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August 28th, 2009
11:00 am - I've become a (mentor) father!
The last week, together with my lovely Israeli wife, I guided 18 kids around the city of Wageningen. My kids were Chinese, Tjech, Dutch, German, Ethiopian, Zimbabwian, Senegalese, Spanish and Italian. I had a lot of fun teaching them about the Dutch way of life and I'm happy to see that it left me with a couple of friends. This is what I love about Wageningen. The huge amount of various cultures and the way they interact in this village sized city. What I don't love about the place is how it's own succes is killing the university. But that's a topic for another date.
Pretty soon I'll start my second year at this university. I wonder what interesting things may come.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/chipper.gif) chipper
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March 18th, 2009
04:41 pm - Student Life
I was 15 minutes late for class today because I overslept.
Class started at 13:30.
I was amused.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/amused.gif) amused
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February 17th, 2009
08:13 pm - I am a weapon of massive consumption
Last Sunday I bought a pair of skinny jeans. They barely fit and I've got trouble moving around in them. Dancing has become a problem as well as riding my bike. But they look so awesome! Make my ass look great too!
Sigh...let's face it, I've become a fashion whore.
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January 18th, 2009
05:42 pm - Life is pretty drunk right now
I've become a bartender, volunteer bartender to be exact. That means I get paid dickdiddelysquat but I can get plastered and dance with the locals. The locals btw are the inhabitants of the flat my bar is in. It's a typical student bar with a twist. The twist being that all the customers (aside from one or two) are international students. I’m also the only active Dutch bartender. The net result is a rather bubbling bar and heaps of fun for yours truly. I’m even learning some Latin dance moves along the way. I might be having trouble with my studies but at least after my stay here I’ll have learnt how to shake my ass.
In my last post I mentioned btw that I thought I failed all my tests the last period. Well actually, I passed every test that I took. A bit surprising and also a big relief. It would have been rather nasty to have invested so much time and money to get here only to find out that I wasn’t cut from the right stuff.
Oh, I really should find a camera, got an amazing view. Or you guys should drop me a line and look for yourselves ;).
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/optimistic.gif) optimistic
Current Music: The Ting Tings - Keep Your Head
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December 21st, 2008
02:54 pm - Mind blurbs
Christmas holiday - I should be happy - I'm not - I didn't pass my subjects in the first period
- Looks like I won't pass any this period - love life a mess - feel like crap - hair looks fabulous though
- need further introspection - that is all
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/contemplative.gif) contemplative
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December 14th, 2008
12:31 pm - Quick update and meme-whoring
Been living in my new swanky pad for 3 weeks now. Right now it only has a bed and my tv (with a ps2). It's pretty bare bones but I don't mind. I can go to the main campus building any time (between 8:00 and 22:00) to use a pc and my corridor mates are bunch of nice people.
I'll start taking pictures when I have a camera I can actually use and when my room doesn't look something exploded in it.
In other news I've been infected by an " boost my ego " meme. So...
Leave me a comment and I will reply with why I like you. If I don't know you all that well, I'll either make something up or tell you why I like your LiveJournal. You must pay for the privilege by posting a message like this one on your LiveJournal.
Warning: My replies might be slow :P
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November 22nd, 2008
09:05 pm - I got me a new home
So I'm finally moving to Wageningen tomorrow. Eveything is packed and ready to go. I'll be living in a rather bare bones room for a little while because I don't have any time for any major remodeling. I have some interesting ideas for the room though (which might never see the light of day).
For those who wanted to know, I'm going to be living on the 10th floor for a student flat. I have a nice view of the surroundings and Wageningen campus is only a 10 minute bike ride away. Then again most things in Wageningen are pretty close together. Oh, and I'm sharing my corridor with 6 other people. I hope I'll get along with them >_>
I't gonna be grand living in Wageningen. I'll be able to partake in the interesting student life and hopefully not screw up my subjects like I did last period.
Well that's it for now. I'll show you the pictures when I take em ;)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/excited.gif) excited
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November 20th, 2008
10:16 pm
Happy belated birthday Dama!
To bad I can't make it to your birthday party.
I'm moving this weekend ;)
Current Mood: optimistic
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June 11th, 2008
12:24 am
En wie crasht er 'n hele week bij Steven omdat ie z'n OV kwijt is? :D Fluffball!
Don't put it in the Fluffert!
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En wat doet de Fluffert altijd als hij bij mensen slaapt? Hij vergeet z'n spullen zodat hij nog eens langs kan komen om ze op te halen ;)
De schade deze keer:
- 1 sok
- 1 fietspomp
~ Steven
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May 26th, 2008
03:02 pm - Posts nu ook in het Nederlands!
I'd like to start this post by stating that I've decided to switch over to my native language. The main reason is that I once started this lj, many years ago, to train my English skills and also to keep in touch with my online palls (most of which spoke English). As most people reading my journal are Dutch now and since the content of my posts usually isn't so horribly complex that you can't use a web based translator, I see no reason to not write in my native language. Rest assured though that if anything really BIG or important happens in my simple life I will post an English version as well (or if any of you English readers complains ;)).
So now, something completely different
Pascal's leven op dit moment is vreemd, leuk, emotioneel en dramatisch. Niks nieuws onder de zon dus. Het leven in Wageningen gaat zo zijn gangetje en ik ben van plan ergens rond juli/augustus te gaan verhuizen. Tenminste, als het een beetje mee zit met mijn vakken. Ik heb aanstaande vrijdag al een tentamen en het is een motherfocker van 6 ects. Nu denken jullie Uni-mensjes misschien van " 6 ects, das normaal toch? ". Op het HBO heb je simpelweg geen 6 ects theorievakken. Het hoogste wat je daar tegen komt is 4 ects. Van mij vergt dat dus een boel meer studievaardigheid dan ik nu eigenlijk bezit. Een probleem? Ja. Onoverkomelijk? Waarschijnlijk niet. Ik ben nog nooit zo gemotiveerd geweest voor een studie als nu. Ik heb een gesprekje gehad met mijn studiebegeleider om mijn vakken van volgend jaar alvast uit te plannen. Ziet er naar uit dat Pascal een " Marine Biotechnologist " wordt. Wat voor mij wel catchy klinkt.
Zoals ik al eerder heb gepost gaat het qua sociaal leven daar in Wageningen wel goed. Ik leer snel nieuwe mensen kennen en ik lijk daar wel in de smaak te vallen. Meer bij de dames dan bij de heren, dat wel. Echt een goede reden hiervoor heb ik niet. Misschien omdat ik zo'n erge flirt ben of misschien omdat vrouwen nou eenmaal wat minder bedreigend over komen dan mannen. Uiteindelijk is het natuurlijk wel zo dat ik veel van deze mensen na deze periode niet vaak zal zien. Ik ga nu eenmaal master vakken volgen terwijl ik op dit moment tweede jaars vakken volg bij de biotechnologie bachelor. Een beetje sneu, maar ja, dat krijg je nou eenmaal met zulke flexibele klassen.
De omgeving is overigens echt prachtig. De universiteit heeft een stevige botanische tuin. Er staat zelfs een sequoiadendron al is ie nog niet zo groot. Voor de rest heeft de tuin een grote verzameling rozen en rond deze tijd van het jaar staat de hele tuin in bloei wat het natuurlijk extra mooi maakt. Oh en eekhoorntjes...fucking eekhoorntjes! Het enige wat echt zuigt op dit moment is het feit dat ik om 5 uur in de ochtend mijn nest uit moet gaan. De busstakingen van de laatste tijd maken alles er nou ook niet echt veel makkelijker op.
Maar goed, zo ver Wageningen. Now to the juicy stuff! Pascal's persoonlijke leven is zoals gewoonlijk erg chaotisch. Weer een relatie achter de rug. Wat alweer? Ja alweer. Gister uitgemaakt met veel boembarie en het dan toch nog zo ver krijgen dat ik daar de avond blijf slapen. Af en toe snap ik er zelf de ballen niet van. En dit keer dacht ik ook echt dat het (de relatie) hem ging worden, maar neen het ging weer de verkeerde kant op. Dus vannochtend met veel emotionele belading vertrokken naar school. Om er dan vervolgens achter te komen dat er een wisselstoring is en dat ik dus maar beter gewoon naar huis kan gaan. Nu snap ik dat God me wilt bestraffen omdat ik zo vaak retard gedrag vertoon, maar serieus, wat hebben dan al die andere reizigers op hun kerfstok?
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/sleepy.gif) sleepy
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May 14th, 2008
11:24 am - Pascal heeft hyves? (en post in het Nederlands!?)
Toen men het eerst over Hyves had dacht ik dat ze het over een of andere SOA hadden. " Ik heb Hyves! " riep men dan uit. Ik probeerde vervolgens hen dan te steunen tijdens hun ziekte. Maar blijkbaar is Hyves geen SOA maar een of andere weirdass Myspace ripoff (of is Myspace een Hyves ripoff?) en wilden mensen graag dat ik meedeed aan dit huge ass breezah-fest. In het begin weigerde ik. Neen grote massa mensen ik zal niet buigen! Ik word niet een van jullie! Ik zal altijd en immer origineel zijn! Maar nee, na verloop van tijd buigt zelfs de meest machtige man onder de druk van de massa (especially when there are boobies involved).
Dus pascal heeft nu een Hyves pagina
Er bestaat geen God
Current Mood: amused
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May 5th, 2008
09:04 pm - Happy Birthday Fubman!
LED's forever shining! ^__^
Current Mood: amused
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April 26th, 2008
04:57 pm
Happy birthday ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ingiechan
*cheer*
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/happy.gif) happy
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April 7th, 2008
09:44 pm - Damn University is tough
Well it seems that even before I start my first class I am already utterly dumbstruck by the shear complexity and convolutedness (is that even a word?) of the bureaucracy that is apparently bloody inherent to a University like Wageningen. I have to register for subjects, but I have to check if they have any overlap time wise so I don’t end up having to do 3 subjects on the same time during the same day in the same week. So I look up the time tables online hoping to find a neatly ordered…well time table really.
What do I get? Utter gibberish. At my old college everything was neatly organized in such a way that you didn’t even have the ability to pick your own subjects. You just did whatever they fucking offered you during that given period. There was no choice. But here, holy fucksicles, you have more choice than a fat kid at a Ben & Jerry’s store. As multiple studies follow the same courses and thus follow said courses at various times and dates I need to figure out whom to tag along with and when. Now this wouldn’t be so fucking hard if every subject had a fixed time and day it was given at any particular point in time. But they don’t.
One week subject A has a lecture on day B and on time C and the next week subject A has a lecture on day Y and time Z. What the fuck? Can we have a little consistency here? And of course this is true for all the bloody fucking subjects I wish to take.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been always been very very limited in the amount of choice I had (which was zero) at my old college or maybe it’s because I have the organizing skills of a retarded cocker spaniel on speed but this is seriously a lot more difficult than it should be.
I assume that the University lets students jump through these hoops to prepare them for their future jobs in the scientific community, because seriously anyone who has the mental acuity to be able to figure this shit out should already be awarded a fucking Nobel Prize.
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April 4th, 2008
10:50 pm - Master get!?
There's this doodad on the webpage of the University of Wageningen that tracks my application. You know for my master and all that.
I check this thing almost every day. And well, today, I saw this here.
*does the fluffdance*
Now I need to wait for the snail mail to come in.
Can't wait...
Current Mood: excited
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March 25th, 2008
06:32 pm - On the long road
Life hasn't been very adventerous lately so I haven't made a post in a while. Life post Unilever is a simple one, not quite boring yet at the same time, not quite interesting either.
But there is hope on the horizon. I'm applying for a Master at the Wageningen University. Wageningen is one of the biggest agricultural institutes of the world (biggest in Europe) and they seem like the ideal University for me to apply for. I allready paid them a visit a while ago during my internship, to chat so to speak. My grade point average isn't fantastic and I was afraid I wouldn't be admitted because of that. It turned out that I could actually enroll. I sent my application in a bit over a week ago. I'm still a bit tense, they told me it wasn't a 100% surefire thing if I could get in or not. I hope to know more about my enrollment next week.
Right now I'm attempting to do some bachelor subjects at Wageningen this year. As an introduction to my Master. Sounds a bit presumptious to take courses at Wageningen without being completely sure I can actually DO the master. But If I do get in, having done these subjects would save me a ton of time. Besides, the courses start in May, I'll know more by then I hope.
I'm really psyched up about potentially going to the University. For me it would require moving out. Really starting to live on my own (course I don't need to go to the Uni to live on my own..but hey it's a damn good reason). I think it would be a real challenge for my intelligence and time management skills. One should also not forget that in my field of work only having a Bachelor means that you're condemned to be a lab monkey for the rest of your life. That doesn't sound all that appealing to me. And heck, I just love learning. Bit of an eternal student I suppose.
So long story short. I'm doing much of nothing right now, enjoying my free time untill I know a bit more about my future prospects.
Pascal signing out
Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo
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February 14th, 2008
February 7th, 2008
01:07 pm - BOOYA!
Hmmm... Pascal van Tilborg, Bachelor of Applied Science. Has a very nice ring to it don't you think?
In other words.. I GRADUATED MOTHAFUCKA'S!!!!!
Not only did I graduate. I graduated with top marks for my internship. I got a 9 out of 10. That's basically the highest that's achievable. My actual work was great, my report was better and the final presentation was absolutely amazing. One person on the exam comission insisted that I had to go on for a master.
Course I'm already way ahead of them on that one ;)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/accomplished.gif) accomplished
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January 21st, 2008
02:22 pm - 8435 words
It's done.
Thank God.
*falls over*
(45 pages, that includes index and appendix)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/relieved.gif) relieved
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December 31st, 2007
07:03 pm - Happy New Year People!
And once again the old year is about to end and the new one is about to begin.
I might do a year review tomorrow, or I might not.
Whatever the case may be, all I can say now is Happy New year everyone! May 2008 bring you joy and good health.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/full.gif) full
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