tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17225312462675475932024-03-06T09:21:00.113+01:00The enamoured penguin1000 dreams, 500 distroes, 65 squared meters, 20 years mortgage, 6 rooms, 3 PCs, one geek...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-59208429701532236422011-09-19T20:16:00.002+02:002011-09-19T23:16:53.976+02:00Wilde's passion
This year New Zealand hosts the Rugby World Cup Tournament and hopes to cash and keep it for four years instead of Australia (Seen how the gets are going, I really have slim faith it will not happen).
I follow faithfully Rugby since two years, since my lovely lady brought me in Rome at the Flaminio stadium to watch the Six Nations Tournament match Italy - England.
Since then I'm totally nuts Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-44846859094462256522011-09-18T12:14:00.000+02:002011-09-18T12:14:15.590+02:00To War!One of the most used clichés that the '80 cinema has left to us is the gear up sequence in "First blood II"
Rambo is ready to start his mission, during a details sequence, we see him tie his shoes, test his weapons and bind his undying headband to his brow.
Around him, people are getting ready, but he is completely focused on his preparation.
From now on, we will find this sequence Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-56882995956687335082011-05-24T09:50:00.001+02:002011-05-24T09:53:33.155+02:00Gorgeous...Because you need just one visit to put my world back on track.
Because you are the last person I hear at night and the first I hear in the morning and you do not care if I spend my time yawning in the microphone.
Because you take care of my health even if it is you that is sick and you spend your time trying to be healthy so that I do not worry
Because you teach me new things just walking with Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-86273470315666917632011-04-08T12:39:00.000+02:002011-04-08T12:39:32.024+02:00Suddenly, a penguin...First time I met him it was a simple and pure disaster.
Half of things did not work, hardware support was a nightmare, buying a card was hellish.
Each time you connected a peripheral to the PC it was a gamble, maybe it would work on your PC, but it will fail on the same PC of your neighbour.
A graphic or sound card required you almost to write yourself your own drivers and you could forget Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-57598621071958677292011-03-10T15:23:00.006+01:002011-03-17T20:17:54.786+01:00SushiFirst time I tried it I did not even like.I found it bad, an unclear taste, hard to chew and difficult to swallow.Since then I evolved in a full fledged fanboy of this recipe that mixes perfectly raw and boiled ingredients in tasty morsels.I always saw Sushi like a special treat, like Pizza. Something you eat on accasions and that becomes quickly a social moment with friends and family.I suddenlyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-17499003251814829362011-03-05T17:34:00.007+01:002011-03-05T18:23:00.691+01:00It's been a long time...Almost one year?To quote Billy Crystal in "When Harry met Sally" what's the statute of limitations on apologies?In this last year I did not write a lot for a series of reasons, many of them quite personal and as such, if you excuse me, I will not talk about them here.I reassure you, I did not work extensively on my house, so you did not miss much.Going on through my life I think I can now Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-85320819839651254342010-05-14T20:33:00.004+02:002010-05-16T11:34:30.779+02:00In cervogia veritasI already told you about my craving for handmade pottery wich compells me to search on the net for new artist whose work I can acquire.A while ago I told you about Brandon Phillips' Support your local pottery site and of his wonderful tankard.Brandon's purchase has paid off indeed and I still use it gladly, loving the heaviness in my hand and the smoothness under my finger, without discounting Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-79605336017188404702010-05-01T14:49:00.005+02:002010-05-01T14:55:57.211+02:00Itsy Bitsy Teeny WeenyWhen I started creating the interior design of my house I forced myself to find solutions that used each single inch of space without interfering with the peculiar way the light works inside the flat.Working inside a tiny space is a challenge inside the challenge, because the less you waste the more you have to use.Allow me to introduce you to a colleague of mine in this quest.Gary Chang lives inAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-7960201442759891302010-04-28T07:55:00.003+02:002010-04-28T08:08:38.942+02:00One yearI live since long ago in rarefied periods of time and I realize that it is never the same.I'm almost two years in my house it has been about five years since I moved to Belgium and I'm one with her since a year, but it's so untrue.In reality I've been exiled from centuries, just months that I have a home and seems like a couple of hour ago that she entered my chat room for the first time that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-18569478854260625232010-04-10T16:55:00.002+02:002010-04-10T17:06:08.117+02:00GRMBBLLLLLL!!!First Murphy's law: if something can go wrong and so on and so on. Being the origin of the problem does not help the least, so I should not complain since it is me who forgot my camera at my brother's during the last visit. And I would not even have a reason for, hadn't I sold my mobile phone before leaving and being as such unable to report next week's house modifications in any way. Bad? Wait,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-78573699026526748312010-03-24T11:47:00.002+01:002010-03-24T11:50:04.744+01:00Elefant's graveyardAlthough is quite true that my veneration for Ikea is bordering dependency, not all my furnitures were made in Sweden.When I arrived in Belgium I was simply broke so nonetheless that my first furniture was bought ( the couch) for everything else I had to find somewhere else.In Belgium, as much of the rest of Europe ( except Italy) a solid tradition of flea market and second hand shop is well Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-24654980013591777512010-03-18T21:51:00.001+01:002010-03-18T21:52:49.472+01:00Hosodo!I'm weak, I know.But it is so goooood ....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-59484182534968327902010-03-16T15:14:00.002+01:002010-03-16T15:34:57.417+01:00Let's clean this upThe arrival of his majesty in my living room has started the workseason for this year.My old TV furniture was simply not anymore up to the task and something new was needed. Besides my DVD collection was shamefully squatting inside my library and thus a new solution was needed.Just a furniture?Just one, easy peasy, maybe two or more elements combined together, but really nothing Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-91424352714149082972010-02-10T21:15:00.001+01:002010-02-10T21:17:18.056+01:00Wonderful, no, really, I mean it...... That said enough is quite enough.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-46383878449731671332010-02-02T17:03:00.005+01:002010-02-02T17:12:35.276+01:00Starting off the seasonHere we go, season has started again.This year would have been a finition year, no big works, foundation have been made, thus just some fine tuning would have done.This is what I was thinking until the first days of January, when I noticed some colored points in a corner, top of my bedroom.Since I did not paint it was pretty clear that it could not be colors and as such...Return of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-90638132424212151822010-01-11T16:31:00.002+01:002010-01-11T16:38:17.813+01:00Pennies /1Chatting with the one I love:Me: Do I make an ass of myself if I say that I would sell my home to be in bed with you right now?Medusa: I would buy your home to be in bed with you right now as wellMe: I see some kind of interesting solution here....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-34021900137252481762010-01-10T19:17:00.002+01:002010-01-10T19:20:03.841+01:00New year's resolutionsIt was a wonderful Christmas, like few you will ever have in your life.I spent it in Brussels with my whole family ( except for sister in law wich stayed, sick, in Italy and was sorely missed :( ) and she whom I do love.Many things happened, many memories were made and will probably never leave me completely.The Christmas tree that my lady conceived and sketched ( and was built by unworty myselfAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-37404849172395637002009-12-11T11:15:00.002+01:002009-12-11T11:41:45.759+01:00Holy MacGyverBuying things is easy.If you have money there is really nothig that is impossible and it is one thing I'm painfully aware each time that I need something for my house and cannot afford it.Rememebr the chasm that the new windows left in my bank account? aforementioned canyon brought me directly to a a little, nevertheless necessary acrobatic backflip to solve an issue in the kitchenAGAIN?!I knowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-71535280521283051532009-11-15T18:30:00.002+01:002009-11-15T18:46:38.363+01:00The berber hordeTo be honest my home works, including transformations and decorations, are surely tiring yet painless matters.They are done following my rithm, planned easily and then reported here.Exception to the aforementioned rules are two class of works:A) the one involving my fatherB) the one involving external contractors.Being my overzealous father far away from my home at the moment what I'm about to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-40355089546976774322009-11-11T11:58:00.005+01:002009-11-11T12:08:13.373+01:00Grand placeGrand place is one of those places who really makes you always think you are somewhere else.I deeply admire this town for the fantasy and cleverness of use of this space, encased between the old walls of its beautiful, gold roofed buildingsSo sunday afternoon, after 5 hours cleaning up the mess that the renovations works left in my flat ( more of that later) I arrived in Grand place to find Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-12876879845180760102009-11-01T21:57:00.001+01:002009-11-01T21:59:18.673+01:00The penguin asks...Is the glass half full or half empty?Make your choice....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-37217109524349989492009-11-01T17:33:00.002+01:002009-11-01T17:36:26.785+01:00Autumn in BrusselsNot dead yet, relax.It only happened that works are under way at home and thus I have even too many things to tell.Kitchen is unreacheable and here you see a fine example of my actual dinners.Let me catch my breath again and I'll tell you everything this week.See you later...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-84510464852705619852009-10-09T21:51:00.003+02:002009-10-11T01:26:39.254+02:00Happy BirthdayUsually I do not use my Blog for personal messages, but seen the reason, I will do an exception for that one.We have almost the same age, just a couple of years divide us, but we come from the same generation.We are children of the seventies. Those wonderful years in which it seemed still possible to change the world with a few dimes and many dreams.We both come from difficult years, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-2922628294949731422009-08-29T15:16:00.008+02:002009-09-25T10:49:51.564+02:00The sun over BrusselsWhat can I sayThanks for everything love.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722531246267547593.post-34559266372683914772009-08-14T22:34:00.003+02:002009-08-14T22:44:09.765+02:00Moroccan Mint teaMany times asked and terribly late here is the holy recipe of the most marvelous moroccan Tea, which was taught to me by a Moroccan Tea master, owner of an internet point.So what? You think it is so easy to find a Moroccan mountain-living Hermit in the middle of Brussels?You funny guys you.Ingredients:Some fresh mintTwo soup spoon of Gunpowder Tea8/10 soup spoons of sugar (Not a joke, read on Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364203744908711966noreply@blogger.com3