QOTD August 20 2012
Monday, August 20th, 2012Ovid: “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Archive for August, 2012
Lazy Lowlands Sunday ends with a grande finale
Sunday, August 19th, 2012No complaint, but it was way too hot to be very active today at Lowlands. The search for some shadow and a breeze of wind were the main activities this afternoon, and a bit of sleep catch-up as the party last night lasted until well after sunrise. 😉
A lovely veggie curry for dinner is IN and the grande finale is about to begin; first the Foo Fighters (a whopping 2.5hours show!) followed by some random partying with Kees van Hondt which I have great memories of from Lowlands 2010… 😉
QOTD August 19 2012
Sunday, August 19th, 2012Whoopi Goldberg: “I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”
Lowlands water fight
Saturday, August 18th, 2012Nothing beats a good old water fight in weather like this, the Lowlands water fight Facebook event was a huge success…we LOVE to get wet!! 😉
QOTD August 18 2012
Saturday, August 18th, 2012Frank Scully: “Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
Lowlands 2012, here we are!
Friday, August 17th, 2012A relaxed start of the day, the sun slowly breaking through a thin layer of clouds, hardly any traffic on the way to the festival terrain and expecting to set up the tent within 10 minutes (experience 😉 )…YESSS, Lowlands…here we ARE!!
Sun, fun, music, friends, drinks and then some…rock on, HELL YEAH!!!
QOTD August 17 2012
Friday, August 17th, 2012Aldous Huxley: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Preparing for Lowlands
Thursday, August 16th, 2012I just arrived in NL, ready to get the party started at the Lowlands festival this weekend!! Besides traditional activities such as checking out known and less known artists (Foo Fighters, Triggerfinger, Kyteman Orchestra, Spinvis, The Antlers, Ben Howard, Ed Sheeran, Ane Brun, Kasabian, Miike Snow, Skrillex, Bloc Party, The Black Keys…just to name a few 😉 ), the occasional drinking, walking until your feet bleed and overall having a great time with friends, there is a special activity planned this year; a water fight to combat the tropical weather (expected temperatures to reach 34C!!)…over 9000 people signed up to the Facebook event already, so…bring on your Super Soaker and let’s get wet!!! 😉
QOTD August 16 2012
Thursday, August 16th, 2012Zig Ziglar: “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
Freaky ‘Call me Maybe’ mix
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012What happens if you mix a guy with an extensive bikini collection, some random people on Chatroullete and Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit ‘Call Me Maybe’??
Check it out below…the reaction from the surprised ‘audience’ is hilarious!
QOTD August 15 2012
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012Og Mandino: “Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”
QOTD August 14 2012
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012James Lane Allen: “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
QOTD August 13 2012
Monday, August 13th, 2012Anonymous: “Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.”
Fish packages on the BBQ
Sunday, August 12th, 2012Weather in Norway was fantastic this weekend (summer at last!) and I had my first (!!) BBQ of this year. A friend celebrated her Birthday and arranged a sport-minded afternoon filled with soccer, baseball, badminton, swimming and kubb (a typical Scandinavian game dating back from the Viking Age). And yes, that first BBQ of the year topping the day off with ‘pølser‘ (sausages, not for me 😉 ) and my home-made fish packages…hhmmmm!
More weekends like this please! 😉
QOTD August 12 2012
Sunday, August 12th, 2012Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “The shortest route to getting things done is just do it.”
The world according to…
Saturday, August 11th, 2012Many people have an opinion of the world around them, and when common stereotypes are being put in a worldmap one gets interesting and quite funny results.
Below is one example; ‘the world according to the Dutch’…more, many more of these ‘mapping stereotypes‘ maps are made by ‘alphadesigner’, the pseudonym of graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov, check it out!
(click to enlarge)
QOTD August 11 2012
Saturday, August 11th, 2012Dutch Proverb: “A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”
Song of the Day: Raspberry Beret
Friday, August 10th, 2012It is berry season; that means loads of blueberries, strawberries, currants, blackberries and…raspberries! From berries to a Song of the Day is an easy step as Prince (who else) never fails to deliver! 😉
Indeed, ‘Raspberry Beret‘ by Prince and The Revolution is todays Song of the Day…this song has the gift to make me happy and cheerful every time I hear it…so: smile, laugh, be happy and DANCE y’all!! 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzkN11rjLSc
QOTD August 10 2012
Friday, August 10th, 2012Jim Hightower: “Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.”
QOTD August 9 2012
Thursday, August 9th, 2012Oprah Winfrey: “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”
