Saw Muse play in Den Bosch. Brilliant light-show, good show, sadly they didn't play any Showbiz-songs though. Still had loads of fun. Got stuck in a traffic jam on the way back home, traffic jams at 11pm, WTF?

Worked in Brussels, drove back, felt tired.

Slept, went to the Finnish church to buy flour (don't ask me, ask girlfriend), did some grocery and tea-shopping (bought 3 new teas, *yay!*) And then realised that I wanted to buy a photo-printer. Have been considering which printer to buy ever since. (Some choices are just too hard )

Then I also need to start saving for Ruben's wedding and there's a whole list of gadgets I need to start buying (on it are guitars, game-consoles, PSPs, LCD tvs) Yep you're right, I appear to have recovered completely from buying this new place.

Road to ruins

Had a primary school reunion, the last one before they tear down the old primary school building. (There goes part of life) Spent evening chatting with various old schoolmates. The main realisation of the day was that I've been blessed with my hair, half the people around were either bald or balding. Should do this reunion stuff more often.

Had an interesting meeting in Rotterdam, then rented some dvds, which I failed to watch because girlfriend was going through a "little mermaid"-phase. Played guitar and tinkered with computer instead.

Urgh!

Had a meeting in Utrecht late in the afternoon, spent 3 hours driving the 60 kms to get back home. I should probably swap the car for a bicycle. In the 'yay!'-department:'Mum and dad fixed the couch!'

Election day, voted in the morning, watched the results come in at night. Guess people'll have a hard time creating a coalition over the next couple of weeks/months.

Girlfriend visited, girlfriend tired. Watched Freek de Jonge's election show on tv. Pretty brilliant but not half as funny as when I saw it in the theater a couple of weeks ago.

Amsterdam

Worked in Amsterdam all day, still weird to be back again. Spent the evening playing guitar, with the amount of practise I've been getting lately, I may become somewhat skilled somewhere in the next 20 years!

Moving

We'll blame the whole vomit-incident on McR's pre-moving stress because today was the day where we moved McR's stuff to his new place. Had loads of fun moving stuff with loads of people. Surprised at how fast we managed to do this moving thing, considering the amount of stuff not yet in boxes when I arrived.

A day spent toilet cleaning.

Woke up to a house smelling faintly of vomit, did quite a bit of hungover mopping, cleaned the toilet once again and left with part of my couch (did I mention yet that it crapped itself again last night?) to show my parents. (As in:"Mum, dad, is broken, please do something about it")


Eventually returned to a place still smelling of vomit and went to take photos with girlfriend. (She needed pictures of inter-cultural signs if I'm not entirely mistaken, if I am then she'll probably correct me in the comments. Eventually got back home and cleaned the toilet
once again, this time using bleach. After this mopped the toilet.

Surprise!

With Nicktor turning 30 next weekend, we obviously needed to do something for his birthday. We had already dropped hints that we were planning something weeks ago so Nicktor was on high alert and was planning on watching his back day and night starting at the day of his birthday and ending once he had spotted our plans.

Unfortunately he had forgotten that we could plan something before his birthday as well. Lured to my place with the excuse of a guy's night out, Nicktor found loads of friends, family and even colleagues drinking cocktails and shouting "Surprise!" at his entrance Check the photos and especially the little film at (Arjan's site) and my photos as well for a quick scoop on what happened.

Had loads of fun with loads of people all night with McR being very enthusiastic about all the different cocktails living in my fridge. Unfortunately eventually these cocktails got a bit too much for him. I found out about this when I went to take a leak and found myself up to my ankles in vomit, surrounded by vomit stained walls. (Apparently hitting these was easier than aiming for the toilet bowl). This did explain the moronically grinning McR outside the loo.

Did some drunken cleaning at 2 in the morning and continued partying. McR passed out with a bucket besides his head and didn't move for most of the night. (Apart from the stretch where we tried piling stuff on top of him)

Bought Metal Gear Solid 3 for my PS2 looks like I'll have some fun with it over the next couple of weeks.

Taught class, had girlfriend over at night.

More traffic jams. Then spent the night trying to figure out how to teach a class tomorrow.

Monday 13th meant traffic jams, loads of them. Took forever to get back to work, then took forever to get back again. Yep, I'm back @ ING.

Saw the Kaiser Chiefs play live in the Melkweg in Amsterdam with girlfriend and McR. Brilliant show, even their opening act was cool. Home late

Somehow managed to leave my carkeys at the counter at the supermarket. Somehow managed to not notice this till 5 hours later. Did I mention that the keys to my house were attached to the car-keys yet?

Borat!

Decided that I wanted to go out and see: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan with girlfriend. Asked Mcr to come along but he said he was busy studying *boring!*. For the third time this week McR picked the wrong activity to do. Saw the most painfully funny film I've seen in a long time. Plenty of:"No, please don't tell me this is happening"-moments but did spend an hour and a half crying with laughter while watching it.

Church

Went to see 'sacred selections' in the Laurens-church in Rotterdam, a project by Matt Stokes, who had Northern Soul, Happy Hardcore and Black Metal transscribed to organ. Once again got dumped by McR, who claimed that his homework was more interesting.

I suspect he was wrong, the crowd was very mixed (from 65+ year old organ-fanatics to leather clad metal-heads) and the performance was pretty cool. On top of that:"Yay! I've finally seen my first organ-concert".

Couch!

After getting back home from Brussels I attempted picking up the fixed couch-part at my parents' place. Failed miserably because my parents had already dropped it off and fixed the couch. Yay! Couch!

Brussels!

Went to Brussels for a change, in the evening ended up having dinner with some Polish colleagues.

Freek

Went to see Freek de Jonge's "de stemming", which was brilliant. Was supposed to go and see it with Martina and McR but in the end McR decided that a basketball meeting was more interesting and sent his dad as a stand in. He was wrong. Martina proved this by locking her key in the house and having McR wait for the locksmith while he was supposed to be at the meeting.

Apparently later on this moment turned out to be the most expensive 10 seconds of McR's life.

Football

Went to see a football-match (Feyenoord-Vitesse) at the local football station for girlfriend's dad's birthday. Feyenoord probably hasn't done worse in the Dutch football-competition in the past 10 years so it proved to be an interesting evening. Fortunately Feyenoord won in the end, had plenty of fun. Had food afterwards, strangely enough.

Oh and girlfriend's sister and her boyfriend announced they're getting married in 2008. Another wedding-party.

Free!

Girlfriend gave me the day off to do whatever I wanted. Shopped for guitars, dropped off the broken part of my couch at mum and dad's place and did some other stuff. Then failed to think up what to do in the evening so I ended up reading a book and playing with my computer. Need to practise this:"Time off"-thing more often.

Spent Thursday night in a hotel in Brussels, had a brilliant Thai Curry in the Thai restaurant round the corner.

On Friday I had planned a test-drive in a Citroen C4 coupé, for some reason some dimwit had decided that because their coupé was out I should go for a drive in the Citroen C4 Picasso instead. Their reasoning:"It's got the same engine." Gaah!

Spent the remainder of the night playing with my dad's new computer.

End of project meeting for my Rabobank project. Went out for food and go-karting, unfortunately the petrol fumes made me feel somewhat sick during the second go-kart lap due to which my laptimes sucked.