Edward's behavior and the fact that many people are seeing it as romantic is very disturbing. He watched her while she slept, was obsessively violent mannered towards anyone that even looked at her, he is manipulative... and the most horrifying scene happens in the 4th book is the "sex" scene (= rape in my dictionary! She is unconscious for Pete's sake!!) after they are married. After Bella is "beaten and bruised" and pregnant and SHE IS HAPPY!?? Come on!! Teenagers think this is romantic?!!

So when I stumbled on this little remix, I thought it was quite refreshing.
What would Buffy do if Edward Cullen was interested in her? Here is the answer


Amazing editing and hilarious too! :-)

Btw: I have nothing against the actor Robert Pattinson. I enjoyed his performance as Giselher in Ring of the Nibulungs and as Cedric in Goblet of Fire. I think he has everything to become a great actor. (And he's nice to look at as well ;P)

The last few months I've been busy working for college. My group members and I had to work quite a bit for our portfolio project. We had to make a site, a TV-report, a radio-report and a radio show and also a magazine (which had to be printed as well) The concept of our portfolio was FAM, Frequently Asked Music.

Here is our TV-report. It is in Dutch, so most of you won't understand a thing about it :P But I just wanted to show what I've been working on. The reporter is my class and group member Laetitia. We investigaded a bit about Guitar Hero.



And all the hard work paid off. I passed this year, so only one more year to go and I have a degree in journalism . After that I'll probably go back to uni and hope to get a Master degree in Film studies and Visual Culture.

But first, I'm going to enjoy the summer vacation. :-)
Now I finally have the time to read and update this journal on a regularly base.

Farrah Fawcett
February 2, 1947 - June 25, 2009
A great woman, not only known for her role in Charlie's Angels. But most of all, a woman who fought bravely against cancer.

Hilde "Yasmine" Rens
March 3, 1972 - June 25, 2009
She is not known outside the borders of Belgium (perhaps maybe in The Netherlands) but she had a great impact on the Flemish music here in my country. It is sad that she took her own life. She seemed the struggle when her partner left her, bu noone expected this.

Michael Jackson
August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009
I'm not really into his music, but I do love a few of his songs. I also know the impact he had on the music world in general.
He was a weird guy, a person who I've always felt sorry for. He is the result of a abusive upbringing in front of the whole world, never really allowed to be a child and by some, actually I think by a lot of people, looked up as a god. Which is never a good thing.

May they all rest in peace.

I have a friend who’s studying in Italy at the moment (On Erasmus). When I woke up and heard the news that there was a major earthquake, I started worrying. SO I was really relieved to see him updating his facebook about an hour later.

I didn’t had to worry, because if I had listened to the news carefully, I would have realized it was about 100km from where he’s studying… but still… I’m pretty sure his parents called him this morning asap after hearing the news as well.

Finally! The Easter Holliday have started. Two weeks where I don’t have to go to college, don’t have any deadlines, don’t have to write a lot of articles/interviews... Oh, wait... I do have a lot of articles to write, and I do have deadlines... Ah well, at least I got plenty of time to write them. :P

But as you might have guessed, I hadn’t got the time to update this LJ-thingy. I hope this will change in the near-future.

A lot of assignments for school, an important Händel & Haydn concert at the Music Academy and the frequently health problems, made the last three months quite hectic for me.

I am actually glad my exams are coming up (starting on the 8th of January) they seem like a relief opposed to all the task I had to do for my classes.
I must admit that despite my good intentions, I barely studied for the upcoming exams. But from Sunday on, I'll quicken my pace in studying :-)


Anyway, I just wanted to wish everyone the best for 2009!

…when they signed up their FOUR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER for the latest season of America’s got talent.
Yes, the cute little Kaitlyn’s singing talent is quite good for her age (from what I’ve seen on youtube) and she is adorable... but I fear that this experience may ruin her for the rest of her life. It is hard to believe that the bright idea to audition for this show was hers.

I also cannot understand why the producers of the show/Judges/Broadcasting station allowed it. There should have been an age-limit. One of at least 12 years old. (I prefer it to be 16 but I think that some children at the age of 12, can understand what is going on and can cope with “criticism” from the jury)

The poor girl:


It breaks my heart when I see her standing there waiting for the verdict, on the verge of tears and utterly perplexed. Her parents should never have dragged her to the auditions. She is supposed to be at home playing with barbie dolls and just being a normal kid.

To me this is a form of psychological and emotional child abuse.

As the hottest day of the summer so far is drawing to an end, I’m hoping that that it wont be repeated for the rest of this season. Honestly, the weather was way to hot. Thank God, for the swimming pool we have at my grandmother’s. I don’t think I would have survived this day without it.

Oh I know. I shouldn’t complain. My Australian friend J. told me that there are times it is 33°C in Australia during summer as well. At Midnight! So I’m overreacting with today’s Belgian temperature, but I’m not used to it. My ideal temperature is 27-28°C, that’s enough.

But I had a lovely day at my grandmother’s. Swimming in a pool with temperature of the water reaching 28°C(!)enjoying the warm sun & spending time with family. Though if I hear correctly, the day will end in a blast. The lightshow has already started, better shut my computer off before lightning strikes…

And I had a wonderful time :D

But first:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY* privatemaladict

*or is it Happy Beer-day in Australia ;P

This bookmeme has been going around on my fl these last few days. I am rather proud of myself that I've read quite a few of them. :-)

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ

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I was going to write something in this Livejournal about a book I’ve read, Die Elfen written by Bernhard Hennen. (Great book! Fantasy lovers should read this!)

I was going to write a summary on the film I’ve seen, Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal scull (I enjoyed it but thought it was predictable in some plot points)

I was going to update this lj with some RL stuff (nothing major, exams are done.)

I was also going to write another summary of another film I saw in the cinema, The Awakening (I just love Night Shyamalan. I really loved this movie!)

But,I in the end I wasn’t in the mood to write all these post. I guess it is true that students sort of fall in a black whole once they are finished with their exams. My psychology teacher said that last year in one of his classes; ‘The pressure is gone and students don’t really know what to do besides the predictable alcohol consumption right after the last exam.’ I think the last part was a joke, because most of my friends don’t spend the rest of their last day of their exams, in pubs nor do they participate in binge-drinking “parties”. I barely drink alcohol as well.

Don’t know my results yet. Tomorrow I’ll get them. *fingers crossed that I passed everything* Anyway, I’ve given up hope to spend a year in Australia for my master-degree in journalism. It is waaaaaayyyy to expensive. It’s probably for the best as well, with my condition and all. And my mum would have never let me go either ;-) I’m her worry child… seriously, I don’t think I can ever move out. She said she’ll chain me in my room… and I don’t think that she was joking…

Tonight is the second semi-final in the European football Championship. Even though it started during my exams, I pretty much followed every game. Both my favorite teams didn’t make it to the semi-finals The Netherlands and Portugal. It was really sad to see the Dutch leave the championship, they surprised me (and probably themselves as well) in a good way but in their last game, the Russians were better. Fair is fair. My hopes are now that either Spain or Russia (we know the winner of that semi-final tonight) win in the Final against Germany. Whoever becomes the other finalist, it is going to be a rough challenge to beat the Germans.

On a sadder note: I had to go to a funeral this morning. Last Friday my neighbor suddenly died. It was a shock since he was only 68 years old and in good condition. I even talked to him the day before. I feel sorry for his wife, it is her second husband she has to lay to rest. May he rest in piece.

some time ago, fpb gave me a couple of question of his 5-question meme and I’m finally posting the answers :-)

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Now, I'm going to enjoy the fantastic weather. Knowing how quick the weather changes here in Belgium...

Darn, tomorrow I have my first exam (4 this week and then 2 in the next 2 weeks)
Still have a lot to do and a lot to learn.
Not feeling great either, I soo don’t want to get sick…

*starts panicking*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ko_1988
&
1/2 of zinnamom ;-)

Sorry for spamming, but while I was posting the other post, I heard on the radio that Justine Henin is quitting tennis.

Sad to hear, but I do understand that it takes a lot from a person to stay on top and sacrifice quite a lot for her sport. She recently mended her ties whit her family (father and siblings) and I think she realized that there are more important things in life than staying on top of the WTA ranking.

Our little country was spoiled. Both Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin highlighted Belgium on the tennis world map. Though there is new talent coming up, I don’t think they will achieve the same results as those two. We shouldn’t expect that either. Wouldn’t be fair.

Anyway, I wish Justine the best and I hope she finds the same happiness that Kim has found with her child and husband.

It has been ages since I updated. If ages equals 7 weeks or so ^^
Anyway, I’ve been rather busy lately. Working hard for school, still have to write a few papers and an interview.

The fantastic weather isn’t helping either. Neighbors barbecuing while I’m working in my room with the window open, is pure torture. Though it should end tomorrow, thunderstorms are predicted for Thursday until Saturday.

But the past weekend (On Whit Sunday and Whit Monday), I made myself enjoy the good weather. We spend a lot of time at my grandmother’s taking a dive in the pool and spending time with family. I did work for school though, so I didn’t waste the extra day off we had on Monday and I actually made some good progress for my Media map (collecting articles involving media-news) I only have to do January till March. October till December are done. :-)

I’m counting down the days till the summer holidays. I wish it was the first of July already. That would mean that those bloody exams were behind me…

Ah well, better start working again :/

On Sunday, I went to the Nightwish gig here in Antwerp. A Full House!

I’ve been a fan of Nightwish for quite some time now. 2 years ago, the band and the crew decided to fire the front singer Tarja Turunen. I was really disappointed then cause, it was the Soprano and classical trained voice of Tarja that made me become a fan of the band. New singer is Anette, who is totally different. More a pop-voice. It took me some time to get used to hear her voice on the cd instead of Tarja
Nevertheless, The music is still fantastic.

The supporting act was the Swedish Metal Band Pain. I looked them up and the song I heard, weren’t that good. But they surprised me in a good way. They performed quite well. And I might buy their last cd.

The concert of Nightwish was absolutely brilliant! I really liked the show, loads of fireworks great lightshow and Anette really surprised me. She’ll never be Tarja, but that’s not a bad thing either. She’s doing her thing on stage and isn’t copying.
I understand the band’s choice for Anette now. If they had chosen another classical trained voice, that person would have always been compared to Tarja. Ok, there are still a lot of people who do that, but I think the voices of the former leading lady and the current leading lady are too different to compare. Besides, it is not fair to Anette, cause it isn’t her fault that Tarja was fired and if I were in her shoes, I would have grabbed the chance with both hands if Tuomas had asked me to become the leading lady of Nightwish ;-)

So, I had an awesome night in Antwerp, together with my mom who is also a big fan of Nightwish (thanks to me :D) My mom thought she would be the only ‘older’ person there. But I and my mom as well, have seen lot’s of people who looked a lot older than my mother. (though they looked older, doesn’t automatically mean they are older :P)

In the meantime Tarja Turunen is a solo artist now, and she’s doing fine as well. She might even visit Belgium and perform here in a couple of months. Hopefully not during my exams, cause my mom and I are planning to go to her show as well.

Yeah, I have a cool mother, haven’t I! 8)

Life has been hectic lately. Second semester at school has started, I'm drowning in work. I don't know what to do first…Thank God, the results of my exams in January were good, which is a huge relieve.
In the meantime I accidently let someone down, I really hate. :-/

I have to beta a short story in English written by a close friend, about a fandom I know nothing about... could be interesting… anyone here a fan of Torchwood? The beta is more for the English grammar & spelling (which I'm no hero in myself, but I can do my best) than about my (zero)knowledge about the fandom.

I'm also rewriting a short story of my own that I might send in for publication in a Dutch Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horor magazine. Still a lot of work on, I'm going to ask some advice of some proofreaders I've got to know on a site and who are probably going to destroy my self esteem about the story ;-) but I can only learn from it, and who knows it might end up in the magazine. *fingers crossed*

Anyway, over two weeks ago, I was tagged by fpb to do a meme. Here it is:

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January is a dreadful month for University/College & Hogeschool students. Exams.
So I’ve been studying quite a lot and I finally finished my exams last Thursday.

I actually have a good feeling about my exams. Such a good feeling that I’m starting to worry that I’m kidding myself… and fail them miserably :S


Anyway, I’m glad they are done. I got two weeks ‘vacation’ now, so now I can spend quiet a lot of time on writing and my piano playing :-)

Have to clean my bedroom first. It’s one big mess, maps, papers, books lying on the floor as well as a lot of papers I have been collecting for a school assignment. Should continue with that as well… cutting and pasting articles about the media. Seems like a stupid assignment, feels like primary school, but that assignment is 50% of the final score next semester… so better not mess that up.

My laptop is fixed as well. I had to install Windows XP before upgrading it to Windows Vista again. Stupid me ;-)