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My mother in law celebrates her 61st Birthday today, congratulations!

I can’t be there, but can at least mark the day on the blog (and have a piece of the virtual cake! ).

The lazy Saturday is followed by a not so lazy Sunday; I finished the IKEA fun stuff and it looks good; the stereo-set fits nicely, the TV finally hangs on the wall and all the cables are hidden…job well done!

I just paid some invoices, so the administration is also up to date and with that it is time to zzzzz, another busy week is coming up (hmm, Kissy will fly to New York, some seem to have *all* the fun! )

Wow, that has been a LONG time ago; Saturday without any plans or ‘obligations’…I’m enjoying it heaps…and we even got most of the left-over IKEA fun-stuff installed, great!

Ending this lazy day with two movies; a fairy tale (The Brothers Grimm) and some science fiction fiction (2012).

Mirror.co.uk: “Desperate road safety chiefs in Romania have put up traffic signs warning motorists of drunk pedestrians. Following an increase in traffic accidents involving drunks stumbling into the road the Mayor Petru Antal ordered the signs saying ‘Attention – Drunks’ complete with an image of a reveller on his knees with a bottle.”

“We are a border town and have lots of cars thundering through here all the time…But we also have a very vibrant nightlife and the two don’t mix. We have to target the drivers because by the time they get to this state the pedestrians are beyond caring.”

Albert Einstein: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

THIS is cool, hehe, I could use it for my commute; take off from the nearby lake and land in the Oslo fjord close to the office, easy!

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It’s always nice to drive from NL to Belgium…jeez, I have driven that road (for work) SO many times that I can see my tracks on the highway!

I’ll have an all-day  supplier meeting tomorrow, followed by some social activity I presume (we are in Belgium after all, better make it fun too )…so, it’s bedtime for me, nightynight y’all!

Back in 2004 I have been part of a Rotary program called ‘Group Study Exchange‘. We went with a group of 4 non-Rotarians and a Rotary member and had the opportunity of a lifetime to visit Japan and stay with Japanese families! An amazing experience filled with a lot of good memories.

I had to think of it again last weekend when I prolonged the internet domain gse2004.nl for historic reasons…good times!

Nutrition and exercise brings great achievements, also for mice!

Oh, don’t stop watching halfway even if you feel like it (I can understand)…play it through till the end, it’s worth it…

Dag Hammarskjold: “The longest journey is the journey inward.”

My grandmother is turning 90 today, so Happy Birthday to her!
A respectful age, although she is still very active and young at heart (going to the gym once a week for a workout as well as flying to Norway last summer!).
Hehe, she shows us the ultimate way for a long and happy life!

Finally I will see Avatar 3D, am wondering if it is really as special as ‘they’ say. I guess that if I start LARP’ing it really has been too much for me, ha!

Hahaha, this is hilarious: The Annoying Orange…indeed, pretty annoying!

Check out the The Annoying Orange YouTube Channel, packed with this stuff!

For everyone who has been wondering, wonder no longer because here they are: the Ten Rules for Being Human!!

(by Cherie Carter-Scott)

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better a place than “here”. When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

Haha, I got mentioned on No Agenda #176, Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak’s podcast (which they recently called ‘Open Source Radio Show’)!

According to John, Adam was keeping track on how long the Daily Source Code was off the air for (one year and three days, patience IS a vitue! )…Adam actually wasn’t keeping track, but read my blogpost last week, funky! (no link love though: raymondpoort.com dudes! )

Have a listen below, it’s around 6 minutes into the show:

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Adam & John, I haven’t donated to the No Agenda show yet (so much for hookers & blow ), so I’d at least like to plug your show:

I recommend listening to No Agenda to everyone who is interested in an alternative view on the ‘truth behind the news’, eye opening and not controlled or censored by mainstream media…people, wake up and listen!