyfriend, and it was so perfect and romantic, although freezing cold. February is not the right time to go to Paris people :p Although it's nice to keep each other warm :) Saw some beautiful things and got a beautiful ring under the Eifel tower for Valentine's day. Pretty amazing. Will always remember it.

Here's one on a trip to Italy two years ago nearly in summer. We happened to stumble on an archeological site whilst driving around, and this weird tunnel-like spot really intrigued me. It felt like I was suddenly in a fantasy place on a dark quest. It was really special. I love this shot of me being all ooooOOooh this is cool. Although Rome and Florence were stunning cities, and loved seeing them for real, this was kinda my favorite spot of the whole trip :)

That's it for today. Hope you liked my random pics, and enjoy your Sunday!

Perfect Couples Season 1 Episode 10 - Perfect Exes - March 31, 2011

The invitation of the bride to her old guys stir a few controversy in Perfect Couples Season 1 Episode 10 - Perfect Exes last Thursday, March 31, 2011. And guess what, her groom made a special appearances in front of them but showing a few doubt about the decision of his partner. Aside from that, he lately discover the entire thing which bring an extra twist on him.

For more, here's the synopsis of the last Thursday evening episode of another NBC's comedy series that gave us a funny moments as the couple are now busy preparing for their upcoming wedding celebration.

"Vance (David Walton) bonded with the ex-boyfriends of Amy (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) as he found out that she invited them to attend their very special day. But he start to worry because he might be become one of these guys soon. In the other side, Rex (Hayes MacArthur) found out that Leigh (Olivia Munn) kept her ex-boyfriends file and tried to check each of these important details about them. Julia (Christine Woods) as well Dave (Kyle Bornheimer) tied up in some loose ends as they helped Vance and Amy in preparation for their wedding."

These are the most exciting part of the story that awaits you and if you missed to catch it recently on NBC, visit the official website of the show for replay announcements. You can watch the promotional YouTube video of the show for preview or see the available reviews and recaps for more.

Join us every week as we continue to bring you the highlights and next upcoming episodes of Perfect Couples after of this break.