The Blog of Gerrit: Archive

Monica's (my colleague) drawing skills

Monica: *drawing*
Me: What are you drawing?
Monica: Trying to draw some waves..
Me: OK..
Monica: These don't look like waves -- I can't draw.
Me: What are you talking about!? You drew such an awesome flower the other day!
Monica: YEAH! That was a FLOWER! I'm a GIRL! That's what WE are supposed to do! We practice drawing flowers from the day we are BORN!
Me: ???

Jul 4th

Jul 3rd

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I almost died laughing.

May 5th

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The Attitude I get at the Gym

Me: I can't do this!!! These weights are way to heavy!!!
Trainer: Do you feel any pain?
Me: YES!!!
Trainer: Good. That pain is called SUCCESS!! Now do you want to be POOR!?!
Me: Your metaphors suck! Do you know that!?
Trainer: Your not paying me for metaphors...OK, STOP! How do you feel?
Me: Good!
Trainer: Your welcome... ;)
Me: Unbelievable...

Apr 1st

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Mar 27th

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This is why I watch Glee. It’s hilarious. This is a preview of the valentines day episode airing February 8th!

Feb 5th

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Jan 15th

Jan 9th

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Geocaching! I want to do this!

Out of all the things I would like to do this year, it’s geocaching. I saw an Episode of Dan 3.0, where he went geocaching. This was the first time I have ever heard of it. (if you’d like, skip to 1:00, it ends at 6:25) After having seen what it looked like, I decided to do some research of my own. It didn’t take much convincing, really. I already set it in my mind that I...

Jan 2nd

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Extra Effort

I am someone, I like to give my utmost when I do something. Whether it be a big project or a small task, I try my best to give a little extra effort. It is just something that I consider to be good. I always seem to have some type of regret when I don’t do it. These are one “those days”. I simply hate it when I know, I could’ve done a better job. It kills me! (Not...

Dec 11th

Dec 9th

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Nov 29th

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Skype finally has group video calling!

Video may take a while to load for some Click here to download the latest 5.0 (BETA) version of Skype! SideNote: It is currently available only for Windows PC’s. You must have a Skype account to download the beta. It’s simple, just sign-in and your done. UPDATE: Skype 5.0 BETA is now available for Mac! Click here to visit the Skype download page.

Nov 9th

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Kinect for Xbox 360 is now available!

Finally! I’m blogging about something that is not so old news! Let’s get to it! The Kinect for Xbox 360 is now available! Wait, didn’t I write that already? Never-mind. (I am that exited) If you have no idea what the Kinect for Xbox 360 is, It’s basically this new totally sophisticated camera that allows you to play without having to use a controller. Image courtesy:...

Nov 5th

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YouTube has made it to 1 Billion!

1 Billion Subscriptions that is. If you haven’t noticed (or just simply haven’t visited YouTube yesterday) YouTube has made it to 1 Billion subscriptions! To show that they have made it to 1 Billion, they changed their Homepage Icon at the top of the page! Once you click on the jumping people, you can read all about this achievement on their blog. If you haven’t read it...

Oct 30th

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I love this! I literally LOL'ed!

This being ofcourse the Sesame Street parody of the old spice commercial: “The man your man could smell like” I found this so funny, I couldn’t stop laughing! See it for youself! If you don’t know what I mean, here is the original YouTube video that has been viewed over 22 million times and that started this whole phenomenon!

Oct 27th

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The "Back to the Mac" Event.

(I am a fan of writing old news) I am not one to bash at Apple every single time they do something, but the last Keynote (for me atleast) didn’t have that “wow” factor that it usually has. Not to take away it did have some great announcements, but still. Let’s go through some of them shall we? 1. Apple has made a “bajilion” more dollars with revenues...

Oct 25th

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I'm on the exact same page as this dude...

It’s kind of weird seeing someone else in the exact same situation as I am. Difference is, I didn’t buy a MacBook Pro a few days ago, I don’t work with video and I don’t use an Apple keyboard. Check out Jon on his YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/techwaffle

Oct 20th

Let me Google that for you?

The name says it all. Let me Google that for you. The website known as http://lmgtfy.com is a simple site where you literally Google in the keywords for someone else! I love the way it works. It’s as simple as “Google-ing” whatever it is that you need, and receive the share link. Once opened, the person opening the link will see a small animation of your mouse...

Oct 14th

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I want a PlayBook and I want it NOW!

(This is sort of old news already, but whatever) I am so exited with the official release of Research in Motion’s (RIM) new tablet, The BlackBerry PlayBook! To be honest, this whole scenario of having a new tablet in the market took me a little of guard. I did not expect it. Although I do have to say, it is a nice surprise. Especially so that the PlayBook (at this point in time...

Oct 13th

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Blippy! It's the new thing.

If you want to have an idea of the next “thing” you are about to purchase, then I recommend Blippy. Blippy is this new social networking site, where users are enabled in creating reviews to items that they’ve purchased either online, or offline. The way it works is that once you sign up, you will need to connect a credit card or some of your favorite e-commerce sites....

Oct 12th

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Say Goodbye to Hunger and Hello to Lazyness!

I am exited to announce MiTinHamber.com! NOTE: “Mi tin hamber” is the Papiamento term for “I am hungry” also If you do not live in Aruba, this is not of any relevance to you. In which case, moving on… This brand-spankin’ new website allows you to order food from the comfort of your computer! I know right, how convenient?! The website has a very simple...

Oct 11th

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Oct 10th

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Oct 5th

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The Bigger they are, The Harder they fall

And with that of course I mean the hype that Apple has made on it’s new iPhone. It’s been a few days now since the release of the iPhone and it seems that some are already having some issues with their phones. And I am not talking about 3G signal loss. It seems that their are a great deal of users seeing a yellow spot on their screen. Yellow spot? Yes, spot! In some cases even...

Jun 29th

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I like to promote Tumblr.

I’ve had my tumblr account for over a year now and if I had to compile everything that I’ve written in the past year….let’s not think about that shall we? I love how when I started to post things there were not many people I knew that I had a tumblr. I saw my closest friends Kristi, Weng Mee, Christen, Ken, Rachel, Priscilla, Zoe all make tumblr-s and now! Aldrich gets...

Jun 16th

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“Great things are going to happen. You just wait.”

Jun 15th

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May 18th

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Does this still work?!

My last entry was over a month ago. A lot has happened in that time. I don’t even know where to begin with all the madness that I need to write about. Well, Let’s see… A week after my last entry I went on a 10 day wine trip to Argentina! (Which is a whole story by itself) Then I came back to Aruba, had the most busiest time of my life with school, and now busy preparing for...

May 2nd

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Mar 20th

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“It’s the fraction of a second when you know something amazing can happen.”

– A conversation on twitter that lead to this sentence by Gerrit Croes.

Mar 11th

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Feb 22nd

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“I feel very lost in my thoughts and in my emotions.”

Feb 13th

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The Aquanova Project

I am very exited to write about this. It may not show that, due to the lack of punctuation, but the exitement is there. This semester I have a supercalifragilisticexpialidociously exiting project to do. It’s a pretty big project if I do say so myself. This project is so huge, I can even feel the grandeur slapping me in the face. It’s a project for the Marketing Course I’m...

Feb 9th

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Computer-less

It’s been a little over a week since I last had my computer. I miss it. If I ramble on every-single-thing that has happened in the past week, you’d probably go crazy. And for the sake of making you crazy, I’ll share my story… My computer hasn’t been working at 100% lately. I’ve been having problems with the built-in wireless. So, I decided to take it to a...

Feb 7th

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Apple Tablet Confirmed! Original Coverage by: Adam Ostrow, Mashable.com Click here to read the article.

Jan 26th

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I Have my own (online) Store!

I haven’t put that many products. But you gotta start somewhere! Am I right!? So yeah I’m exited! I can’t wait to start making more stuff! It’s really fun and really easy! It’s completely powered by zazzle. I haven’t ordered anything yet, but I mean, I make my designs on American Apparel, so it HAS to be good. click here to visit the store! :)

Jan 26th

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Aruba, Dushi Tera*

Photo Courtesy: Anton Bohnen Today is January 25th 2010; And like every year at this day, we celebrate the man who lived (and died) for his country. His name? Gilberto Francois “Betico” Croes. Today’s his birthday. Today’s the day everyone living on this island gives thanks to him for all that he accomplished for this island. The motivation, the energy and the mindset...

Jan 25th

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“Oh Sheesh Y’all, ‘Twas a dream!”

– Amir Blumenfeld, Jake and Amir.

Jan 4th

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Jan 4th

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Wibiya: The Social Platform for Everyone.

There are many fancy web applications out there on the web. But ‘till recently I haven’t seen anything like this. As you can probably see at the bottom of your screen, there’s a toolbar. That toolbar is a Wibiya Toolbar. You probably recognize such a toolbar from common social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace; but this is much more intuitive! It gathers...

Jan 4th

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Jan 2nd

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Dec 25th

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Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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This is CollegeHumor’s All Nighter 2009! (Twitter chat has been enabled) This video will be streaming LIVE for 12 hours non-stop! Every Hour they will be revealing a new video! This whole Idea is to take your mind off of finals when you are taking breaks during studying. You can study for a whole hour and at the end of each hour, you can see a new CollegeHumor video! I think it’s...

Dec 11th

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Dec 7th

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Finals!

Welcome to the end of the semester. I will be going through a week of rigorous studying; In order to accomplish high grades. I am the verge of going insane with the amount of studying that needs to be done. I don’t want to complain, but still! I WILL! Now that I think about it, I probably shouldn’t complain. I mean some people probably have it worse that me. I’m only at the...

Dec 7th

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Beyonce? The conversation between a Line Cook and...

Busser: hey! what's up?
Line Cook: Good? and you?
Busser: I'm good. I'm new here.
Line Cook: Oww cool.
Busser: So what do you do here?
Line Cook: I cook? don't you see my clothes?
Busser: Oww? I just thought it looked like Beyonce's clothes!
Line Cook: EXCUSE ME?!
Busser: I'm sorry. So can I call you Beyonce?
Line Cook: What?! Why?!
Busser: I don't know. You look like Beyonce!
Line Cook: What?! I'm the furthest thing from Beyonce! I'm I GUY!!
Busser: Oww. It's all the same.
Line Cook: (Pauses and walks away)
Busser: BEYONCE!!!!
Busser: COME HERE BEYONCE!!!

Nov 30th

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Nov 29th