| Dirndl & lederhosen |
[15.06.09.::.1:02am] |
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My roommates took me a weekend to the countryside of Austria for a big party in the middle of nowhere. It included Argentinian style BBQ, loads of party people and Dubstep music. Waking up in the morning with a nice view over the hills, and decide to sleep some more in the cornfield isn't that bad at all (while others started drinking again)
The day after we went to a traditional party in the village, Karin's hometown. In Dirndl and on flip flops we leaned how to dance in lederhosen and how to 'jodeln. It was awesome... The morning after we had a great breakfast with fresh strawberry's from the garden with her parents and went for a swim before heading back to Vienna, in a mountain lake surrounded by big stones. I jumped from one. It was heavenly.
( The result )
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| Vienna |
[02.06.09.::.7:46pm] |
Who is in for a weekend of chilling in Vienna?
It's awesome here, I want to share it :)*
I offer you:
- a sleeping place (max 5/6 persons)
- in the centre (I have a new home <3)
- chilling in the park
- sightseeingtour through the city
- great architecture
- hanging out @ MQ
- shopping for stuff you can't find in NL
- swimming in the Donau
- gay/straight/80's/industrial or illegal party's
- sushi buffet for €7,50 all you can eat ^^
...just foundout about the last one today * and I miss you guys (stiekem) a little bit,
all work and no play makes me dull...
Where's the fun of doing cool things when you can't even share it ;)
( Update (pics) )
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| FAIL |
[11.05.09.::.11:24pm] |
"Ik word hebberig. Iedereen om me heen falls in love. De tijd van de liefde, de nachtelijke dineetjes, de lange wandelingen hand in hand, zoete lachjes en stoute blikken. In Amsterdam voelde je de vibe vandaag. Een vriendinnetje uit Utrecht vertelde me net dat ze een fling had, een foto van een prachtig lachend meisje werd me geshowt. Hoe blij ik vannochtend was om alleen te zijn en te doen en te laten wat ik wil, hoe graag ik nu met iemand in mijn armen wil liggen, mijn prinsesje, lichaam tegen lichaam. Het zal de kou wel zijn. Ik heb geen tijd voor liefde. En liefde heeft geen tijd voor mij.
Als ik terug kom uit Wenen ga ik kijken voor een eigen casa. Dan ga ik op zoek naar een vriendinnetje, een rond bed
...en een tv.
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| SUMATRA <3 |
[06.05.09.::.10:33am] |
After (welgeteld) 182 hours of travelling in 32 days, home again. Haven't been away for that long, but did much. Forced myself to go to another place every second day. Hard to say goodbye to the surroundings/cultures/other backpackers sometimes, but otherwise I would still be in Bali by now :p
I just took a hot shower, haven't got any since Surabaya/Java, like, 20 days ago. And seeing an western toilet is nice too instead of holes in the ground. But nothing beats waking up, washing yourself in the river and drying your body on the hot rocks while you see monkeys dive from tree to tree at 5 in the morning after a night of no sleep because of a big ass gecko honking in your slightly noisy, thin walled wooden hut.
Sumatra was awesome, stunning, exhausting (as usual I did way to much) sometimes dangerous (risks) and a slap in my face, but above all, everything I dreamt of. Damn what a great place.
I went to Bukit Lawang (jungle & malay tribes, 4 hours) and Danau Toba (lake & batak tribes, 5 hours) and because I love the place so much, after 3 days of lake Toba back in 11 hours to Bukit Lawang by foot/boat/bus/tuk tuk/bus and finally the last 10 minute by tuk tuk and a walk into the jungle for 25 minutes along the river side to Garden Inn. The locals were suprised to see me again (with some people I took from Lake Toba) and I ended up only paying for my food there, so cute.
( ...jungle/caves/fishing )
Danau Toba
A bumpy ride in the local bus (read: 5 hours of chain-smoking, loud music, honking, and smelly stuff in between the bags of rice and screaming kids) brought me to Parapat where we stayed @ Charly's. The next day (after a walk on the local market) I left by ferry to Tuk-Tuk. Stayed in original Batak houses (tribe, and former cannibals) and at the time of my stay there was a 3-day funeral going on, and people danced 24/7 around the dead body. Toba is nice and peacefull, motorbiked around (120 on a scooter), hiked to waterfalls and hot springs and got caught in a massive tropical rainstorm. Never been that wet in my whole life.
( ...batak cultures <3 )
Kuala Lumpur yesterday was great, ate great spicy rendang @ china town, cute,
had to spend 12 hours before my plane took off to Holland...
Now off to bed for a few hours,
x!
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| Java (Borobudur/Yogyakarta/Jakarta) |
[24.04.09.::.2:10am] |
Net terug van de stad, als je geen man kan krijgen moet je hierheen komen,
ik ben volgends mij al vier keer uitgehuwelijkt on my way.
Jakarta (today)
Dirty, hectic and the whole city is one big fog cloud.
Nice: small arrows, old ladies that invite you for tea in their small houses, internet for 6000RP
Gonna miss the prices here,
cheaper than in Thailand.
Found a cute hotel in the backpackers area, so I'm gonna settle down after posting this and read my book ('I hope they serve beer in hell') for the first time on my trip. A bit tired from the wubbly nighttrain (12 hours) last night.
Borobudur (four days ago) with Timon & Rob
Was looking foreward being there, nice view.
Peacefull, and no tourists in the early morning.
( BOROBUDUR PICCA'S )
Yogyakarta (yesterday)
Learned to cook Indonesian aka the real stuff hmmm, so cool!
With a familie in their cute little house in Yogyakarta... ( FOOD PICTURES )
SUMATRA tomorrow, flight at 10.40 (only 33 euro domestic, Jakarta-Medan, so cool)
OMG I can't wait. jungle/lakes/canopy tours/hopefully waterfalls...
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| Java (Indonesia update) |
[20.04.09.::.10:14pm] |
I travelled now in total 96 hours, in 14 days, by bus, ferry & plane, and I'm almost at the middle of my trip.
16 more days in Java & Sumatra (where I will spend 10 days, yay, looking foreward to it!)
Locals only
I left from Bali to Java 3 days ago, a bumpy ride of 12 hours let me to Surabaya. eing alone at the busstation at 03.30 in the morning is not great thing to do I know now. It creeped me out. Everybody was pulling at me and got harrassed by tons of taxi drivers. Sarabaya is the second largest city of Java but not really known for it's travellers. In the days I stayed there I have seriously only seen 'white people' on the Bromo trekking. And could count them on one hand. In a bus full of locals with me as western girl feels funny, they look and laugh, but overall they are kind and welcoming.
Many people that I met in Bali told me that I was crazy travelling with the bus/over land, but the things you see this way are amazing. It isn't always really comfortable - sometimes with 60 people in a 40 person bus, you have to check your belongings all times & not everybody smells even nice. But the best part is the social gathering thing: people jump on board and play guitar, go round and everybody puts some coins, candy or a small note in the hat, food goes round and people are willing to try and speak English. And a lot of friendly smiles. Communicating through a language we all understand: JOY! :)
During the bus stops photo's are being made and once somebody starts , everybody wants to be on the picture with me. Sometimes I give a kiss gesture (tuiten van je lippen) if a small boy wants a picture, and his friends are going nuts. Yelling and laughing and shaking hands with me. Good times, good times.
This afternoon we stopt to get some food and I settled down next to a tall skinny boy my age and asked him for company. He shaked his head up and down and say softly ' Ya' with a sparkle in his eyes . There was a silence. ...and another one... His name was Andre. I tried to explain that Andre was a typically Dutch name (Name Blanda) but he didn't understand. We got our food, rice with brown stuff, I like to experiment. When I ate, he ate, and when I stopt and lay my spoon next to my plate, he did the same and stared down untill I started eating again. Respect. When we entered the bus he wished me a pleasant journey. I said same same.
Bromo (mountain, 2392m)
The trip to the Bromo mountain was a blast. rriving in the middle of the night (2 o clock) to see the sun coming up and celebrate the new day was so rewarding. Surrounded by all kinds of Indo people who danced, yelled and freaked out when the sun came up. The rest of the day I went cruising with my newly found friend Nana (From Surabaya) and two guys in a Jeep, in search for waterfalls, local villages and a big desert. I EVEN DROVE A HORSE! No kidding... And we ate the best Soto ever <3
( More PICTURES )
Borobudur tomorrow
Now off to bed, at 5 o clock up for a trip to Borobudur!!
First time I'm doing an organised trip in Indonesia,
but I'm a bit tired and a lot of nice people who go.
Oh quess what?
I'm learning Indonesian!
The language AND the cooking,
collecting recepies and ask old ladies if I can join if they are cooking, so cool!
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| INDONESIA |
[17.04.09.::.2:35pm] |
Dudes, its AWESOME here <3
I haven't updated in a while...
Still doing fine, two days ago I had my first near-to-death experience when I bumped into a big black mini van (car) ...forgot to look right instead of left (traffic is the other way around here) scared the shit out of me. But I have a little angel on my shoulder I think.
Malaysia
It's awesome there, flew on Malaysia... I had to wait 9 hours and got in contact with a guy, I had the idea to fetch a taxi, make a picture of the twin towers with sunrise (6 in the morning) and go back. He agreed, and so that happened (aka running through Kuala Lumpur) we ended up in a local market afterwards eating spicy yellow curry, yummy.
Day 1
( Kuala lumpur )
Bali (seminyak)
Met up with Sigrid, she was in the neighbourhood (Australia, gold coast) she booked a ticket to join me. Seminyak was cozy and full of surf people but we left early the next day to Lombok after a night of lounge and beach.
Day 2
( Lombok )
Gili Islands
One word: FUCK!! ...that place is wicked, cute, magic mushrooms everywhere, lounges, pearl white beaches and see through waters. Meet ups with tons of people and hiking around the Island. With blue wigs (don't ask) Trawagan, party Island.
Day 3-6
( Gili! )
Day 7-8
Bali (Jimbaran/Kuta/Geger beach)
After dropping Sigrid at the airport I met up with Jaroslaw (Canada) who turned out to have the greatest vila I have ever seen. My first couchsurfing experience was a blast! OMG. I expected a small balinese house but it was a kingsize crib on a hill with 3 stages, a pool and a roof overlooking the sea. He is a professional poker-player, and fun to hang with! We did roadtrips to amazing places and party-ed in Kuta with crazy people. Beer for 0,70 cent, amazing.
This morning we woke up with 5 people on the beach, saw the sunrise and went for a swim,
nice.
Day 8-9-10
( Jimbaran )
Next stops: JAVA & SUMATRA ...within 4 hours.
Fuck. I don't want to leave. But ready for my 2 weeks in the wildernis!
...alone from now on.
Had to type everything in a few minutes but wanted to give a quick update,
sorry for any spelfouten :p ...kiss kiss!
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| ...off to Indonesia |
[06.04.09.::.11:12pm] |
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A blast of a time this weekend.
See you guys in May, x
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| INFITTABLE prototype |
[13.03.09.::.5:09pm] |
INFITTABLE prototype 2009, malmö university,
photography Johan Sundell +
styling Anouk Wipprecht +
Model: Caroline +
My infittable prototype on Dutch DFA (dutch design, fashion, architecture)
I just got the prototype back from the exhibition at the 'form/design center' in Malmö (Sweden),
didin't made photo's (stupid me) but the museum might have some for me.
Design blows up when closing the zipper,
now making it react on movement.
This was the post to the process
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| Dsigning |
[12.03.09.::.12:28pm] |
...untill 4 o' clock in the morning :)
( + )
Got my spirit back after a while. Was more busy with research/reading/management instead of designing itself. Now I have a room available here in my appartement in Sweden that I can use as my little atelier, it's fab. Normally rented out but we haven't found anyone yet to rent it to.
Busy with shine, with glimps and white and off-white since a while,
soon busy with integrating light and movement in it, so it comes to life.
Helps you set your mind off things :)
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[28.02.09.::.12:01pm] |
Hmmmm saturday... Alone in the house, nice party's yesterday, breakfast, my favorite movie, the bathtub that is filling itself with warm water and the aroma of sandelwood. Outside the sun is shining and I just got remembered that I have nothing to do, at all, today.
Spring is in the air,
AND I LIKE IT!
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| Photoshoot/Exhibition |
[18.01.09.::.3:45pm] |
Final project prototype, for INFITTABLES, my inflatables-exploration.
I will proceed this project during February and March this year,
working with 230V motor (INTEX/AEROB.) instead of a 12V I will have the results of the shoot at the end of next week.
( Process snapshots )
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