Do you collect something? like coins, stamps etc.? Name something that you collect, and perhaps show us some pictures?

Not really. I used to collect Euro coins after they were introduced in 2000. You may or may not know that each country that is part of the Euro Zone has its own set of Euro coins. […]

The late Carl Sagan once asked the following question:
“What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old… an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we […]

If you were to describe yourself using colors, what would we see … and why?

Hmm… I think you’d see lots of green (nature), yellow/orange/red (stars), black (empty space)… That’s not really me, but those are the colours that I see when I listen to entrancing music and everything disappears around me…

What does your ideal (personal) […]

Yesterday we had a very short second meeting about our Bachelor’s Research Project. There’s nothing much that has changed yet, so it only took a few minutes. In the next weeks our supervisor is going to make a website and list some research projects that are available at several staff members.
Me and Wouter (my partner […]

I went to my second volleyball training yesterday :). Femke, my housemate convinced me to play volleyball this year, so I subscribed for a year as a training member. I’m not going to do competition until at least January, as that would mean I’d have to play on Friday night’s as well, and I’m not […]

What is your family like?

Well… My mother is a 51-year old architect, designing and renovating houses for deprived people, rest homes, clinics and protected buildings. My father is a 50-year old clerk in a hospital where he takes care of the people that aren’t paying their bills on time or not at all. My sister […]

You said on your website, that you believe the purpose of this game of life is to have as much enjoyment as possible and to help other people have it too… What is your happiest memory from your whole life?

Well well, you’re not the kind of person to ask easy questions, are you :P? I’ll […]

Flame thrower or water pistol?

Hmm… I think I’d go with the flame thrower… I like fire ;). Just looks way cooler :P.
I mean… see for yourself. Who looks coolest of the two? :P
More questions tomorrow by Dork Queen.

What was your most magical of experiences, by magical I am looking for something which can’t be explained by the laws of physics…

Hmm… I’ve been thinking about your question for a few hours now (not constantly though, I’ll admit ;)), but I haven’t been able to come up with an experience I had that I […]

As those of you who frequent the settlers3d.net site will know, I was nominated as Forum Focus almost two weeks ago on the S3D forum. Being Forum Focus means that people get to ask you a lot of questions and after a few days, you answer all of them. Although I’m not playing games again […]

As expected, I passed my exam of Quantum Mechanics 2 :). I had expected to get a 7/10, and I got a 7.5 for it ;). So the summer did pay off for me… 7/10 for Stars and 7.5/10 for QM2. I’m happy ;).
I also had a talk with my study advisor (not Paul van […]

God, I hate modems… We’ve been having trouble with internet for the past two days now… The DSL connection seems to be fine, but every time I reboot the modem, we can only access the internet for one minute or so… if we’re lucky…
After four calls to my ISP, they’re now going to send a […]

Just found an interesting thingie online. A website on which you can check the countries you visited in your life and which then shows a map of the world with all the countries you visited highlighted.
I’ve visited 13 countries: the United States, Egypt, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and […]

Cool, I just made my Denon DVD player region free. All I had to do was download a file from the internet, burn it on a cd, plug it into my dvd player, have it update the firmware and it was ready to go :). Easy piecy and free ;). Now I can finally watch […]

Thought I’d share some more stuff with you guys about what we did in Paris and in Belgium :). In short I can say I had a very nice time with Susanne :).
She hadn’t told me she had invited friends to join us in Paris, so I was a little surprised to be meeting six […]

Today was Science Day at University. Fourteen faculty members of the astronomy department (also called the ‘Sterrewacht’) did a 20-minute talk about what they are doing at the moment. Purpose of the whole day is to get to know the other staffmembers better and to provide the 3rd year students with a better perspective on […]

Well well… I didn’t expect this… My teacher of Astronomy Lab, asked me a favour… He asked me if I could do a 30-minute talk on October 29th for the Study Festival in Leiden about our trip to La Palma and my research project that went so well afterwards.
The Study Festival apparently is a semi-yearly […]

I forgot my jacket on the train yesterday… A brown/grey Diesel summer jacket. I really liked it, so it’s pretty unfortunate that I left it on the train by accident :(. I called the Antwerp Central Station, but sadly they haven’t found anything yet. So… In case anybody found a brown/grey Diesel jacket on the […]

Well… Susanne should be back in Paris already by now… We had two very nice days, so I’m happy she came :). Saying goodbye is kinda getting easier, but that doesn’t mean I won’t miss her as much of course ;)…
Too bad we didn’t get to go to Bruges, as Susanne’s feet had been suffering […]

Tomorrow’s the day… ;). I’m getting up at around 5.45 am, and I’m leaving at 6.45 am to Lille where I’m gonna take the ‘Train à Grande Vitesse’ to Paris at 8am, where I should arrive at 9.04 am. We arranged a meeting point at 9.45 am around a certain fountain in center Paris, so… […]

Hmm… Terrible storm, terrible flooding, terrible destruction. In a sense I feel guilty for feeling the way I feel, because I don’t really feel sorry. The US is one of the richest countries in the world. I’m sorry, but I don’t feel the need to be generous and supply the US government with money […]

Two days ago I watched the Hotel Rwanda with my mom and sister. It was a really really nice movie. At several points during the movie the tears were close to welling up.
Hotel Rwanda is about the conflict between the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s in the early 90’s. It shows how both parties generate more […]

Okay… We (me and my mom) went to the Ardennes on Monday and Tuesday where we had some great dinners. So I’ve been wondering…
If I can go to 4-star restaurants to have a 50 € dinner, why can’t I have a 50 € breakfast? I mean… We had a great breakfast in the Ardennes, but […]