Yorick Reintjens

Rules of Life: Ten Things You Should Already Know By Now

21 May 2010

Rating: 9.0/10 (3 votes cast)

1. What’s important today won’t matter tomorrow

Yeah, so you got a problem. Sleep on it, sunshine. Put it off. Most problems can be safely ignored. You’ll be amazed how often they sort themselves out.

And the gravity of any given problem is inversely proportional to the hour of the day. At three in the morning, you’ve got an insurmountable issue. After four whiskey and cokes at nine in the evening, you haven’t even got an inkling of a problem.
2. Everybody else is furiously improvising, so you can too

Show me an expert and I’ll show you a charlatan. FAKE IT ‘TIL YOU MAKE IT, amigo.

…on the edge of
your seat? Click here to read the rest of this entry.

No comments yet
Tags: advice, life, quotes, rules, sayings, ten

A few days on Gabriola Island

20 May 2010

Rating: 9.5/10 (4 votes cast)

This is what a few days look like on Gabriola Island (near Vancouver).

No comments yet
Tags: Canada, gabriola, island, pictures, sightseeing, vancouver

Walk the extra mile !

13 May 2010

Rating: 9.7/10 (3 votes cast)

Today I did something really funny. While I was standing on the corner of Robson and Hornby Street this, I believe American, woman came up to me and asked me for directions while she was on the phone. I told her, take the first one left, again left and another left turn. She thanked me and started walking. I stood there stunned that anyone could fall for the oldest trick in the book. Because left, left and left makes a circle . I quickly walked towards a hot dog stand waiting for her to appear around the final corner in order to complete the circle, too bad he didn’t have a chair and popcorn. After 8 minutes she showed up and halfway she realized something was wrong and she asked someone else for directions. Today I made somebody smile if only it was me . Absolutely funny. Forgot to take a picture though. Next time. Will probably pull the prank once more .

Bonus picture: right in front of my building the Dalai lama.

No comments yet
Tags: american, circle, funny, prank, street, vancouver, walking

Coupons, Chinese, Car Rentals and Vancouver

11 May 2010

Rating: 9.3/10 (3 votes cast)

Well, the title says it all !. Being in Vancouver for a day looks like I was brought up here. People are friendly (has a lot to do with my location) and are willing to help you in any way (even the cops ). As you might have read before I live (rented an apartment through Craigslist.org) in Yaletown and this proved to be an excellent decision. Everything is around me; (grocery)shops, clubs, cafes, coffeeshops (of course not the Dutch ones though the ‘culture’ is the same), car rental, Granville Island, the water (very Dutch), the beach (right around the corner) and much more.

A few days ago I rented a Ford Mustang Convertible (hoping to get it, you know how it goes. I’ll probably end up with a Dacia Logan) which I will get this Wednesday to go to Vancouver Island for the weekend (my aunts live there). The funny thing is that I got it for 3 weeks for only 300CD. I was very happy (almost as happy when I got my first Sony). The drive promises to be amazing. A spectacular 3,5 hour drive (including the ferry) towards everyone’s favorite weekend destination; Gabriola Island. Hope the cruisin’ goes well.

The other day some Chinese coño tried to sell me a prepaid sim-card for 117,50 CD at the Rogers shop on 1392 Robson Street in Vancouver. When I went to Wireless Wave they told me it’s nonsense that an activation fee of at least 100 CD applies. I soon realized I got f*****. After I bought the sim card at another location I went back to the Rogers store and told this Chinese take-away-burger-flippin-whore that I got the simcard from next door without paying that amount of money and that I worked for the VancouverSun (a newspaper based in Vancouver). Clearly I don’t work for them but she realized she did the wrong thing. I walked outside and said the wonderful phrase ‘have a nice day’ (same thing a cop says when he/she gives you a ticket). But this time I meant it .

Everytime a purchase is made they *all* ask me if I have a coupon, stupid coupons !. Felt like McCulkin in Home Alone 1 when he buys a toothbrush…….you have a coupon for that? Bloody hell.

No comments yet
Tags: car, chinese, coupons, rental, vancouver

Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man

11 May 2010

Rating: 9.4/10 (5 votes cast)

Based on the backstory of one of the most beloved childrenʼs novels of all time comes the extraordinary love story between a simple woodsman and a beautiful maiden. Not having many possessions but wanting to marry his maiden, the woodsman sets his heart to build a large and beautiful cabin.

L. Frank Baum wrote the back story to the Tin Woodsman in his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man is Whitestone Motion Pictures retelling this little known story of the tragic arc of a beloved character who was once human, made of flesh and blood that turned into tin.

No comments yet
Tags: compassion, experience, heartless, love, movie, tin man, truth

Finally (a) (I’m) home ! UPDATE

4 May 2010

Rating: 9.5/10 (4 votes cast)

After a stressful day in Vancouver I finally nailed it ! An excellent apartment in Downtown Vancouver in the area of Yaletown.

“Yaletown Known to many as Vancouver’s little Soho, Yaletown has experienced a revival in the past several years to emerge as downtown’s trendiest residential neighbourhood for urban professionals. Impeccably hip, Yaletown is brimming with quality restaurants, boutiques, and galleries. It is a neighbourhood to see-and-be-seen.”