Mentalechoes

There seems to be a lot of angst in the world when it comes to male-female relationships. Since the time of the first homosapiens - those monkeys who actually could think enough to get confused about what their fuckbuddy was complaining about - it seems both sides have been trying to work each other out. In one of [...]

In November last year my high school had its 20 year reunion, a big party was organized in Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast - just south of Bris-vegas – which funnily enough was only 5 minutes bike ride away from the school itself. I didn’t get a chance to go, even though I really [...]

I've got a friend who always gives money to beggars on the street and at supermarket entrances. He says it's because they're people in need and that he doesn't like to see people down on their luck. I keep telling him that he's a sucker because people do take advantage of his generous nature, especially when they [...]

show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I’ll show you an exceptional man, Charles Bukowski.
show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities, Charles [...]

It was Tuesday night this week when I found myself in town with an hour to kill before a friend turned up who I was going to have dinner with. It was a warm late afternoon, and so I thought I would stroll to the bookstore and get myself something to read to pass the time. I bought [...]

Well those of us living in the lovely sin capital of The Netherlands have been enjoying a public holiday today called Pinksterdag, or as it’s known in Catholic circles, Ascension day. Maybe 200 years ago it was a day meant to be spent in proper respect to the Lord doing repentant God fearing activities like virgin flogging, and [...]

For a couple of months now I’ve been a casual player of Texas Hold’em Poker with a group of guys I met through one of our work crowd. I’m not all that good at poker, I’m never in the big money at the end of the night, but I’m not the beer bitch either, which [...]

I’ve been spending a lot more time just recently in virtual worlds, mainly World of Warcraft, and Lord of the Rings Online, with the occassional jaunt in City of Heroes for a bit of light entertainment. I was quite addicted to WoW at one stage of my life, but seeing as I have an obsessive [...]

I went for a job interview last week, with some new tech startup down in Leiden. It was pretty much the usual kind of thing for a tech interview; I got paraded around from one group of geeks to another, all of them trying to work out how much of a geek I was, and [...]

A day ago I flew over to London for a friends birthday bash. However, what started out as a routine plane flight actually turned into a intensive one day course in how to queue, because all I did for a whole fucking day was queue from one human traffic line to the next.
At the airport [...]