moving day!!

am moving.

from now on, sell-fish.blogspot would no longer be updated.

i found a new house, much nicer .. much practical ...

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thank you!

greetz,
mia

the book of answer

a while ago, in a moment of temporary desperation - i asked the Book of Answers by Carol Bolt:

will I ever get a job?

the answer:

make a list of why not

which lead me to another question:

will i get a job any sooner? in the near future?

the answer:

ask your father

hahahahaha coool!!! ....


last question ... this was actually a rhetorical question, no matter what i know the answer already, but .....

does michael the one for me?

the answer ... *sound of the dramatic drums*

OF COURSE

cooooooooooollllll!!!! i like this book :D


>>The book of answers by Carol Bolt<<

Leiden Loop

we went to Leiden last weekend. i went to Leiden like two times before, but i never really got a chance to see the city itself in any of both occasions.

Leiden is suprisingly different than what i thought it would be like. wikipedia says that the history of Leiden goooes long back till' the Roman Empire. sure is a very old city, and the atmosphere is very old Europe - the kind of athmosphere that i thought Amsterdam would have, when i first got here hahaha .. lol..

the centrum of Leiden is not so big tho' it revolves around the canals that connected the two branches of Old Rhine rivers. we went to this sort of traditional 2nd hand book-vendor in the centrum - selling different kind of books from novels to sociology from 4 euro to somelike 20 euro/book; it was quite interesting since the seller used old wooden boxes and set them along the bikes-parking place which was also set in zig-zag instead of straight-line. personally, the most interesting part for me is the "Leiden Loop" - a path that guide the tourist to go through the old city of Leiden, signed by sort of old style lamp-post. we followed some of this path, since according to the guideline it would take 110 minutes to actually go thru the whole path and we didn't actually have that much time or more likely energy to do that :D anyway .. we saw the beautiful Hooglandsche kerk who look incredibly big compare to the flat-typical-dutch-houses around it. we passed through the footsteps of rembrandt along the almshouses*, and walked up to the old castle De Burcht - a very old castle built in the 11th century, it was built the highest ground of Leiden so when the flood come the people of Leiden could go there and save themselves from the flood; but through the shooting's holes that we found around the castle we found out also that this castle was also meant as a defence fort, most probably from the invassion of the Spanish before. the Leiden loop was also leading us to the university complex of Leiden Universiteit - it surely look different than Amsterdam. more old-European-style-campus like - with beautiful parks and canals around the complex; i would surely have a lot of nice picnic if i was a Leiden's student. and when we were trying to find way back to the car, we passed through some passages or aisles well-known by its history of the pilgrims - the first settlers of the new world (now: America/New Playmouth) consist of Dutch people with English roots. and finally, we passed Koornbrug, an old bridge with a very typical Roman architecture that was built over the canal; which nowadays surrounded by many small-cozy cafes'.

ive got quite a funny story tho' about it.. somewhere near the bridge, mic and me found this small path going through under another bridge. it looked like very old, so we went there thinking that it might be part of the history somehow and would led us to another historical place. so we though, hey this looks cool we're standing under a medieval-look-a-like passage and we tarted yelling some private comments (hehehehe) and then suddenly .... instead of leading us to some historical place it led us to a cafe :P ..... hahaha i surely hope nobody heard us or even saw us from the other side of the canal (yes, they could) acting and yelling stupid things.

in the end of the day, eventho' we had "not-so-satisfying" dinner, it was such a nice trip .. the weather was good, a bit windy but the sun was shining ... overall ... i enjoyed our trip so much. one thing that i regret, we should have brought our camera - soo .. there will surely be a "follow-up trip" to Leiden.

Note:
*Almhouses: Collections of small apartments (usually 12 or 13 in number) around a central courtyard featuring a well-tended garden, often with a single gateway to the outside world, they provided donated living space for the elderly poor starting in the 1600s. More ...

*Leiden pictures ... in black-white, in wikipedia.

tell me that im much worthed than this butthead

my name is rainy

rain always make me feel mellow
there's a little bit of longing in every drop of it
it makes me thinking about my love,
it makes me thinking about my family
it surely reminds me of many times that i spent just by myself watching rain falling down in this beautiful rainy country.

there's a deeper meaning of rain rather than just a drop of water
it washes away pain, heartbreak, sadness and tears
it make us strong knowing that there will be another good day
once the rain stop, here comes the sun
a drop of water add with a bit of sunshine
and there it goes we have rainbows

i often sit by the window watching the rain
accompany by mellow music and a glass of hot chocolate
thinking about what i have done and havent done
hoping that i have done enough good deeds
wishing that i would still have the time
to tell those that i love that i love them dearly
smiling, knowing that eventho' they are far away..
they're still close to my heart

people often misunderstood rain
but rain is actually good for soul
if only we would take the time to understand rain

Rain, feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down like
Rain, wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
Your love's coming down like rain
Madonna - "Rain" lyric