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Today it is exactly six weeks since my grandfather’s passed away. In the meantime literally everything has changed. It’s been a week and a half since I last visited his grave and now I’m living almost a thousand kilometres away, with a new life, new friends and new hope. I’m savouring this silence under the

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Wednesday evening the Christian Union here at Glamorgan offered free biscuits and coffee / tea outside the SU. As we were just coming back from a pub down in Ponty and it was freezing, we decided getting a free hot drink would be worth talking a bit about Jesus. The girl who gave us the

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La sera ieri era, come dire, pieno di sorprese, soppratutto perch’è stata la prima sera nella quale uno dei miei coinquilini chiaveva una ragazza che (lui – perch’io gia la conosceva) aveva incontrato solo due ore prima. Si dice che solamente bisogna sorridere e una ragazza britannica fa ogni cosa che vuole, ed è, anche

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Anyone who’s interested in getting a copy of the Independent Coffee Stop, or INCOSTO as it was commonly called, the university of Luxembourg’s last year EASC (English and American Studies) student magazine, can now head over to Gilles Glod’s website, where he’s posted all of the three issues as PDF files. EDIT: Gilles apparently has

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… wat een hei op der Insel ka gemaach kréien ass wahrscheinlech, dass ee gesot kritt wéi gudd engem säin Accent ass. :D

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Stasera ho visto la ragazza la più cantevole mai e sto esagerando per niente. Anche se già un’ amica me l’aveva giurata, non ho mai veramente creduto che una tale sensazione sia possibile, ma davvero mi sente aver conosciutola tutta la mia vita. Sensazione strana che fa anche un po’ paura per essere onesto. Ma

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1. Däi Lieblingswuert? Freck! 2. Wéi ee Wuert hues de guer net gär? Floccinaucinihilipilification. T’ass definitiv ze laang. :) 3. Wéi ee Wuert muss een onbedengt kennen? Yahullah. 4. Wou kucks de no, wanns de d’Bedeitung vun engem Wuert wells wessen? Google Define, Wahrig, Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary… Hänkt vum Wuert of. 5. Wéi gees de

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Parched bloodshot eyes are burning Underneath the bass and saxophons In front of students skanking They don’t even know how nor to Complete this yawning void A whole world could fill it Not even within several millenia Sparkling eyes or charming smile I dragonfly fly around you damselfly It’s worse now that it is you

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Wow, lowdown’s spreading pretty fast at university. It’s the first thing I’m asked every single time when saying my name. And the second question’s always “Oh, like Thierry Henry?”. Hooray didn’t take very long to get a nickname. :)

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T’ass nawell eng schéin Uni. ;)

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When you’re reading this, I’ve already left the country and am on my way to Cardiff. It might be a bit quiet around here for a couple of days as there’s still a lot to do in the UK (settle in, enrol, working out a timetable, register at the NHS, socialising at Smiths etc), but

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Simply come and easily go Will never have been the case With all this which I can’t erase They say time heals everything, but where’s it been all this life? Stagnancy is my progress made while living in seclusion, Thinking of the unchaste girl who’s absconded from me to some art school; Maybe she’s drinking

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kommt von irgendwo was Schlimmeres her.

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There are a few songs out there that are so great it’s almost scaring. Let me recommend some of these songs to those of you who seek for more in music than chewed for lyrics and stereotyped melodies. A first one is certainly the great Only Lonely by Hootie And The Blowfish: Hello again, your

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Finally.

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Et ass gepackt, dat nervegst Evenement vum Joër ass iwwerstaanen. Voller Stolz kann ech behaapten, dass ech dest Joër keen eenzegen Cent do geloos hun an och verhennert krut, méi ewéi zweemol dohinner geschleeft ze gin. Kee Spill an och kee Gedrénks oder fettegt Iessen hu mäi Moo dest Joër ugegraff, wat firun allem un

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Nodeems egalwaat.lu firun e puer Deeg op nei Podcasts aus onsem schéine Ländchen opmierksam gemaach huet, kennt elo nach een dobäi an zwar vun de Bloggerkolleegen bei doofblog, nämlech huet de Raf geschter déi éischten Episod vum GeekMusicPodcast online gesat. Et ass zwar kee Podcast am klasseschen Senn – en ass nemmen per Torrent ze

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Si war zwar net op der Fouer, mee an der Aula. Mee och um grénge Spill hun sech der de moien fréi um 2 Auer duerch Zoufall eng ganz Rei vun der Blogosphär fonnt. Hm, op ech dat iwwerhaapt dierf posten? :) Do gouf zum Beispill de Raf vum doofblog gestript an huet säi schéinen

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to C. A smile breezing across the room: An absurd moment, our first one shared alone Amid the people who will, if at all, be slow at the up-take. Still remembering the first thought about her, He ātaahua te kōtiro rā, I wish I had known her earlier… A vanishing smile still hovering in the

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Try this.

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Probably one of the best music videos for one of the best songs ever to be made, and not (only) because of Evan Rachel Wood – who is indeed celebrating her 19th birthday today – in it. The song’s by Bright Eyes.

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An der Disko zu Montpellier. (Nee, dat muss ee net verstoen).

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wann deen aneren dech luewt, dass de eng Foto vun engem Cageot mat eidlen Fläschen Diekrich op engem Cageot mat eidlen Fläschen Battin als Hannergrond um Handy hues.

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Spéitstens wann een dat hei héieren huet, zweifelt een net méi un der portugiesescher Invasioun, well elo plagiéiren se schon dat hellegst wat mir Lëtzebuerger hun: de Juncker ons Nationalhymn. Oh Marie-Josée a Jang, wou féiert är Immigratiouns- an Integratiounspolitik ons hin? (via den alldeeglechen Wahnsinn)

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Oh, you don’t wanna mess with the RIAA They’ll sue you if you burn that CD-R It doesn’t matter if you’re a grandma or a seven year old girl They’ll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are So don’t download this song Don’t go pirating music all day long Go and buy

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Usually I’m not a fan of posting MyPipe YouTube videos harum-scarum, but this one with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert presenting an Emmy already made me kill myself laughing when I saw it live on Monday morning CET and I find it hilarious even after having watched it over and over again. A little info

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The blog has been closed down sine die due to bereavement.

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1. Welches Lied hast du zuletzt gehört? Katatonia: For Funerals To Come 2. Wie fandest du das Lied? Genial. 3. Zu welcher Stimmung/Tätigkeit passt das Lied? Ich hab’s bei der Arbeit gehört. 4. Wem würdest du das Lied weiterempfehlen? Jedem dem Melodic Death Metal gefällt und inspirierte Lyrics mag. 5. Wer sollte das Lied auf

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