domingo, 12 de setembro de 2010

sunny days and riding afternoons














Time has been flying lately. weeks look like days and days look like minutes... it's already been 3 and a half months that I'm living north and it looks like I've arrived yesterday. Anyway, summer is about to leave but in the meanwhile, is still able to surprise us with some days like yesterday. sunny and warm, which allows you to ride the whole afternoon...that was what happened! street riding, ramp riding, trails, some chilling and a completely worth day enjoying that amazing thing that is bike riding.

In the evening, a couple of beers, stupid jokes and the fact that greek people are invading town! And also the fact that international students are always bitching about dutch people is starting to piss me out a little bit. stop complaining, please.

oh this week is going to go fast, Enschede tomorrow, Utrecht on thursday and Poland on friday, for the weekend...

Friday night in Amsterdam was fun, guest list to the Vimeo Awards pre-party and we watched a couple of wicked videos. Fear/Love is so good, as well as Words.

Have to go for grocery now, and afterwards a little bit of bike riding and night cinema session watching Dick Tracy at the anarchist cultural centre.

Fun is awesome!

I do love the sun and I kind miss it...

quarta-feira, 8 de setembro de 2010

too much of this...













Once I heard someone saying that if the week is to work, weekend is to punish your body...I don't really believe in that but the fact is that last weekend was a little bit true. Got a call from Bjorn: "hey, let's go for a ride?!" and I said "Oh, I wish I could but my bike is in Rotterdam...but hey, I'll drop by the park and I'll shoot you some photos!"; I indeed tried to do it, but it was already too dark so, what about one beer at db's? hell yeah, you know where to go! one turned into a countless amount and a gig for free, thanks to our sneaking-in hability (is this a bike rider thing?!...guess so).

Next morning wasn't easy but I still went to Rotterdam: my bike was waiting for me there and so was Almer's friends party. Again, one beer turned into an even more countless thing and the funniest thing is that I found out the trick to get drinks almost for free (dutch people were amazed about this capability). We had such a nice fun!

Next day (complicated one) and a bmx comp in Rotterdam. sick stuff being thrown down and I met these two nice brothers from Wisconsin.

Oh, and if it wasn't enough punishing the body on weekends, a bit of my finger got chopped off at work...ouch.

Because of bikes project in the works, more information soon.

Modest mouse gig in Amsterdam last night was well worth, 2 hours of gig, so many instruments played on the stage and a good vibe.

Why is this playing on loop again and again? oh wait, I know, trumpet is such a nice instrument (and I do miss summer)

quinta-feira, 2 de setembro de 2010

finally











After some troubled times where I thought my little world was going to collapse, I finally found some peace and I'm actually starting to get back on track. new room, which is cosy and nice and where I will be able to stay until the end of the internship. no more moving from place to place, no more carrying bags with me, no more looking for advertisings for rooms and finally I can now decorate my own room. Photos have been already glued to the wall, and the room is now clean and tidy and the way I want. finally...
while was waiting for moving to the new place, I spent some time in Rotterdam, at Almer's home. nice weekend, nice food, drinking beer with friends, meeting new people, going out to new places, museums, night time cycling, night time photo session, one of the most tasty ice creams ever and some bmx riding. Rotterdam is now going to start to be a must for the weekend.

work is getting better, the big project is now done and is going to be exhibited within a few weeks, loads of exhibitions, flight to Poland is already booked and we have a new assignment coming in, in which we're going to start to work full time.

oh, and talking about booked flights, primavera club will be waiting on the 25th of November... can't wait to go back.

from now on, this will be a kind of diary.

such a big help in rough times: