what happened?

Right, so all of you are wondering what I'm always blabbing about on the index page in the first paragraph? Well have I got the solution for you both! Here, I will keep a little archive of what I've written in exactly that paragraph. For your reading pleasure, I will try to put everyhthing on here one month at a time. The oldest post of the month will be at the top. When you have no idea what I'm talking about, go back a few days and everything should become clear. Whenever I think it's worth it, I'll add a link to the more interesting things I mention. Try to expect not too many links.

September 2003

2 - Tuesday - 23:12
Eelco is back in Holland, which is good, but not for him, since he misses Japan. School life is beginning again here in Leiden, with my agenda slowly starting to fill up. Also, I'm going to start teaching about four different classes from this week on. First things first though, because tomorrow is the Tanuki camp, which I'll visit also. That should be a lot of fun.

4 - Thursday - 23:15
Right, hello, it's been a while. I've been to the Tanuki camp, of which I told you about two days ago. Wouter was there, and that was mainly the reason why it was so much fun. We threw around his frisbee, built a nice bonfire, played around with the new students, and had quite a lot of beer throughout all these activities. All in the sun, pretty good I'd say.

6 - Saturday - 00:16
Today, I've gone out of my way and bought a new tv. Together with Tim and Eelco, I walked around Leiden in search of that one tv which would be within my budget and desires. Notice the little Yamanote line model on the top, I got that from Eelco. We've put the tv to good use immediately by playing games on it, mostly the Great, the Only, Perfect Dark.

6 - Saturday - 21:29
After cooking and eating dinner today, I watched some tv downstairs. I fell asleep for just short of half an hour, and when I woke up, it came to me. Why not watch tv in my own room, with my new tv, on my own couch? That's much more comfortable anyway. Today has been rather slow, but good. I played a lot on my Nintendo Gamecube, and even got some work done.

7 - Sunday - 16:02
Today, the second season of '24' will start in Holland. I can recommend this to everyone, but not if you haven't seen the first season. You'd miss a lot of information I think. Today's been kinda good. I talked with Tim, and we made an appointment for tomorrow, for some good old-fashioned gaming. I've been playing Metroid Prime today, which still is such a good game, it's scary.

8 - Monday - 01:17
So here I am, in my little room, doin this transcription and translation job for NHK, Japan's public broadcasting company. Work for professional television, and I'm using this really old taperecorder, listening to tapes and trying to figure out what the people on them are saying. When this is going on air, a lot of people are going to watch it, and it's just such an unreal feeling that I'm helping create the program, alone, in a tiny room, with an old taperecorder...

9 - Tuesday - 01:19
Whew, what a night. Tim and I got together for a good old fashioned day of gaming. Starting off with the Great Perfect Dark, we continued with the exorbitantly good Metroid Prime, which we continued to do for a long long time. We probably cruised through half of the game within one day. Next up was Marvel vs Capcom 2, which had been a long time for the both of us, since our time in Huis ten Bosch. We had chips too, of course.

9 - Tuesday - 23:15
Seriously, is it normal to keep a phone ringing for more than 15 times!? I stopped counting at 10, and after a a while, when it still didn't end, I decided to pick it up, seeing the party on the other end was STUPID enough to not assume there wasn't anyone at home. Of course there was, but that's really not the point. I won't go into details about who it was, but some of you know anyway.

10 - Wednesday - 10:45
Yesterday, I was playing on my keyboard, and I got into this music writing mood. So I contacted Raymond, a music playing friend of mine, who plays in a big band, and asked if I could do an arrangement for them. That was okay, so I immediately started arranging the great song 'When it's sleepy time down south'. I'm trying to get it to sound like a big band version of the take Dave Brubeck did on his Southern Scene album.

11 - Thursday - 16:08
Classes started again, and it was quite funny to see the look on my professor's face when he realized that I still had to do his class. I should have done that a long time ago, but it just never happened. Ah well, in any case it was a lot of fun being at my university again, I don't want to quit being a student just yet! Before I forget though, let me take this opportunity to say thank you to Aya and Takuro.

12 - Friday - 08:08
And so another day is beginning, but I noticed how early it is! This is strange though, because yesterday I was awake at the same time, but I had considerably less difficulties with waking up. Well, probably nothing a good gallon of coffee can't handle, so I'll try something like that. If all is well, it's going to be a pretty busy day today, with university, work, and even a party afterwards! Let's see how it goes...

12 - Friday - 16:22
What a great day it's been already! I met Mischa, who I hadn't seen for a couple of years! While I'm writing this, Tim and Niels are in my room, playing the wonderful Mario Kart. The battle mode, of course. Tim has won a couple of times, but so has Niels, so they're formidable opponents to eachother. Oh, I also met Neil and Patrick, which has been a while also. Right click and save here for a Mario Kart Movie!

23 - Tuesday - 02:09
ELEVEN DAYS!? Please, come on! What could a person do in eleven days? I'm truly sorry that I haven't updated this site in such a long time. Installing a new windows wasn't the smoothest thing that ever happened. In the near future, expect a lot of updates, accompanied by many pictures and movies, because I've got a new digital camera! Too much has happened to describe here, so that will be lost in history... But it's been good, and I'm sure some of it will turn up on this page!

23 - Tuesday - 13:07
So what exactly did happen the last couple of days? Well, for one, Jasper Bulk is back in Holland, and everybody's been jumping about that. Also, I did a lot of work for NHK, and with the cash I made from that, I bought myself some new clothes, including a great and classy suit, just because it was so cool. I made a new friend, Aya, who quickly became my Japanese little sister in Holland. More updates will follow soon though, and I hope with more pictures.

23 - Tuesday - 18:47
And furthermore, three of my friends graduated last week! Ad, Sumit and Dean all finished Japanese and got their Master's degree. We had a great time afterwards, celebrating the big day in Leiden with a lot of friends and family. Ad's sister was also there, and that's always a sign that it's going to be a great evening. Wouter, Marije, Justus and I played 'Kolonisten van Katan', a cool board game, and today I met Aya and Anika!

24 - Wednesday - 00:23
Also, school has been going on, and this year is turning out to be a good one once again. Not only have Tim and Jasper, Mischa and a lot of others joined us again, the classes are fun, and it's just all around nice to be at the Arsenal again. A few people have left, and a lot of people have joined us, only fueling the thought that university life is just as cyclical as I thought. Expect more pictures from my new camera soon!

24 - Wednesday - 19:23
Great! I've been working today, and I also went for a beer with Jasper, who was at my room this afternoon. I still have some work to do, but when that's finished, we have this little plan to go to Leiden and consume more beer. Or anything else, it's all the same to us. Or maybe it isn't, but our goal is to have fun. Work is almost done by the way, and tomorrow I'll teach again, wearing my brand new, ultra-cool suit.

25 - Thursday - 08:13
Now what a way to wake up. You know, just totally feeling like you don't really want to do... anything. Bulk's sleeping now, he stayed at my room for the night, seeing it was too late already for him to go home, the buses had stopped going already. We were at van der Werff's yesterday, followed by Einstein, 't Keizertje, and they didn't accept us anymore at de Kroeg, because it was too late already. Hap Yam was good though.

25 - Thursday - 15:30
Classes in the morning, work in the afternoon, and in the evening, more work. But that's good. Work is a lot of actually, I really enjoy the things I do for money. Now what more does one want? The morning was kinda sucky though. Not only was I really tired, the airheaded manga freaks were a big pain in the bum again. Ah well, we can always ignore them or make fun of them.

26 - Friday - 11:38
When work was done last night, I went back to Leiden, to Takuro's place, where Jasper also was having a good time. Aya was there, as were Ijsbrandt and Rene. When I got there, I was pretty hungry, and man was I surprised when Takuro offered me some fine home-made Japanese 'okonomiyaki'. It was very, very good. I was there for a short while afterwards, but since I almost fell to sleep, I went home.

27 - Saturday - 03:06
It kind of was a slow day. I had classes, that's not it of course, but after all the work (ahem) I did, it just felt really slow and easy. In the evening, I was talking to Aya and Takuro, using webcams, mics and what not, and we decided to go to van der Werff's. Takuro was there, and also Ijsbrandt and Rene. The ladies were represented by Yasuyo and Aya. We had a couple of drinks, dicussed important plans, and took a group picture.

28 - Sunday - 01:49
I booked a ticket to London tonight, and I'll be going there in about 2 weeks or so. You know, nothing much really happened today. Jasper asked me if I wanted to go out to drink, and although that sounded really good, the prospect of first having to go outside and sit in a train really wasn't at all that exciting, so I didn't. Tomorrow I'll try and clean up my room. I also have a huge pile of laundry to do. It never stops...

28 - Sunday - 23:35
Right at this very moment, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Eelco Hoenselaar is sitting on my couch. In my room. Why this honor? Well, for one thing, we installed the Japanese Windows XP Pro on my computer, and it's smoother than a greasy fat man covered in oil during that weird tomato throwing festival they have in spain. In the rain. But anyway, here's a picture of Eelco. Not the smooth pc.

30 - Tuesday - 10:41
Yesterday, I went out for a drink with Jasper and my Japanese sister Aya. We had a great time, drinking beer and eating shoarma afterwards. We chilled out with Ad. In the meantime, I'm getting job offers thrown at me by the hour it seems. Yesterday and today, I got greasy fat man covered in oil during a total of three phonecalls, having to do with four separate job offers. Too bad I just don't have the time for all of them!

30 - Tuesday - 23:59
I ordered the first and second seasons of the Fox series '24' yesterday. I'm sure that I'll like them, because it's one of the series that has me staying home just to watch the show. If you haven't seen it, it stars Kiefer Sutherland, everything happens in real-time, it's really, really tense, and for me, I just like the stories told in the series. I can't wait for the DVDs to arrive, in just over a week of time.

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