Almost a year has passed since I wrote the last entry on my own personal blog. I have not been writing a lot on neweurasia lately either, so I don’t even have that excuse at my disposal either. Have I been too busy in my new job? Not really, they are actually treating me quite well. Let’s see…

- Schwartz and I have teamed up again (I had the pleasure to chill with him in Philly a couple of weeks ago). We’re aiming to produce a book out of the 3,000+ posts that have been written on neweurasia since its inception three years ago. Check out the blog here.
- I have written two articles for Steppe Magazine, Central Asia’s first real glossy. The first is about, yes, Blogging in Central Asia and can be seen/read here. The second one is forthcoming in the new fourth issue and will be a restaurant review.
- I have used the above mentioned trip to the States to equip myself with the latest Mac accessories and have resumed to make electronic music. Until the results are sounding OK-ish, I will keep them to myself!
- Another trip to Central Asia is in the pipeline, this time for only three weeks playing the tourist. Gareth, Sascha and Ollie will join me in what will surely be an exciting road trip visiting several new places (Astana, Sary-Chelek) and showing my friends my favourite place afoot the Pik Lenin.
- Lastly, work has been good, and I can’t believe that it’s already been eight months since I joined the company. Inevitably, that makes me think about the future quite frequently recently. At this stage, I have got no idea where the journey will take me. I have some things in mind, mostly connected to Central Asia and Russia, but how it will all pan out is an unwritten paper yet.
- Oh, I shall be attending the Global Voices Summit in Budapest this June – it’ll be great meeting up with many people that I haven’t seen in a while. In that vein, it was also great meeting many of my neweurasia friends in Riga earlier this year during the Latvian Barcamp.

By the way, have I mentioned that Groningen is a really sweet place when the sun’s out?

Thanks to Rob for prompting me to update this place. I aim to do this more often from now.

PS: The Flickr photo stream – at the time of publication – shows Koxe and Tina’s sweet daughter Kjella.