This evening, I was casually browsing some art on deviantart.com, where I’ve been posting my pictures the past half year. When one photograph mentioned the death of a member of deviantART, I became curious. Surfing for more info on his death, I eventually came upon the journal by his life’s partner Wendy who also is […]

This cartoon by xkcd.com really applies to my brain. Unfortunately scientific problems aren’t the only interesting things that distract my mind :|.

@#$&!@)#$!$!@#$!@#$%!!!!! Aarghhhhhhhhhhh!! **steam blowing out of my ears**. I’ve so had it with the Postbank. Incredible. The online banking account of my volleyball club - where I’m treasurer - has been blocked for almost 3 weeks now because of the theft of my bag. I had to block the account because there were some codes […]

They can steal my camera, but they can’t prevent me from buying a new one, and they definitely can’t hold me back from enjoying, editing and publishing my art.
As you may have noticed, I’ve been working on a new gallery system that uses Flash for the eye-candy, but also embeds into my website really well. […]

What should never happen to anybody, just happened to me today. While I was hovering between a state of being awake and being asleep on the train to the Netherlands, some guy took my camera backpack that was sitting in front of me on the other seat and jumped off the train right before it […]

“Take up one idea! Make that idea your life. Think of it. Dream of it. Live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” - Swami Vivekananda
I wish it was that simple […]

You know… being treasurer of my volleyball club is a good thing for a number of reasons. It’s good to learn about how these things work (i.e. how to deal with finances, etc.) and it’s also a good thing for my resume, since this kind of responsibility is highly regarded here in the Netherlands, and […]

For the first time in my life, I’m walking around on crutches… Last night I tore a ligament on the outside of my right ankle while playing volleyball. I didn’t know what happened, but from what my team mates said, apparently someone of the other team landed against my ankle while landing from his attack […]

Here’s a poem by Jacob Trapp that I found to be inspiring…
“To worship is to stand in awe under a heaven of stars,
Before a flower, a leaf in sunlight, or a grain of sand.
To worship is to be silent, receptive, before a tree astir with the wind,
or the passing shadow of a cloud.
To worship is […]

My apologies for the lack of updates on my part… I guess I had gotten a bit bored or whatever, but mostly it’s just because I’ve been pretty busy with exams and my research project. Next Wednesday I have an exam on Physics of Elementary Particles and studying is going pretty well with 24 hours […]

I feel ashamed, hurt, frustrated, ripped-off, dumb, betrayed, angry… Why? Because yesterday somebody shamelessly ripped me off for 65 euros… I had seen an advertisement on a Dutch equivalent of eBay (www.marktplaats.nl) that said they were moving their store so they had spare iPods Nano’s 4GB for 130 euro. That was pretty attractive obviously since […]

Lol, after two weeks I finally found my deodorant stick again. I thought it had been stolen in the sports center (where I play volleybal), but apparently it was just lying behind my recycle bin :D.
So now that I’ve got it back, I’m ready for the ladies again!!! Muahahahaaaa **cough COUGH**

This morning I was supposed to participate in a running contest of 10 km together with a bunch of other people from our volleyball club. Unfortunately I was already ‘out’ before we even started :-S.
When we were riding to the train station on bike this morning the handles of my bike were slippery because of […]

Yesterday I went to Bruges to meet Kerridwen and her hubby Patrick whom I met on settlers3d.net and who live in England at the moment. Today it was Patrick’s birthday and Kerridwen gave him a citytrip to Bruges as a birthday gift. Kerridwen is the girl that introduced me to Unitarian Universalism, so we thought […]

Last weekend we had a ‘Brothers & Sisters’ volleyball tourney in which you could invite brothers and sisters to play a tournament with. Obviously I didn’t invite my sister or she’d have to travel twice 4 hours and pay 30 € to get there, but I played with a housemate and some friends of her.
12 […]

Don’t be scared ;). It’s not that a friend of mine just died or something… I did come across a memorandum a few days ago though of an apparently very active p2p file sharer on fucktheinter.net. Apparently he had died in a car accident, so lots of people from the community were posting ‘Rest In […]

Well well… What a cartoon can’t do, eh? Personally I don’t agree with the protests of the islamitic cultures. If the Koran says that you can’t make a picture of the prophet, then fine. Don’t do it. I am not a muslim though. The laws of the Koran do not apply to me nor to […]

I did some more reading on this and came up with some actual names for my views :)…
I also do not believe in a God that ‘interferes’ or ‘intervenes’ with our world, with this universe we live in. I believe the universe was at one point ’switched on’ by ’something’ based on a set of […]

In response to a discussion topic about ‘Is There No God?’ on the forum of the Church of the Younger Fellowship, which is a Unitarian Universalist spiritual community and worship space designed for UU young adults from all over the world, I wrote the following reply which I thought was quite interesting:

I’m participating in a running competition of 10 km (6.2 miles) on February 12th meaning I have to train a bit. So yesterday evening I thought I’d do some running **rolls eyes**…
I planned to do a 8 km (5.0 miles) session of about 40 minutes. I had never run here in my neighbourhood though so […]

[RANT] I really like my team on the field, they’re fun to play with and I learn a lot from them, but I’m not sure I like them as much off the field…
All they seem to care about is beer, hot chicks and sex. I’m not saying I’m an angel; it’s been ages since I’ve […]

Bah :(… Well… it’s my own fault. I should’ve known better. Last night I had left my bike locked outside in front of our house like I always do, and when I wanted to go to university today I didn’t find the goddamn thing anymore :(.
A few months ago they had stolen my second lock, […]

**sigh**… Things are going great all week, and then tonight all of a sudden I feel miserable :(…
I miss Susanne… She’s so busy the last few months that we’ve barely spoken. And I don’t want to be the only one who’s starting a conversation :(. I wish I knew how to keep our friendship alive […]

“Mens sana in corpore sano”
That’s what Juvenalis said around 100 AD: “A sound mind in a sound body”. Over time, the phrase has come to mean that only a healthy body can produce or sustain a healthy mind. And that’s exactly what I’ve been working on these past months ;).
I started with volleyball late September, […]

This morning I was trying to catch up with Annemarie who had departed earlier to university, so I was riding pretty hard when I came to a crossing where an old lady was crossing with her bike on foot. So I was thinking “Geezzz… Can’t you just ride? I’m in a hurry!” So I slowed […]

Pffft… Had to ride to uni today on my bike in the soaking rain. In ten minutes my rain pants succeeded in soaking the whole of my jeans under it. Aren’t rain pants supposed to keep the water out of my pants? I could just as well have done without them…
Well… that’s one thing on […]

Hi all :) , I guess a lot of you have at one time or another seen the movie called ‘The Matrix’. Released in 1999 it stirred quite a bit of thinking both in myself and others. I was only 14 at the time I saw the movie for the first time, so I […]

(I wrote this post in reply to a post Maija wrote on her blog concerning the Latvian Independence Day and her concerns about young Latvians leaving her country for a ‘better’ future…)
Thank you for the interesting post, Maija :). It’s sad that many Latvian people seem to leave the country for a future they think […]

A few weeks ago I bought two cans of Red Bull. The reason was that we have a course in Stellar Structure and Evolution and I get sooooooooo sleepy in there. The guy teaching it has a very quiet voice, very monotonous, and the classes consist of a Power-Point presentation of 2.5 hours in a […]

www.grotegriepmeting.be
This is a post particularly for Dutch people… In Belgium and the Netherlands for the third time in a row there is an initiative to track influenza (’griep’) from around now till somewhere in April next year. So if you want to help the researchers out in getting a clearer view on how influenza develops […]

The Oldest Creature On Earth
Lol… imagine… blowing out 175 birthday candles on your latest birthday cake. That’s what Harriet is supposed to do today… While my mom is turning 52 today, Harriet is turning a staggering 175… Claimed to be the tortoise that caught Charles Darwin attention in 1835 on the Galapagos Islands, she’s a […]

My current joys:
I bought a new computer last week (more about the specs later), and after about 3 days of assembling and setting up I finally feel satisfied again with the way my hardware and software works and looks. Age of Empires III looks absolutely gorgeous and Cities3D looks awesome as well.
I also finally spoke […]

What the heck? I was riding down a little hill today leaning on the handle bars of my bike (’stuur’ in Dutch), and guess what? The left side of the handle bars started bending and eventually cracked… leaving me with only one bar left :|… I guess I’ll have to get new handle bars tomorrow… […]

To follow up on my last post… Yesterday I went to a Sunday service of the NUUF (Netherlands Unitarian Universalist Fellowship) in Amsterdam. It was the first time in my life that I went to a Sunday service without being forced to by either my parents or (as was mostly the case) my school.
It had […]

Well… I think it’s about time that I tell you guys about something that has been a connecting thread through my life the last five weeks…
About five weeks ago, I was talking with Kerridwen (aka Dork Queen) about Sunday services and my lack of experience with them, etc. At one point she mentioned she was […]

Spoon Theory
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine who has a chronic disease, gave me this link… It’s a story about a young woman with Lupus who is asked by her friend what it feels like to be sick. Startled by the question, she comes up with a ‘Spoon Theory’.
“[…] I explained that the […]

Anybody knows how to get rid of the chewing gum on my shoelaces? I don’t know how, but somehow I ended up with chewing gum on my shoestrings and my pants this weekend. So now it has become very difficult to tie and untie my shoelaces. I’d appreciate any magical solutions ;).

Rioters shoot at police in France
Quite surreal this all seems. It feels more like some riots in North-Ireland or Israel gotten out of hand… Not in a ‘civilized’ country like France… It clearly can happen anywhere :-/…
Apparently there’s a lot of social abuse in the ‘banlieue’ where a lot of deprived foreign people live. […]

After I got home from volleyball tonight, I turned on the screen and noticed my aunt had messaged me saying that I had to call her back IMMEDIATELY because my sister was in the hospital with a possible meningitis. :| So I immediately called her, and she told me that luckily they had found out […]

My dad, my sister and me went to Walibi in Belgium today, one of the major attraction parks in Belgium. The reason for the trip was my Dad’s birthday, not that he desperately wanted to go to Walibi :D, but it was a nice way to spend a day together.
The weather was a bit hesitant […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is quite an interesting weblog about personal development. I got linked to one of its subpages by StumbleUpon! and read the ‘How to become an early riser.’ article.
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” - Aristotle
Pretty interesting! In a pretty long article he advises […]

I just watched a documentary on Belgian television about the young age at which teenagers have sex in the Netherlands and about the influence of all kinds of media and group behaviour on young teenagers.
About 50 group rapes are reported to the police in the Netherlands every year. And that’s just the top of the […]

Okay… A small piece of advice for all the other morons like me in the world… Either don’t sharpen your knives as much as I do -or- don’t walk around swinging with it near your television… It’s probably best to avoid both… **rolls eyes**
I had cut a slice from a sausage a few minutes ago, […]

My dear Americans… I need some comforting… Is it true that it’s impolite in the US to eat with your fork in you left hand? I heard that you guys cut your food with your knife in your right hand, then put down your knife and go on eating with your fork in your right […]

Heh… Guess what I dreamed of tonight… Jack Bauer from the famous TV series ‘24′ wanted me and Susanne to find an asteroid. Some bad guys wanted to prevent this, so we had to hurry…
I guess I’ve been watching ‘24′ a little too much in my study breaks, I’m a little excited about seeing Susanne […]

Yes, yes! Susanne’s going to visit me next September :). Somewhere early September, I’ll be taking the TGV (Train à Grand Vitesse / High Speed Train) to Paris where I’ll meet Susanne and visit the Louvre with her (among other things). She’s in France right now for a festival in Bordeaux, in which she participated […]

What the hell??? I just noticed that somebody stole the U-lock of my bicycle… I hadn’t locked my bicycle with the U-lock as I have another lock which is fixed on my bicycle and which I use when it’s just to park my bicycle in front of the house. I only use the U-lock if […]

I don’t get it… Organizing international help from all over the world with all kinds of fancy stuff costing millions to save 7 people? I remember the Kursk five years ago, but that one had almost twenty times as many people on board… I wonder what they’d do if it were 7 people in Africa […]

Last weekend and the weekend before, I visited three cities: Leiden, Bruges (Brugge) and Mons (Bergen).
We went to Leiden on the 16th to bring some stuff to and back from my room. We ate some pancakes and then went to town to enjoy the morning-afternoon market. Enjoyed one of those nice stroopwafels as usual […]

Bah, after about a year of not having had to vacuum the house, there it was again… I had to vacuum the whole first floor and part of the second.
And I hate vacuuming… Just the sound of the damn thing is so arghhh… And it seems to always deliberately stand in my way, forcing me […]

Last night I had been doing a final spell check on my paper while I was sitting in my bed. Took me about fifty minutes until I almost fell asleep…
And guess what… This morning I woke up dreaming about my two professors, about a new research project, about asteroids breaking up when they get close […]

**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…)

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 […]

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 […]

**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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

For those that are wondering why I came up with these restrictions on my blog, here are the why’s…
My mother and my father had a meeting this week with my father’s lawyer to discuss my progress at university. As you might have read earlier in my blog, my father started a legal procedure to escape […]

Bah, disgusting. If you wanna kill yourself, then please please please just hang yourself or something, instead of causing half an hour to two hour delays for hundreds, maybe even thousands of people in two or three different countries…
And if you do, then at least make sure I can enjoy the show… :|. Ok, I […]

**sigh**. I feel like I’m still a kid, running around the world in oblivious, not knowing how to handle grown up issues.
You know… Sometimes I care too much about my friends, those that have a special place in my heart. When something bad happens or I’m having an issue with a friend, it consumes me […]

Although waking up early works really well for me, today wasn’t going superb. Partly because my computer crashed this morning when I was checking on the times of Formula 1 for today. Blue Screen of Death, registry gone, so I had to recover the registry and all… Took me only 33 minutes to fix it, […]

I woke up this morning at 5.20 am. That’s when I had told my alarm to go off. It took me about 40 minutes to actually get out of bed though :|. You’re probably wondering why on Earth I would get up this early. Well… I study much better when I wake up early. You […]

After finding this one on Settlers I did this Jung Typology Test.
Turns out I’m a Counselor Idealist also known as INFJ (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging).
Introverted: 78%
iNtuitive: 50 %
Feeling: 31 %
Judging: 11 %
Here’s an excerpt of one of the many INFJ descriptions online which describes one of my main characteristics:
But the INFJ is as genuinely warm […]

I confess. I picked up another addiction. For four days after eachother now, I’ve been eating with chopsticks. The upcoming week I’ll do my best to control myself and eat like normal people with fork and knife, but it’s become increasingly difficult and those chopsticks have been looking nicer and nicer, while that fork and […]

Last Sunday evening on Mother’s Day, I went to the cinema in Kortrijk to see Million Dollar Baby. I knew from the oscars and from imdb.com that it was supposed to be a good movie. It won oscars for Best Picture, Best Actress (Hilary Swank), Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman) and Best Director (Clint Eastwood). […]

I had a discussion with Susanne and Paula in New York about this. The question Paula asked me was pretty simple. “Could you have sex with somebody you’re not in love with?” The answer I gave her was pretty simple. Yes. The explanation I gave her for my answer wasn’t that simple, or at least […]

My mom advised me today to go to town to apply for a summer job at one of those ‘interimbureaus’ (You know… those peeps that get you a job). So, obedient as I am, I update my curriculum vitae, print it out and go to town. As I arrive at the place where I had […]

My birthday present for noodle finally arrived today. It’s almost a week late, but well… that’s life isn’t it ;). I’ll just blame the Malaysian post office :D.
Anyway… I gave her a nice card, and a Yankee baseball which I bought in New York. (See on the left ;)) I know, I know… Yankee is […]

Bah, lamers. I went to the photo shop this afternoon only to hear that my pictures weren’t ready yet because of Queen’s Day last Saturday :|. So their lab had been closed and no transports had been done. Your Queen is more important than my pictures??? How dare you !?! :D
Oh well… I can pick […]

Hmm… Well, that’s a first-timer. I woke up this morning realizing I had just been dreaming about FireFox. For some reason I was working on several computers at the same time or on several computers after eachother, and each time I frantically looked for a FireFox browser on it. Sometimes I found it, sometimes I […]

My father started a legal procedure against me and my mom in order to get passed his obligation to pay his share of my study costs and force me to invest in my studies myself. The reason he’s giving is that I don’t fit the normal behaviour of a student and am neglecting my study.
Obviously […]

Bah, I slept 24 hours in the last 2 nights :P.
Three days ago we woke up in La Palma at 1 pm. We drove down to the ocean to watch mother nature, went back up around 4 pm, had dinner and went up the mountain to do observations till 7 am. Then we went back […]

LOL. I just said to my sister: “Hey, wanna see some monopoly money?” and I show her the American dollars I bought yesterday. “Cute, isn’t it? Looks so much like monopoly money.”
My sister replies with a straight almost surprised face:
“Don’t they have Euros over there yet?
Me and my mom started laughing of course… “Euros, Mikal! […]

Woops… I had planned to have paella last night, but when Femke asked me whether I wanted to join her for a bit of running, I said yes, so I went running. Afterwards I recalled I still had a phone call to do, and when I layed down the phone after 1.5 hours, it was […]

And we did another run, me and Femke :). She doesn’t know the distance of what we did this time, but I’m pretty sure we ran faster than last time, as we didn’t have the time now to chat. We just ran :).
It’s really nice you know… I think I miss the exhaustion of when […]

Tonight I have been staying up a bit late (ok, make that ‘very late’, but well… Friday nights are always like that ;)). At around 2 am, Desiree, a housemate of mine, walked up in my room and told me to look out the window. I stood up and looked out of the window, and […]

I just went running with Femke for 38 minutes, after she asked me if I wanted to join her. It was the first time in years that I’ve gone running for the sport of it :). We did 6.4 km (4.0 miles) in 38 minutes which is 10 kph (6.3 mph for the nutty Americans). […]

I hope all of you had a happy Easter weekend :).
I had a nice dinner with Femke on Saturday night and watched Monster on dvd. It’s a movie about ‘the first female serial killer in the United States’, a prostitute who killed 7 of her customers. Good but very hard movie. This is not a […]

Boy, I’m tired… I cleaned dishes and cleaned the kitchen for 2.5 hours today… It was me and a housemate’s turn to clean the kitchen, and last night we had had dinner with 7 people, so it was a total disaster :D… Spaghetti sauce all over the place, pans, pots, forks, knives… Every square inch […]

I just came back from the party I had yesterday with six Belgian friends :). We had been planning to go iceskating at 8 pm, but due to some late schedule changes, that kinda became impossible. Well, who would go iceskating when spring is just breaking through anyway? :)
So, we chatted a bit, and started […]

Now that was a nice day! Two weeks ago it had been -20ºC (-4ºF) in some parts of the Netherlands, now the temperature went over +20ºC (+68ºF)! A difference of 40ºC (72ºF)… that’s the biggest difference for temperatures in March in the Dutch history. I didn’t profit of the good weather too much though.
I had […]

Some of you will have noticed my latest topic on S3D stating that I’m going to stay away from S3D until April 29th, since I’ll need all the time I’ve got to be prepared when I go to New York and La Palma in April.
Hereby I confirm this on my blog, so that the people […]

Boy, I’m proud of myself today :P. I cleaned up my room as I’ve never done before. Even my mom couldn’t do it any better. I cleaned up all the mess, got rid of all the garbage, cleaned my dishes, removed all the dust, vacuumed, reorganized the pictures on my closet, and I hung all […]

You know… There’s something I’ve often been wondering about. Years ago when I was still a little kid, I learned to urinate standing when there wasn’t anything else that I needed to get rid off immediately by the back door. At a certain point however, I was annoyed by the frequent complaints that I supposedly […]

As I told you in my two previous posts, I got my birthday present from Susanne yesterday :). Now you’re all probably extremely curious what they were ;)… So I’ll give in and show you…
First of all, she got me a very nice, black and pretty big mug with a quote on it. The quote […]

The mailman rang the door bell a few hours ago… Had a package for me… Coming from Toronto **grins**. Which means that it’s the belated birthday present from Susanne :). Don’t worry, Susanne ;)… I know you were very busy… **smiles**
She told me not to read what was written on the box, since she had […]

Most of you won’t believe it, but… I got myself a mobile phone! I bought a Siemens C60 from a friend (about which I’ll tell you some time later probably ;)) for 20 euros two weeks ago. Now I finally got myself a SIM card and a PrePaid package. Yesterday afternoon I sent the first […]

I spoke with my housemate when we were riding home after having worked on a project for Astronomical Practicum for 6 hours. And… the thing is… Because I lacked discipline last year, I started lagging behind, and because I’m lagging behind, it’s demotivating, and because it’s demotivating, I can’t get myself to work, and because […]

What to do when your life seems like a chain of disappointments, only rarely broken by something good?
What to do when you lost the purpose in your life?
What to do when the things you’ve always dreamed of, don’t motivate you anymore?
What to do when you know you’ve got the talent to do something, but for […]

Phew… it was a hard day today… I had been on the phone a bit too long yesterday with a friend, and I had to get up early this morning, so I wasn’t in the best state of mind. From 9 am till 11 am classes ‘Galaxies’, which was pretty interesting today, about force fields, […]

How do I see the world?… Difficult question… Let me tell you how I see the universe…
I like to think of the universe as a place governed by the rules of science. I like to think of it as a game, the game of life. At a certain point in time, something or someone - […]

I had a nice evening today :). With four housemates (Boefje, Dees, Sas and Deirdre) we made tapas for dinner. Several kinds of nice spanish looking things… mmmmmmmmmmmm… Delicious… It didn’t look as good as in the picture on the right though :P. For once we ate in the kitchen where we put a few […]

I was watching a dvd of one of my favourite tv series (Flemish police series) yesterday in my study breaks, and at one point the police chief - or whatever you call it in English - was arguing with his employees, and suddenly I heard a funny noize, as if a cell phone with a […]

Thursday afternoon… I read an email from my local gaming club in the Netherlands. “Who will be picking up who for the LAN party this Saturday?”… Wtf??? LAN party? Oh shit… I had completely forgotten abou that :-S. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem, but I had promised my sister and my mom more than […]

**grins**
I knew it…
“Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe.
Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.
A Kingston University study discovered the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions […]