Posts Tagged ‘Life’
Home owner!
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
There are events in your life that “stick” in your memory and never leave you.
Your first day at school. Your first kiss. Your first love. Your first day at work.
On wednesday, I have received the keys of the apartment I have bought together with Katya, and I have to say, I am pretty sure this memory is going to stick as well.
We have spent the last five days assembling furniture and going back and forth from Ikea and various other DIY stores, my hands are swollen and red, there are countless packages still to open after relocating but … wow.
This is all really amazing, and gives a feeling of accomplishment that I have rarely felt before.
(Next challenge: clean up the bedroom, temporarily used as a storage facility, before our bed arrives on the 10th of August.)
-7
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Seven days left!
Another milestone of life is approaching :)
What Happens After you Save the Princess
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
On the elevator
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Man: So, they have elected the Prime Minister of Belgium as President of the EU!
Woman: Yep!
Man: What do you think of it?
Woman: Well…
Man: Better than the Italian!
<general laugh>
Me: *sigh*
Need to pray? 5€, please.
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
I am not a religious person.
I don’t know if I should consider myself a pure Atheist, since now and then I do wonder who or what might be behind the creation of our universe and everything I care about, but let’s just say, the Church and their silly propaganda never managed to convince me in the slightest.
Even worse, when I see scenarios like the one in the picture below, it makes my stomach twist in anger like nothing else:
Apologies for the flash, but I had no chance to take another picture (I was almost kicked out for doing this).
What you see here is the entrance of the Cathedral of Our Lady, in Antwerp, Belgium.
Going in more detail, this is a CASH DESK positioned at the entrance of the Cathedral, charging everyone that wanted to enter the church five euros.
Now, am I the only one that thinks this is immoral, disgusting, and just painfully wrong?
I don’t care if the maintenance of the Church costs 1.5 million euros per year.
Ask the vatican for support, or let the priests do the maintenance themselves like the Benedictine monks do in their monasteries, instead of charging people for their right to pray in the house of a God they believe in.
Shame on you all.
In other news, this was the only bad element of an otherwise fantastic weekend spent with my girlfriend, we drove all the way to the medieval town of Bouillon, spent there the night and then visited Antwerp on our way back.
Will add pictures on my Facebook page soon!
