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Last Thursday we went to see the latest Pixar movie, Wall-E. Ignoring the money we spent, it was a perfect evening.

With Wall-E, Pixar once again proved that they’re leading the animation industry. All the other film studios make animation movies like “a head character goes on a quest with his so-called friends; they have a few laughs, they have a few fights, and at the end everything turns out fine (mawkishly sentimental life lesson included)”. Well, that’s not the case with Wall-E.

The first hour of the movie tries to describe how Wall-E lives, how he feels, and what he does. I think there were like 10 spoken sentences and that was it! The silence included humour, sentiment and compassion (what I believe is a very difficult thing to do for a garbage-cleaning robot).

In the second hour we see how Wall-E tries to get over the (mostly bad) feelings he has. He meets Eve who he falls in love with and he begins his (not so corny) quest. The rest of his objective I’ll leave for you to see.

If you were waiting for a movie that is full of fun, passion, adventure, beauty, … in short, all the ingredients for a good movie, then you should see Wall-E… like… immediately!

Hilarious!

Once he was Fake Steve Jobs. Now he is Real Dan Lyons.

There are several reasons why one can feel proud. I guess if you have this feeling at least once a day, in a very honest way, you’re doing great.

When people go on holiday to a foreign country, they’re likely to see some things there they like more than at home. Germany was no different for me, so here we go (bear in mind that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence and that there probably are other things that are better here):

First of all, traffic. People in Germany are allowed to drive faster on several occasions. I completely understand why that’s not the case in Belgium: people are less friendly and less responsible. E.g. when we came back to Belgium, everybody was driving in the middle lane of the highway, while the right lane was completely empty. It’s something that happens too in Germany, but (much) less frequently.

Than there’s recycling. In Germany there’s a cashback for plastic bottles, which helps keeping the streets clean. You pay a bit more when you buy the bottle, but you get that extra amount of money back when returning it to the store.

In the small towns you still can enjoy the I-trust-you-feeling. E.g. I had to change my €500 note in notes of €50 and the bank clerk didn’t even check whether the note was legitimate or not!

To summarize: we had a really nice vacation (we even stayed there for a day longer than originally planned) and I’m not glad we’re back.