No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

Published: May 2, 2023St. Martin’s PressGenre: Women’s FictionPages: 301KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Erica Bauermeister is the NYT bestselling author of the four novels including The Scent Keeper, The School of Essential Ingredients, Joy for Beginners, and The Lost Art of Mixing. Her newest novel, No Two Persons, will be…

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Pennywise lamp en mok via @kkecrotterdam 🤡🎈 #kkec #rotterdam #koopgoot (bij Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-93mv7F75K/?igshid=o7vqgbikp6bl

I’d cry a river just for you (11/24)

Notes: You know, I just promoted this fic in my Snowbaz fic l'amor che move (il sole e l'altre stelle), so I’m going to do the same thing here for no other reason than the fact that I love consistency. If you’re a Snowbaz fan, come on over! Also, the formatting of text messages is nicer on AO3.

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DEMONSTRATE - Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

2020

Me: this is Blaine I changed my number when I moved to the Philippines a few years back

Me: but yeah, no more blocking

Blaine groans. Should he bring that up? He’s about to delete the message when he sees that Kurt’s typing.

Kurt: hello

Well, that isn’t the worst reaction that could’ve happened, but it also isn’t the best.

Me: I still have your coat btw

Bella’s returning Blaine’s coat. She’s already given him hell for ditching her and Adeola. But then Blaine told Bella why he left and she was very understanding and weirdly enthusiastic.

Kurt: oh, no worries! It wasn’t my coat

Me: … did you steal someone’s coat???

Kurt: lol it’s Yannick’s but I broke up with him and then I stole his coat when he got angry so no worries

Blaine’s eyes widen. That is a lot of information in one single message.

Kurt: feel free to burn it

Kurt: actually, no, think of the environment!!!

Me: sorry to hear about Yannick

Kurt: don’t be. It’s fine.

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How do you text your former best friend who you’re possibly still in love with?

Blaine’s lying on his couch, listening to music. He’s wondering what to do with all of this. Honestly, Blaine should’ve expected this weirdness and confusion. He can’t look inside Kurt’s head, but he assumes that Kurt’s just as torn up about the situation as he is.

He replays yesterday’s conversation.

They’ve missed each other. Blaine made Kurt laugh over a shared memory. Kurt doesn’t want to be friends again.

Kurt doesn’t want to be friends again.

Kurt doesn’t want to be friends again.

Blaine closes his eyes, but he can feel the tears prickling. His heart feels heavy. It’s been quite some time since he’s last cried over his broken friendship. He has. He’s cried a lot. It got easier over the years, but the pain and regret never left. Losing Kurt was the most painful break-up he’s ever experienced. People don’t talk about how friends can break your heart.

Ex-friendship is so weird. It’s a rollercoaster. Blaine blocked Kurt. Blaine still thinks of him on his birthday. Kurt made him feel like crap. Random videos on the internet make Blaine want to show them to him. Their last two years of friendship were terrible. Blaine never wanted to lose him. Blaine’s tried to move the fuck away from him. Kurt’s part of some of the best memories of Blaine’s life.

This damn song from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie isn’t helping. The Wall In My Head is a brilliant number, but it only makes Blaine cry more.

And don't fall, I'm finding my feet There's shoes to be filled But this wall, is harder to beat When it's one you helped build

It’s true that Blaine hurt Kurt. Blaine will always feel remorse for how he acted in the last two years, but Kurt wasn’t a saint either and he knows that. Blaine felt like crap when they were friends.

Maybe Kurt’s right. They shouldn’t be friends anymore. They weren’t good for each other. Kurt made it pretty clear in his final twenty minutes long voice message. He ditched Blaine, because he knew he had to choose for himself.

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Blaine, Bella and Adeola are walking through the Koopgoot, doing some Christmas shopping. The three of them are staying in Rotterdam for the holidays, but they’re all sending presents home. Blaine’s actually very happy that he’s not going to be alone.

Once again, he’s so happy that he got paired with Bella during the Eurekaweek. And Adeola’s really nice too.

“We need to go there!” Bella says excitedly and she points towards the KKEC. It’s filled with typical gifts and, as they say here, hebbedingetjes. There a lot of plush cats in the shop window.

Blaine walks around and he laughs when he sees a rainbow coloured bar of soap, called the Gay Bar. He’s about to pick one up when someone beats him to it.

“Well, we keep running into each other,” Kurt says.

Blaine shrugs casually, as if he didn’t spend this morning crying over this person.

“Great minds think alike,” he says effortlessly.

“You’re also shopping for Christmas presents?” Kurt asks, “Or late Sinterklaas?”

Blaine never really got the hang of this Dutch tradition, so he shakes his head. Sinterklaas sounds cool. He’ll be in the country for a couple of more years, so he has time to learn.

“Christmas.”

“Right,” Kurt says with a nod. Then he raises an eyebrow. “Nice coat.”

Blaine can feel himself turn red. He’s wearing Yannick’s coat. It was an accident. One moment, he was crying in his living room, the next he was rushing downstairs because Bella and Adeola had arrived. He picked up the first coat without looking and he didn’t realise his mistake until they passed the Etos.

“Sorry about Yannick,” Blaine says lamely.

“I told you that it’s fine,” Kurt snaps.

Blaine instinctively flinches.

Kurt’s face falls. “Shit. I- fuck, I didn’t… Sorry.”

“It’s fine.”

“No, it’s not.”

“No. It’s not,” Blaine begrudgingly agrees.

“I’m also sorry. For yesterday,” Kurt says, sounding nervous.

“You mean when you said that you didn’t want to be friends again, and then you just walked away?” Blaine mutters. He needs to calm down.

“Yes. That. I should’ve at least demonstrated why I said that. It was kind of shitty to just dump that on you.”

“I understand why you said it,” Blaine says sadly. This truly is a rollercoaster. His emotional state goes between anger, sadness, remorse and hope in less than twenty-four hours. “You explained it seven years ago.”

“I never heard anything back.”

“I didn’t think you’d want to hear anything from me.”

“… Fair. What are your Christmas plans?” Blaine adds hastily, just trying to move away from this. He can do friendly chit-chat, but not a deep dive into the past, especially in the middle of the crowded KKEC.

Kurt clearly needs some time to switch between topics, but then he smiles warmly. “Dad and Carole are flying to Rotterdam.”

And Blaine’s smiles mirrors Kurt’s. The Hummel-Hudsons. God, he misses them as well. The thought of seeing them again makes him feel warm with affection.

“You?”

“Staying here. I can’t really split myself in two, with one half being with my mom and the other with my dad and Cooper. But Bella is staying too.”

At the mention of her name, Bella’s next to Blaine. She’s holding Adeola’s hand.

“Ready to go? We need to go back to Lush, it’s an emergency!” Bella says happily, unaware of what she’s just interrupted.

Or so it seems.

She gives Blaine a quick wink. Blaine doesn’t understand what she’s trying to say. At that same time, a woman throws an arm around Kurt.

“Ready?” she says. Blaine doesn’t know her, but Bella and Blaine exchange their ‘yes, another Asian!’ look. Kurt sees them looking.

“Oh, Blaine, this is Femke, my roommate. Femke, this is…” Kurt trails off. The woman, Femke, gives him a curious look. “And old friend.”

He’s not wrong.

--

Honestly, life is full of fucking surprises, because he didn’t plan on having drinks with Bella, Adeola, Femke and Kurt. He doesn’t even fucking know this Femke, but she’s talking everyone’s ears off and Adeola loves it. Femke’s Dutch and she’s moved here from the south and she’s very appalled to hear that most of them haven’t seen a lot of this country yet.

“We need to change this!” Femke says. Her Dutch accent is kind of grating. “How about a trip to, I don’t know, Maastricht? Nijmegen?”

“That would be amazing,” Adeola says excitedly, before anyone can say anything else. She turns to Bella. “Right, babe?”

Bella gives them a thumbs up.

“Kurt, come on!” she shakes Kurt, who laughs.

“Sure.”

Then everyone turns to Blaine.

“You’re in?” Femke asks.

Blaine quickly glares at Kurt. Then to Bella, who gives an encouraging look.

“Sure. Why not?”

koszoskörmű eladócsávó a furdoszobafelszereles-boltban: "na es ki fogja felszerelni a zuhanyrudat?" en, vigyorogva: "en?!" erre kkecs: "huha, akkor a masikat vedd inkabb!" en, szemoldokomet felhuzva: "na es ugyan miert?" kkecs: "mert _ezt_ nagyon bonyolult" en: "aha, oke, es miert is bonyolult?!" kkecs: "hat mert ezt a pockot le kell pattintani a tetejerol, akkor tudod levenni a burkolatot es hozzaferni ahhoz az elemhez, amit fel kell csavarozni a falra. meg nekem is nehezen sikerult, es meg is vagta az ujjam!" en: "OKE, DE AKKOR IS EZT KEREM, MERT ERROL KONNYEBB A VIZKOVET LETAKARITANI ES SZEBBEN IS NEZ KI, MINT A MASIK! MAJD MEGKEREM AKKOR APUKAMAT, HOGY SZERELJE FEL NEKEM!" meg hat a kurvaanyad, kkecs.

Our type of recovery taught by our coach En Hakim Kasim, retired army Tentera Darat Malaysia also cucurriculum instructor for our Komander Kesatria Endurance Challege (KKEC) Siri 5 training. #⃣5⃣ This moment is the day for our training so we have this kind recovery to give a shorter recovery time from exercise. It also can faster the resolution of soft tissue injuries and reduce fatigue to prevent injury. The best things is it can treat muscles and joints soreness, strain and inflammation and it can promotes nueral and cardio vascular system recovery. 💪💪💪 Meh. Itu cerita lama je. My type of recovery now are sleep and food. Sleep to prevent from my sleepy head while running long and food is to provide energy and fill my cute empty stomach 😂 Sedang sedang mem-backup file inside my laptop harddisk terjumpa gambar musim ni. Actually join disebabkan ganti orang. Kalau tak memang tak nak terlibat. Sweet tak gambar kami 😂 Yang sorang tu muka tahan sejuk yang sorang tu tukang gelak kat orang lain. Tak boleh lari sbb coach dah target kami kene buat dulu. No reason to regret 😂😂 Ps: Esok nak cuba lenjan sikit pace siput ni. Seminggu rehat baik punya. 👍👍 #ultrawish #ultraforfun #runforfun #throwback #thankyou #komanderkesatria #komanderkesatriaendurancechallenge2015 #komanderkesatriaendurancechallenge #tytoalbasquad #equinesquad13 #kkec #kkec2015 #kkecuitmperak2015 #uitmjasin #uitmjasinmelaka #trailrunning (at Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kampus Jasin)

KKeC Leidschendam

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You and kkec are like the definition of friendship goals. Have you met? When will you meet?

Haha thanks. Katy and I have not spent time together in person due to living states away and I’m so broke that I can’t afford a trip right now. I hope we can plan something for 2018. I asked her to meet me in Orlando earlier today haha. She’s good people, and she’ll kick your ass into gear and call you out on your shit. Which is what I need. I love her ❤️Send me some cash for a plane ticket? (I’m kidding, please send your spare cash on something you need/want.)

Leidsenhage werkzaamheden in februari

Elektra Binnenkort zal Stedin starten met werkzaamheden aan het elektriciteitsnetwerk in het Rozemarijnhof. Op deze ring zijn o.a. de winkeliers aan het Rozemarijnhof en het Fletcherhotel aangesloten. De planning van Stedin is nog niet bekend, maar Stedin zal zelf zorgdragen voor berichtgeving aan de gebruikers. 

Daarnaast werkt Stedin vanaf naar verwachting 9 maart aan de aanleg van een extra kabel voor de middenspanningsring rondom het winkelcentrum. Dat gebeurt eerst aan de Burgemeester Banninglaan, ter plaatse van het fietspad aan de kant van het winkelcentrum, vanaf de Jumbo Foodmarkt in de richting van het noordelijke nieuwbouwdeel. Verwijdering tijdelijke deurpartij Fresh! Naar verwachting zullen we medio april starten met het verwijderen van de tijdelijke deurpartij in Fresh! tussen Nespresso en Timestore. Na het verwijderen van de doorgang, worden vloer en plafond aangeheeld. Dit gebeurt na 18.00 u. De werkzaamheden duren tot ca. medio juni. Leidsenhage nu al meer bezocht

De geopende zuid-fase van Westfield Mall of the Netherlands in Leidschendam trekt nu al meer dan acht miljoen bezoekers op jaarbasis Dat meldt de website Vastgoedmarkt.nl. De bezoekcijfers laten zien dat het voormalige winkelcentrum Leidsenhage weer groeit. De zuid-fase van het winkelcentrum heeft 90 winkels en eetgelegenheden. Die trekken momenteel meer dan 650.000 bezoekers per maand. Retailers die al bijdragen aan het huidige succes zijn onder andere Amac, kaascadeauwinkel Henri Willig en de onlangs geopende flagshipstore van Hunkemöller. 

Nieuwe huurders Het succes van de eerste fase heeft ook nieuwe retailers aangetrokken, waardoor negen nieuwe deals in februari bevestigd konden worden. Onder deze deals zijn de volgende aanwinsten: De eerste Nederlandse winkel van parfummerk Arabian Oud (63 m2); het nieuwste winkelconcept van Cotton Club (604 m2); cadeauwinkel KKEC (206 m2); en juwelier Lucardi (78 m2), betrekken allemaal de zuid-fase van de Mall. Daarnaast opent ook herenkledingmerk New Zealand Auckland een winkel (136 m2), State of Art opent een inspiration store en Van Koningsbruggen opent een winkel met sieraden en horloges (161 m2).

Verwachte bezoekers per jaar Volgens de laatste voorspellingen van Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield zal het winkelcentrum in het eerste jaar ongeveer 12 tot 14 miljoen bezoekers ontvangen. De verwachting is dat de gehele Mall (117.000 m2) in het tweede deel van 2020 officieel zal openen. Op dat moment zal Westfield Mall of the Netherlands de thuisbasis zijn van 280 winkels, restaurants en entertainmentaanbieders.

Pine Creek! Fun! Played horribly! But what a view. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0l3ihtFflQQjL6z4CqkvbJb-KKeC-LHutswPY0/?igshid=l87dfdk7dfw8

Nampak x kat gambar ni what the difference is ? That's why salah satu sebab aku tiba2 suka medic bila masuk pbsm ni. Die pnye special tu. Hahaha It's kind of remember the memory of me during the kkec. Nampak jelas sngt. Soldiers = kesatria Doctors = pbsm

The Thing We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

The Thing We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

Published: January 10, 2023 Bantam Pages: 335 Genre: Suspense Thrillers KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Heather Darwent was raised in Yorkshire and moved to Scotland to study at the University of Edinburgh. The Things We Do to Our Friends is her debut novel. Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways,…

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Komander Kesatria Endurance Challenge (KKEC - MELAKA) 21-24/05/17

it was my first time participating in this KKEC event. My first thought of this event is PAIN. why? Because i hate running so bad.its just not my kind of thing you know. we trained for almost the whole semester.everyday got PT (physical training). i LOVE LOVE LOVE the fitness session like “leg day” or those abs training. it feels so good and matches the quote ‘no pain no gain’ and i feel the fats burning. hahaha but i always cried in the last class of the day ( kelas last untuk hari tu) because that evening at 5/6 pm pt will be held.  oh my god, ya Allah! i hate running so bad especially when i heard the word “bukak langkah “ or “pecut”. damn it.  but then, day after day, my comrades keep on giving me moral and physical support. helped me coping with this new daily routine. for real, i need to give my special thanks to mizal a.k.a banglong. he helped me a lot from the first day. we are not in a big amount of squad so its easy for us to get along with each other. there were like my second family. for sure i went through the ups and downs. i puke everytime after i ran. i swear. EVERYTIME. but what keeps me going is my batchmates, and the effort and advice that my komander(s) and y/0 gave me. i once cried on the side of the road because i didn’t want to finish the run. but puan izzatul, puan rosniza, tuan yus didn’t let me give up that easily. they ran with me. they pushed me, they drag me until the end just to prove that i can do it. i can break my own limits. i owe them big.  im starting to get used of it because it has been one of the routine. but still, I’ll cried everytime when it comes to it haha. such a cry baby. everyone knows i hated it. but nobody said said it would be easy, so don’t ever give up when it gets hard. LIKKEC- before it started, i could imagine that Im gonna be half dead for sure or maybe just dead for real. but it turns out good, pain and tiring. but a girl gotta do what she gotta do so i push everyday to be better. one day, after morning pt, i find my self hard to breath. out of suddent. i thought everything gonna be ok but it turns out bad as i am semi-concious due to it. but what touched me the most is when all of them ( siswi ) were all there around me telling me everythings going to be ok and fine, they sang me the “baby sharks” songs. the whole uk ( unit kesihatan) can hear it. when i woke up, everyone was there. dop my tears a little bit. so blessed to have them as a team and family.  the day has arrived. we traveled about 7 hours to UiTM Jasin,Melaka. there’s nothing much on the travel day. the next day,evening, the opening ceremony its just amazing to see how others komander kesatria from different campus highlighting their self with various ways of cheers. got shark squad, tarantula squad, scorpion squad, lion squad, and etc. on the firstday of event, its kinda rainy that day. we woke up and gathered around 5.30 am and had breakfast very early in the morning. the first event was Extreme Outdoor Quest (EOQ). we are close enough to winning this game but maybe luck is just not on our side yet. that eveening, its the fox haunting event we learned to used the radio amateur. searching through frequencies. legit damn interesting.  on the second day of event ( the real event KKEC),  we woke up early like the otherday to prepare for the Jalan Lasak event. this is what we’ve been waiting for to prove that yesterdays defeat will not undermine our spirit to fight. bak kata adi, “ kekalahan tidak pernah terbayang. lebih baik pulang darah dari gagal di medan tugas. semoga tuhan bersama kita”. this was the quote of the day. it was in malay. our team was leading the way slowly left the other group behind. tghey ran for 3 hours plus but less than for our. we could win the 2nd place but sadly, luck is still not on our side. we got defeated because of the penalty (adding 30 minutes) because one of us couldn’t finish the race. he pushed his self so hard until he faint. but still we are proud of him on his effort. and because we did not bring our own pasir to isi in that bag pasir. so yeah. hoho. that evening we played netball/futsal. netball- we didn’t lose, we got seri 2-2 to pahang. so the first scorer (pahang) win the game. we had a lot of fun tho. on that night, Tempur Tanpa Senjata was held. TTS. it was one of our chances to win top 3 but yet, luck is just not there yet. we got number four out of 13 battalion.  the third day, last day with events. survival skill. due to a lot of unexpacing challenges and result. some of us felt down but more of us dose not giving up for the last hope of getting a medal. al last, we managed to get 2nd place for survival skill with the record of time 1hour 15 minutes (plus minus). Alhamdulillah. somehow the only medal brings a lot of joy and happiness to us. that evening, we were heading to lendu for the closing ceremony. from an ordinary night, it turns out lit with miracles and the noises of cheers. after all the ups and downs. patient waiting, and hustling for top three in every events but only managed to get one, we got the forth place over 13 battalions. how incredible is that. we thought of losing on number maybe 8 or 10 but yes, God plans are truly amazing and unpredictable.Alhamdulillah for an amazing, satisfying night. on that night, the whole hall was singing to the song bintang emas lead by cik adi, it was just amazing how we could be one just by doing things like this. miracle do exist and God surely the best planners of all. Allah.  13 Battalion, 12 states, 1 goals. KKEC MELAKA was a fun hella of ride.

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The Stranger by Kiersten Modglin

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