Thoughts about Holland vol.6.
2006.07.18.
Happy Birthday Zsófi!!
Well well, today I was working as every weekday so no surprise in that. In the evening I was busy with keeping contact with all of you people ( yes, it really takes time and effort!!! but this is the type of sacrifice I readily make), when a flatmate (Rutger this time) was knocking on my door asking me if I wanted to join him and his friend to the cinema that night to watch second part of Pirates of the Carribean. I said SURE, so I shut down my laptop immediately, changed clothes, and again prooved I could be a soldier of being ready so rapidly...haha
You have no idea how nice multiplex cinema (bioscoop) Delft has!! I was amazed. AND!! I could buy a student ticket with my international student ID. Which is pretty cool, since I cannot use it at museums, remember? Still was bloody expensive, this one thing is surely the best to do in Hungary where the expensive ticket would cost you a maximum of 4 euros, and here the student ticket was 8. No surprise there, in Vienna it was the same. Except the fact that there I had to go to one of the TWO English cinemas to watch original versions... on the contrary here nothing is dubbed, everything is in original version, even on TV. Cool, so I can even watch the movies on TV in English and pick up some Dutch as reading the subtitles.
Alright, back to the cinema. I think I don't have to mention that the best selling product at the buffet is not coke or popcorn, but beer (bier)... No fixed seats on your ticket, just grab a seat you like. Alright probably the cinema is never full...so no fights for seats. Movie starts yippie!! I love it, soo funny, and you don't need to make efforts to follow the story 'cause it does not make any sense anyways, so just sit and enjoy. BUT!!!!!! All of a sudden they cut the movie and a big PAUZE writing (apart from shocking me..) warns you that you have 15 minutes now to buy another beer and get rid of the one you just took... Grrrr annoying. Although Rutger told me that not all of the cinema chains do these breaks, but still... alright alright just be flexible, no point of annoying yourself on every small difference. There must remain things which are better at home after all, no?
Strange movie indeed, the end leaves you in the middle of the happenings, although you are not that confident about every detail and cause and causal factor, but I told you it is irrelevant. Soundtrack is still really cool so big hooray for Hans Zimmer again!! Chris I can't wait to hear you play it!
We were riding back from the cinema around 1 am. and suddenly Rutger's friend shouts that LOOK! We pulled our brakes and stopped, and just looked at the sky. WOW!! A falling star (vallende ster) !! I have never seen such a beautiful one! It was big, and you could see it for long moments. We were just standing in the middle of the empty street with our bikes and watching... We even forgot to wish something, but I don't mind, it was certainly a phenomenon! My collegues told me maybe it was a plummeting airplane, if it was so big.. and asked me if I heard the crash and explosion afterwards.. haha very funny, I am very conscious it was a falling star.
Well, this is all about the falling stars of Delft, seeya later on!
J.
2006.07.18.
Happy Birthday Zsófi!!
Well well, today I was working as every weekday so no surprise in that. In the evening I was busy with keeping contact with all of you people ( yes, it really takes time and effort!!! but this is the type of sacrifice I readily make), when a flatmate (Rutger this time) was knocking on my door asking me if I wanted to join him and his friend to the cinema that night to watch second part of Pirates of the Carribean. I said SURE, so I shut down my laptop immediately, changed clothes, and again prooved I could be a soldier of being ready so rapidly...haha
You have no idea how nice multiplex cinema (bioscoop) Delft has!! I was amazed. AND!! I could buy a student ticket with my international student ID. Which is pretty cool, since I cannot use it at museums, remember? Still was bloody expensive, this one thing is surely the best to do in Hungary where the expensive ticket would cost you a maximum of 4 euros, and here the student ticket was 8. No surprise there, in Vienna it was the same. Except the fact that there I had to go to one of the TWO English cinemas to watch original versions... on the contrary here nothing is dubbed, everything is in original version, even on TV. Cool, so I can even watch the movies on TV in English and pick up some Dutch as reading the subtitles.
Alright, back to the cinema. I think I don't have to mention that the best selling product at the buffet is not coke or popcorn, but beer (bier)... No fixed seats on your ticket, just grab a seat you like. Alright probably the cinema is never full...so no fights for seats. Movie starts yippie!! I love it, soo funny, and you don't need to make efforts to follow the story 'cause it does not make any sense anyways, so just sit and enjoy. BUT!!!!!! All of a sudden they cut the movie and a big PAUZE writing (apart from shocking me..) warns you that you have 15 minutes now to buy another beer and get rid of the one you just took... Grrrr annoying. Although Rutger told me that not all of the cinema chains do these breaks, but still... alright alright just be flexible, no point of annoying yourself on every small difference. There must remain things which are better at home after all, no?
Strange movie indeed, the end leaves you in the middle of the happenings, although you are not that confident about every detail and cause and causal factor, but I told you it is irrelevant. Soundtrack is still really cool so big hooray for Hans Zimmer again!! Chris I can't wait to hear you play it!
We were riding back from the cinema around 1 am. and suddenly Rutger's friend shouts that LOOK! We pulled our brakes and stopped, and just looked at the sky. WOW!! A falling star (vallende ster) !! I have never seen such a beautiful one! It was big, and you could see it for long moments. We were just standing in the middle of the empty street with our bikes and watching... We even forgot to wish something, but I don't mind, it was certainly a phenomenon! My collegues told me maybe it was a plummeting airplane, if it was so big.. and asked me if I heard the crash and explosion afterwards.. haha very funny, I am very conscious it was a falling star.
Well, this is all about the falling stars of Delft, seeya later on!
J.
posted by Juli at 5:51 PM
2 Comments:
Hello dear friend,
Good to read you again. Best wishes for you new job in netherland.
Kisses,
Gabriel.
dearest Fred,
a) nope, comets don't just show off without people knowing about it.
b) concerning the exact word for the phenomenon you are right, shooting star, but I looked after it and falling star is also in use. (maybe not in Québec..:))
c) I really didn't wish for anything. Remember I told you what a daydreamer I am.. don't need a FALLING STAR to wish for something!! :))
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