<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746</id><updated>2012-02-11T12:14:43.579-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dutch Tales</title><subtitle type='html'>Welcome to the Independent Republic of My Life</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>23</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-4732391283004738096</id><published>2008-06-14T13:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-14T14:17:55.842-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tonight we can truly say together we are invincible</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Speech taken during my birthday party in Van Leewenhoeksingel 21BG, namely my house! on June 7th...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;"After the first speech taken during my "goodbye party", which by the way turned out to be a fake goodbye (thanks God) a lot of people asked me to do it again and I m very glad and available to repeat that experience tonight. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;So I just wanna say a couple of words to make this night more meaningful. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;This afternoon my mama and my papa called me up to say “Happy Birthday my dear son”, and they&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt; said: ”It's the first birthday ever that you don't celebrate at home with us: I wish you could be here with us to celebrate it together as we've always done year after year”…adorable, aren’t they?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I take this phrase to tell you something (probably the most important thing I realised since I’ve lived abroad), I'm sure that everybody in the house knows what I m talking about..&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;When you live in another country for a long while you start missing your family and your friends very much and you really understand how much they can be essential in your life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;On the other hand..&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;you know a lot of new people, you make friends and you recreate your own world in another place. In other words, you start realising that you have to live on your own way and create your own family somewhere else. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I m not saying that I wanna get married tomorrow here in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Holland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;. hehehe not at all. I m sorry ladies, I m not available for that… heheheh&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I just wanna say that when you're are abroad discovering a new world, YOUR FRIENDS BECOME YOUR FAMILY. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Some people here know almost everything about me, some others have just entered my reality. Whoever you are...it doesn't matter. If you’re here it means that you have a kind of connection with my life, so you're all welcome.. unless you just came for the free beers but you couldn’t find any.. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;I wanna take another phrase, this time from a song by Muse, a band that I deeply adore. I wanna dedicate this song to you. Please hold on one second and think about the meaning it has, personally it makes a lot of sense to me...it says: “&lt;i&gt;Tonight we can truly say, together we are invincible”&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Finally, I wanna say: what actually matters is that tonight I'm having awesome time and I'm not missing my family, my Italian friends, my own country…yeah, actually I do but just a little bit.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;And if I feel like that, it’s partly because I’m a party animal and I like talking to everyone.. hehehe&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I said partly!  indeed it is mostly because of you, my old and new friends."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Luca is back guys!! 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eng)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un nuovo grande inaspettato amico nella mia vita. Il suo nome è 2008.&lt;br /&gt;Benvenuto 2008. Veramente benvenuto. Sei appena arrivato e ti sento già vicino. Molto vicino. Sei proprio come una di quelle persone che talvolta ho incontrato nella mia vita, in particolare qui in questa mia parentesi Delftiana, con cui dopo aver parlato 5 minuti ti sembra di essere amico da sempre, con cui continui a parlare sempre volentieri senza mai sentire il peso di una pausa, di un silenzio. Sei come quelle ragazze che ti fulminano con la loro presenza raggiante, che dopo appena un ora ti fanno sentire un uomo nuovo, un uomo migliore. Sai di cosa parlo, mio caro amico, mi riferisco a quando la conversazione fa affiorare accidentalmente coincidenze che ti lasciano di stucco e ti fanno pensare che qualcosa ha guidato e voluto miracolosamente l’incontro in cui ti stai piacevolmente immergendo.&lt;br /&gt;Con te è stato lo stesso. Sei benvenuto nella mia vita e già adoro la tua compagnia. Sei venuto e sei entrato per la porta secondaria, senza strafare, senza fare bella mostra di te, esattamente dalla porta di un ristorantino take-away di Rotterdam. Sei giunto con stile, nella borsina dei regali  hai portato i miei amici nel luogo dove io ho passato gli ultimi mesi della mia vita, cosicché tutti insieme potessimo stappare il nostro spumante, nel più umile ma forse più bizzarramente caloroso tra i luoghi che avresti potuto scegliere per noi. Grazie per questo regalo. Grazie davvero tanto. Anche se si è consumato in un batter di ciglio sento ancora l’invisibile presenza in questa casa di anime familiari, che mi hanno dato un profondo senso di tranquillità, di serenità, il profumo di casa che non ti scorderai mai e che ogni volta splendidamente stimola il tuo olfatto.&lt;br /&gt;Grazie 2008. Grazie. Questi giorni con te sono stati bellissimi, e dal sorriso che mi fai so che hai portato ancora tante sorprese per me. Lo so che le hai lì nascoste da qualche parte, non mi freghi.&lt;br /&gt;Farò finta di non saperlo, e ti assicuro che sarò sempre benedettamene sorpreso e meravigliato quando apparirai con la tua capiente cornucopia.&lt;br /&gt;Oggi volevo proprio stare da solo con te, passarcelo a riflettere su quante cose abbiamo da fare insieme e su quante cose avrei voglia di condividere con te, tutti i posti inesplorati dove avrei voglia di portarti e che vorrei che vivessimo in maniera speciale io e te.&lt;br /&gt;Te l ho gia raccontato in questi giorni ma voglio ripetertelo ancora perché voglio che tu capisca quanto sarai importante per me: io e te faremo grandi cose insieme, mi accompagnerai in lungo e largo e di certo mi aiuterai a scegliere davvero il mio futuro, che ormai è qui, lo sento, quasi lo posso sfiorare. So che mi consiglierai e fino all’ultimo starai con me a discutere, a chiacchierare fino a notte fonda, a rimproverarmi, a congratularti, a ridere, a gioire, a fantasticare, a prendermi in giro e a sostenermi quando dovrò scegliere cose più grandi di me, a leggermi nel pensiero nei giorni in cui nessuno se non tu sembrerà aver voglia di ascoltarmi.&lt;br /&gt;Picasso diceva : ”sogno i miei dipinti, per  poi dipingere i miei sogni”.&lt;br /&gt;Questo aforisma, che tu mi hai per primo mi hai fatto scoprire, è veramente calzante in tutte le sue sfumature : la tua compagnia mi arricchisce di pensieri e parole inaspettate che mi fanno adorare la ricerca del mio sogno e mi fanno sospirare nell’attesa di inforcare finalmente il mio pennello e sprigionare la mia creatività.&lt;br /&gt;Grazie per avermi regalato anche esperienze allucinanti che hanno arricchito il ventaglio di emozioni e riflessioni già aureo : non dimenticherò mai le note delle canzone con cui per un attimo mi hai fatto entrare completamente in me stesso facendomi sentire il piccolo William Wallace educato alla conoscenza e alla cultura che gli serviranno per guidare il suo popolo verso la libertà. Momenti soprannaturali. Momenti di rara e profonda intensità.&lt;br /&gt;Il tempo passato insieme a te, in realtà solo 6 giorni, mi sta dando ispirazione, fa crescere immensamente in me la volontà di costruire qualcosa di fottutamente importante con te, di seguire le nostre idee rivoluzionarie e coraggiose, di perseguire le nostre mete e di giungere finalmente ai momenti decisivi. Quelli in cui senti il profumo del cambiamento, venti nuovi che spirano nella tua esistenza. Voglio sentire quella brezza mio caro amico, la voglio sentire rinfrescare il mio viso, la voglio sentire asciugare i miei occhi fissi nella direzione giusta.&lt;br /&gt;“Il coraggio non è assenza di paura , ma consapevolezza che esiste qualcosa di più importante della paura”.  Me lo hai appena insegnato, me lo hai appena ricordato, per la prima volta lo sento con le orecchie di chi ascolta e non come ho sempre fatto, sentendo senza ascoltare. Il tuo viso è affascinante e ammaliante ma a volte mi intimidisce, mi frena, mi blocca, mi lascia attonito e impaurito.&lt;br /&gt;Ti prometto che farò ogni cosa per imparare e cogliere il meglio dagli amici che ti hanno preceduto, bellissimi e intensi ma in qualche modo non più adatti alla mia nuova dimensione. Saprò lentamente dimenticare le mie paure e prendere in mano gli strumenti che mi porgerai e dopo aver tanto sognato e sognato, anch’ìo inizierò a dare luce ai miei dipinti. Questo è quello che voglio da me stesso e voglio solo che tu mi accompagni sempre nel mio viaggio.&lt;br /&gt;Non ti do certezze assolute. Ma ti prometto, qualunque cosa porti il domani, io ci sarò.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A brand new unexpected friend in my life. His name is 2008.&lt;br /&gt;Welcome 2008. Really, defintely welcome. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;You ve just come and I already feel you so close to me. You are just as one the people you meet sometimes in your life , the ones you get in perfect connection with only after 5 minutes talking. The ones who immediately seem to have been your friends for a lifetime, who you just keep talking to without feeling any awkward pause, or silence. You re as wonderful as a girl who stuns you with her radiant presence, who just after one hour makes you feel a brand new man, a better creature. You know what I mean, my dear friend, I’m talking about when the conversation makes accidentally come to light some surprising coincidences that drive you crazy and lead you to think there must be something superior that has guided and wanted you to be in the situation you are pleasantly immerging in.  &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;With you it happened the same. You ve come into my life and I already love your presence here. You ve arrived, and you ve entered from the backdoor, without showing off, exactly from the door of a small take-away restaurant in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Rotterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. You ve come with style man, you had a bag with gifts inside : you ve brought my friends in the place where I ve been living my last months, so that we could stay altogheter for broaching our champagne, in the simplest but maybe funniest and warmest way you could choose for us. &lt;/span&gt;Thanks for this gift. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Thank you so much. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;It has &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;run out fucking quickly , nevertheless I can still feel their invisible familiar presence, that has given to me a huge and deep sense of relax, of tranquillity, the smell of your home that you are never gonna forget and you will be always stimulated by.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you 2008. Thank you very much. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;These days with you has been amazing, and from your smile I guess you brought some other surprises for me. I know you have them somewhere in your large pockets, you don’t fool me.  :) &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I will fake not to know that, and I promise you that I will always be fucking surprised when you will show up with your horn of plenty. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Today I wanted to stay&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;alone you and me, thinking of our projects, of how many things I wanna do with you, how many we should share togheter, all the unknown places I would like to take you to, and I wish we lived togheter in a very special way. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I already told you over these days but I wanna tell you again cause I wanna make sure you got how much &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I think you re gonna be important to me. We will do huge things togheter, you will come with me up and down and will help me to choose for my future, which is already here. I can almost touch it, feel it close. I know you will give me suggestions every time, you will discuss with me or come up against me when needed, you will help me out, you will have fun, you will have reveries, you will mock me and support me when I will have to make decisions, you will read my mind when nobody seems to be able to listen to you. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Picasso said: “I dream my paintings, then I paint my dreams” . This aphorysm, you ve made me find out, is perfectly fitting in all its undertones: your company in enriching me with new unexpected thoughts and words that helps me in seeking my dreams and make me sigh waiting to finally clasp my brush and spread my creativity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Thank you&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;for giving me also hallucinatory experiences that enriched the my emotions fan which was already golden: I will never forget the notes of the song that for a little while made feel like I was tiny William Wallace educated to knowledge and culture with which he guides his people to the freedom fight. Magic moments. Moments of rare and deep intensity. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The time spent with you, only six days actually, is offering me great inspiration, makes hugely grow my willingness to build something fucking meaningful with you, to follow up our revolutionary and courageous ideas and to try always to achieve our goals breaking through the decisive steps. The steps when you feel the wind of change blowing through your whole existence. I wanna feel that breeze my dear friend, I want it to refresh my face and to dry my eyes pointing the right direction. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;“Courage is not the lack of fear, is the awareness that something higher than fear exists” . You’ve just taught me, you ve just reminded me, and perhaps for the first time I hear that with open ears, really listening to it. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Your face is fascinating and charming but sometimes it scares me, it brakes me, blocks me, it leaves me stunned and frightened. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I promise you that I will do whatever possible to me in order to learn and to grasp the best from my previous friends, wonderful perhaps now no longer suitable for my new dimension. I will learn slowly how to get rid of my fears and clasp the tools you will hand me. After dreaming and dreaming for so long, I will finally begin giving life to my paintings. That is what I want from myself and I only want you to join me in my journeys.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I can’t give you total certainties. But I promise you, whereever tomorrow brings I'll be there. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-7534559286467174767?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/7534559286467174767/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=7534559286467174767&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/7534559286467174767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/7534559286467174767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2008/01/chi-trova-un-amico.html' title='Chi trova un amico...(ita &amp; eng)'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-7044069277858109895</id><published>2007-12-24T08:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:10.838-08:00</updated><title type='text'>L'arbitro manda tutti a prendere un thè caldo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R3BEZIkywaI/AAAAAAAAAWY/b41NpDLP5XI/s1600-h/caressa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R3BEZIkywaI/AAAAAAAAAWY/b41NpDLP5XI/s200/caressa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147689572673700258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;E' con questa espressione di Caressiana memoria che voglio aprire il mio post natalizio. Tutti a prendere un thè caldo. Fine primo tempo. E' una metafora che oggi come non mai calza alla perfezione nella mia breve ma intensissima parentesi paesibassiana. Ragazzi, prima di tutto volevo chiedere venia ai miei lettori  per l'assenza cronica delle mie cronache ma non ho veramente potuto fare a meno di abbandonare il mio benamato bloggy.. del resto capite bene che fatto 100 il tempo attivo (togliamo le necessarie e adorate ore di sonno) disponibile in una giornata terrestre se 60 è occupato dal mio ufficio e la mia tesi,il 30 da una vita sociale sempre più folta di appuntamenti mondani;insomma, la fettina a disposizione della "scrittura" nel mio personale aerogramma non sfamerebbe nemmeno un vegano sazio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Torniamo al buon Caressa: sapete perchè questa immagine calza in maniera così sbalorditiva? Beh..prima di tutto perchè il Natale, nella sua accezione cristiana e/o socio-culturale (non voglio parlare di Dio e di religione) è un grande Arbitro, ci ha richiamati tutti negli spogliatoi mentre eravamo indaffarati nel nostro campo di gioco, chi a mordere Gattusamente caviglie, chi a cercare Pirlescamente di descrivere matamaticamente la parabola perfetta della sfera, chi ancora ad aspettare Buffonicamente solo che qualcosa di significativo accadesse dalle proprie parti per cogliere l'occasione di mettersi in luce. Il Natale fischia, ci chiama, ci dice di tornare all'ovile, di non dimenticarci dei nostri cari e di fare sfoggio ogni tanto di una seppur minima forma di pietas (nell accezione latina del termine).&lt;br /&gt;Bene. Bello essere buoni ogni tanto. Anche se a volte vedere come serva una ricorrenza e in special modo che serva "pensarci sopra" per esserlo davvero toglie molta poesia. Ma facciamo che per questi due giorni ci crediamo, prendiamo tutto questo trambusto, queste luci, questi costumi rossi, questi regali come un evento che ci lega veramente nella sua radicata tradizione e&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R3BEpokywbI/AAAAAAAAAWg/O5A5OW4UBAI/s1600-h/dumbo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R3BEpokywbI/AAAAAAAAAWg/O5A5OW4UBAI/s200/dumbo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147689856141541810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; costume e ci rende davvero diversi. "Sospensione dell'incredulità", questa è l'espressione tecnica, concetto molto ben conosciuto dal signor Walt Disney, che per un paio d ore ci ha sempre fatto credere che un elefantino di nome Dumbo potesse spiegare le sue orecchie e prendere il volo.&lt;br /&gt;Torniamo a noi. Non voglio parlare del significato del Natale nella Mossini Weltanshauung e nemmeno del rapporto metaforico mondo reale - campo di pallone. No. Oggi voglio parlare degli spogliatoi, del thè caldo, dell'intervallo dopo 84 giorni in terra tulipanica.&lt;br /&gt;Voglio parlare di me e di quello che si prova quando per un buon periodo di tempo hai vissuto fuori dal tuo mondo, dalla tua old same ordinary life, quando ti cominci ad accorgere del bello dopo esserti sentito quasi disperso, lentamente ma sempre più intensamente risalendo la china, trovando il tuo spazio, la tua dimesione, il tuo posto in un universo prima sconosciuto. E quando infine  d'un tratto torni a casa, anche se solo per un pò, assapori il risveglio che verrà. Ma non ancora, non ancora (cit.). Ma voglio parlarvi del mondo là, per farvi capire una cosa.&lt;br /&gt;Quando sei solo, quando devi affrontare molti dei problemi per conto tuo, a volte senti la mancanza dei tuoi cari a sostenerti. Senti soprattutto che là, fuori dal tuo mondo, sei catapultato in una dimensione di totale libertà e autonomia ma a volte nessuno ti sostiene e ti dice che ce la farai perchè in fondo te la sai cavare, perchè in fondo lo sai anche tu dentro di te che arriverai dove vuoi. In alcuni momenti tuttavia, anche le mie convinzioni e la mia autostima mi sorreggono  a fatica e il mio proverbiale entusiasmo sfuma silenziosamente..come dice il buon Lucio Battisti "domandarsi perchè quando cade la tristezza in fondo al cuore, come la neve, non fa rumore". Momenti rari ragazzi, momenti rari ma intensi, emozioni nuove e ancora non catalogate emergono, come se oltre alla mappa stradale di Delft nel piccolo kit del viaggiatore mi debba dotare di una nuova mappa stradale dei miei percorsi emotivi..&lt;br /&gt;In effetti ho vissuto un paio di questi momenti in Olanda anche se non ve ne ho mai parlato: sono momenti di intensa riflessione in cui a volte hai a che fare con un nuovo te stesso,in cui devi fare i conti con emozioni paralizzanti che nascono naturalmente e chiedono immediatamente udienza ,senza passare per burocratici permessi nè autorizzazioni. Qui. Adesso. Ascoltaci. Non puoi evitarci. Se non lo fai peggio per te.&lt;br /&gt;Il punto dov è..il punto sta nel fatto che quando sei lontano da casa, la maggior parte del tempo pensi che sei felice e assolutamente non ti sei mai sentito meglio, ti senti forte e quasi invincibile. D'altra parte passano anche giorni in cui vorresti avere di fronte a te gli occhi di chi ti conosce da sempre e che da sempre ha saputo come sei, perchè la pensi così..gli occhi del tuo migliore amico, gli occhi dei tuoi genitori, delle persone importanti che hanno un ruolo importante nella tua vita. Gli occhi di "chi mi conosce lo sa".&lt;br /&gt;In tutto questo ping pong di emozioni contrastanti, in cui bene non si capisce mai chi vinca, anche se un idea ce l'ho (sapete bene a quale squadra assegno quasi aprioristicamente il punto..;) ) non rimane altro che godermi il momento di passaggio negli spogliatoi. Sono qui a prendere il mio thè caldo, la gente fuori sugli spalti è distratta, tutti a fumare la paglia, a mandare l'sms o a fare la ricarica di pop corn..per me è il momento di rilassarsi, di dare un senso&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R3BGWIkywcI/AAAAAAAAAWo/-380EJqLW60/s1600-h/jordan45_l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R3BGWIkywcI/AAAAAAAAAWo/-380EJqLW60/s200/jordan45_l.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147691720157348290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; anche al Ritorno, parola grande come il mare, parola quasi dolce nella sua potente carica malinconica. Al momento penso solo a tornare in campo..come direbbe Jay-Z.."when I come back like Jordan wearin the 4-5"&lt;br /&gt;Questi giorni serviranno per pensare, per vaccinarmi in previsione dell'arrivo del virus  pazzeeeesco  chiamato "the end".   Al momento sono ancora  il ritratto della salute  (cit.).&lt;br /&gt;La consapevolezza di poter tornare sul campo di gioco rende questa settimana a casa un affettuoso abbraccio a tutta la mia famiglia e alla mia "gente".  L'idea di sfiorare nuovamente le gambe dell'adorabile Delft, di accarezzare la sua pelle, di unirmi simbioticamente a lei fino a cadere in un sonno profondo e fanciullescamente sereno..beh, questa idea mi eccita anche da qui, non mi lascia pensare ad altro, mi porta a uno stato che assomiglia pericolosamente e incredibilmente a "felice".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/seGhTWE98DU&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/seGhTWE98DU&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="300" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oltre a ciò sapere che "The saints are coming", che alcuni dei miei migliori amici mi accompagneranno per una parte di questo viaggio condividendo luoghi, persone, strade mi rende euforico: verranno con me al Ruif, al forno di Wijnhaven, a Oude Jang, al TU, a Markt Square, a Bosboom Toussaintplein, e poi a forse ancora a Jacoba, a Papenstraat, a Bajinhof, a Korveze, Marcushoft ecc..&lt;br /&gt;The Saints are coming.. Here we go guys. I'm really looking forward to being there with you all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A big hug to you all and I wish you an amazingly good Christmas, my dear far and near friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-7044069277858109895?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/7044069277858109895/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=7044069277858109895&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/7044069277858109895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/7044069277858109895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/12/larbitro-manda-tutti-prendere-un-th.html' title='L&apos;arbitro manda tutti a prendere un thè caldo'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R3BEZIkywaI/AAAAAAAAAWY/b41NpDLP5XI/s72-c/caressa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-2218151295244023372</id><published>2007-11-27T16:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:14.459-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pictures from the Netherlands</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y31BDHLPI/AAAAAAAAAWE/E9MbB0sQSzY/s1600-h/PB165552.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y31BDHLPI/AAAAAAAAAWE/E9MbB0sQSzY/s200/PB165552.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137683396365331698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y3VhDHLOI/AAAAAAAAAV8/-2ZeOTgCWg0/s1600-h/PB185610.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y3VhDHLOI/AAAAAAAAAV8/-2ZeOTgCWg0/s200/PB185610.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137682855199452386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y2zhDHLNI/AAAAAAAAAV0/1JfQHGrDMpI/s1600-h/PB175603.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y2zhDHLNI/AAAAAAAAAV0/1JfQHGrDMpI/s200/PB175603.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137682271083900114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y2KBDHLMI/AAAAAAAAAVs/RDxzXZrcP9s/s1600-h/PB165557.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y2KBDHLMI/AAAAAAAAAVs/RDxzXZrcP9s/s200/PB165557.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137681558119328962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y10xDHLLI/AAAAAAAAAVk/w8K9e18KJC0/s1600-h/PB175599.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y10xDHLLI/AAAAAAAAAVk/w8K9e18KJC0/s200/PB175599.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137681193047108786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y1hBDHLKI/AAAAAAAAAVc/gY2X4UFD3Hg/s1600-h/PB175590.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y1hBDHLKI/AAAAAAAAAVc/gY2X4UFD3Hg/s200/PB175590.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137680853744692386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y1LBDHLJI/AAAAAAAAAVU/5MTF-QyJvWk/s1600-h/PB175593.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0yzShDHLDI/AAAAAAAAAUk/wmUgTrDG9s0/s200/PB175579.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137678405613333554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0yzGBDHLCI/AAAAAAAAAUc/RJnQUMFqrfA/s1600-h/PB175563.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0yzGBDHLCI/AAAAAAAAAUc/RJnQUMFqrfA/s200/PB175563.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137678190864968738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0yyTxDHLBI/AAAAAAAAAUU/zBGx1Grvc-Q/s1600-h/PB185621.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0yyTxDHLBI/AAAAAAAAAUU/zBGx1Grvc-Q/s200/PB185621.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137677327576542226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-2218151295244023372?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/2218151295244023372/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=2218151295244023372&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/2218151295244023372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/2218151295244023372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/11/pictures-from-netherlands.html' title='Pictures from the Netherlands'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0y31BDHLPI/AAAAAAAAAWE/E9MbB0sQSzY/s72-c/PB165552.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-4370170514928406950</id><published>2007-11-26T19:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T19:32:47.291-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Canzoni d' erasmus..</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7zN9vd9WUiA&amp;amp;rel=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;amp;border=0"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7zN9vd9WUiA&amp;amp;rel=1&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="300" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: webdings;"&gt;INCUBUS - Drive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; font-family: webdings;"&gt;Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear&lt;br /&gt;And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the Fear&lt;br /&gt;take the wheel and steer.&lt;br /&gt;It's driven me before,&lt;br /&gt;and it seems to have a vague, haunting mass appeal.&lt;br /&gt;But lately I am beginning to find that&lt;br /&gt;I should be the one behind the wheel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever tomorrow brings,&lt;br /&gt;I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there&lt;br /&gt;I'll be there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if I decide to waiver my chance to be one of the hive&lt;br /&gt;Will I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive?&lt;br /&gt;It's driven me before&lt;br /&gt;and it seems to be the way that everyone else gets around.&lt;br /&gt;But lately I'm beginning to find that&lt;br /&gt;When I drive myself my light is found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So whatever tomorrow brings,&lt;br /&gt;I'll be there with open arms and open eyes. Yeah.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there&lt;br /&gt;I'll be there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would you choose water over wine...&lt;br /&gt;Hold the wheel and drive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So whatever tomorrow brings,&lt;br /&gt;I'll be there with open arms and open eyes. Yeah.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there&lt;br /&gt;I'll be there&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-4370170514928406950?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/4370170514928406950/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=4370170514928406950&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/4370170514928406950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/4370170514928406950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/11/canzoni-d-erasmus.html' title='Canzoni d&apos; erasmus..'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-1146916926540773748</id><published>2007-11-20T05:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T08:36:14.679-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Terugstraat  Jongens</title><content type='html'>Io e Iurij proviamo l'imitazione della boyband più sgangherata della storia. ah..Terugstraat Jongens è una traduzione super maccaronica del nome Backstreet Boys. heheheehe :)))))) Maccaronica come la nostra versione casalinga.&lt;br /&gt;L'interpretazione è da brivido. I brividi non sono tutti di piacere, ben inteso.&lt;br /&gt;Grazie Iurij per la cooperation. Grande!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iurij and me attempt the imitation of one of the ricketiest boybands ever.Ahm..Terugstraat Jongens is a very bad translation of the English name. As bad as our home-made version.&lt;br /&gt;The interpretation in trhilling. The thrills are not always for pleasure, for sure.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks a lot Iurij for helping me!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check it out guys. Stay tuned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5PHVBQQztEs&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5PHVBQQztEs&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-1146916926540773748?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/1146916926540773748/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=1146916926540773748&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/1146916926540773748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/1146916926540773748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/11/backstraat-jonsens.html' title='Terugstraat  Jongens'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-5247051281257030428</id><published>2007-11-19T14:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:15.391-08:00</updated><title type='text'>8x - Life.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm here my dears.&lt;br /&gt;I know it doesn't seem to be like that but I'm always here taking care of my deep, philosophical, sometimes silly, anyway funny blog. Anything bad to say about about it? I hope not so but if someone has, speak right after reading or shut up forever. This WAS the independent republic of my life, you remember? Now it is the independent dictatorship of my life..hehe :)&lt;br /&gt;I was scrolling back to my previous posts and I 'm getting aware that I have never actually written about my real life here. I mean, I ve never told you about my habits, my "daily routine", my activities, my clubbing, my life. I just keep on filling in pages and pages with thoughts and reflections  forgetting  to  tell  about  what 's going on  in the Ducth lands.That is likely the question that most of my readers wanna ask me.. what the fuck are you doing over there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well,let's start from my job..let's call it job. It makes me look almost important. :) Well, I have my own office here, I ve got my collegues and my boss. I ve got my assignement and ufortunately also my deadlines. Officially working on my project thesis, I 'm now analysing the dutch energy market and its main sources (oil and natural gas) to start afterwards to introduce the reasons why the hydrogen (perhaps the real alternative for the future) is still still finding so many hurdles on his way to the market. Is it only a techology and infrastucture problem? Or  are the institutions stacking the deck to prevent a quicker developement of the new &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0JAbxDHK9I/AAAAAAAAAT0/Ot2aqQ1Jdkw/s1600-h/bond-james-gun-3700526-thumb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0JAbxDHK9I/AAAAAAAAAT0/Ot2aqQ1Jdkw/s200/bond-james-gun-3700526-thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134737370922822610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;sources? I m trying to figure it out and to show the world they really are.With the evidences in my hands. I'm gonna catch you motherfuckers! hehe :) I'm like a secret agent of the English Royal Crown investigating on this dirty case..my name is Mossini, Luca Mossini. It doesn 't sound like the original I know...:(&lt;br /&gt;Let's say that as far as I ve found out so far a lot of decisions made in the past are defintely and strongly affecting the present choices. This phenomenon is called "lock-in effect". It s like as you yesterday bought a  pair of  shoes  for 350€ and  now they made your feet stink like shit. You cannot simply throw them away and buy a new pair, because you decided to invest your money in those shoes. You cannot simply loose your money. You gotta put up with the smell even when you see a new brilliant pair probably far better. You got "locked in". And if you wanna change you gotta face the so called "switching costs". A big stack of money sometimes.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0JBFxDHK-I/AAAAAAAAAT8/HthE1jRA4AA/s1600-h/lock+in.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0JBFxDHK-I/AAAAAAAAAT8/HthE1jRA4AA/s200/lock+in.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134738092477328354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make sense? I hope so. Anyway I don't wanna bother you with such a boring explanation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's talk about my life: here is all wonderful guys. Some people read my blog and told me that I'm too optimistic. Someone even told me it seems to be unreal for how much optimism they see in it. I use to answer: I'm not stupid. I don't live in a stupid commercial. I know the world is not always about smiling and having fun. It 's not all fine and easy. But why should I present to you my troubles and my "dark side" when I ve got so many shining sides to talk about and to be proud of? Huh?&lt;br /&gt;I ve got a lot of friends here. It's incredible when I think that I firstly came here a bit frightened cause I was the only one getting here at the end of Sept whereas the "rest of the world" had been already abroad for one month. Such silly worries...&lt;br /&gt;There is only one big trouble I see here. As far as I ve seen people from a country tend always to settle down with their "bros". There's nothing wrong. I mean, it's quite natural.  But I personally don't like sticking too much to a group. What I can see in the club we have here,"De Ruif" ,is  kind of imaginary walls among the groups: the Spanish corner, the Italian, the Dutch, the Greek one and so on. They don't properly communicate each other. Finally everyone always comes back "home" with his own bros. I don't wanna be misunderstood. I love staying &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0LERxDHLAI/AAAAAAAAAUM/Vue6nJBGTsg/s1600-h/PB175602.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0LERxDHLAI/AAAAAAAAAUM/Vue6nJBGTsg/s200/PB175602.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134882334658997250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;with my Italian friends. I ve just had an amazing evening and I will definitely hang out with 'em again, but I also like widening my boundaries and well out of this abroad experience. Are we in Holland or not? So let's be flexible! Ok...my lesson is over..hehe:)&lt;br /&gt;Here we have such a lot of amazing parties in student residences in Italy we can only imagine: (come cantava Jovanotti "un monolocale che diventerà un castello"..ve la ricordate?? daiii.."affacciati alla finestra amore mio" Ah..a proposito sapete che trovano strane affinità tra la mia faccia e quella di Lorenzo Cherubini??...Mah...) kitchen turning out to be club rooms with DJs and bars and barmans and also people working as waiters picking up glasses and bottles. "Amazing", as my cute friend Antieh would say. Obviously lasting till 5-6 o'clock. Sometimes the police or some desperate neighbours try to kick us out but we stay as late as possible. Always. The show must go on. Dear Freddy, I would add..."in Erasmus especially" hehe:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0I4nxDHK7I/AAAAAAAAATk/h3dNm9cXbKY/s1600-h/08erasmu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0I4nxDHK7I/AAAAAAAAATk/h3dNm9cXbKY/s200/08erasmu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134728780988230578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our spirit is being blessed by Erasmus. The Erasmus's soul is among us. I can feel it. I can almost touch it. Probably because it 's not only the meaning it has got during the years but also because he really lived 10 km far from here...maybe HE is watching me. Surely he is a bit envious now. hehe :) And with that bored face if I offered him a beer he wouldn't reject it at all.&lt;br /&gt;All here guys is so fucking...quick. All is so fucking fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="300" width="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-iLt1U7A2-s&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-iLt1U7A2-s&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="250" width="250"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The speed of light maybe is unreachable but sure we get at the speed of sound.It's so hard to explain to someone who doesn't live it.  Here  you can feel the clock always beating. You can feel the time running away and that feeling forces you to live in a double, triple, ...8times faster life. &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;8x-life&lt;/span&gt;. Like my DVD reader. Again and again. All the time. Fortunately my voice is still the same..not that kind of shrill voice when you speed up the the tracks. hehe :)&lt;br /&gt;Especially the emotions are 8x amplified. Maybe even more. I'm living in an emotional bubble. I m always discovering something new and I never get bored of anything. I'm always "hungry". My bread is called People, my soup is called Growth, my cheese is called Curiosity. The greek ancient philosopher Plato said "The very peculiar feature that makes man different from all the other creatures is the power of curiosity and the ability of feeling marveled" . Holy words bro. Holy words.&lt;br /&gt;Finally I always get to talk about the sense of life, right? Yes, I know. But it's my own nature. I'm an hopeless case. Only Doc.House could save me. hehe:)&lt;br /&gt;Some people I talked to argued that this is the kind of world we should try to live in all the rest of our lives: I say. Ok that's true. But are you really sure that after coming back we will be able to re-create emotions like these ones in our home towns? Or are we all fearing that this world is gonna end with our coming back? Is it real adrenaline the one we are creating here to speed up our lives now?&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0I6LBDHK8I/AAAAAAAAATs/x4vDesRL5xc/s1600-h/superman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/R0I6LBDHK8I/AAAAAAAAATs/x4vDesRL5xc/s200/superman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134730486090247106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Or are we only hurrying up because we "see" the deadline getting closer? Why do we feel so fucking Supermen here and why do we feel so fucking Clark Kent-s when we are at home?&lt;br /&gt;Will we be able to transmit our enthusiasm to the people around us who have never been abroad? Will we be able to find our dimension or will we need to get out again and again to feel good as much as now, as much as here. Will we need our dose like poor junkies?&lt;br /&gt;Are we going that fast to take off eventually or are we risking to crash right after the tarmac?&lt;br /&gt;I'm not totally clueless. I've been thinking over it quite for a while.&lt;br /&gt;But today I'm not gonna write answers. At least not to those questions herebefore.&lt;br /&gt;For 2 reasons: I don't have definitive answer for me either.&lt;br /&gt;And everyone has got his ones, so I don't wanna my thoughts to affect yours. Make sense? I hope so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The night is running out. As usual. And my alarm is already fixed. As usual. Ordinary Life? Yes a little bite here as well. But always 8x...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See ya guys. Stay tuned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-5247051281257030428?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/5247051281257030428/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=5247051281257030428&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/5247051281257030428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/5247051281257030428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/11/8x-life.html' title='8x - 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src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xgk9ouBuj-4&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="250"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;THE JOKER&lt;br /&gt;Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Some call me the gangster of love &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Some people walking around call me Maurice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Cause I speak of the pompitous of love &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;People talk about me, baby (People talk about me, baby) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;They say I'm doin' you wrong, (doin' you wrong) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Well, don't let that worry you worry baby (oh baby ....) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Cause I'm right here, right 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the cutest thing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;That I ever did see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I really love your peaches &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I Wanna shake your tree &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Ooo-yeah baby, I'm gonna show you a good time &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;Cause I'm a picker &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I'm a grinner &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I'm a lover &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;And I'm a sinner &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I play my music in the sun &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I'm a joker &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I'm a smoker &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;I'm a midnight 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id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128310215974456354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;How many times have you been to a club in your life? How many times in a bar, in a square, in a concert or in a museum or maybe in commercial centre?&lt;br /&gt;The number of times you've actually been is not important, what I'm talking about is our experiences , our life, and the feelings connected with those experiences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyway..I guess the number is pretty high, isn't it? Yeah. I don't even try to guess. I do know. For me, for you, for anyone having a normal and healthy social life.&lt;br /&gt;Have you got? I think so. So I say ok, my post is gonna be interesting for you but maybe you already know everything. However, I 'm definitely interested in knowing what you think about that. So go on please and give me your feedback. I'm like Uncle Sam. I want you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure you all have a great experience in staying into social environments, maybe more than me. And it's normal, it's natural. "It's my life" as sang John Bon Jovi.&lt;br /&gt;Now.what's the news?&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever thought about WHY you go to a public gathering? or you like staying with people and you like learning languages you like doing "social" activities...there are thousands of examples but it's enough. You understand me.&lt;br /&gt;So what? Have you ever wondered why? Well ..I personally did. I'm still doing many times.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Maslow, one of the greatest expert of human interaction created his famous and famous and famous Pyramid, in the attempt of describing the human needs. Take a look if you wanna know more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Ry7uOnEqDDI/AAAAAAAAAMo/jIrC60nFXtA/s1600-h/Maslows-needs-Pyramid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Ry7uOnEqDDI/AAAAAAAAAMo/jIrC60nFXtA/s200/Maslows-needs-Pyramid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129298960395668530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I personally agree with Maslow. I think he was a genius.&lt;br /&gt;And I especially agree with him when he says that our human needs are basically growing from the base of the pyramid to the top and that's the order we follow in satisfying them. I mean, let's focus on the safety/security and social needs: how many times have you entered a club and felt like "I'd like to talk to anyone and be in the core of the social life around here but I don't really know how to and I'm also a bit frightened by all these unknown people, what can I do?" .&lt;br /&gt;It's just beacuse we want to satisfy are need for social interaction but we implicitly dont' wanna loose the control of our need for security. Jim Morrison said "People are strange when you're a stranger, faces are ugly when you 're alone". He was so right.&lt;br /&gt;You see the point? When we go and talk to unknown people we always feel a sense of insecurity,because we are never sure about the reaction of the people around us we don't know yet. They, on the other hand, are not bad or really "strange", they only want to be as sure and safe as us while we start to talk to them, they want to feel we're not a threatening presence. Make sense?&lt;br /&gt;I mean, it's all natural. It's a healthy mechanism (don't worry...;) ) , it's a fear structured in our mind which is useful because it gives us the awareness that we must protect ourselves even though in most of the cases it's just a curtain  which  blocks  the sun rays coming in from the window during a sunny day..&lt;br /&gt;I LOVE the very moment when you feel the equilibrium between these two needs: I love seeking the thrill between my sense of comfort when I am alone and the happiness of having won this little fear.&lt;br /&gt;I personally call it - The thin and attractive line between "nothing happened" and "anything is possible" -&lt;br /&gt;Try to imagine you in front of a beautiful girl you've just met. You talk to her, you find her very attractive, you can feel the energy, 'cause you ve got so much life running through your veins.. (thank you Robbie)&lt;br /&gt;You get the point you realise she 's attracted to you. You see the pleasure you could have with her but you are not sure at all to make the very first step and to get out from your comfort zone..your little and golden garden where nothing can hurt you. Don't you feel the thrill?...&lt;br /&gt;That's the line I'm talking about. The line between nothing happened and anything is possible.&lt;br /&gt;Because when you cross the line you can see the world up side down, you feel totally amazed, you feel that the moment is taking your breath away, you really feel that anything in this world is possible. That concept is very wide and can be appliable to a lot of contexts. Think it over.&lt;br /&gt;I personally love those instants..I personally love those lines..I personally love those thrills..&lt;br /&gt;Why?&lt;br /&gt;Because this stuff make me feel like I'm truly, madly, deeply LIVING my life. This stuff is my own personal drug, and I am my own personal pusher bros.&lt;br /&gt;But pay attention. Getting hold of that drug is hard. It's always hard and I'm not pretty sure I can have my dose WHENEVER I want to. I'm trying but I'm not sure at all.&lt;br /&gt;There's a beautiful metaphor I use to tell my friends and some of you will already know it : when you feel you are living a moment next to that "line",and you feel a bit anxious beacuse you are frightened by something could happen, try to think of you next to a swimming pool.&lt;br /&gt;I mean, you are ready, you ve got your swimsuit and you want to have fun. But you personally don't like COLD WATER right? hehe...I think you got it. Can you just jump in and forget it' s cold? Can you really do that?&lt;br /&gt;You know perfectly that it's nothing to worry about and it's not the end of the world but almost never you just give the fuck and jump in. That's right. I understand.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Ry7_WnEqDEI/AAAAAAAAAMw/uEDKeEjicuo/s1600-h/Ol+malo_diving_big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Ry7_WnEqDEI/AAAAAAAAAMw/uEDKeEjicuo/s200/Ol+malo_diving_big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129317789532294210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how much funnier would be just doing that without feeling scared or uncomfortable? Because when you jump in and you come out..you are already wet! you are acclimatized! So after that point, after the "line" you can only care about having fun jumping in again and again enjoying the water. True?&lt;br /&gt;I mean, I love the frightening thrill ONLY because that is what gives me the sensations of real, deep intensity when I overcome it. It's amazing. I hope you're feeling it like me.&lt;br /&gt;So guys. I don't wanna teach anything to anyone. I think I'm not good enough yet to do that. I'm just trying to change my way of thinking and acting a little bit. Little by little. Anyway, we are here. We are living our Erasmus period, for sure the best time of our lives. So let's be open, let's jump into that pool, let's cross that line. It's always so fucking adrenalinic. I know you already know. But somestimes it's good to be reminded, isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See ya guys. Stay tuned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="testo"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-6827796016984375558?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/6827796016984375558/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=6827796016984375558&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/6827796016984375558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/6827796016984375558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/11/thin-and-attractive-line-between.html' title='The thin and attractive line between &quot;nothing happened&quot; and &quot;anything is possible&quot;'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rytq-HEqDCI/AAAAAAAAAMg/W4PfQyF47Rg/s72-c/446px-Uncle_Sam_%28pointing_finger%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-4036772165621647856</id><published>2007-10-23T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-23T16:32:25.327-07:00</updated><title type='text'>English?..why not?</title><content type='html'>Thanks to lots of friends who would like to read my blog but definitely cannot because of the language hurdle, I 've just decided to write my next post in English...&lt;br /&gt;It might be quite harder to keep using my metaphoric and ironic writing style, that my English friend Philip would define "pointless chatter"...hehehe..&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I'm gonna try and I feel pretty confident in my outcomes.&lt;br /&gt;I want you to figure out guys...'cause I think we've got some nice stuff to share.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See ya guys. Stay Tuned.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-4036772165621647856?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/4036772165621647856/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=4036772165621647856&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/4036772165621647856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/4036772165621647856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/10/englishwhy-not.html' title='English?..why not?'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-6834139963661279699</id><published>2007-10-22T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:34.010-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Random selected pictures 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rx5jlosUAGI/AAAAAAAAAMY/6BhalEr11GY/s1600-h/PA215145bis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rx0iL4sT_xI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/qRcXcRm877Y/s200/PA185109.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124289538609643282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rx0iBIsT_wI/AAAAAAAAAJs/eGV7yVr1XDY/s1600-h/PA185108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rx0iBIsT_wI/AAAAAAAAAJs/eGV7yVr1XDY/s200/PA185108.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124289353926049538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rx0e34sT_qI/AAAAAAAAAI8/zh4_iInMbpY/s1600-h/PA215145.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rx0e34sT_qI/AAAAAAAAAI8/zh4_iInMbpY/s1600-h/PA215145.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-6834139963661279699?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/6834139963661279699/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=6834139963661279699&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/6834139963661279699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/6834139963661279699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post.html' title='Random selected pictures 2'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rx5jlosUAGI/AAAAAAAAAMY/6BhalEr11GY/s72-c/PA215145bis.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-7589680914109244555</id><published>2007-10-21T16:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:34.981-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dream Time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RxvjxYsT_oI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qMCCC8Y_--4/s1600-h/PA145083.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RxvjxYsT_oI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qMCCC8Y_--4/s200/PA145083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123939438645476994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Signore e signori. Eccomi qui. Scusate per la prolungata e ormai preoccupante assenza, non vi allarmate non sto smobilitando nè mi è passata la voglia di scrivere..ma sapete c è un momento per vivere la vita e un momento in cui fermarsi, staccare la spina, e osservare quello che fai come lo fai e perchè. Stanotte è uno di quei momenti. Quei momenti in cui il tempo sembra fermarsi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anche il mio orologio sembra averlo capito e come un cucciolotto che lecca le ferite del suo padrone si è fermato. Oggi. Ore 15,30. Lì, fermo. Come me. A lui basterà una bella batteria nuova. Per me forse solo un pò di sana riflessione e qualche ora di sonno.&lt;br /&gt;Ieri sera gran serata. Ci provano in tutti i modi i buttafuori delle discoteche olandesi a farmi veramente incazzare e a volte ci riescono pure, pensate che ieri sera non ci hanno fatto entrare perchè abbiamo bussato alla porta con vetro. Risposta: "It doesn't seem to me polite you knock on the door,you can't get in". Gente strana. Weird..very vey weird...&lt;br /&gt;Tuttavia, la palla ce l ho io non basta di certo il primo Blasi di turno che mi sega con falciatrice professional a metà campo per scoraggiarmi. A testa alta salutiamo e ce ne andiamo anche perchè la parola "dialogo" non sembra appartenere al vocabolario fiammingo. "No." "Why?" "No" "But we went here cause we like this club..." "No.".. "Ovvio che la duttilità non ti contraddistingue" (detto in italiano...;) )..credo che nemmeno Mc Gyver avrebbe saputo come entrare...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rxvi1IsT_mI/AAAAAAAAAIc/uy-HhOC-H9s/s1600-h/macgyver.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rxvi1IsT_mI/AAAAAAAAAIc/uy-HhOC-H9s/s200/macgyver.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123938403558358626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci dirigiamo in un altro club finalmente accogliente alla vista della Neo Latin United (Spagna, Italia, Portogallo).&lt;br /&gt;Serata bella, musica "mainstream" ma qui sembrano non vedere altri canali che il main quindi ci (mi) accontentiamo. La compagnia è ottima è ben assortita ci sono i miei migliori amici italiani quelli spagnoli e pure qualche portoghese. Oltretutto per carità di Dio la cumpa non è "The Sausage Fair" bensì è magnificamente equilibrata: ci sono donne carine e simpatiche con cui mi intrattengo in giochi e giochetti di psicologia per animare la serata. In effetti per la gran mole di storielle test ecc che sfodero...;) cominciano a credere che sia una sorta di para psicologo o analizzatore sociale..in effetti la cosa mi piace parecchio e diciamo che...non faccio di tutto per nasconderlo . Magari qualche volta ve ne parlerò.&lt;br /&gt;Voi direte..e ste donne? Non ne parli mai!!..Si avete ragione. Vediamo di fare uno screening...&lt;br /&gt;Pochette devo dire, perlomeno qui a Delft City. Stimolanti sì, ma francamente NON con la voglia di respirare a pieni polmoni la fragranza della vita che ci si aspetterebbe da una esperienza come questa. Per me "RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW" è una regola fondamentale. Forse L'unica. In ogni caso la più importante. Ora e adesso, prima che il tempo fugga e non torni più. Prima che l'inevitabile addio mi chiuda la porta in faccia . Come dice la piastrina che porto al collo  "Save tonight and fight the break of dawn" (Eagle Eye Cherry)&lt;br /&gt;E' la stessa regola che mi dice di vivere al massimo e approfondire ogni relazione nel mondo più sincero e ricco possibile. Che sia una notte o che sia quel che sia. Che tu sia l'amico con cui esco a bere una birra o che tu sia la donna che accompagno a dormire nel mio letto. Ed è anche la stessa che mi dice di dare sempre il meglio di me e soprattutto di cercare di tirare fuori il meglio da quelli che hanno la sorte di trovarsi sul mio sentiero. A volte vedo che alcuni non capiscono l'importanza di lasciare andare ogni freno e vivere tutto questo fino all'ultimo "tiro" e cerco di catechizzare..di instillare concetti per me vitali. Risultati? A volte entusiasmanti e a volte no..ma in fondo non posso farmi capire da tutti. Non ho nemmeno questa pretesa. Talvolta mi dispiace vedere comportamenti a cui difficilmente assegno una spiegazione secondo il mio modo di pensare, ma in fondo intimamente me ne faccio una ragione. Io posso aiutare a fare il 20% della strada ma chi mi sta di fronte deve aver già fatto il restante 80% nel suo personale percorso altrimenti non può nemmeno capire di cosa sto parlando. Donna o uomo che sia. Anch'io sono esattamente così: seguo con fiducia ed entusiasmo soltanto chi mi dà gli input che cerco, solo chi mi trasmette l'energia, la personalità, la mentalità in cui io stesso mi riconosco, che anch'io mi sento di condividere e di avvalorare pienamente. In PNL (Programmazione Neuro - Linguistica) questo fenomeno viene chiamato "rispecchiamento". Ve lo dico così, giusto perchè ora lo sappiate. E giusto per tirarmela un pò dal momento che lo so...hehehe :)&lt;br /&gt;Finisco a parlare sempre del senso della vita eh?...si in effetti qui la riflessione è quotidiana come la Gazzetta dello Sport...&lt;br /&gt;Stavamo parlando di? ah..si..i miei giochi. Beh altri li riservo per animare la cumpa e per divertirmi insieme agli altri. Il gioco è una dimensione infantile che non dovremmo mai abbandonare perchè in tante situazioni è la cosa che più stimola e intrattiene creando una piacevole amalgama tra gli elementi del gruppo...per un corso completo di "Team Building" parlate con il mio manager..hehe :)&lt;br /&gt;Ma torniamo a oggi..giornata di tranquillità, una di quelle giornate in cui non hai voglia di fare un cazzo non hai voglia di vedere nessuno, in cui ti chiudi in casa, ascolti la tua musica leggi le tue pagine preferite, pensi ripensi e a volte ti ritrovi a parlare con te stesso quasi come se fossi un matto..ti rendi conto che stai parlando a voce alta &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RxvjMIsT_nI/AAAAAAAAAIk/ZQrcsk8y0Zo/s1600-h/Pinocchio.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RxvjMIsT_nI/AAAAAAAAAIk/ZQrcsk8y0Zo/s200/Pinocchio.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123938798695349874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;per farti domande su questo su quello e su quell altro..è lì che il tuo "grillo parlante" entra in azione e ti risponde puntuale con frasi sagge e profonde che dovrei veramente cominciare ad ascoltare. In realtà lo faccio. Lo faccio sempre e sempre di più anche se a volte i risultati che ottengo non sono quelli che credevo. Pazienza. D'altra parte la crescita non è una funzione monotona crescente...hehe se non la capite amen :) ...è piuttosto il grafico che descrive l'andamento di un'azione in borsa..c è il giorno che sei quotato in rialzo e quello in cui sei quotato in ribasso. L'importante è sentire dentro di te che il tuo valore intrinseco sta aumentando, che ogni giorno hai qualcosa in più per te stesso che se vorrai potrai regalare a chi ti sta intorno. Solo a chi lo merita ovviamente. La mia mente, diciamo la mente del viaggiatore, la mente in genarale di chi si abitua a esplorare ogni giorno territori nuovi e sconosciuti , sviluppa naturali doti di analisi e valutazione meritocratica ed è sempre più abile a distinguere e riconoscere le persone. Capire a volo chi è chi. Ovviamente con le dovute precauzioni, evitando cioè stupidi e ottusi preguidizi o qualunquistiche generalizzazioni.&lt;br /&gt;Venite gente, venite senza paura: voglio vedere chi è Il Buono, chi è il Brutto e chi il Cattivo.&lt;br /&gt;E questo è vero sopratutto qui. Qui dove la vita è frenetica e le emozioni sfrecciano veloci.&lt;br /&gt;Insomma miei cari 25 lettori , le azioni Mos S.P.A. sono in crescita. Non sono in impennata come la Lira di Carcarlopravettoniana memoria ma il trend positivo è ben distinguibile.&lt;br /&gt;Oggi tuttavia la borsa è chiusa. Anche qui a Delft per un giorno la vita si è fermata.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rxv3_osT_pI/AAAAAAAAAI0/LEoO2Deykvs/s1600-h/27_203342.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rxv3_osT_pI/AAAAAAAAAI0/LEoO2Deykvs/s200/27_203342.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123961673691168402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Del resto è Domenica, il Signore lo scelse come giorno del riposo. Buttato sul divano mi godo il glaciale Kimi vincere il suo primo campionato del mondo dopo una gara evidentemente grottescamente palesemente pateticamete spudoratamente manovrata dall'alto dal quel burattinaio che risponde al nome  di Bernie Ecclestone. In fondo doveva  accontentare tutti, sponsor, organisers, pubblico, scuderie..da futuro manager quale forse sarò un pò lo capisco pure. Si chiama "Crisis Management" ..in altre parole "si fa quel che si può anche non viene proprio da Dio".&lt;br /&gt;Anyway...the show must go on.&lt;br /&gt;Ma non oggi per favore. Non per me almeno.&lt;br /&gt;Come dice Vasco...&lt;br /&gt;"Vivere.... è come un comandamento...oggi voglio stare spento".&lt;br /&gt;E' ora di riposare. E' ora di sognare. It's my own Dream Time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See ya guys. Stay tuned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-7589680914109244555?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/7589680914109244555/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=7589680914109244555&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/7589680914109244555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/7589680914109244555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/10/oggi-voglio-stare-spento_21.html' title='Dream Time'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RxvjxYsT_oI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qMCCC8Y_--4/s72-c/PA145083.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-6889382100514048956</id><published>2007-10-11T09:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:39.946-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Random selected pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rw6LXIsT_fI/AAAAAAAAAHg/YYGpzxhl3vQ/s1600-h/P9284873.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; 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&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una cosa da dire ce l’ho anch’io. Anzi, più di una.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vi è mai capitato di salire su autobus semipieno in una cittadina media italiana? Ovvio che si. Vi è mai capitato che mentre voi eravate lì sovrappensiero oppure chissà a ripassare la lezione nel tragitto casa-università salisse sullo stesso autobus una ragazza-madre indiana con un velo e una di quelle strane tuniche con in braccio un bimbo strillante e fastidiosamente rumoroso? &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sapete che succede qui? La gente si gira. Intendo dire dalla parte giusta..la gente guarda negli occhi la ragazza. La gente le sorride e sorride al bimbo e lei ricambia il sorriso cercando di scusarsi. Per cortesia, solo per semplice buona educazione. Non di certo per evitare il rischio di essere calpestata.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mi fermo qui. Avete già capito. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Forse per qualcuno non vuol dire nulla. E a volte forse anche per me tutto questo non ha significato proprio nulla. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ma QUI, ORA, PER ME questo vuol dire tutto.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vi è mai capitato di dover affrontare mille problemi burocratici, di dover fare il giro delle 7 chiese (per fortuna con l’organizzazione crucca la via crucis tra gli uffici è molto più breve) per avere un maledetto documento per poi scoprire all’atto di consegna che era quello sbagliato?&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Per scoprire che nessuno in fondo sa chi sei (“Excuse me… &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Who are you? Are you sure you’ve got the right to stay here?”)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ma la sapete una cosa? Quando state facendo esattamente quello che avete desiderato di fare da tanto tempo, il vostro animo è talmente indistruttibile che niente è in grado di scalfirlo.. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ci sono 2 scoperte che potete fare:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol style="margin-top: 0cm;" start="1" type="1"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;scoprite che per ottenere      quello che volete,dovete un po’ sudare, dovete rimboccarvi la manica e      strisciare con robusto olio di gomito.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;quando però siete veramente      convinti che quello che volete ce l’avete a portata di mano allora passate al piano superiore. Il sudore, la fatica, i problemi, le noie, le “pare”      di qualsiasi entità esse siano, tutti questi simpatici chiwawa attaccati      ai testicoli mutano geneticamente, si evolvono, si snaturano. I chiwawa      diventano docili gattini da accarezzare..al massimo solo un po’ da      inseguire. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Capite?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ogni problema non è un vero problema. Ogni problema quando insegui il tuo desiderio è una sfida stimolante, è un pensiero motivante. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ogni cosa che nella vita normale non avresti mai voglia di fare qui la fai e basta. Trovi l’energia per tutto perché non ti vuoi perdere un minuto un secondo perché vuoi provarti vuoi testarti vuoi vedere fino a che punto sei in grado di farcela da solo prima di dire “Non ce la faccio”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Trovare il luogo sperduto sulla cartina dove puoi aggiustare una bicicletta rubata (anzi no.. tecnicamente trovata abbandonata sul ciglio di una strada …hehe) &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;è un gioco di “orientiering” e non &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;“Oddio come cazzo c’arrivo? Ma scolta cioè…che para…” &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Forse per qualcuno non vuol dire nulla. E a volte forse anche per me tutto questo non ha significato proprio nulla. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ma QUI, ORA, PER ME questo vuol dire tutto.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vi è mai capitato di arrivare in un posto nuovo e avere un carico di batterie che basterebbe a rimediare al fabbisogno energetico giornaliero cinese?…però cazzo, avere due amici e basta che non hanno voglia di uscire.. quante volte vi è saltato in mente quando siete nei vostri paesi di dire..”oh cazzo me ne frega? io esco da solo”&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ah? Quante?Voglio sentire…voi direte..e&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;a te? hahaha…fino a qualche giorno fa : ZERO. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ragazzi non temete : vi capisco. Anch’io ho avuto gli stessi timori…il celeberrimo timore “di non so che”.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A me è capitato. Ebbene sì. Ho levato la cifra 0 dal mio tabellino. Sono partito senza bici, senza una mezza idea (beh ammetto l’aiuto da casa l’ho usato…hehe..quindi si un paio di idee ce le avevo) di dove fosse un locale decente, senza un amico da chiamare o un appoggio un bastone un cane cercamici…NIENTE. Io, la mia cartina (geografica…) e la mia ENERGIA.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vi dico com è andata? Ho fatto un giro per il centro..sono entrato nel locale che mi avevano consigliato e puff…magia! hahaha…magia nera…sono rimasto 5 minuti poi mi sentivo un pesce rosso fuori dal suo vasetto e sono SCAPPATO FUORI. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Paura? Non lo so, non è paura è disagio è voglia di essere già a casa mentre sei in una fottuta buia foresta.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sono uscito. Ho fatto 2 passi…mi sono detto : “Perche? Cazzo ok, è difficile però…why give up?.. sei in grado di entare di parlare con chiunque. Sai l’inglese. Sai lo spagnolo. Non ti puoi nemmeno mettere la maschera dell’ignorante . Non vale. Non stavolta .&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E poi hai la tua arma segreta..”il pppugno di laaato!”io sono puuggggile!! hehehe &lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.. Non ti fermare solo perché non te la senti di saltare quel cazzo di recinto..e andiamo!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“La mia strada è il bbbarèètto!! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sono tornato indietro. Ho fatto un respiro forte e mi sono buttato col sorriso sulle labbra. Sapete che è successo? Una ragazza di nome Margaret…non troppo bella in effetti…hehe&lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;mi si è avvicinata e mi ha detto...”Ohh..you’re so good looking!” con un sorriso e una spontaneità che mi hanno davvero entusiasmato!! Grazie Margaret…sei stata grandiosa. Nemmeno tu sai cosa hai reso possibile..sei la mia “Deus ex-machina”…&lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Da lì è partito un tourbillon (calerà la mannaia sigi-picciniana se ho sbagliato a scriverlo) di conoscenze…in sequenza 2 colombiani e 4 colombiane, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11…spagnoli…hahahaha&lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; sono un botto e non finiscono mai…increeeeeeiiiiiblleeee. ..2 californiani, 2 czech donne 2 czech uomini..1 olandese, 1 sudafricana (!!!) 1 inglese… ma solo quella sera eh?... &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Perché poi ieri sera abbiamo fatto una festa nel residence degli studenti dove conosciuto &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;anche un portoghese&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;un indiano……&lt;/span&gt;(effetto voce che sfuma…)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anzi no facciamo tornare il volume…non posso non menzionare le mie amiche italiane…Fabri , Glo e Anna che mi hanno caldamente accolto nella grande famiglia facendomi sentire come a casa…come ho scritto loro in un messaggio…”anzi meglio che a casa”…(ragazzi spero che non vi offendiate…ma dopo 3000 caratteri di argomentazioni sul tema mi pare superfluo chiedervi comprensione)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Magari le soprammenzionate non leggeranno mai il mio blog ma se lo faranno vorrò farle sapere che con loro mi sono divertito e mi sto divertendo (per ora ma non fatemi arrabbiare eh??)&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;e mi sono dilettato a condurre “amabili conversazioni” come direbbe &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;l’Avv. Bernasconi (che spero un giorno o l’altro faccia un giro da queste parti) &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un bacio per tutte e tre…uno solo. Spartitevelo e non vi azzannate per favore. Almeno non spargete troppo sangue. Nel caso, da brave, pulite per cortesia. hehehe :) &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Forse per qualcuno non vuol dire nulla. E a volte forse anche per me tutto questo non ha significato proprio nulla. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ma QUI, ORA, PER ME questo vuol dire tutto.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Questo è Storie d’Olanda ragazzi. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Storie di giovani con voglia di vivere, di divertirsi di sentirsi veramente liberi. Liberi di plasmare il proprio futuro con le proprie mani. Liberi di aprire la propria mente, di scoprire che i sorrisi e le mani protese in aiuto sono la normalità e non chiedono qualcosa in cambio. Mai.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwzO2osT_EI/AAAAAAAAAEU/a_u_AwMUX9s/s1600-h/instinct.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwzO2osT_EI/AAAAAAAAAEU/a_u_AwMUX9s/s200/instinct.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119694314444946498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“Caro Tabibu Juha, la libertà è ciò che sta al di là dei recinti che ci costruiamo da soli”&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(“Instinct- Istinto primordiale" ovviamente consigliatissimo se non avete avuto il piacere di scoprirlo fino ad oggi. )&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;See ya guys. Stay tuned.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-4854385792666831177?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/4854385792666831177/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=4854385792666831177&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/4854385792666831177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/4854385792666831177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/10/ehmbuonanotte.html' title='Vi è mai capitato?'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwzO2osT_EI/AAAAAAAAAEU/a_u_AwMUX9s/s72-c/instinct.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-274234037388103198</id><published>2007-10-01T16:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:41.638-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Italia VS Olanda  1-1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwNa6YsT_CI/AAAAAAAAAEE/F-Nbdjofeis/s1600-h/figc.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117033560730237986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 95px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 131px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwNa6YsT_CI/AAAAAAAAAEE/F-Nbdjofeis/s200/figc.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLsKYsT-_I/AAAAAAAAADs/16OG2mB2fBE/s1600-h/nl-knvb.GIF"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116911789817461746" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 142px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 87px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLsKYsT-_I/AAAAAAAAADs/16OG2mB2fBE/s400/nl-knvb.GIF" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLa_YsT-0I/AAAAAAAAACU/oHQoT2KGoM0/s1600-h/P9304911.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116892909141228354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLa_YsT-0I/AAAAAAAAACU/oHQoT2KGoM0/s320/P9304911.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ci colleghiamo dallo stadio di Delft per la Blog-cronaca del match Italia-Olanda valevole per la coppa Erasmo da Rotterdam edizione 2007-2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Riviviamo brevemente insieme gli highlights del match in corso:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;1'&lt;/span&gt; : L'Italia "s'invola" sulla fascia sull'asse Bergamo-Eindhoven, Mossini dribbla un paio di cinesi sul corridoio centrale dell'angusto volatile denominato Ryan e effettua un preciso lancio delle valigie nell'apposito alloggiamento. Nulla di fatto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;20'&lt;/span&gt; : Giunti alla stazione di Eindhoven una macchinetta automatica cagabiglietti tenta l'affondo in contropiede sfruttando le fangose vie laterali dopo aver bruscamente respinto l'offensiva della Visa Electron adducendo la pallida argomentazione che viene consentito l'ingresso in campo solo a Mastercard,carta ufficiale sponsor della Champions League:le ingiurie di Mossini, come recita l'arcinoto spot, non hanno prezzo. La scena è custodita in cineteca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;30'&lt;/span&gt; : Dopo dieci minuti di tensione in cui anche il pubblico (non pagante) si era accalcato numeroso interviene l'arbitro che decide di estrarre un cartellino di colore giallo (il biglietto) nei confronti dell'impassibile e Capellica macchinetta; Caressa strilla come un gabbiano : Non è gol! Non è gol! E in effetti l'arbitro annulla poichè la macchinetta avrebbe dovuto toccare il biglietto. Giusto così.Mossini ringrazia per la targhetta gialla e scatta verso il binario come farebbe il Pendolino Cafu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLbL4sT-1I/AAAAAAAAACc/00KIo6mHfwY/s1600-h/P9304925.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116893123889593170" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 186px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLbL4sT-1I/AAAAAAAAACc/00KIo6mHfwY/s320/P9304925.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;45'&lt;/span&gt; : Il match si trascina stancamente sul finale di primo tempo. Il robusto centrocampista italiano arriva sul fondo e l'accoglienza è subito calda. Tenta il cross ma l'arbitro manda tutti "a prendere un thè caldo" . E' evidente lo stato di empasse soprattutto sul fronte italiano dovuto all'accumulo di acido lattico nei muscoli della lingua..la caratura tecnica del numero 8 Mossini è un pò in ombra ma i 15 minuti nello spogliatoio si rivelano fondamentali per ridargli la sua naturale brillantezza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;50'&lt;/span&gt; : il match riprende a ritmi lenti. Gli orange dopo aver condotto le danze per i primi minuti lasciano le redini all'Italia che ha armi difficilmente disinnescabili, che rispondono al nome di pasta (seppur "Grand Italia") e sugo (per fortuna "Bertolli"..decente). Dopo essere passato vicino alla panca (il supermercato più vicno) per raccogliere le indicazioni tattiche del Mister, Mossini si imPirlisce impadronendosi del cerchio di centrocampo, distribuendo con regolarità pentole e padelline, esibendo tra l'altro un paio di deliziosi cucchiai.&lt;br /&gt;Con scelta di tempo geniale sfodera infine un colpo da campione annichilendo gli avversari con un delizioso piatto liftato grazie a un tocco sotto di dolce Parmigiano Reggiano.&lt;br /&gt;La folla è in delirio: l' 1-0 è servito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLbqYsT-2I/AAAAAAAAACk/ealvVPuWQds/s1600-h/P9304928.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116893647875603298" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLbqYsT-2I/AAAAAAAAACk/ealvVPuWQds/s320/P9304928.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;55'&lt;/span&gt; :il gol addormenta la gara. I tulipani dapprima molto reattivi decidono di mollare il colpo e di sedersi in panchina qualche minuto, come si farebbe in una partita parrocchiale..brutto da vederde ma il calcio è anche questo. Il numero 4 olandese Riny Vermue si addormenta e saluta i compagni. Il numero 7 Wouter Liem, molto più attivo continua a fare a gara di talento ostentando virtuosi elastici lessico-linguistici...il pubblico lo omaggia spellandosi le mani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;70'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;: causa pioggia battente (qui piove davvero sempre!!) il match viene interrotto e rinviato a sabato sera (come se fosse tennis..voi direte, ma la metafora è dura da sostenere!! ;) )&lt;br /&gt;Si gioca nello stadio di Den Haag, a tutti nota come L'Aia. L'Italia sembra dapprima spaesata a causa del trasferimento ma dopo le prime battute di studio e la fornitura costante di sali minerali, arricchiti da luppolo e doppio malto i timori reverenziali sfumano e il match si ravviva. Per l'occasione i due Orange dicono di no alla chiamata in nazionale, senza il ricorso a falsi passaporti eriberto-lucianici per una notte si naturalizzano e come due oriundi si schierano sul versante azzurro per dar man forte contro le intriganti e ammalianti chiome bionde nordiche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLb6IsT-3I/AAAAAAAAACs/fK4NCVhoTFY/s1600-h/P9304909.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116893918458542962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLb6IsT-3I/AAAAAAAAACs/fK4NCVhoTFY/s320/P9304909.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;75'&lt;/span&gt; : Il capitano azzurro non teme il campo avverso, nonostante il rumore assordante del pubblico che non permette perfetta udibilità, gli avversari sono morbidi e si lasciano facilmente imbambolare sia sul piano tecnico che tattico. Mossini si C.Ronaldisce, vuole fare accademia nonostante non abbia ancora dimostrato tutto il suo valore. Il suo gioco lezioso è piacevole e a tratti spettacolare ma in sostanza poco concreto. I compagni lo osservano con curiosità e si propongono in interessanti sovrapposizioni e triangolazioni. L'intesa c è,manca solo il Gol.&lt;br /&gt;Il numero 7 Liem sfoggia le sue doti tecniche lanciandosi in un'incursione "notorious" che lo vede saltare facile un paio di avversari. A tu per tu con l'estremo avversario scocca un tiro debole dopo aver spumeggiato in area di rigore. Il portiere blocca in scioltezza. Nonostante l'errore il numero 1 avversario fa l'occhiolino e rende onore alla giocata lasciando il proprio recapito telefonico (per fortuna non si imPinaSinalefisce...02-659....chiamami eh?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLcuYsT-5I/AAAAAAAAAC8/BjJoXKHlkTs/s1600-h/P9304913.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116894816106707858" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwLcuYsT-5I/AAAAAAAAAC8/BjJoXKHlkTs/s320/P9304913.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;80'&lt;/span&gt; : Il match prosegue Lunedi sui campi della TU Delft, il prestigioso campus tecnico ingegneristico di Delft. I nuovi avversari sono agguerritissimi e rispondono al nome di Prof Hemmes e Prof vanBeers. Mossini entra in campo sciolto e sereno, gli avversari sono accomodanti e sorridenti ma hanno tecnica e talento da vendere. Mettono alla prova il giovane italiano e talvolta riescono a aggirarne la fase difensiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;85'&lt;/span&gt; : &lt;/span&gt;Il panzer olandese vanBeers si avventura in un'offensiva centrale e sfruttando la debole resistenza del centrocampo italiano carica il mouse con un (indice) destro dalla lunga distanza che s'infila nel sette della porta italiana (la mia casella di posta elettronica).Lo stesso indice che utilizzerà Batistutamente per zittire il pubblico già convinto dei 3 punti. Il tiro è potentissimo (circa 5Mega di roba da leggere)...e molto preciso. Il portiere non ha di che rammaricarsi, era imparabile.&lt;br /&gt;E' l 1-1 che pareggia i conti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La partita non è finita...Mercoledi sera si continua sulla stessa rete con molte sostituzioni nelle fila avversarie...va in scena il primo Italia-Resto del Mondo della stagione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olè!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all folks. Stay tuned &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-274234037388103198?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/274234037388103198/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=274234037388103198&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/274234037388103198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/274234037388103198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/10/italia-vs-olanda-et-al-1-1.html' title='Italia VS Olanda  1-1'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwNa6YsT_CI/AAAAAAAAAEE/F-Nbdjofeis/s72-c/figc.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322436640123113746.post-3105491631219701248</id><published>2007-09-27T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T09:38:42.057-08:00</updated><title type='text'>L'isola che non c'è.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rv-e7IsT-sI/AAAAAAAAABA/xd_LUnbznek/s1600-h/P9214796.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rv-e7IsT-sI/AAAAAAAAABA/xd_LUnbznek/s320/P9214796.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115982440498985666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here we are guys...&lt;br /&gt;eh si, eccoci qua ragazzi. La partenza è domani, giorno del Signore 28 settembre 2007. The time is running out...finalmente devo dire..queste ultime ore scorrono veloci prima del giorno fatidico in cui non c è più il "non vedo l'ora" non esistono più i "pensa che figata.." esiste solo un uomo con la sua "dose di adrenalina", carico delle sue "valiggie" (le citazioni cominciano già a fioccare..e la cosa mi gasa..hehe) con un biglietto aereo e tanta voglia di fare di vedere di scoprire. Sono ancora qui ma&lt;br /&gt;è un bel pezzo che vorrei essere là...&lt;br /&gt;Mi viene in mente una canzone..che mi è sempre piaciuta..che descrive in un modo fantastico l'idea di un viaggio..che è molto di più di un viaggio fisico..concreto fatto di kilometri e mezzi di trasporto..è un viaggio fatto di emozioni e di fantasia..fatto di aspettative e di "chissà.." è un viaggio alla scoperta di un altro te che conosci ma che non hai mai tempo di frequentare...&lt;br /&gt;La canzone fa così...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rv-fz4sT-uI/AAAAAAAAABQ/fIubhNsagYQ/s1600-h/peter_pan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rv-fz4sT-uI/AAAAAAAAABQ/fIubhNsagYQ/s320/peter_pan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115983415456561890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Seconda stella a destra,      &lt;br /&gt;questo è il cammino&lt;br /&gt;e poi dritto fino al mattino..&lt;br /&gt;poi la strada la trovi da te&lt;br /&gt;porta all' Isola che non c è.."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insomma in queste poche parole c è molto del mio viaggio…che non è solo una permanenza in un posto nuovo..è molto molto di più..&lt;br /&gt;Qui..dalla mia scrivania..nel mio studio..nel mio piccolo paesino di campagna mi sento come Peter Pan.. perché mi sento come mai prima di essere alla ricerca della mia isola che&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;non c è…mi sento che da qui finalmente sto iniziando a volare, e in volo posso riconoscere le stelle del cielo, seguirle e finalmente trovare la mia strada…a proposito di volo..lui il buon Fabio Volo direbbe “il mio posto nel mondo”…chi lo ha letto e apprezzato come me saprà cosa voglio dire..  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Quest isola non esisterà per nessuno se non per chi vorrà condividere con me questo viaggio…non tanto nella sua emozionante quotidianità quanto nella sua essenza.. nel suo profumo più incontaminato…nel solco profondo che scaverà nel mio animo…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ora basta con tutta questa poesia…insomma…mi sento bene oggi….oggi nelle mie orecchie risuona una sinfonia dolce amara…my bitter sweet simphony…mi sento tranquillo e sereno anche se quel lieve dolorino allo stomaco non la smette di starmi addosso… (alla Bud :” oh viene con noi questo?” hehehe :) ) &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;ma “d’altra parte è così”..è bello…è qualcosa di incredibilmente intrigante &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;essere così sereni e contemporaneamente così nervosetti…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;è come essere a casa mentre ti prepari per un appuntamento con la donna dei tuoi sogni …e pensare che va tutto bene.. che anche se non sarai al massimo della tua carismatica e affascinante verve farà lo stesso…che lei ti apprezzerà comunque e capirà chi sei. E anche se sciaguratamente non dovesse funzionare anche allora non cambierà nulla…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Bello cullarsi in questa docile forma di autoconvincimento..che si sa..aiuta ma non basta...non basta MAI….&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Mi sento così oggi…la mia donna si chiama Olanda…ho già preparato tutto…le ho detto di aspettarmi a casa che passerò io..ho prenotato un tavolo per due in un ristorantino con panorama…ho comprato&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;2 biglietti per un concerto che adora…e voglio far di tutto per farla divertire stasera..voglio che rimanga folgorata dalla mia scintillante presenza..e che faccia una fatica tremenda a dirmi addio…quando verrà l’ora..almeno tanta quanta ne farò io…perché IO so già che mi mancherà..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Voglio lasciare questo pensiero lontano…il più lontano possibile…l’addio per ora&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;risiede solo nella remota coscienza della brevità di tale esperienza….ma io che di secondo nome faccio Procrastino… nel mio stile più caratterizzante rifilerò questo pensiero in attesa…gli metterò un bel bollino rosso…&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwFoCIsT-zI/AAAAAAAAACM/SaHxTDoou0w/s1600-h/5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 171px; height: 172px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/RwFoCIsT-zI/AAAAAAAAACM/SaHxTDoou0w/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116485037571963698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;"Lo stato di Luca è impostato su Occupato e potrebbe non rispondere"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;In attesa della partenza e dei primi riscontri dal campo...vi lascio questa massima..così..giusto perchè ci ragioniate un pò sopra..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;“Life’s not made by the amount of breaths you take but by the moments which take your breath away”…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;See ya guys. Stay tuned.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/322436640123113746-3105491631219701248?l=dutch-tales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/feeds/3105491631219701248/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=322436640123113746&amp;postID=3105491631219701248&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/3105491631219701248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/322436640123113746/posts/default/3105491631219701248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dutch-tales.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-strada-la-trovi-da-teporta-allisola.html' title='L&apos;isola che non c&apos;è.'/><author><name>Luca</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7-rVsyJxjU/Rv-e7IsT-sI/AAAAAAAAABA/xd_LUnbznek/s72-c/P9214796.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
