Amat victoria curam!

On pix these US muscle cars always look awesome - in reality it is usually made in a very bad finish...

Richard Eringfeld, a very good business contact from SNS Bank, died in a trike accident. For no apparent reason he clashed into a tree. Wearing no Helmet he injured his head so severly that he was in coma instantly. He was only 43 years old... I will miss him deeply because of his vision, passion and warmth.

I am not a huge fan, but because of the Mama Mia Movie I remembered some ABBA tunes from my early childhood :-)
1) Knowing Me, Knowing You
2) Lay all your love on me
3) Thank you for the Music
4) The Day Before you came
5) One of Us
6) Eagle
7) Under Attack
8) Voulez Vous
9) Take a chance on Me
10) Dancing Queen

A great exhibition about other kinds of Sexuality in the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen with e.g. this new version of David.

Yet an other famous picture was added to our collection. This time via Swann auctions in New York.

I ordered weeks ago some stuff at the German Motor Bike shop Louis. They sent it of via Deutsche Post so it got here in Amsterdam in the hands of Select Vracht. Which is a disastrous courier. They came unannounced and did came when they promised to come. The package was sent back to Germany and then back again. Finally eddie picked it up for me. I wrote a complaint to the Management whom - I must admit - reacted promptly and correct.

The office warming of Zomoto today was well visited and we got all kinds of nice presents like this Carrera race track - with two cars. It took Steven and Me at least an hour to put it all together. :-)

While I used to play with Lego and Fisher Technic, kids nowaday have their first digital videocamera when they are 6.
I am still waiting for the first movies of Lisa Riefenstahl...

At the Scheringa Museum of Realism a nice painting of the German/Turkish painter Taner Ceylan.

Oops their missile launch went wrong and one rocket got stuck: but hey: that's why they sell Photoshop in Iran!

In Ciel Bleu yesterday Margot Janse was cooking. She is Executive Chef of restaurant The Tasting Room of hotel Le Quartier Français in
the South-African town of Franschhoek. Under her leadership restaurant
The Tasting Room was listed for the third time as one of the 50 best
restaurants in the world.
We had an all South African menu which took us about 3 hours to finish ;-)

Amuse Bouche 
Bobotie bitterbal with puffed kurkuma rice Pineapple with ginger beer Mousse of gooseliver, physalis and relish of rooibos 
 
Biltong 
Bilbong tea, pumpkin and buchu froth

Tuna 
Crispy zebra cannelloni stuffed with  tartar of yellow tail tuna  and granité of smoked beef tomato
 
Assiette of South-African lobster
Koeksister of lobster with mango atjar  Lobster with granadilla tartar, oyster and vanilla ice cream Cannelloni of lobster with garlic crumbs 

Lard
Slowly cooked lard, laquered in white beer, ginger and peppadew Kataifi langouste and BBQ sauce

Springbok
‘Sugar Cured’ Springbok filet, mieliemeal and chakalaka fondant,
samp with bacon ragout and pinotage sauce

Puffed cakes with ginger
Puffed cakes filled with ginger cream, stewed pumpkin,  ice cream of coconut and vanilla

I got this throphy award from Nike Plus after running more then 250 km on my new shoes. Sweet!

An attack on the ATM across the street kept me awake last night. Somebody tried to burn the machine - probably out of pure frustration.