Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I had an interesting lecture today. A professor of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam was giving a lecture of the research of the development of synapses in living brain tissue in relationship with the development of the auditive system..  Pretty tough stuff. They developed mice with occasional green brain cells to watch synapse activities.

Yesterday I have taken photo's of my new G-Shock's and today I finished three pages. The green W.C.C.S. page frankly even hurt my eyes but I like the W.C.C.S. logo, ha ha. Further more you find also the International Snowboard Federation model and my long wanted Alaskan Dog Musher's Association model. I think I have used my brain synapses enough for today.  Until the next G.

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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Lately I became interested in Stussy shirts. I'm afraid the newest Stussy G-Shock and FUMI are responsible for that. About a week ago I read Fumi's weblog and saw this great Eric Haze x Stussy "Swirl" T-Shirt. I ordered it exact a week ago and received it earlier this week. It looks even better in real!

Anyhow. I have not updated my "Shirts" corner in my "Other Crazes" section for a while. I should update it. I got also a nice heap of 5 Spyderco T-Shirts.  At the moment I have set my mind on a new KIKS TYO T-Shirt. This would be a great shirt for the summer to come...

I know, it is a bit wild colored, but I like it. Maybe I should look for a DW-6900FS-4FJ to go with it.

So what's up with the G-Shock. I got a sort of grail, which came from a friend in Japan. For a long time (even before I met Gerald) I wanted this watch. I like the DW-8800 Codename module in combination with the double Velcro straps. Finally I have an A.D.M.A. model. Also a very nice green jelly W.C.C.S. model was in the package. They both are looking much better than the quick and dirty photo I took this week, but I think you can see how nice they are.

Also another G-Shock came in this week. I saw it on the sales forum on WatchUSeek. I was actually amazed nobody reacted for a week on the sales post. Okay, this watch is has very noticeable blue accents, but the white has still the overhand I think. It's the DW-003IS-6T. It was made for the International Snowboard Federation.

So what's on my mind... I think I wait a while before I buy the recently released GW-9200 Riseman. I really want to have it, but I rather go for a GLX-5600. Although the watch is and looks even smaller than a DW-5600, the Tidegraph function and the glossy finish makes this a real nice watch. Also I still want a second red and green S-Kool G-5500 model. Like always, to much choice...

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Today I finished the paged for the PAG-40 (US version of the PRG-40) and the black DW-5600GM-1ADR of the Metallix-G series. Finally, after 4 days I'm up to date again. I have no upcoming G-Shock's or idea what's to come next. First I need to get a little more funds I am afraid. I think you can imagine these eight watches have left a hole in my wallet. Still there are two watches waiting for me. I have already paid for them, but they will be shipped in a few weeks. I can only tell one of them is a model I wanted to have for a long time and the other is a very nice colored jelly.

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I have been working a lot to get my website updated the past three days. I have taken lots of photo's and chosen the best ones for new pages. I am still not finished, but quite some interesting pages are on-line now. The FIFA 2006 W-5600WC-1ER, Atomic Force, Crazy Gangsters, Glorious Gold GW-225E-7JF Frogman, 25th Anniversary Team Tough and a DW-002S G-Lide are already on-line yet. I will do my best to get the black Metallix DW-5600 and PAG-40 up soon.

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Sunday, June 8th, 2008

I have not been at home much lately. Thursday I went unexpected to Antwerp to company 20 students to the Fashion Museum, part of the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Fashion Department. The main exhibition was made by Veronique Branquinho. It was a very interesting excursion.

Friday I went to the Royal Shipyard "De Schelde". My brother Paul works there. You could visit two SIGMA CLASS Corvettes that are being built there. I met a guy with a G-Shock. He might show up later in the G-People section.

Talk about the G-People section. I started that section to show other people I wasn't the only person that wore big "plastic" watches. When I started I didn't knew that I would find so many people over the past 5 years. In the Art Shop of the Fashion Museum I saw several great books. One of them touched me. It was called "Me and my Handbag". In this photo book there is a girl or woman with her handbag on every left page, while the owner of the bag has filled in a small log. The book was shaped in the form of a handbag (I can't find the title on the internet though). Somehow I see a lot of resemblance with my G-People section in that book.

I posted the last article in a series of 4 on 50 Gs about G-Shock's I take with me on vacation. I wrote all 4 articles in Cadenet, in the south of France. Today's article is about the DW-5025B of the  25th Anniversary Rising White series. Actually I didn't plan to write a review of this watch, but it became fast a favorite watch and I found some time to write this article. A special thank goes out to Riley of My G-Shock for highlighting the 50Gs posts on his blog. Check out his website/weblog. If there is any G-Shock news, you'll read it there!

Yesterday the totally unexpected happened. The 25th Anniversary "Team Tough" model arrived, together with the Glorious Gold Frogman. Unbelievable. It only took less than 48 hours to get here in the Netherlands at my door. The watches look awesome. The gold case of the Frogman shines very nice through the translucent bezel.

I started taking pictures of the G-Shock's and Pathfinder (US name for ProTrek models). I have to update 8 watches (including the almost forgotten DW-5600WC FIFA 2006 model). It might take some time to get all pages up, but "stay tuned for more..."

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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I reached a milestone today. For a long time the number of G-Shock's in my collection slowly crept to the magic 400 border. Today the this border was crushed. I received a package of 5 G-Shock's and a PAG-40. On G-Shock is not for me, so the counter now sticks on 403 G-Shock's.

Also I got the great news that both the 25th Anniversary Team Tough model (DW-5025SP) and the Glorious Gold Frogman (GW-225E-7JF) arrived in Japan. I transferred the funds already and the watches should go on their way tomorrow or Thursday.

I also got a great Press Kit today of Quolomo. Quolomo is a new brand (their website is not even on-line yet) for contemporary T-Shirt Designs in Tokyo. The Quolomo crew contain the creative brain behind KIKS TYO (Hobby:tech), controversial fashion photographer Yone and the creative director of Nano Universe. Quite some names. The summer catalogue contain a lot of new T-Shirts. A large part is dedicated to G-Shock and some designs are absolutely awesome. The best part for me, the press kit contains a sample T-Shirt. Mine is one of the best classic designs in my opinion, the DW-6900, the triple eyed devil!

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I received #399 yesterday. It was the Brazilian FIFA World Cup 2006 model. There will not be an exact #400. A package with several G's is on it's way from Chicago to the Netherlands.

Back to the FIFA watch, there is a German seller who sells the DW-6900WCJ-9ER and DW-5600WC-1ER by dozens for very cheap prices, and no, these are no fakes, like the trillions of Bape's you see on eBay! I bought first 3 DW-5600's and a DW-6900. Since a DW-5600 and a DW-6900 were for a friend, I noticed I was one DW-6900 short. The seller helped me out and sold me one for a bargain price. I felt lucky when it arrived yesterday, so I walk proudly around with this Brazilian model on my wrist. I already have an DW-6900WCJ-9ER, so this is the one to wear. With the new European Championship coming up, it will be fun to wear the DW-5600 in the colors of "Der Mannschaft" (Note that The Netherlands and Germany in football are rivals).

I should make a nice page for the DW-5600WC soon. I'm not going to say what is in the box from Chicago, but there are at least two very nice items. Let me reveal a bit... Red Camouflage!

When I visited a scale model/Lego® convention in February, I noticed a new big building set. some people know. If it's red, I must have it. This set, the Republic Cruiser, is a rare hard to get item, but after a small search I found one in Germany for a good price (the prices in the US are much better, but it is a big heavy box, so imagine the shipping and custom costs). It took me 4 and a half hour to build, but here a nice photoshoped picture our expanding Lego® Star Wars® fleet.

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Friday, May 16th, 2008

More than 2 weeks no update... Not for no reason. I went on holidays to South France (Cadenet, about 25km above Marseille). We had great weather and a good time. Every day a simple but delicious breakfast and we have seen a lot of great things. For my adventures in France look at my Japanese weblog. I'm just halfway the reports. Have a look and enjoy.

At the moment I have no G-Shocks incoming. I have my eyes out on several G's, but it might take about two weeks before I get some new G's in. I have written 4 articles about G-Shocks in France for the 50Gs weblog. The first article will be posted next Sunday, the three others will follow in the next three weeks. They will be accompanied with photo's I made there.

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Thursday, April 29th, 2008

It has been some busy weeks on the lab and also it was beautiful weather. Therefore it took a while to update my website. I already had the DW-003HH (Hip Hop BPM) and the DW-9600WC (W.C.C.S.). I received recently the other two models of the Rastafarian series, the DW-6900R-7DR and the G-5500R-1DR. Both beautiful models. I think it was worth to have the complete series. Also I got a model I wanted for a long time in my collection. I already had the DJ Spooky model, now I also have the Eric Haze model of the Silver Collection series.  I spent two days with taking pictures, a little research and making the pages, so I hope you enjoy them.

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I see it's al already 10 days after my last update. I have been very busy, so I did not have much time to update the website. That's a pity. I have received 5 beautiful watches in the mean time. I was very happy with the DW-DW-5025B and DW-5725B of the Rising White models. I already had those, but I liked to have this pair to wear this summer. Last Sunday it was a nice day to try out. Here I am with my new Stussy shirt and DW-5725B, watching parapentes from a terrace of a beach restaurant. It looks like I have to do something with my hair. It's pretty long... at least for me.

Also I got a nice package with a DW-003HH (Hip Hop). It's the black BPM version with orange stripe. Also in that package was a DW-9600WC. A few months ago I still had no W.C.C.S. model. Now I have my second.

The last watch I got was the Dave Quality Meat version in the Concre series. It was not easy to get it, since the seller has no Paypal account. With the help of my friend Neil from G-Shock Nation (Chicago), I was able to pay for the watch. Not only the watch is great. Also the package is awesome. It is a special box, that holds a smaller box (when fold open). The smaller box contains a set of 14 cards. Although I tried, this is the only page I have been able to make past days.

I very much loved the Rastafarian DW-5600R. I bought the other two models of this series earlier this week. Also I won another very nice G-Shock auction for a good price. It seems I have a little love for shirts lately. I also bought two other Stussy's (actually 3, but 1 was damaged and the sale was cancelled).

By the way, did anyone notice the 5th anniversary of G-Peopleland?

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Monday, April 7th, 2008

I won an auction of a DW-5600R-7DR last week (overseas Rastafarian model). The shiny resin and very dark green tone makes it a real fantastic looker. The package was delivered at my school. The postal service already knows where to deliver a package when I'm not at home. Ain't that fantastic! I already took pictures and made a page for it.

When I was commenting about a GW-300, I noticed my yellow GW-300 Ultimate Force was missing on my website. I found the pictures I took around July 2007. Somehow I forgot to make a page about this watch.  I made a page, better late than never.

I got a huge Dentist bill last week. I suggested myself to slow down in my G-Shock acquires. It worked for a week. Now there are still 5 G-Shock's on it's way to me. I got a good offer for two Rising White models, that I probably will be wearing much this summer. Also I bought a nice special DW-5600 model, with a special package. I also found a nice W.C.C.S model that I don't have and I combined it with a DW-003HH Tough Label model.

Last night I also bought a very nice Stussy Shirt. I think looking too much at FUMI's weblog might lead me into another shirt craze. This Stussy smells to more...

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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

After my second Dawn Black GW-5525A, I received today my second GW-225A. I put it on my wrist... What a great looking watch. Normally I don't get warm about gold, but this watch shows real class! One of the best GW-200 models I have ever seen. I'm sure this one is going to get a lot of wrist time the forth coming days.

I am trying to get a very nice collaboration model here, but I have to arrange a money order in the US. It will be bought and sent today, thanks to the help of a very good friend. I think I have that special watch in about two weeks.

I also have an eye on the dark green and shiny DW-5600R-3JF. I hope I have some money left for this beauty this month. I have been drewling over the photo's posted by owners on the G-Shock forum.

Picture by Vintage! Published with permission.

Also has Casio announced a lot of interesting G's. I was not really enthusiast about the Master Blue and Ocean Grey series, but the forthcoming Glorious Gold series are looking very good. I already pre-ordered the Frogman.

Also Casio announced a 25th anniversary Team Tough DW-5025SP model. It is a limited edition of 2008 pieces, but I already pre-ordered one. I hope I will get it. Here is the sample model photographed in the head quarters of Casio Japan in Tokyo.

Also very interesting is a new G-Lide series coming up. It is shaped as the classic DW-5600, but it has a Tidegraph prominent present on it's display. It comes in 3 basic colors. Specially the red version looks very attractive to me.

Also there will be a new G-Shock book published soon. It is probably a magazine like the 2006 G-Shock Official Book and the 2007 Complete G-Shock Bible.

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Monday, March 17th, 2008

I got a nice surprise package from my friend Neil of G-Shock Nation in Chicago about a week ago. So what was in it...

A beautiful MRG-210, finally a digital version to wear. The square shape  makes this MR-G look very unique. It's my favorite of the collection.

A G-011D with maroon dial. Since only the black version is available in Europe, and that one is called the Black Soul, I nicknamed mine Maroon Soul. It sounds much warmer... Also this model is very unique. It is a kind of fashion watch. It looks like designs of fashion brands like Diesel, but this watch is HUGE.

A GL-121 in yellow and very dark blue. I have not taken pictures of that one.

A batch of 7 baby-G's of the Jeans series. One of them had not a patch on the watchband. A dear friend of me choose that one to have when I offered here to choose one, so 6 are left for my collection.

Saturday I got a Package from a friend of me in Maryland. JC Penney had a sale and the Dawn Black GW-5525-1C (US code for the GW-5525-1JF) was very good priced. I got mine shipped for about 50% of the price I paid for a basic GW-5500. This watch is awesome. The gold tone display is very clear. I got a dog tag with the watch with on one side the G-Shock logo, on the other side the 25th Anniversary logo by Eric Haze.

Also a Dawn Black Frogman started the journey to my house this weekend. It will take some time to arrive, but I will have two Dawn Black's to wear.

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Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Finally the G-100DM-2ADR has it's page on G-Peopleland. It took a while, but I think the pictures are worth it. Also worth are the photo's of the black G-Lide GL-120 that I got earlier this week. This is an awesome G-Lide model. I had not seen this model before in real life. It has an extra watchband and also a reversed EL backlight, which is pretty unique under G-Shock models. 

A box full of G-Shock's and Baby-G's is on the way to me. There are two very wanted models of me included. Also a Dawn Black model with a special goody is ordered via a friend of me at JC Penney's. It will be put in the mail soon.

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Casio announced today another great Master of G resurrection. In June 2008 an new Riseman model will be released. This watch does not only have the Altimeter and Barometer functions on board. En passant this model is also the first 6 band Waveceptor. The retail price is 28350 yen including taxes, there will be an output of 3000 copies a month at the time of release. This is also the first Atomic Solar G-Shock that has the 24 hour Countdowntimer (thanks Buzzbait). Awesome.

Today a funny package arrived. It contained the G-Lide GL-210. I always thought it was a relative small (G-2900 sized) G-Shock. To my big surprise, the watch is pretty big. Topher, many thanks, this model was on my wish list for a long time!

I updated the website last week with three models, but I found out I forgot my G-100DM-2ADR completely, while this watch looks awesome. I hope I will have some time soon to add this watch and the G-Lide to G-Peopleland.

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Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I took a lot of pictures Tuesday of my Orange Monster, my black Beams G-Shock II and of course of my GW-M5600. Since I had a pretty busy schedule, it was Open Day at our school yesterday, I did not have much time to update the website.

 Actually a phone call of a friend of me almost made it not possible to update today too. She had gotten a free video recorder, but could not record. When I arrived, she had already removed the recording protection of the VHS-tape. When I examined her video and TV set,  I noticed the antenna wasn't connected to the Video, a second coax cable was missing and also she did not have a remote control to set the senders... So I returned much earlier then expected to finish my new pages job, ha ha.

Azrael is our new Family member. It was actually our neighbors cat, but they moved to another town. We are alone not sure the combination with our other pets is a good one...

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Monday, February 18th, 2008 Post #2

Just got in the house. The GW-M5600. This is a watch a lot of G-Shock enthusiasts have been waited for in Europe. Casio released all kinds of Waveceptor models that receive  the signal(s) in Europe, but there was no classic square model. Finally Casio made their type VI. (DW-5000 = Type I, DW-5600C = Type II, DW-5600E = Type III, G-5600 is type IV, GW-5600 = Type V). I have a lot to update in G-Peopleland I am afraid. For Europe this watch is already available at Tiktox!

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Monday, February 18th, 2008

I got the Seiko Monster in the house. I have it for about two weeks now and it already has gotten quite some wrist time. No fear. I have been wearing G-Shock too. The Monster was actually bigger than I expected. I thought it was a smaller watch, but it has a decent size, like a regular G-Shock (like the DW-6900). It feels very solid and the bracelet wears very comfortable. Although it came in my wrist size, the bracelet can be adjusted very precise. It also has a wet suit bracelet enlarger (I don't know how it is called).

The G-100DM-2ADR arrived last week. It is a very nice watch. The red dial looks very nice, though it is a monstrous watch to adjust time. All the button control is opposite to normal G-Shock's. First of all I tried to set time in date mode, . Then I adjusted time with Hand Adjust (that always is activated)...

Last Thursday I got a notice from the mailman that there was a package for me. It would be delivered the next day. When the Postman arrived Friday he told there was a tax bill on it. €42.75!  Since Eva didn't have that much money in the house, I could pick it up later that day. The tax was a bit hard to swallow (it is a holiday week and I could have done a lot of fun things with Bram with it), but the watch is awesome. It's the black twin brother of my orange Beams G-ShockII. Finally they are (in it) together!

Two weeks ago a good friend called me at school (in the middle of a lesson) to tell me he got through the order telephone of the abbey of Westvleteren for the 12º.  A few hours later he SMS-ed me that he could pick up 3 crates last Thursday.  The same afternoon the beer was already sold out again. He en passant called me that today the Westvleteren 8º would go in sale. With a lot of luck he managed to order three crates for me (he got a very nice business redialer service for his phones. It wasn't even possible to order with his first phone number (it is allowed to order once a month, if beers are available!). Tomorrow I will be traveling to the French border to collect 3 crates of beer. In the mean while I collected my crate 12º yesterday evening.

My blogging friend Fukkun36 had an operation for a neck hernia last week. I read he will be home today. Chestnut (his dog, a toy poodle) will be probably very happy.

Let the spring start. The sun is already doing it's best! Bram and I went to a beach yesterday, enjoying the nice weather. I also took a series of pictures for an article on 50Gs.

Here is a nice tune to welcome the sunny weather. It's a Russian cartoon with a short mix of Mr Oizo's latest 12" Patrick 122. Awesome track! Enjoy and have a great day!

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Friday, February 1st, 2008

I found a little box waiting for me on my desk when I got home yesterday. It was a watch from a good friend of the UK. I got it for a friendly price. It is the G-5600GH of the June 2003 G-Viper series. I think I have my new camera a bit better under control than about 4 weeks ago.  Except for the EL shots, I have used all photo's I shot of this watch. No matter how good the pictures are, the watch does look even better in real!

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Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I got a nice package from KIKS TYO again. I had waited over a month for the Christmas Package (it was a pre-order). This one was ordered about a week ago.

I love the work of Roy Liechtenstein. This "Oh Honey" tee is inspired by his work. I already found two G-Shock's to go along with this T-Shirt. Milka chocolate is always OK too...

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Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I do not know which button I pushed, but suddenly there was no G-Peopleland anymore. I was only trying to get web mail access to my G-Peopleland mail accounts, so I can clean out the spam before uploading it to my computer. I had to buy new bandwidth, but it seems to be working now a bit. I haven't established my mail servers yet, so if you did sent me an e-mail the past 48 hours, it might got lost. I was away to Belgium yesterday.

I received a great package from KIKS TYO, and that just after I updated the page of their shirts I've got. It was the special Christmas Holidays box. You get one special limited T-Shirt and 4 random T-Shirts in the same size. I had reported that I got my PKS-3 shirt in the wrong size, so they sent me the correct size too, so I had 6 T-Shirts in one box. Awesome! Now I have to update my KIKS TYO collection again...

In the mean time I have ordered two other shirts and have I noticed the KIKS TYO x Nike Air  G-Shock collaboration model is out. Also there is a great Technics  SL-1200MKII collaboration T-Shirt...

I won an auction of a Winter Street Fashion 2001 (G-100DM-2ADR). I have seen this model a few times on blogs and I could get it cheap. Also another G-Shock is on it's way, but probably it will be a quiet month.

(pictures from the seller)

I bought a great photo bag yesterday (Lowepro Slingshot200). It's a backpack that can be transferred into a regular photo bag without taking off.  I happen to find it at a FNAC store in the centre of Gent (Gand).

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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

When I was reading 山猿's Blog, I found out he had placed a new photo's on his G-Shock Diary. I discovered the new Shop Catalogue. A new 25th Anniversary series, Ocean Grey, will be released, but the "talk of the G-Town" is the new G-M5600. Finally, European G-Shockers have complained massively, there will be a 5600 model that picks up an atomic signal in Europe. Even better, it picks up all 5 public atomic signals, in other words, it's a 5 band Waveceptor. There will be 3000 pieces build every month and the release date in Japan is February 29th 2008. I think there will be a queue already, but in Europe it will be available for a good price at Tiktox.

Together with Greg from Canada I started a G-Shock Blog project called "50 G's".  I will be posting until the end of the year (50 weeks to go, hence the title) 50 different G-Shock's that I wear.  Greg will post 12 times, on the 15th of the month, starting today (if  everything works out).

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