How boring am I?

yeah well... not much red there... so let's do it the carrot way and colour all the ones I stil WANT to visit:



create your own visited countries map

=) Yeah I WISH!

Wackymathingsters

Snowdomes are cool. Snowdomes of a turned over crashed car, a dead body, a person stomping through blood-covered snow and a sign that says "Fargo" are even better. The seem to make snowdomse of everything nowadays. Here are more funky snowdomes.

Speaking of wacky things, what thinketh you of this "Wiener Cutter"? And what about this "Tea Dog"? But WEIRDEST of all is this "Girlfriend Knee Pillow" For sad single geeks who don't have a girlfriend and want to still lie on a woman's lap (WTF?). Here, a fake rubber torso, cut off at the hips, who needs an upper body anyways... for your "nap"ping pleasure... BIG FAT o_O;o_O;o_O;!!!

Oh and, I'm not sure wether I have mentioned this TV show before, but man do I want to get hold off Oh!Mickey
A TV show about a family of American Manneqins (no less!) who move to Japan...




no comment o_O;

It's hot in here (need some cooling help - CPU)

There I go again, I need some advice from Basil or anyone else that knows their way around a PC.

I need to replace my CPU fan (ventilation). The cooling socket is okay but the fan somehow does not turn fast enough anymore and makes noises that tell me he's about to die. very soon. It happened twice already that my PC got so hot that it shut itself off, so thats not good.

So Basil, I have a couple of questions. The little fan-power cable, can I just take that off the fan that is on there now and put it back on the new one? I already screwed it off and tried to clean it but the really fine dust stays on it. Dhould that dust make a difference? I don't really think so, it must be something in the turning mechanism itself. But I don't know how these things work. Also, what information do I need when I buy a new one. I wrote down everything it says on that little sticker that is on top of the part where the power cable goes in. It says:

AMD (I know it's an AMD CPU)
16010B1
MS.G.(9).M
DC12V-...0.23A (That's voltage, right? and Amper? Is this what it needs? Or what it can take?)

And lastly, of course I don't know where to buy these kind of things. Do regular Computer stores sell them or is there a cheaper and faster way? And of course, do you still happen to have one lying around that works and that might fit?

All help is greatly appreciated =)

All this blood shed...

A traincrash in Amagasaki, Japan, close to the city of Osaka, killed at least 50 people and wounded 340 this morning during rush hour.

Man, I don't know what to say, that's so horrible! many children were in that train. They don't know the cause of the crash yet. Some say the conductor went too fast because he was running late, others say the train rammed a car. The train derailed and crashed into an apartment building. There still people stuck inside the train. The conductor is my age and he's been conductor for only 11 months. Does that have anything to do with it? Should it? Man. Shit!

And to stay on this sober topic of death, a series of "family dramas" has shaken the Netherlands in the past weeks. First a traffic cop shoots his 3 sons and wife in their sleep and then commits suicide 2 weeks ago, then a father in the town of Zoetermeer reports his wife and two young daughters missing only to be arrested a week later for the murder of the 3. What the hell is wrong with people? That guy actually killed his wife and small daughters, in a disgusting blood-shedding sort of way (the blood traces in his house and car got him arrested), then he reports the mother and oldest daughter sick at work and school, drives down to the border to Belgium, burries them in a forest and a week later he reports them missing. WHAT. A. SICKO!!! I'm not usually for death penalty, but this sick bastard has the entire country's hatred on him. Everyone wants to see him suffer and die a slow painful death.

What's even more sad and/or disturbing, is that January this year, in the same town, a mother strangled her two children in their sleep and then jumped in front of a train. One of those children went to the same elementary school as the oldest girl in the more recent murder. That school is totally traumatized! Another kid from that school, alreday asked his dad when he was going to kill him. Can you just imagine what's going through the heads of those small children? And since the January drama, the school already had psychiatric sessions for the children to deal with the first murders, and the girl that was now murdered by her father knew exactly what happened when he killed her. Man the horror! What a fucking bastard!!!

What is wrong with this world?

Sometimes I feel so helpless with all this violence and human-inflicted death on this planet that I just wanna scream! Argh!

Jimi Mozart-chan?

I started reading blogs by english speaking people who have moved to Japan and are writing about their lives there. Mostly they have nice pictures as well. Japan just looks so nice on photographs!

Anyhoo. On a blog I visit, Alive in Kyoto, I found the funniest videoclip I have ever seen. A 5-year old guitar god called Yamagishi Ryunosuke, with the talk of a 20 year old rock star. Hehe. To view the clip click here: Click for live Stream
My Japanese is far from good enough to understand anything but he has a big mouth from what I gathered. But in a cute way. To cite: "Man, there's no one in kindergarten that can play the guitar. They can't play any instruments. Triangle, castanets, tambourine? I'm not interested in that stuff. Guitar is where it's at, man, guitar and nothing else." Hehehe, a total Shinosuke Nohara I'd say... hihi

And that TV show, it's about the same type of celebrity quiz show that Angel and I saw in Paris on the Japanese Sattelite channel where they had a quiz about Natrium... with dancing puppets that were supposed to represent natrium molecules moving through your body, I mean there was actual people in red ball suits with a big N on it that walked/rolled through "doors" in your blood vessels... Funkeh! And yesterday I saw a picture of Japanese people walking their bunny rabbits, with leash and little bunny jacket and all, in a park in central Tokyo...

Them Japanese people really be weird! So weird it's also very appealing. So Japan is definately going on my list of countries to visit before I become a vegetable.

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On a different note, I have come to the conclusion that we should sell our 2 analog photo cameras and aquire the new digital version. For example the CANON EOS 20D, which is the same series we both have (Angel has EOS500 and I have EOS3000) but then digital, with 8,2 megapixels and well, most importantly, no more photorolls! My Paris photos weren't that great to begin with, since I still have so much to learn, but secondly, I took them to a drugstore, to get developed, and they ALL came back with a red stinge. And the contrast is very low. So basicly, they all suck! So in orer to skip the entire developing process and also making it easier to learn (so I can see what I am doing on the LCD) we'll have to get a digital one. Well, one day anyways. :)

Need some BIKE help and 2nd hand buy help (so I need help from Dana and Bas :)

Hmmm I continously damage my Omafiets with the way I bike (Jumping off curbs, biking through all sorts of crappy weather, going way too fast) which resulted in the frame getting really crooked (Dana, you saw how it bends to the left... heh) and the chain breaking once. Whereas it got repaired less than a month ago it's lose again and beating against the chain-covernig and will be only a matter of time before it breaks again...

So, since I love my Omafiets I was thinking about, once we get the house and hence more room, to get a second bike, which I use to bike to work. I'd still use the Omafiets for the normal trips to anywhere in the city or to the beach or whatever, but if I keep this up (it's been a year of every-day usage of over 30km per day) I'll wreck my bike for sure and since I got it sort of as a present from my grandparents (my grand-dad who passed away a year ago) I don't want to lose it.

Naturally I would not buy a brand-new bike in a store. That's a waste of money. So I looked at speurders.nl, a 2nd hand market for the Netherlands, and I checked out prices of bikes and I was very surprised. I'm thinking of getting a mountain-bike for the "biking to work"-part, since it can take way more beating and it has gears and good brakes (on the omafiets, when the chain breaks you also don't have brakes anymore and that's scary when you are going downhill...). So anyways. Most mountainbikes, with shimanos, 26", and those springs are under 200 Euros! I don't get it. Look here for example. That one is such a funky cool bike and it's 180 Euros! And it even says it is brand-new. I thought, well that's very fishy, but then I looked around and all these kind of bikes are that much. What's wrong? Well I have no knowledge of bikes, least of all mountainbikes. So Dana, what do you think of those bikes? And Bas, how safe is the whole "buying things 2nd hand on the internet"-thing? I just have no idea whatsoever.

The house thing btw is becoming more and more reality. The bank said OK to our financial papers and now all we have to wait for is the life-insurance since that is a different department. I don't suspect anything going wrong there since we're both healthy, never had anything weird, don't do extreme sports and don't have anything strange in our families, well health-wise at least, haha.

So I guess I can carefully say it's going to work out... although in the back of my mind I still have doubts and there is still the one little thing that is not final yet and eventhough my brain says, nothing can go wrong now and the hardest part, the money part, is fine etc. Nevertheless I'm still not sure if I can afford being overly happy already... oh well... I guess that will come. However, regardless whether the insurance thing gets done my Friday or not, we won't say no to the house anymore which means that if all goes well we'll get the house, and if for whatever reason the insurance won't go through (which is even more unlikely than George W. Bush to signing the Kyoto Protocol) then we'll be stuck with paying 10% of the sale-price and not getting the house. But let's hope that's not going to happen. :) So Dana, keep collecting bananaboxes! :D

"Moscow... yada yada, Moscow...!"

These architectural artworks look amazing. Classical and yet futuristic in a way. Kind of sad that they were never realized. They kind of remind me of the buildings in the movie Metropolis. Those humongous buildings are usually representing the pride and strength of a country. Just look at the monstrocities the National Sozialists in the Third Reich built. They also thought "bigger is better", however their buildings always lacked some sort of class. There are not many left either. Also let's not forget that huge representative buildings like that usually walk hand in hand with a totalitarian government (i.e. "communist" dictatorships, Nazis etc ). So wheras they are "supposed" to unite the people and make them proud, most associate fear and oppression with them. Nonetheless buildings so huge have a certain appeal. I don't know. Maybe it's just my admiration for futuristic art and books from the beginning of the last century, when the industrialization made creative people imagine all sorts of things. My favourite Polish writer is Stanislav Lem whose works revolve around those futuristic themes.

I am also kind of sad that we can't go to the EXPO in Japan this year. There are so many cool future-related expositions I would so love to see it. Just look at this new Power Plant. Extremely cool, ne?

Learning another Language for free...

I always thought that the internet should be a huge medium that allows everyone to learn whatever they want for free. Sadly it's nothing like that in reality. Or at least not at first glance. Websites like Encyclopaedia Britannica take a common good, which is knowledge and make you pay for it. However there are also pages like Wikipedia that basicly form a big network of exchaging knowledge. From the people for the people. That's the future. Making all knowledge of mankind available for anyone is sort of a dream vision for me and sadly so many other people have that as a nightmare because it means that their elitist positions are endangered. Hence the paysites. Gotta make sure only the rich have the opportunity to learn. Well times change.

Since I want to continue studying the Japanese language I looked into ways to do that in my own pace and also free of charge, and I found them. Websites like The Japanese Page and The Foreigner - Japan offer basic Japanese courses and most importantly a community where you can talk with others in Japanese and find help if you get stuck somewhere. It's really great and that's what the internet should be. I mean, I still have textbooks for the advanced sort of things, but it is much nicer when you get in touch with the culture as well. Check out the beautiful photo essays of people who have traveled through Japan.

For any other language you can also find websites that teach you the basics. Here is a nice link list of such websites. Nice! I think Icelandic is next on my list. :)

Of course the world of free online tutorials is already huge so that goes well. You can find basicly any sort of how-to guide online, from cooking recipes to how to fix a flat tire on your bike.

I just love the internet! :)

Me be not so nerdy it seems. Should I be proud?

Je ma le blublah!

well, we're back and we survived Paris. We heard in the newsthis morning that there was a fire in a Hotel, well but we were already savely back at home at that time.

Well on different News, the Tefkaak is now officially the Tefkaak, meaning that Angel and I got engaged. Nothing fancy and we now see how cheesy it is to get engaged in Paris but it was more a thing of making it official than anything spontanious. We had also ordered matching rings in December already but the second one has still not arrived, so that kind of sucks. Anyways, the wedding will be in 2 years on April 13th, no less, so keep that free. :P

Paris itself was hmmm it has some nice spots but I came to the conclusion that I hate French people and I hate Paris. Also we walked around so much we have blisters all over our feet and sore muscles all around. We did some touristy stuff like Sacre Coer, Centre Pompidou, Louvre, Eiffel Tower, L'arc de Triomphe, Champs E'lysee, etc etc and we also did some shopping, not much since we still want to save money. We bought 2 little mangas, 2 DVDs and one I-pod pocket. That's pretty much it. Oh and we had a Japanese TV station in our Hotelroom and it had the funkiest shows ever on it. Haha.
Pictures will come as soon as I get the films developed. :)

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Test thingy from the Twelf's Blog:

English Genius
You scored 92% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 80% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I
can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon
intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You
have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly!
Way to go!

Go me, I guess. LOL!

"Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height, let's go fly a kite and send it soaring...."

Man that was sooooo much fun? The CaRrOt and I went to the beach yesterday with her super kite thingy and for the first time in my life I did some kiting with a sports kite. Man it was so cool. Very hard and you need to be strong to do it and man did we drill holes in the sand and I also fell backwards, heh. I think I got the hang of how to work it but I can't fly any nice shapes yet, except for the "crash right down" shape, lol. It's so much fun man!!! Whee! I'm gonna look into getting my own kite once we're moved and all, since before that I won't find the time to do that and also in summer kite's are not allowed on the beach. Maybe there are beaches that are empty in summer and where you can kite anyways. Also there is a new Kite Surfing Club at my work so I could do that one day. Sounds like loads of fun! HEHEH!

We're all set for Paris. We're leaving tomorrow morning and we're coming back Thursday night. The CaRrOt will take good care of our puppies so we can relax and not worry. On Friday we'll have our Shower fixed finally! Yay! :)

I'll leave you now because we'll go to the store and look at what kind of tiles there are for our new bathroom. Oh yeah that means that we did get the extension from the sellers, so that's good. All we have to do now is wait until we have the final OK from the bank, which we should get, get got told by our advisor people. So we'll see. We'll let you know! :)

TV show list thingy

Taken from the twelf:

1. Post a list of say 10 TV shows you watch. (current or cancelled)
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each show.
3. When guessed bold the line and write a sentence.


1. Battlestar Galactica (the new TV series): President Laura Roslin, guessed correctly by the twelf
She's so cool! I like Sharon a lot also, but I find her less attractive than I find her cute! She's so sweet and cute but not as hot as the President... and wow, there's a thing I never thought I'd say!

2. Friends: Chandler Bing, guessed correctly by the twelf
Chandie! He is so funny and he is the only non-selfish Friend. He's kind and sweet and since I am more like Monica and Angel is totally like Chandler I like Chandler best :)

3. Gilmore Girls: Lorelei Gilmore, guessed correctly by the twelf
d'uh! Lorelei is the coolest, and I like her just as much as I like Luke, however she be really hot and cute and Luke is a guy, so she wins. And Lane is also very cute and cool, however way under my age limit... hehe :)

4. ST:Voyager: Captain Janeway, guessed correctly by the twelf
I liked Janeway best from the start, obviously, as we all did. She just kicks ass and man did I have a crush on her. Now that crush has subsided for me and since watching the DVDs I have started finding Seven cooler. I never stopped liking janeway, just value Seven a bit more. I don't know, that, however might change again when we get season 7, in which you just want to kill Seven for obvious reasons...

5. Once & Again: Karen Sammler, guessed correctly by the twelf
Well regardless of liking Susanna Thompson lots, I liked Karen best because she's being treated really unfairly by her exhusband, her son and worst of all by her ex husband's new girlfriend/wife, whom I HATE! Her daughter sticks to her which also made me like Jessie, coolest thing when Jessie had a cute little thing with her (female) best friend. Sad that the show got cancelled but at least they stayed together through the last episode. Very cutsie-wootsie.

6. Desperate Housewives: Bree Van De Kamp, guessed correctly by Angel
Well what can I say. I was angry when this show replaced Gilmore Girls on Tuesday nights but we gave it a try anyways. I like Bree best from the beginning. People don't seem to like her because she's a neat freak but you can tell she just uses housework to block our her emotions. Her husband is an ass and he lies about why he wants a divorce. While she's trying to change and to save the marriage, he gives her a hard time about things she supposedly does wrong, but in the end we suspect he's just gay and too wuss to admit that to her and give it as a divorce reason or he's cheating or he has something else to hide.

7. Ally McBeal: Ling Woo, guessed correctly by the twelf I love Lucy Liu and Ling is really the coolest character in Ally McBeal. Of course I also loved the episode where she and Ally thought they had a crush on each other and they made out... that was great. I have no idea what Ling seas in Fish, so that kinda never added up.

8. Crossing Jordan: Jordan Cavanaugh, guessed correctly by Angel Well, if any woman is the hottness herself, it's Jill Hennessy. She also kicks butt in the show, but it's sadly always on so late. We never really regularly watched, it was always just kind of by accident that we caught it. Sadly.

9. PSI Factor: Lindsay Donner, guessed correctly by the twelf
I like the show and Lindsay was a good character that stood by her scientific knowledge in the beginning but through time she also starts to understand that some things can simply not be explained. FYI, the show is about paranormal things. Sort of like Xfiles in a way but not really.

10. Xena: Callisto, guessed correctly by the twelf
Okay to my defense and as an explenation, the first Episode of Xena I have ever seen was the Episode where Xena and Callisto switch bodies, so Xena was in Callisto's body but she was Xena. So I was like wow, hot amazon fighting chick, whee! I didn't get the storyline etc because it was a mid-season cliffhanger so in the second part I was really sad that the McHottie was actually the villain, who was not regular cast. However I kept watching since I like greek mythology and because I wanted to see McHottie again in that leather armor. She also became my favourite character, which is not very hard when you hate all the others, haha. I stopped watching when Callisto was killed by Xena for the 100th time (she had come back as a goddess because she had eaten some ambrosia etc) so then it was too much stuff, especially when Xena became uglier and uglier and her sidekick cut her hair. The show had funny bits and stuff but it was very ridiculous at most times.

(man it took a while to scratch together 10 shows, hence adding the last one, so don't hit me... :P )

Games and Brain Rock 'n Roll

So we signed bank papers on Friday and ever since we are waiting and waiting for the bank to to get them and OK them so that we finally know for sure. The past weekend we did nothing but cleaning. I swear the Tefkaak residence has never been this tidy before. And this did not happen because we turned into Stepford Wives, but rather because yesterday we had photographers come over to take pictures for the sale of the house, if we know everything for sure, that is. So naturally we're exhausted, since the Tefkaak likes moving its body as much as it adores cleaning up.

I picked up our traveling documents for Paris yesterday, so that's exciting. I also got a new game called "Otogi 2" for the xbox, which I have wanted to get for a while because of the nice graphics. And I didn't spend money, since I exchanged it for old games I didn't like anymore. Sort of a rip off but I don't play them anymore and I'm too lazy to sell them individually on ebay or sites like that. Anyhoo that new games has such beautiful graphics, it's amazing. It plays in Japan of course or at least Japanese architecture is all over the place, eventhough it's more a fantasy game. Also I can't wait until "Jade Empire" is released, because I've been saving up lunch money to buy that. I just wonder If I will have the time to play. There will be loads of stress in the next 4 months... so we'll see... In the meantime I still play my favourite game of all times "Fable". Playing it for the 3rd time now, sadly enough I cannot bring myself to play evil yet... Although this is the first time I play real proper, like with buying every house etc and doing ALL quests, also the non-optional ones and opening ALL demon doors and marrying men and women in every village... lol I'm living the life :) hehe :)


(Fable)

Update: Well the house thing just simply does not want to work out. Now after everything we've been through with getting the mortgage done, we have another obtacle: Time. We simply don't have enough. 4 weeks to get everything done is simply not enough, simply because the bank takes so much time. It's not up to us at all, we already signed everything, but we're not going to make it till Monday. The Bank needs to finish the paper work and that will take more than 1 week. It's not up to us. Another thing, one week later the bank needs to give a guarantee for part of the price of house, but they do that AFTER they have finished the paperwork, but we doubt they'll have done even that by that time. It's not fair. There was the easter weekend in between, we had fridays at the wrong times (i.e. things had to always wait till monday since banks and real estate places never work on friday afternoon) and if an offer from the bank takes 2 weeks, and getting the paperwork in the bank takes 2 weeks, then how are you supposed to fit that into less than 4 weeks? Simple math says it's impossible. So, we have absolutely no hope that the sellers will give us more time since they don't seem the compromising kind as we have experienced with the bidding. So if the sellers say no to the extension of the due dates, then we have to cancel the contract and we will not buy the house. That decision will be made this Friday. The sellers then will have to go through the entire process again, but they have no hurry so they don't care when they sell it or to who. Well I still hope there is some decency in them and they'll give us more time, because it's not up to us, it's up to the bank and how long it takes for them to be done with the paperwork. *big sigh*. Really whatever the outcome of this, the Tefkaak will keep major permanent physical damage. BLAH!

I wanna buy a "P" and why we're packing for Mars

Well, I have always known that the brand "Lonsdale" is being associated by the media and by the public in general with Neonazism however I never knew why. I thought that a group of Neonazis just started wearing that kinda stuff and in groups like that certain brands become mandatoy. Only today I read up on the subject, because in the Netherlands those groups of "Lonsdale wearing youngsters" are big in the news again because a small group threw a molotof into an islamic elementary school. So it turns out that Neonazis who wear Lonsdale on purpose atually made this out of it: "lo NSDA (add imaginary 'P') ale". Makes sense, no? How desperate can you get? Lonsdale is a sport clothes brand. I know it mostly from boxing clothes and it has nothing to do with Neonazism. The brand is actually really suffering from the image it gets. Then I think, those Neonazis, why can't they just wear a white t-shirt with "Hitler" on it? Or a giant "H" or a giant "W" for "white power"? Why make up all sorts of detours to imagine some sort of hidden racist meaning behind a normal brand of clothes? That's just really sad. That's like when I was 11 and I had a crush on my English teacher and I made up sentences where the first letter of every third word backwards spelled "I love my English teacher". lol! I mean, really.

In the Netherlands I have the feeling that it just keeps getting worse with the abyss between dutch and "non-dutch" (Apparently a certain group of "cheeseheads" sees anyone who is not white as non-dutch regardless of their nationality). On the one hand I can totally understand moroccan or turkish youths who feel threatened by this climate, people are scared of them and the media pushes that and turns it into distrust, generalisation and discimination. However, I can also understand the people who are scared and who have that unsave feeling and who see the large groups op "immigrants" as a big threat. I bike through a neighbourhood which has the highest crime rate in The Hague and it's about 90% non-caucasian people (man, gotta be creative with all this PC stuff haha). Anyways, I get yelled after and have soccer balls kicked against my head many times when I bike through there, it makes me feel unsave and I build up a disliking for people of "that kind", which in this case is moroccans and turkish people or people I think "look-it". I know, very discriminatory. However when I think about it thoroughly, when I bike through white neighourhoods of the same social niveau I have the exact same thing happening with "white" and "dutch" youths. In the end it makes no difference where you're from or what tint your skin has, it's about the social situation. Seeing how most "non-white/pinkish" people here have harder times finding jobs, get mortgages etc, of cause a larger concentration of them is unemployed or lives in the cheap neigbourhoods. Then it descents into a vicious cycle since once you're down it's even harder to get out. If one thing is dangerous, it's bored people, no matter if they are dutch, 2nd gen. or immigrants.

Biggest problem is that nobody in this country (or in the world for that matter) listens to anyone anymore. Nobody seeks dialogue and people form opinions far to easy and way to fast. Why are we so hasty? I mean we all know the old sayings of patience and waiting and seeing, but it seems we don't give a bleep. Everything around us is speeding up so we're just keeping up, aren't we? It feels like society in general is just a giant kettle that's whistling, and which, if you don't turn the flame lower, will burst at one point.

Everyone still in on the roket-building? I got a real estate brochure from Mars. it's supposed to have nice radiation this time of year...

The Pope and April Fools

Well, seems that Pope Johannes Paul II is not going to stay on this world for very much longer. He had a heart attack, he supposedly fell in and out of a coma and he has an infection and bloodpoisoning. He's been staying in the hospital twice already this year and he now did not want to go a third time. The Vatican offically said it was possible the pope was going to die soon.

It's weird, now he's just a poor old sick man that I feel sorry for because he must be in so much pain. Thousands of Christians went to the St. Petersquare to pray for the pope. I hope, not to keep him alive, because that man has worked enough in that ridiculous office of pope. He's 84 and he still has to work. What kind of a job is that? Seriously. Also, christians should want him to die and go to their heaven. He deserves it, doesn't he? (If one believes in a heaven)

So, well I'd say let him go and be at peace. There'll be a new pope and Joannes Paul II can finally rest.

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Also, today is April 1st, and despite my brother's birthday it is also the day that people trick you just for the heck of it and think they get away with it because of the date. I hate pranks and setups and stuff like that. Those are never funny and I hate the people who play those jokes.

I like April 1st for other reasons. It's sort of the beginning of spring for me. April sounds more like spring to me than march, which is too close to february still. :P