Archive for March, 2006

New plan, hold on to your pants. Half of May or earlier: India (well hello there brother baha!), then Tokyo for four to six weeks, then Sydney for six weeks, then I don’t know, then New York. I think. Maybe. Why not? Right? As long as I still haven’t crashed my head into a large object thus am able to maintain this job, why not make the most of it? Yes, I love New York, and I have my place here, and I’ll continue living here for a while, but I think it’s time to take my chances again. I’ve been mostly steady in NY for a few months, had a chance to settle down, aaaaaand the travelling feelings are back. Oi, how I don’t understand myself. Haha in a good way though.

New York is beautiful today. I’ll be hopefully doing a runway in a kilt with Sean Connery for a charity next week. Imagine that, getting a chance to meet 007 in a skirt.

Going to Miami on Wednesday (flight leaves at 6am, very funny…) till Saturday.

Irene, my dear Cali-buddy invited me to come to Coldplay on Saturday, my dear, they give a show! I thought they wouldn’t be all that energetic, considering the chillness of their music. I was wrong. I have a new respect for this band, which I didn’t have before. Even loved the music! Thank you Irene I know, the let’s-do-something-ball’s in my court now.

Starting to miss Holland a little bit, does anyone have any good reason for me to come over? Aaaaanyone? I hope to come in the summer, after this Asia-Australia run.

I wish I could express my gratitude better. Was on the phone with my brother in India, talking about a crazy night last week (“You know Gisele, that Leo wasn’t good for you in the first place”) and he had a comparing story that got my even more focused on ORBIS and MBNY. I don’t think I’ll ever realize the luck of my life right now until it runs out. Let’s get the most out of it. How I wish MBNY to be a success. Then I can happily retire as a schmodel. Just think about it, getting people 1) in fashion and 2) in the capitalist center of the world New York to help. Give up time for no money. Making others smile. I cannot imagine a bigger success. Till I leave, I’ll be swamped getting ModelBehavior to such a point that I can leave for a while and still launch it with the next NY Fashion Week.

Lunch!

I am back at ORBIS, and it feels great to be here again. After putting a little break on myself, I feel it’s time to get back into the game. I can already feel it was the right decision. New ideas, new motivation, and new problems in combining ORBIS with modeling and ModelBehavior. But somehow, it’s going to work, I’m going to make it work. I plan to finish the mission statement this week and tackle Ford the week after. And for ORBIS, there are other great plans in the toaster. Ah, the continuous beauty of cliffhangers. It’s like that’s the only thing I pciked up in creative writing class. That, and misspelling a word on purpose to hold your attention.

San Fran + LA + Las Vegas + Cayucos + Santa Cruz + San Fran = one hell of a roadtrip. Driving 1400 miles (all of them driven by Irene and BoobU) through mountains, deserts, coasts, everything was just a beautiful great experience. What a week! I could write it all down but I’ll just keep it in my heart.

Now back in Brooklyn and it is just great to be here again. I love packing my bag and heading to unknown and I love heading back to the known and unpacking my bag. Does that make sense?

It’s raining. And my nose is burnt. A little surfing souvenir.