Bert Haanstra

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Glas (1958):


Zoo (1962): (Part - 1)


Zoo (1962): (Part - 2)


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The Importance of Being Earnest.

And Now The Crap I Left Unsaid....

I think I have made up my mind about what relationships really are and I think I know that they are never what they are supposed to be, and definitely never what they appear to be...
What they are or what they become after a considerable time-span, if they are still extant, I cannot say for sure because of this very reason. I believe, rather unromantically, that these so-called relationships become seriously stagnated and progressively so with time. In an *earnest* attempt to undersand this mêlée between ideas and hypotheses generated in my tiny little brain with their tangibility, their practicality, I have tried using analogies drawn from real-life experiences (others' not mine), films, books, even agony-aunt-type magazines and blogs to no avail. I have since given up pondering over such "matters" completely, which I'm sure you must have figured by now as I am writing an entire blog. I have to admit, I don't mull over it at all!

I need a break man! I get way too involved in other people's "matters" and forget I have a life of my own that I ought to be Living. The sad part is that I gave to remind myself. Shit! Why I spend SO much time thinking and not actually putting things into practice, is something I honestly don't know. I am brooding over it as I am typing out this crap. And I am saying to myself; thinking about this isn't trivial, it's simply my general interest in other people's business, which "they" mildly refer to as curiosity, it's just my need to be earnest about everything, my insatiable necessity to be Miss Goody-two-shoes Know-it-all!
(Which, for no reason, reminds me of something I read about ignorance in Oscar Wilde's 'Importance of Being Earnest', which has nothing to do with relationships or for that matter to do with curiosity...I just remembered it and said to myself, why not get more arbitrary than my usual self. Besides I find it absolutely hilarious, so....)

Lady Bracknell: I have always been of the opinion that a man who desires to
get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
Jack: I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a very delicate exotic fruit. Touch it and the
bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect
whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes,
and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor's Square.

Ah! I have exhausted myself talking about inconsequential things, as is my favourite diversion from mundane, monotonous routine, I loosely refer to as my life. :D So, I leave you think about the importance of being earnest.

*Random-ness Alert*

Please go listen to this song by Oasis called "Importance of Being Idle"....

I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine, if you give me a minute, a man's got a limit
I can't get a life if my heart's not in it

OK, so I'll go listen to the song now, and you get back to whatever it is that you were doing before you chanced upon reading and bearing with my random reflections! :D

Adieu! Tata! Bye-bye!

Why I Can't Be Funny and More.

(My randomness at its best(if I may say so myself)!)...

Why I can't be funny and why is it always that my sense of humor needs to do a HOO-HA!?!

#1: Because I laugh at bad jokes.
(Eg.:Have you heard this one?
"Why is 6 afraid of 7?"
"Because 7 8 9!!"
-HAHAHAHAHA! (Haanji, read as one of my silent fits of laughter!))

#2: My waking hours are spent in the "analysis mode". It's hard to crack jokes in that mode, man!
(Remark for self: I really need to turn it off sometimes.)

#3: I fall into the category of nerds, and nerds, according to me have a weird, whacky sense of humor which the non-nerds fail to understand. (No offence meant! (to anyone))

...Er, I have my funny moments (sometimes)...I am just not mentally equipped to deal with funny most of the time. Simply put, I am not comically inclined.
Don't get me wrong here, I like a good laugh. I enjoy a good laugh! ... It's just that it's so hard to come by! :(

Anyhoo musing on...the stuff that *I* think makes me *think* *I* am funny:

#1: High dose of Caffeine and/or Sugar and pulling off an all-nighter!
#2: My definition of moderate amounts of alcohol (which is not a lot if you ask me. It can't really be quantified; it's the amount that leaves me... *happy*, blissfully happy :) )
#3: Spending endless hours with my sister.
#4: And something I only recently found out, spending some more endless hours (yes, I have too much time on my hands! Ah! don't give me that look! Gah! not everyone is as lucky! ok?! :P ) with the FA gang! (Haye! I miss you guys!)
#5: When the mean streak in me comes alive.

Hmmn, I never thought I could be 5 point funny!