winny’s blog

the other night we had an astronomer who told us everything we wanted to know about the universe and more. We went outside to see for ourselves. It was really great.

We could see Upiter with the rings very clear. He showed us several constellations.

Never had a manicure or a pedicure before, but here it’s all in the game. Not too bad, I can tell you.

My nails are black now, all twenty of them. I’ll get a picture to show here.

Well, how’s that! Me, the black, and the french tips of Anne.
s that!

Am now in Portugal since monday. It is gooood.
Weather is lovely, sun is shining, the wirlpool is hot! Really enjoying ourselves.

Even did the aerobicsclass and had a wonderfull walk yesterday afternoon. See how gorgeous this house lies against the hill. Swimmingpool is good too, although the water is still cold.

I went to the movies tonight. The prestige. To be honnest, I was not very impressed. It is about two magicians fighting and spying on eachother to have the best performance. In the end it is not trics anymore but magic, which can not exist of course.
Although the theme is interesting I found it rather boring at the end.
And the worst thing is I got a fine for parking at the pavement. Ok, I know it is not allowed but everybody did it and we were not in anybodies way at all. Did they really have to fine me for that??? Bugger.

But hey, the predict up to 20 degrees C. in Portugal, so who’s complaining? Tomorrow in the afternoon we will leave from Rotterdam Airport.

Theo and I, we have this great new PDAphone, TyTN (see one of the post below, that far too long story).

Look what we can do with it. You see the track on the satellite picture? That is the road I drove tonight from Rotterdam to Delft, Macro. My TyTn was empty, no power left, so the way back could not be tracked.
There is a little program, NoniGPSplot, that does it all on the PDA. Of course you need a GPS with it. I used my bluetooth GPS.

Exciting, isn’t it ;-? Ofcourse it is not like you can’t live without it.
It is just…
becouse I can!

I am born on 28th of september 1955. That means I’m a libra (dubble even, as my ascendant is libra also). I always felt like it was true for me, for a great part of my life, I had trouble with making up my mind, making choises.
Not anymore by the way.

Now I was wondering what my date of birth means for the Chinese horoscope. A bit of googling tells me that I am a goat. Hmm, not very charming. I rather was a tiger or a dragon or even a snake, but hey, I’m a goat (btw when you are born on the 23th of august 1955 you are a goat as well).

It means that I should be creative, imaginative, artistic, soft, friendly, attentive, generous, easy, capricious, sensitive, undecided, pessimistic en a worrier.
And also romantic, loving en caring.

Who knows, there is a lot in it to recognise but that is the same I guess for a lot of people.

Never heard of him until…

Some weeks ago Theo and I heard in our favourite meeting restaurant ’5′, a song with the most edifying title: cucurucucu. It sounded most horrifying.
Theo tried to persuade me of the fact that he nows this same song in a really wonderfull implementation. I laughed at him and definitely did not believe him. How could this ever sound beautifull.

The other day he proved me wrong. Listen to this.
It is sang by Caetano Veloso in the movie ‘hable con ella’ by Pedro Almodovar. (Have that on DVD. Not seen yet)

Piquant detail: I got this song from the city discotheque where I went on my bicycle this morning. And to be frank, it was lovely weather and good cycling. Even in wintertime in Holland I can do this without freezing to death. Only my ears almost fel off my head.

Some time ago I bought a book with this title. It sometimes is hilarious. For Dutch people that is, for I’m not so sure if you understand the fun of it when you are British.
The title of this blog for example, does that make any sense?
We say: ‘ik krijg altijd mijn zin‘. Translated I guess it is something like: ‘I always have it my way‘. For us the fun is in the word zin, which can not be translated with one word, and definitely not with ‘sin’. But if you don’t know that…

But then again, getting your sin should not be to bad, should it?

Jammeh, the president of Gambia, can cure aids he claims. On his website is more of this thrilling news. He uses some yellow, bitter drink, followed by 2 bananas. Of course it only works when you don’t use any other medicine let alone aids medicine. And look, how convenient, it also cures astma.
I hate it when they do that. At this moment 1,3 percent of the population of Gambia has aids. This is relatively low. It will rise from now on, I’m sure. Look at his website, it is terrible!

… does not stain and that is a good thing.

Last Monday my cleaning lady was here. So very nice to come home when she has been here. She always put clean sheets on the bed as well. Maybe even that is the best part. I know I could do it myself as wel, but… you know how it is.

That night, yesterday, I went to bed with a nice glass of white wine. But there is really not a good place to put it on my bed. So I put it on the hard cover of my book. Not the first time and it never goes wrong. This time however…

it fel over when I climbed into the bed and everything, and I mean the whole place, was wet. Smells like a bar as well. So I grabed a towel, but that is only around the corner, which took some time. In the mean time the wine was well succed in by the sheets. So I slept like in a bar yesterday.

In the morning it occurred to me that I didn’t even think of making the bed all over. What does that mean? I’m spoiled I guess.
And by now it is dry, so there is no need for changing anymore, is there?

And no, I was NOT drunk. Dron’t thunk I dank to much.