Mentalechoes

I’ve got a big dutch exam in 4 hours which I’m shitting myself about. I need to get a good pass with this or I won’t be able to sign up for the level 2 course which begins at the end of this one. That would be bad!
I’m going to need to speak dutch so [...]

I’m at home with a neck injury today. I’ve managed to strain the muscles and ligaments on the top of my spine and neck on saturday when I was in the gym doing heavy back exercises. Everything hurts right now; moving, sleeping, sitting up, lying down, not moving at all. It’s one of those rare [...]

I read that short term goal setting is the way to achieve things in life, so I’m going to set a few short term goals now to help me become an overacheiver!
-1- Win the European Lottery. The 40 million euro prize money can be put to good use in achieving the other nine goals.
(Subsequent goals [...]

I had the strong feeling today that I am once more slipstreaming through daily life as an individual alone in this world, behind a bunch of other individuals trying do the same thing I’m trying to do, which is go somewhere. I mean that metaphorically and not literally; meaning we are trying to do something [...]

I stood at the counter of the traiteur looking at the delicious turkish foods behind an immaculately clean glass case trying to decide what I would eat from the fine selection they had. A fat man in his late 40’s walked in with two small kids in tow, probably somewhere around 4 and 6 years [...]

Seriously has it been a week since I was here. It feels like only yesterday.
I woke up this morning to one of the most nostaglic moments that I have experienced in a long time. As usual my alarm went off at 8am which is tuned into a local radio station. The first few bars of [...]

It’s 6.30am, and I’m up.
I can’t remember the last time I actually got up at 6.30am, it’s been so long. Maybe it was 5 years ago, maybe 10. Normally the only way I see 6.30am is from being up the night before and seeing the sunrise. Then you know you’ve had a good night out, [...]

I don’t normally this kind of thing I am doing right now, as my blog is not some kind of philanthropic do-gooder space, but I was so moved by the plight of this little girl that I simply felt compelled to try to help her in some small way.
A little girl of 5 years old [...]

It’s warm tonight. There is a breeze blowing in my back door, which is open, and the sounds of late night drinks and social gatherings carries inside the flat. My little peice of the world tonight is at happily at play, and there are very little cares on anyones mind.
It’s this time right now that [...]