Sunday 27 April 2014

Acting on another (youtube)movie set.

If you follow my blog for a longer time you probably already knew I acted in a short movie as I told in this blog post. And one of my first blog posts was about being on the set of the upcoming movie The Fault In Our Stars.

So get ready for my third story about being on a movie set, this one is pretty intense, as I may say myself.

So this time I helped for a YouTube series as you may have read in the title. It was for a Dutch YouTuber named Mert, He has a YouTube series called "Marokkaan geeft rijles" (which means Moroccan gives driving lessons) together with his good friend, and YouTuber colleague Dylan.

The series are about a very stereotypical Moroccan boy called Mo (played by Mert) who gives driving lessons to a lot of people including a very awkward stereotypical Dutch boy called Geertje(played by Dylan). Together They end up in the most weird and awkward situations.

From left to right; Dylan (aka Geertje), me, Mert (aka Mo).


The location that we filmed was a club named Chicago Social Club, which was located on Leidsesquare.

This club right here.

we got to read the script, which was hilarious. Can't tell you too much about it. I had to "Make out" with some strange guy (not really though, but I bet it looks very real). So you probably don't want to miss it. Not even joking!

I've had moments I was actually trying my best not to laugh on set, since we were acting. Or when I was looking along on the monitor and I was very pleased with what I saw. It is hilarious.



It was too much fun on set! I've learned a lot, and I've just laughed a lot. And the director was pretty amazing too. 







Dutchies, I'll definitely blog about the episode as soon as it airs. Which is probably next month already. It will be hilarious, and for all the people who don't speak Dutch, you can always turn on subtitles! Hopefully they will make sense.

I really like to thank Mert, Dylan and the entire crew for this experience. I'm so excited for the episode.

This is Mister Thi is also a youtuber, and so sweet! 

The oh so genius Mert.

And the oh so hilarious actor Dylan.

I've made a friend and had a lovely day, so look out soon for a blog post about the actual episode of Marokkaan geeft rijles.






Sunday 20 April 2014

Opening Forever 21 in Amsterdam.

As you may know, I live in Amsterdam. So the opening of the Forever 21 was something I couldn't miss. I planned to vlog it, but as smart as I am I forgot to charge my vlog camera (oops)! But no worries, I took some picture with my iPhone!

So the plan was to get there a little early so I could look around before everyone was in and started going crazy and look for cute stuff, buy it and leave. But of course that is not what happened.

This is what happened..
I arrived in the line around 7 am in the morning, the store opened at 10. 2 hours to wait, not so bad. At least that's what I hoped for. But Amsterdam never always has surprisingly weird weather, it was SO COLD. I'm not even joking, I was seriously shaking from all the cold, at some point I lost the feeling of my toes, and I was wearing boots by the way. At some point, some girl fainted because of the waiting in the cold and security got her out of the line to take care of her.

This was my place in the line.
There was a lot of security to keep the girls in line and make all the girls go to the end of the line and not get in between some girls that had been waiting for hours. Which honestly I was very happy about, other wise it would've been a mess. Since the first 500 people got a 21 euro's gift card I knew it wouldn't go without any problems

Behind me the line got longer and longer to some point I couldn't even see the end of the line. It was just girls until the horizon.

like this.
Like 30 minutes before the big opening the journalists came to interview girls in line, and we got all a cards we had to fill in and then it was time for the big opening. And we started moving.


To my right there were all the journalists filming and taking pictures of how these girl got all excited about getting in the shop.

These guys.
So I FINALLY got in the shop and received my 21 euro's gift card. 

which looked like this.
In the store a found some friends and decided to stay shopping with the girls, it was fun. I enjoyed myself and the store is huge, just like I expected. But because it was that big it took some time to get through the store, and I could see the lines inside the store getting longer and longer. 



After walking around in the store for 2 hours I decided to go with the small items I picked up and come back later for real clothes shopping. I took the escalator to get downstairs and the first thing I said was holy shit.

How was I supposed to find the line for the checkout..
I got down and took another picture of the store because it looked just as bad downstairs as it did upstairs.


I stood for a little longer then an hour in line to buy my things. While I was standing in line I felt how intense the morning was and started to get tired. I took some pictures and just waited..




While leaving we got a cute bottle of ice tea which was needed! I was so tired, I slept too early yesterday.

So have you visited the brand new Forever 21 in Amsterdam yet? If so what did you buy? And what are your favorite thing from forever 21, I saw the cutest white dress ever, definitely going back to fit the dress!









Thursday 17 April 2014

My last blogpost... or not?

If you've read my about you probably knew I started blogging for journalism, which means I started my blog for school. Today is the last time I have to blog for school. So we are done blogging. A lot of my classmates are going to stop as soon as they can.

Should I stop?

nahhhh, I've created to much love for blogging, this is my new way of expressing. Just like my diary was when I was 11, this blog is my diary now.

I would like to thank my journalism Teacher for all the blogging lessons, I'm kind of sad they are over. She teached me a lot about blogging, and I can still call her if I have any questions. I'm going to keep blogging, and I hope I will get better and better.

This may sound as a total nerd, but school is my favorite thing at the moment. It is forcing me doing things I love to do but never had the confidence to do by myself, I can feel myself changing, in a good way. I'm ready for some good change.

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy making it!

Wednesday 16 April 2014

Viral video's advertising

As you may know lots of interesting or spectacular or surprising or whatever you want to call it kind of video's go very often viral. Remember Overly attached girlfriend? I'll probably never forget her face. Her name is Liana which I probably will forget since we all know her as overly attached girlfriend.

But businesses also discovered that going viral is a good way to advertise. Like some movies do, for example;

Devil's Due did the devil baby attack.






Or the video they made for Carrie, which I thought was genius.


These two were very funny because they made people react to it, which gets viral easily. For some weird reason we humans love to see other people get shocked or scared. It as amusing.




Then there are video's that are made to touch people, and get an emotion out of the person watching it. This is one of my favorites the first kiss video, which was made by a clothing store!


This video had like a million parody's made! Some were just as moving as this one and some were just there to make fun of this video.


There is one going viral right now as we speak and it is an advertisement from a card store, they went over the top. They made up a job which was called "Director of Operations". It is basically applying for "Worlds Toughest Job".

So, what are your thoughts on worlds toughest job? I'm pretty sure it is worlds toughest job, and I love the idea. But isn't this a little over the top for a card commercial? 

These company's are doing their work right if it's about the internet and getting viral.

What are your thoughts on Businesses making video's to become viral, is it fair? It is very smart though, and get ready because I'm pretty sure this isn't the last we've seen from businesses their video's getting viral.
 


Monday 14 April 2014

No make up on your wedding day. yay or no way?

A good friend of mine came across this woman who decided to go makeup-free on her wedding day, I was a little bit curious so I did some research.

So this woman got married and had never worn any make up So she said this in the interview I watched"I don't normally wear makeup so when I was thinking about my wedding, I really didn't want to not recognize myself". So what are your thoughts on this?

I know there is a lot of pressure on woman in this society, especially when it is about make up. Woman get called way too often ugly for not wearing makeup, but that's because we made our self believe we actually are ugly without makeup.

Just let me clear up one thing here;
You are NOT ugly for not wearing makeup, in fact. If you don't you'll look absolutely fabulous if you do for something like a party.

 I don't wear make up myself, because;
1. I'm one lazy ass I'd rather sleep in the morning then put on makeup
2. When I do wear makeup people notice it immediately.
3. I touch my face a lot so when I wear makeup there is one big chance I might ruin it by forgetting and touching my face.
4. Because I never wore makeup in the first place, people are used to me like this. 


No one has ever called me ugly for not wearing make up. I'm pretty sure that is because they are used to my makeup-less face.  While I heard a lot of my friends (boys and girls) call a girl ugly because she decided to have a makeup-less day.

If you like wearing makeup please do, and if you don't then don't. I think most girls look stunning with makeup, I've seen so many girls that made me jealous by the way they wore their makeup. It's a little art on their face! I love it. 

But back to the wedding. Would you marry with no makeup on? I never wear makeup, just like the young lady that married without makeup. But I'm pretty sure I NEED makeup on my wedding day, I want to look as glamorous as possible! 

Wednesday 9 April 2014

My dying best friend his brother.

Just now I stumbled upon a video that made me want to share something with you.

This Story is about... death.
A boy named Drake. Drake is a 16 year old American boy, a skater who lives in Miami, plays piano. And he's crazy about Miley Cyrus. He has 3 younger sister and a younger brother and both his parents. He is a popular guy in his high school, especially around the girls. Why? Because he's a gentleman. He hold doors for girls, he doesn't let anyone down and he tries being nice to everyone.

this was his favorite picture of him.

He passed away November 2012 because of cancer. Rest In Peace my dear.

His brother.
At some point, I can't remember what we were talking about, he started talking about his family. He told me how his mom loved him and how his dad loved him and didn't know how to show it but he was trying really hard. How he was so good for his sisters, and how much he loved them. And somewhere along the story he started to tell about his younger brother. His younger brother was painful story.

He was at the gas station with his brother, he was about to buy a soda for himself, his brother decided ha would like one too and came running up to Drake. While he was running he got hit by a car. The driver was drunk, as soon as he realized he hit someone he got out of his car and ran away. They didn't find out who he was. His brother got hit so hard he past away. Drake told me once that if he ever would find the guy who hit his brother he would beat him to death...

Drake his brother got hit by a car, it happened in front of his eyes.. and he passed away. 

I have so much respect for his entire family, it must have been so hard for the parents to lose their son to a drunk driver, and for Drake for seeing his brother die and his sisters for losing their brother.


But here's what made me want to write this. 

Turn on English subtitling if you don't speak dutch or France!

This video was made by a Belgium institute, for people are people who drive dangerous. Some people were so concerned about others that it would maybe eventually cause their death. To make these people realize how dangerous they were being they got invited to their own funeral. It's crazy, but pretty emotional.

Is this video a little bit over the top or is it just right? It is definitely a wake up call to a lot of people probably.



Tuesday 8 April 2014

Do we really need school to succeed?

Obviously the answer is no, well to me it is or isn't it? I have no idea actually. Looking around I see so much successful people who stopped with school before they finished it. Like Deniz who I talked about in my last blogpost. These people inspire me to chase my dreams, but then again what if that's not enough..


this is what happens to my mind every time
 I think too much about it.

This has been something that I've been thinking about for a really long time. My parents are very sure about it that you can't get anywhere without finishing school. And it is a little bit true, you can tell a company you are the best in the entire world, and if they ask you where did you learn everything you can show that you finished school. So you have a sort of proof that you worked for what you're trying to achieve.

But then again I don't think school is that important, what happened with learning from just trying, and just learn in the real world and not in a school, make mistakes and get better from them. And I think schools are getting a little bit over the top with presence of students. I was a while ago at the point of going to school but absolutely hating it, not because I hate school because I don't, but because I was feeling terrible in general. And the duty of going to school and being presence made me feel worse. When people don't feel healthy (mentally and physically) they end up hating school and putting no effort in it. I know because I've been there.

And when I started to think about it I came to the conclusion that I don't get the entire school thing. We get to all learn the same stuff and we get judged on them, even though we all have different quality's. I suck at math for example, but I am okay at reading. Why can't we just focus on the stuff that we are good at, it would make most people so much more confident and successful. I get that everyone has to have math, but everyone has a different level of learning, so I end up confusing myself most of the time this way.

I honestly still don't have an answer to the question..

What do you think? Is school important? Or don't you need school to succeed?

Sunday 6 April 2014

Being on a(nother) movie set.

Last weekend I was for the second time in my entire life on a movie set, for people who have read my blog since the beginning will know when my first time on a set was.

This time it wasn't too look but to actually be in the movie. Nothing special though, I was just a random girl dancing in the club. But I enjoy just being on a set and seeing the crew build up everything for a scene then break it all down and build it up again differently for another scene, or the same scene but another shot. All the building up and breaking down took a lot of time. So we had to wait a lot which some other actors didn't like, but I didn't mind. I was so fascinated by how it all went. The crew were all young people around my age and it was all so professional. People like them make me happy, they make my realize that you can achieve a lot on a young age if you have the passion and just go for what you want to do.

This was the set (while building up).


Like Deniz AlkaƧ
Deniz turned 19 today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENIZ!! He is a producer, and he has his own company called Bruut.tv. He is someone I look up to, I'm still figuring out what I want to do with my life. but it will definitely be something in the media. Meeting him on set was very inspiring for the people who have read my About me on my blog know meeting people I look up to a lot is my favorite thing to do. So that was very inspiring.

back to the set.
On set we had to do scene's over and over again, and wait a lot. We got food, which was okay! We had to play dancing people in a club in Salou in Spain.


This was what I was wearing.




















The movie is dutch, it is called "Mooiboys" like I mentioned in my last blogpost. It is a dutch movie made for film festivals.

There will be an exclusive premiere which I got invited for since I was in it, and I'm super excited to see what it will look like when it is all done.

Experiences like this make me excited for the future!


Liebster Award.

I was very happy and surprised that my good friend Amber nominated me
for a Liebster Award!! 
I didn't really know what it was until Amber explained it all to me. So, it is
basically a digital award, that blogs who have less than 200 followers get
from fellow bloggers
to show their support and get to
 know the person behind the blog a little bit better.



RULES:

1. You must link back to the person who nominated you.
2. You must answer the 11 questions given by the person who nominated you.
3. You pick 11 nominees with under 200 followers to answer your questions.
4. You cannot nominate the person who nominated you.
5. You must tell the nominees that they have been nominated by you.


Now here are the 11 questions Amber asked me to answer!

1.  What is your favorite dessert?
I'm gonna go with fruit and chocolate.
Fruit always makes me feel healthy and doesn't taste bad either!
And chocolate is just pure love.
2.  What is your favorite color?
Red, and I know it is not a color but I am also into black.
Red and Black together is also pretty amazing.
3.  What's one of the scariest things you've ever done?
Start a youtube channel and post video's, I'm such a wild child,
 no just kidding. I'm working on it though.
4.  What accomplishment are you most proud of?
That I chose for myself, I know my parents aren't always that
happy with my choices about important things
like the future. And the last thing I want to do is disappoint them,
I really want to make them proud.
 And I know I will. But I'm choosing my way of making them proud.
5.  If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?
Director, Actor or Producer. I was recently on a set for a dutch movie
called "Mooiboys" (which I'm going to write a blogpost about this week)
and I was so fascinated by all the work that has to happen to make a movie. 
And I loved being on the set and watching the crew do their job.
6.  What embarrasses you?
I don't know.. I embarrass myself most of the time by saying stuff I shouldn't say or
just being weird.
7.  Do you have a favorite number? any particular reason why you like 
that number?
My favorite number is 14 since 2008 I think. It started off with a very big
obsession for High School Musical, I was crazy about Zac Efron who 
played Troy Bolton in the movies. Through out the movie he always had 
number 14 on everything. Even though my HSM obsession has been over
for years I've always kept number 14 as my favorite number..
8.  What is your favorite joke?
It's very sad that I never remember jokes and I have the worst sense of humor,
I can go on laughing for hours about something who wasn't even 
funny in the first place. I have absolutely no idea what  my favorite joke is.
It is probably something of Tumblr.
9.  If you could go back in history, who would you like to meet?
Hard question! Michael Jackson and his family, because he was so weird. I'd love
to try to understand what was going on in his mind.
10. Do you like to plan things out in detail or be spontaneous?
I'm not a planner, I'm the worst at planning things. So I got to go with being spontaneous.
11. If you could visit any country in the world, where would you go?
I would go to the bahama's and visit the Atlantis Paradise Island because that looks
like heaven, it is so pretty.

Here are my 11 questions
1. If you could give your younger self one bit of advise, what would it be? And why?
2. What is the first thing you notice from people when you meet them for the first time?
3. What are your turn on/off's?
4. What is your all time favorite movie?
5. Someone you look up to?
6. Favorite blog?
7. If you could choose one famous person, who would that be?
8. What would you ask this person?
9. Tea or Coffee?
10. Something you can't get enough of?
11. Favorite quote?

My nominee's are:
1. livingforconcerts.
2. justfashionformen.
3. milenazalm.
4. xxmerova.
5. imbloggingtoyou.
6. Firdaoussyakubi.
7. uponjustien.
8. apieceoffashionandbeauty.
9. pushinglimit.
10. challengedemi.
11. fannyvdz

Most blogs are Dutch, since I live in Amsterdam I know mostly dutch blogging bloggers,
but if you speak dutch feel free to check out all those blogs!

If you decide to accept the Liebster Award, let me know by leaving a link
of your blogpost in the comment section below. 

Thursday 3 April 2014

Storytime; My (stealing?) neighbors

Time for another story because something strange happened last month, and it was another life lesson learned.

Recently I ordered my most  expensive package yet. I ordered an entire photo studio. Knowing I would probably not be home when the package would arrive I hoped my neighbors would accept my package for me. And that is what happened, only not the neighbors I hoped for. Anyways, no problem, right?

Nope. wrong.

I got my letter in the mail I could pick it up at my neighbor their place. So when I got home I ringed the doorbell but no one opened the door. So I figured no one would be home for the moment.

Nope. wrong. again.

The moment I tried ringing the doorbell for the third time and gave up I walked back home. As soon as I was home I heard the door open and close, and yes. Someone left the house. This girl actually waited for me to leave the house and get back in my house so she could leave. And holy shit she was in a hurry. I tried to catch up on her to ask for my package before she left, but she got as fast as possible in the car and left.
This was when I started to get pissed. It was very obvious she waited for me to leave her house so she could leave. But there would be someone home soon and I would ring the bell until someone opened the door and I wouldn't leave until they opened the door.

Nope. wrong. again.

I watched the house the entire night, and no one got home until around 10 pm. By that time I was calmed down though so that was a good thing I guess. I ringed the bell and the son opened the door. I asked for my package but he (of course) had no idea. He let me in and looked around for the package. No package in the house. He called his sister, didn't pick up her phone (of course). He told me he would let her ring my doorbell as soon as she got home. Yeah she would totally do that right?

Nope, and again wrong.

I rang the bell like 20 minutes later to ask him if he could try to call his sister one more time. While I was telling him to call her I could see her sitting on the couch enjoying something on TV with a blanket. It got me pretty mad, but I was going to try to act normal. All I was thinking was PLEASEEEE just give me my package.

But...

They didn't have it (????). That was it my entire day was ruined. I got home and went straight to bed. I was so done.

End of the story, I payed a lot of money to I saved up to freaking lose my package and get nothing. That's what I thought..

And do you feel him coming? Yes, wrong, again.

The day after I called the business that was supposed to send the courier who should have brought my package.

The story he told me was that he knew exactly who he gave it to and would go back today to the house to see if they would give the package to him. But no one was home. He said he had never seen this kind of people in all the years he worked as a courier who would deny they had the package while he was sure he gave it to them.

So I didn't get my package back that was for sure. I decided to call the business where I ordered my studio. They were very surprised too by this story, firstly they tried getting the package back. Which didn't happen of course. At the end they told me they would send me a new package and they would try to get the other one back so it wouldn't be my problem anymore.

I was so thankful, two days later my brand new photo studio arrived. It is way bigger then I expected to be, it doesn't fit in any room to be honest. But I'll fix it, at least I got it!

and this is the package!

And what happened to the other package? God knows..

I really like to give the credits to VidaXL for being this client friendly, they fixed my problem for me like a good business does. I recommend it if you want to order something there! I'm very positive about the business.

Life lesson learned though.
I'm never ordering something expensive again, and if I do, I'll make sure I'll be home when it arrives.
And people can be a struggle to handle, I know I'd rather not meet my neighbors again soon.

Know who to trust and who not to trust, and things like this give me a wake up call about who to trust.


A quick Pampertime.

I've been super tired the past week so I felt like I needed a little me-time. So I came to the conclusion to have a little pamper time for myself.

So I decided to share my pamper night with you all, everyone needs a little me-time from time to time to get a little bit rest and just to get rested.

Starting off
I took a hot shower, put on my pj's and Dutch braided my hair so it wouldn't be in the way for later. And I sprayed it with this hair treatment so my hair would be soft as it dried naturally.

Ignore the nailpolish hahah


let's do this!
I brushed my teeth,



I got a lot of face masks last week at my birthday, as a present from both of my sisters. So it was time to try one. I decided to go for a cucumber pull off mask, because I love cucumber and a pull off mask is so easy (if you don't get it stuck in your hair) and I was feeling lazy so it was perfect.


the mask is clear and was very refreshing
And when I had the mask on I put on fake cucumber on my eyes.


Finished it off by laying on my bed with my eyes closed and music on for about 15 minutes. It was very nice.

After the pampering it was time to sleep and I felt good and rested.

What are your must-haves when you feel like having a quick pamper night ?