And the days...when everything doesn't go as planned.

It doesn't matter how long or how much I think about it, time isn't something that my mind can process. I can't hold it, follow it and I can never go along with it. To me, time feels like trying to hold water in your hands. Somehow it always finds a way slip trough your fingers. No matter how hard you try, you lose anyway. I can't believe that another year has passed already. When I think back about the year 2007, it seems like it didn't even happen. I can remember the celebration of New Years Eve, the one of 06-07, like it was yesterday. I was so excited about it, the year of 'James Bond', the year of 007! For some reason, I always tend to feel that this New Year will be 'my' year, and a year never to be forgotten. But when I look back at it, I realize I already forgot. Then I suddenly realize that we passed almost two weeks in a new year. I realize that this should become my year, I have yet another chance

Well, this year started okay. There was the opening of the really cool gallery with manga drawings by Dutch artists. I can't believe we actually have a real gallery now! No matter how you look at it, the world of art and design can't stop this influence from the east for good. I hope that one day, manga can be a part of our culture, as its part of Japan. That there will be days that people read those huge anthologies in the subways of Amsterdam. And that there will be 'real' publications of Dutch artists, comics or animated movies. You can find more information about the gallery here. And more about the group of the Dutch artists here. Please visit if you got the chance!
The unofficial opening was during the cultural Sunday in Utrecht. It was a lot of fun, especially to see everyone I know again. But not only my friends visited, there where about 1200 people walking in and out! It was great to see there was so much interest! To do my part in promoting manga as a new style -and a bit of a new sub-culture- I dressed up again in a cosplay costume. I did an interview, explaining all about my, rather unique, hobby. It was hard, because I had to answer the questions while doing my make-up! But it was a lot of fun to do too. It will be on TV this Sunday, at 21:30 on stadstv Utrecht. It might be on the internet too, I'll let you know if it is ;)

'fotograaf pieter weijers'

But then the week after... things didn't go so great. My mom became very ill. It's horrible to see your mother that always takes care of you like that. I came home from school last week, to find her on the couch downstairs. She tried to get something to drink, but she couldn’t even make it to the kitchen. I felt quite guilty that I wasn't at home at the time.
To make it even worse, I hurt my foot pretty bad. I felt asleep in the train, and it was probably stuck somehow. When I woke up to get out the train, I found out I couldn't walk!! I sat down for a while, and later on it was all fine again. But when I woke up this morning, my foot was suddenly all swollen up, and had some weird color too. Now I have to sit quietly at home, while my mother is still ill, and my father is at work the whole time. God, what a start of the new year!