Never look back in anger

So, that's it for Oasis I take it. The brain stem of the band, Noel Gallagher has decided to leave, guess he's had that one last row with baby bro'.

Some of those rows kind of puts the conflicts in Afghanistan or Iraq in the shades. At least when it comes to headlines....


Anyway, I'm glad I got the chance to see them twice before they went into history.

And now, here's a few words from themselves, that actually might be needed from now on and the next few days/weeks/years.

The final countdown!

To get us all in the right mood for this blog, click this link and let it play while reading hehe. I was trying to embed it, but it's disabled, so unfortunately it has to be played in a separate window. Spongebob is fun.. And the song is quite appropriate right now.

Because it really IS the final countdown. First of all to my holiday, it's been an extremely long summer this year. Not a fun long summer, a WORKING and tiresome long summer. I'm not complainting, by all means, I love my job. But now the end is nigh, and in just a week I'm finally starting my 4 week long awaited holiday.

And today, it's a mere 14 days until we leave for LA!!

I start my holiday a bit earlier, I'm going on a short week to Paris first, with a very special friend of mine. So for those who happen to stroll by and who know me and didn't already know, well now I've admitted it lol.

I look immensely forward to getting away from here. I look forward to seeing new things, and just enjoy seeing new places. We'll drink mojitos and g/t's if we want to. And I'll generally just live life without thinking about what time I have to get back in my car and jump into my scrubs again.

There will definitely be more updates from my trip, with pics and all. But for now, it's all about dreaming and counting down. The final countdown!!!! :D


Snapshot from last years holiday, this was in Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal

My Madonna weekend

It's been exactly a week now since I got back home from my holiday leg 1 this year. I've seen my friends, their kids, who keeps growing in a pace that honestly scares me. I'm getting granny old soon!!
Plenty a coffee were drunk, plenty of sushi was ingested. And actually, not even one unit of alcohol. It's not that I'm proud of myself or anything, it just isn't an option most of the time.

Well, the Madonna concert. We had Golden Circle tickets, so we knew that we'd get quite close to the stage no matter how late we were.

I'd been checking up on weather forecasts, and the prognosis were poor for us, i knew that even before I got on the plane down. Thursday night, the concert night, it said heavy rain. And heavy rain were absolutely no exagerration.

Thursday morning came, I'd brought my 2 rainpochos (for the 2 of us, kindly approved by my mum when we first read the forecast. Had a day of windowshopping ahead of me, before I was to meet up with sis in law and head for Valle Hovin, the concert arena. About half an hour before we were to meet, heaven decided to open up, and let all the excess water out in a huge thunderstorm. So when we got up to the Arena, it already looked a bit like a lake. Because there were no drainage whatsoever on the concrete that the rest of the year is a skating arena.

We were a bit far back in line, but somehow managed to get front row places when we came in. Already soaked shoes, I found a place that didn't have 10 cm of water. And stood put. here's what my socks looked like before the concert even started, but after I'd been on a little walk to find a ladies room.


Notice how sis in law was smart enough to wear wellies. I had on leather strollers from Vagabond, not a good choice.

To make a long story short, Madonna was really fit, already about 600 times more fit than me, and when I'll get to 50, she'll probably be 1600 times more fit than me. We were in front of the bass speakers, so it was hard to hear the music itself, just heard booom boom boom and her voice when the base didn't go. Which was most of the time. So I can't say if she sang great or not. But she had a great show, that's for sure. And it was WET. WET as ...a shower, or a steam shower. Or a massage shower, if you want. Especially at times. Here are a few more shots from the nights, some of us, some of Madonna. And i'll try to upload a video too. The sound isn't good at all, because of the proximity to the bassdrums, but the sight was great. So turn OFF your speakers and enjoy! hehe


Happy to be front row, showing off the bar.


Madonna stratting her stuff in front of us, on the bass speaker that stole my sound.


Here's the clip with the best sound, but still, the bass messes it up half way. Sorry.