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Princess Juliana

Sat, 03/20/2004 - 7:58am

Queen Juliana delivering the Speech from the Throne in the Ridderzaal in The Hague on the third Tuesday in September (1975). Copyright Royal Pictures. Princess Juliana, former Queen of the Netherlands died today at the age of 94.

Juliana is the mother of our current monarch, Queen Beatrix. The national holiday on April 30th, which was the birthday of Princess Juliana, will feel different this year.

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New desk

Fri, 03/19/2004 - 8:52am

First picture of my new desk. A colleague was experimenting with a mobile phone-with-camera, so here's a picture of my new desk.

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Pictures from Chernobyl

Wed, 03/17/2004 - 1:00pm

Downtown. A young Ukrainian woman has created title="PRIPYAT ghost town (1970-1986)" target="_blank" href="http://vincent.vanscherpenseel.nl/chernobyl/">a photo journal of her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl and the area surrounding it.

Surreal pictures of desolated cities, houses and roads. Very impressive.

I ima tezi stranitsi na Bulgarski.

A picture

Tue, 03/16/2004 - 3:11pm

Picture. I had a nice working day today. There were a lot of different things going on and I like that.

After work I went for a walk and took some pictures of a building; Joost needed them. The weather was surprisingly mild, and it was light outside till late.

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Männliche Substantive

Mon, 03/15/2004 - 4:50pm

I was home around 22:00 o'clock from the German language course. Tonight we talked about a new grammar subject, the declination of Der-nouns.

It was a nice evening, but I was very tired today and my German was pretty bad tonight.

The Stage

Sun, 03/14/2004 - 4:48pm

Petra and Raoul gave me a ride to Antwerp yesterday. We first picked up Barbara, and we saw their new house. Then we drove to Antwerp. The road was blocked near Breda, so it took longer than we expected but it was cosy in the car. We had lunch and coffee at McDonalds.

Around 15:30 o'clock we arrived in the hotel. The hotel had a remarkably bad parking place but the hotel itself was beautiful. After checking in we walked to the bar which we knew was somewhere near the Grote Markt. It took a while -- we got lost. The meeting place was The Pelgrom, a Middle Age-like decorated bar, in a cellar. It was very stylish, and lit only by candlelight. There was a separate room for Chess, and when we arrived most collegue's where there already. A lot of people brought their partner, so it was quite full; there were around 100 people.

There was of course a lot of nice beer. Erik and I tried "Poorterbier", in a stone bottle. We stayed a couple of hours there. It was great fun, both to drink beer with colleague's, and to meet many partners of colleague’s.

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To Anwerp

Sat, 03/13/2004 - 5:57am

I'm going to Antwerp this weekend. We're going out with Chess, the company I work for.

Raoul and Petra will pick me up in a little while.

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Getting easier

Sat, 03/13/2004 - 4:23am

German getting easier. Dutch newspaper Trouw reported yesterday:

Speaking German is getting easier

The variation of 'accepted German language' is getting wider, said Prof. Dr. Eichinger, chairman of the Institute for German language. Spoken sentences that are strictly speaking grammatically incorrect, are getting used more often due to the influence of television.

Well, I suppose that's good news for me.

Morning routine

Fri, 03/12/2004 - 2:31am

It was quite strange this morning to enter my work. The last year I've built up a certain routine: take the elevator to the second floor, get a cup of coffee there, and then the stairs to the third floor. Somehow I could never force myself in the mornings to take the stairs to the second floor -- that's bad, I know.

Since yesterday we're at the first floor, so I have to get used to a new routine. I got my coffee from the second floor again, even though there's a machine here as well. I like the coffee from the 2nd better.

In the morning I saw the Dutch news twice on the horrible bombings in Madrid. They made it sound like there was undeniable proof that Al-Queda is behind the attacks. CNN however, was much more careful drawing this conclusion. From their website:

A group saying it speaks for al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the Madrid train bombings in an e-mail to an Arabic-language newspaper in London.

However, intelligence officials have said the group does not speak for al Qaeda and has been unreliable in the past.

I was a bit annoyed that the Dutch news didn't make this distinction. A bomb attack is terrible, no matter who is behind it. Still it's important to know who did it, and to be careful in reporting about this.

Moved

Thu, 03/11/2004 - 4:51am

We have moved to another floor. I am now at the first floor, on a really nice spot. I'm looking out over the Nieuwe Gracht, and over a bridge on the street that goes from the station to the Grote Markt.

I still feel a bit feverish, but not too bad.

Guus Bosman

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