The last couple of days was full of stories about people complaining about the non-smoking rules in public bars. (forbidden since the 1st of July)
Personally, I do not mind. I do not smoke, and do not go to bars (anymore). My boyfriend smokes, but does not go to bars (because he does not drink alcohol).
So, my opionion goes up in smoke!!!
Last year I was completely fan of the Tour the France. I watched a lot of the cycling on TV (when it was aired) and loved the ups and downs of the cyclist…untill, the Rasmussen-thing.
So Contador won, and the Tour was over.
(Gosh, he has some big ears…)
Will I watch the Tour that intensively this year…nahh, I don’t think so. But still, I wonder if there will be new favourites and new talent this year….
Are you a sportsfan…if so, only soccer…or other sports as well?
Sometimes I come across a film that knows how to capture the spirit of summer. Most of the time, these films are not your standard Hollywood productions: for example, I really liked ‘La Piscine’.
‘My Summer of Love’ is one of these films, that captures British summer that is mixed with boredom, exitement, friendship, infatuation and difference.
First of all, it is not your standard summer love story, as the two protagonist are both young girls in their teens. However, it is neither your standard lesbian/bisexual movie: the unlikely friendship between the girls of lower and upper classes just flows into a extention of sexual exploration.
I like how Mona portrays the roughness of the ‘lower-class’ environment. She is bold, sometimes a bit masculine, but very caring. Tamsin is the partly neglected upper-class ‘princess’, who loves to dive into a summer of escapism with Mona.
I will not give any spoilers, but it certainly captures the mood of a summer love…even if the protagonists are not your usual type of lovers….
I am supporting Spain, because their team is more sympathetic than the Germans (and my mum went to Spain when she was pregnant of me)…
Spains has always been the happy go lucky vacation country for me…so …go Espana
Summer holiday is near.
I have to work really hard this week, in order to enjoy my (deserved) holiday.
I have to write my highly intellectual dissertation paper this semester.
And in order to spoil my brainy mind, I watch some ubersuperficial TV.
I love this season of Holland Next Top Model: I think that the girls are really gorgeous and modeltastic.
The four girls left remind me a lot of existing models:
Yvette—>Looks a lot like model of the moment Agyness Deyn
I love this girl’s sweet personality: Ananda—>Daria Werbowy
A real Gemma Ward with her aliennesque features: Patricia
Normally, Jennifer would look like Chanel Iman, but on this picture she reminds me of MIA.
Probably the most popular party day of the year, where Dutch people go out in their orange outfit, and celebrate, originally, the birthday of the Queen’s mother….
I love the outfit of Princess Laurentien, the fuschia dress with short sleeves and A-line skirt, with her matching shoes!!! (third picture, feeding animals)
Also Princess Mabel, the one in black and white with her high heels (fourth picture)
Today and sunday I have been cycling with my boyfriend, in order to get more active. I was active during autumn, in Liverpool, but in the winter I kind of slummed and failed to cycle a lot.
So, get those legs moving again.
Yesterday I was filled with positivity and joy, especially after looking out of the window. The sun was shining, birds were singing, it smelled like flowers…oh joy, it might be spring.
So I whipped out my springiest outfit out of my wardrobe: a flowery skirt with a pink sweater and purple tights (yup, still some tights, my legs are not bare-ready yet)….and, tadaaah,…..<brrr> it was still chilly outside.
I persevered and went to Amsterdam in my springy clothes: I had to apply for the University Library in Amsterdam in order to rent books over there (for my dissertation). However, I have the free library card (yey) but I could not yet look inside the journals I needed yet (probably monday), Indian Journal of Gender Studies , so I went shopping…
I went to American Apparel, a vintage shop, and more superficial glossy magazines….It was lovely…even though it was not really warm yet…
The last couple of weeks has been a period full of deadlines, happiness about received grades, shopping greed and internet browsing. I still have to wait for one grade to come in, Gender and Ethnicity in Europe, so I hope it will be good.
The next two months I will be focussing on writing my BA dissertation.
I will focus on travel literature of the 18th century of Britains (I think women only) about India. It will be quite interesting, and I already ordered a heap of books at bookstores and the library. I love to write about Postcolonial Theories, and with this topic I can combine English Literature (my BA speciality) and Postcolonial writing (hopefully, my future MA speciality)…
But I will probably still have some time to do the superficial stuff, like blogging, shopping, reading crap magazines, etc….
