Sunday, February 14, 2010

calm down

It's a snow ball fight....detective Bailer... one arrest? that's personal revenge. You shouldn't have done that detective Bailer, you're a bad, really bad cop.


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Ice speedskating

The first goldmedal in Vancouver.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

DVD

Well weekend is almost over. Saturday I saw Kill Bill volume 1 on DVD and vol. 2 at BBC. It was broadcast on the same day I bought volume 1. The man in the store said to me "you better buy volume 2 too. Don't you wanna know the end?"
"Yes, of course" I said "but 110 minutes is quite a long sit. Next week the other part."
At midnight it happened when I quickly watched BBC (the English BBC), Kill Bill vol 2 was on. These kind of coincidences happen often in my life.

I could have stick to my plan and watch part 2 next week.
The reason that I watch part 2 is also the fact that I neighbor's downstairs were loudly partying and celebrating. I could have gone for a walk. It would be a very late and long walk because between 8 pm and 1 am the noise came through the floor.

13 Years ago I wrote a story. I found it back on a 3.5 disc and made a nice Word-document of it. Today I opened a blog to publish it on the Internet. It's about a young man who had an accident. In hospital it appears that his parents were taken hostage by people from another province in my country. It's a kind of uprise among the farmers and civil population againt Government because of public expense cuts.
After fifty pages it's all a dream, a nightmare, when he wakes up. Time stood still.

What's happening in the EU is reality and those countries have to cut public spending drastically. Maybe IMF has to help the countries affected out of their problems. It makes clear that the European Central Bank is powerless. The reason why the new memberstates could enter the EU were political that´s why IMF has to monitor those countries till they´re sound and save again.

Friday, February 05, 2010

wake up-call

In 2008 I cycled to the Mediterranean coast and back. I met a former director who told me his pessimistic view on Europe. The Mediterranean countries like Italy, Greece, Spain might drag the EU-economy down because of their bad bookkeeping.

I realized what he said, the accounting principles in the south are very poor regarded to the German-Dutch principles (Dutch former Finance Minister G. Zalm, had his own rigid and defensive accounting principle) The Anglo-American principles are after the crisis too lush in my opinion

Greece and Portugal are the first countries who can give problems and could damage the EU economy. The Stock Markets are responding to that uncertainty. a 2 days plunge of almost 3%-points a day.

The Euro compared to the US Dollar is falling this time. Export can gain of it. That's good for our exporters.
Some hold on the Euro-value isn't bad of course. 1.5 USD for 1 Euro is much, almost too much.