Long overdue

I should have done it probably before the 2 Aikido summer camps in July but I always found reasons to postpone or laziness to avoid it. Yesterday finally I took the proper step and said bye bye to my own crappy and not uniform hair cut, with a good reset:

project beard continues.. I might need a Harley

Revised 2015 Resolutions!!

I am quite happy I can revise at least one of my 2015 resolutions, setting a little higher target.

2015 Resolutions – updates:

• learn something new
• get passionate again about about something positive, constructive (..else than Aikido, reading, taking pictures and travelling – specified since in 2014 apparently I got passionate about.. rejections! Got worse this week, indeed)
• stop doing always the same mistakes, especially with people! 向前走，莫回头! (got close again, but maybe I managed to be a little adult this time!)
• work for my 3.dan in Aikido (when ever it might be) and work on my Aikido in general! (since I have realized I got not so much else to spend time for)
• reach 75 kg reach 72kg: the path to this target has started already! I have been almost steadily around +/- 75Kg. in the past few months, so it is time to raise the bar!

2015 Prediction:

• I will travel a lot
• there will be some changes
• if I do not achieve the majority of those resolutions I will go nuts!!!

Hope to manage better than in 2014!! 🙂

Super special minion!

Yeah!! The collection maybe will never be completed but yesterday I got a special minion, a fluorescent one:

fluorescent minion

Just a few months ago I am pretty sure I would have given away just if asked by **, but she is not around anymore and not being anyone else, I can let my minion family grow 🙂 lucky, uhm? (irony, my armor)

Wish You Were Here

..listening to great rock & pop station at work, and when they started playing this classic by Pink Floyd…

..we tried to guess when the song was released, betting on a date during the ’60s.. before realizing that Wish You Were Here came to light in 1975, therefore 40 years ago.. when I was 3 years old..

..oh, I’m so damned old!!!!!

Sad realization!

Minions +

A local supermarket, Plus, has started the best promotion ever: some products or a bought over 15€ will give you Minions!!!

super Minions

Great ad stunt waiting for the movie premiere on the 1st of July, and for some big child like me (and apparently 2-3 of my colleagues as well), for a collection of a funny character.. and trade/exchange of double ones, like my mankini Minion 🙂

I just need to find some pretty girl with the same childish mind to enjoy together the Minion movie!!

Now, some “Banana” of the funniest kind:

Kick-ass female drum player!

Sunday night I watched at ACU a very interesting documentary about Beijing punk scene. It was mainly focused on the project of promoting punk bands in a local pub/live scene, D-22, unfortunately closed in 2012 and I cannot find info about the mentioned following project of the founder, Michael Pettis. But it was quite interesting and in particular I got to know 2 Beijing’r bands that I really hope to see live soon or later: Hedgehog 刺猬 and Demerit.

Hedgehog

Demerit

Counter Culture Festival 2015

Saturday afternoon the Counter Culture Festival 2015 took place in Juliana park in Utrecht: an awesome free festival, not an uncommon event in the Netherlands, with great music (alternative, punk, rock, electronic) and a super assembly of nice people, boys, girls, men, women, children.. all ages enjoying the party.. the beers.. the freedom..