crazy dutchland

2006-04-08T13:20:00.000-07:00

After many weeks of working on my experiment here, I finally took some pictures of it to enlighten all you wonderers. Well to be precise 2.

2006-04-08T13:13:00.000-07:00

After many weeks of working on my experiment here, I finally took some pictures of it to enlighten all you wonderers. Well to be precise 2.

2006-03-20T01:51:00.000-08:00

Read the next post after the one after that. Will make more sense.

2006-03-20T01:32:00.000-08:00

Hmm, well the last post stopped me from adding pictures, so look at this one more closely. Yes. a horses head.
A random building:

The quality establishment that is the SEX SAUNA. I dont wanna know whose inside a place like that.
Hehe. An awesome name for a garage, especially because its just around the corner from the coffee shop.
Ahh the baby dump. Either a shop, or a bloody good idea.

2006-03-20T01:05:00.000-08:00

Hey all you party people. Long time no blog as they say. Well heres an update ~ ~ yep, those thingumys contained the latest news from this side of the pond. Apart from St Patricks day that was filled with much merryment and drinking, as well as possibly the worst pint/pints of Guinness i've ever had, and from an Irish bar. Crazy dutchish ppl. So as theres no news, and I got bored, I went on a photp tour of all the random things around here. So here goes:

Here we have the traditionally dutch computer shop. De no-nonsense computerwinkel. Makes me chuckle.

Here we have some really rather large bowling pins, and a sinking ball. Might make sense if they were outside a bowling alley. But no. In traditional Dutch style, their just between a couple of roads.

And a building that they probably looked at afterwards and sed "hmm, something just aint quite right here"Heres the university, well part of it. I don't know what either of these 2 buildings are.

And this is the entrance way to the uni.

I've got no idea what this is, but ipresume it's some sort of projecting device as it has a screen at 1 end. But then its a huge thing with built in air con for a screen that size.And this building is some sort of chemical place. Not that strange I hear u say... But loook closer.

Now go 2 the next post

2006-03-04T02:52:00.000-08:00

Ayyyyy. It appears to be quite a substantial amount of time since my last post, so this is going to be an extra special one about piles. But first the news. What have I done recently? Well I went home, had an interview, came back, and thats about it. So on with the piles.

I tidied my room so we now have a pile of fruit, empty juice cartons, and beer. Yummy

2006-02-12T04:32:00.000-08:00

Ahh. I feel like a nice cold Fosters....I don't look like one!!

Oh wait. MAYBE I DO!!!

2006-02-10T08:38:00.000-08:00

So. To town to town. Or i should say city coz its pretty huge. If I didnt have an excellent sense of direction i'd probably still b there. Or would have given up, found a bar, and oh yeah. Still of been there. Wee heres some pictures to keep you amused.
This is the Philips stadium. Crap pictures but u get the idea. Most of the big buildings here are owned by Philips, but im told that most of the appliances sold are from Siemens.

Heres 2 pictures of town, just some random shops. Note the bikes. This is a small amount, they just got in the way of a sexy fireman.
Here's some sweets I bought in town. I tried to get things that we dont have at home, and it bit me in the ass. The stick thing is indeed a stick. looks like a stick tastes like a stick. I don't know why i got it. The pipas thing looked like bits of chocolate. Its actually salted sunflower seeds. Do I look like a rabbit? The Panoch thing looked liked peanuts but is dried, crispy, spicy sweetcorn. Not bad though. The Beertjei thing starts with beer. Good thinking i say but its powdered liquoriche of sumthing jank like that. Pants. The only good thing from the whole lot is the little box which are millions. Called dummies over here. Silly mane though, everyone knows a dummy is what you give to a baby. And their liable to choke on these. FOOLS

Anyway. Please insert comments on possible stick uses

2006-02-09T12:05:00.000-08:00

It was the night before wednesday, and all through the lab, not a beer was being paid for, send me to rehab. or something that rymes with lab. Ahh, stab. An outloud thought. better be careful. might say something too sexy for words. but then i couldnt. arghf. exploision of the doomness.

Anyway. yes. there was a free bar in the department coz a new lab was being opened, and so had to attend. It turned out with bout 5 of us students and fer hundred professors from all over the world. And a fair amount of drunkenness ensued. Well it had to really. I was told about another stereotype of the eengleesh that we drink a lot, so i had to make sure i carried it proudly on. Unfortunately the bar thing shut after a couple of hours so we all rode unsteadily 2 a bar in town. 1st though someone wanted to stop at a coffee shop to get a joint. its the weirdest thing when you can order it over the counter, and the woman has a whole load of little draws with rolled biftas in. Anyway. i couldnt have any coz of DML and their drug tests of doom, so carried on to the drinking establishment. Was pretty good, but no idea how much i drunk coz their glasses are so small here that u have so many u cant count.

Well thats about it for that. When I remember something else ill let u know! Ill try and get some more pictures 2

L8rs fools

2006-02-05T13:15:00.000-08:00

So, the russian vordka night. I thought that by agreeing to turn up to this evening and sample the vodka, I would try it and that would be it. Plain simple vodka, not too good, but not 2 bad. Well, I turned up and was served up a traditional Polish plate of jank. It was brown and full of what was apparantly chopped up sausage and meats and onion and some juice stuff. Well, I tried it and it wasnt 2 bad, until i discovered mushyroom. Hmm I thought, how do I get out of this, so I formulated a cunning plan and sed does anyone want this fine plate of food coz i dont. Well, that was ok, and something wrapped up in paper was brought in. A bottle of vodka I thought. But no. It was a fish. A fish I hear u ask? Yes it was a fish. A smoked mackrel, which relieved me a bit that it wasnt a Pole fish or another such breed. So the fish was chopped up, and then the vodka poured out, and a jar of home pickled gerkhins opened. So I had some vodka, some fish, and after that was convinced 2 try gerkhin, which take my advice. DONT. Like shit on a stick, or a pole to be more honest.

Well I wasn't allowed to stick with 1 shot of vodka and had another, and then another till the bottle was empty. Unfortunately I then learnt that its Polish tradition that if the bottle doesnt end with everyone having an equal amount around the table, another one has to be started to fill up the last glass. And another tradition is that once a bottle is open it has to be finished. Apparantly alcohol shops stay open 24 hours over there just for this rule. Well we only had the 2 bottles so they disappeared quickly and that was that, back to counter strike.

The vodka wasn't actually that bad, but the food wasnt 2 sparkly, but ahh well. We should try it back in england. Mayb even with advocat.

On a better note. This is dutch beer. 35 cents a can, damn nice and 5%. Good shit.

2006-02-04T07:12:00.000-08:00

I realised I can see my bike from the window, so I can be assed to cake a picture of it to enlighten you people in cutting edge dutch technology. Trust me, this is one of the better ones.

2006-02-04T07:00:00.000-08:00

So hello again fellow people. Has been a while by mikes blogging standards since my last post so here we go again! I have acquired a bike, and I didn't even have to go to the station at night to wait for some bike dealer to try and sell me one. One of my Polish friends friends has borrowed me one. I also discovered that this guy is married, and buggered off to Holland for a year about 3 weeks after tying the knot. Seems quite hectical. Anyway, the bike is a pile of crap like most of them here, but it goes along, even if you can hear me coming before you see me. Someone please explain that to louis before he takes it the wrong way again.

On another note Russian people aren't very good at talking subtly about racist things. This guy I met was telling a story and cunningly changed the characters to a white monkey and a black monkey. Even hippos would have been better

So tonight I have been convinced to drink russian vodka with the Poles. I fear this is a bad plan, but has gotta be better than an Advocat competition.

Well I've gotta go and not move for a while and hope my aching goes away. Silly jim.

2006-02-02T07:53:00.000-08:00

It snowed again today. Here's some pictures of campus.

2006-02-02T07:48:00.000-08:00

This is my office. Wooo my own office! I must be more important than I thought.

This is what I can see out of my office. It is quite glassy.

2006-02-02T02:00:00.000-08:00

I learnt last night that apparantly English people are stereotyped as being very slow. I thought we had a lot of wit, especially mikes razor sharp one. And thats wit louis, not penis. I got told a common Polish joke about English people that was uber unfunny: There were three englishmen sat on a bench. One of them goes "I think it is going to rain" Half an hour later another one says "I don't think it's going to rain" Another half an hour later the third one says "I'm going; I don't like it when you argue" And yes... That's it. I meam WTF mate.

On a good note it snowed again today. I've got some pictures i'll put up later. To the lab. And yes tom, thats lab not bar!

2006-02-01T13:23:00.000-08:00

I have just been to the gym. My arms don't work too well now. Walked past a coffee shop and shops that appear to sell women on the way back. Don't know what's going on there. Terrible business. It's been snowing so its all whoopy daa. Over and out Scotty.

2006-02-01T09:32:00.000-08:00

hEY PEOPLE. tHIS IS MY SECOND GO AT JOINING THE PHENOMENOM THAT IS BLOGGING. aS YOU CAN SEE IT HAS GOT OFF TO A GOOD START. That's better. So where did I get 2, oh yeah. Dutchland. Its pretty crazy and really rather Dutch here. Much more so than I anticipated. They eat things calles Krockets. Thought i'd try one 2day, and its a bit like a long croquette from englishland, but is full of jank instead of potato. Quite tasty though. Tasty jank.

What else. I got my own office today which is cool. It's meant to have 4 people in it but im the only one there, so lots of desks to sleep under or on, or both if i want to. Their internet also doesnt stop you downloading stuff so can get a film in 12 minutes. I'm working on some project about bubbles. Not the fun bubbles though that make pretty colours before they destroy your eyes upon entry.

My flat place is nice with some cool flat mates. See picture. That's me. I found some white port, and 20p cans of beer. A good place indeed.

Well that's it for now. I'm off 2 the gym. Those ppl who know me will have probably fainted by now, and so I can dis them all without their knowledge. But just incase I wont coz im nice really.I keep those thoughts in my head. But yes, 2 the gym for an energetic sauna.

Byeee