Internal Dialogue

Met pijn in mijn hart kniel ik naast het bed. Met mijn rechterhand hou ik de hand van mijn moeder vast, met de linker die van mijn vader. Ondanks de voorgaande onrustigheid en het onverstaanbare gemompel lijkt het wel alsof hij toch soms door heeft wat er gebeurd. Wat er gebeurd, en wie er zijn.
Hij [...]

De consequentie van leven is dat je, op den duur, mensen gaat verliezen die iets voor je betekenen. Soms is het moeilijker te accepteren, maar soms ook makkelijker. Dit laatste zijn geen vaste maatstaven voor. Het hangt er maar net van af met in wat voor omgeving je bent opgegroeid; wat er ‘normaal’ wordt gevonden.
Mijn [...]

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Gedachten die de ene seconden heel belangrijk lijken vliegen de volgende seconde ineens mijn hoofd uit. Wel weet ik dat het iets belangrijks was. Ohja, dat was het. Zo belangrijk was het eigenlijk toch niet.

Oh no, and another one of my favourite books (Red Mars from The Mars Trilogy) will be adapted. This time into a television mini-series. Back when I read the trilogy I felt it was very suitable for a mini series, but now that it’s here: yuck. The problem I have is simply the people working [...]

One of the subjects I’ve been wanting to write about is Retro-futurism. If you don’t know what the term means, exactly, you can read up on it here.
As I’ve mentioned before, when I started reading sci-fi the first books I read were written by Isaac Asimov back in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The first sci-fi [...]

Conductor: “So, did you have valentine today?”

Me: “Eh… no…”

I’ve had a couple of blog subjects in a sticky note on my desktop for a while now, but I never got around to writing about them. Here’s the first.
For as long as I can remember, I liked science fiction. When I started reading fiction four and a half years ago, SF was the genre [...]

It sounds strange, but I’ve been waiting to write an entry with this title for quite a while now. Some time ago, like one or two years back, I had more trouble sleeping than I do now. I even had quite a few nights during which I couldn’t sleep entirely. But this phase passed, and [...]

…was really good! We did presents this year because we couldn’t do them earlier this year with Sinterklaas. Got a sweater (how traditional!), a new electric shaver, and two books. We also had two wonderful Christmas dinners. And for those wondering what a Christmas tree with actual candles looks like, see below People [...]

Christmas is here! As a family, we never really celebrated it with presents, but because we didn’t have the time to do presents during Sinterklaas, we moved them to Christmas. Looking forward to the next couple of days, should be fun. It also seems that it’ll be freezing quite a bit the coming week, but [...]