Rogier’s Road to Recovery

Let’s make 2006 a healthy and prosperous year - with lots of travels and fun things!

Surfing my computer, I just found this nice picture of Jan Seva Sounda - the cousin of my roommate Eef.
I’m sure he’ll be a great coffee drinker one day, as I had to defend my mug by all means available…

Not wanting to go to bed, I was wasting time and just Googled myself. Surprisingly found out that you actually can’t find this blog or my main website http://www.van-willigen.net/ in the six-page search results!
The number one hit is an article I wrote at Princeton for the Leiden University spectator Mare, click here : Rogier [...]

Sanne has completed her Master in Science programme in Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam! Sanne’s abundant Planning&Control-skills allowed her to submit her thesis on the afternoon of very same day as her graduation party. Quite a reason for a party, and even more so as her two roommates also graduated last month in Educational [...]

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 [...]

Q: What is better than a Wear Yellow wristband from the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF)?
A: A whole box filled with a hundred of ‘m!
Today I got my shipment of wristbands, together with a nice cap and a polo shirt. I also got the Survivorship Notebook with information and tips on dealing with cancer. It’s great [...]

Wow… I just found out that the reference book Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry second edition by Wiley Publishers is out on the market, where my Professor at Princeton and I submitted a chapter to… for only eur €4,399.00 it is yours! But if you order right now, you get a small discount (how nice). Check [...]

Tonight there was a fun dinner with all Assessoren ever from the Faculty of Science. I thoroughly instructed Victor, my successor at the time, to organise some sort of reunion/gettogether as he was the fifth Assessor… but he didn’t. Now after 2 more years, however, he has seen the light and tonight we had drinks [...]

And so I tried to pick up sports again…
A big, big, big group of friends formed a team at korfball sports club Pernix. We have 15 teammates, while only 8 can play at any given time… It’s a happy mess : it consists of players totally new to the sport, players who played last [...]

Just before I left for Istanbul, Faust (my fraternity) organised a shooting event. I joined in, of course. I thought this would mean that we were about ‘just’ to shoot some bullets, like on a fair or so, but I was mistaken and ill-prepared. We all fired 6 or 3 times each with all of [...]