Archive for November, 2005

Smakkie wants a party!?

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Alexander Smakman is a member of Faust (fraternity), who joined us last February. He called me last Wednesday with pretty bad news: he was in the LUMC and diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Last Friday we visited him with a group of Faust and I told him that if he wanted such a big surpriseparty [...]

Merel didn’t

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Merel did fight her cancer with all means available.
Merel did have massive support from friends and family.
Merel did show unending optimism and courage.
Merel van den Berg didn’t survive cancer.
I feel very sad. Such things shouldn’t happen.
Merel’s website
Merel’s weblog
Merel is a hero!-post

25 – and counting!

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Last Friday was my birthday! Yeah!
I went that weekend with a group of 12 friends to a tiny city named Boekel in the south of the Netherlands, like we did last year as well. At the time it was a great escape from my room. This year we went paintballing (brings up your Rambo-spirit), hang [...]

London : My cup of tea (or two)

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Sanne and I went to London from October 16-19. To drink tea, sniff up the London-atmosphere, drink more tea and have fun together! We have never been there before, and I could never really explain this to my Princeton-friends as London is not far from Amsterdam on the World-map.
We got quite a distorted image, because [...]