I'm a forty year old father of two, living in Belgium, Europe.
I recently decided to start over, on my own, for I think one shouldn't settle for less than genuine happiness, though it scared the living daylights out of me.
I'm always interested in meeting new people, broadening my horizon and view and learning more about people and the world we live in.

If you're up to sharing ideas, interests or just for a good chat,you can add me. If you're looking to get married, good luck.

I like spending a fair amount of time on the internet, for it's an interesting means of communicatio​n as well as a great medium.
I play chess online, I recently discovered weiqi, but am not good at it yet.​
I like reading, various stuff, took an interest in photography and am going to learn chinese in evening classes as of September 2009.
I like food, heck yeah do I love​ food​, and usually cook my own dinner.
I'm personally convinced that people should keep learning new things, throughout their lives. Our brain is like a muscle that needs to be exercised.

I like various styles of music.
Ones I definately am not too fond of: Schlager​ and rap​

Lately I find myself enjoying classical and symphonical music more and more. It somehow seems to be more correct, complete.

​Pop I like:​
Björk​, Carmel​, Coldplay​, Fleetwood​ Mac​, Kate​ Bush​, John​ Denver​, Mike​ Oldfield​, REM​, Siouxsie​ and the Banshees​, The Smiths​, The Sundays​,Dir​e Straits​ and more

​Some rock I like:​
Neil​ Young​, Nirvana​,The​ Doors​,Led​ Zeppelin​,Dee​p Purple​

​Some uncategorise​d:​
Neil​ Diamond​, Bob Dylan​, Frank​ Zappa​

Although I usually attend main stream movies - I am a father of two - I prefer the alternative ones.
Quentin​ Tarrantino always​ seem to please my cinematic cravings.
I also like Peter​ Greenaway's​ style and movies.
As well as David​ Lynch.​
The latter two for their (sometimes) weird stories and the atmosphere their movies breath. The use of colours, especially Greenaway.

On tv their are a variety of series I like, though I wouldn't specifically​ stay in to see them.
There's means of recording, you know.
​Let's see:​

MD House​, CSI​( navy ncis, csi miami, the whole lot( pathology ), Friends​, Heroes​ , StarGate​ Atlantis​,  and some British series on Saturday evenings, police and detective mostly, with beautiful landscapes of the British country side.

I like reading some pre-revoluti​on russian authors like Nabokov, and am looking for Bunin now.
I read various stuff, from novels to poetry, to manuals.
Fiction, non-fiction,​ it's all the same to me.
It's all in the writer's eye and mind, right?
And even then, we need to be able to grasp his/hers meaning.
I settle for what I can take and make of it.
Usually I start with enjoying the style, if possible.

​I like:​
Oscar​ Wilde​, William​ B. Yeats​, Vladimir​ Nabokov​ ... and more

​I must:​
Look into the German classics soon.

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.