Eurovision 2015

Hello all

It has begun! The first semi finals were last night. What am I talking about? Well the Eurovision song contest of course! If you have never watched Eurovision you are missing out. It is an unusual part of European culture and opinions are divided, however I personally love it! The countries go all out to stand out, with crazy costumes, props, background dancers, and the music. Sometimes in their native language, which usually sounds weird to anyone that does not speak the language, but it's mostly English. Then after everyone has had their chance to show their act, Europe votes. In the finals, the winner is decide with points. All the European countries can vote for their favourite act, except for their own. They tally up the scores and tadaa a new Eurovision song contest winner!

During the acts they have little films of the country performing next, they focus on one or multiple aspects of the country together with the singer. Then the performance starts, and speaking of performances here are some of the weirdest Eurovision contestants:

Space aliens

Ukraine 2007 - Verka Serduchka

Grannies

Russia 2012 - Members of Buranovskiye Babushki

Bearded ladies

Austria 2014 - Conchita Wurst

Gay vampires

Romania 2013 - Cezar

Gnomes on unicycles

Moldova 2011 - Zdob si Zdub

Even my own country.. what were they thinking?

Indians???

The Netherlands 2012 - Joan Franka

and then we have...

Finland really outdid themselves...

Finland 2006 - Lordi 

The finals are THIS Saturday! Go watch it!

Happy Eurovision,

Anouk

Comic Con London 2015

Hi all!

Here is a post for all you comic lovers out there! The twice yearly MCM London Comic Con is coming up again. For everyone with a passion for all things anime, sci-fi, video games, and more related things, go get yourself a ticket!

The first MCM London Comic Con was in 2002 and it has been a success ever since. Many people go dressed as they're favorite characters, if you do extreme cosplay or just a little bit, it's still great fun to dress up. There are many different stands with movie and TV studios, as well as different comics and characters.
They also have panels where famous actors and voice stars take part in, you can hear your favorite characters talk about your favorite shows, or you can get their autograph and picture taken with them.  On the Saturday there is a panel for BBC's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which will feature Nick Hirshkorn, Toby Haynes, Peter Harness, Bertie Carvel, & Paul Kaye.

You must be thinking, why is FCC blogging about Comic Con? Well, here we all enjoy comics and of course all of the endless cake designs. Now for some of our favorite designs that we made:

Are any of our readers going to MCM London Comic Con? Let us know if you are going to dress up and as who!

Cheers

Anouk.

Another One...

Good morning everyone! My name is Anouk Segers and I will be taking over the Family Cake Company blog till the end of June. So you are stuck with me for a while.

So a bit about me, I’m 19 years of age, I was born on a little island called Aruba, lived there for 14 years. Aruba is everything you would want for your ideal vacation, white sandy beaches, beautiful blue ocean, and its always nice weather. People call me crazy for leaving “paradise” but after a few years it gets (believe it or not) a bit boring. I was ready for a change (as well as the fact that the educational system wasn’t that great in Aruba at the time) and then I moved to the Netherlands (no not Amsterdam). I moved to the “beautiful” city called Eindhoven, where Philips was founded. Actually our football team just won the national competition, so proud. Finished off my secondary education there and now I’m doing my second year of International Business and Management Studies at Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda. They make you do a 6-month internship in a foreign country so that is how I ended up here.

I really love London, it’s a great city and so different from any other city I have ever lived in. Everyone is always busy and you can really notice the fact that 8.3 million people live here, which is like half of the entire population of the Netherlands. Once you do all of the touristy things you start to feel like a real Londoner, even though I’m not really, I like to pretend I am and get annoyed by all the tourists in the underground hehe.

Anyway enough about me, I’m looking forward to gaining more experience at the Family Cake Company, on my first day I got a nice image of the company and the people in it. I will be continuing on where the previous intern left off so no need to worry!

Speak soon!

Anouk Segers