{"id":1008,"date":"2012-12-15T06:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2013-01-04T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T09:17:55","slug":"journal-14-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Journal 14-12-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual I am suffering from jet lag, waking up in the middle of the night, feeling sleepy in broad daylight. Sniffy too, and coughing a lot. Cold! But no snow.
\nOn Tuesday I was invited for dinner by Inez. I found a fleece and an old winter jacket in a cupboard, gloves, and a head cap. I went on my bike to Inez, where I arrived half-frozen.<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

But the company of Inez and the nice, typical Dutch dinner (and a few glasses of wine) brought me back to life soon…:-)<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1995\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"IMG_1996\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The next morning it was raining, and I seriously considered to stay in bed the whole day…:-) Here is the view from my bedroom window.<\/p>\n

\"Bedroom<\/a><\/p>\n

But in the afternoon the rain stopped, fortunately, because I had planned to go to the University, where an ex-colleague of me was giving a farewell\/retirement party. It was nice to meet many people I had been working with, ten years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Farewell<\/a><\/p>\n

I could not stay long because I had invited Yolanda, Paul’s sister for dinner.<\/p>\n

\"Dinner<\/a><\/p>\n

And the next day my brother Pim came to my place, also for dinner. As I wrote in an earlier post, I will gain weight during these few weeks…:-)<\/p>\n

\"Dinner<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I have visited the recently re-opened Stedelijk (Municipal) Museum of Amsterdam, my favourite Modern Art Museum. It was closed for renovation for about nine years. What a pleasure to see again many of the famous paintings of this museum, for example this Mondriaan. Click here<\/a> for a detailed report<\/p>\n

\"Mondriaan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I will end this post with a bit of Malaysian news. Just before I came back to Amsterdam, I realised that my road tax and car insurance were about to expire. So I asked Aric to renew it for me. He came back to me with a shocking discovery!<\/p>\n

Do you know that you have not\u00a0 renewed it December last year? So for one full year you have been driving without insurance and without road tax. Quite a miracle that you have not been caught by the police!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the old sticker, expiry date December 2011!<\/p>\n

\"Car<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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