When spring comes in the Netherlands, all sorts of flowers start to bloom. Amongst them the tulip ofcourse, but also a variety of other flowers.
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So that is me with another guy from my medieval martial arts school doing some not so very high level techniques. I definitely should practice those techniques more because now it was just hitting each other when the opportunity would arise, and no real follow through techniques ( Read more... )

So yesterday in the early morning there was a huge earthquake in Japan, and the aftershocks are still going on. Even though I do not have access to a TV right now this terrible news did came to my ears. I hope that all of you who are in the touhoku and kantou area are ok. The biggest problems in Tokyo seem to be the chaos and not so much the actual ( Read more... )

Today I was supposed to go to a tournament, and I was supposed to participate,

but..

there's a problem with my back.

2 weeks ago my lower back started hurting for no apparent reason. All I knew was that a couple months ago I hadn't warmed up for a training and then I had to do these really intensive wrestling exercises (during which I beat me teacher ( Read more... )

Usually people stop writing about stuff on their blogs because they have so little to talk about that they can't figure out what to write about. But in my case there's so many things I'm interested in that I can't pick a good subject to talk about ( Read more... )

So here's a collection of pics that sort of depict what I did in the last months of 2010
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So, last entry was too long ago, and because certain people influenced me to write more often I'm writing right now ( Read more... )

This past week I had my first field work experience for earth sciences. It lasted from the 30th till today and consisted of a lot of hiking in the hills of the Ardennes. During those hikes we had to collect data from the land like what rocks are located where and we had to take note of how the land was formed etc. We had to interpret that data in ( Read more... )

Last weekend and the weekend before that I had a Kendo seminar and a "Sword & Buckler" seminar respectively. So the new academic year started off with a great deal of physical exercise as if we had to catch up for the laziness that has crept in during the summer break.

Sword and Buckler

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So I went to paris for the Japan Expo where Morning Musume also came. I tried to get a signing session ticket from the draw like 8 times but I didn't get it while all those standing in line with me, those directly in front of me and behind me, did get a ticket. I was sort of pissed at that since I bought this poster specially to get signed. But ( Read more... )