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To repeat yesterday’s words: ‘And this is also Norway!’ 😉

Kissy prepared a FANTASTIC meal today: king crab legs and shrimps!! As you can see below; yummmmiieeee!!

For the dutchies reading this post; don’t laugh!!! The ‘Oliebollen‘-plate was size-wise the best plate to carry those long legs! 😉

And this is also Norway!

And this is also Norway! 😉

A moose (‘elg’ in norwegian, ‘eland’ in dutch) apparently needed some groceries and went shopping in a local supermarket in Kongsvinger (that’s about 60km from where I live).

He/she/it got caught on a surveillance camera, check out the first videoclip below where you can see him/her/it making his/her/its unexpected entrance at 0m34s, and leaving the building at 1m55s.

The second videoclip shows what he/she/it really came to do; cooling down in the refrigerated area with beer!! 😉 I guess he/she/it got thirsty…and nothing beats a cold beer when it’s warm outside!

I am not in the mood to write a lot about yesterday’s final, it still hurts (also financially, a dutch victory would make me win the pool at work, around 500EUR!)…anyway, both teams were nervous and not playing their best football, I believe that Spain was a slightly stronger over 120 minutes. NL however had some great scoring opportunities that would have turned the match, and some decisions made by the referee caused frustration among the dutch players resulting in a pretty physical match, sometimes a little over the edge.

Nah, instead of this match, I’d rather look back at a superb Pohoda 2010 festival! Heaps of fun, sun, music, beer and insomnia! 😉 Oof, no sleep on Saturday night and going to bed around 4am after the match yesterday made today a pretty tough day! More than worth it though! 😉

So, we left the Pohoda festival around 1:15h early this night and drove back to watch *the* final of the decade in NL…a great decision, the atmosphere is AMAZING!! Literally the whole country is orange, the picture below was taken from the balcony with a lookout over the Marktplein in Rotterdam where close to 20,000 people are watching the game on a big screen!
OK, we’re ready to play to game of our life now!!

Weather at Pohoda had generally been splendid over the past years and this year is no exception; it’s 37C at the moment and everyone is seeking shade and/or freshness from cool water being sprayed in the audience by fireman! (didn’t we all want to be a fireman when we were young? 😉 ).
Today’s bands to see are Para (just did that), Casiokids (from Norway!!), New Young Pony Club, Scissor Sisters, These New Puritans, The xx and Does It Offend You, Yeah? Pohoda 2010 is again fantastic!! There’s only one thing keeping us busy; should we stay or should we go? It’s obviously related to tomorrow’s World Cup final NL-Spain; there no better place to watch THE game than in NL, but that means that we have to leave halfway the last party night…decisions, decisions…

A typical first day wake-up this morning at Pohoda; bathing in sweat caused by a killing combination of 25C and sun around 08:30h, oof! 😉 A bit too early after just a few hours of sleep, I am still tired from the 1400km trip yesterday (or is that from the mix of beer, absinthe, vodka, and the Stranglers in concert? 😉 )
Oh well, I’m pretty sure that we’ll survive today; relaxing in 34C with The Futureheads, Klaxons and Polar Bear on stage…no worries!

5:30am…yeah, it’s about time for Robbert and me to leave!! (aahhhh, I really don’t like early wake-up calls! )

Keep an eye on the Twitter box on the right-hand side for short updates of our roadtrip to the Pohoda festival in Slovakia!

It was a crazy day at work today, it felt as if I would be gone for *weeks* when I left the office, so many last minute things popping up, crazy!! For some reason it’s often like this when I take some days off…anyway, I managed and am TOTALLY READY for five days of fun, sun, music, cheap beer and great people at Pohoda, THE festival of the year! ROCK ONNNN!!!

Wow…great…splendid…terrific…super…whatever!! 😉 NL defeated Uruguay 3-2 in the semi-final and reached the World Cup FINALLLLL!!! Hehe, as I said yesterday, you can’t avoid karma! 😉
I happen to be in NL at the moment, so I’m able to PARTYYYYYYY with my fellow cheeseheads, w00t!! 😉

It’s hard to miss the fact that The Netherlands will play Uruguay in the World Cup semi-final tomorrow, and even though the game still has to be played, most people believe that reaching the final is *easy* for the orange lions! Well, let’s at least start the match with the right attitude, so, just to get in the right mood below a YouTube clip with the highlights of the 1974 World Cup match between The Netherlands and Uruguay, a 2-0 victory for NL! 😉

An interesting fact; in the same 1974 tournament, NL beat Brazil for the first and last time in a World Cup match (that is until last Friday!) so karma is good! 😉

With temperatures around 25dgr and sun high in the sky, skiing and fun in the snow seemed far away…not today though; we met most of the Trysil 2010 gang for an after-ski party / reunion BBQ…it was great to see y’all again, good times!!

NL- Brazil was ‘just’ the quarterfinal in the Worldcup, but the 2-1 victory felt like winning the final…HISTORICAL!!

Uruguay is next (after they took out the last African team in competition, Ghana). For sure not an opponent to think lightly of, but I’d say: doable! 😉

We came back after a FABULOUS week of sun bathing, sailing and relaxing (actually all similar things 😉 )!!

Below some pictures, since already one picture says more than a thousand words!

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Yo bro! it’s your 36th today, hurra for deg! Hehe, Legoland in Denmark was a great way to celebrate, eh? 😉

Right at this moment the Worldcup match between The Netherlands and Slovakia begins and that gives me a dilemma: my love for Slovakia, the people and THE festival of the year, Pohoda (in 1.5 week), against The Netherlands, my obvious first choice this Worldcup! 😉

Oh well, the game is ON so I’d say; let the best team win!!

(and Pohoda will be terrific anyway! 😉 )

I’m in the South of Norway together with Per who is part of the Program Committee of Javazone 2010, Scandinavia’s biggest (and one of Europe’s most important) meeting place / conference for software developers.

They released a short film: Java 4-Ever Trialer, a great movie for techies (there are a lot of inside jokes hidden in this one!). It was put on YouTube on Friday and got more than half a million views within 2 days! That version is taken off though ((c) issues?) so I hope the link below works. 😉

Today it’s one year ago since Michael Jackson died (/was murdered?), looking at the news and amount of blogposts on it, he seems more alive today than ever before.

The video below is 11,5 month old, it’s a flash mob Tribute to Michael Jackson, King of Pop in Stockholm (relatively close for me 😉 ).

After exploring the North of Norway last week, we are now in the South in a place called Holmesund, close to Arendal. Friends have a summerhouse here and invited us for a week of sun, fun, sailing and discovering the South of Norway…coolio, and I’m really looking forward to it!

Getting here was was already a fantastic experience, the trip was filled with kodak-moments!

Hmm, this post might be a bit techy. 😉 Anyway, the RSS-feed with Facebook’s Status Messages that I included on my blog sidebar seems to be no longer available. 🙁

I used it for almost two years to share where on this globe I enjoy life, which worked quite nice, and now the feed is broken. I guess Facebook changed something on their back-end (again) and this time I haven’t been able to find an alternative to get it back…anyone??

As announced some weeks ago, Apple released iOS 4 (the new iPhone OS) yesterday evening and I couldn’t hold back so as of last night ‘myPhone’ is upgraded! 😉

So far everything runs smooth, everything feels snappier and there are some very welcome new features; digital zoom for the camera, the ability to create folders for Apps, unified Inbox, threaded email messages and of course the long awaited multitasking! Hehe, I’m a happy geek! 😉