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So, as I talked about yesterday, there's still a lot to do for the Scouting BBQ. I contacted the butcher, and he's still on for the meat and barbecueing services, I'll be signing the contract for the hall tomorrow, I've got a room for showing movies to the Scouting members the evening before, a friend of mine is bringing equipment for the movie show (beamer, projection screen, stuff like that), and I only have to order some tables and chairs from the municipality's technical service. Now if they would only realize that their phone is off the hook, I might be able to get in touch with them... Now we still need people to come and eat, though. Just about 50 people so far, and we had 300 people last year... Must be the freak rain season we've been having this August. Summer, yeah right. At least the organizing aspect is looking to be okay.
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As some of you may know, I'm part of a Scouting outfit. Every year, we host a barbeque for the members, parents and former leaders, and this year, I'm one of the ones in charge of organizing it. Unfortunately, I've been so busy this year with my studies, projects and traineeships, that I left it to the other people of the team. Apparently, not everything has been taken care of, so I still need to check a few things with the food supplier, the local youth centre, the one in charge of the location, the municipality's technical service... A bunch of stuff. That, and we've had hardly any confirmation from people attending, and the final subscription date is in 4 days... Grah!
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Just had some pancakes with ham, cheese and onion. Tasty, mmmmm... Hamcakes FTW.
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I'm sure many of you can relate to this in some way or other, either you've already gone back, or will go back soon (or you're 'lucky' and out of school). I return this Friday, drop off all my stuff, then head to Brickfest, so there's lots to do. I have to pack and make sure I don't forget anything, have to start thinking about books and classes again, etc. At least it means no more working, which is somewhat of a plus. On top of that, I'm seeing the Colbert Report again on Wednesday, so it's a busy, yet hopefully fun, week. But don't think that means I won't be on BZPower; I'm always watching you guys...
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Wow! Diamond City? Where is it, and how do we get there, Schizo? Cool your jets, people. Diamond City is merely the nickname for Antwerp, because of the diamond industry district. I'm way too poor to afford any diamonds. In fact, I'm a bit poorer as of today, but more on that later. I mostly went there because a friend of mine needed some help. You see, he's been working throughout the year to afford the rent, food and college costs, but unfortunately that meant skipping just about all classes. The result is he's got four exams he has to do for the second time. They're this week, and he was supposed to borrow a former fellow student's course book for Human Resources Management. Unfortunately, he hasn't been able to reach her all week, so he called me yesterday to ask if he could use my copy. I promised him I'd drop it off around noon today. I also found my summary of the course book, so that's a definite time-saver for him. Plus I mailed him a zip-file containing all the Access exercises we'd done this year, so that exam should go well, too. He's living together with his girlfriend now, and they've gotten their own place, right across the Steiner school, which is built in Jugendstil. Talk about a great view. The place isn't finished yet, but it's already a nice cosy den. It's not too large, but they've got a second floor (well, more like half a floor) in their apartment, with a balcony and a view of the Antwerp skyline to boot. If they ever move again, I'm interested. Great place they've got. It was nice to catch up on things, as we hadn't seen each other ever since I graduated. Talked for over an hour over a cup of coffee and a smoke on the balcony. Good times. Of course, I never come back from Antwerp empty-handed, so I bought myself two Inika (they're finally in stores) and the first copy of a manga I wasn't acquainted with. More on that in the other two entries. And frell, what a rainstorm when I got back...
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I had a horrible headache yesterday. Which is why I didn't post an entry. I didn't do anything after that thing hit me. Since we restored our computer our flash software has worked better. Which means I can pop the bubble wrap! I have fallen under the evil spell... of the Bubble Wrap Demon. Kohaku
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I'm back from camp. We had a bit of a rain problem, but it all worked out well, we and the kids all had fun. I'll give you all a full account when Kora sends me the pictures. Too bad I didn't get third place in the Epics Contest, but after all, only that particular chapter was judged, so the rest of the epic did little to reflect on the chapter itself. Props to T for winning, though. As for the sandbox from the title: we went camping in Limburg, which is Belgium's sandiest province. I swear I brought tons of the stuff home...
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Just got back from a beer-tasting session. I went with my dad and brother-in-law (who'd already been there and was already rather groggy). The guy made his own home-brewed beer, usually only for friends and family, but as it was Old Crafts Weekend, he opened his home to the public. He built his own brewing installation in his garage (or carhole, as Moe calls it) and everything. He names his beers after famous 'icons' from Temse's (my home town) past: we've got a statue on the quay depicting four of them, the Quay Walkers. So far, he's got three kinds of beer, and they're called The Brown One (a brown beer, a bit heavy but containing too much sugar IMHO), The Thwarter (a white beer, a bit heady but not too much) and The Nagger, my personal favourite. Meanwhile there was a real rain storm, and we were sitting on benches in party tents. Roar, thunder, fill 'em up, bartender.
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I figured I should do something to get the birthday message out of my sig, since that was over a week ago. So, let's see, what happened since then. I went camping with some friends, good times spent around the campfire having fun. Then me and some other friends went and saw the Colbert Report being recorded. We actually made it on the show for a split second! Finally I went p to Connecticut for what was actually some BZPower-related business, but I can't really talk about that right now. :X It was a fun road trip though. I'll hopefully be headed down to the shore this week. With all this fun and excitement, who has time to do things like go to work or check BZP? Just kidding guys, I'll still be here, so don't think you can start goofing off.
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Our computer died a few days ago. Such as internet, so I haven't been on in a while. We got internet back after restoring our computer. We still have a lot of programs that must be added, such as my Nintendo Wifi USB Connector. I am back with my ZOMBIE computer though! Muahahahahaha! Kohaku
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Leaving tomorrow, going camping, gone till the 18th, don't burn down anything while I'm gone, nor break anything, for more information read rest of blog, totally way past 2 AM and not enough time for a decent sleepingperiodsogottodashbyeseeyoualllater! *zips back* Oh, and: "Arr!" *gone*
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Well, today was my first day of school. After putting my backpack in my locker (my first school year to have lockers!), I went to class. Fast forward to 3:45... *Whiring and other fast forwarding noises* After waiting forever, the bus finally picked us up. A bus ride and three cookies later, I'm typing this. -Canama
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For all of those who missed me, I'm back from music camp. Here are a few things that I learned: 1) How to trill a throat-tone A up a whole step on clarinet without being a virtuoso player -- just use the top side key for the right hand index finger. 2) No matter how much you try to deny it, a trumpet will always be louder than a clarinet (I'm still in denial). 3) If you have an umbrella, use it. 4) The stairs really do go up to the top floor of the dorm building. oO 5) Only sleep through breakfast if you're prepared to eat a lot at lunch. 6) Make sure to get to the dining hall for lunch at the most strategic time possible, preferably 30 seconds before the mobs of people from the other non-music camps get there so that you can rub it in their faces that you won't have to stand around waiting for half an hour because they seem to be trying to savor the precious moment of filling their plate with food. (Some of the girls going to ballet camp didn't seem to be able to complete this process in any kind of timely fashion; that, or the concept of scooping food onto one's own plate with a giant spoon was too foreign to them.) 7) If you time yourself as only taking five minutes to walk quickly from one building to another, then it will naturally take you ten minutes to cover that same distance when you're walking twice as fast so as to not miss a meal. 8) Buy a wooden clarinet. 9) Follow the steps outlined in #8 even if you don't play clarinet. 10) Count your rests! Yep, I learned a lot. It was a good time, though. I met lots of people, got ten times better on trumpet, blew off memorizing some of my marching music for next year, and continued to fail to be able write something for my band. And now I'm back. Onuki, over and out once again
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Yeah we went to a fair yesterday. We went on some rides and listened to some music. Was still a bit afraid of heights. Although, I don't know why, I did go on Giant Drop at Six Flags, earlier this year. Here is the odd part, one of the songs I heard was Move Along by All American Rejects... it made me think of Bionicle. Not sure where it was coming from there. Today, I got to clean a car! How so not fun! Kohaku, The Unpirate
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We got together today to make some final preparations for our Scouting Camp. Our group is the youngest, consisting of 6- and 7-year-old boys and girl scouts. We gathered most of the stuff we'll need to load onto the municipality's truck, mostly stuff to just play with. We also made the camp sign, which is a large fibre-wood board on which we painted a camp theme-related image, along with the title of the camp and our group name. The theme for the camp is... I'm almost afraid to admit it: pirates. Yes, yours truly is guilty. And as I'm the artistic member of the outfit, I made the sign. I'll get some pictures up after I get back from camp (August 10-18), but for now you'll just have to do with a description: the skull and bones from the Straw Hat crew (if you don't know what or who that is, watch more One Piece, landlubbers!), with a blue and yellow pattern for the background, somewhat like the maritime Japanese flag. Blue and yellow are the colours of our town's coat of arms. This is appropriate, as it not only symbolizes our home town, but is also recognizable for the parents when bringing their kids over to where we'll be staying, an hour and a half worth of driving to the East of Belgium. There's also an Indian cutlass I brought home from our leader-only building (it's just one room, though, and not very large at that). It's pretty rusty - actually, pretty much all but most of the blade - so we're going to try and clean it. Can't go pirate camping without a trusty cutlass, now can I? Again, pictures after camp. I'll also drive over to the local container park (a collection point for recyclable waste), to see whether they don't have a few large cardboard panels. The reason for this is that the kids will be divided into four cabin crews, but sleep in one large room with bunkbeds. I was hoping to put up a few divisions to make it look as if they're actually separate cabins rather than one room. Also, it's a good preparation for those who'll end up working in a cubicle. I'm also going to try and find a second-hand overcoat. I already have a skull-and-spiderweb bandana, and the rest is just a combination of normal clothing to attain a pirate look. White shirt, black sleeveless vest (smooth, smooth velvet...), black pants (with belt, of course) and probably my old combat boots. Oh, and a hammock, if I can find a cheap canvas one. Only a few more days and we'll be setting sail for Opglabbeek. Try an' purnunce tha', ye blubberin' landrats!
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Man, this doesn't get any easier. Some of you already know this, but I just have to get it off my chest. Blog therapy or something, I guess. You may not have noticed any of this from my behaviour online, but I'm still in shock about it. Anyway, this is pretty hard to talk about, but they say shared sorrow is lessened sorrow (at least that's what we say in Dutch), so I'm doing just that. Last Sunday I received a phone call. It appeared that one of the 7-year-olds from our Scouting outfit fell ill and was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease, which can cause coronary artery aneurysms. Michiel died from one last Saturday. I've known the kid for 2 years, he went camping with us and everything, and he was always joking and laughing... It's difficult to imagine I'll never see him again. I spent all Sunday calling all my fellow Scouting troop leaders, and we called the other kids' parents this week to inform them. I just got off the phone with the last one. Everyone's shocked with grief, so it's difficult for everyone to cope. I can't imagine what his family is going through right now... My heart goes out to them, even if I can't do anything to ease their pain. I don't think anyone or anything can, it's the greatest of losses. Going to the funeral on Saturday. Yeah... Sorry about the depressing entry, but I had to get it off my chest.
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If/when you get a summer job, try to avoid one that involves working outside. In addition to the job I mentioned before, I've been doing some landscape work for a neighbor. With the current heatwave we've been having, it's no fun at all. Getting soaked in one's own sweat while removing bushes and shrubs is not an enjoyable way to spend a summer break, although it pays well. Hopefully the heat will break soon and it won't be as bad. So let this be a warning to you all, outside equals bad; stay inside and surf BZPower. Anyway, had a big Halo 2 LAN party yesterday, which was pretty sweet, bringing back good memories of yester-year. Although I still prefer the original Halo, we all had fun, with fairly balanced teams. I just wish my friend had air conditioning in his basement, lol. Good times, good times... Well, that's all for now, I had a little time so I figured I'd put something up; enjoy...
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I'm a little shaken right now. I had a car accident today, and as you can think, it's a shocking experience. I'd taken my mother's car for a drive to Antwerp, along with a friend of mine. On our way back, someone who had parked his car on our side of the road opened his door without looking in the rearview mirror. As you can imagine, I hit the darned car door pretty much head on, so the thing went flying and the front and side of my car is pretty banged up right now. Because of the warm weather, my friend had his window rolled down a bit, so we got a lot of glass shards inside the car as well. Luckily the window wasn't that far open, so neither of us got cut. Still, not an experience I'd wish on any of you other drivers out there. There was only material damage to the cars, so we merely filled out the insurance papers and drove back home. It's pretty bumming, though. I pride myself on being a responsible and careful driver, and now my mother's car got damaged because some dimwit didn't watch what he was doing. So yeah... I'm just going to try to take my mind off of it for a bit.
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Yesterday evening I went to have our Scouting camp certificiate approved and signed by the District Chief. There were a bunch of other troop leaders, so afterwards we went to our Scouting grounds and built a little campfire. It had been ages since we'd done this: it used to be a Summer tradition, we'd do this at least once a week, but it's really declined since then. In any case, it was fun to sit around the fire while the sky darkened (and lightened again), talking, laughing, having a few brewskis... Went home at three in the morning, listened to some Pinback on my headphones till I fell asleep... Ultimate relaxation. New ideas for the Quarters, too. I'll be switching the categories box with a custom one using banners, somewhat in the style of the side banner. I think I'll also add a thin entry-wide banner at the top of each entry to make up for the lack of horizontal custom blocks.
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New developments from everyone's favourite little monarchy off the coast of Bosnia. During the summer, my home town organizes Summer Playground activities, which means parents can drop off their kids, who are then gathered in age groups (my group consisted of 7-8-year-olds this week). In the morning, games are played in that group, but in the afternoon they get to pick from a bunch of different activities. I'm not going to list all the different things we youth animators do to entertain the kids, but there's amazingly plenty, and a lot of other summer playground organizations from other towns are jealous of us. I started working as a youth animator six years ago. I did it for four summers, joined the Scouts after the second one, and skipped last year. I actually didn't think I'd ever go back, unless after hours. Only last Saturday, I bumped into the Head Animators at a party, who asked me whether I was interested in coming back for a week, which I did. The only problem is, we've currently got a heatwave: 36° Celsius (97 Fahrenheit). I know some of you have to endure harsher temperatures than that, but ten years ago 25° Celsius (77 Fahrenheit) was freaking sweltering. These days, we're lucky if the mercury drops to 25 at night. But hey, at least I got some rays while playing with the kids outside, whereas I usually stay inside for most of the day. I've actually got a tan for once. The weirdest thing was - I've been doing this for so long, some of the kids from the early days are fellow animators now. It's kind of a strange experience... Anyway, I wasn't present during the preparations on Saturday (duh), so I was quite surprised on Monday morning to find that only that day's activities had been prepared. Being one of the more experienced ones around, I decided to stick to the background for a while and watch how the 'newbies' lead the group. Unfortunately, I wasn't impressed. I was hoping that at least one of them would stick around after the day's activities to help prepare the rest of the week, but I ended up doing it all on my lonesome anyway. Luckily for me, I can do so easily enough. I gave the others a few hints during the rest of the week, hoping they'd catch on, but I mostly ended up explaining all the games and activities on my own. Oh well. Perhaps they've learned something from it. If not, I hope the Head Animators will address it with them soon enough. Still, it was a fun enough week, I was glad to spend another week there for old times' sake. (Also, 'playground' apparently triggers google ads for Battlefield games... Makes sense to me.)
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Just woke up an hour ago (6 PM) after having gone to bed at 10 AM. And not because of night shifts. Just went to a party in a nearby town and got back rather late. Left home at around 8 PM, stopped by a friend's house on the way to drop off some of his DVDs and my copy of the Origin comic. Watched a Simpsons episode at his place, then went down to our favourite pub for a drink, met up with someone else who we persuaded to accompany us to the party, so we could drive there instead of biking all the way to Elversele. By the time we got there, it was midnight. Not that the drive took so long, we just stuck to the pub first. The party was hosted by one of the local youth movements, so it wasn't your average R&B techno pop music party. Nope, lots of great stuff from the 80s and 90s, a good deal of alternative music (mostly punk and ska)... Fun times, especially as a lot of people from Temse (my home town) were there as well. Of course, the better the party, the longer you stay. Ended up back in the pub at 5 AM, had a last drink and a few sausage snacks before heading home at around 6 in the morning. By chance met up with a friend of mine at the corner of our street, so we talked a bit on my driveway, had a cup of coffee together on the patio, talked a bit more. Afterwards my friend left for the Netherlands, so took a shower, made some more coffee, made toast, fried eggs, ate some yoghurt, drank some orange juice, hit the sack and snoozed till six. And that's my entry for today... yesterday... well, both.
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I'm very tired recently, I do know what it is from. It's from the 3 and one half hours I've worked on my Ninjo moc. I've finished it and have to upload the pictures to brickshelf. Which I'll do tomorrow. The leg design itself took an hour. So, I'll go to bed early tonight. (Early for me is 1:30 in the morning. ) I can't wait to watch the new Inuyasha that is on tonight. Hopefully it'll have plenty of action in it. Most episodes do... not all but most. Also, I have a new title... for the blog. I might have pictures of sets battling of something... I don't know why I picked the name Kohaku's Arena. Kohaku
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Well, I've revised my goals. Instead of posting as many meaningful entries as possible, I'm going to see how big I can make my left column of meaningful stuff. I think I covered everything for the most part... helpful topics, funny topics, band topics, a spam museum, even a box dedicated to Fortress. It feels pretty complete. So I could just continue to post about pointless things like that, or I could actually say something worth reading here. ... That was a tough decision. Well, let's see. Why don't we review what Onuki ate for breakfast? 1) Bacon 2) A Little Chicken 3) Crutons (they're really good ) 4) A Banana 5) A Little Low Fat, Low Cholesterol, Low Sodium, All-Natural Chocolate Pudding (so basically brown air) And after that I was terribly full. :wakeup2: ... speaking of goals, isn't there some soccer world cup going on?
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Well, I just got home about an hour ago from a long and tiring weekend. A very interesting weekend too. I'll start with the fireworks. Last night we got to watch some fireworks up at my sister's house. We had my nephew and niece (both of which love my Bionicle collection) my brother in-law and my sister were all there. So, my parents and I arrive and it starts to rain. Which wasn't fun at all, the good news is it didn't last long. So later in the night we headed outside and lit some fireworks. Most of the time my brother in-law lit them although my father and I lit a few too. Me not being experienced with lighters, I almost burned myself. My thumb still kinda hurts from that. Later in the night we watched the bonfire a bit and we also watched the stars. We saw a lot of shooting stars out there. It was awesome thinking about just everything that goes on in the universe every day. We saw some satellites, you could tell what they were because they moved in a straight line. Of course then we all saw something else... It blinked red ans was way up there (near the stars and such.) It also zigzagged up there which is something our planes, satellites, and space stations cannot do. Just what that was, I have no idea. Although I do believe that it was a UFO. Then, today my father and I went to my other sisters house. (After returning home.) They had a small gathering and such with more of my nephews. One of which is coming over this saturday. How fun! Kohaku
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Well, I may not be able to post an entry tonight so... I'm doing it now. Anyway tonight I get to have a fun Bonfire... In the words of the firey Tahu, BURN STUFF! The bad news is I won't have access to wifi... Oh, I'll still play my DS and Metroid Hunters. With my luck I'll find another glitch. Well my DS will run out of power at sometime so, I'm bringing my charger. Tommorrow, I'll be going to a cookout. Anyway more on that tomorrow because it is still the day of today. Then, on Tuesday I'll be going to another Brewer game and getting a Hot Dog Bobble Dog. Just what is that you may ask? Well you'll have to wait untill Tuesday to find out. Kohaku
