Lol, this is one funny car advertisement… Turn on your speakers though or you’ll miss the joke. :)
Here’s the link: Funny Car Advertisement
Btw… does anybody know how to make the link such that the browser automatically plays the file and not just asks to download it? Hmm… it seems to work in IE, but not […]

Well… What can I say? I studied about 50 hours for this, but it wasn’t enough. Firstly I didn’t study the last 2 chapters, which was fine actually since I could have made it if I knew the other chapters well enough.
However, what our teacher told us in the beginning turned out to be right. […]

**sigh**… bah… don’t know what to do… I think I overworked myself the last five days and especially yesterday. I studied on average more than 7 hours every day the last five days and yesterday I even managed 9 hours. But today…
**sigh** I can’t force myself to do anything but mindless reading of my Quantum […]

Mom… I really really really, really need that haircut… My hair’s driving me crazy these days. Way too long. I almost can’t see my books anymore because of the hair before my eyes… Yuck. Ok, I’m exaggerating, but still :P…
(Don’t ask me why I picked that particular picture…)

Good news, fellah’s :). Annemarie came home with some great news today. I got an eight (on 10, duh) for my exam Galaxies from the end of May. So that was very nice to hear.
I’m now studying for my exam Quantum Mechanics 2 from next Thursday. It’s going pretty well, but I’m quite regularly stuck […]

I got myself a job today! I’m going to work in a Belgian chocolate factory called IBC in July :D. I’m not sure what exactly I’m going to do, but apparently I’m going to be at the computer control of the production or something… Next Friday I’m going to pass by to present myself and […]

Only one movie last week… I watched it yesterday with Desiree and her boy friend ‘Mouse’.
West Side Story is a 1961 musical about a boy and a girl from two different ‘gangs’ falling in love. This pretty ’sticky’ 20th century version of Romeo and Juliet, surprisingly uses the modern 2.35:1 screen ratio. In the mean […]

Yipieeeeeeeee!!! The poster for our research project is finished!
After a talk with our supervisor last Monday we decided not to do any photometry, so we stuck with the astrometry, and that was a wise decision I think. Now we could fully focus on the poster and make it something worthy and it’s also buying us […]

We’re virtually done with the astrometry on the asteroid 2005HN3. The poster of our research project has to be finished on Wednesday though, so we’re going to have to rush to be able to finish the photometry. I’m going to talk to my supervisor first thing in the morning to ask for his opinion as […]

What can I say? This is just unbelievable… The Formula 1 grand prix in Indianapolis in the United States started today with 6, I repeat, 6 cars… The fourteen other race cars, all driving on Michelin tyres all retired from the race by only driving the formation lap and not even doing the race start. […]

It was hot and sunny today with a little breeze… Much better than yesterday for the barbecue. I went out a few hours this afternoon to take some pictures. I went to town first to get three rolls of slide film.
After that I put my bike somewhere and I went to the center where the […]

Oh boy, that was fun :). We had a barbecue yesterday with Menno, our housemate that left us almost three months ago to live with his girl friend. The people present were Menno, Maaike (his girl friend), Femke, Bas, Deirdre, Annemarie, Saskia, Jeroen (Saskia’s boy friend), Desiree and me. So everybody except Marijn was there […]

**sigh**… I haven’t followed everything closely concerning the European Consitution, the referenda and now the financial troubles, but it’s pretty clear from everything I see on the internet and the news that it’s not going well with Europe. It seems that the addition of the new countries to the European Union hasn’t done us that […]

A few days ago I heard that one of my friends is pregnant again :). Too bad I probably won’t see the little baby boy or girl with my own eyes any time soon (if at all), but I’m hoping the best for her! In case you ever read this:… Remember my poem… :)… Take […]

Since I watch quite a lot of movies these days (I just love my screen :P), I thought I’d better put all my movie reviews in one post and post them weekly ;). So here goes… The movies I watched since my last movie post are In America, Amélie, Der Untergang (Downfall) and La Vita […]

Yesterday I went to Ghent with my mom and my sister to visit Marjolein and Danny and their 3-year-old daughter Hanelore. They moved from Belgium to Australia two years ago, so I hadn’t seen them in a while. And moreover, I had never seen their daughter before in real life. She’s sooooooooo cute :P.
It’s weird […]

Finally… it had been a while since Michael Schumacher (or any Ferrari) had been on the front row in qualifying. It was about time… Ferrari has been doing really bad this year in Formula 1, and since I’m a Ferrari fanatic, I was hoping that’d change soon, so… I’m hoping we might even get a […]

Last Wednesday we had some kind of spontaneous house dinner accompanied with a movie. Well, it wasn’t completely spontaneous, the movie had been planned, but I didn’t expect to be having dinner with five people (Annemarie, her boy friend Egbert, Femke, Saskia and me).
We also ‘borrowed’ the room of the new housemate who hasn’t moved […]

Heh… I was messaged on MSN yesterday evening by my ex-girl-friend. We first updated each other a bit on our latest news bulletins and gossip ;)… And at the end of our conversation she said this:
My friend: Shall we meet up some time in the summer holiday then? My thesis is about the feeling of […]

I just received the result of Project 3 of my class Astromonical Practicum 2 (SP2). I got a 7.5/10 for it. I got an 8/10 for Project 2 and I passed Project 1 (the only possible results for Project 1 were ‘passed’ or ‘not passed’).
Bearing the weights in mind of each of the project […]

I got a present from my housemate Annemarie this evening… When she stood in my doorway saying she had a gift for me I looked at her as if she was speaking Chinese… Why on earth would you buy me a gift??? Apparently she and her boy friend really enjoyed watching Eternal Sunshine of the […]

I was just looking online for more info about the cops at university this evening I wrote about in my last post Suspiciously Many Cops… And I found the cause in this article on a news site about Leiden: Studente verkracht in Gorlaeus Lab :|…
At 5.10pm a 30-year old female student was raped in one […]

Hmm… When I went home today at 6.30pm from university, I passed by the Gorlaeus Laboratory, and there were five police cars there… Some cops were standing outside the building talking with people. And there were quite some more people than there usually are at this time of the year… And to my astonishment… When […]

In response to my Can You Care Too Much? post of two weeks ago, I can say that I was a little surprised two days ago when the friend I had had a fall out with, messaged me. I hadn’t expected her to message me before I would’ve messaged her, as I thought she was […]

Apart from Out of Africa I watched four other movies the last two weeks: Platoon, Rocky, The Incredibles, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Platoon is a 1986 movie about a ‘platoon’ (’peloton’ in Dutch) in the Vietnam war. It’s nothing incredibly special, but it gives a good view of the soldier’s real lives in […]

Congratulations Justine Henin :). I hope you’ll forgive me for taking a picture from you at the airport in April ;). But that was one dominating match against Mary Pierce… 6-1 and 6-1… My best wishes for your 5th 4th grand slam title! You’ve been doing a great job at keeping the Belgian honor high.
Poor […]

Woaaahh, don’t you love thunderstorms?… An hour ago I saw some incredible clouds while I was sitting in the car with Marijn. Dark thunder clouds with immensely contrasty features. If I’d have had my camera I would’ve taken a few shots :). Looked really impressive, never seen anything like it.
Unfortunately I have heard only a […]

I said goodbye from S3D yesterday for good now…
I really enjoyed the two years that I’ve been there, I never played that much, but I have always enjoyed the community, getting new friends, helping people out etc. and I hope I made a difference. But the last half year or something like that, my love […]

Here’s a poem I wrote earlier today in Dutch. Check an English translation by clicking the ‘Reveal the rest of this post…’ link at the bottom.
Een warme lentedag
een stralend blauwe hemel, van alle wit ontdaan
een zuchtje wind, ritselend door het gebladerte
een zalig gevoel…
kwetterende vogeltjes, zich onbewust van onze aanwezigheid
je verwarmende glimlach, bij het zien van […]

My goodness… I’ve never been at university this long… It’s 8pm now and I’m still here :|… I came to uni around noon, started working at 1pm, went to a colloquium about the OWL (OverWhelmingly Large telescope, 100 meter diameter) at 4pm and continued working at 5pm till now, and I’m still busy :P.
If you […]

What I’m working on at the moment for my Research Project with Annemarie is astrometry. This means we’re trying to determing where exactly our asteroid was on the sky at the time of the observation.
To do this we need to determine which stars on our pictures are which stars in the online databases and using […]

Yesterday evening I watched one of the movies that was next on my list of to-see-movies was Out Of Africa. A 1985 movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redfort about a Danish woman moving to Africa with her husband in 1913 to see a bit more of the world. Three things that make the movie […]