Christmas presents!

Look at what Santa brought me!
This is always fun!

This I'm gonna read when I'm home or at least in the near presence of the cd's!

And I'm eager to know what happened after the four children were made royalty in Narnia!

Been tagged!

I was tagged by Sabine to tell 7 random things about myself. Okay, here we go:

1. Whenever new long-awaited music arrives, I walk on clouds for days, sometimes weeks.

(Music, when it was due, made me sleep very little... still missing one of the above)

2. I own way too many cookbooks, still buy them, and use them hardly.

(The last one I bought)

3. The most amazing journey I ever made was spending Christmas in Kiruna, Lapland.

(Whereabouts of Kiruna, and the most adoring church to spend Christmas nearby - it looked even more fairytale-like in real.)

4. I met Mr. S on the world wide web...

(haha, the world wide web!)

5. I was educated to become an educator to the disabled youth. Never worked in that area though.

(yep, the Flemish logo for Special Youthcare)

6. I once wrote a sentence that was picked up by a good cause and now has a life of its own.

(One of the examples of its life on its own... found on Netlog)

7. One day I want to learn how to speak and understand Gaelic.

(I love the sound of the language)

I pass the tag on to:
1. Danielle
2. Oswald
3. Lucas
4. Luc
5. Sophia
6. Katrien
7. Reclusionboy

Some rules that come with the tag:
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Dragon Dreams

Yippie Yeah!!!!
Woohooh!

EurovisionYouTube

Last weekend Mr. S received 4 cd's full of Eurovision Songcontest songs. At first it seemed no treat, but then I started to listen with him while we drove to my parents. And one can only conclude a lot of songs are in our subconscious, and the only reason we can't sing them is because we don't speak the language. And, fair is fair, there are a lot of good songs among those winners and those who just didn't belong in such a contest. Last night I spend way too much time on You Tube watching those songs once again. I'll tell you a bit about my favourite songs on the cd's aswell as some who don't appear on the cd.

My favourite song ever competing in the contest was an Italian entry, I also think it's a very fine crafted song. This is 1984, the song ended fifth, and was sung by Alice and Franco Battiato. Ever since I heard it then it stayed with me, and I still love it very much to this day. Looking back at it on YouTube, it also made me laugh. It's obvious Franco is very unexperienced in standing on stage, while Alice knows how to behave in front of such a huge audience. Look out for the expression on his face when he appears behind her. Anyway, here's the clip...



Second in line, for me, is the 1991 entry for France. Amina ended second, after Carola for Sweden. They actually both had the same score (146), but Carola had been given the most 10 points (after they both had been given the same amount of twelve points). Enough talking; a sweet performance by Amina here

Another one of my favourites participated this year. Vânia Fernandes sang Senhora do mar, a song that ended 13th, but deserved better (my opinion).



Ofcourse there are other songs... but maybe sometime later...

Lineart

Yesterday we went to the opening of Lineart in Flanders Expo in Ghent.
We went because Mr. S's brother had this small exposition. You can visit his own site here
Anyway, we strolled through the corridors of this expo and discovered a lot of RUBBISH!
The only thing I liked very much was the work of Evdokim Perevalsky. Here you'll find some of his work.