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kungshamra71

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  1. Wow!
    kungshamra71 got a reaction from heywoodu in Totallympics International Song Contest Discussion   
    Sad day to TISC. Today one of the Portuguese  participants in the TISC 2019 edition (Sara Carreira) died in a car crash, with only 21 years old.
     
    This was her contest entry: 
     

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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from rybak in Totallympics International Song Contest Discussion   
    Sad day to TISC. Today one of the Portuguese  participants in the TISC 2019 edition (Sara Carreira) died in a car crash, with only 21 years old.
     
    This was her contest entry: 
     

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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from Vektor in Totallympics International Song Contest Discussion   
    Sad day to TISC. Today one of the Portuguese  participants in the TISC 2019 edition (Sara Carreira) died in a car crash, with only 21 years old.
     
    This was her contest entry: 
     

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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from Werloc in Totallympics International Song Contest Discussion   
    Sad day to TISC. Today one of the Portuguese  participants in the TISC 2019 edition (Sara Carreira) died in a car crash, with only 21 years old.
     
    This was her contest entry: 
     

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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from Dnl in Totallympics International Song Contest Discussion   
    Sad day to TISC. Today one of the Portuguese  participants in the TISC 2019 edition (Sara Carreira) died in a car crash, with only 21 years old.
     
    This was her contest entry: 
     

  6. Wow!
    kungshamra71 got a reaction from konig in Totallympics International Song Contest Discussion   
    Sad day to TISC. Today one of the Portuguese  participants in the TISC 2019 edition (Sara Carreira) died in a car crash, with only 21 years old.
     
    This was her contest entry: 
     

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    kungshamra71 reacted to Cobi in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Congratulations to the three medal winners!
     
    For Spain, this has been one of the worst results with only 44 points, so the next year I will be back to pop music with the song that I initially thought to enter this year.
     
    P.S. It is very nice to see Portugal in the top20 with a song in Mirandés.
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    kungshamra71 reacted to Yannakis in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    GREECE
     
                                                                                                                        
    Hello fellow Totallympians, this is Greece calling!
     
    Here are the votes of the Greek National Jury:
     
     

    Portugal 10 United States 9 Serbia 8 Canada 7 Netherlands 6 Romania 5 Brazil 4 Egypt 3 Ireland 2 China 1
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from Bohemia in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Thank you! Also, I have not said this before but I loved the French entry, it reminded me of London 2012 olympics, I love the instrumental part of the song
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from brunamoura in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    yeah I meant places like febo and other fries place where they sell... fries. 
     
    which was super hero for me but then I got used and sometimes we get some as fast food.
     
    also I forgot about something really good as well: kapsalon!! So good and SO F*CKING UNHEALTHY! 
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from brunamoura in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    i LOVE erwtensoep! It’s so good and it warms you in the winter, even took my parents to eat some when they came here to visit me, one of my favorite things in the Netherlands (together with kibeling and poffertjes. And stroopwafels. And bitterbollens. And kruidnoten. And ooliebollens. And... I should stop now )
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from heywoodu in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    i LOVE erwtensoep! It’s so good and it warms you in the winter, even took my parents to eat some when they came here to visit me, one of my favorite things in the Netherlands (together with kibeling and poffertjes. And stroopwafels. And bitterbollens. And kruidnoten. And ooliebollens. And... I should stop now )
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from konig in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    This gives more value to me than the points. Thanks!
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    kungshamra71 reacted to konig in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    I dont give points to Portugal but i like the song, always diferent genres coming from Portugal.
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from konig in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    I’m not yet able to post the votes! Also, thanks for any that have any points to Portugal, I see we have a few more now haha
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    kungshamra71 reacted to heywoodu in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Lunch break - Part 2
     
    The second part of our lunch is more straightforward, but definitely not more healthy: kibbeling! If you ever find yourself in the Netherlands, you absolutely do have to try this fried fish, which one can eat as snack or as meal, it really depends on your apetite. Kibbeling used to be made from Atlantic cod, nowadays it's made from all kinds of whitefish, which is cut up in small pieces, battered and then fried, before being served - usually with a garlic or tartar sauce.
     

    In most places, kibbeling will be served in a little snack box like this...take care, the inside is generally rather hot after being fried!
     
    One of the greats of Dutch cabaret will present our next musical item: Wim Sonneveld, star of the mid-20th century. His song 'Het Dorp' ('The Village') wasn't immediately a hit, but it grew into one of the most popular Dutch songs ever, nowadays still reaching high ranks in the annual 'Top 2000', with the 2000 best songs in history according to tens of thousands of voters.

    In the song, Sonneveld sings about how the village he grew up in used to be; a simpler life, the farms and the cattle, the high trees along the path of his father's house, "I was a child and didn't know better than that it'd never end". He goes on saying people were apparently living wrong, the village has been modernized and look how rich life has become: people living in their concrete boxes, with extra big windows so everyone can see your new sofa and big TV.

    It's not meant in a way to say "things were better back then", it's just a bit of personal nostalgia from the singer, something many people can identify with when their home towns change throughout the years.
     

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    kungshamra71 reacted to heywoodu in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Lunch break - Part 1

    And with Slovakia's votes and a bit of a counting issue, we have reached the end of the morning. Canada is still in the lead, with especially Serbia and Malta following close and France having made a very notable move upwards since we had ourselves a coffee or hot chocolate break. Only one nation is left that has yet to get a point...while they wait, we're going on to the first part of lunch!

    Dutch lunch is generally really not very complicated and often the base is quite similar to breakfast. A lot of people simply eat bread during lunch, and that is indeed one of our choices here. The trick is in the topping, which can be something common like cheese or some sort of a meat product, but the black gold of Dutch lunches is nothing less than hagelslag, basically a kind of chocolate sprinkles. In the Netherlands they're not only used as decoration for one thing or another, here one fills a slice of bread with hagelslag and enjoys the pure goodness, which of course comes in a wide variety of chocolate tastes - hint: dark is the best!
     

    A slice of bread with hagelslag, the only right way to cover one's bread with it is to top it off with so much there's barely any bread visible anymore

    Apart from regular bread, we'll be serving a few other kinds of bread to have a bit of variety. There is the delicious 'suikerbrood', translated to 'sugar bread', which is a rather unhealthy but tasty bread people often eat on special ocassions...or just whenever one feels like it. There's small pieces of crystalized sugar inside of it, giving it a nice and sweet crunch. During Christmas there's the 'kerststol' or 'kerstbrood' ('Christmas bread'), which has raisins in it and is filled with a sort of almond paste, which one can smear across the bread. The exact same bread is sold around Easter, when it's called 'paasbrood' ('Easter bread') - the lack of creativity is more than made up for by the taste.
     

    A 'kerststol', the most common thing to top it off with is either powdered sugar or butter

    The musical note for the first part of lunch comes from the city of Nijmegen and the Frank Boeijen Groep, led by Frank Boeijen, famous in the Netherlands. The song is called Kronenburg Park, named after a park in Nijmegen which decades ago was known for it's open prostitution. Boeijen was driving past the park with some friends one night, and saw a woman standing in the light of the headlights. Much to his shock and sadness, he recognized her as a former classmate, who had become a prostitute addicted to heroine. The song is aimed at her, basically telling her to "Leave that world, stop it...at least the heroine." He also gives her a bit of advice that sometimes might still be good today: "And don't ask for directions, because everyone has lost the way."
     

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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from heywoodu in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Usually people prefer to learn Brazilian Portuguese, and for someone who wants to learn portuguese i do think is the best option as it is way easier to understand and speak. They speak with "open mouth" so it's more clear.
     
    "original portuguese" looks like is spoken with closed mouth, so often people just hear "shh shh shh" or similar haha
     
    You can also try the portuguese from our old african colonies, those are cool as well  (angola's sounds funny to me)
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    kungshamra71 reacted to Olympian1010 in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    The only similarity between Egypt and Portugal is that they’re traditional music. Maybe some of the singing is done in a similar gravely voice, but that’s definitely it.
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from dcro in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Interesting to hear that, it means that in your ears medieval European music of celtic roots look somehow similar to Arabic (is it?) music.
     
    it looks nothing similar to me btw haha
     
    but maybe is one of those things like when people that don’t speak neither Russian or Portuguese (from Portugal) say the languages sound similar, while for us they look nothing alike
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    kungshamra71 got a reaction from konig in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Interesting to hear that, it means that in your ears medieval European music of celtic roots look somehow similar to Arabic (is it?) music.
     
    it looks nothing similar to me btw haha
     
    but maybe is one of those things like when people that don’t speak neither Russian or Portuguese (from Portugal) say the languages sound similar, while for us they look nothing alike
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    kungshamra71 reacted to heywoodu in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Morning break
     
    The first of five sessions is already behind us and it's a close race! Canada leads the charge, but Malta and Ireland are close behind, while only three nations are waiting for their first points. Interestingly, already six nations have received a set of 12 points, which promises for a close battle. With that, we take our first break: feel free to grab a cup of coffee or tea, maybe some hot chocolate is more your choice?
     

    We're getting ourselves a nice double shot of hot chocolate with some extra cream!
     
    Early December is closing in, which in the Netherlands means - or at least used to mean - the national celebration of Sinterklaas, a children's party full of festivities, fun and children getting presents. Traditionally these are delivered in a large bag on 5 December, often done by friends or neighbours to make the children think it came from Sinterklaas. A tradition in the days leading up to this is to put a shoe down somewhere in the house, preferrably with a carrot or something for Sinterklaas' horse, and the next morning a small present can be found there!
     

    Sinterklaas on Amerigo, his trusted horse for many years, who sadly passed away aged 30 last year

    Anyhow, there's not only gifts related to Sinterklaas, there's also things to eat! Most notably, the so-called kruidnoten: small, mostly round sort of cookies which are the main thing around the Sinterklaas celebrations - hands full of them are quite literally thrown around for example in classrooms. Beware: a lot of people call them 'pepernoten', for some weird reason. Pepernoten are a very different kind of 'snack' though, they taste entirely different - 10/10 would not recommend. Kruidnoten are made with basically the same ingredients as speculaas, another kind of cookie which comes in all shapes and sizes.
     

    In the middle we see kruidnoten, the regular ones, with chocolate-covered kruidnoten on the right. The ones on the left are 'pepernoten', avoid them, pick the kruidnoten, which by the way are really easy to make yourself!

    As a third option for your snack during this coffee break, there's the stroopwafels - few things are as Dutch as these bits of absolute delight. Basically it's two thin waffles with caramelized syrup in between them, it's magic. Extra magic if one lays a stroopwafel on top of their hot beverage (or a heater) for a little bit, to make the whole thing just a tad softer and even more magical.
     

    The goodness that are stroopwafels
     
    The last option is a simple, yet very much local one: 'Veluwse Zwienenkeutels', basically translated as 'Veluwe boar droppings'. No, they are not actually made up of pig shit, they are delicious soft chocolates with a tasty and of course chocolatey inside, which one can get in plenty of smaller shops around the Veluwe.
     

    A bag with some Zwienenkeutels
     
    Our musical entertainment for this short break comes from the mid-90's, the time in which the so-called Happy Hardcore scene was big in the Netherlands. The nation is represented by a song out of this genre in TOISC 2020 after a long internal battle between Rainbow in the Sky and the 1996 song Have You Ever Been Mellow by the Party Animals, one of the leading groups in the Happy Hardcore era.
     

     
    That's it for the morning break, enjoy what's on offer and we'll be back at 11:00 CET!
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    kungshamra71 reacted to Cobi in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    I was listening to that song during one of the Spanish medals in London 2012. That was a plus 
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    kungshamra71 reacted to Cobi in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    SPAIN
     
     
    Greeting in national language:
    ¡Buenos días desde España! Todo listo para vivir un bonito y emocionante día en compañía de la familia de Totallympics.
     
     
    English translation:
    Good morning from Spain! Everything is ready to share a wonderful and exciting day with the Totallympics community.
     
     

    France 10 Canada 9 Portugal 8 Indonesia 7 Italy 6 Serbia 5 Malta 4 India 3 Croatia 2 Denmark 1
  25. Haha
    kungshamra71 reacted to dcro in Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020   
    Wait, I thought Holland was hosting this?
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