Hey All,

It's been too long (again) since I put something on my blog. But lately it's been busy again with music (as usual). Not that I already know how to play the guitar, but I bought some great CD's lately. So here some fast written words about some of the CD's/Artists:

A very good new Dutch singer/songwriter is Tim Knol. I bought the CD and I thought it was a great album, and I was very happy when I saw that he would give a small concert here in Groningen. It was a bit stragne to see a 20 year old guy on the stage playing great guitar, especially during the encore where he played without a band, which was great!

During that concert, Beans and Fatback was the support act. They just were two people on the stage, both with a guitar and one of them was singing. Their music was great, I can't wait for their CD, but I will have to wait untill April 16th :S.

Another great Dutch singer/songwriter would be Daniël Lohues. Most Dutch people will know him from the band 'SKIK'. But after SKIK he toured with Louisiana blues band and the last couple of years he has a solo tour through The Netherlands, called 'Allennig', which means 'Alone'. He just made 'Allennig IV', this is the fourth and last part. Because every album contains songs that are linked to certain seasons. He started with the winter and Allennig IV is the fall. Daniël is from the same part of the Netherlands as I am, and since a lot of his songs are about that area, I can relate to a lot of things he sings about. Not only the lyrics, but also the music is great! So the day his last CD 'Allennig IV' came out, I bought the CD. It's not the best album, but it contains definitely some great songs!

Another CD I just bought is 'Acoustic Extravaganza' by KT Tunstall. I think everybody would know her hit "Black horses and the cherry tree lane", but this CD is also very good! On the DVD of that album she says that "An evening with the skye album would be, sat in on an evening with a storm outside, with a glass of whisky and some friends", so I think I will have to try that sometime. I just hope that the storm won't come for some time, because the spring has just arrived!

Cheers!

Hey All!

My last vacation of 2009 went to Egypt. I traveled there with 11 other people from diving club Piranha .

Piranha written on the briefing board

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Hey All,

January 11th this year I read that Miep Gies had died. She was one of the people who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis during World War II. She discovered and preserved the diary of Anne Frank when she the Franks were arrested to give it back to the father when he returned.
When I read this news, I first wondered why I have never been to the house of Anne Frank. The second thing I thought of was the movie called "The Freedom Writers" (Trailer). Although it is not the real Miep Gies, it is a wonderful scene where she tells the kids that they are the heroes.



I just want to say that if you haven't seen that movie yet, I want to recommend that movie to you, it's a great movie to watch!

Hey All,

A very short blog, but yesterday I'ven been to the movie "a law abiding citizen".

This movie was a good movie and definitely not a good movie for a Sunday afternoon. This is finally a movie again with a very good storyline with some nice twists which you don't expect.

Short, if you want to see a good thriller with a good storyline, this is a movie you would want to see.

Cheers!

After the high-school reunion on Saturday, I had to work again on Sunday. I had a presentation due on Monday, and I didn't finish it yet. It was a bit hard getting to work on Sunday after the high-school reunion, it was a bit later than planned, but I still managed to drag myself to work.

After the presentation on Monday I had to prepare for another presentation on Friday. I still had to read some articles and put together the presentation (of about 1 hour :S).

The presentation ended up pretty well, I got some nice new ideas during the discussion afterwards, so I can continue with work.

For now, I'm going to enjoy my weekend, relaxing today and celebrating my mom's birthday tomorrow.

Cheers!