Thursday, November 30

Brucecloud

the regular visitor knew it was but a matter of time so here goes; three cheers for the new addition on the left that left; Brucecloud. Joy Joy Joy. What do you mean? Sarcasm? Moi? Honestly.

Well I must write something and surely no one wants to know how for not half a week, how for three blissful days I thought it was all over. How gladly I chose to believe that for the first time in over two years I was free , 100% not in love, rid of men and heartbreak and how yesterday not half an hour after professing my regained full senses and wits to the much beloved chocolate coach, I saw the much adored one and felt my knees grow weak again. All light in that day turned dark, all quiet breathing gone, all hope lost and a new well of tears sprung from my veins.

One more question; what is it about love that makes us write so clichématic?

Monday, November 27

Men Suck

First, not foremost I would like to must apologise to those (very few) men among my acquaintances to whom the title of this post does not apply.

Secondly, to all other humanoids of the male conviction: YOU SUCK. Is it so bloody difficult to be clear? And that is not a rhetorical question.

Thirdly for everyone that might be interested and that from the above typed out information has not drawn the conclusion that my might be a date originated as one but turned out to be something totally different was a disaster: the "date" was a catastrophe.

Friday, November 24

Blog Updates

Considering it's popularity and the difficulty I had in keeping it work properly the Bruceboard has been removed, very likely forever.

There's a new Zwinky. Observant visitors may have noticed occasional changes in outfit but now there is a whole new Zwinky. And be warned there will be more changes of which I may not always make note.

Thursday, November 23

WANTED

Lust for life.

Edit: This might have been helpful but a chat with the cooking coach two cups of tea and a speculaas sandwich did the trick faster and better. Three cheers for returning Tupperware items to their rightful owners.

Edit #2: This too might have been helpful, but having a collegue/friend call you to join in on a lefty sing-and-drink-evening which you orginally planned on going to but didn't because you didn't feel like ruining the evening with your miserable thoughts and gloomy outlook works as well.

Wednesday, November 22

Ceasefire II

Dear friends,

I just took an action on the internet calling for a stop to the war in Iraq, and I thought you might be interested…

From the Ceasefire Campaign:

Dear friends,

Over the last few days, almost 50,000 of us have supported the call for a new plan for Iraq! Thanks to you, our Iraq ad ran this week in major newspapers in London and Washington, DC, calling for a new diplomatic role for the international community and the withdrawal of Coalition forces from Iraq. Click below to see the ad and add your voice of support:

www.ceasefirecampaign.org

If you have not yet joined our call for a new direction in Iraq, please consider doing so at this crucial moment. Coalition governments are beginning to accept that there is no military solution, but they haven’t settled on what an alternative diplomatic approach looks like. With hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths already in Iraq, we cannot afford to miss this chance to demand a new course. Your voice could make a difference over the coming week.

Click below to see our ad and join the campaign for a new direction in Iraq:

www.ceasefirecampaign.org

With hope,

Ricken, Ben, Rachel, Paul, Tom, Amparo and the Ceasefire Campaign Team

Monday, November 20

Culinary Orgasm

Among the items sent from the home based family that I have just retrieved from checkpoint Tulsa was a small well packed parcel with two minuscule morsels of something my youngest sister to whom we shall from now forth refer to as Beibei baked. I know not it's name but it was just perfect. I would describe it in as little words as possible as caramel fudge with cafè latte icing. What did I need a boyfriend for again?

The bad news of today is nobody noticed my new hairstyle. Nor the hyper cute retro barrette that the coiffeuse so generously lent me until I have shopped some of my own. Bugger.

Bret Easton Ellis

Co-editor of the student's club magazine has -upon my continual request for some good book titles and names of authors worth reading- suggested Bret Easton Ellis.
When last I went to the library (about a week ago), while strolling through the English literature section, I came accross aforementioned writer of whom you see a picture on the left the other left and took home the informers and the rules of attraction. Neither of which I have completed reading. I can say however that the influence of Bret is visible if not readable in my dear collegue's work.

Saturday, November 18

Stop smiling at me

How can I bear it?
You smile.
And there's a twinkle in your eye.
How do I bear it?
How have I survived 'til now?

I swear I don't know, but I hate falling in love all over again.

Friday, November 17

Names I like

Names for my future daughters and sons:

Andreas, Angua, Annabeth, Arutha, Athena Nikè, Aurelia, Baruch, Beëlzebub, Blodwyn,Cinnamuna, Engel, Ephebe, Faramir, Florens, Friedrich, Galadriël, Havelock, Hera, Heroïn, Leizhu, Montague, Ophelia, Rein, Satan, Sebastian, Sfinx, Thorvald, Thyme, Werther, Wodan, Wolfgang, Xiang, Yume





Monday, November 13

Zwinky

And the newest addition is... Zwinky!!!

As I write the zwinky you see is "100% ME".

For those who do not know me in real life, that's what I look like. More accurately it's what I would look like if I was 5 inch taller, weighed 20 pounds less and had an unlimited shopping budget. In short it's what I would like to look like.

Sunday, November 12

Update #2

The idiot *ahum* handsome youngman responsible, has apologised and removed me from Planet Ugent. I've but one or two more list to copy/paste from a now near useless blog and I've started knitting a scarf in salmon pink wool. Life really isn't too bad. Well it is a little bad. But I'll tell you about that later.

P.S. Has anybody noticed how good I've become at adding links in text?

Nail Polish

They say it's amazing how much nail polish I have. The most amazing part is I haven't bought any new since this list was completed on january 26 of this year.

  1. Nivea Beauté pastel power 96 pastel rose
  2. Nivea Beauté colour dynamite 707 sugar kiss
  3. Cosmo Girl dark fuchsia
  4. Crystal VOV silver
  5. Crystal VOV poison black
  6. Rhétorique 103 light green
  7. Yssa Beau 31 gold
  8. Rimmel 60 seconds nail polish 872 climax purple
  9. Astor 60 sec one coat 320 fuchsia
  10. Création Lamis 11 blue
  11. Constance caroll diamond gloss 137 emerald
  12. Constance caroll diamond gloss 24 electric blue
  13. Constance caroll diamond gloss 172 seacrest
  14. Exotic glow 15 see-through shine
  15. Exotic glow 10 blood red
  16. Only You 014 orange
  17. Only You 119 barbie pink
  18. Only You Mini lime
  19. Only You Mini starry night
  20. Only You Mini babyblue
  21. Only You Mini pink glitz
  22. Only You Mini peach
  23. Only You Mini nightgreen
  24. Miss Helen purple glitz
  25. Miss Helen rusty red
  26. Miss Helen orange see-through shine
  27. Miss Helen turquoise glitz
  28. Miss Helen silver gray
  29. Luminelle prume argentée
  30. Luminelle mauve captivant
  31. Luminelle caramel pépite
  32. Luminelle noir paileté
  33. Luminelle transparance rouge
  34. Luminelle fuchsia scrintillant
  35. Luminelle orchidée
  36. Luminelle fluofluo
  37. Luminelle corail givré
  38. Luminelle argent étincelant
  39. Luminelle ciel bleu
  40. Miss Sporty nail varnish colourless shine

Virtual Zoo: Update #3

Well, you could have known it was just a matter of time before I was tempted again. Named after another personal coach, though I imagine he might have preferred a scantily dressed young lady dedicated to him.

Friday, November 10

Romanic Literature: Full Throttle

The full list of must-reads according to my personal coach.

French:
-Béroul, Le roman de Tristan, 1170
-Chrétien de Troyes, Romans de la Table Ronde, 1170-1190 (Erec et Enide; Cligès; Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrette; Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion; Perceval ou le Conte du Graal)
-Marie de France, Lais, 1160-1175
-Guillaume de Lorris, Roman de la Rose, 1275
-François Rabelais, Pantagruel (1532), Gargantua (1534)
-Pierre de Ronsard, Amours (1556)
-Molière, Tartuffe (1664), L'école des femmes (1662), L'avare (1668)
-Jean Racine, Andromaque (1667), Britannicus (1669)
-Madamme de Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves (1689)
-Charles Perrault, Contes de ma mère Loye (1697)
-Montesquieu, Les lettres persanes (1721)
-l'abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut (1753)
-Voltaire, Candide ou l'Optimisme (1759)
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse (1761)
-Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
-François-René de Chateaubriand, Atala (1801), René (1802)
-Alphonse de Lamartine, Méditations poétiques (1820)
-Stendhal, Le rouge et le noir (1830), La chartreuse de Parme (1839)
-George Sand, Indiana (1832)
-Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo (1845), Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1845)
-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (1857)
-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857)
-Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), Les Misérables (1862)
-Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin (1867), L'Assommoir (1878)
-Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer (1873)
-Jules Verne, Vingt-mille lieues sous les mers (1869), Michel Strogoff (1874)
-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (1913)
-Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée (1938), Les Mouches (1943)
-Albert Camus, L'étranger (1942)
-Simone de Beauvoir, Le sang des autres (1945), Une mort très douce (1964)
-Marguerite Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951)
-Michel Butor, La Modification (1957)
-Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964)
-Michel Tournier, Le Roi des aulnes (1970), Le coq de la bruyère (1978)
Spanish:
-Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha, 1: 1605; 2: 1615
-Leopoldo Alas 'Clarín', La Regenta, 1885
-Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta, 1886
-Rubén Darío, La isla de oro, 1913
-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla, 1914
-Gabriela Mistral, Sonetos de la muerte, 1914
-Mariano Azuela, Los de abajo, 1915
-Juan Ramón Jiménez, Diario de un poeta recién casado (1916)
-Horacio Quiroga, Cuentos de la selva, (1919) Los desterrados (1934)
-José Eustasio Rivera, La vorágine, 1924
-Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, (1924) Residencia en la tierra, 1935
-Federico García Lorca, Canciones, (1927) Bodas de sangre, (1932), Yerma (1934)
-Rómulo Gallegos, Doña Bárbara (1929)
-Roberto Arlt, Los siete locos, (1929)
-Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones, (1944), El Aleph, (1949)
-Ramón J. Sender, Requiem por un campesino español, (1960)
-Mario Vargas Llosa, La ciudad y los perros, (1963), Conversación en la catedral, (1969)
-Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, (1967), El otoño del patriarca, (1975)
-Carlos Fuentes, Cambio de piel, (1967), Los años con Laura Díaz, (1999)
-Alejo Carpentier, El reino de este mundo, (1974
-Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus, (1982)
-Javier Cercas, Soldados de Salamina, (2001)
You know what I'll be doing this year.

Update

The brighter half of visitors may have noticed that one of my blogs has been deleted. Soon enough another blog will be removed too, but before I do so I'll add data that I insist on sharing with planet earth to this here blog.

Now I only have to wait for the idiot who against my will made this blog accesable via planet Ugent to apologise, and I'll be 100% happy again.

Thursday, November 9

100 questions for my date

  1. Favourite Nick Cave song
  2. Favourite colour
  3. Favourite wine
  4. Cinéma or home cinéma
  5. Jeans plus black turtleneck or shorts and sweater
  6. Favourite thing about the opposite sex
  7. Favourite thing about himself
  8. Did he cry when bambi's mother died
  9. Top three of holidays
  10. Favourite actor/actress
  11. and why
  12. Does he wear white socks in black shoes
  13. Swimming indoors or in the sea
  14. Kinky preferences
  15. Does he believe in dragons
  16. Newspaper or book
  17. Football or fast cars
  18. Does he want chidren
  19. if yes,name he'd give his son
  20. name he'd give his daughter
  21. sun, sea, sand or a tour of europe's capitals
  22. What music does he listen to when he is sad
  23. Is he a good cook
  24. Does he mind that I polish my nails
  25. Does he believe in Love at first sight
  26. Pet peeve
  27. Philosophy or history
  28. Tom Marvolo Riddle or Voldemort
  29. Is he in love with me
  30. Warm but rainy days or cold and dry days
  31. Favourite boardgame
  32. Can he teach me ballroomdancing
  33. Does he hate anyone
  34. if yes, who
  35. Does he ever listen to country
  36. Where would he want to live
  37. Favourite way of long distance transportation
  38. What would be the first thing he'd buy should he win the lottery
  39. Is he truly a gentleman or only on the surface
  40. Would he pay the bill
  41. or realise I'm emancipated enough to insist on splitting it
  42. political colour
  43. second favourite animal
  44. top ten of most visited webpages
  45. favourite contemporary author
  46. and why
  47. favourite lipbalm flavour
  48. warmer winters or cooler summers
  49. favourite sport to do
  50. and why
  51. favourite sport to watch
  52. and why
  53. scrambled eggs or sunny side op
  54. favourite cocktailingredient
  55. cutest way of saying 'I love you'
  56. favourite chocolate treat
  57. elpee or iPod
  58. favourite word in another language
  59. the Beatles or the Rolling Stones
  60. least favourite soup
  61. food allergies
  62. favourite theme park
  63. Hello Kitty or Pucca
  64. thing he likes most about me
  65. favourite coffee
  66. favourite tea
  67. favourite version of "wicked game"
  68. silk or lace
  69. favourite jeans
  70. favourite holiday destination
  71. South Africa or South America
  72. French or Italian
  73. sideburns or beard
  74. would he propose
  75. if yes, how
  76. public library or private library
  77. does he thinks I spend too much money on books
  78. who inspires him
  79. favourite subject in high school
  80. fluffy kittens or allergy proof pets
  81. will he be a positive influence
  82. short skirt or hotpants
  83. would he dye his hair
  84. if yes, what colour
  85. who is his ideal woman
  86. what is the funniest joke he knows
  87. favourite film quote
  88. favourite sauce to eat with chips
  89. favourite colour socks
  90. can he knit
  91. if no, would he want to learn
  92. Stalin or Lenin
  93. why
  94. hunger or cold
  95. favourite scented candle
  96. favourite card
  97. favourite anti-flu medicin
  98. does he sleep with a teddy
  99. if yes, what's it's name
  100. boat or train
  101. kiss or hug


More Happy Thoughts

  • Renewed Internet access
  • Couscous for lunch
  • No more need for love advice
  • Concert tickets
  • Pink nail polish
  • A sweet text message
  • Jeff Buckley on the radio
  • Chocolate covered cinnamon cookies
  • A free copy of 'A drink before the war'

Alan Rickman



It would seems I have a thing for men that are actually not very handsome but hide it so very well. Can't help loving a man with a sexy voice, can we?

Monday, November 6

Girls 7-0 Boys

I doubt very much that there is anyone who knows what the score is about, and if you don't know, don't ask for I'd rather not tell. It's sad, very sad. Nearly pathetic. I'd not have anyone say it, but I can tell you myself: it is sad.

And still you wonder how I am confused, frustrated, absentminded, confused again, and (a little) strange.

Edit: The lovecoach hath spoken. And she says I should be flattered. Men are wushies anyway. Well who am I to disagree?

Saturday, November 4

James Nesbitt


It was rather time for another picture of a not unhandsome man. And then why not a fine actor with comic talent and a very very very very sexy voice?

Friday, November 3

Frappr

I just can't seem to help it. I keep on adding stuff to this blog without knowing how it all works or what is does. For the few of you who give a damn, the latest addition is Frappr. Which is a map keeping track of people who uhm well I guess people who have a frappr account and add themselves to my friends list. Feel free to join, which is of course no obligation.

Edit: Apparently some people get added to the map just like that and there are others of whom I have to approve first. Two people were on the approval list, one of which has been approved of (one would hardly expect me to deject my brother). The other person shall first have to give the meerest tiniest twidgiest hint of his or her identity before (s)he too shall be approved of. With utmost apologies should it concern a loved one.

Edit#2: I signed up for a frappr-account with a non-existant e-mail address, which would be despicable had I done so on purpose, no need to burn candles for my haunted soul however as it but concerned a typo. A typo that did cause me to delete my frappr -account and sign up with a proper e-mail address for a new one. All those that wanted to get added to the map shall have to apply again. For the inconvenience this causes you are free to look sternly upon me next we meet, but I would have you fight the urge to hit/beat/bite/whip me, lest of course the above would happen in a gentle manner.

Thursday, November 2

Thud! and it's author


Thud! is dead! Long live it's author: Terry Pratchett! I have read all 30 disc world novels now, all of which I have read at lightning speed. Without exception they are all extremely readable, funny, intelligent and -pardon my Klatchian-bloody brilliant. Just so the few people who drop by that are not acquainted with my favourite author but two. On the left that left there is a picture or a picture of a lookalike, who'll say?


three journals

I attended a jasmine ethereal oil aromatic therapy gathering (for lack of better words) yesterday. It was fun. It was even interesting. And the best part is the experiment is continued for a week in the privacy of our homes! All people present were given a very thin stack of papers, neatly stapled together henceforth called 'the Diary' and a minute bottle with one or two drops of jasmine essence. All readers know me to well to even have the twidgiest bit of doubt that I enjoy this very much. A regular diary and a chocolate diary (for the benefit of the chocolate coach as an instrument to keep my cacao consuming under control) could never be enough to satisfy a writing maniac as my self.