Day 8. 2009, a change.

Change,

That was what that new president said when he gained acces to the white house in Washington. I don't think he was talking about some spare coins in his pocket, so it should be really important and have a sense of reality. It's funny how the first black president in Amerika seems so loose and modern. He greeted his wife at the inauguration by putting his fist against hers. I can't really figure out if he really does that in a impulsive moment, or because some image expert told him to do so "cause it looks like you're from this century".


The new president Twitters, has a facebook account (he financed his whole election campaign by spreading the need for cash flow on Facebook...) and i`m pretty sure he plays World of Warcraft too.. Probably a paladin tank. If it turns out he's been a lieing bastard like any other president so far, he's definately a rogue. Or a priest, cause another thing people of his statue have a good habbit of is denying everything. And well this year proved that a certain priest liked to deny the entire holocaust. Well not the entire holocaust, just  the number of people that were murdered during the 5 year war.

This year was a weird one to be honest, i think next to the new american president, the current recession was the biggest news this year. Everybody talks about it, everybody notices it one way or another. The mexican flue was a much heard topic during lunch in offices. Personally for me this year was all about the attack on our royal family during Queensday. I was at home at the time it happened and saw it all live on the tv. First thing i thought was that it was part of the whole parade act. Then i saw real people flying over the road behind the car, the screams, the police officers running to the car. I fellt sick. Instantly. The same feeling when i watched the 9/11 attacks. Disbelief, not understanding what just happened. I walked around the town i live and it's supposed to be filled with people having fun and partying, but the entire centrum was deserted. A really odd atmoshphere during Queensday.. If you google "Queensday Amsterdam", or the dutch term "Koninginnendag Amsterdam". You get a idea of how massive this Holiday is for the dutch people. The entire country is having a party. Every town and city is celebrating our Queens birthday, it's by far the coolest holiday we dutchies have. And it got ruined by a mentally disturbed man in a matter of seconds. Every Queensday from now on will be reminded of last years tragedy.

Other news and happenings this year were the invasion of the mexican flu over the world, Some dutch teacher who got fired when he decided to live together with his boyfriend, yes, he got fired because he's gay. This year it is 40 years ago a man set foot on the moon for the first time, Sumatra got hit by a large earthquake taking 700+ lives and offcourse our dutch hero who saved America for beating the crap out of a FAILCAKE terrorist in a plane.


Our dutch hero earned around 18K USD participating in interviews and speaking with stupid talkshow hosts in his best dunglish*.

2010.. maybe we have a cool year ahead of us, we might even slip out of the current recession and become filthy rich. One really awesome thing to look forward to is our Guild meeting in Estonia. I have absolutely no idea what Estionia is like. For now I just imagine it being really really shit, so no matter what happens, it will be really cool ;)

See you guys in 2010 !


* = English with a terrible dutch accent (for example: no fussher questjohns)

Day 7.2 Easy entertainment is mostly the best entertainment.

Allright, my co-worker gave me this weblink of a webcam in Amsterdam. So i asked him what was so special about it. Hehe, apparently this webcam is pointed on a intersection in Amsterdam. Right on the most right side of the webcam feed is a piece of sidewalk which was salted last night to melt the snow. However, last night the melted snow froze up again and this morning some fresh snow covered up all the ice at the side of the sidewalk.

So without further explenation:

This is the sidewalk with the ice aligned with the pavement on the right.

Our first victim, she didn't fell really hard, but hard enough to be screenshot worthy!

 Now this bloke went down really hard. I almost fellt sorry for this bloke........ almost.

Hehehehehe.. *laughs manicly and very evil*

This lady almost squashed her little dog when she fell..

She went really funny, with her legs kicking in the air..

This guy deserves the darwin award for trying to bycicle on ice.. What a noob!!

Ignore my previous blog about snow and freezing temperatures being shit.. I had a really good laugh today due to the weather ;)

Day 7. Snow..

This blog will be a rant against the dutch climate. IT SUCKS!

Don't get me wrong, snow is awesome. It's like endless entertainment for kids and youngsters. We used to built  fortresses and have enormous snowbal fights with all the kids from the neighbourhood. And i don't mean like 5-10 kids.. no back then, it was a group of 15 against 15. How we managed to organise it still confuses me.. we didn't had cellphones back then.. Nor did we had msn.. heck we didn't even had a pc in that era...

Now the coolest thing back then was that i for some reason can throw stuff really hard.. snowballs, baseballs at school.. everything.. It's just something i`m good at.. well.. used to be good at.. I`m old now :(

Snowfall was the best time of a year.. The entire year i was a geek and really nerdy.. Being skinny didn't help too. But when the first snowflocks were spotted i gained inmortality in my neighbourhood.. I rushed to my room, put on my favourite sweaters, tshirts.. my jogging pants, jeans over them.. 2 pair of socks and my boots.. I was ready for serious carnage. I think i was about 12 at that time and probably made my first Headshots in that period. Out i went and the first kids followed my example and we gathered around this playing field at the back of our house. More and more kids arrived and we started to devide the teams. This was my favourite moment of the year. There was always a arguement wether team A or B got to have me in their team. Man that fellt good. There was one mate of mine who moved in our neighbourhood later, who could throw really hard too, so that made things a bit easier each year.

Now, Nowadays.. When it starts snowing i still have a little smile on my face when i think back of the fun we had back then. But then i get reminded that it prolly will be very cold on my way to work. And annoying to have snow getting blown in my face the entire 30 minutes i`m walking to my collegue every morning. A big difference with my childhood is that on my way to work i  don`t put on 2 sweaters, 2 pairs of pants and socks. So yes, it's much colder. I don't like it when i'm cold.. Makes me feel poor cause i have no means to warm myself.. I know it's rediculous but when i`m at home and somebody forgot to turn on the heater i get highly frustrated. It's the first thing i do when i get home or get out bed, walk downstairs, put on the heater to around 21 degrees celcius and take a shower. Now, when i get home from work, and nobody is home, usually they have turned off the heater  to save energy and very poisinous emissions (Yeah right...).

I don't like the winter anymore.. Eventho everything looks beautifull being it covered with snow, it still loses the battle against all the agony i feel from basicly being cold the entire day. Driving lessons on the other hand are a great source of entertainment now that everything is slippery!! Man i had tons of fun driving around corners and secretly hit the brakes when the instructor wasn't paying attention. In a weird way he is a good instructor, he knows a lot about driving and can explain really good. The problem i have with him is his attitude. He's not rude or anything, he just likes to brag about basicly everything. And he has a need to tell everything he thinks is cool and funny. Nothing wrong with that, but a important  factor that plays around stories like that is a sence of reality, and he really lacks that. It's all crap he tells me.. everything doesn't make sence and he overreacts when i doubt his stories. Classic case of someone who's never experiencing something bothering telling about and just makes up his own stories. Well i suppose it's better then a instructor that doesn't talk at all during  the one and a half hour lessons.. That would be very awkward and weird.

Warcrack is a bit so so lately, i'm a bit in doubt which toon to play to be honest. I'm bored with my Deathknight tank to gear up.. need to farm normal IC isntances for badges and well i have done loads of them allready. My druid is in a bit of the same at the moment and my warlock is a little bit done with dpsíng. I know it's a dps class, it's his calling to do insane damage and he's pretty good at it. But now that i have a tank and a healer, i miss a purpose and a role in instances.. not just stand still and bash my keyboard.

Warcrack will gain my interrest again soon.. For now i just log in to have a chat and help people out that need it.


Till the next blog,


Ciao!

Day 6. Funk might be happy today...might..

Feels weird i might add..

Having loads of happy stuff to look forward to.

When i`m online on wow i increase my lack of happyness with talks about our comming guild meeting in Estonia. I like the idea of meeting people from other countries, in the beginning on meetings like this i always experience a slight feeling of uncomfort, mostly due to the language barrier. I'm a fastly enthousiastic type, and when i see the familiar or unfamiliar faces again which i have contact with in warcraft on a daily base, i have a huge urge to make jokes, talk about cool stuff we have experienced together but i usually get tangled within my own thinking. Which should be a really awkward and funny sight. I really like the people that mostly go to the meetings, we have many many interrests in common and even tho we have a totally different native language, you always find a way to express yourself in a sensible way.

Warcraft is a bit weird at the moment, the ammount of available gear for freshly dinged toons is enormous, infact it's so widely spread that i find it hard to deside what to go for. I used Be.Imba and the wow armory for gear improvements for my Deathknight and got flabbergasted by the ammount of gear that was suggested. I lost the overview and together with that lost my interrest. So i think i farm some emblems, get some stuff and from there improve my gear by doing the runs that i am able to do. I'm not much of a planner and i'm jealous off people that actually manage to have a idea what to aim for.

My druid will be a healer and therefor needs some levelling. I might focus on that for the time being.

Day 5. I want to be a proper nerd. I have the looks, so why hold back!

Wow i can even blog from my phone now.. Aren't i a techy geek or
what??!!!

Day 4. Couple of days late.. I was sick ok!

I was sick, so i didn`t fellt like blogging. I have responsibilities here.. just like work, so, when i'm sick i refuse to blog. Lot of things got done while i was sick, i watched 3.5 seasons of californication, and when i got really bored with that or fellt ok enough to do some active stuff i played some wow on my newly 80 dinged DK. Then again, playing warcraft when ur sick doesn't feel right. It feels like your not supposed to have fun when you are sick or something.

Saturday evening i went with a friend to a singing talent contest. She sings pretty damn good, and being a music lover since i pretty much can remember i was suprised by the vocal abilities of some of the contestants. My friend sang Fallin' by Alicia Keys and properly nailed it. Spot on and she went through to the finals. There were a few others who could sing quite nice and then this 12 year old girl came up and started to sing some Dutch musical songs. Now, being dutch i should appreciate Dutch spoken songs, but to be honest i hate it. Deeply. Musicals aren't my thing either so it was doomed to be really bad before she even started. I had a bit of hope that it wouldn't be as bad as i thought it would be.. but it turned out to acknowledge my predictions. God she was bad... Really false and out of ritm, and to top it off, really loud.

Sure, she was cute and all.. but being a music lover i have the right to be a critic. Look, if you can sing really good, and eventho it's not my favourite genre, i'm the last person to judge you. But if you can't,  then imho you just need to STFU and GTFO. I suppose i can't blame her - but should aim my furious frustration and disbelief towards her parents for probably making her sing at these contests. When she was done with her act, people actually applauded for her.. mostly old people tho who just applauded for her because she was all cute and shit. But come on people!! She was worse then a ordinary dog that sings allong with the radio.. (check youtube for reference material).

Then this women came up and told us she was going to sing Three days in a row by Anouk. A little bit of joy got a hold of me, cause i really like Anouk and specially this song.. And then the music kicked in, adrenaline started rushing through my veins, i was filled with excitement and anticipation to what was comming. She started the first couple of lines and my face went from :-D to :'-( . She brutally ASSRAPED Anouk by covering that song in such a way, there should be a award for it. Her way of covering a really good song was a piece of art itself. Somehow she was under the influence of some type of grass i think, every note she didn't made got replaced with loud, i repeat LOUD squeeking of something that got near the supposed to be reached note. I was really dissapointed and started kicking my legs back and forth out of pure frustration. Then my friend sang another song and all was better again. She sang Work it out by Beyonce. I was all happy and was enjoying the evening again. Then when she was done this chick came up and sang I will always love you by Whitney Houston. Everybody knows this song, it's one of the hardest songs to sing, and there are a few people on this hump of earth that can properly sing it. Or get near to sing it correctly. Music kicked in, she started singing, and well.. it was actually really good. She didn't try to copy Whitney, no she sang it on her own pace, her own way and within the reach of her vocal powers.. It was pleasant to hear and for the first time that night i was stunned.

The girl herself wasn't a good looker, which enhances my urge to make fun of people like her that think they have a talent, but she proved the fact that i am a typical stereotype thinker sometimes. Remember that big Afro girl from i think Brittain's got Talent?? Well i instantly reminded myself watching that youtube clip.. She was good, not spectatulair, but just good. What a surprise! She had a really clear voice, good pronounciation and timing.

A really nice end of the evening.

Sunday was a bit of  a offday.. didn't do much on warcrack.. gained a couple of wellneeded badges, talked to Bollebetty a bit about some gear enhancements and wrote them down.. Watched some Californication episodes and went to bed..

Talk to you guys tommorows.

Bye..


P.S.

I freaking hate to admit it, and this goes entirely against my feeling, but i kinda start to like all the christmass stuff on the radio... But not to much yet tho, for now i still think Christmass is gay and overrated..

Day 3. Changing the lay-out... I hate ugly blogs.

I threathend with making a blog about some guildies that made fun of me last night.. Probably something in the lines of "I hate women that have higher dps then me" or "Yeah, easy talking as a tank, i`m a fucking warlock, i don't have def rating! :("

But they were actually right... i did die a lot last night in ToTC.. and it was all my fault.. Usually i make fun of myself by telling munquis to blame, for everything that goes wrong in pugs, guild heroics and raids. But tonight it was actually the case.. I kept running around the warrior in the factions champions fight.. i kept running thru slimy green yugg in the worm fight. It was really bad.. But that's not the biggest thing that annoys me today..

It's my driving instructor. He is like the most annoying little bastard ever born in the history of mankind. He's like Smeagol from Lord of the Rings.. now that i write this.. he actually looks like him too! I'm even sure he smells like a Smeagol too. Thrust me, this is the last person on earth, you want to teach you how to participate in traffic. He keeps talking about how good he is with playing darts in his local pub. He says that Barneveld is like his personal God and i don't have a hard time imagining he actually has Barney posters and fan art in his little filthy shitty house.

He likes to call stupid people from the pub DURING my lessons.. Really hard laughter, and shouting about the fecking darts.. I want to stab him in his misformed face with his stupid darts. Then above all, he talks to me like i'm his best friend ever.. I hate when people do that.. Arrgg.. driving should be fun, it shouldn't make you wanna kill yourself while doing it..

And to top everything, he's a conspiracy thinker.. Ohh you wouldn't believe the stuff that comes out of his badly brushed mouth.. Here is a little list about DAILY topics.. :

* The maya's were right, we are all doomed.
* The FBI and CIA are founded by the Bush Family.
* The 9-11 attacks were self inflicted by the USA
* The movie 2012 is prolly the best image you can have about how the world is going to end.

And yes, this stuff gets thrown at me within 1.5 hours of driving lessons.. Don't get me wrong, i love to exaggerate things... but this is really happening two times a week..


On a positive note, my blog now has boobs on it :D