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Pioneers! O Pioneers!

libellez — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:52:01 +0000

Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Have the elder races halted? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas? We take up the task

As Dutch as it gets

libellez — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:51:12 +0000

I have never been a real TV-type but it is nice to have one at home. Yesterday, I was a little bit tired and just needed to relax on my couch in front of the TV. I turned the TV on and there it was, the McDonald’s Dutch Deluxe ad. It was funny, brilliantly and somehow appropriately made!

To be very honest, there are some Dutchmen who are very stingy (one is even worst than the other!). And this ad reminds me of one guy I used to date a few years ago. He always insisted to split dinner bill if and when we went out (and I am

The springtime is really coming your way!

libellez — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:56:03 +0000

Time does really fly when you are having fun. It is March already! So, how have you been and what have you been doing lately, ladies? I have been very busy and fully occupied with everything, both business projects and personal matters. This is why I love the beginning of each year so very much because it gives me a chance to explore all the opportunities and possibities in life.

Still, I look forward to welcoming the springtime though. I already feel it in my bone that it will, very very soon.

This morning I noticed that the orchid has started to bloom again. One single orchid that says: “don’t be worried,

Memorizing my beloved mother

libellez — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:11:25 +0000

I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air,

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again

[Shelley]

Pioneers! O Pioneers!As Dutch as it getsThe springtime is really

With or without corset

libellez — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:18:51 +0000

Yesterday was Ladies Night at my place. Besides dining, catching up the latest gossips and talking about what was going on in our lives, the girls and I were also watching one of the best feel-good movies, Sense and Sensibility (1995).

The story is very familiar and classical: when Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters: Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret in straitened circumstances. They have to move out of the estate and live in a cottage that’s kindly offered by a cousin. Their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both Elinor and Marianne.