Yesterday the long expected vaccinations against the  New Influenza A (H1N1) – also known as Mexican flu, started.  I had received a letter with an invite for this vaccination last week, for me and my daughter. As far as I understood they only send  people with a risc factor an invite.  And me well  I don’t like needles.. I REALLY don’t. But with a daughter who’s asthmatic  I can’t take the risc of getting sick and infecting her. And now a day later my arm is still sore o.o;.

Antonio isn’t registered yet but I assume he will receive the same invite once he gets registered this week.

Why is it important to get this vaccination? Well in the first place you dont want to infect other people in your family, your wife, husband, your mother, or your children with a this virus that CAN be deadly. Secondly you don’t want to get sick yourself either do you? Yes I know there are far more diseases and they are deadly too, all the more reason to take control and make sure its not going to be this one that will cause your last breathe.

How to recognize this new flu? Well the symptomes are pretty much like the normal flu, here’s a little list of symptomes that should allert you.

• Fever
• Cold shiffers/rillings? (not sure of the translation)
• Headache
• Sore Muscles
• Being tired
• Dry Cough
• Sometimes diarea

People who have also a different disease can get seriously sick from this new virus. Don’t panic tho,  a normal flu  also can kill people, only in the Netherlands about 1000 a year. (I assume there are several other factors playing a role though).

But supposedly I am now fine and have nothing to worry even when I have no other disease and was not too worried already it does feel good to have this extra security.

Here you will find more info about this flu and the vaccinations in Dutch

And here you can find more info about it on a English site.

And another English site with information about this flu and vaccinations

I hope you guys have enough information here now to make a decision about if  you should or should not or want or don’t want to get this vaccination.

Last day of the Elephants in Amsterdam!!! They have been placed allover Amsterdam. And  a lot too.And I love Elephants!! Don’t you!? And these come in all sorts of colors and poses! And you can buy them! (just go to the webshop)

Allover the city you can find elephants in Amsterdam well until today, because today is the last day you can see them in the city. If you still want to see them then  you will have to go to the Zuiveringshal Westergasfabriek . Or you can see them in the gallery on the website of the elephant parade. That’s where they will be until they are being auctioned under supervision of Christies.

You can also buy little hand painted replicas of the painted elephants.

They are part of a project that stands up for the Asian elephants. There have been parades in Antwerp and Rotterdam before which where a great success as well and now they are in Amsterdam until November 8.

At November 12 the elephants  will be auctioned and the money that is going to be collected will be donated to the organization “Elephant Family” who will look after the Asian elephants. The Elephants you can find standing around in the city, have been painted by Artists from allover the world.

I had seen them a while ago already but of course didn’t bring my camera. Well last week we went to the city again and I was able to take some pictures. We where running short on time so I couldn’t take as many pics as I really wanted though. I have uploaded them into my Gallery where you can see all the elephant pictures I took.

Perhaps if I can find the time I will go to the exposition before they are being sold. If you can read dutch and want to know more about this art project then of course you have to pay a visit to the official elephant parade website.

Imagine being in your twenties and walking around with a Motown contract in your pocket! Now that’s hot eh?

Waylon’s Wicked Way on Youtube

And with that news  I want to  introduce today to you a great dutch singer who goes by the name Waylon. His voice is awesome, hes dang goodlooking,27 year old  and got a Motown contract.  Sorry ladies, hes married :). I’m guessing that’s a dream many artist have. Hes the first dutch artist to get a Motown contrac and thats HOT!

His album wicked way has been for sale since the end of august. His voice carries the strength of the soul music from the 60’s and the rock n roll of the seventies! We have a topper here! You can find his personal webpage right here. Its available in dutch and english!

Alright! We have  worked hard the last few days and a lot of things have been added, re added and fixed :).

NUU not the lolcat, don’t worry 😛 What have we done? here is a list:

• I have added some poems
• I have RE-added poems
• I have created subcategories in the poetry category
• The community news box has been fixed
• I have added some old posts that where lost
• Theres a new page called Free money check it out!!!
• Theres a new category jokes! send us your best jokes ppl!!

We are almost back to our normal situation and actually even better, if I may say so 🙂 Yet theres still a couple things that still need to be re-added. Another lil list :). (I like list if you hadnt noticed yet, that keeps things organized)

• We still have to re-add more old posts that I have found back but not re added yet.
• We going to re add the lyrics from the mp3 player back
• We still have to change the name lyrics into music 😛
• And much more 😛

We hope you all keep visiting the blog and enjoy our lil stories, poetry, music and the rest! thnx people!!

My blog is popular in CA I have noticed, Again we have a visitor from California, This time from La Mesa.

You can find La Mesa in San Diego county in California. The population was 54,749 at the 2000 census. It was founded in 1869 and officially incorporated as a city on February 16, 1912. It is the hometown of NBA player Bill Walton, football stars Reggie Bush, and Alex Smith, famous actor Dennis Hopper, singer of rock band Pearl Jam Eddie Vedder, and the birthplace of heavy metal musician Dave Mustaine. (Quoted from Wikipedia)

“A near perfect climate, tree-lined streets, walkable neighborhoods, easy access to retail and commercial areas, and a quaint downtown village make La Mesa a highly desirable community in which to live, work and do business.”

That’s how La Mesa is being described on its homepage. On that homepage you can find plenty of information about La Mesa of course and all about whats there to find and to do. I suggest you pay  that site a visit if you are truly interested in La Mesa.

If you know of a good site that can tell us more about La Mesa in California then by all means tell us!!!