Fri Jul 27 12:06:45 2001
Is there a psychic link between Russell Crowe and I? Just when things look up for me, he's "reduced to tears" when a football team (the Orara Valley Axemen, but who's ever heard of them?) blasted his design for a new jersey, saying it made them look like a bunch of fairies." According to The Age, this is news. http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/07/27/FFX7D8FPLPC.html
Fri Jul 27 11:47:50 2001
Sun Jul 22 13:30:17 2001
Rode about 40km on a round trip from Amstel Park yesterday. What's up with all those chickens, btw? Tomorrow I venture into Den Haag to say hello to Slobodan. Ok, not really, to try and get visas.
Fri Jul 20 12:06:06 2001
The Age says, "Minke whales 'cockroaches of the sea'". Yeah, well fuck you too.
Fri Jul 13 15:14:22 2001
Hey Cat! They're showing Shipwrecked here, so I get to watch all those favourite moments all over again, especially the faggy guy and his annoying accent!
Wed Jul 11 12:43:26 2001
I realised last night why our neighbourhood (Oud West) freaks me out a little - I'm not used to seeing kids around at all. Goddamn suburbs!
Bring on Singel - back to the inner city I go.
Wed Jul 11 11:52:05 2001
Looking for jobs is difficult enough (especially when your local visa isn't through yet) but dealing with bad spelling makes it just plain painful. Grating, even.
This beauty is from Jobserve: "This is grate opportunity to work in the Netherlands."
Sun Jul 8 16:22:35 2001
I wanted to write to Burger King (Hungry Jacks in Australia) to ask why they don't have a vegie burger available in their Dutch stores.
There's no chance of doing that from their website, according to http://www.burgerking.com/company/faq.htm. (Look for " Why can't you send e-mail to Burger King Corporation through the Burger King web site ").
But I'm not sure if I'll bother now that I know that some of their vegie burgers aren't - in the UK, the 'Spicy Beanburger' might be cooked in animal fat. (The 'vegetarian' burger is apparently never cooked with aniaml-based burgers or fats.) BK claim that they never promised the 'Spicy Beanburger' would be vegie, so why is anyone upset?
Bah!
Thu Jul 5 16:23:29 2001
While I'm ranting, some people are fucked. A guy working on the English version of Popstars said this about the chick who was apparently the best singer of the whole lot, but was rejected cos she was too fat:
""People like (Freeland) should stop embarrassing themselves and other people by going for things they're patently not right for," says Cowell. "It's like running a 100 metre race if you're 36 kilograms overweight.
" I wouldn't use a ridiculously fat, ugly person in a band with four hunks it would bring the rest down to their level."
Bugger this, you can read it yourself: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/06/29/FFXVB54FHOC.html
Thu Jul 5 15:45:01 2001
Stupid free mail things! Gonna write one in php the second my ibook arrives.
Anyway, who the hell would sign up for, or watch, this show about life in the trenches?
"They must be willing to wade through mud, live with rats and maggots and be gassed, deprived of sleep and subjected to simulated shelling. "
Thu Jul 5 15:43:32 2001
So I've found a free net cafe (thanks to Caroline), and I've been reading the Age online. Wtf is going on in the world of reality television? Big Brother (Australia) participants actually liking each other (shock! horror!) and now this:
The BBC is "looking for 25 young men to spend a fortnight in a trench dug along the old French lines in World War I."
Mon Jul 2 10:33:09 2001
Well, Edam was fun. Ate fondue for the first time last night, nearly had a heart attack this morning because I've never eaten so much cheese in my life.
Moving into our (month) house today. Yay!
Arriving back in Amsterdam, the first thing you smell in Centraal Station is the dope. When we arrived last Thursday at 2am, I could smell it as soon as the train doors opened.