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Camerado !
This is not a book;Who touchesthis,touchesa WoMan: (Is it night?are we herealone?) It is Iyou hold,And whoholds you; I springfromthe pagesintoyourarms …― Walt Whitman
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Red
Another comic book inspired movie. I didn’t know about the comic book origin when I saw this movie. I kind of stumbled across it on Netflix and started watching. A lot of unexpected star actors participate in this comic book adaptation : Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Hellen Mirren and John Malkovich to name a few. The visual style and over the top hilarious action are true to its origin. Although not superheroes in the classical sense the characters in the story certainly have superhuman skills. It is in essence a traditional spy story with a bad government trying…
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The College @ Sittard Hilton
I had dinner with my son @ The College while staying in the Sittard Hilton a few weeks ago. We had arrived quite late at the hotel and had to get up early for our Limburgs Mooiste bike ride the next day so we didn’t bother to go looking for a restaurant in the neighbourhood. And I cannot complain about the decision. Staff was friendly and there was enough choice on the menu to find something to our liking. I had the Seabass with Thai green curry and rice. As the portion was not too large I decided to have…
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Ter Helme 2023
To continue our yearly tradition we went to Ter Helme again this year. The weather was reasonable, not too hot but still warm enough to go to the beach 2 times. On the Monday we went for a bike ride to Sint Idesbald. It had been a while since we went that way. On our bike trip we did have a bit of rain. We thought we could visit museum Ten Duinen while it rained but unfortunately they only opened at 2PM. Luckily they had some benches under a covered terrace so we could have our pick nick lunch there…
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FIH Pro League games Belgium – The Netherlands on July 1st and July 4th 2023
There were 2 weeks of games again in Antwerp this year end of June, beginning of July. And both the Belgian men and women teams played against the Dutch on Saturday July 1st and Tuesday July 4th. The Dutch women won both games as expected but the wins were very narrow ones, 2-0 and 2-1. On Saturday the Dutch women had the best of the game but they forgot to score which kept the game intense until the very end. The Dutch only scored their second goal in the last minute of the game. The technical quality was not as…
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Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance, aka Die Hard 3. The movie came out in 1995 and stars Samuel Jackson and Jeremy Irons besides Bruce Willis. This third movie doesn’t follow the same concept of the previous 2 movies where all the action basically takes place in one building. Here the action is spread over New York and we find John McClane back sitting out a suspension by drinking too much alcohol. His suspension is cut short after the criminal Simon (Jeremy Irons) blows up a building and demands that McClane plays a little game of Simon says. Simon has McClane…
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Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones
In the second movie of the prequel the story starts to turn a little darker. Episode 1 was a bit of a ‘the beginning’ story where we learn about the very young Anakin and the threat of the Sith. Now we find Anakin back as an adolescent Jedi apprentice of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Padmé returns Coruscant to vote on a motion to create an army to assist the Jedi. While there she is placed under the protection of Obi-Wan and Anakin. After 2 failed assassination attempts Obi-Wan is ordered to find the bounty hunter behind one of the attempts while Padmé…
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Batteliek
Some time ago we were in Mechelen to watch a Onze Natuur in cinema Lumiere with friends and we were looking for a place to eat afterwards. We ended up in Batteliek. It is located a bit out of the city centre next to the canal. We walked along the water from the center which took half an hour or so but if you prefer you can park your car close to Batteliek as well. It is a microbrewery located in an old church where you buy their beers to take home but you can enjoy them there or have…
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John Wick 2
After watching the first John Wick I now also watched the second movie, aka chapter 2. I watched the first one already quite a while ago. Then my son said he was going to see chapter 3 so I figured it was time to do some catching up and watch chapter 2. After having ‘retired’ again at the end of chapter 1 John is forced into action again by a former maffia partner Santino who orders him to assassinate his sister Gianna so he can take her place as one of the 12 leaders of crime. Wick reluctantly honours the…
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10 women who changed science and the world, Catherine Whitlock & Rhodri Evans (ISBN 9781472137432, Robinson)
Another book I picked up in bookstore Dominicanen in July 2022. It is a cheap paperback edition and I have to say I have read better written books of this type of collection of short biographies. Somehow I found the biographies were too much a collection of facts without a soul that inspires. But there were quite a few women I had only heard of by name without really knowing what they had done and there were even a few I hadn’t even heard of despite the obviously important contributions they made. The book also contains a good amount of…
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