This is the story of Molly's admirer. My real name is Wouter Servaas. To be honest, I do have a nickname but I never use it.
But when you see the name Sunny Dreamair, don't worry, that's just me. When I made my first
appearance at the Comment Board
I used my real name and I decided to leave it that way.
Born on July 21st 1978 in a little city in the south of the Netherlands I
had a quiet youth,
with both my parents, two brothers
and a lot of dogs at home (nice Volvo isn't it?). It was only disturbed by having Perthes-disease
Fortunately I was cured after a year and now...
I'm more alive than ever!
Education
From the first day I entered school I was a bit pedant
and stubborn from time to time. Until now it took me to the University of
Utrecht but that wasn't easy.
I failed in my first year of Physical Geography. I really liked that study
but I was no good for it. As result I switched to Cultural Anthropology.
It took me 8 months to find out what I was able of to do and I feel great
here as a coming up Anthropologist.
Gala night on the eve of university
What I like to do, to see
Playing my violincello (I'm the one in the white-green shirt).
I took my first lesson in 1990 and still I'm not done with it. In general I play in an amateur orchestra,
it's so relaxing!
Belgium: I don't know why, but there's something in Belgium I really like,
more than my own country. I don't want to insult anybody, but the Belgians are more critical
about themselves than the Dutch are. The Dutch just 'know' they'll do everything well and they aren't that critical about
themselves as they should be.
Beside the Belgian people I also like their country as it is, it has more hills and mountains than
the Netherlands. But well, I can life in both countries. Just, if I had to make a choise...
Perhaps the fact I'm born on the Belgian national holiday might explain it. In Utrecht I always watch the Belgian news because
of their weatherreports. Usually that's what I can expect in Utrecht.
Cycling: In the summer of 2000 I had my first cycling-holiday, I went to
England and Wales. It was freedom all over me, nothing to think about. I
need that so now and then.
Travelling: I want to see the entire world, meeting other people and other
cultures. The only thing that prevents me of travelling is a lack of
financial support...
Reading: When I have time for it beside the study I like to read books like
travelling stories, detectives, comics (Asterix the Gaul) but also the
more sophisticated works like that of e.g. Dostojevski.
TaleSpin is a relative new favorite item in my life. Already as a child
I liked to watch Disneyfilms. My favorites were "Robin Hood", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians"
and "The Rescuers Down Under."
I know TaleSpin only since May 2000! Just back at my room, exhausted as I was
after a long day hard studying, I switched my TV on and I fell in the begintune
of "It Came From Beneath The Sea Duck". Talking about coincidence right?
From the first moment I was touched by Kit and especially Molly, while Molly could be pedant:
"Now it's time for my afternoon sleep." Note: I only saw the Dutch spoken version
of that episode but those who are familiar TaleSpin know which passage I'm talking about...You
do, right?
What happened to Kit in "It Came From Beneath The Sea Duck" could also happen to me. Just like
Kit I have my moments that I know exactly what to do and the next moment I've to run to
overtake reality and clean the mess. So first you've the world under control and the next moment
you're running to catch a cart to save Molly...
From what I've seen of TaleSpin is "Her Chance To Dream" one of my favorites. Rebecca's search
for romance got around me. By the time she had to make a choice, chosing to stay
with her daughter, I melted.
A last thing I've to admit: I prefer B&B over K&K, since Kit joined Higher For Hire he only
got better and better.
Done, Not Done, And Qualities Of Character
My roommates and family will have noticed it already: I like to tell everybody about TaleSpin,
even passengers next to me in the train won't be spared. Sorry for that. If you start to
talk to me and I don't like the subject I'll try to change it. I don't care if people say
I'm crazy, obsessed or both. I already know I am, but what's 'normal' anyway?
I'm too much attached to perfection and that caused a lack of selfconfidence. Just trying
to get rid of it.
I like to sing but I'll never sing under the shower: terrible acoustics and everybody
hates it
Also not done: I'm still single while all my friends have their own special
person in their life. It makes me feel terrible lonely now and then.
And finally something "well done": It's only 50 miles from Uden, my parents' town to Utrecht.
Despite that distance I'm living on my own (in a house with nine other students),
I just don't want to get up every day at 5.30am to be in college by 9.00am.
Public transport you know, two bus rides and two or three trains.
Living on your own means you've to make diner yourself (help!). As an anthropologist
I like to eat "exotic", so I've developed a preference to make African diners, no grasshoppers
or something like that, but some variations on rice and pineapple like
Kuku na nazi. Have diner with me and you'll always eat something special!
Music
To quote John Miles: "Music was my first love." Without music I really get insane.
What music I like to hear at a certain moment depends on my mood at that moment. While studying
for examinations I listen to classic music, especially what I've played with the orchestra
: Holst, Dvorak...
In general my musical interest covers the 1960s to the 1990s (from Jaques Brel to Manau, English
French, some Dutch). Of the pre-1980s music I want to mention John Denver.
His music is plain but so beautiful. Maybe Kit would fly with Denver's lyrics:
"I'll be leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again..."
I have a personal emphasis on the 1980s. I just love the 80s: A-Ha ("Taaakkkee
ooonnn mmmeee...Take-on-me!") Sting, The Scorpions, Opus, U2, Men At Work
(Down Under: "Do you speaky my language?")
and I could go one like this for a while.
Film
When I look at movies that aren't made by Disney I can say I was overwhelmed by
"Léon" and "La Vita é Bella." I enjoyed "Bright Lights Big City" (also because of the musical
impressions) "Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert," "Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves" and "The Crying
Game." I don't like Westerns, it the same old
cowboy-versus-indian-story all over again and I don't like that kind of
"black&white-vision."
TV
X-files, Seinfeld, Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, Friends, Inspector Morse, Unit 13,
Heterdaad (Catch Red-Handed) and
De Geheime Dienst (The Secret Services) are series
I don't want to miss. In the last few years I got enough of most Dutch comedies, I
don't like that kind of humour anymore I think. One exception: "Toen was geluk
heel gewoon" (Luck was common in those days), it's about Rotterdam in the 1960s.
What I would wish if I had three wishes to make
One of my wishes was to getto the other side of the Atlantic one day. Well, in 2002
I spend 4 months at Brock University in St. Catharines,
Canada. So, this wish has come true. It was a nice stay there. Canada got me and as soon as
I've a chance to go back, I will!
Therefore, another wish: if I ever become a father, let it be then of a girl like Molly. I know, the
worst horror possible for K&K-fans!
Flying an airplane by myself to show others I'm not afraid of heights.
Talking with my late-grandmother, telling her I'm okay now, that she doesn't
have to worry about my study. She died while I didn't know if I should
go on with Physical Geography, or if it was better to switch to Cultural Anthropology.
I don't have really ideals but I do have a motto. I know I can't change the world.
All I want is everybody respects other like the way they are. After all,
if you say I'm insane, what does that say about you? Who can tell me what "behaving
normal" is? And now the motto:
Sometimes You've To Step Back To Jump Forward.
Okay, if you've read this all, the least I can do is admire you for that. Now go on and get
to the really interesting parts of this site.
