Happy Nameday Me!

I' all happy today. All it took was to skip my dutch course and tai chi. I like them both, but I was too busy you see... At work I was making a drawing - that would be the storyboard for a video prototype for our project, and then I got into flow and I forgot to go to my dutch course... And then I needed some time to enjoy myself before we would go out with my friends for a nice walk in the city, so I skipped tai chi...
That is what I wore today.
Sorry for the photos
but I have to buy a camera...and I'm saying that from April..
OMG, I'm really anticonsumer when it comes to stuff other than clothes...
hehehe

what I wore today

my new pink scarf from Men At Work

black beret

bolero MNG

a purple heart on my chest : graduation gift

rest : h&m

Polka dots is fun and make my day!
I felt really vintage-like today..

bright day

YESTERDAY,  we slept first time in our apartment the two housemates, me and B. I will call her Beanny, to protect her anonymity.:) It was really nice. She cooked rice in an indian way : she sauted  cumin with bay leaves and onion and it smelled like roasted meat! Then she added the rice and green peas and tomatos and potatoes cut in pieces and after 20 minutes we ate. It was really yummy!
MY housemate is vegetarian, that's so cool. I am trying to be one too.OR at least a flexitarian. That is, you eat meat only when you really really want it or you feel you need it :) I want to become a vegetarian not because I want to mimic my housemate but for a number of reasons.
1.they say it's healthier. Mediterrenean diet is also not based on meat (especially on red meat).
2. it's good for the environment. If you see cows as machines, during all their lives, they burn tonnes of cereal and green stuff and water to produce milk and only some dozens kilos of meat per animal and also some artifacts, e.g. sheet, methane.That's not efficient in terms of energy, water and natural resources in general. (Plus, methane is partly responsible for ozon hole!)
 Moreover, I am buying mainly organic stuff from the supermarket. It's a little more expensive but now I am used to it. Again for the same reasons :
1.they say it's healthier.
2. it's good for the environment.organic stuff keep part of the earth clean from pesticides and other nasty chemicals.

 

                                                        goodnight sweetie...:)

 

Eindhoven Snowy Days

Buses in Eindhoven. I observe them as if they were wild animals.

I never get too close. Buses and knees do the job.

 

Neighbourhood tree. This tree is really beautiful.

I have many pictures of it carrying snow, see?

I don't know what's this, I see it when walking back from the University and 

I have seen it to a couple of t-shirts in the gym lately. It might be a political socialistic party.

 

My future car..

I'm very fond of technology ;)

 Neighbourhood again. Looks like a peaceful village, 

only you don't know who's your neighbour.

This was a tribute to the Snowy Days of Eindhoven, the days of glory and royal white purity. The days of falling-off-my-bike-twice-every-day.

bike keys II

Koeln, December 2009
spoiler : irrelevant pic!

In case you've wondered, I've found my keys. Inside the supermarket. I felt really nice. I even bought a present to myself, ha! Not because I lost them, but because I realised it right after I got out of the supermarket. :) I made also this useful thought : If you want to make someone happy, take him something he takes for granted and give it back after a while.
I promised once that I will talk about the book I read about Dalai Lama. Well, there's not much to say, the book was really nice, you 've probably heard all of it before, but this book makes you think about life in a romantic way, again! Words like compassion, sympathy, warmth, hapinness and kindness are the kernels of this book which will make you love the whole world at least for a day, maybe two.:D
I now borrowed a book called "Dalai Lama at MIT". No, I don't intend to become a Buddhist. I am only interested in well-being in general. And in clothes of course...

Coming soon...

My new SALE babies

bike keys

that's how my bike looks like. Adorable, isn't it?

No posts so long because I lost the cable that connects my camera with the computer. I also lost my bike keys today. Where is my mind? I think I lost it in the supermarket. There are 2 keys with a light green body shop ribbon through them. I miss my keys, I have second pair but I want them both! What an inconvenience....:S duh...

Thank God, I have good friends here. At least I was not alone looking out of the supermarket for my keys..

wish me luck!


I miss also my outfit posts btw. But since there's no one here to take pics of me, I can only take crappy pics of myself in my room and that's not something that I want to show..

Taking Woodstock

Everything is going pretty well here, studies are going well, I have friends, I travel on weekends, I have problems of course -but who hasn't- and I was about to ask myself "Am I still missing something? What would I need more to be perfectly happy and content?". So today I saw this movie and .. I remembered!
I miss the lack of discipline and of alarm clock at 8.00, freedom, partys, concerts,something going on in the background,dirty-muddy festive concerts, protests in the University,political discussions in every corner, weirdos, lefties with beards and bell-bottom pants, seeing a familiar face in every corner!
I miss MY OWN mornings, having nothing to do, and thinking about how and with whom I will spend my day!
But ... except from being free I want to be safe too. And this is the cause of my nostalgia. Because what would happen if I continued living this life I enjoyed during my early studies? Can I quit job and do what and with whom... Just a rhetoric question, hidden deep inside me..:S

So me stupid girl, waking up tommorow at 8, being at 9.00 sharp at work went today to the University cinema -yeah, still doing University things- and enjoyed that movie and her new clothes and now is about to take a shower and sleep. Wish me luck or a second woodstock in my life!
I am in desperate need of lack of discipline (no, i don't mean holidays)

Consume. Fun and safe!
h&m dress and pulln bear bangle, but they don't match together..
sorry to disappoint you

Sleep well

People say I should sleep more. My eyes look tired every morning. I have difficulties in going to bed, because I want to do as many as possible during the day and probably subconsciously I can not accept that the day is gone and I try to keep it alive. Today I thought that I should not be afraid of the End of the Day - instead I should celebrate the beautiful day I had. So, for today's celebration I chose these pictures from my Sunday 15th of November..


There are pure pictures, no photoshop at all! Not that they look perfect, but they show the colours of Amsterdam. It's a really colorful city, full of pubs bars, small shops, junk food, funky people..


A warm and tasteful coffeeshop. One of my favourite pictures today!


A temple in the Chinatown in the Middle of Amsterdam.

A canal.I like the surface of water. It looks really like the moment I saw it.

Netherlands and Me

A beautiful Friday morning with my father wandering in the Canals and the Jordaan Neighbourhood, Amsterdam...




I want to keep this Friday.. and save it in a nice clean place, next tomy other favourite days in my life. The following video is dedicating to my beloved Konna. It was originally made for her.



A day from home to University in Eindhoven. My Neighbourhood. Something really bad happened to my neighbourhood today. I saw ambulances and police cars and a red-stripped ribbon hanged on the trees. That might mean 'area under investigation'. I don't know anything else. I hope no one is hurt.


and me one of the first days to University. Look what I choose to wear! Everybody would think of me as a weirdo fashionista!

It's time to leave baby

My life is lately on the rush. I am working long hours, even on weekends, I am leaving on Saturday for holidays on the amazingly beautiful island of Skopelos (my father's birthplace) for five days, then Berlin for one day, Stockholm for four days and Berlin again for one day, then back to Thessaloniki and then Halkidiki to the student camp-that-is-almost-for-free!
That was vacation. End of September I am leaving for My Master, oh yes! Such a big change in my life. Leaving behind everything I love and treasure such as my sister, my friends, my family, my life, my house,my clothes :P. I am going to the Netherlands, Eindhoven. I really like the subject of my master - I don't want to reveal now more about it, the only I can say is that it is considered a Professional Doctorate in the Netherlands, it last two years and it takes place in Eindhoven. I am really excited, but sad that I have to leave all I love behind. And my deepest fear is maybe that when I come backmany things may have changed...I would have spent two years of myself there, being out of my favorite people lives, talking with them on the phone and missing them..
But still on the other hand, I want to go. Because I believe that this particular Master is going to open for me new paths to explore and widen my career options.And since this choice seems to bring me closer to what I want to do professionally in my life, I feel that I want to go. As I say to my profile, I crave for hapiness. Of course, that might seem obvious, everybody does. But I have set it as a purpose in my life. So, I was thinking that work is about 8 hours a day (a normal work on a normal day). Plus 1,5 hours to go and come back from work and prepare for work (that is the minimum amount I could thought of. I need much more for the time being). That is about 60% of your time. Then you have another 40% to eat, drink, bath, put some clothes on and see friends or your kids or the ceiling if you are bored. But leaving out all the necessary things, only 20% of your day can be used for fulfilling my inner need to feel complete, happy and self-conscious. That's too little. I don't have the time to stare at the ceiling any more as I am always on the rush seeing friends in my 20%. And I miss a lot of things I don't have time to do. Being crafty and creative for example. Or meet new people or go dancing! SO, that's why I am going to the Netherlands!To advance this 60% of my daily routine in the future!What do you think?
And if you have any idea about how is life up there, in Eindhoven,Netherlands, don't hesitate to leave a comment!