Más que hacer

Actually I should have included the following videos already in the previous post as they would have completed it, but anyway, here's the more of "Hacer por hacer":

The original, older version of Miguel Bosé's hit, which is just as great as the newly released remake:

Then I have found the "making of" of the new song. Actually, there are two versions: the first one shows the actual video shooting:

The second "making of" shows the singing part of the song which is quite nice to see Gloria Gaynor struggle with the spanish lyrics: see lilbro, now that's exactly the same problem I have with SingStar :-P But seriously, it's a nice look behind the scenes of the creation of this fabulous song:

If you look on youtube you can also find a live version of the original older song which only differs from the above in the sense that it has some additional cheering audience, the playback is the same original recording, therefore I did not bother to include that here. 

As you can see, I really like this song and wanted to share more of it with you here... ;-)

P.S.: thanks Dani for showing it to me and also recommending Miguel's older CD.

Hacer por hacer

When I was visiting Dani theses days (a separate post follows) he suggested this song to me. As Dani knows his bigbro pretty damn good he knew that I would LOVE this song: I really like Miguel Bosé and this song he recorded with Gloria Gaynor is an amazingly cheerful, fun dance song (look who's talking, I can't even dance!) and I simply adore it! Miguel Bosé is an attractive man and he has a wonderful voice and he perfectly knows how to modernize his own songs. The one thing I didn't like about it: I had to buy the whole Papito album (which I already own) that he has re-released just to include this new song! GRRRR. :-)

Finally, my iPhone

Yesterday, my boyfriend Jelle and I finally picked up our new iPhone 3G, after a very long wait (we waited that the first hype vanished and we received a mail from t-mobile telling us normal availability of the gadget in their stores). Since we were already t-mobile customers the change of subscription was a breeze, the people in the t-mobile shop were very friendly, it all went without problems and our new iPhones are already activated (and quiet, my fans, my mobile number hasn't changed). There was not much homework to be done in iTunes to prepare for the big day so I am up and running right away.

I am happy with the new phone (I chose the black one, 16GB version): everything works (almost) perfectly and all those things (like internet on the go, GPS) are absolutely fascinating to me, especially since it's in such a small and most elegant device. During the next days, I will test which modes I will use as standard to optimize battery usage. Oh yeah, I tried and it even can make calls and send SMS... so fascinating....... hahaha
One thing I am struggling with is the synchronization with my address book on my iMac. The phone and the iMac have exchanged data but the content on the phone definitely differs from that on the iMac and I haven't figured out yet why there is a difference. I already experienced this with my iPod touch before but didn't look into that too much yet.

As for third party applications I started to add apps for facebook, flickr and the Apple remote. I have managed to add ringtones without paying for them. I have to inquire with my lilbro though to see how he does that 'cause I'm new to the whole "assign ringtone to specific callers" thing... ;-) I also added google talk and reader and an app for AIM. Though I would prefer a one-in-all app like Adium that I use on my iMac (I know there is one but that has some disadvantages...)

I am not going into details of the prices but I can say that we both took the most popular subscription plan which gives unlimited internet access within Holland, free access to all t-mobile hotspots in Holland, includes 150 minutes of calling and 150 SMS for about 30 Euros. On top of that, you pay the price for the iPhone like announced months ago by Steve... ;-) It may be a lot to some but I love it, I like being able to access internet when and where I want and am willing to pay the premium for it. Interestingly in the shop yesterday, one after the other bought the iPhone, it's like there are no other phones... funny.

My baby, the great Jelle, also already has his iPhone (though he has a white one) and we are now iPhoneconectados. I think he was looking forward to yesterday to finally go get it at the shop.

For my part (and that of Jelle) today we are happier than Marco after finding his mother (hell, I have no idea what this is about but for the sake of parody I had to include this into my post - after all, I join Finnegan in a parody of my beloved lilbro's post).  :-D

A tragedy.

Spanair Business class
Originally uploaded by CruisAir

Yesterday, unfortunately a flight of Spanair crashed during take off from Madrid's Barajas airport killing more than 150 people on board.
I would like to extend my deep felt condolences to the families of the victims.

My dearest Dani tried to call me to inform me about it but I was asleep after an early shift at work and did not hear him. But when I heard about the tragic news when Jelle called me from work to inform me it made me very sad. As some of you might know I work for a partner airline of Spanair and I must honestly say that it feels weird, so close suddenly. The older I get the more such tragic events touch me. Aviation is one of my hobbies and I am always interested in airlines and aircraft but this is sadly one of the very dark sides of this hobby, to deal with death and destruction, loss and grief. Even though for me it's only distant as an interested observer. But in this case it comes a little closer, for several reasons: I have flown a Spanair MD aircraft recently (it was a different version of the crashed aircraft) and the airline and the aircraft took me safely to my destiny: Madrid Barajas. I go to Madrid quite often lately to see my very dearest of all friends and naturally I am more alert in any sense of the word of all things that happen in Madrid. It interests me more, it touches me deeper, it affects me more. I am sometimes even frightened something terrible might happen to the ones I love there and I might not know about it, might not be able to do something about it. I pray it never will.
I did feel comfortable and safe though on the Spanair flight and I would fly them again, any time soon. Though I understand that some media are now speculating about possible maintenance issues due to job cuts to reduce costs at Spanair. That's purely speculating at this point and we will have to wait for the final report to see what crashed the plane.

I will think of the victims' souls this night, passengers' as well as those of my colleagues (even though not colleagues directly but like me they were airliners) who lost their lives and the souls of those who are left behind without their loved ones. It is impossible to understand the pain they must feel now but I will think of all of them tonight - I cannot change a bit but I want to express my sorrow. That's why I felt I had to write a few words about this tragedy.

What's in a name?

Xavi of El diari del Xavi asked an interesting question: why or how did you choose your username? Here's the explanation for my choice:

I looked for a username that in any case should not contain a number, like 'Guido1967' or something like that, I hate those... Combinations with my name were mostly already taken or not nice and so I started looking into something independent from my real name/initials.

First of all, I like cruising... to go on a cruise ship that is... hence the "cruis" part of the username. The "air" part comes from my affection for all stuff airlines and the combination of both words sounds like "cruiser" which on one hand is what you are when you cruise and on the other hand has that ambiguous meaning to it... funny enough, I'm not a "cruiser" at all in the 'gay' sense of the word... hahaha

So, how did you choose your name and why?