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Blog About Me [2/52] Ten Random Facts

Monday, June 24, 2013 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

I’m hoping that at the end of these 52 blog posts about myself, the one who reads them, has an idea who I am, where I’m from, where I’m going and what I like. Like friends getting to know each other, but then slightly more one sided. Plus, for me it will be fun to read this again in five years time and see how I’ve changed 🙂

So to start off, 10 little facts about me.

  1. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was eight years old. When we went to pick up my first pair of glasses, my mom took me to the cinema afterwards to see Disney’s Aladdin. I was amazed, it had never been so sharp before 😀
  2.  The first movie I saw in the cinema, that I can remember, was The Rescuers Down Under in 1990.
  3. I think these movies kicked off my life long love of Disney movies. I’m still a huge fan of them, and animated movies in general.
  4. My current favourite song is I See the Light from the movie Tangled.
  5. I love playing board games, the more components and actions the better. Current favourite: Elder Sign.
  6. I want to get a tattoo in the near future, and am not much worried about the pain and such. However, the idea of getting my ears pierced freaks me out so I never had that done.
  7. I’m taking singing lessons, which I really enjoy. I’ve learned so much since I started.
  8. I love Say Yes to the Dress
  9. If it weren’t for the size of my house (small!) I would get a couple more cats. I love cats.
  10. I can’t live without books.

This small entry is all for this week, but I can’t always write entire novels 😛

Posted in: Blog About Me, General Tagged: Blog Prompts, List, Me, Random

Weekend Ramblings

Sunday, January 22, 2012 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

I love weekends, sleeping in, late nights, doing random stuff, it’s the best.

Today I slept in, and got rudely awakened by the postman ringing the bell. He had the t-shirts I ordered from Jinx before New Year’s. Bad news? Customs decided to charge me an extra twenty in additional taxes for them. And not having any loose change in the house, and the postman being one without a mobile debit machine, we agreed he would drop it off at the post office.

Then I went back to bed.

Got up an hour or so later and spent a relaxing early afternoon hanging around on the internet. Then I went to the post office and picked up the package. All three shirts fit well and are good so that’s that. The only thing I still need to get now is the Ukelele. I mailed the store for an update on when it’ll be back in stock, but so far no answer yet.

I also played around with Excel. Using it at work a lot lately has made want to play with it at home too, especially with some of more fancy features besides just making tables. So I decided to create a spreadsheet for my financial administration so it has lots of Sum functions in it. I also used three sheets within the workbook, one for the income and expenses spreadsheet and the second for a quick overview of the totals along with a small table that the graph on the third sheet is using as source data. I love messing about like that. Figuring out the right functions for the cells that needed to do something than just adding shit up was fun to do. As was making the graph.

Nienke had to work today, and as she was on her way home she suggested we order in pizza. I thought that was an excellent idea so while she was waiting for the bus I ordered. It was delivered promptly at the requested time and, as usual, it was good stuff. I love the tiramisu that Buonissimo has 😀

Watched some Supernatural during dinner and am now watching The Nine Lives of Chloe King. I hadn’t watched it before, but I was intrigued. And since it only has ten episodes it’s an easy show to just cram in. Third episode has just ended but it’s a little too late to see more. I’m gonna go sleep in a little bit, my eyes are starting to protest. More tomorrow, if I have time.

I need to sleep in first, obviously 😀 And at the end of the afternoon I’m going over to Eva’s to play games with her, Jarig and Ingrid.

Bed now, though. Definitely bed.

In closing, the shirts I got:

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: Board Games, Clothing, Eva & Jarig, Food, Friends, Home, Ingrid, Nienke, Photos, Random, Shopping, Tech, TV

Another Beginning

Sunday, January 8, 2012 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

So, here we are, a week into the new year. I don’t do resolutions, I know myself well enough to know that’s pointless. I have, however, decided to pick a theme. Basically an idea, or motivator of sorts, to keep in mind and use to guide my decisions this year. Theme for this year is Just Do It (to steal from Nike). This year the idea is to be more active in my pursuits, to take action to get where I want to be.

In that light, I’ve made some related decisions in what I want to do this year, both long term things that I want to start this year, as well as things I want to accomplish. Most of the stuff I can’t, or rather won’t, talk about just yet. But I hope to provide further updates soon.

I also have some stuff that I will talk about. First of that being this blog. It took way longer than expected to fix the image issue I was having. This was mostly my own problem because I let it lie for too long while it, in the end, turned out to be a relatively simple fix. After it got fixed I did one of the photo posts I said I would and then left it again. Putting pics together for the August photo post was annoying the crap out of me, so I just sorta stopped.

To prevent shit like that from making me stop blogging again, I’m not scheduling anything anymore. No more ‘I’m going to do this on a weekly basis’ or ‘every month I’m gonna…’ or even non-committal shit like ‘I plan to regularly…’ I’m not planning anything any more in regards to the blog. I still have a lot of things in my head that I wanna post, but I’m just gonna do whatever comes up, whenever I want to. There’s already enough shit in life that you have to do, I don’t want this blog to be one of those things. After all, I have this website to have fun with and to make a record of who I am and what I like. If it becomes a chore, it’ll loose all life it has.

 

Something else I think I haven’t mentioned here yet is Milo. Milo is my new cat, whom I got from the shelter on October 22. He’s a young boy of almost two (in March) and he’s almost the complete opposite of Monkey. He’s playful, and active and a bit of a talker. Monkey only makes a noise when he really wants to go outside and I don’t respond fast enough. Milo opens his mouth a lot more, and when he does the most adorable little shriek comes out. It’s almost like a friggin’ baby bird going meeeeep! The shelter named him Bo, which is stupid, so I renamed him. But, in keeping with tradition I kept (most of) his shelter name as part of his name.

So, without further ado, meet Milo Beauregard Gibbs:

My cat

Monkey and Milo are getting along pretty well. Milo wants to play with Monk but he’s not really into that. They do chase each other around (in mostly good fun), though. This usually starts with Milo approaching Monkey to sniff at him or invite him to play and then Monkey does this hissy fit kinda thing where he yowls a bit and waves his paw around. Milo the backs off a bit and seconds later they’ll be chasing each other around the house.

He also loves feather teasers, so much so, even, that the one I had is almost dead already. So I bought three new ones right away to get a bit of a supply. And today the laser pointer I ordered came in. Tried it on him, he went insane for it 😀

In comparison, Monkey ignored it and pointedly reminded me that he knows I’m the one controlling the toys so he’s not gonna waste his energy on that, thank you very much. (related sidenote: Monkey has very expressive eyes).

Tomorrow Milo gets to go outside for the first time since I got him. I kept him inside a little longer than I normally would because of New Year’s and the fireworks and such. I hope he likes it, he tends to still be a little skittish with loud noises or big/tall objects/people although he’s progressed heaps in that since he came. The first week he would hide under the bed every time I walked through the house. He still runs when he gets spooked, but now he almost right away comes back out from wherever he runs to, to check out what happened.

In short, he’s a cool cat 😀

 

Other stuff… eh… Work is going well I guess. I applied for a trainer/coach position within my department, got through the initial interview with flying colors and got to do an assessment. I felt pretty good about that, the tests were easy and the talk with the counselor about work and ambitions and what type of person I was went well too, at least I thought so. The role play situation went less well. Both because I hate role play situations, and because I found the set-up they had for it not relevant to what actually goes on at my job. All in all, I had a good feeling about it.

The result came in a week later, and I got a negative result. They thought I would not be suitable for the position because, in a nut shell, I ‘m not social enough, and that’s not fixable… Right. I was fuming for two days. There’s a core of truth in the report. Yes, I am an introvert, I told him so, but that does not mean I’m antisocial, it just means that interaction with people costs energy (versus giving me energy). I know this of myself so I take precautions. This is the reason I don’t work on Wednesdays so I have a day in the middle to recharge. Also, social interaction has been difficult for me in the past. I used to be more shy but this is something I’ve learned to overcome for a large part. Especially since I started working at my current job I’ve learned so much about interacting with people and have grown so much in that regard.

So, back to the report, I felt as if it were a snap shop of me three years ago, give or take. I discussed it with my supervisor and some other people later on, and they all were surprised by it. They saw the core of truth that was in there, but the extent of it…

Regardless of that, though, the assessment is final so it meant I was out of the application procedure. So I’m still doing what I did before, and that’s not a bad thing either. I love writing so the e-mail and letter thing is a good job for me to have. I’m doing a lot of letters these days, more so than e-mail, and I’m really enjoying that. However, I will be looking for opportunities to move forward or at least expand my skill set. For the moment still preferably within the same company.

 

I think this is more than long enough for a first blog of 2012. I hope to do a post to catch up on my booklist and 101 list. Booklist definitely because I failed my target so very much I think it might be the lowest in years. The 101 list… Meh, I think it needs revising first. I’m having second thoughts on a lot of the goals and I think the sheer amount of them, even keeping in mind the long time one has for it (1001 days) it might be too many things for a person with an attention span like mine.

Posted in: General Tagged: 101 in 1001, Animals, Books, Cats, Holidays, Introvert, Me, Milo, Monkey, New Year's, Random, Reflection, Site, Work

Subtitles

Monday, April 18, 2011 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

Watching an episode of CSI now, and over here in the Netherlands, foreign shows are subtitled. And the person who subtitled this episode is really good. I often complain about subtitling and how they botch jokes, innuendo, double entendres and so on. But this was a very good re-write in Dutch of a joke.

Scene: Two pathologists are talking about closed room murders, which turns into closed room jokes. Eventually, the following dialogue happens (slightly paraphrased):

Doc 1: You’re in a closed room with a table and a saw, but no doors and no windows. How do you get out?
Doc 2: I don’t know.
Doc 1: You cut the table in half. Two halves make a…?
Doc 2: …hole.

After this the scene went on to discuss how the murderer must have found some way to create or find some kind of  ‘hole’ to get in and out.

The subtitle then went like this:

Doc 1: Je bent in een kamer met een vrouw, geen deuren en geen ramen. Hoe kom je eruit?
Doc 2: Ik weet het niet.
Doc 1: Negen maanden wachten en…
Doc 2: …ontsluiting.

Literally:

Doc 1: You’re in a room with a woman, no windows, no doors. How you get out?
Doc 2: I don’t know.
Doc 1: Wait nine months and then…
Doc 2: …dilation.

Very clever way to get to the same point (a hole) without losing the joke (since the two halves don’t make a ‘hole’ in Dutch). Kudos!

Posted in: General Tagged: Language, Random, Thoughts, TV

Nothing

Monday, November 8, 2010 by Tse Moana 3 Comments

Tonight I will be doing nothing. But I’ll be doing nothing while being conscious of it, instead of seeing the evening pass by while doing nothing but random browsing and end up feeling drained.

So tonight is apple crumble, book, warmth, winter wreath planning, tea, music, acceptance, peace, fuzzy animal, shower, sofa, love.

Posted in: General Tagged: Mindfulness, Random

Want, Want, Want

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 by Tse Moana 2 Comments

Gaaaah!

I want!

I want sunshine. I want a holiday. I want money. I want chocolate milk. I want to sleep in. I want a hug. I want more books. And time to read them in. I want strawberries. I want more knitted socks. I want a pool. I want to splash. I want to run. I want a hammock. I want a bigger house. I want roses. I want to kick things. I want to pet things. I want to sing. I want to dance. I want to hide. I want to gaze at the clouds. I want something fuzzy. I want to stand on a mountain and scream.

Posted in: General Tagged: Random, Rant

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