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05th February 2008, 12:15

Let it Snow!

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Firstly, thanks to everyone who read and commented on my previous blog about Internet Flamers. Secondly, I received suggestions about topics to blog. Some individuals think I should blog about my own opinions about e-Sports, some suggest that I share personal experiences and events from my life(and Grubby), some requested for blogs with pictures from the LAN tournaments.

I think I will do some of everything. When I am at home, I blog about whatever topics comes to mind, whatever I would like to share. It can be a general topic like my previous blog, or it may be personal.

When I am at LAN tournaments, I'll make a blog report complete with pictures. (Events coming up are: Intel Friday Night at Cologne - Grubby vs Fire.de [8th February], NGL-one at Berlin [21st-25th February] and Samsung Euro Championship/Extreme Masters at Cebit, Hannover [5th-8th March]). Looks like we will be visiting Germany alot the coming month. :)

 

Snow in Netherlands - Night of 2nd February 2008

It was around 1.45am when Mom told us it started to snow outside. It doesn't snow very often in Netherlands at all, usually a few days of the winter each year. We grabbed a trench coat, wore it over our pyjamas, and ran outside. Wow... the sight that greeted us was so beautiful and enchanting!

“The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.”

 

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The view taken from our front door

“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.”
~William Sharp quotes ((pseud. Fiona MacLeod) Scottish Poet, 1855-1905)

 

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The carpark infront of our house - all cars were covered in snow.
 
Grinning happily!
 
“Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers”
 
That's the mini basketball court where we challenge each other with shooting games, and i win every single time! :p
 
Me and a very cold Grubby.
 
"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."
~Margaret Atwood
 
Let it Snow!
 
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
~John Ruskin
 
The little hill behind our house.
 
It's snowing heavier by the minute.
 
Me looking for a clean place to make a snow angel. Oops, you can see my pyjamas pants! :p
 
"When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”
 
Making a snow angel!
 
There! My Snow Angel! :D
 
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
~J. B. Priestley
 

Meanwhile Grubby tries to make one too.
 
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
~Andy Goldsworthy
 
Not as pretty as mine. :p
 

More Snow quotes I adore:

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
~William Faulkner

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
~Vladimir Nabokov

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.
~Stellan Skarsgard

“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.”
~Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.”
~Alice M. Swaim quotes

 

 
Comments (58)

 

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(last year)  #1 CheeZpooF
 
Wow, I'm jealous. I live in the Netherlands aswell and I haven't caught sight of a single flake of snow. And nice angels. I need to try that once ^^.

Heh, you guys look so good together. Totally reminds me of myself and my girl.

Anyhoo, thanks for the read. I'll be sleeping well now.
(last year)  #6 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
Hehe.. indeed it doesn't snow often in Netherlands at all. Most of the time it just freezes. If you keep a look-out, maybe you can see snow a few days each winter.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #2 SirZ
SirZ
rofl at grubbies :P
(last year)  #3 Ooopek
 
no snow at my place for a month now :|
(last year)  #4 GenoZStriker
GenoZStriker
:( I've been to Nederland, but I was only like 3 at that time. Living on The Nederlands Antilles I want to see Nederland again and I also have a friend living there. How long since it was Snowing there in Nederlands? was it long ago or just now around this time? and where in Nederlands?
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(last year)  #7 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
I never been to Netherlands Antilles. I heard they speak Dutch there as well? We live in the center of Netherlands, province of Utrecht.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #5 PMSRinoa
Rinoa
haha cute =)
She's a maneater
(last year)  #8 groovy|Kluya
Kluya
i never see snow :( (not much snow around the equatorian line u know.)
www.groovy-gaming.com
(last year)  #9 Contrail
 
Thats the good thing about extreme weather only some of the time is that you can enjoy it. There must be a good range of weather in the Netherlands.
(last year)  #10 ArovanE
ArovanE
I love it when you mix photos with quotes, nice stuff!

Its snowing right now in Uzbekistan too :P

p.s. ah, the good old city of Utrecht! Its ancient, isnt it?

life is funny.
(last year)  #11 proAproAJune91
proAJune91
we have not any snow in our town :(
pretty couple ^^!

lol at grubby tried to make another snow angel =)

Fear is not what I'll get. It is what I've created myself
(last year)  #12 Elven_Star
Elven_Star
Really nice read as always.
We have mass snow this year here in Iran. So much fun!!!

Elen sila lumenn omentilmo
(last year)  #13 GKoOJustLittlestar-
JustLittlestar-
nice read;)
in Moscow we usually have so many snow in winter.but at this year dont have snow at all;)just a little bit
Last edited by JustLittlestar- at 05.02.2008, 06:55

We are 4Kings
(last year)  #14 MYM|Mercy
Mercy
"Meanwhile Grubby tries to make one too" hahaha, man that is so priceless! ;)
Knowing my destiny - Is accepting your defeat...
(last year)  #15 SirZ
SirZ
cassandra does grubby smoke drugs there :P
(last year)  #16 Dendra
Dendra
I remember when an african boy came to my town to train in local football club, then he saw snow for the 1st time in his life. he was in a shock, whole team had to calm him down during that practice hour and explain what's "snow". Was kinda funny to see that things we take for granted others see as little miracles.
If force won't work, use greater force.
(last year)  #34 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
awww... i can imagine his feeling of awe when he sees snow for the first time! It must be so amazing!

Sweet story.. :D

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #17 losemann
losemann
haha, didnt do that snow angel thing in years. why? we have no fucking snow in germany. At least not more than once a year......
jealous! SNOW. Let it snow lalal

[www.losemann.asia] - my blog
(last year)  #18 Stud
Stud
haha good one ;P Im sure you both must be ill atm?.. don't tell me it's a NO!
To nirvana and beyond.
(last year)  #19 manhunter321
manhunter321
damn very ncely written
you will know and recognise me after somtime
(last year)  #20 4KFPuncho_13
Puncho_13
I wish it snowed in Orange County California, but alas, we continue our warm sunny weather! Although the past few weeks there's been some rain, but never has there been snow here since its a chaparral environment at sea level...

/jealous (kind of)
Last edited by Puncho_13 at 05.02.2008, 09:21

LIVE TO WIN
(last year)  #21 24hourPartyMan
24hourPartyMan
That's nice but Cassandra's angel is looking really better.
I must say that's the "fucking handsome" snow angel (sorry Nordahl) xD
Maybe next time, Grub ;)

P.S. Read as good as always.

P.S.S. Thank you for that:
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "
Last edited by 24hourPartyMan at 05.02.2008, 09:47
(last year)  #22 The1Crow
The1Crow
Entertaining read :) And that is a lot of snow, haven't seen snow for a while... at least no white snow. The snow in Beijing was more grey and dirty then white :( I am not sure if ppl know there what is the original colour of it.....
Some ppl come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay ever!
(last year)  #23 NeverGG
 
i guess in china they have more than enough snow atm
Better light a candle than curse the darkness!
(last year)  #24 The1Crow
The1Crow
Ya, it was crazy the last weeks... but becomes better again now - gladly!
Some ppl come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay ever!
(last year)  #25 VisarkA
VisarkA
awesomeeeee ;) we have snow in my russian city till end of april each year huhuhu :DDD
(last year)  #26 VisarkA
VisarkA
and yes..respect for NABOKOV :D
(last year)  #27 Malystryx
Malystryx
my god that grubby pic making the angel, too funny xxD
Japanese Sapporo Snow Festival atm, you should have added link to it!
Last edited by Malystryx at 05.02.2008, 12:44

Lawrence "SK.Malystryx" Phillips ~ SK Gaming
(last year)  #28 UnholydreadlorD
 
omg so cute!
(last year)  #29 KPicyF
icyF
I suppose snow is fun for those who don't see it that often. As for me, I'm not a big fan of snow.
How do you do, my name is Trouble.
(last year)  #30 Dendra
Dendra
i guess seeing sun would be more fun to you? :D get a nice tan and so on, maybe do some surfing and then lie on a beach instead of sitting on the coast like an eskimo, looking at the cold waves of the freezing sea.
If force won't work, use greater force.
(last year)  #31 wNv|VBadGirl
VBadGirl
hahaha looks like it.. like English make it a national holiday when it's sunny and it doesn't rain ;D.
Hold the S cause i'm an AINT.
(last year)  #32 KPicyF
icyF
hahah. seeing the sun sure is good during the winter here :p
im not really into tanning, though i dont mind if i get tan during the summer either. but surfing sure would be sweet ^_^!

How do you do, my name is Trouble.
(last year)  #33 Johnlolxxx448
lolxxx448
I belive the eskimo has 32 words for love =) or at least Sue Monk Kidd says so in "Secret life of bees". Guess love is also kinda important to an eskimo.

Thanks for continuing ur blog, Cassandra.
(last year)  #35 wNv|VBadGirl
VBadGirl
no wonder. they have to stay warm somehow and love.. is the right way to do it ;D.
Hold the S cause i'm an AINT.
(last year)  #36 wNv|cr1stal
cr1stal
Lol we had snow????? I missed it :(:( i Want snow :(
Can't Wait to head for the States - August 2008
(last year)  #54 CheeZpooF
 
Yeah, that's what I was thinking o.O
(last year)  #37 Romantic21
 
Go to Russia! U`ll see much more snow =)
(last year)  #38 Boubou
Boubou
i have snow 6 month per yer in my town -.-
(last year)  #39 Asmonok
Asmonok
I havent seen a single snow flake in six years. Something Ive missed alot from my hometown. My favorite thing to do was walk through the woods as the sun broke the horizon. A very beautiful sight. On the other side of the coin though its Febuary and Im sitting here in a pair of shorts with 2 fans on. ;)
(last year)  #40 Hellorion
 
grubby made a better angel !!! :D
(last year)  #41 Dendra
Dendra
his face is priceless ;)
If force won't work, use greater force.
(last year)  #42 Clocala
Clocala
Nice read indeed!

Overhere in "Gelderland" it started to snow earlier in the morning and it was already melting when i woke up ! :(

MYM.Grubby Fighting!
(last year)  #43 iamRA
iamRA
haha xD grubby failed doing his snow angel tt
nice read as always :)
gj

-My might cannot be matched-
(last year)  #44 Boocraft
 
wow, nice pictures, great article. Keep em coming, starting to like mym a bit
(last year)  #45 _evan
_evan
Interesting choice of quotations! Those light blue check trousers were kinda ugly though ^^
(last year)  #49 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
That's my pyjamas! It's very comfortable, and really not ugly at all(what i think). XD
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #46 KoCh
KoCh
My god first time i see real snow this year... We have NOTHING here in Belgium, just rain :):):)
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(last year)  #47 Stylie
Stylie
Nice! Here at mine place holland province (north-holland) it snowed only one night, it was a nice view! :)
Every Dream has small Beginning
(last year)  #48 Klerna
Klerna
hehe nice read,some funny pics,i like snow but summer > all :)) peace!
(last year)  #50 orangesunset
 
wow snowww
never seen it before >_<
sun shines all days
hot hot and hot
(last year)  #51 MaskiraniaBonus
 
ahahah this is the best
when i saw this i just had to register and say something :)))
nice snow here in Bulgaria we have snow often :)))
nice angels
Grubby is funny :DD
i see Opel astra xD
your pyjamas is nice :D
^^
(last year)  #52 myMYM|iaMsWarm
iaMsWarm
Great article and pictures as well. Agree with #45, but as long as they are warm, thats all that matters right?

:D

Respect the things you cannot change..
(last year)  #53 SiphEan
SiphEan
nice snow angel~i wanna play it~
(last year)  #55 oBzM3ssY
 
wow i want snow :(
Too bad Singapore doesn't have winter.

The first time i experienced snowfall was at Korea when i went snowboarding. Was truly amazing.
(last year)  #56 GKoOCassandra
Cassandra
Hehe... what a coincidence, the first time i experience snow was also in Korea - was skiing there.

Singaporeans love to go Korea/Japan for holiday. XD

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
(last year)  #57 Sebelas
 
lol@Grubby's snow angel ^_^
(last year)  #58 LsdPsychosis
LsdPsychosis
Quoting Puncho_13:

I wish it snowed in Orange County California, but alas, we continue our warm sunny weather! Although the past few weeks there's been some rain, but never has there been snow here since its a chaparral environment at sea level...

/jealous (kind of)


u mad u mad

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