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And I mean the death kind... not the really hot naked girl kind.
(though that's good too.
)A friend of mine just posted this on our groups website. So fucking funny!!
Sorry for the lack of proper updates lately by the way. There has been a fair bit happening here. I'm just not entirely sure how to talk about it all... As soon as I get my head around it I'll share.
That or I'll just dodge the issues as I usually do....
Last Monday I met up with the SGNL group at the Efteling theme park. I have never been to a meet before so was really looking forward to it, and I was not disappointed. It really was a great day. I haven't been to a fun park in years. So to go again now with a bunch of cool SG members form here in NL was serious fun!
Thanks for a great day out guys!
Tuesday was a little more of a worry day. You see there is this girl from work I really (REALLY) like. We've been seeing each other for about two months now and through a series of unfortunate events (no, I am not going to tell you) I was genuinely afraid that she was going to end it all. We met up at work and... well... I have never been so wrong about anything in my life. I mean I was WAY off. Seems my paranoia had once again gotten the better of me.
She didn't want to end it at all, in fact I think our relationship (despite a few complications) is starting to get a fair bit more serious. I know it's still kind of early days and all, but I have a pretty good feeling about this.
My weekend has been great too. Yesterday I had an archery competition. It was great fun. I haven't been able to get to the range a lot lately so any chance I have I relish. Especially when there's a competition. Now I could act all happy that I came in first in my category (Barebow, Adults)... But since there were only two people in it that's not really a great achievement In total I came in second among the traditional shooters. Peter (from he junior competition) shot so insanely well that no one had a chance of beating him. Hopefully I can gt a little more practice in the next few months and give him a run for his money next time round
After the competition it was straight back home for a little going away party/barbecue. A good friend of mine Stan is on his way home to Ecuador as of Monday, so a few of us got together to wish him a fond farewell.
It's weird having to say goodbye so often. Two weeks from now another friend of mine is off to Israel for a few years to get his Phd. It's like my circle of closest friends are scattering all across the globe. Having moved around a fair bit when I was a kid I had kind of hoped life would settle down by now. Well, so much for that bright Idea... Still, can't really complain. I know all these guys are having a great time and it gives us an excuse to throw good parties
Spent most of today cleaning up the mess from yesterday (wasn't much) and invited my parents over to help finish off the left over meat (double barbecue weekend.... GOOD ). Then I just logged in here to update my (somewhat lacking in attention) blog and what do I see: My friend Caia has gone live! Super sweet! Be sure to check her out and give her set some love. She really is gorgeous!
OK. I have now made up for lost time with this rant I think Until the next time!
A good friend of mine, Maarten, is currently traveling through South America. He had just arrived in Peru a few days before the quake. He was staying at a hostel just a few KM from Ica (the epicenter). Everything around him basically collapsed during the quake. Thankfully he wasn't hurt. Though he had to spend a couple of nights in the desert he is now out of the disaster zone and safely in Arequipa.
To say I feel relieved is an understatement.
On a lighter note:
Another friend of mine just came back from Thailand ( I do have a lot of globe trotting friends
). She brought me back a hat:
Does anyone know how to say "I look silly" in Thai?
Last Friday was my cousin Wouter's wedding. It was a really nice ceremony and the party at the beach afterwards was lots of fun!
I really had a great time there. And the weather was fantastic! That was really the crowning jewel. His sister, Karin (my other cousin thus...) got married a couple of months ago and it really pissed down then. It was the only downside to an otherwise great day. But for Wouter and Franja ( is there such a thing as a cousin-in-law?) it was just perfect from beginning to end. I must sound like a real romantic sap right now... maybe I am a bit
I don't get to see my extended family very often. We've really gotten to the wedding and funerals only phase. Which is a hell of a shame. I had a great time hanging out with them at both weddings, wish we could get together more often. Unfortunately the only one's left unmarried are me and my sister... that doesn't look to be changing any time soon (in my case: never
), and I really don't want the next meeting to be a funeral 
Back to happy thoughts now....
The day after the wedding was a little rough. In a good way. Namely because I had just gotten over one hangover and started work on the next one straight away A joint birthday party together with a friend of mine. Our real birthdays were weeks/months ago but we hadn't gotten round to celebrating yet. So last Saturday we fired up the barbecue invited a bunch of friends and drank ourselves stupid. It was good
Thankfully I had a few days of work this week. Spent a gorgeous Sunday afternoon hanging with an old friend on a terrace in Nijmegen. Manged to get to the gym for the first time in months
and my work has finally made the switch to a 5 shift system, which means a lot more free time for me from now on and a better pay check to boot! Tot op it all off another friend of mine has just had her set go live! So go check out Abbiss and leave some nice comments on her set!!
All said and done, this has indeed been a pretty good week. The only thing I need to do now is get over my writers block....
Edit: wow. I really use a lot of emoticons don't I?
Other than being back at work though things have been pretty cool the last couple of weeks.
I got out to London for Star Wars Celebration two weeks ago. It was a great trip! The convention had a lot of really cool stuff on display and most if it was for sale
As a result i spent way too much money there... and at forbidden planet... and out partying in London every night... and on cocktails at The American Bar... ehhh... Expensive weekend. I'll upload some photos as soon as i find where i put my camera. As soon as I got back form my Star Wars geekgasm, it was straight into another party: the sumer festivals here in Nijmegen. It was awesome as always!
Out till 5 am almost every night, partying and drinking with friends. Brilliant. Even ran into people i haven't seen in years, which was very cool. Plus there were a lot of great bands this year. Including The Kevin Costners in which a friend of mine plays. Really great show! and had one of the biggest audiences (for that stage) of the week! Very cool to see.
Wish I had more to report... but it really was just one big piss up the past week or so
hahah! Unfortunately all things must come to an end and as of last Monday it was back to work... But as things look now i only have to endure one more week, then I have another week off. So I can't really complain.
P.S. check out Nomia, her set just (finally!) went live. So hot!
Why? Because venting my anger makes me feel better... that's why!
Ravnos said:
It was all style and absolutely no substance. In fact, it had negative substance.
+ about ten million!
Guy come on... put an ice pack on your fanboy hard-ons and actually THINK about this movie for a second!
Yes the FX are brilliant... The use of the military had some major plus points... I even though the cast was pretty good... But for the love of Prime the plot!!
I can just imagine how the writers must have talked when putting this abomination together:
Writer 1: OK. We can put another cliche in here, here and a couple more here for good measure. Should we do some character development?
Writer 2: Oh who needs it.
Writer: What about plot development then?
Producer: Hold on there son! We don't want this thing to look intelligent, now do we?
Seriously: The Transformers were hardly even in the film. It was ALL about Sam form beginning to end. The redesign of the TF's was pretty awful (Except Jazz... he looked pretty cool. A total Appleseed rip off.... but pretty cool). There was NO character development at all. The plot was so pathetic I truly believe a child could do better. The whole part abut hacking the signal was useless rubbish and shouldn't have been there. The idea about Megatron being frozen in ice for thousands of years... No. That he was the basis for our advanced technology... give me a break! To reverse engineer anything means taking the original apart... If that were the case old Megs would have been sprawled over the whole site in about a trillion little pieces. And then... the crown jewel here... at the end of the movie: The military successfully cover it all up!! I nearly cried... I mean these giant robots destroy half a fucking city, kill dozens of people in the process, and their going to pretend it never happened? BULLSHIT! That goes beyond suspension of disbelief into the realm of the ridiculous!
wow it feels good to vent all this....
If there is one thing I always hate in movies it is wasted potential. This film was nothing BUT wasted potential. Done properly the Transformers movie could have been the next Bladerunner... the next 2001... the next STAR WARS! (original not the shitty perequels). Instead we get this... This pathetic fucking joke of a film.
the more I think about it the angrier I get. 
I know I'm a G1 fanboy... But I also recognize the multitude of mistakes G1 has in it. It still suprases this movies sad excuse for a plot line however. I'll just end with a quote I last used to describe the afore mentioned star wars prequels:
"It is all light and sound, signifying nothing."
