Semester 18 Chapter VI: More Love

Okay, here we go. Late as usual but that just how it goes sometimes. At the moment, I’m chilling at my dad's place. Just got back from one of his trivia nights where our team placed second. So I feel fairly successful. It’s not just that, tho. Last couple of days have been fucking amazing as expected.

 

First of all, weather has been great. It’s such a pleasure spending time outside and wearing fewer layers of clothing. Last Saturday, I went from The Hague to Amsterdam and that was the first day in a really long time that felt like summer. It’s always great hanging out with my friend over there but being able to do it in parks and outdoor areas pushes it all to another level. So yeah… Some picnics, good food, drinks at the Soho house… Pretty fucking good.

 

I spent Sunday in Prague with some of my closest people. Walks, bike rides, catch-ups. Monday and Tuesday, it was back to Brno. Lotta work but also some quality time with sis, nephew and dad. And the dog. Can’t forget the dog. Jumping back into all of this always feels super natural. And that’s why I like jumping into it a bit more frequently than before. Oh, and me, my dad and his partner went out for a concert on Tuesday. Old-school Czech rock band. Love.

 

Wednesday early afternoon, I hopped on a bus to Prague. Had a catch-up with one of the friends I had traveled around Japan couple of months back. That was great. Spent the night in the city and was on my way to Brno the following day. The weekend was super chilled. Walks, trips around the city, meeting up with my people, sauna… And Adolescence. What a fucking series. Huge props to the creators, it really touches some nerves. See, I try to keep myself up to date with what’s happening but I’m also 37. I don’t have a Tiktok account, I use my IG account like a granpa and I uninstalled Facebook on my phone. I am pretty out of touch. I know that there’s incels, I know that there’s manosphere and I know there’s a shithead named Andrew Tate who I hope stops breathing sometime soon. But I don’t think I was able to fully appreciate the magnitude of all that. This series raises some important questions and really makes you wanna educate yourself further on certain topics. It’s a great show and I can’t recommend it enough.

 

I’m gonna stay in the Czech Republic till Saturday and outside of work, there are many other fucking things I’d like to do and many people I’d like to spend some more time with. Let’s see how much materializes. Hope you guys are good, hope you all had a chance to take some time off over Easter and that your spirits are up. Shout out to all my readers, shout out to all the cyclists, runners and vegans. One!

 

Highlights:

• Amsterdam.
• Prague.
• Brno.

Semester 18 Chapter V: Interludes

Okay, just got back from a little bike ride and I gotta give some credit to this place. It’s a treat riding around the city. The Hague itself is super bike friendly but more importantly, it only takes a little and you are out the in nature. Lakes, dunes, greenery. When I go for one of these, I often don’t even check map and figure everything out on the go. There’s so many options, so many ways to go and all of them are fucking gorgeous. So yeah, happy I got a reasonable bike now (got myself new shoes so I’m on clipless pedals now) and happy that the weather has been getting better. In not that long, I’ll be merging these little trips with swimming in the sea. And I’m so ready for it.

 

I’m kinda sloppy when it comes to updating this blog but that’s really because life just keeps happening. Feels like there always some shit to do. I hope all my 2 readers understand. Anyways, what’s been up… About a week ago, I went out for dinner with couple of people and that was actually pretty fucking interesting. So we booked a table at this spot some of us had been before but when we arrived, we were redirected about three buildings down the street for a terrace seating. Only then we realized that we are actually in a completely different restaurant. Different menu, different name, different everything. Since we didn’t give a fuck enough, we just played it cool but damn… Never experienced that before. It’s a pretty innovative way to deal with an overbooked place. Hey, not happening tonight but my buddy has a joint around the corner so off you go… Without letting you know that it is indeed a different establishment. Why not...

 

There has been lotta work but there has also been some hangouts by the beach, some cool brunches, finishing the new White Lotus (brilliant) and loads of yoga. That whole thing is still very enjoyable to me. I’m still not very flexible but I can definitely feel tiny improvement and I’m much more aware of my body than when I started. Headstands are really not an issue anymore, I’m playing with shoulder stands here and there, and all the hand balancing is also fun. But pretty much all the balancing poses are fun. The more you do them, the more you understand how weight is distributed in your body and the better it goes. Plus it all really feels like an oasis of peace throughout weekdays.

 

I got one more night to go here before heading back to the Czech Republic for Easter. Got a whole lotta shit planned there. In Prague, in Brno, in the country… With pretty much all my people. Feeling pretty excited about that. Hope you guys are doing well, hope you’re safe and that your spirits are up. Shout to to everybody reading this thing! Never let anybody fuck with your inner light. One!

 

Highlights:

• Cycling.
• Yoga.
• White Lotus.

 

Semester 18 Chapter IV: Fuck Rotterdam Rave 'Spring Special' 2025

Okay, I’m gonna get straight to the point here. Fuck Rotterdam Rave or whatever the name of the organizer of aforementioned event is (their website is www.rotterdamrave.com). You guys are pieces of shit and I hope karma catches up with you. I consider myself pretty open-minded and tolerant but the shit I experienced is beyond anything I’ve ever seen at an event. So this past Saturday, we felt like going for a rave. There’s this place called Perron which I really like but since we wanted to try something new, we ended up getting tickets for this Spring Special thing. And man… Let me break this down. So you pay nearly 30 EUR for the ticket. That’s fine. Big event in a former factory by a canal… Why not. You get to the spot and you find yourself in a line of hundreds of people queuing up. That’s also fine. Obviously many youngsters and I gotta give them credit for handling all that pretty fast. Don’t hold your breath tho… You get in and here’s what happens. You spend 7.5 EUR for a locker (it’s actually 12.5 but they give you 5 back at the end). Then you want to use a toilet and there’s a lady charging 4 EUR to fucking go there. After having paid the ticket. You pay money to go to the restroom! Never happened to me before. So here’s the deal. You have a girl standing in front of the toilet with a credit card terminal charging everybody and then stamping their wrists. Yeah, you only pay that shit once. Next time, the stamp will do. Still, paying that to take a fucking piss? It doesn’t stop there. Next to this lady there’s also a dedicated toilet security guy whose job is to make sure that nobody carries a plastic cup or an empty bottle to the restroom in case they needed some tap water. Not happening bro. On a rave. Full of young people. Half of them half naked and on drugs. You do this. Fucking genius. You fucking want people hydrated. The idea of charging for the restroom and doing your absolute best to keep people from accessing drinkable water is insane to me. Many people still do beers and shots and all that shit but what if someone actually does not have tons of money to spend and needs just couple of cups of water at some point? Guess not… You might not even access the toilet if you didn’t bring enough extra money. Then you got the bar. So you can’t use a card at the bar. You have to go one of many machines and swipe your card to get some cute little red tokens. And here’s the thing. 4 of them were like 16 EUR. And you can only buy even numbers. Small bottle of water costs 1.5 of those fuckers. So when these kids dance, experiment and try to have a good time, they need fucking 6 EUR to hydrate with 300ml bottle of water. And the guy rips of the lid to make sure they can’t put it into purse and secretly fill it up in the washroom. Which is not only greedy and stupid but also highly impractical. Because if you want to dance with the bottle in your hand, it’s pretty fucking cool to be able to close it. Or if you place it somewhere around, it’s kinda cool to have at least some sort of protection from people dropping whatever the fuck into it. Plus they obviously designed prices so you always end up with some tokens left, too. I was all a disgusting money grab. Honestly, the biggest surprise was how many people were there. This shit apparently works. Granted, it was mostly kids who probably don’t know any better. And probably also have quite a lot of money. No idea how a 20-year-old voluntarily chooses this place over pretty much any underground club. And yeah, that was annoying too. The place was way too bright, people were doing way too many photos and videos… A dude next to me literally asked me “yo, what drugs have you taken today, bro?” Like are you police or what? I got a girl approaching me with a picture of Travis Barker on her phone telling me that I look like him… It was all super weird. And I’m sure part of it is cause I’m old and I don’t really know why doing Tiktoks matters, but even putting that aside, that whole shit was trash. By far the worst event I have ever attended. And sincere “fuck you” to the organizers. Fucking pieces of shit.

Eventually, we did end up in Perron which was an actual good event with actual good music and nice people and we did have a good time. So yeah, after burning tons of money at that bullshit place, we got back to the basics. Took a cab back home in the morning, chilled for the rest of the weekend… All good.

I’ve been quite busy so I’m constantly behind with this blog but it will get better at some point. More things have happened since the last time I posted. I had to return my bike. I loved that fucking thing but after couple of rides, I noticed that there was a crack in the frame right below handlebars. For a moment, I was considering ignoring it but then I figured I might not wanna kill myself just yet, so I got it back to the dude who sold it to me. Got a partial refund and left with a different bike. Don’t love it as much as the initial one but it’ll do. Now I’m in a process of getting some cycling shoes so I can start using clipless pedals; hopefully I get a pair today. Trying to get them second hand so it’s kinda hit and miss.

I also had a chance to attend this slow sex workshop in Amsterdam. Now, I have done some similar shit before while I was living in China. I went twice to this Dragon Burn festival and there were some intimacy workshopswhich were totally fascinating and recently, I found out there are similar communities operating here. The whole things was super cool. You meditate, you slow down, you do some eye gazing, you do some gentle touching. It’s all about slowing anything down, there’s no nudity, no penetration, nothing like that. It’s really a different type of intimacy. The type we normally don’t experience because we’re too busy or simply because we don’t communicate enough. Some people came by themselves but there were some couples, too. And it was entirely up to you whether you stay with your one person or whether you branch out and roam around. It was all about articulating yourself, experimenting, setting boundaries and staying in the moment. This whole shit should be way more of a topic than it is. I feel I might be back there at some point.

Apart from that, it’s been work, it’s been yoga… I try to squeeze an outdoor workout here and there… And some running. But it really feels like I work a bit more than I should. It gets difficult to do all those things these days. But then again… There’s some holidays coming, there’s summer coming and I’m sure things will get slower at some point. So let’s milk it now. Anyways, things are well, work is going well, I got a trip to the Czech Republic coming up in about 10 days… Before we go, let me just say Fuck Elon Musk, fuck Mark Zuckerberg, fuck Donald Trump, fuck JD Vance and fuck everybody who loves them. And to everybody on the left: if we’re not talking about taxing ultra-rich, we aren’t talking about anything. Shout out to Bernie, shout to Gary Stevenson, shout to all to those guys. One!

Highlights:

• Raving.  
• Slow sex.
• Yoga.