It was the last day at work today. Next week on Tuesday night I'll take the plane to Thailand. I could finish all my work, so my colleagues don't have too much trouble. Then I took the bus home and halfway I stepped of the bus because there's the hospital where my mother stays for a few months now. I go there twice a week and always after work, the other days a brother or sister visit her. It's always during eating time and I cut her bread, put meat or cheese on it and pour the coffee out. She d
I don't know were she's from. She seems to be kept well. Her fur is clean and nice and she wears a belt around her neck (don't know how they call that in English). So she's definetly not mine. She knows how to use the catdoor and it's like she's settling, eating and sleeping, here night and day. But it's beauty and sweet and not shy at all. Here's my new visitor:
She looks like a mix between a Siamese and a Persian, but I'm not sure.
For all these (a few yet ) who signed in for the event on 14 November. It's still the same day at 8 PM but it has been moved to Charley Brown's as meeting place. From there we can still go to another place to drink or dance, drink and dance or dance drunk . To sign in for the event, push on the pic below (left click with the mouse).
Thirty years ago one of the most brilliant Belgian singers and performer Jacques Brel died. It was reason here to celebrate this in Belgium. He was a real Belgian, with a Walloon mother and and a Flemish father. He was brought up in French as it was 'chic' to speak French then. But except 7 songs which he translated and sung in Dutch, most were in French. He was also a great poet and his lyrics were outstanding. Maybe his most famous song is 'ne me quitte pas' (the subtitles are a literally tran
Yesterday we had a family meeting with my brothers and my sisters (no brothers- or sisters-in-law). Normally we were 14, but 2 of us died and the other works abroad and couldn't get there), so there were 11 of us. The meaning was to look for the best solution for our mum and the situation she's in now. People who read my former journal know she has cancer (but the doctors said it was not malign and she could still live for years with it), but the mean problem is that she's becoming demented. She
"Jet Man" Yves Rossy Crosses English Channel Like a Human Rocket
Submitted by Kimberly Crandell on 26 September 2008 - 10:31am. Aerospace Wile E. Coyote has nothing on this guy. Yves Rossy, aka Jet Man, zoomed into the record books this morning, flying across the English Channel strapped to a single jet-powered wing, with only a helmet and flight suit for protection.
To Infinity And Beyond! The 22-mile (35-kilometer) France-to-England journey took 13
It was a bad day for me. Today I went to the hospital to visit my mother (read my former journal). She's now hospitalized after she was not able to live alone anymore. My sisters did their best by helping her at her flat, cleaning, doing the laundry and ironing .......... etc. But last week there was a point there should be somebody constantly with her, day and night, because we feared that she would do crazy things (like making eggs on the electric plate without using a cooking pan, she really
Feast in the street. Like every year some neighbours organized an event in our street last week. The entrances to the street are blocked, no cars parked and it's always nice to talk with the neighbours and have some beer and Belgian fries together. Fortunately the weather was quite good and we could enjoy our day. I think the fact it's quite an old district and almost all original habitants are gone and a lot of young couples, of every kind, renovated the houses. They're bored with sitting in th
They opened yesterday the first Starbucks in Belgium at Brussels Airport, and they intend to open more in some major cities. Belgium has already a lot of coffeeshops (real ones, nothing like the ones in the The Netherlands ). Anyway I hate all those chains like Mac Donalds, KFC, Quick ..... I have heard you pay about € 2,50 for a plain coffee. Normally here you pay € 2 for a good expresso with a small chocolade and sometimes even a little bisquit.A colleague who has been in America a few times s
A real storm is going to hit BKK and other parts of Thailand on 12 November and it won't stop before 4 December. On 12 November at 3.55 PM I'll land at BKK airport and I won't leave before 4 December.Just got the opportunity to buy a ticket, during a promotion week by a local agency here, with Qantas BRU- LHT - BKK for € 664. The annoying thing is that Kenny, my best friend here in Belgium, will be there at the same time. Prepare yourself for some wild days and open your agenda to make those da
I haven"t been much on TF lately. There are some reasons for that.TF becomes a 'little' (eufimism) boring and repeating itself. I've been a member for several years now and have seen all forum topics coming back again and again. I read the same stupid comments and the wind ups, which are funny for a while but annoys you after some time. Some journals are entertaining and good. Not the again heart-broken journals. Often I have the need to shout and say to them: 'get yourself a life'.But the mean
From CNN:
Anheuser-Busch sold
to Belgians for $52B
Belgian brewer InBev has announced it will buy its U.S. rival Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion to create the world's largest brewer. The acquisition means control over America's largest brewer, the No. 2 worldwide, moves overseas.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/14/anheuser.inbev.ap/index.html
Last weekend I went to Antwerp to celebrate Yannick's Birthday. Probably some of you saw the first journal in which I showed my terrible skills and handiness with a bowling ball.Kenny's journal I have now to stay home with a twisted knee , which give me some time to make clips. Here they are, I hope you enjoy them:
We decided to meet again at my town. It's not that far, because everything in Belgium is close . Well, all I can say it was a splendid weekend. Kind of a mini TF-event. We had a lot of fun, shared a lot of beers, played snooker and darts and laughed a lot. And eat a lot. Kenny had a new camera and we tried it out. The results are here below. But don't forget to look at the next journal of Kenny, I promise you there will be a vid on that makes you pee in your pants. But I don't tell more. Kenny a
A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.'
'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'
A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two
groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was a
Those who read my journal of yesterday (or was it still today for you) knows I have a wild cat who gave birth to some kittens in my garden.Look here Here are some pics I could take today when she was feeding her kittens, really cute and she didn't protest.
More than a week ago I find out that a wild cat brought some kittens on this world. Because it's a quite dirty place behind in my garden, she must have decided that was a safe place for her kittens. But because the food for the chickens is in there and some things to work in the garden, I come quite often there. I thought she would bring her babies to another place, but she seems to trust me and they're still there. My niece Lore asked me if she could bring her chicken to my place, because she
After a perfect weekend with Kenny and Yannick, I went with them to station to say till 'the next time'. When I left the platform from where the train left and headed to the busstation to take the bus home. When he checked for my wallet, it was gone. I went back to the cafe, where we drank our last beer together. Because I thought it could have felt out of my pocket. I still looked around at some other places, asked at the station. But nothing found.I went home with the little chance I forgot it
