Bad memory

I can't recall when I've last written a letter...

Things used to be so simple. 

As a child you'd have the least worries in the world.

The hardest thing you'd have to think about was how to win at a game played outside with friends or how to please your parents in order to receive affection or praise (or gifts ....hehe).

Proverbs

Kind of hard to do when you're unwillingly put into a certain situation that makes you the way you are.
But I'd love to let go of what I am now.....a bit of a contradiction huh?
I'm trying so hard to literally let go of what I am. I am fighting this disease with all my might and will not give up until I've become my old self again. But then again I can never go back to the way I used to be so in reality I'm trying to become a better me. And that is sort of what this proverb means to me. Better oneself, pysically, mentally , emotionally and spiritually.

Delfts Blauw - Delft Blue

I'm inspired by the Dutch "Delft Blue" style nowadays. And so I've created a Delft Blue pattern, background, and Iphone wallpaper haha.

I started off drawing some vector images with Illustrator. I actually copied some photo's I've Googled and recreated them in Illustrator as drawings haha.

I only made 6 drawings, because I was getting drowsy and wanted to finish before I fell asleep entirely......

Food and stuff

I've tried something new........

DIM SUM pork flavored

It tasted great! It wasn't home-made though. Just a prepacked item I bought at an Asian convenience store.
I couldn't finish everything - -".... It was a bit too much for me alone. Moms didn't want to help eat some.
The only thing I did was mix the dip....... Haha. It was a mix of tomatosauce, dried pepperflakes and hot sauce.

Taken with my Iphone

Themed

Continueing the snapshot theme, I edited the pics I've taken this past Friday as polaroids also.

The "party" was held to celebrate our friend Hanneke for being selected to be this years bride for "Carnaval".

She's the bride of the "Boerenbruiloft" (farmerwedding literally translated) of our town, wich is part of the holidy "Carnaval".

EXPLANATION:

Carnaval is celebrated once every year around Febuary-March. The festivity was celebrated before it's actual set date nowadays and originated in the dark ages (13th-15th century) in the Netherlands. 

During the days prior to "Ash wednesday" 

(= a Christian holiday; the start of the 40 day abstinence/fast preceding "Easter") 

the community was completely indulged into mocking the hierachy of those days.

A temporary monarch ("Vorst" in Dutch), nowadays Prince Carnaval ("Prins Carnaval" in Dutch), will speak and/or mock staightforwardly and suggest the people to act unrestained. Wich was considered quite vulgar-obscene at the time.....haha. During the procession that's held straight through town, containing mostly the type of people the "common folks" love to to live without. 

Example of people joining the procession with the Prince at the front: 

* long-gone-nobles

* slackers

* gamblers

* drunks

* bossy women

* demons and savages

But also priests, monks and nuns joined in.

All in all, prior to the 40 days abstinence/fast, Carnaval allowed people to paint the town and do things they were normally prohibited to do. Their world was literally turned upside down in a good way....

Scattered polaroids of the evening in question

Digitally active

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it's been a while again and I'm becoming more active on this digital highway called the internet.
Facebook has been a foe and friend of mine eversince I've signed on  in 2006 or so....and haven't done anything but accept a few friends and checked out some of their personal pages....
UP UNTIL a month ago.
Since then I've also posted stuff online. And even uploaded a few profile pics a week ago. LOL.

Just this tuesday I've received an email from a DiaryIs friend who has also disappeared from the diary radar haha. And so we've added one another on FB.


Just to note: I am one of those people who's quick to sign on to something new  BUT don't participate in the hype. I'm just curious by nature but also lose interest pretty fast if something doesn't hold my attention. Even if people lose themselves in the hype I'm more cautious and most of the time choose my own path in the end.

Tonight I'm visiting a friend of mine to celebrate a fake "hensnight" or bachlorette party.
We...."the people of this province in the Netherlands", celebrate this festivity called "Carnaval" (not comparable to the Brazilian one!) I'll post some pics on the next update.

Here are some pics I've taken with my phone during a little get-together I had with my friends a few weeks ago.