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Henri here, Dutch, long black crushed velvet coat, sunglasses, IT-Goth, masters in chemistry, I do Aikido.

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Ah, Psycop costume at the ( Read more... )

So, the holidays were very restful: we didn't do a thing apart from visiting our parents, see a movie, went out for dinner lots of times, had dinner at home together and generally fiddled around.

There was a spot of stress when the student association I run a server for decided to migrate the disks to a new machine (which had my data on it, the ( Read more... )

AIkido Summer School was fab again (apart from discovering just before leaving for home that I'd lost the key to my bike somewhere between arriving at the hostel the previous night and leaving for home. Sensei Piet was very nice in driving me back home with my bike and all my stuff in the back of his car. He borrowed parts 1 and 2 of Robert Jordan' ( Read more... )

In the run up to last weekend I've been stressing a bit. Tuesday morning I had injured my back by sprinting to avoid missing the train and ignoring that my lower back hurt quite a bit. This is now already OK again, but while I was getting over this, I did something weird in a fall in aikido training trying to compensate for my back, resulting in my ( Read more... )

In preparation for things to come, referenced to by my previous post, I now know the following:

• the sunscreen in my bedroom is made out of plastic for a good reason (and not out of aluminium or something): it needs to be bended and wedged into the clasps which are attached to the wooden board that runs along the ceiling. Consequently to get them out ( Read more... )

Last Saturday
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We getting ready to leave here. The plane should depart in about 3 hours, but I had enough time just now (while alexilian is packing her stuff) to upload some of the rest of our pictures (there's still about a week's worth pictures to put up, but I haven't had time to transfer them to my laptop and resize them; I guess there's enough time for that when we' ( Read more... )

... here!

In the meanwhile we:

• visited the Melbourne Aquarium
• had lunch at the Veggie Bar
• Went to Brisbane
• Took a trip on the CityCat ferry there (24 knots is very very fast!)
• had Tibetan dinner there, and met Mel and Chris (Danny's cousins, Danny is a collegue at KLM who works in Oz: he's "our man in the nother timezone") and Chris' partner Julie

We don't have time to talk about everything we did, but we have lots of pictures up here.

As you might or might not know alexilian and I are going to visit Australia again this year. We're leaving Friday, December 8th 2006, arriving the 9th and we're going to return home January 4th, 2007.

We've been in Oz before (me twice, in 1999 and 2002, the last time together with alexilian) and we were wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for things to do ( Read more... )