The significance of music
These are some of my thoughts about music: the importance in our lives, the process of creating music.
Movie Review : Deepwater Horizon
Deepwater Horizon is the movie we watched last weekend in The Hague’s Pathe Theatre. For a moment we were doubting between this movie and Inferno. Watching the Inferno trailer it looked to us like a (expensive) rehash of the DaVinci Code, so… (READ MORE)
Two years married!
Today marks the two year anniversary of our marriage: on August 9th 2014 we tied the knot on that beautiful day in Situbondo, East-Java. Last year it was Deny who wrote on this blog to commemorate this our first year anniversary, this year… (READ MORE)
Visit to Berlin (Part 1)
Now that Deny is a few days in Berlin, I share my own memories of a long ago visit to Berlin.
Romeinenweek
From April 30th to May 8th the Dutch will commemorate the presence of the Romans in the Netherlands.
Review: the movie ‘Steve Jobs’ (2015)
Admitted, Steve Jobs has been an inspiration for me during a larger part of my life. I remember vividly the excitement before the Apple presentations after the man’s return to Apple in 1997 as ‘iCEO’. A wiser man, knowing how to… (READ MORE)
Sail Amsterdam 2015
I was lucky to be on board of one of the ships (de Saffier) that participated in Sail Amsterdam 2015. Sail Amsterdam 2015 is the biggest parade of ships, boats and vessels in the world. It only takes place once in… (READ MORE)
Our Visit to Tong Tong Fair 2015 – Den Haag
Today Adek Deny and I visited the 57th Tong Tong Fair in Den Haag (The Hague, The Netherlands). The Tong Tong Fair is one of the biggest fairs in Europe with products and information about Asia and especially about Indonesia…. (READ MORE)
So you want to learn Dutch? You can!
Be prepared for a long and difficult journey though. Since Adek Deny is trying to master the Dutch language she obviously comes to me with questions about how and why some things are as they are in Dutch language and grammar…. (READ MORE)