de asielzoeker - Arnon Grunberg

Well, what can I say, I have finished the book, but not because it was a very good book. It took me six months I think, and it has not really fascinated me. Though I have to say, it is depressing, and it is quite nice if a book gets a certain atmosphere with it. I didn't feel any sympathy for the main character but I could feel his distance to the other people around him. His unwillingness to commit to social rules and the disagreement between him and peopel aroudn him. the feleing ofn to being able to say what you wnat to say, and to feel constantly less than others, not worth it.

my super-ex-girlfriend

Don't watch it. Uma Thurman is Kill Bill.

The Crucible

Last week I started rehearsing for a play I am acting in; the crucible by Arthur Miller. I have the part of Elizabeth Proctor, which was acted by Joan Allen in the movie from 1996. We have a nice group of actors and one of my friends from the squash club also joined. It's going to be some nice and exiting months till March.

News Cafe bar & restaurant

Right in the middle of Groningen you have the News Cafe. A trendy place, where you can have good coffees and chat. It is somewhat un-Dutch, but that's why I and so many people with me, like it. I went there for four times already. First time was with my mom, after a day of shopping we had dinner here, as I said, nice food, nice decrated plates :-). The other times were with friends to have a coffee. It's almost like the Kobus in Delft, just wihtout the good apple pie.

Groen

restaurant close to my new home. Went there together with my dad and sister after four hours of moving stuff from one room to the other. We deserved a good meal. Very refined, orginial and tastefull food. A good diversity, good service, nice atmosphere, just a very good restaurant.

de eerste kamer

This restaurant in de peperstraat in Groningen has decent meals in relation to the price you pay for it; 6.20 euro for the meal of the day. If you don't want to cook or do the dishes it's fine. If you want refined food, don't do it, nor for the perfect atmosphere, it's more like a mensa, a good mensa though.

Babel

A movie in which Brad Pitt is not Brad Pitt anymore. In which cultures are combined and melted together in such a way we see wordt of them. Why people can't listen and don't think and see. What is wrong with power and hierarchy, we need to accept the differences opr bridge them? A low movie, with wonderfull scenery, with real people, mkaes a realistic story... or is it a coincidence?