The Beginning

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Reading

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Bad Cold

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Termuntenzijl

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Sheep

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Borgsweer

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Filipinos

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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Too Hot to Handle

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Hete Bliksem - Groningse Kost

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Gone West - A Recording

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Giveaway of the Day - Wondershare PC Health Check

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Dutch Ovens

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What Your Dutch Oven Can Do

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"Cooking techniques such as roasting, baking simmering, stewing, frying, boiling, steaming, and many others are easily done on the campfire with only a single utensil, the Dutch oven. Think of the possibilities, delicious fresh baked bread that will rise up and lift the lid, cobblers made from berries picked fresh at the campsite, incredible deep-dish pizzas, stews, quiches that melt in your mouth, Cornish game hens roasted to perfection, and imagine a chocolate cake a foot in diameter. These and many, many more are very possible and sometimes easier than they are at home. With very few exceptions, I have been able to duplicate my home recipes on the campfire using the Dutch oven."

-- The Dutch Oven Cookbook

Patatesli Kek en Sutlac

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How to play a video as wallpaper

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Use VLC player. Install, load a movie, and configure as Directx desktop wallpaper under the video setting.

This has the advantage of being able to see a film from time to time while working on a paper or a digital project.

To find out more about the VLC player click title .

Big Jig

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For big jigsaw puzzle lovers.

Appocalypse - Anne A

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Bier en Bitterballen

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Myfelix

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Mouth-watering Seashells

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Giveaway of the Day - Family Puzzle

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Ik ha dy leaf - De Kast

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Interview

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Glad I made it back.
It's a dream job.
A job I can only dream of.
But it's not without
its dangers and risks.
What does it take
to get such a job?
Do I have what it takes?
Did she discover
the chinks in my armour
and uncover my weakness?
She's young but smart.
Our eyes met and locked
But was it compassion
or mutual pity?
I hope she'll let me in
thru the screen.

Behind

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Seven Years in Tibet Movie Script

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"Why must you be this way? Why is there always a problem? It's
a good question. Life is not always convenient."
-- Harrer

How To Procrastinate Well

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JASHS - Alma Mater

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Jose Abad Santos High School (now called Pampanga High School) after Mt. Pinatubo eruption.

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Pukkie - Anne's Music

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Happy New Year!

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Prettige Kerstdagen!

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UP Diliman Campus

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University of the Philippines - Diliman

Hundred Islands

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Click title for more pictures.

Still Life - Magical Egg

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Appels en Aardappels

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Yesterday we made Waldorfsalade, prei 'au jus', appelbollen, chocoladetruffels. It was very good but I prefer 'island cooking'.

I had red wine like I did last week; I had attracted a lot of attention because of my dark red colour. They had thought it was from the red-hot chili pepper or sambal -- I must admit it was so hot tears went rolling down my face.

The appelbollen were so hot we had to wait for while before we could eat them.

After dinner we went to watch the young black dancers dance. They had just finished their practice but they decided to dance for us one more time before leaving.

When I woke up this morning I remembered my chocoladetruffels; they're still sitting in the refrigerator at the school canteen.

Dutch Food

The Evil Practices of the Music Industry

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Surinaamse Bami

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Using spaghetti. Love it!

Choices

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We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
"Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw me down and robbed me."
Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.
"Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw me down and robbed me."
Abandon such thoughts, and live in love.
In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
You too shall pass away.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree.
Seek happiness in the senses,
Indulge in food and sleep,
And you too will be uprooted.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble,
Who masters himself and minds the dharma.
If a man's thoughts are muddy,
If he is reckless and full of deceit,
How can he wear the yellow robe?
Whoever is master of his own nature,
Bright, clear and true,
He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
Mistaking the false for the true,
And the true for the false,
You overlook the heart
And fill yourself with desire.
See the false as false,
The true as true.
Look into your heart.
Follow your nature.
An unreflecting mind is a poor roof.
Passion, like the rain, floods the house.
But if the roof is strong, there is shelter.
Whoever follows impure thoughts
Suffers in this world and the next.
In both worlds he suffers
And how greatly
When he sees the wrong he has done.
But whoever follows the dharma
Is joyful here and joyful there.
In both worlds he rejoices
And how greatly
When he sees the good he has done.
For great is the harvest in this world,
And greater still in the next.
However many holy words you read,
However many you speak,
What good will they do you
If you do not act upon them?
Are you a shepherd
Who counts another man's sheep,
Never sharing the way?
Read as few words as you like,
And speak fewer.
But act upon the dharma.
Give up the old ways -
Passion, enmity, folly.
Know the truth and find peace.
Share the way.

-- The Dhammapada

How to find lost objects

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Principle 1: Don’t look for it yet. Wait until you have some idea where to look.
-- Professor Solomon

Roti en Masala Kip (Surinaams)

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Bad News!

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DELFZIJL - De directie van Aldel in Delfzijl gaat het personeel een loonoffer vragen van 20 tot 25 procent.

Klappen
Aldel heeft flinke klappen opgelopen door de recessie en de hoge energieprijzen. Het bedrijf schroefde daarom eertijds de productie fors terug en vroeg werktijdverkorting aan. Ook kwamen 175 mensen op straat te staan.

Het concern lijkt vooralsnog niet in staat om uit het dal te klimmen en draait nog altijd met verlies. Daarom vraagt Aldel het personeel om loon in te leveren.

Sterfhuisconstructie
De medewerkers van het bedrijf hebben onthutst gereageerd op het nieuws. Dinsdagmiddag zijn de vakbonden ingelicht. En ook die zijn verbaasd én ontstemd. Vakbond FNV Bondgenoten spreekt van een ‘sterfhuisconstructie’. Nu al staat het water veel gezinnen tot de lippen. Als werknemers ook nog loon moeten inleveren, is het hek van de dam.

Het personeel van de andere Nederlandse vestiging in Vlisssingen kreeg maandag de onheilstijding al te horen.

(Well, at least people, who lost their jobs, are getting almost as much as what people, who still have their jobs, will be getting. I'm giving myself atmost 5 years to make it, without a regular job. Just to prove some principles. And to prove some people wrong.

Rowan Atkinson Live

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Under Painting

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Pastechi and Pancakes (Antillian)

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This evening we were all busy making what looked like empanadas to me. And we were filling them with cheese, tuna, or minced meat fried with paprika, raisins, and piccalilly. We were beginning to feel like family, teasing one another and exchanging banters. One of the younger women tried to find out more about me, about my origin, my culture, and asked me what I thought about the Dutch and the local Groningers.

At dinner time we couldn't tell which pastechi is which. They were small ones but very satisfying. They filled us instantly and we washed them down with red wine or fruit juices. The pretty white-haired woman who sat at my right side was complaining that the black women weren't eating with us. Like a little girl she kept repeating: It's not nice! It's not nice! I told her to hush and eat her dinner. She immediately complied.

At around 8 I was feeling tired and quiet already. The other younger women, the prettiest of them all, who always sat opposite me at table must have noticed it and was looking at me with compassionate eyes as if she wanted to ask me why but I ignored her. I kept looking around. The guy who joined us two weeks ago in someone else's place tried to attract my attention smiling at me with friendliness a number of times. When he finally caught my eye he told me to eat more. I politely smiled back at him in acknowledgement. But I couldn't have more, so they told me to take home some of the pasties.

The members of the young all-black dance group finished their dance practice and joined us at table. They too were eating our pancakes made of gourd puree and flour mixed with eggs.

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"I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children."

-- Oriah

Christianity

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Old Story!

Baby

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my Baby!

Money

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It's everything. If you don't have it.

E-mail

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Lost communication. Lost contact. Out there somewhere.

Sinter Klaas

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Dutch Spanish Invasion.

Brainwashing

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Software versus Hardware. Programming versus hardwiring. Good thing!

Speaking

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Too much to be good.

Self-assurance

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Faking it and making it.

Dinner

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I have an apple of contentment (onion), an apple of discord (Jonah gold), and something that lost its head. Guess what.

Dukha

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I's not buddhism. It's dharma and KARMA!

Make it or Fake it

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Do as if you already made it.

Painting

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No time to paint. It's winter! I'm hibernating.

60 is the new 40

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I'm just a kid! Just kidding.

The Girl Next Door

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She loves me. She loves me not!

Ego

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Don't waste your time on Ego. You are Ego. Go!

Do or Die

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Do as if you are about to die.

Strength

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Be kind.

Believe It or Not

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This year I haven't work for anyone for a single day but I have more money in my bank and saving accounts at this time of the year than at any time in the past. And I have been following a number of courses that I really wanted to do, been listening to several lectures on buddhism, motivation, and other interesting things everyday, been doing what I want to do, spent my annual vacation outside the country, bought myself several things, and made what I wanted to make. Moreover I am giving myself the chance and the time to start a new career in what I really want to do to be happy and to be truly successful.

Unless something else comes up. Like an offer I am not allowed to refuse. ;)

An Attachment

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There was a time when I was getting tired of visiting my favorite blogs and keeping my own blog. And several times I really wanted to stop. Once I even changed the names of my blog addresses so I could leave undetected. But for some reasons I just kept on. Moreover at the end of August I started visiting again and making comments everywhere. I am still thinking of stopping but somehow I just keep going.

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How to live a simple life

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Don't waste your time and money.

Our House

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Strawberry Fields Forever

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Top 6 Keys to Being a Successful Teacher

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1. Sense of Humor

2. A Positive Attitutude

3. High Expectations

4. Consistency

5. Fairness

6. Flexibility

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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A Recording

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To download.

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There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

-- Martha Graham

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Turkish Cooking

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Today we learned how to make mercimek sorbasi (lentil soup), prepare patates salatasi (potato salad), and bake Kunta Kinte (chocolate cake). Last time we had karniyarik (stuffed eggplant), pilav (rice), revani (meal pudding).

Since I was the only man in the group of 14 people, I was given a lot of encouragement by everyone. It felt like I suddenly acquired several mothers or mothers-in-law, except for five, who appeared to be younger than I was. Anyway all of them were slouching most of the time. One white-haired woman accidentally leaned against me and apologized profusely as soon as she realized what she had done. I smiled and assured her she didn't have to worry because I don't usually get excited very easily. The older the crazier, she added quickly and everyone laughed. However, two of the younger and prettier women were making me nervous because of the way they looked and smiled at me. Nevertheless I tried to keep my composure all the time, avoided flirting with anyone of them. Instead I did my best to peel the potatos as quickly as I could.

The food tasted very good. I had two servings of the chocolate cake while some of the women, especially the four black ones, took home slices of the cake.

Midnight Express Movies

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Still Life

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Anything you do might cause pain and sorrow. Intended or not. If there is no intention to harm there is no need for worry and fear. But be careful anyway.

Paper Engineering

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