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As you may have noticed I traveled a lot this year and to conclude my voyages, earlier this month I spent almost a week in Istanbul, Turkey. This was the first trip ever abroad together with my work colleagues. The main purpose of the voyage was a Cisco Networking Academy conference, but somewhere on the way I’ve made some adjustments :).

Once I debarked the plane in Istanbul I realized I had a an absolutely wrong mindset about Turkey. It’s so different from any country I visited so far. During the days spent in Istanbul, I tried to cover as much as I could of this wonderful city. This city is unique. It’s the only city in the world that spreads over two continents. I’ve visited the Mosques, the old and new parts of the city, toured on the Bosporus, got lost, spent huge amounts of money shopping, made full use of my negotiation skills, ate the best food ever and chilled out at the river side.

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No excuses anymore:
It’s been a month … I don’t know why in the last month, whenever I opened this page, I didn’t manage to get myself to write anything. It’s not that nothing happened this last month, but I just didn’t feel like writing. I decided not to say “sorry” whenever I don’t post for a longer period. It’s stupid. It’s my blog and I’ll update it whenever I feel like updating it. This blog is supposed to be about me, about my experiences and some of my feeling and I won’t post just to have another piece of text in here. Judge me if you like, this is one thing I won’t change here.

In the last month was “the month of things not happening”:
The start of my own business is now uncertain. I hate when I’m depending on others to reach my goals. Now because two of my friends not getting along with eachother, I’m back to square one. I also had to turn down some very good offers. After all that planning and dreaming I’m now rethinking my options and trying to find the determination to get this going. Deadlines have moved to next year. One down.

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Hey Guys,

On my old site I hosted some drawings made by two friends of mine in the chemistry or physics classes in highschool. They bring back a lot of memories.

Because I was planning for a long time to take the old site down, I decided to make them available on DeviantArt, one of the largest artist communities on the web. It’s sad that none of them are drawing anymore. We were so young back then, dreaming big, like only kids do. After highshool our lives took different turns. I haven’t seen one of them for 6 years.

Yeah, I know, this is life. This doesn’t mean I’m supposed to like it.

Anyway, you can find all the drawings and any other Deviations I’ll upload from time to time on here. You might also want to check Robert or Gabi’s Deviations.

Over and out,
The Lion.

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Yesterday, the big premiere of “Harry Potter – The order of the Phoenix” was launched in the Netherlands. I’ve always been a fan, so I cheerfully accepted Amit’s proposal to go see it. I was also reading for a few days the book with the same name :)

I saw the movie before finishing the book, but I’m still gonna’ read it. It’s awesome written and it practically captures you, and as I’m always reading in the evening, it affects my wake-up capabilities in the morning :D.

Anyway, the movie was good, but as I’ve read most of the book, I could see the inconsistencies and how the story transformed on screen. I thing they did a pretty good job tough. It was fun and exciting, I can’t wait to see the next 2 movies and I determined to get a physical copy of the books (I’m reading on PDF files on my laptop and sometimes it’s very uncomfortable).

For all of you guys that are now laughing their heads of: you don’t know what you’re missing. These books are not for kids ;).

The Lion.

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I love water, this is one of the reasons I like The Netherlands so much. Everywhere you look is a canal, a lake or the open sea. I choose to see Kinderdijk this weekend … mainly because it because it involved a 35 minutes boat ride.

Saturday it poured down all day and the sky cleared just 20 minutes before our departure. Nothing unusual in The Netherlands. Weather here changes from sunshine to heavy rain and vice-versa in just a few minutes.

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