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Category Archives: Life
Let’s Make the Next 5 Years Count for the MDGs
A long time ago, when I was attending the Dutch version of secondary education, I was a delegate to the Model United Nations in The Hague twice. It was a great experience, which I can highly recommend to anyone. Not … Continue reading
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Why Mr Blatter Is Right This Time
The first half of the 2010 World Cup round of 16 match between England and Germany has just ended. And already we can say that this will be a match that will be spoken off in decades to come. Not … Continue reading
An Important Orange Envelope
On June 9th there are parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. It will be an interesting day, and most probably the current Prime Minister will be ousted. Time for a change. From our current home town, Riga, we sent in our … Continue reading
What’s On Your Bucket List?
We just watched this movie. In a word: beautiful. A friend has a 100 things to do list, and every time he strikes something off, he adds something. Just to keep going. I, when I think about it, actually come … Continue reading
Good Luck, Giovanni
Simon Tahamata was my football hero when I was starting to play. The smiling winger of Ajax and the Dutch National, and later Standard Liege, Feyenoord and Germinal Eekeren, was a great and creative player. But not only that, we … Continue reading
There Goes The Knee, Or We Are All Getting Older
Yesterday I went out to play some football. It must have been about ten years ago I did that for the last time, so I was excited. I expected to be in bad shape and rusty, very rusty, but it … Continue reading
Skirt Day 2010
Spring officially starts around the 20th of March (in the northern hemisphere) and has to do with the tilting of the earth’s axis towards the sun, lengthening the days. It is when nature comes back to life after hibernation. In … Continue reading
Stealing Vending Machine
Right. Again I lost a coin to a machine. And it wasn’t even a gambling one. It was one of those regular coffee vending machines you find in office buildings all over the world. One of those machines that give … Continue reading
Twenty Years Ago, Yesterday And Today
Yesterday, 20 years ago, was my 17th birthday. A Saturday that I remember rather well. Maybe even best of all my birthdays. There was, in the early afternoon, some of the family over in the house, and maybe even a … Continue reading
A Trip Down Memory Train
Roosendaal, Lage Zwaluwe, Gilze-Rijen. Dordrecht, Breda, Tilburg. Not to mention all the Belgian small towns and cities. Or the Dutch football stadiums De Kuip and the Fuji Film of respectively Feyenoord and NAC Breda. The journey today takes longer than … Continue reading