just to enjoy, they came up in me:
warwick avenue - a song i played with the big band (which i have left now too; china and holidays would make it impossible; leiden would kill it for me anyway)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZ5-L9znt8
two songs from dutch artists - my incredible drive to educate anyone not-dutch about ''dutch'' culture :P:
and actually (another dutch song (dutch isaid?!)) I played this one too in a band or two:
en-joy,
fedde
woensdag 3 juni 2009
another post, another day, another hospiteer-session
hahaha! - just to laugh it all off
ok, so yesterday i went to leiden to hospiteer again (see one of the previous posts for what hospiteren is); with like 11 canditates we all got on chance to introduce ourselves - i actually did well i think; not too shy etc - and then could leave again... i didn't get the room.
Yet the 2 x 3 hours journey to and from leiden wasn't useless: i (finally) met Kim Vinh. I had envisioned myself paying dinner for us two, but since i first wanted to know where the house was and it took us a long time to find it, we didn't get that far - actually only walked. :(
It was very nice, very good meeting him! Him showing the generosity i have experienced with the few other buddhists i met too - he gave me a book (Why should we receive and uphold the five precepts? - spoken by the Ven. Master Hsuan Hua - it made me very happy :D ); us talking about our lifes and adventures; me being kinda worried about where the house was and how the hospiteren would go.
So i got back home laaate and had to get up early! My old school, the Dr. Algraschool, my little brothers' current school, had sports-day today and i had signed up to help. That was cool! I supervised a time-run for children of about 9/10 yrs old: they'd run about 60 meters or so and i'd clock it, having fun with them. :) Children are fun. Though it is sad to see how some of them already do really have bad habits - one got angry, actually fighting; some refused to listen or couldn't listen to more than ten words or so; some used some really bad language...
And it was fun to see some of the teachers - for as far as they didn't leave and didn't come new - again! Actually talked for about 20 min with the teacher i had in 8th grade, the last year. :)
okay, from now on, the blog will mostly be my experiences in China!!!! :D:D:D
yeah!!
be safe, happy, and don't forget to smile (partly saying this to myself too of course :P)
fedde
ok, so yesterday i went to leiden to hospiteer again (see one of the previous posts for what hospiteren is); with like 11 canditates we all got on chance to introduce ourselves - i actually did well i think; not too shy etc - and then could leave again... i didn't get the room.
Yet the 2 x 3 hours journey to and from leiden wasn't useless: i (finally) met Kim Vinh. I had envisioned myself paying dinner for us two, but since i first wanted to know where the house was and it took us a long time to find it, we didn't get that far - actually only walked. :(
It was very nice, very good meeting him! Him showing the generosity i have experienced with the few other buddhists i met too - he gave me a book (Why should we receive and uphold the five precepts? - spoken by the Ven. Master Hsuan Hua - it made me very happy :D ); us talking about our lifes and adventures; me being kinda worried about where the house was and how the hospiteren would go.
So i got back home laaate and had to get up early! My old school, the Dr. Algraschool, my little brothers' current school, had sports-day today and i had signed up to help. That was cool! I supervised a time-run for children of about 9/10 yrs old: they'd run about 60 meters or so and i'd clock it, having fun with them. :) Children are fun. Though it is sad to see how some of them already do really have bad habits - one got angry, actually fighting; some refused to listen or couldn't listen to more than ten words or so; some used some really bad language...
And it was fun to see some of the teachers - for as far as they didn't leave and didn't come new - again! Actually talked for about 20 min with the teacher i had in 8th grade, the last year. :)
okay, from now on, the blog will mostly be my experiences in China!!!! :D:D:D
yeah!!
be safe, happy, and don't forget to smile (partly saying this to myself too of course :P)
fedde
maandag 1 juni 2009
adventures
hahahahahaha :D
i had played with my little brother and the lego some days ago, so he kept on asking me to continue our play - he said my play was unsurpassed (and i'm still trying the figure out whether that is or is not a compliment for an adult - which i am, surreal it is)... So yesterday i - finally - did it; and it was fun!
(for those who don't have anything very useful to do, you're allowed to read on :P - cause here comes: the adventures we are in! (otherwise, skip until bold letters appear))
we made ourselves knights and soldiers, witches and dragons, evil ones and benevolent ones; they really look cool (H).
So during that process i conceived of the plot. Now mind you, in my playing there have always been plots, very interesting thing actually, never just dull building or whatever, but there has to be a line, a story.
So euhm... here it is:
there once was a large country - the red carpet we play on - with in each of the corners a city, ruled by a king (mind you: it is still one country). Now, those kings all have a golden crown, signifying their unity, and the citizens only have to follow orders from a king if the order is agreed upon by all four kings. This way, the cities work together for safety and economy, which - of course, since it is my plot i could make it so - works really well.
In the midst of the carpet - euhm, i mean country - there is a sword in a treasury, which, when stabbed into the earth, divides the country into four again (the earth splits...). This sword was put there by the kings' ancestors who had brought unity amongst the four cities and was well guarded by magic spells and skeletons.
Now, a cousin of one of the kings steals that king's crown. To his surprise however, only two special attendants thereafter listen to him. Knowing he is unable to conquer the other kings in his quest for power, he resorts to magic and the really evil figures appear one by one. Contrary to what he had expected they didn't obey him; because, as they said, he held only one crown while they knew there were four.
So those evil figures then set out to obtain power - trying to get as much crowns as they can, or perhaps dividing the country again with the sword, so as to have control over one city - we don't know yet, it will be played though :).
What is interesting to note however is that there are some principles underlying the plot:
-prosperity and harmony go together;
-when the harmony is broken, chaos (=the evil figures) gets released, into an uncontroled search for power.
haha, sorry for absolutely boring you, yet i hope you did enjoy :P
What's left till university now?
this week: Dalai Lama Thursday; Flying China Friday;
four weeks from now: arriving from china; graduation ceremony
seven weeks from now: flying to CTTB
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
how cool a summer,
stay warm,
fedde
i had played with my little brother and the lego some days ago, so he kept on asking me to continue our play - he said my play was unsurpassed (and i'm still trying the figure out whether that is or is not a compliment for an adult - which i am, surreal it is)... So yesterday i - finally - did it; and it was fun!
(for those who don't have anything very useful to do, you're allowed to read on :P - cause here comes: the adventures we are in! (otherwise, skip until bold letters appear))
we made ourselves knights and soldiers, witches and dragons, evil ones and benevolent ones; they really look cool (H).
So during that process i conceived of the plot. Now mind you, in my playing there have always been plots, very interesting thing actually, never just dull building or whatever, but there has to be a line, a story.
So euhm... here it is:
there once was a large country - the red carpet we play on - with in each of the corners a city, ruled by a king (mind you: it is still one country). Now, those kings all have a golden crown, signifying their unity, and the citizens only have to follow orders from a king if the order is agreed upon by all four kings. This way, the cities work together for safety and economy, which - of course, since it is my plot i could make it so - works really well.
In the midst of the carpet - euhm, i mean country - there is a sword in a treasury, which, when stabbed into the earth, divides the country into four again (the earth splits...). This sword was put there by the kings' ancestors who had brought unity amongst the four cities and was well guarded by magic spells and skeletons.
Now, a cousin of one of the kings steals that king's crown. To his surprise however, only two special attendants thereafter listen to him. Knowing he is unable to conquer the other kings in his quest for power, he resorts to magic and the really evil figures appear one by one. Contrary to what he had expected they didn't obey him; because, as they said, he held only one crown while they knew there were four.
So those evil figures then set out to obtain power - trying to get as much crowns as they can, or perhaps dividing the country again with the sword, so as to have control over one city - we don't know yet, it will be played though :).
What is interesting to note however is that there are some principles underlying the plot:
-prosperity and harmony go together;
-when the harmony is broken, chaos (=the evil figures) gets released, into an uncontroled search for power.
haha, sorry for absolutely boring you, yet i hope you did enjoy :P
What's left till university now?
this week: Dalai Lama Thursday; Flying China Friday;
four weeks from now: arriving from china; graduation ceremony
seven weeks from now: flying to CTTB
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
how cool a summer,
stay warm,
fedde
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