Living life with your phone at 5% battery, knowing you won't be able to charge it for a long time... Sounds like a postapocalyptic scenario? No, it's just part of my Low Battery Challenge! Lately I've been using a lot of energy. And I don't mean the kind of energy you get when you're overdosing on cofee. I mean the stuff that kills you when you poke your fork too far into the toaster. I...

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Yesterday evening I bought a new laptop. I am now a proud owner of a brand new Acer Apire E15. Don't ask for more specifics, all I know about this thing is that it works and that I'm totally going to marry it! With a new laptop comes the urge to post something, anything, but I don't have anything ready yet (I am currently hating socks and getting stuck in revolving doors, so expect some...

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When I was in high school, my day began with cycling to school. Along the way I'd make obscene gestures at people who blocked the road with their bikes, I'd flee from old people who suddenly found their driver's licence in a drawer and want to see if their T-Ford still works. I'd zigzag through the mobs of overanxious Mommy's who are bringing their toddlers to kindergarten, I'd overtake my slow cycling Latin teacher and...

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Some time back I felt like dancing. I must have been six or seven. All the girls in my class were in ballet and I wasn't. But one day I felt like dancing and I just did something. Nothing serious, nothing ballet-like. I just went with the rythm in my head. I was laughed at. I looked stupid, they told me. What I was doing wasn't gracious enough and thus I deserved to be laughed...

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Source It's not a secret that I stuggle with my low self esteem. My self confidence is almost zero. Especially the whole 'label' episode I went through in the last two years of high school left me with a dangerously low self esteem. But at some point, I realized I had to snap out of it. I'm not the only one suffering from low self esteem, I'm not the only one who thinks they can't...

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Source In front of the Eiffel Tower: *CLICK* selfie. In your back yard: *CLICK* selfie. In the bathroom: *CLICK* selfie. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we have to preserve the moment for all eternity. No matter how trivial the event is. Society has embraced the selfie in so far that it was entered in Van Dale (the Dutch equivalent of the Oxford Ditcionary) as word of the year 2013. Countless variants popped up: the...

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Turn on the radio and you'll hear MAGIC!'s song Rude. It's everywhere. But for once, I don't mind the ginormous hype around a mediocre song. I actually like this song, for the same reason that I like One Direction: this music makes me fall asleep without needing my medication. Let me hear two chords of a One Direction song and I'm sound asleep. MAGIC! is even more effective: one chord and I'm out. Pretty great...

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Sometimes you stumble upon an opportunity you just can't ignore. And it might not be exactly what you wanted, but at that moment it's the closest you'll get. So when I got the chance to go sandboarding, the closest I've ever come to actual snowboarding, I grabbed it with both hands and refused to let go. From Envy's Make it Happen List #10: Go snowboarding Status: Awesomeness Almost Achieved In the middle of the Peruvian...

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