Exactly a year ago, I got a new hip in Belgium, or actually parts of it, called a resurfacing. It has given me my mobility and my life back! So thank you, Dr. DeSmet, and happy birthday, Hip! 
Happy Birthday, Hip!
Wedding in NYC
Today, on Holy (Maundy?) Thursday my Swedish friend Evelien and her fiancé Hans, who live in Gothenburg, are getting married. Gratulerar!
Interesting detail: they will be married in The Swedish Church in New York City…
Celebration with friends to be held back home on Saturday June 4th.
I hope I can make it there…
(Updated on March 27 when I got the official invitation)
2nd Hospitality dinner
Even though it’s only been 2 weeks since the previous meeting, the Hospitality Club decided to have another get-together with a dinner. Somehow (was it fate?), a lot of the dishes contained potatoes: Ajiaco = a Colombian chicken & potato soup as a starter, and two different potato main dishes: Patatas a la Alavesa and a nameless but tasty potato oven dish. And delicious mango pudding for dessert. Here are some pictures
Wallace & Gromit from BOL
Received my first order ever from bol.com today, a DVD with 3 short hilarious animation movies of Wallace and Gromit, the fantastic animated clay figures by the British Aardman Animations. These are the predecessors to the full-length feature film “Chicken Run”, which you may have seen.
Ordering from bol.com also turned out to be a breeze. And if you live in Holland, and order from the Dutch site: you don’t have to pay in advance or use a credit card, but you can wait for the order to arrive with an “acceptgiro”… Secure and convenient!
Wallace & Gromit from BOL
Received my first order ever from bol.com today, a DVD with 3 short hilarious animation movies of Wallace and Gromit, the fantastic animated clay figures by the British Aardman Animations. These are the predecessors to the full-length feature film “Chicken Run”, which you may have seen.
Ordering from bol.com also turned out to be a breeze. And if you live in Holland, and order from the Dutch site: you don’t have to pay in advance or use a credit card, but you can wait for the order to arrive with an “acceptgiro”… Secure and convenient!
Wallace & Gromit from BOL
Received my first order ever from bol.com today, a DVD with 3 short hilarious animation movies of Wallace and Gromit, the fantastic animated clay figures by the British Aardman Animations. These are the predecessors to the full-length feature film “Chicken Run”, which you may have seen.
Ordering from bol.com also turned out to be a breeze. And if you live in Holland, and order from the Dutch site: you don’t have to pay in advance or use a credit card, but you can wait for the order to arrive with an “acceptgiro”… Secure and convenient!
Minor Phone upgrade
For weeks, or even months, I’ve been trying to decide what to do with my mobile phone contract, which expired 1st March,
with the following choices:
- keep the current phone, extend the year contract and get half the monthly rental price: (EUR 6.25 instead of 12.50 a month, with 500 inclusive minutes)
- get a cool new phone “for free” with a more expensive (EUR 25 / month), a long (2 year) contract, and fewer inclusive minutes, maybe 150 or 200. Wherever you go in Holland, you see the Samsung D500 advertised, which has a 1.3 MPixel camera and an MP3 player built-in: really nice, but it is one of these sliding phones, which I don’t care much for… If it has to have a funny shape, maybe I’d prefer a clam shell…
I finally decided to sign another 1-year contract with 500 minutes, and very important: a discounted package of 50 SMS a month. This contract came with a new phone at a reasonable price, which is almost exactly the same as my current one (Nokia 6610): a Nokia 6610i. Notice the i: (imaging?). This represents a built-in “camera”, with the amazing capability of about 0.1 Megapixels. Don’t expect to win the World Press Photo with it…
