It was my birthday last Saturday, I turned 23! (I feel so old already..) During the day my favorite aunt, uncle and niece came to visit and in the evening my friends came:) It was really fun, we also played Singstar but most of them were too afraid to try it xD; Got mostly money and gift certificates, which is fine because now I can order lots of stuff on Yesasia^^

My work placement ended the day before my birthday so of course I bought some cake! I actually walked around for more then half an hour to find a place were they actually sold some XD; It ended up being the Hema lol, not quite the place I'd expected^^ Anyway, last day was nice! I already finished my work around 11, so after I got the cake I just started listening to music and started bothering my colleagues xD They gave me two manga's, 21st Century Boys and Neon Genesis Evangelion, which I thought was really sweet! (even though NGE is not really my thing, it's the thought that counts!)
But now for the sad news, apparently I didn't do too well during the time I was there.. I should have asked more questions when I ran accross difficult things etc, so my level hasn't increased that much in those three month:( It's just that I"m too shy/too much of a coward to ask things.. And also they're always working so I'm feeling like I'm bothering them if I ask things. It's not like I never do, but I ask mostly the same people who sit right next to me. But I really will have to shape up because this just won't do>_< Maybe I'll go do an assertiveness training or something.. Though I'm not that shy in 'normal situations' it seems like work is something totally different..

But enough of that. Two weeks ago I bought guinea pigs! They are really cute, it's a male and a female so we can be expecting little guinea pigs soon! But the bad thing is that the girl is really small right now so it would probably be bad for her to have kids atm. So sadly we had to put them in two separate cages till she's big enough. Their names are Xiah and Mickey btw. xD I know, naming them after idols is silly but I thought they were cute names! And they do kinda fit the personalities.^^ I'll post some pictures as soon as soon as my new camera arrives!<3

I've finally started watching You're Beautiful, after a friend pressured me to watch it. It's really fun and the guys are cute too!:3 That''s the upside of being free again, more time to watch drama's! xD

One last thing, go watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQjcJBGIFsA and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRYcbZ-wads I'm totally in love with the first song and the second one is really cute!<3

Guh I just played Mirotic on DDR, Challenge level with speed 1,5x. Let's just say that I'm a bit dead right now.. I did make it though, got a B! Lol I"m proud of myself.xD Is this worth a post? Not really I guess, but yeah whatever.. I just needed something to distract myself with.^^  

So our home got broken into again.. My laptop, camera and my dad's camera and cell phone got stolen. I hope I'll get at least 2/3 of what I paid for my camera from the insurance. I only had it for two years and it was still working perfectly.. My dad's camera was only a few months old so he should get the full amount back. I already picked out the camera I want to buy now, a Fuji Finepix, it's only €200 but has 15x optical zoom and 10 mega pixels! Doesn't that sound like a great deal?:)

Also, as if I didn't have enough bad luck already, my cell phone broke down.T_T The most important buttons stopped functioning so now I can't access the menu, read text messages etc.. I'll be going to the store tomorrow to see if it can be fixed..

Something positive: my work placement is still a lot of fun! Last Friday we moved to a new building, a gorgeous canalside house in Amsterdam. We spend all afternoon packing stuff and then after it was moved to the new building we screwed all the desks together and cleaned the place a bit. Afterwards we ordered pizza and ate on the roof garden(did I mention the roofgarden? It's awesome!xD) I really like my collegues, out of the 20 people who work there I online dislike about two> Funnily enough they're both women.^^;

On the current issues with DBSK, I can only say one thing: I hope they'll either be allowed to dump S.M entertainment or that they'll get better contracts. I'm still wondering why only JunJaeChun filed a suspension of the contract though.. It must be because of the Crebeau company, even though they say that it's not the main reason they're filing it. But does that mean that if the win the case Changmin's and Yunho's contracts won't be changed? That can't be, right? >_<.

O well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see! DBSK hwaiting!<3

Wah my first week at my work placement was great! All the people are really nice there too<3 I had to subtitle an episode of the Bold and the Beautiful and wow, that's one of the worst soaps I've ever seen.^^; It was fun to do though! I arrived at 9 on my first day, only to find out that my supervisor would not arrive till 9.45.. This was because the guy who is my 'real' supervisor is on vacation till next week and apparantly they didn't know I would start at nine >_< O well, it can happen.. What I really like is that apparantly all the stuff that I subtitle wil actually be on TV*_* The B&B that I just did is for the Belgium television though, so I can't see it myself, but I still think it's really cool that my name will actually be there! xD

( And now for the picspam! )

I have loads more but I won't bore you with all of them.^^ Oh and bonus cookies for the person who can identify an object that has to do with DBSK - more specifically with a certain banjun drama!xD

Just got back from my vacation, which was awesome! I'll make a post about it soon (probably more like a picspam). We got back at 4 a.m. so I was mostly out of it yesterday.. The boat was supposed to leave at 6.30 p.m but ended up going at 8.30 >_< Apparantly there was a captain in training and things didn't go very well with the mooring of the ship. Just our luck of course xD; We couldn't really sleep on the ship because they only had regular chairs so I watched the movies they played there, The Pursuit of Happiness and Asterix and Obelix. Yes you read that right, it wouldn't be my choice of a film but there wasn't any choice. xD PoH was good though I'd already seen it once. Speaking of movies, sadly I didn't get to see Harry Potter while I was in England:( Hope one of my friends haven't seen it yet so we can go together!

About two months ago I bought a DBSK photobook on Ebay, which I never received. After several emails to the seller without a response I decided to file claim. Because she didn't response at all I now got my money back, wOOt! She tricked two other girls, whom I contacted when I started to suspect I was fooled so I hope they also got their money back. Since the All About Dong Bang Shin Ki vol. 3 will be available for pre-order tomorrow I know exactly where Im going to spend that money on! xDD 

Tomorrow I'll start with my work placement, I'm looking forward to it! Wish me luck:D

Arg one of my male friends did something stupid and now there is this big row in our group of friends.>_< We were having a party Saturday but now he's not welcome anymore. I hope they fix this soon because it's really stupid.. I can't make it to the party anyway because I'll be on vacation then, but suddenly I don't mind anymore.. Anyway I guess I'll see you guys again in two weeks! I'll be off to the UK, East-Sussex.;)  

And now for a meme, haven't done those in a while..

1. Leave me a comment and I will give you a letter.
2. Then, write 10 things that you love starting with that letter.
3. Post the list in your journal.
4. Give out letters to those who comment in return.

I got the letter S from crinkledpaper! In no particular order:

1. Star Wars. One of the first movies I totally loved and grew up with:) I still adore them though I think the first three movies were far better then the latter three. Even though those have better special effects xD
2. Stargate. By now it's clear I like Sci-fi right? So I"m not going to list that.^^ Stargate has everything I'm looking for in a series, great actors, humor, cool special effects and a relatively convincing storyline (well as convincing as a sci-fi series can be).
3. Simone. She's one of my best friends so of course she has to be on the list!
4. SS501. One of my favorite Korean bands<3
5. Sanni. My awesome little sister! I'm really glad I met you!<3
6. Salty liquorice. Don't know if any people outside the Netherlands now it? I"m addicted to the stuff though.^^
7. Samurai. They're cool!
8. The Sea I love the sea, especially blue ones with white beaches<3 I hate that ours is really disgustingly grayish/brown..
9. Shoes I may not have dozens of pairs but I still love them.
10. Singstar. I kind of love this game, it made me discover that my voice isn't that awful after all. :)

See you guys in two weeks, take care!<3

Arg why can't I just update regularly?D: RL has been keeping me busy but that's not a real excuse..
Anyway, something weird happened this morning.. When I woke up and went to the bathroom I got really dizzy and passed out.O_o WTF is up with that? I (almost) never faint, am never sick etc.. I've been quite tired lately, even when sleeping 9 hours, but I thought I just needed that much sleep^^; Bah guess it's time for a doctor's visit>_<

I'm kind of dreading the exams next Saturday, especially History of Britain. There are so many little facts to remember, I'm sure I'll only know half of it. Guess that's also my own fault for not studying earlier, but hey, procrastinating is what I do best! xD; 

Some happier school news: I found a place where I can do my work placement! It's at Broadcast Text Amsterdam which is a subtitling company.:) I had to do a test last week, which was to subtitle an episode of Dharma and Greg. I thought it was quite difficult,because of the humor and some cultural differences. But apparantly I didn't do too bad after all because I got a call that I was 'hired'':D

Happy belated Easter! It was my sister's birthday Friday so we celebrated it with some friends of hers, and in the evening we barbecued in the garden.:3

I went to the beach at Scheveningen yesterday with a friend. When we left it was beautiful weather, but the closer we got to Scheveningen the foggier it became..;_; So instead of a nice sunny day at the beach we had a less nice foggy one.. It was still fun though! But when we went to pay the parking fee we had a bit of trouble.. I tried to feed the machine a €5 euro bill but it kept on spitting it out, and also returned our parking ticket.. When we tried to put the ticket back in it wouldn't accept it anymore. In the meanwhile this huge line had formed behind us, so we decided to let them go first and figure it out later. When it was our turn again it still wouldn't accept the ticket so we decided to press the button for help.xD; It took a while before the guy who answered had figured out what exactly the problem was(so there was again a long line behind us) but finally we got a new ticket! So I paid, this time with a €10 note and it accepted it:D And I got €4 for change while I only should have gotten 2€, now that's what I call justice! XD 

 
Look how foggy it was! ;_;


This was taken on the same day, it's the sakura tree in our garden:3


Have some more pretty! ♥

Happy Singles Awareness Day everyone! ♥ I had a totally unromantic day; I went with my mother to a museumxD; There was an exhibition about the British painter Waterhouse, his pictures are really beautiful! He mostly paints women in really lively colors like this:


Gorgeous no? I don't often go to musea, only when something like this catches my interest:) So what kind of romantic stuff did you guys did?:D

Thanks so much for the cards Venus, Donya, Hilde, Alicia and my dear little sister!<333 I hope mine arrived safely as well!
 
Hope you all have a great Christmas! *hugs*

Love,
Tamara

Our kitty is sick:( He has problems with his kidneys and doesn't want to eat or drink. He's just been taken to the vet for the third time in 3 days, but this time he might not be coming back. I can't accept that yet so I'll just pray that he comes back.. I know he's not that young anymore(he's 13) and he's had a good life but I would just miss him so much:(

EDIT: He's back! The vet wanted to give him a last change to see if he would eat and drink again and he did!:D He got some pills to help with his kidneys , they seem to be working. I hope he'll just continue to eat and drink normally! Ah I'm so relieved:)

My contract will not be renewed. Which sucks. Apparently I didn't show enough 'drive'. I'm just not a person who runs to every costumer or shows a lot of enthousiam so I guess it's my own fault.. It's not that I don't approach custumers, cause I do, but when someone ignores me or doesn't even look at me I"m not going to ask if I can help them. So yeah probably my own fault. I just applied to La Place which is a restaurant in a department store chain, so I hope I get hired! The food is really yummy there:3

Now for some better news: my sister graduated from her teachers-course, so now she can teach Latin and Greek! Everyone got a small speech from their respective teachers but hers couldn't be there and she got a really weird speech from a guy she barely knew^^; Afterwards we wanted to go to a restaurant but apparently every person in Leiden thought the same.. after having tried around 7 restaurants we went somewhere a bit more expensive then we would usually choose but at least they had space! I really had to laugh at the menu-card though, they served 'noble cows'. xDD

I went to the F.A.C.T.S convention in Gent, Belgium, it was awesome! I specifically went because there were actors from Stargate present: Cliff Simon(Ba'al), Paul McGillion(Carson Becket) and Morena Baccarin(Adria) If you don't know the show, go watch it now it's really great!:D I took a picture with Cliff Simon(see below), I was really nervous meeting himxD; But he's a really nice(and gorgeous!) man so I needn't worry:) The atmosphere was a bit different from a normal con because there were also a lot of Star Wars, Stargate, Star Trek, well basically anything with 'Star' in it present.XD

Here are some photo's from FACTS:
( Picspam.. ) Tomorrow it's my birthday already.. it's also my last day of work;_; I have to get up at the ungodly hour of 6.45, but I"ll be done at 12.:) We'll be having a VIP day, though I don't know why they call it that, every costumer is invited.xD; The upside is is that almost all my collegues will be working, so I can see goodbye to them:3 And there will be cake!

Ah I haven't updated in so long!^^; I just had a two-week vacation and before that I had to work a lot, but that's not really an excuse.. I'm very sorry for ignoring you guys>_< I promise I'll update/comment more from now on! Also don't be surprised if you see comments on older entries..

So what have I been up to the past weeks? I've been mostly working like I said,  but during the holidays I did some fun things, like seeing Tarzan the musical and going to the museum. The musical was really awesome, they actually had the actors swinging on lines above the crowd and best of all, Tarzan flew right above our heads!xD As for the museum, I rarely go to them but there was an exhibition about the chinese terracotta army" which was really interesting! To think that someone actually took over 8000 life-sized stone statues and loads of chariots and horses to their grave is amazing*_* I'll probably post some pictures from the exhibition later.

I've finally started on Bleach, I read the whole manga and am watching the anime and musicals now. I didn't think anything could equal or even top my love for tenipuri/myu but Bleach is coming dangerously close!*_* I I bought my first Bleach doujinshi a while ago(GinKira, I blame Tuti and Kitamura Eiki, they're so married in the musicals xD) It's really pretty!:3 Also bought the latest musical The All and Dream Live 5th, so there will probably a fangirl post about that later!xD;

Imouto-chan, I got your letter and the necklace a while ago, it's really pretty, thanks a lot!*glomps* I''ll send you an email soon!

But how've the rest of you been?<3

The new people in our block got an adorable kitty! I heard some meowing (or more like squeaking) on our balcony and I found this:


Isn't he adorable? Lol apparantly he's named Kees^^; 

I hope he doesn't fall down someday^^;

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wOOt I passed all my exams!:D And I've handed in one assignment so only one left now.. At work things are going well too, I passed my probation and I get to sell more things now that I know where everything is and have more product knowlegde etc.xD

Arg I can't believe we lost 3-1 against Russia;_; They were really good, no doubt about that but we also played badly.. It's so weird to see such a complete change from really good teamwork to something this bad>_

Blegh I've been procrastinating so much the last few days.. only two assignments left and then I officially have vacation! I should have already handed them in but o well.. Come on lazy-ass, get to work!!D:

Omgosh we won with 4-1 from France!!*_* First 3-0 against Italy and now this!:D Wow I did not expect this at all! Sorry if there are any soccer-hating people but this just had to be mentioned!xDD

I already passed 3 out of 4 exams, only one to go!:3 And that's the essay so (hopefully) it should be fine. Our teacher has an annoying way of announcing the results, if you don't get an email withing an hour of his previous mail you passed the exam and if you do you failed it. So I spent an hour behind the compu religiously watching the mail.xD; No mail came though but that also means I only get the marks when they're announced on the website>_

I'll be having my exams tomorrow.. 4 in one day! I start with translating English-Dutch, which should be okay, then grammar and knowledge of Britain, both of which I'm afraid for.>_< Grammar should be do-able but instead of just being able to use the rules like in the last exam, you have to be able to write them down.. And last but not least I'll have to write an essay. Of around 800 words. I hope there are good subjects to choose from, then that should be okay as well. Wish me luck though!!^^;