HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hello there, 


It's already 2012! Do you already have any intentions for 2012? I do not. Although I know it will be a good year. 
So, I've watched, read and baked a lot. 
If you feel like snow and cute guys you should absolutely watch Chalet Girl. I loved it, and I love Ed Westwick of course but who doesn't right? Another great thing about the movie is the music, it is soooo nice!
Try listening to those songs if you want to hear feel-good music but you dont have time to watch the movie:


# Lucky Elephant - Edgar
# Sliimy- Wake Up
# Paloma Faith - Upside Down
# Livingston - Go
# One eskimo - Amazing


And if your watching this and feel like food you absolutely should try some dark chocolate. 
Sometime I really wonder how its possible I am not extremely fat haha. 
I will be back. 
Cheers and happy new year!

Bake it baby

Since you can not watch movies without food I'll give you some nice recipes! First thing you should make (it is even sort of healthy!) Is my own recipe for fruit salade.

What do I need?
First of all you should just use all the fruit you have in your kitchen. (your parents will love you since the fruit they bought is finally to be used!)
Then you need chocolate sauce.

So what do I do next?
Just slice all the fruit in pieces and then put it in little bowls or plates and finally put the chocolate sauce over the fruit. And it is delicioussss :)

This is what it could look like:



Another thing I made was scones, aaaah scones :D
I had this almost ready package for home made scones. So I only had to add some water. But I did put raisins and dark chocolate in the dough and it was amazing. It was sooo good, you should try it for sure :)
This is what they looked like:




Well bon appetit ,
bye byee!

Make yourself comfortable for those movies

Hello,
I would be repeating myself is I'd say it is quite a while ago since my last post . But this doesnt make it not true :) Sorry, I've just been quite bussy lately.
Altough I have been busy I did have time to watch a lot of movies! So I'll make a little list of movies I watched and you should/could watch as well!

We'll start with The American with George Clooney! The movie is quite different then other movies, it is made by Anton Corbijn, a photographer, so the images which are used are amazing. Every shot in the movie is a beautifull picture. Altough the plot itself is not very interesting you just had to keep on watching because of the images and because you actually had NO idea what will happen. This is just an amazing movie when you don't feel like doing anything and you really don't want to see a failed romcom or a heavy action thriller.

After the amercian we have another type of movie, Love and other disasters. I really enjoyed the movie, altough it might be a little predictable it is a funny and nice movie! I would say it is the movie you could watch when your with a few friends and you do not have anything better to do! And by the way you should really take a look at the trailer, haha :D

And well since it was almost valentines day, quite a while ago yeah haha. I also watches Valentines day. The movie structure looks like the structure of Love Actually. But in my opinion no movie can beat love actually! But they did a nice job and it sure was a nice movie to watch!

Oke people have fun watching movies! And I will be back soon since there are a lot of other movies and series I watched, books I read and recipies I tried :D
Bye byeee

For me, the next two weeks will be my holiday!
So what am I going to do? I am going to France!
Unfortunately I do not have any wireles in France, so I can not do things I normally do like facebook, youtube and well check my mail or chat with people. On the other hand it is good to know that a life without internet is possible. I use the computere quite often but when I am in France I can show myself that I do not need my computer and that I still have the rest to read.

I really love to read, that is probably why I am reading Jane Eyre now with it's 500 pages in stead of some stupid english book around the 100 pages. I'd rather read a lot of interesting pages then to waste my time on a stupid book. It just doesnt work for me if I have to read something I do not really like.

But when I am in france I do not have the distraction, I do not have the distraction of well friends, computer or television. And I pitty the friends but I think you should be able to live without a tv and a computer! It is quite ridiculous how much time we spend on the computer, I mean, I am even spending time right now on writing this. Not that I would like to do something else but I mean do not we have anything better to do?
Is it not better for me to go to sleep right now, or we could go and talk to people in real life or we could work or do our homework in stead of spending time writing blogs, watching youtube video's or chat with people.

Anyway thanks for being bored, and read this blog about why you should not read this and do something else. I make sense, I think it is time to go to bed.
Goodnight.

And once again almost 10 days passed!

Now Sinterklaas has left Holland we are open to receive Santa. I love the christmas atmosphere! It is so nice and cozy, and all the lights in the shoping malls and the trees with little lights twinkelling. Ah, I really like it!

I thought it would be nice to make a chirstmas card with one of my own pictures, here a few options. Feel free to use them! OK, well not really christmas card pics but sort of cristmas-style pictures :)

Tomorrow I have my prom! I am really looking forward to it, and maby i'll show you some cool prom pics after it.

bye byee xxx

Winter

And then suddenly one month passed.

This month was soo very busy and stuf, it is quite funny how time passes when your busy, and how it seems to take ages when you have got nothing better to do.

Today it's Sinterklaas in Holland! It is a sort of santa, just some old guy bringing presents through the chimney. Sinterklaas's birthday is on the 5th of december. And actually I still don't get why he actually gives us presents on his own birthday. But never mind! I like getting presents and i like the feeling 5 december gives. Just like Christmas does, a nice warm feeling, a time to spend with family and friends. Sinterklaas had his helpers, because he can néver fill all the shoes himself, haha, those helpers are called "Zwarte Pieten" and well see the picture below.

I hope I've been nice so I dont have to go to Spain with Sinterklaas... although I would not mind going to Spain.

Have a nice Sinterklaas!

Kitty Cat

I made some pictures of my cat :D

Ah I love the last picture, unfortuanatly she moved a little bit. But I still love it, it shows the pride that cats have. Like a little lion.

The cat did not really like me taking pictures of her. So I have a lot of moved pictures!

Right now there is a little storm or something, wow there is so much wind and rain. And it is freeeeezing! Ah i hope the weather changes soon, in stead of the storm making me calm I get very excited and restless. And I do not know why but it is annoying. Guess autumn is just nice when the leaves are brown, and the sky is greeyyy. I've been for a walk... Haha I just thought of this song when I wrote`the leaves are brown´. Well never mind. I am going to pack my bags so I can leave to Maastricht tomorrow!

Good day.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul

What can we do with our eyes? Some people prefere them covered with make-up, others hide them underneath cool glasses. But what can we so with our eyes?
"Eye contact provides social information to the person you are listening to and talking to. Too much eye contact and you could be seen as aggressive, too little eye contact and you can be seen as having no interest in the person speaking. It is an often overlooked skill to have and an under utilised skill when communicating with people."

So don't stare at people for too long, only people who love eachother can stare in eachothers eyes. Otherwise it will get uncomfortable at some point.

In my opinion eyes are very important, I mean if a guy has nice eyes you can just keep on watching them. Yeah well at this point I think i need to use the tip of not looking for someone too long, maby this guy will think I want to attack him or something.

"Frequent blinking during conversation indicates high interest. Some women use a rapid flutter of their eyelashes to get a man's attention."

"A wink with the closed eye directed at a person implies a shared secret. When winking at an opposite sex stranger it implies you have undisclosed desire for them. "

So, what am I going to do next time I want to make contact? Well this:
watch-blink-blink-watch- look away- watch-blink-blink-watch-wink-blink-blink

No way, this guy will think there is something in my eye or something. Not good.
Anyway I think you should just watch someone in the eye when you talk, if you like that person you should look away and watch again. If you want to show respect you should watch someone in the eye but not for too long but keep on watching otherwise you look distracted. And well just do what you do automaticly I guess, I mean you are not paying attention when you are thinking how to watchi someone at the moemnt you are talking to that person. So just dont think and talk.

WINK

Cello

Ah, today I went to Amsterdam to the "cello biennale 2010".

Just one enourmous cello festival. I only went to see a masterclass of Giovanni Sollima, and well it was really impressive. Not only Giovanni but all the people who played!

I went to see Giovanni because he is the reason I am playing the cello. I once saw him on a Dutch program I normally never watch. And then I saw him playing and it was so beautifull, and since that moment I knew I wanted to play the cello as well.

I will show the piece I heard, maby it will inspire you as well!!

Photo's

Well I went to do some photographing, just because I was in the mood. As you can see just some random pictures. Enjoy :)
And I have a cello! Don't know if I ever mensioned this before, but of course the perfect object for pictures. I just LOVE the little heart!

Well bye bye, and I'll try to blog soon :D

No I am still alive!

There will be a new blog soon.
Right now I am in the middle of a quite big and important test week, and I transformed into an enourmous nerd. Which means that im studying 24/7.

Just some study tips:
Take a lot of tea an chocolate milk, make sure you have neough food and well wear some comfy and wamr clothes. Or take a blanket and wrap it around you! Hmmmm
Well ok going to see if Newton has some new surprises for me, aurevoir!

Languages

These are some languages I would like to learn:

Dutch: kan ik al
Francais: j'ai Francais à école mais je crois que mon francais n'est pas parfait, et mon but est de parler francais couramment.
Español: Me gustaría hablar
Chinese: 中國是偉大的
Japanese: 日本人が優れている

Ok, well actually I can not speak chinese, spanish nor japanese. So I translated it, I think you should put it back in the translater to see what I said. And then the translater makes it even funnier, quite sure it will :)

I have always wanted to learn like a lot of languages, but i simply just havent found time to teach myself. Maby I ll learn some in my gap year next year!
Sorry for the few posts the past weeks, I have been very very very busy. And I will be the next two weeks.

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People you should listen to

OK, right now I want to introduce some artists you might like! Or well I like them and I think they deserve it to be liked and heard!

So we have :
BEN SOLLEE


And then we have:
STORNOWAY a really cool and nice band from Oxford. I saw them live and well was really good!


Ok and last but not least:
ANDREW BIRD


OK have fun listening and discovering these artists!

Hot chocolate

There is a cold wind, and the air is still chilly. The leaves are falling of the trees, and it is time to wear your big scarf and your warm winter jacket. And your even doubting to wear gloves, then it is time for a big hot mug of hot chocolate. Ah, sometimes the only thing I really want is a warm mug in my hands and to nip from my tea or chocolatemilk. Hmm I love this winter atmosphere!!

So I would like to tell you what you can do with your hot chocolate to make it even better!!!





Here you can see the normal plane hot chocolate and one with whipe cream on it, hmmm






Then whe have the hot chocolate with some marshmallows on top, which is really nice and smuggy :)

ahhhhh i really feel like making some hot chocolate now, I can hear the rain ticking on the roof!

Some other things you can put in your hot chocolate:

- Smarties

- Pieces of real chocolate

- Some instant coffee

Enjoy the feeling of holding a warm cup of chocolate milk in your hands!!

Making excuses

You are not the only one who realised that I sort of haven't posted everyday. If you did not then you should visit me more often! NERD

But Actually i do have quite some 'good' excuses fot not to post somtehing, because in my opinion it is stupid if people post something and they are actually talking about nothing but they just post because they want/have to post something. I think this makes the blog boring to read, and is not attractive for the blog itself. A blog should be plesant to read, and if it is there will more readers.

Another point is that I haven't got a lot of time lately. Most of the time I write in the morning or in the evening. But right now I have to do quite a lot of stuff for school and wel, it just takes a lot of time. And since I am a morning person I try to work in the mornings, and then in the afternoon I have other stuf to do and in the evening I watch movies or I go and walk with the dog or I visit friends.

I think I have never made up more nonsensical excuses, but they are sort of bona fide. ( haha I looked up a synonym for true and then it said bona fide, I like that word! Although its in the wrong context ill just leave it there )

Brain-work

Good evening once again,

Don't you think that talking on msn is so much easier sometimes, when you have something to say you dont want to say face to face. But on the other hand there are a lot of times in which I want to tell someone something face to face. Like when something really exciting or well something really random happened, you just cant tell it on msn. Calling is better but I think that you really do miss something when you dont talk to someone face to face.

A facial expression can say so much more then words can. I know that I can have a lot of facial expressions, and I always use it when I am communicating. Like when I ask a question I raise one of my eyebrows, or when I like the story someone tells me I am smiling. But do we really think that the smile you give to the person that is talking to you gives the same effect as a :) or a :D. Perhaps it sort of represents the mood of someone, but what would you say about people who are always using emoticons? Are they always in a good mood? Those people are just not believeble, if they say a :) after each thing they say, I bet they don't even smile.
When I find myself saying a :) or a :D I am always smiling to my computer.

One of the weirdest things is to call to someone over the internet. So you are actually talking to your computer, I always feel very akward when Im doing this. It is hard to explain, because I can imagine that not everybody thinks it is weird. But lets take those vloggers of youtube. They are just talking to a camera, they are joking for the camera and then they post themselves on youtube where they can see theirself joking. I mean isnt it weird to talk to nothing and then after you posted it on youtube you sudenly talked to 100 people, and the next day to 300 if your lucky. And then there are also people who will tell you you suck!!. Why should we put ourself in such a vulnerable position? I think it is weird. Although it is really nice too watch! But I just couldnt make a video-blog myself, i just cant.

Thank god there are people who can ( charlie McDonnel, Alex Day, Smosh, Julian Smith)
Becasue if there werent I would have a lot of spare time to fill :)
( Yes i am smiling to my computer now because I wrote a stupid joke! )

I am proud

WOOUUUWWIIEE
Yesterday there were 11 people looking at my blog!

So ok, what I was thinking today is the fact that we sort of name things after things we know. Like my dog is called Spok, she is a german pointer. And when I see another german pointer, I don't say hey, is that a german pointer? No, I, and a lot of others too, say hey is that another Spok?? I just name the thing after things we know. It is like the same with Harry Potter. When we see Daniel Radcliffe, we automaticly say O it is Harry Potter. And what do you think about Edward Cullen? O I mean Robert Pattinson? This is strange, I mean just think about it!!

I am just going to stop writing, I already typed 3 different paragraphs about weird stuff which is going on in my mind. But I think I just cant explain what is going on in my mind. So I am not even going to do another attemt to explain it.
I actually think that you can never describe the exact mood you are in, because it is just a feeling, and evreyone has different feelings.
I wonder if there are people that feel the exact same way as I do when I feel happy.

OK, I am just going to stop talking for now. Think a little bit, let your brain work and Ill speek to you tomorrow!
Goodnight!

Chocolate monkey

Today, I am in desperate need of some chocolate.

Next week we have holiday, so what does this mean? More free time? No. I haven't figured out yet why, but holiday always means more stress and more work. It's like the teachers have this weird idea of : "O holiday is comming, then we should hurry up and give them some extra work!"
Actually I am quite sure they don't think that, they probably think something like "How can we ruin their holiday and make sure that we have nothing to do?" And then the solution will be, give BIG assignments which should be done after the holiday so you have nothing to do in you own holiday and the students have enough time to do something! Wow what a solution, those teachers probably think they are brilliant...

Now what to do, I am sorry that I haven't post something yesterday, but I was sort of punishing nobody for not reding my blog. But then people start to read it at times like 11 p.m. That like when I am asleep. So the whole day i'm like, no one is interested in reading my blog, and then the next day I discover 3 very bored people who read it! YEEY.
Actually it is quite understandable, I mean I sleep at 11 pm so I am not bored because I sleep. But when people don't sleep they, most of them, end up behind their computer and they read blogs, or watch funny videos.

Wow I know what I will post in this blog: vloggers you HAVE TO SEE!

• Smosh
• Charlieissocoollike
• RhettandLink
• juliansmith87
• Nerimon

(OK, atm I really like smosh, but they are all nice! :) )

HAVE FUN!

I love autumn!

I really love the way the sunshines. I really do, it is so magnificent.

The nice soft coulour of the sunlight has been shining in my room the whole day.

I am not kidding I really love the way the light shines into my room!

So enough about the wonderfull autumn light, btw even the leaves of the trees are nice. I think my favourite season is autumn. The weather is still nice while it is also a bit chilly, and the colours are like amazing. Haha I feel like I am in love, but I am not since it is just the weather. I think that the efect of spring is the same as the effect of autumn on me. (The effect of spring is that there is a lot of 'love' in the air)

But ok, I think I am just going to show some pictures of nice autumn colours, they are from last year but they just remind me of this weather and feeling!

Another recipe for the sunday morning

I LOVE COOKIES


I just made some cookies with the sister of my best friend. Is that weird? Well i enjoyed it so it is probably not that weird at all... And the cookies tasted really nice! Actually I think I am going to give you the recipe since I have nothing better to write about.

Of course i could tell you what I am working on, which is "Is obesity determined by our genes" it is really interesting, because actually it is determined by our genes for 40-70%.
( Dont you think that it is funny that I am talking about cookies, then about obesity and now i want you to make/eat cookies?)

so here is the recipe for well we call it: "Zandkoekjes"

• 250 gram flour
• 100 gram sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 125 gram butter

1. Mix everything, just put everything in a bowl and then knead it till its well one big dough ball.
2. Well spread it out and cut it into nice forms
3. Put it in the oven for 15 minutes on 200 celsius!

AND TADA YOU MADE SOME DELICIOUS COOKIES!!

The translation of zandkoekjes is sandcookies, but that doesnt sound very eatable, so just call it cookies!