A little late but “Merry Christmas”, I had a nice 3 days of Christmas in “Friesland” with family and as good Christmas goes: good food, a lot of talking, catching up and playing conquer the world a.k.a. Risk.
A new game style was invented by in laws, called “emotion risk” or short “EmoRisk”. This happens when you loose 10:3(or worse) and started hitting every country you possibly can. Cleaning out the board and mostly making sure that the next round some one will go for the kill or his/her assignment. Which would lead to another game of Risk.
Last night I went to Cats the musical, It was very impressive but sometimes hard to hear what they were saying, but enough to follow the story line.
It was really fun to see all the blown out of proporsion stage, bike’s that were as large 2 meters (about 7 feet I think). Giving the impression that the actors were smaller. Sad thing is the actors are beautifully made looking like cats but they are too far away to see such detail. So here is a picture up close of a kitten and one of my girlfriend and the leading Cat of the story.
Well getting ready for graduation party of my girlfriend.
First we are going out to have a ncie diner and then 3 doors further we are going to have a party until 02:00 and we will see what we do after that. It’s going to be fun.
If you want to join, Nijmegen, “Het Grote Bos” 21:00.
Well not to me but to my girlfriend and it offsets her stolen laptop some what.
Casimir Fund
Is a fund to stimulate mobility of researchers and knowledge between knowledge institutions and business organizations. She applied for this funds as she is a PhD student at Radboud University of Nijmegen and works together with Organon on a study towards Stem Cell differentiation. She is 1 of 15 to receive this funds this year, and the youngest to receive it. 
Here are some links:
News post University (Dutch)
News Post NWO (Dutch)
Although december should be the month with all the good days: graduation of girlfriend, christmas, Sinterklaas(Dutch Santa), New Year and all the freedays, this year it started a little rough: my girlfriends laptop got stolen from her workplace at the university. Which happens regularly it seems but it is quite something, laptop cable lock, closed department with keycard, and you have to walk through a hall which is quite busy. Mainly with traffic from workplace <-> lab, in this time 15 minutes tops, it got stolen. Only the externals where left, including an untouched laptop lock. The nicest thing about it, it isn’t covered anywhere it seems, university will most likely not replace it. Sucks.