It all started again

The first weeks of uni are behind me and so it’s time to round up at bit, or – as we Dutch would say – make up the balance. Football started again, and although I’m desperately out of practice and thus playing like shit – I have played one or two satisfying matches and even scored a hattrick in one of them. There is still a lot of catching up for me to do though, and I’m working on that. Only terrible downside is that because of the artificial grass I have huge wounds on my right leg which keep my from playing football right now. And on top of that, they hurt like hell (no, really). Today I refrain from putting on pants and I will try to do as less as possible so that it can finally heal (after 5 days).
Then university. It all started again, and after half a year of Dublin chilling I need to step up to not lose ground. I am in my Master year now and that means reading many, many studies, getting deep into literature and performing even outside exam periods is key now. All of this is not too bad though: It makes people more intelligent and after all that’s what you’re in school for, right?! And I’ll manage, I only have to get used to doing things again instead of hanging around all day doing nothing (life in Dublin).
I also started my job at the University Language Center. Although I only did some easy and rather simple stuff I think I’ll like it in the future. I cannot wait until the actual English training starts so I can really put my skills and interests into practise.

This week has been rather boring. I can’t play football because of my injury, I didn’t go out for the same reason and I can’t really think of anything else to do right now. I spent loads of money on band-aids instead of beer, sad enough right?! :-P
One thing I did was putting up ads for the two rooms that will become vacant in our house. A couple is finally moving out in order to properly live together and now we have to choose two freshies to come and live with us. Two ads were put online, and both reached the limit of 80 replies within 5 hours. This means I had to go through 160 replies of boys and girls desperately looking for a nice place to live. After two hours of scanning all the replies I now have a list of people who I would like to see at an evening at our house so we can choose on of them. Like always, this will probably be a hell lot of fun and will bring everybody in the house closer together. History shows that it won’t be too difficult to choose a new roommate, so I am looking forward to two fun nights of drinking, laughing and getting to know new (and hopefully) fun people.
Finally, I want to use this week to get in touch with some old friends again who I haven’t seen for a while and maybe even book a flight to a nice destination to meet some of my Erasmus friends. I really want to travel again, and I can’t wait to meet again many of the great people I met last year. So every Erasmus friend who reads this and has some time and like to invite a nice Dutch boy (and maybe Alice wants to come too), let me know!

So, after a week of slowing things down and being bored as fuck, I hope next week will bring some more ‘craic’ for me (and less pain, muhh).

From my (not so much, don’t worry) misery, I salute you.

First of the year

Not for the first time, but from now on as always, I will be blogging in English. This is because on my foreign travelling (and future studying) I make more and more friend with who I like to share my life and experiences.

Today's gonna be just a short blog. I just ate my dinner and got back to sitting again, because my legs hurt due to playing football and walking home (45min) because of my third flat tire this week. I'm bloody gonna buy a new one, cause I'm fed up with having nothing decent to ride.
I also got my new phone, it's a SonyEricsson K850i, the successor of the K800i (my previous cell). Cool thing though, better controls (buttons) and an even greater 5MP camera! This will keep me satisfied for another year.
About the football, I played quite a good match as a controlling midfielder. It was good to play with my new teammates in another setting than practice. We even won, and that's quite new at the start of the season (they used to loose every year from this opponement)!
Tomorrow the new university season start, and with that my freedom ends ;). Well, kinda. I'll still be going out a lot, drink lot's of beers, play football till I drop and have fun with friends. But the thing about the start of the year is: you feel the pressure again. You actually know your screwing up your time [i]again[/i] (although you always promise yourself you'll start earlier next time) and you feel kinda guilty when your hanging around in your sloppy house-clothes in front of your laptop (or tv) (or both). But hey, that's life, I accepted it, and it's probably never going to change. All hope is on my possible future children, but they will probably do the same thing as their parents did. (Like, bollocksing around) And that doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't effect your life too much (read: get a pathetic lazy loser). Enough polarisation for now, let's hop on the final part of my blog.

I got to listen to some awesome music on Lowlands Festival 2008. This was truly the best (music) weekend ever, being paradise itself. During the day the best pop and rock has to offer, and at nights electronic music that makes you feel alive like never before. I explicitly enjoyed the gigs of N.E.R.D. (best!), Editors, The Kooks, MGMT (and el.) Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism, Junkie XL and Erol Alkan. The last one I mentioned was the greatest surprise for me. I really enjoyed his smashing and sizzling gig that blew the Bravo tent away during the last hours of the 3-day festival. And surely, I'm gonna get back to him.

My "charts":
(Everything is "at the moment")
Best song (rock/pop): Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet about me
Best song (electronic): Erol Alkan ft. Princess Superstar - Licky [Recommend]
Best song overal: Erol Alkan ft. Princess Superstar - Licky

Best upcoming: (still) Laidback Luke
Best mix: Ministry of Sound The Mash Up 2008
Best Podcast: David Guetta FMIF
Props for: David Guetta for putting Meck vs. Dino (So Strong) and Eric Prydz (Pjanoo) next to each other in the mix. These are this summer's best songs.

Currently listening to: New Bloc Party CD is out, so gotta check that one out.

Last gig: Lowlands 2008
Today's: Citydance Nijmegen
Next gigs: Friska Viljor (Doornroosje)
Coldplay (Ahoy' Rotterdam)
Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam) ???