A Purpose, or, Not Settling for the Substandard

Filed under Personal on July 11th, 2011

Well, here I am, starting sentences with “Well,” and flooding them with commas. I don’t even know how to continue that paragraph. Honestly, I need a purpose. After two years of business school, one incredibly wasted year of cultural studies, and three years of English literature, I am finally finishing one long chapter of moving [...]

Busy as a red-hot bumblebee

Filed under Personal on October 24th, 2008

Yeah, yeah, I know I have been a bit absent for the last couple of days. Stop bugging me with your annoying curiosity! I’ve actually been keeping myself pretty busy with all kinds of things. It’s the end of the first period of the first semester (no, really, that’s how I should refer to it [...]

Transatlantic baloney

Filed under School on September 4th, 2008

So, this year I enrolled into the English language course at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. My exact enrollment was into the English literature (first major) and Transatlantic studies (second major) courses. The first major is okay, very interesting, and although the 6,000 page textbooks make me cringe, I’m willing to give it a go. [...]

English literature

Filed under School on June 22nd, 2008

I love to write. Being able to create interesting situations, new dimensions, dynamic characters, and all that gay stuff. I remember writing my first “novel” (guess it was more a “novelette”) when I was about seven/eight. “The World is Not Always Good,” about a girl and her best friend, and their weird adventures. (Do not [...]

Film can be art, dammit!

Filed under Film on May 16th, 2008

I went to every university class I had for the first six months of this school year — I don’t anymore. One of the main reasons for my absence is that I just couldn’t bear the arrogance of the “prestigious art educators” and the “art experts.” My, oh my, how mighty they feel themselves to [...]