It’s been ages since I’ve posted here. I know. Don’t get me wrong, not due to a lack of interest, more or less no time and to much going on. Since the beginning of September, I’ve traveled like crazy. From Dublin, to London, Curacao and London again. Enough to write about, just no time.

Anyway, something cool came up two days ago, which I wanted to post here.

I was able to visit my new apartment again, and boy is it coming together. I bet that for all you people it’s just a pile of crap and dust. But I love this place already. I took my parents up there, so this was the first time they got to see where I’ll be moving into in a couple of months. I was kinda stumbling around there, cause I was operated on my toe one day earlier. So sorry for the shaky camera movements..

The camera performs great with a good light source, which wasn’t here so that made it all a bit difficult. I tried to brush it up with Pinnacle Studio Plus 11, since this is the only editor currently supporting AVCHD files. If anyone has experience with that, please drop me a line. Well at least we know the night vision mode is working

Yesterday I received a colored sketch from my Interior Architect to give me an impression of what the interior is going to be looking like.

The whole place is finally coming together, and with a little delay on the building site, I just extended my current place for two more months so I can move my stuff without all the hassle. Even though my friends want me to stay here, I cannot wait to get settled in. For me, this has been a 2 year project of the first real money I made, and a huge learning process. But I’ll save the EMO talk for my house warming party

Here’s the sketch..

Last Friday, I finally got to visit my new apartment in the Apollo tower in Utrecht. The apartment was glass-closed a couple of weeks ago and I believed this was the opportunity to check out my view.

As you can see, the view is absolutely gorgeous; it is overlooking the Rijnsweerd national park, which is something completely different then overlooking a city or residential area. It is hard to make a good impression with no inside walls, and all grey walls. I was lookin from the side of my kitchen all the way to the end of the master bedroom, and kinda had the feeling did I really pay that much money for this? While discussing some problems with the radiators, we went to the 4th floor of the building where they already finished an appartment almost similar to mine and I saw how big it really was. The appartment was painted with a white structural paint and you could really see the amount of light that entered the apartment and how beautiful spacious it was.

Now I just cannot wait to move out there.

Anyway, I took a couple of shots to show you guys..

In oppose to where I would normally get drunk with my friends on New Years Eve, I decided to spend the turn of the year with my girlfriend on Times Square.

It’s cool to finally be with a girl that can get me off my lazy ass and to actually see something of the city For me this was the 2nd visit to the city, but I finally got to see the view from the Empire State Building (Even though we had to wait in line for over three hours - Blowing Hubba Bubba Bubbles )

But my gf should feel lucky they would let somebody her size on the ESB, you know with the heavy winds and all ;)New Years Eve was fun ! My buddy Adam hooked us up with a couple of tickets for the Whiskey Lounge (Where the Bartenders are always friendly) - Thnx bro.

I think I have now almost seen everything in NYC, but I’m going back with a couple of friends in April to do the Brooklyn bridge walk, which I didn’t get to do because I had to give my gf some ice skating lessons. Which I rock at by the way

Anyway, check out the compilation below and notice how much of a gentleman this bachelor veteran has become

I almost feel like a woman writing this. It’s true though..

I hate fashion, and all the “hip” and “trendy” stuff. Where are the times that it was hip to wear your casual 501? Well, for 3 months now I’ve been looking to get new jeans. Now don’t get me wrong; I don’t walk in every store, every week to look at jeans. But getting a new pair was a little bit overdue

By now you all now how picky I am, not to mention a real pain in the ass. But when I have set my mind on something there is no living being on earth that can set it otherwise. I wanted a pair of Diesel jeans that I know I like because I already own a few pairs. But apparently Diesel decided they aren’t in style anymore and taken them out of production.

Screw fashion and screw style.

Local Jeans store was lucky I have a weakness for cute girls that tend to talk too much Good job store manager for hiring cute staff. She made me walk out with 2 boxers, a belt and two new pair of jeans that highlight my ass in an obvious yet classy way

Yesterday I have yet proven again that this body was build for smooth talking only

My niece had arranged for me and a few other cousins to go indoor snowboarding.

Because Saturday night was so much fun, the night had only granted me only three hours sleep. At noon we arrived at the Snowworld indoor skiing area where we picked up our gear and hit the arena.

After a few slides down I finally realized that I was steering wrong, instead of using my left feet to point direction I was swapping feet constantly. So I spent the next few hours trying to correct a bad habit.. Easier said then done though.

I brought my cam with me and shot some movies and pictures of us sliding down the hill.

By the way, I have to give Canon some credits for this camera; It has already survived; Cancun beach sand, clumsy girls, alcoholic fluids, more clumsy girls, foam party and now me rolling down the snow arena every now and then..

Thx for a fun day everybody !

On Saturday, July the 8th I was at the construction site to see how my new house was doing. Progress was made, they are now at the 6th floor. Construction workers now have, what we call in the Netherlands “Building-break” and construction will probably resume somewhere late in August.

But I don’t have to wait till that date, I can go finish the job myself On the construction site a professional photographer took a couple of shots of me in my new house. Tell me, if I loose the jacket and work out a little bit more I could be a construction worker right ?

Anyway, the open house day was really fun and very well organized by Ans de Wijn Real Estate. I always admire a company that shows their professionalism by good customer support and good organisation skills.

You could really feel that this was their way to reward the buyers for taking this big step so soon and for their early faith in the project. And what do yo know… I even got to keep the helmet

I woke up this morning thinking to myself; Fuck I still need a lot of work done, but also… Only four more days until we go to Argeles sur Mer.

Our trip begins Friday morning when we go to Schiphol airport and take the plane to Barcelona. In Barcelona we pick up our rental car, find our hotel, probably hook up with some Spanish seneorita’s for dinner and breakfast and then drive to Argeles sur Mer before noon.

Argeles has promised to involve a lot of; drinking beer, cute girls, sunburn, morning croissants, insect hunting and loud talking in the public bathrooms.

According to our calculations our body can handle this inhuman environment for a little over two weeks before fatal damage occurs, so we will leave Argeles just in time for a full recovery.

Below are some shots of Argeles sur Mer and one from me and my buddy. If I don’t see you anymore before I go, you can consider this my “See you on August the 6th note”
Take Care Yooo..

- Smoking is bad for your health
- Smoking causes cancer
- Smoking causes blood and heart deceases

Who hasn’t seen or heard these phrases. I have, for the last 2,5 half years. And although they went past me, and I didn’t give a fuck I have finally decided to quit smoking; for good. Actually I only smoked when we go clubbing or just when having some beers, so I never really had the feeling I couldn’t go without.

I already hid my expensive stainless steel lighter and my friends have promised to smack the living shit out of me if I ever light one again, so this should be fun.So if I go cranky on you next time we meet, be little polite, understanding and offer me a free drink




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I was sleeping like an angel last night, when I woke up from a text message I received. Fuck.. Nothing important.

If I’m awake at night, it usually takes a while to get to sleep again. Luckily this is when I do my best thinking.. I was figuring out what work I had done all day. To be honest it was not that much. I had woken up at 11.00 in the morning, put on a clean boxer and checked my stats on the computer. While my cheese snack was grilling in the oven I checked GFY and Sitepoint for the latest issues and optimized some of my campaigns. Around 14.00 I went to the city to drop my stuff of at the dry cleanings and it was just one of those days where every girl is happy. So I put the biggest smile on my face and bumped in to two hot girls who treated me on some Italian ice cream. After an interesting conversation and putting their phone numbers in my cell I did some laid back shopping, got back to my house and got some work done.

I was getting hungry, so I went by the local supermarket and got myself a bag of Iglo’s finest; Salmon, with spinach and pasta. This stuff is the best, it’s right from the freezer, just throw the contents of the bag in a wok, add a bit of water and you got yourself a nice smelling, good looking, fresh tasting, healthy making meal !

At 19.45 my date for that night came over. For god knows what reason she was to embarrassed to show me her car so she had parked her car 200 meters away from my house, so I couldn’t see it After almost 5 hours of quality time :P, I closed the door behind her and decided to get some sleep.

Boy, did I enjoy that day..