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A Sad Day

All things must pass. We all know that. But it always feels like a smack in the face when it happens.

Today I will have to let my old, trusty trainers go. They are definitely dead now. *sigh*

Will you join me in one minute of silence to honour these old friends of mine?



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Girl

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Girl,
your womanhood not yet unfolded

Girl,
still innocent in thought and deed

Girl,
hungrily biting bits of your time as you go

Girl,
now in your teens but in just one short while

Girl,
you will reach the end and understand

that it will all be good in the end
life is yours to conquer and lose

Girl

Young mother seeking baby's dad



Isn't this what I always claimed? Anything can be found on YouTube. Even daddy.

Victoria

Yesterday I went to the hairdresser.

For those of you having noticed how I appear on photos, I'd better mention that I am well aware that it would be a waste of good money if I went to the hairdresser with the intention of dressing the poor remains of my hair. And since I am not a milliohaire, I wouldn't dream of doing a thing like that.

No, on the contrary I drove The Missus, she who must be obeyed, to the hairdresser. While she was dealt with by the also pretty looking hairdresser, doing what hairdressers do and talking with my wife the way women do, I thought I could just as well sit down and read a magazine while waiting for the end of the hairdressing process. I was looking forward to going back home. Lunch was waiting. And I like eating salmon on rye bread for lunch. With a beer.

I browsed through the magazines on the very small table next to me. I looked for car magazines, sport magazines - or, if everything else failed me, a magazine about photography.

There was nothing like that in the pile of magazines on the very small table. I had been given a very small cup of coffee, though. In order to help me pass the time, I guess.

I sat patiently with my very small cup of coffee, waiting. I finished the coffee in one and a half minute. At that time the two beautiful women - the hairdresser and my wife - hadn't even finished their hellos. I knew by experience that figuring out what kind of hairstyle, what colour of eyelashes and what sort of spraying-stuff to apply to The Missus' hair would easily take another five to ten minutes. Doing the decided stuff would be another hour. After that my wife would probably spend 10 minutes deciding what kind of expensive shampoo to buy before we could finally hit the road and get home to the impatiently waiting salmon on rye bread with a beer.

I picked up a magazine. I didn't know that mag, but I understood that it was about well-known people. Not that I knew any of them - but that's probably my fault. They were apparently all rich. They had style and class. They also had a lot of worries - like what house to buy, or what solicitor to use when they had been the innocent victim of some scam - or sometimes about what to eat in order not to become so damned fat.

Suddenly I noticed somebody I knew! Victoria Beckham!!

I understood that Victoria Beckham would very much like to appear on the cover of another magazine called "Vogue". But earlier the pretty Victoria decided to have a photo-shoot with a third magazine called "Elle" - and now "Vogue" would know nothing about her.

Victoria was so sorry. She felt abandoned. Serious problems. Very serious problems.

Being such a kind and helpful man as I am, I decided to help Victoria Beckham out. Maybe those stupid editors on "Vogue" were ignorant and posh, but at least I would like to make a difference.



Dear Victoria (I hope it's okay to address you this way) - it may be that it's a cruel and vicious world out there, but now you can at least tell everybody that you appeared on Allan's Weblog.

I do hope this helps.

And the salmon was fine, the beer even finer. After two hours everything goes.

Without further adieu, I will end this entry.

Driving in Paris

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I had this dream tonight:

I was moving to Paris, and I had to haul all our stuff and belongings into a large truck and drive it all to our new home on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. It was a large truck indeed, and I was worried whether I would be stopped by the police anywhere on the route, since my driver's license doesn't qualify me to drive a truck that size. Therefore I had to drive on all the tiny back roads all the way to Paris. That was troublesome, and I feel that I spend half the night in my dreams doing this.

But the real problem appeared in Paris itself. I made it to the Arc de Triomphe roundabout and got stuck in traffic. That roundabout is approximately eight lanes, but nobody knows because there are no markings on the road. So, I drove into the roundabout, and I drove and drove and was forced more and more toward the center of it. Everybody were honking their horns, the rules of traffic were all incomprehensible to me, they were all mad at me. Then I heard the sirens I feared so much. The police pulled me over and I felt so shameful that I woke up.



The true story behind this dream is, that I once experienced it in real life. Right after having my driver's license at the age of 18. That Paris roundabout is about the craziest traffic thing in the world, I guess. Back then I was trapped in that traffic madness, and couldn't figure out how the rules worked. I think I made twenty rounds in that thing before somebody helped me out.

It's quite easy, though - once you know. You yield for everything from the right. And if you want to move away from the center of the roundabout, you press your horn a while, turn to the right and everybody else hit the brakes.

Quite simple, isn't it?