In Europe yesterday and today matches in the championleague have been played. Ajax Amsterdam lost it's game against Arsenal (0-1) and PSV Eindhoven lost against Juventus (0-1)
the dude was here too
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
October 2 2004 Anti-Balkenende demonstration Amsterdam
On October 2 I gonna march in Amsterdam against the policy of this cabinet.
Everything is being downsized, even against economic principles.
Bad mistakes are being made time and time again. Also on local scale millions are wasted by lack of integrity.
And this government is the worst unreliable government.
I'll protest.
the dude was here too
Everything is being downsized, even against economic principles.
Bad mistakes are being made time and time again. Also on local scale millions are wasted by lack of integrity.
And this government is the worst unreliable government.
I'll protest.
the dude was here too
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Kiruna, Sweden will be rebuild somewhere else
This morning I heard the news that Kiruna will be rebuild somewhere else. The mine might damage the town of 25.000 inhabitants. Cracks in the ground might damage the people living in it. This summer I was in Kiruna and in the mine. The guide there told that the plan was made that around in 2006 the decision has to be made whether to go on with mining or to stop.
Well, the board has made it's decision I think. Break down the whole city for 1.2 billion Euro's is cheaper than leaving the iron ore into the ground. There is plenty to go on mining for decades. LKAB mining company has a large net-profit so they can affort it.
Well, the board has made it's decision I think. Break down the whole city for 1.2 billion Euro's is cheaper than leaving the iron ore into the ground. There is plenty to go on mining for decades. LKAB mining company has a large net-profit so they can affort it.
Monday, September 13, 2004
Baking a cake.....to live or to die.
I'm baking a cake.. maybe there are better things to do, but I'm baking a cake. Just an ordinary one with butter, eggs, flour and a bit vanilla sucre. It's gonna be delicious. Especially the mixture of the ingredients are tasty. As a child when my mum baked a cake I was always there before the she put the mix into the furnace. But that's a long time ago.
It's psygology of the mind, tastes and smells which remember you of the past. I have the same feeling when I drive along an old farm where the cows are in the meadow and you can grasp a smell of those animals, the dried grass in the farmhouse or the peculiair smell of grass stored outside under 2 feet of soil. It's not dried and the juicy smell brings me back to my youth when I was 11, 12 years old. My memory drift back to the past and goes back to the future. Good and bad times. The silent crash of the world stockmarkets, the 9-11 disaster, the tension in the world, the wars (war on drugs, on terror, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia, Sudan, Serbia-Montenegro, Iran-Iraq, football: Holland-Germany, the Brussels Heizeldrama (anybody remember?)you name it.)
And now the rival ban in the USA is no longer in power America will be a battlefield too. It'll be shoot to kill. To gun or to be gunned = to live or to die.
Always remember, the dude was here too and he's on your side.
It's psygology of the mind, tastes and smells which remember you of the past. I have the same feeling when I drive along an old farm where the cows are in the meadow and you can grasp a smell of those animals, the dried grass in the farmhouse or the peculiair smell of grass stored outside under 2 feet of soil. It's not dried and the juicy smell brings me back to my youth when I was 11, 12 years old. My memory drift back to the past and goes back to the future. Good and bad times. The silent crash of the world stockmarkets, the 9-11 disaster, the tension in the world, the wars (war on drugs, on terror, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia, Sudan, Serbia-Montenegro, Iran-Iraq, football: Holland-Germany, the Brussels Heizeldrama (anybody remember?)you name it.)
And now the rival ban in the USA is no longer in power America will be a battlefield too. It'll be shoot to kill. To gun or to be gunned = to live or to die.
Always remember, the dude was here too and he's on your side.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Bad luck today.
Yesterday I moved my furniture in my livingroom a little. Immediately the room looks bigger, space is used more efficicent.
There are some things I wanna do to make the restyling complete. Firstly the curtain on the sunside has to be replaced. It's an old one of my brother. I hung it there almost 2 years ago to have some privacy and it still hangs there. Time for something different.
Also I need a table (breakfast/dinner) Now I've one I made myself 17 years ago. At Ikea (and they are everywhere all over the world, but wether they offer the same I don't know) I saw a Forsby table. It's big (1.80 x 1.00) and robust.
Yeah, that might be something.
After enjoying the space in my livingroom for some hours and drinking a couple of beers I went to bed at half past twelve. Kinda early because Sunday I have to cycle again like friday. Surpricingly it was the same reversed route. In almost 3 hours we did it. My topspeed was 61 kilometers an hour. Total distance 85 kilomters against an average of 28.61 K an hour.
It went all very well however it was the strongest wind we had so far. (Frances!)
After a beer at the cafe where we start and finish I went home. At a moment I approched a junction with a stoppinglight (red of course), a light railroad and motoragent waiting for a stoppinglight. All directions were free, I had sufficient speed but the policeman on the BMW-motor forced me to stop. So I did. I knew that I was wrong and a bill should be the result. However when I stopped the BWM hit my last wheel. The power and weight of the motor were too much so now I've got a bent wheel. The policeman immediately stated that it was his fault and that repair will be payed. He slipped through his break he told me. Well, bad breaks are very dangerous I told him.
The last kilometers of my trip was in a police van. Bad luck today.
the dude was here too
There are some things I wanna do to make the restyling complete. Firstly the curtain on the sunside has to be replaced. It's an old one of my brother. I hung it there almost 2 years ago to have some privacy and it still hangs there. Time for something different.
Also I need a table (breakfast/dinner) Now I've one I made myself 17 years ago. At Ikea (and they are everywhere all over the world, but wether they offer the same I don't know) I saw a Forsby table. It's big (1.80 x 1.00) and robust.
Yeah, that might be something.
After enjoying the space in my livingroom for some hours and drinking a couple of beers I went to bed at half past twelve. Kinda early because Sunday I have to cycle again like friday. Surpricingly it was the same reversed route. In almost 3 hours we did it. My topspeed was 61 kilometers an hour. Total distance 85 kilomters against an average of 28.61 K an hour.
It went all very well however it was the strongest wind we had so far. (Frances!)
After a beer at the cafe where we start and finish I went home. At a moment I approched a junction with a stoppinglight (red of course), a light railroad and motoragent waiting for a stoppinglight. All directions were free, I had sufficient speed but the policeman on the BMW-motor forced me to stop. So I did. I knew that I was wrong and a bill should be the result. However when I stopped the BWM hit my last wheel. The power and weight of the motor were too much so now I've got a bent wheel. The policeman immediately stated that it was his fault and that repair will be payed. He slipped through his break he told me. Well, bad breaks are very dangerous I told him.
The last kilometers of my trip was in a police van. Bad luck today.
the dude was here too
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Cycling after work
Yesterday I finished work at 16:30. At 17:00 I was on my bike dressed in full outfit as if I were gonna attack the Olympic hills in Athens on my way to win a medal.
No, I was on my bike cycling the same route I cycle on Sundays with some other people. But now I did the reverse route. That means first through the heartland of the province of Utrecht to Amerongen. After Amerongen there it becomes a bit hilly and after 40 kilometers it's more difficult than after 25 K. After that hilly stretch of 15 K. I cycled home, to the town of Utrecht. On my way back I had a small break to eat something in a restaurant. At 9 pm I was back home. It was completely dark by then. Totals: trip, 91.39 K, average 27.85 K, cyclingtime 3".16'.56, max. speed 54 K/hr, total distance 26.314 kilometers, total 2004 2604 K.
I really cycled to much cause I worked all that, didn't eat proper food and liquids.
Probably this will be the last time to do this distance after work, it's getting colder and darker. Wintertime is coming.
the dude was here too
No, I was on my bike cycling the same route I cycle on Sundays with some other people. But now I did the reverse route. That means first through the heartland of the province of Utrecht to Amerongen. After Amerongen there it becomes a bit hilly and after 40 kilometers it's more difficult than after 25 K. After that hilly stretch of 15 K. I cycled home, to the town of Utrecht. On my way back I had a small break to eat something in a restaurant. At 9 pm I was back home. It was completely dark by then. Totals: trip, 91.39 K, average 27.85 K, cyclingtime 3".16'.56, max. speed 54 K/hr, total distance 26.314 kilometers, total 2004 2604 K.
I really cycled to much cause I worked all that, didn't eat proper food and liquids.
Probably this will be the last time to do this distance after work, it's getting colder and darker. Wintertime is coming.
the dude was here too
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Wendy's Pointless Chatter
Wendy's Pointless Chatter
Wendy is a girl Sarah knows from -I don't know- but she has a different Blog.. Also put to my webblog.
Remember to inform me for your own special webblog.
Wendy is a girl Sarah knows from -I don't know- but she has a different Blog.. Also put to my webblog.
Remember to inform me for your own special webblog.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Emailaddress and some more
Tomorrow I'll have some talks with my bank. They made a proposal about how to invest.
If you know that I'm an European guy you should know that I avoid risks as much as possible. Now my financial and social position is so much more stable than in the last few years I should re-shift my stocks, bonds, financial funds and foreign money.
The situation now should change but the proposal the bank made is not what I want. I have to tell them that and hopefully the account manager and analyst understand my feelings and situation.
When people get older often they take less risks.
So am I.
If you know that I'm an European guy you should know that I avoid risks as much as possible. Now my financial and social position is so much more stable than in the last few years I should re-shift my stocks, bonds, financial funds and foreign money.
The situation now should change but the proposal the bank made is not what I want. I have to tell them that and hopefully the account manager and analyst understand my feelings and situation.
When people get older often they take less risks.
So am I.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Work
Well my first day at the office again. And so many fresh faces again. Everyone wanted to know about my break. (No not everyone but many colleges) Also I'm asked to play volleyball next month in a little tournament (I can hear my fingers break!!!) I said yes I'll do it.
And an other cyclist in the office was also back from a fortnight in Great-Britain. He cycled from Lands End to the most northern point of the Island. It was appr. 1700 kilometers he said.
Also my break was a success. Both weather and cycling were beautiful. I already wrote about Friday September 3rd, the 218 K. Monday the 6th I completed the break with a 26 kilometers in a part of my hometown which is partly new to me. And I live only 5 to 10 kilometers away. Look at utrecht.nl
the dude was here too
And an other cyclist in the office was also back from a fortnight in Great-Britain. He cycled from Lands End to the most northern point of the Island. It was appr. 1700 kilometers he said.
Also my break was a success. Both weather and cycling were beautiful. I already wrote about Friday September 3rd, the 218 K. Monday the 6th I completed the break with a 26 kilometers in a part of my hometown which is partly new to me. And I live only 5 to 10 kilometers away. Look at utrecht.nl
the dude was here too
Monday, September 06, 2004
welkom @ hoorspel het bureau
radioplay -the office-
-Het bureau- (translated in english -the office-) is a radioplay of appr. 15 minutes in which the book with the same title is being told by several Dutch actors and actresses.
-Het bureau- (translated in english -the office-) is a radioplay of appr. 15 minutes in which the book with the same title is being told by several Dutch actors and actresses.
Holiday, bloodshed, tears, panic, a wrong reaction and a dead comedian
Hello, today is the last day of my short holiday. I'm glad that I said to my colleague, who wanted to paint the outside of his house and needed also some dry days that I wanted to have a break for a few days. I said it really a month ago. So I don't feel guilty about it. When there were signs of a warm period (25 degrees C) I made plans of a cycle tour. So in total I cycled 218 kilometers in one day, 88 K with the Ledig Erf-cyclists and today I'll cycle a short distance. But the totals aren't bad at all: yesterday 88.18 K in 3:01:16 Hr, average 29.19 kilometers an hour, maximum speed 52 K/hour, distance so far 26.195 K of which in 2004 2486 K
Friday 3 September when I was cycling for nine a halve hour, something horrible happened in Russia. Some lunatic, fundamentalist extremists who earlier on took control over a complete school (the 1st day of the new scholastic year when all the teachers, staff, students (of very young age) and family were together). The extremist hostagetakers controlled the school, but didn't really control the situation. It was an assault on harmless youngsters and the adult people at the school. It was suicide and murder. More than 700 people the killed or wounded. This doesn't make sense.
I think that the people who did this don't fight for a free Tjsetsjenia (or whatever they call it). If they are linked to the Taliban they know that teaching is very important, Taliban started to teach. Now we know they teach hate. And that no good in the long run. 600 years from now people will still feel the pain, in a different way. This won't end.
And then the reaction of the Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs, who is at this moment also the European Minister of FA (is that true?). In his reaction to Putin he asked, he wanted an explanation why there were so many casualties.
That was one step to far for the Dutch minister. He made a comment that those words were not written. In my opinion he should sympathize with the whole damned situation, with the victims and relatives, no matter if the Russian state is responsible also for the outcome of the hostage-taking.
But also a couple of day's ago a famous Dutch singer/songwriter died. Bram Vermeulen was a good one, with enormous number of songs.... Many of them are real good.. However I don't know him very well... When I read the newstag on screen I couldn't believe it. He was only 57 and died of a heartattack on vacation in Italy.
But everybody has to face his final destination, how horrifying it may be. (remember the kids in Russia. No not a good comparison really).
"Er is een deel van mij
In de Ardennen blijven steken
Een ander deel
Ligt in Italie aan zee
Weer een ander deel
Is in les Landes gebleven
Ik neem steeds minder
Van mijzelf nog mee"
Bram Vermeulen in -Verlangen-
I also heard an interview with Bram Vermeulen in which he told about the death of his mother and the way he found her after 2 days. He found her lying on the ground and he felt that everything came together. His 98 year old mother became a Greek goddess of long ago. Everything that characterizes a woman came together. Strength, sacrificing, warmth. But now he's also cold.
The older I am, the colder I get and "I take less of myself with me. I leave it behind."
the dude was here too
Friday 3 September when I was cycling for nine a halve hour, something horrible happened in Russia. Some lunatic, fundamentalist extremists who earlier on took control over a complete school (the 1st day of the new scholastic year when all the teachers, staff, students (of very young age) and family were together). The extremist hostagetakers controlled the school, but didn't really control the situation. It was an assault on harmless youngsters and the adult people at the school. It was suicide and murder. More than 700 people the killed or wounded. This doesn't make sense.
I think that the people who did this don't fight for a free Tjsetsjenia (or whatever they call it). If they are linked to the Taliban they know that teaching is very important, Taliban started to teach. Now we know they teach hate. And that no good in the long run. 600 years from now people will still feel the pain, in a different way. This won't end.
And then the reaction of the Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs, who is at this moment also the European Minister of FA (is that true?). In his reaction to Putin he asked, he wanted an explanation why there were so many casualties.
That was one step to far for the Dutch minister. He made a comment that those words were not written. In my opinion he should sympathize with the whole damned situation, with the victims and relatives, no matter if the Russian state is responsible also for the outcome of the hostage-taking.
But also a couple of day's ago a famous Dutch singer/songwriter died. Bram Vermeulen was a good one, with enormous number of songs.... Many of them are real good.. However I don't know him very well... When I read the newstag on screen I couldn't believe it. He was only 57 and died of a heartattack on vacation in Italy.
But everybody has to face his final destination, how horrifying it may be. (remember the kids in Russia. No not a good comparison really).
"Er is een deel van mij
In de Ardennen blijven steken
Een ander deel
Ligt in Italie aan zee
Weer een ander deel
Is in les Landes gebleven
Ik neem steeds minder
Van mijzelf nog mee"
Bram Vermeulen in -Verlangen-
I also heard an interview with Bram Vermeulen in which he told about the death of his mother and the way he found her after 2 days. He found her lying on the ground and he felt that everything came together. His 98 year old mother became a Greek goddess of long ago. Everything that characterizes a woman came together. Strength, sacrificing, warmth. But now he's also cold.
The older I am, the colder I get and "I take less of myself with me. I leave it behind."
the dude was here too
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