Author: Maarten

Sports in Waddinxveen

This weekend, I’ve competed in a A,B,C,D-tournament at Conquesto, Waddinxveen. It is one of the nicer tournaments. Well organized, nice accommodation and nice people. I”ve played single, men’s double and mixed double in the C-level, with pretty nice outcome. I lost the semi-final in the single’s competition, and the same holds for the men’s double. The mixed double (with my

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More foreign adventures

While Lourien still is down under, a couple of my former classmates went to southern America to do some hiking, and they seem to do pretty well 🙂 Their travel-blog can be found here, yet it also can be reached by clicking the appropriate link on the right. Marita & Martijn: Enjoy! I am pretty envious of the fact you’re

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Status-update housing

On a regular basis, but slowly, the documentation needed to apply for mortgage is coming into our possession. As it is a painstakingly slow process, we’re hoping to complete it on May 2nd; just in time for our May 5th deadline! Mortgage-people: the first batch of paperwork is heading your way!

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Closing time

If all goes well today, I’m due to hand in my thesis this afternoon, around 3pm. About 4 to 6 weeks after that, I will graduate after a graduation-session, where my supervisors will try to ask all kinds of tough questions. I’m looking forward to it! 🙂 Until then, I’ll be working at Ordina. My first week is also nearing

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New job, no more car

To my dreading, it has become that time in the life cycle of my car: it had to go. No more *vroem-vroem*, or rattling, or flying low. No more noisy and loud acceleration, no more old Charade. Too bad it had to go, it was my very first car. I now have a decent substitution for it though, yet I’m

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A little money can go a long way

Yesterday, early in the evening, my girlfriend and me have decided we were in a long-term relationship and have confirmed this decision with a 30-year contract. What? A 30 year long contract? Yes: our mortgage. We just signed the mortgage proposal, and are scrambling to get all the right documents to the creditor to get our mortgage approved. May 5th

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Upgrades & improvements

For whoever is blogging with WordPress, the last few days must have been filled with newsposts, updates and announcements about the all new WordPress 2.5 I too have upgraded (since about 20 minutes ago) and everything seems to run fine. If you do find some peculiar behavior anywhere on this site, please feel free to notify me, by emailing me.

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Ceiling cat get's its paper equivalent

Normally, I don’t post remnants of ‘old’ internethypes, yet today is different. Lolcats, who does not know them. They’ve got their own sites, goodies and even a programming language. An internet-hype pur sang. One of the most hilarious is ceiling cat, who now has got his paper equivalent. I found it here, and all props go to the author.

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/me is done!

Whoa, that feels nice! I’m (finally) done waiting for the approval for my graduation! I’ve set up an appointment to deal with all the bureaucratic hassle that has to be dealt with at the university, but I’m not going to change a single letter of my thesis anymore. Done! yay! *celebrates* Update (2008-04-07): I’ve had to reschedule the appointment to

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