Good things never last forever. It’s an old saying and yes it’s true. In fact: if it’s good it should not last too long because even good things get kinda dull after a time. I mean: who would like to eat steak every day? I’m sure a lot of people – or should I say: women – in Holland shed a tear when they watched the last episode of Sex in the City tonight. And I am not ashamed to admit it: even I did. Even though I did have this “love-hate” thing with the series. Probably because I am […]
Half-Life 2 – time to blow off some steam!
Ok, I ran to the store today and in some kind of stupid moment of weakness I bought Half-Life 2. I got home, popped in the DVD (yeah, this baby steals some 5gig harddisk space from you) and started to play… NOT! As it turns out this f** game is attached to some a**hole program called “Steam”. Well, it’s more a virus! Without it you can’t play the game at all! And, for starters: even though its an OFFLINE game, you need to be ONLINE to pay it! Also, for some dumbass reason it needs to download something (God knows […]
Weird week
Last week was one of those uncommon weeks: lot’s of problems going on in Holland and some personal stuff as well. For starters we had a huge incident related to terrorism. Some cops tried to raid a house in The Hague were some people lived that were suspected terrorists. Unfortunately for them these guys were prepared and the walked into a booby-trap. This wounded three cops. After that the men threw a hand grenade at them. After this the police had to call in the military and soon the whole block in which the apartment was, became the focal point […]
Like a rabid dog
This has not been a particularly good week. As always with events that happen far away, you don’t feel that affected. Things only get a meaning once it gets too close for comfort. Such is the case with the brutal murder of the Dutch columnist and movie-director Theo van Gogh. The murderer shot him several times while he rode along on his bike. Then he used a knife to cut his throat in the same way the extremist do this in all those videos in which they show the killing of hostages from Iraq. After this he calmly stabbed another […]
Attack on our Dutch Democracy
Today – exactly 911 days after some political extremist killed Pim Fortuyn – the Dutch Democracy was dealt another blow by someone with extremist views. Just like the murder on Pim Fortuyn on may 6th 2002, this act of violence leaves the Dutch democracy in a state of shock. Have we become another country like Israel? Are we going to be the next “Northern Ireland” of Europe? The following is an exact copy of the news as represented by CNN Europe. Muslim row filmmaker ‘murdered’ Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Posted: 1707 GMT (0107 HKT) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Controversial Dutch filmmaker […]