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Bevrijdingspop

Wed, 05/05/2004 - 3:19pm

Sponge bob balloon.Tonight I celebrated a very happy day, and I went to Bevrijdingspop with Jelly. That was fun; it was really busy and the weather was nice.

The performance of Beth Hart, an American lady singer, was really good.

The liberation day festival is at the other side of the city, but the music is so loud that I can hear it (far away) when I open the window.

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Haarlem

To Bevrijdingspop

Wed, 05/05/2004 - 8:49am

The Bevrijdingspop festival started at 12:00 o'clock this afternoon. In the Kruisstraat, the street next to my work, there is a constant stream of people coming from Centraal Station to the park where the festival is.

I was going with Hugo, a colleague, for a cup of coffee and took a picture.

To Bevrijdingspop 2004.

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Haarlem

4th and 5th May

Wed, 05/05/2004 - 2:07am

Church with Dutch national flag.Today is May 5th, which marks the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II. The celebrations today follow the national remembrance day (May 4th) when the people are commemorated who have fallen in the war and other wars. Yesterday I went to the ceremony at the Dreef in Haarlem.

I always enjoy today, it's a great idea to be able to celebrate freedom. The national flag is out on official buildings, I took some pictures on my way to work.

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chess

Presentation Co-Design

Tue, 05/04/2004 - 8:29am

Sheets.This afternoon I gave a presentation about my graduation project. There were about 15 colleague's.

It was very nice to tell about the things I've researched and found out, but also difficult. How to describe six months work in 45 minutes? I think it went quite well.

For those of you interested I've made the sheets of the presentation available online.

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dailylife

Card from Spain

Mon, 05/03/2004 - 3:57pm

Hotel Buenaventura.We received a card from Spain today. My mother and my grandmother are on a holiday at Gran Canaria, a Spanish island 100km from the coast of Morocco. They are having a good time, the weather is pleasant and there's a lot of nice food.

At work I heard some very nice news for two friends.

Tomorrow I'll give a presentation at Chess about my graduation project: A Survey of Co-Design Ideas and Methodologies. It was nice to reread the paper again; I hadn't looked at it for a couple of months.

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Deutsch

Edifices

Sun, 05/02/2004 - 6:38am

I'm reading an interesting on-line article on the German grammar, written for English-speakers. The introductionary chapter explains a lot of language theory, which is quite useful. It describes the eight possible functions of a word (such as case, gender, voice, mood etc.) and how the function of a word is indicated ('signalled') in English and German.

Compound nouns:

"Germans (like English speakers) connect nouns together to form compound nouns. Examples in English are streetcar, airport, and flowerpot. Germans seem to get carried away with the concept. They keep sticking nouns together until at times they come up with humongous verbal edifices."

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dailylife

Saturday

Sat, 05/01/2004 - 5:49pm

Teilnahmebescheinigung.I had an easy day today.

After a very nice dinner I'm now watching the finals of Idols. This year I haven't been watching the shows, but yes, I guess Maud would be my favourite.

I received a Teilnahmebescheinigung for the Zaterduitsdag I did last week. Nice gesture.

And of course, today is May 1st: the official expansion of the European Union with ten new member states. It's a great idea Europe is getting together. Hopefully Bulgaria will join the E.U. soon.

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dailylife

Queen's Day in Amsterdam

Sat, 05/01/2004 - 9:17am

Queen's Day 2004.We had a really nice time yesterday celebrating Queen's Day. We were in Amsterdam around 10:30 o'clock and Jelly, Daniël and I arrived at the same time as Steven. We met Kirsten and Rob a few minutes later.

The weather was excellent! I was walking in my (orange) T-shirt all day.

We made a long walk through the city, towards the Vondelpark. We were there around 13:00 o'clock, where we met Jerry and Marjolein. Together with Linda and Maya, two friends of Jelly we spent then a long time in the Vondelpark. Sitting on the grass, talking, drinking beer... it was very nice.

We had dinner in an Italian place, afterwards we had a few more drinks outside. A wonderful day; we were home around midnight.

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