ING New York City Marathon
Okay here is the link to the NY marathon. I heard from people who ran this race that it's an overwhelming experience. I think that every marathon where ever one runs it is an experience in it's own way. No marathon can be compared with another.
I ran the Rotterdam Marathon (1995) and did an enormous amount of half marathons. None can be compared.
But okay, New York is also James Fix's marathon and he is the founding father of my running carreer. So NY will mean something.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
working day
A dull but wonderful day this time. Yes, in my opinion it can match together.
It was a busy day starting at 8.20. I worked with almost no break till 4 pm and after that I had a meeting of 2 hours with my accountmanager. It was about my investment policy. There will be a reallocation of assets.
That's not a normal everyday action. It will take some time to do so.
I'm tired right now. I wrote this in different words just before but is was lost in transport. But when I viewed my blog it was all there allready.
It was a busy day starting at 8.20. I worked with almost no break till 4 pm and after that I had a meeting of 2 hours with my accountmanager. It was about my investment policy. There will be a reallocation of assets.
That's not a normal everyday action. It will take some time to do so.
I'm tired right now. I wrote this in different words just before but is was lost in transport. But when I viewed my blog it was all there allready.
Time trial
Next Sunday, October 24 the cyclists of Ledig Erf do have a time trial as closure of the season. I 'd like to be there, so I be there. But I won't be at the afterparty. Don't like that to much and the 25th I have to be fresh. Then we have at work a presentation about integrity at work. Maybe it's very conservative to think that integrity has to come from within. It has to do with your own attitude, maybe even your upbringing, the way you behave yourself.
A week later I'll visit my mother and her friend on occasion of his birthday next Sunday. Yesterday when I called my mother I heard that my brother has a burn out.
He is completely not interested in his work at ING. He had a wonderful job at ING (Sponsor of the ING New York Marathon) but now he has to do to much. He just can't stand the pressure.
6 Months before he spoke about a job with ING Australia. Yeah that should be something. My brother is into surfing, you have to know. Well it's a Mecca there (except the sharks).
Today I had a dull day. Had to make a list of post which we are wrongly accounted for. Also made some others lists. My -to do- list is a little shorter. Tomorrow I gonna pay some accounts.
What a job.
This afternoon till the evening I had a meeting with my accountmanager.
I make a change in my investments. So we discussed what funds they are gonna be.
I'll withdraw some money out of individual stocks into investmentfunds, like high fidelity or/and other funds.
My basis is wide area of securities. On top of this pyramid there gonna be some stock with a secure cashflow.
Tonight is footballnight. Rosenborg AK-PSV Eindhoven 1-1 (1st half)
Trivianight is somewhere else: look for: http://www.sarahackerman.blogspot.com/
A week later I'll visit my mother and her friend on occasion of his birthday next Sunday. Yesterday when I called my mother I heard that my brother has a burn out.
He is completely not interested in his work at ING. He had a wonderful job at ING (Sponsor of the ING New York Marathon) but now he has to do to much. He just can't stand the pressure.
6 Months before he spoke about a job with ING Australia. Yeah that should be something. My brother is into surfing, you have to know. Well it's a Mecca there (except the sharks).
Today I had a dull day. Had to make a list of post which we are wrongly accounted for. Also made some others lists. My -to do- list is a little shorter. Tomorrow I gonna pay some accounts.
What a job.
This afternoon till the evening I had a meeting with my accountmanager.
I make a change in my investments. So we discussed what funds they are gonna be.
I'll withdraw some money out of individual stocks into investmentfunds, like high fidelity or/and other funds.
My basis is wide area of securities. On top of this pyramid there gonna be some stock with a secure cashflow.
Tonight is footballnight. Rosenborg AK-PSV Eindhoven 1-1 (1st half)
Trivianight is somewhere else: look for: http://www.sarahackerman.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
action and reaction
- Americans are spoiled?
Yes certainly, Spoiled in my point of view, materialistically spoiled. How much do you care about the well being of the world? Kyoto? Never heard of? There is a huge gap between Europe and the USA. You can call it an ocean. But that's to easy. It's the attitude to life. In Europe we're living more on a basis of personal growth. Not material growth. We aren't lived bij economic figures.
- Who is it that gets 4-6 weeks of state-mandated paid vacation per year, not to mention, in some European countries, a 35 hour work week? Wouldn't they actually be more accurately referred to as "spoiled?"
4-6 weeks vacation, oh yes I know what you mean. I get 24 days. But my salary is much lower than in a compared profession in the USA. We pay an enormous part of our wages to social benefits.Something that differs from the USA.
- Europeans have hated us for many decades and its not hard to find lots of examples.
You have to learn the difference between hate and dislike. Why do you name none of those examples?
- Their only hope is to follow the lead of the "new" european countries like Poland (who, by the way, likes us because they know we saved them from the Soviets) and embrace capitalism enthusiastically.
I beg you pardon, East Germany had elections some weeks ago, do you know the results? Who is it you think who tries to get the people of former Eastern Europe involved in the EU. Don't you think capitalism has also bad results? Here capitalism isn't holy.
- The Euros and their economy are, to put it bluntly, screwed.They have cheerfully handed out more and more generous social program benefits over the past 50 years, largely due to the fact that American taxpayers were providing their military defense needs free of charge, permitting their governments to afford those handouts,
I know that you wanted to keep the Russians out. But you should better fight in the pacific if there should be any war. Okay the Marshall help after the 2nd World War was needed very much. The economy was down and needed an impuls. My grandparants were thankfull but the next generations don't owe you thank you's. No way! In staed of that you should come to Europe and experience the European and/or Dutch way of living. So completely different.
- and the citizenry is now going collectively nuts over the prospect that these benefits (that's "entitlements" for you folks reading this stateside) MUST be cut back in order to confront undeniable economic realities such as those discussed in this article.
To keep our economy sound we surely have to cut our public spending, that's true, but you are not aware of the Dutch situation. That has nothing to do with the fact America paid for defense. Did you ever hear of the Dutch Disease.It seems that the social epenses explode when one nation hits a natural gas reserve. That expansion has to be cut.Also the debt of the whole EU is nothing compared with US debt. Mainly you live on deficits, for a conservative that should be a crime because even your great grand-children will feel the pain of paying back that deficit. How do you deal with that problem?
- Schroder is about to pay the political price for facing this very reality. A lot of European politicians are about the pay a similar price in the next few years.
You know what happenend in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell? The East German people were enthusiastic about the Wiedervereinigung. They had certain expectations.After 15 years Kohl and Gerhard Schröder can't make that expectations come true. Instead there are a deficits on certain areas. Unemployment makes it worse for people in east Germany. that is the political price G.S. pays.
# posted by Jan : 3:16 PM
Yes certainly, Spoiled in my point of view, materialistically spoiled. How much do you care about the well being of the world? Kyoto? Never heard of? There is a huge gap between Europe and the USA. You can call it an ocean. But that's to easy. It's the attitude to life. In Europe we're living more on a basis of personal growth. Not material growth. We aren't lived bij economic figures.
- Who is it that gets 4-6 weeks of state-mandated paid vacation per year, not to mention, in some European countries, a 35 hour work week? Wouldn't they actually be more accurately referred to as "spoiled?"
4-6 weeks vacation, oh yes I know what you mean. I get 24 days. But my salary is much lower than in a compared profession in the USA. We pay an enormous part of our wages to social benefits.Something that differs from the USA.
- Europeans have hated us for many decades and its not hard to find lots of examples.
You have to learn the difference between hate and dislike. Why do you name none of those examples?
- Their only hope is to follow the lead of the "new" european countries like Poland (who, by the way, likes us because they know we saved them from the Soviets) and embrace capitalism enthusiastically.
I beg you pardon, East Germany had elections some weeks ago, do you know the results? Who is it you think who tries to get the people of former Eastern Europe involved in the EU. Don't you think capitalism has also bad results? Here capitalism isn't holy.
- The Euros and their economy are, to put it bluntly, screwed.They have cheerfully handed out more and more generous social program benefits over the past 50 years, largely due to the fact that American taxpayers were providing their military defense needs free of charge, permitting their governments to afford those handouts,
I know that you wanted to keep the Russians out. But you should better fight in the pacific if there should be any war. Okay the Marshall help after the 2nd World War was needed very much. The economy was down and needed an impuls. My grandparants were thankfull but the next generations don't owe you thank you's. No way! In staed of that you should come to Europe and experience the European and/or Dutch way of living. So completely different.
- and the citizenry is now going collectively nuts over the prospect that these benefits (that's "entitlements" for you folks reading this stateside) MUST be cut back in order to confront undeniable economic realities such as those discussed in this article.
To keep our economy sound we surely have to cut our public spending, that's true, but you are not aware of the Dutch situation. That has nothing to do with the fact America paid for defense. Did you ever hear of the Dutch Disease.It seems that the social epenses explode when one nation hits a natural gas reserve. That expansion has to be cut.Also the debt of the whole EU is nothing compared with US debt. Mainly you live on deficits, for a conservative that should be a crime because even your great grand-children will feel the pain of paying back that deficit. How do you deal with that problem?
- Schroder is about to pay the political price for facing this very reality. A lot of European politicians are about the pay a similar price in the next few years.
You know what happenend in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell? The East German people were enthusiastic about the Wiedervereinigung. They had certain expectations.After 15 years Kohl and Gerhard Schröder can't make that expectations come true. Instead there are a deficits on certain areas. Unemployment makes it worse for people in east Germany. that is the political price G.S. pays.
# posted by Jan : 3:16 PM
Monday, October 18, 2004
China in my head
Like China? They all wanna learn how to parachute. They also wanna have 1 or more cars, 2 or more babies (1 child policy isn't right I agree)
the dude was here too
To counter Sarah
An answer on Sarah's posting; I like the Loc's . This is one at the Lulea Locomotive museum
Today I certainly had a day after feeling. I couldn't concentrated on the dull subject of checking posts. The adjusted system didn't fit in the screen so I adjusted the screenresolution. Everything fitted but was miniaturized. Got almost a headache and I did get dizzy and sleepy. Got to go to bed early to repair that damage.
The day after yesterdays exertion.
I was in very good shape during the 88 kilometers we cycled. Half way I was first at the cafe where we usually stop to have a drink. There we also waited for people who can't do the hilly stretch. When there where enough of us we parked our bikes and entered the cafe. Not knowing what the other who waited outside were going to do. They waited outside and took their bikes for the final stretch home. After a couple of minutes when we got out they were gone. They were far away. As I already said we decided to go after them. Finally before Utrecht, at Werkhoven, we catched up with the first group.
But there is always something to do. Wednesday I'll speak again with some people of my bank about my investment stratergy. Haha, Bush would say stratergy, not me. This is a organized typing error. I don't know if Bush organizes his errors.
the dude was here too
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Child's Labour
A quote from Studentconcepts
Child's labour is a sign of these days meaning how poor a country is.
But mind the fact that rich countries of today where child's labour today no longer exist and products with even the slightest link to child's labour are banned were a century ago in the same position. In the big cities there were begging children who didn't attend schools, even today homeless children are back. They got no education and end up in for example prostitution. That's happening in Europe, in America too. What to think of children in Russia? Moskou has children living in sewers with rats and mice and steal for living. Or the main cities in South America? All the same poverty among the streetchildren.
No, you shouln't eat cheaply in that hotel or drink a cheap cup of coffee. Get an expensive cup in a hotel or other establishment where children are not misused.
Helping the child one day is not a structural help. And that's what it needs.
Helping one day means that you dump the child. Probably it never hears from you again. Blame you!
For such a child working isn't bad, but it has to be changed; work in the morning, and school in the afternoon and learn to write and read.
Why also working? The parents need the money of the child.
This afternoon I'm cycling again with the team. I wonder how many members there'll be. It's cold outside, no sun and the wind blows. That makes it bad weather.
I'll take it easy.
update: I didn't. I really tried to get the group moving. Together with 5 other riders we made speed in the hilly area. After the last climb near Amerongen (Near the Rhine). I waited for the others at the cafe. When they arrived some others and I already had a drink in the cafe. The newly arrivers decided to go on. We sat there and discussed what to do. Okay I said we try to catch then in the last 30 kilometers. Unanimously we did that. The strong did make it difficult but on the way to the group the could make speed on some stretces with the wind in our back. In Werkhoven,the last village before Utrecht, we catched our prey. We felt good, again.
stats:
88.80 k
30.21 k/hr
2.56.22 hour
52 k/hr
331 k (on the new bike)
3226 k (total in 2004)
Poor Kids at Restuarants
"I was at a leading restaurant in the city. It has been around for ages and its know for its authentic south indian food combined with the fact that you get your food super quick. They also serve the incredibly strong "filter coffee". I remember taking a malayasian friend of mine, Amir to that restaurant some 4 years back when he dropped into see me. And he said" Wow! Thats the best coffee i have ever had!!"This is also the place a lot of people frequent because the price is also low. Extremely affordable. It makes more money than any other restaurants in the city.
But over the years i have been extremely uncomfortable in eating in such joints. Why? Because i cant bear to see the way the kids work there. These kids must be ranging from 9 to 12 from extremely poor families. In some cases, they must have been sold to an agent or something. They work from early mornings to late nights.
I asked one of the kids and he said "I get 4 hrs of sleep every night". WHAT?? And they make these kids work like donkeys. Even those animals are better off. These kids are hit violently for just dropping a spoon. When they should be playing and studying, these poor kids have to wait tables and clean dirty dishes 7 days a week for the rest of their young lives.
How much do they get paid?
He told me that he gets paid Rs.300/month... !
Its not just one restaurant. But there are many around. Infact it happens at almost all hotels, restaurants, railway stations,bus stops etc.
Would it not be great if one day they were allowed to be free? To play, to paint and draw, watch TV, read, go to the zoo, study ...things they should actually be doing. You wont believe this but we had a handful of StudentConcepts members who came forward and said that they would volunteer to work in these hotels/restaurants so that the child could go and have fun for that one day !!!"
Child's labour is a sign of these days meaning how poor a country is.
But mind the fact that rich countries of today where child's labour today no longer exist and products with even the slightest link to child's labour are banned were a century ago in the same position. In the big cities there were begging children who didn't attend schools, even today homeless children are back. They got no education and end up in for example prostitution. That's happening in Europe, in America too. What to think of children in Russia? Moskou has children living in sewers with rats and mice and steal for living. Or the main cities in South America? All the same poverty among the streetchildren.
No, you shouln't eat cheaply in that hotel or drink a cheap cup of coffee. Get an expensive cup in a hotel or other establishment where children are not misused.
Helping the child one day is not a structural help. And that's what it needs.
Helping one day means that you dump the child. Probably it never hears from you again. Blame you!
For such a child working isn't bad, but it has to be changed; work in the morning, and school in the afternoon and learn to write and read.
Why also working? The parents need the money of the child.
This afternoon I'm cycling again with the team. I wonder how many members there'll be. It's cold outside, no sun and the wind blows. That makes it bad weather.
I'll take it easy.
update: I didn't. I really tried to get the group moving. Together with 5 other riders we made speed in the hilly area. After the last climb near Amerongen (Near the Rhine). I waited for the others at the cafe. When they arrived some others and I already had a drink in the cafe. The newly arrivers decided to go on. We sat there and discussed what to do. Okay I said we try to catch then in the last 30 kilometers. Unanimously we did that. The strong did make it difficult but on the way to the group the could make speed on some stretces with the wind in our back. In Werkhoven,the last village before Utrecht, we catched our prey. We felt good, again.
stats:
88.80 k
30.21 k/hr
2.56.22 hour
52 k/hr
331 k (on the new bike)
3226 k (total in 2004)
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Some writing
Flu shot
Yep, here too. But why get a shot if you're healthy?
# posted by Jan : 1:27 PM
Flu and elections... is there a causal connection with the results.... older people are often more conservative and get a flu shot. Will that be decisive?
# posted by Jan : 1:32 PM
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Why get a flu shot if you're healthy? To stay healthy, and avoid the most severe complications from the flu. Of course, here that is not an option this year.
I wouldn't be able to venture a guess on what[if any] impact the flu season will have on the election.
# posted by WriteWingBlogger : 8:17 PM
Voting
I wonder why in the US voters have to registrate themselves before the day of the elections. Maybe you can give me the answer?
Here in The Nethertlands all Dutch get a votingcard, sent to their registrated adress.
# posted by Jan : 11:31 AM
Jan,
Here in the US, you have to register to vote -- and if you ever move -- you register again. The deadline to do so before an election varies from State to State.
# posted by WriteWingBlogger : 12:45 PM
1 Comments:
Jan said as reaction on the quote
In America and the whole world the same is going on. In the USA the Bush regime doesn't tolerate gay's and lesbians... that's unpleasant.
Hell is there where you can't express yourself.
# posted by Jan : 10:52 AM
Yep, here too. But why get a shot if you're healthy?
# posted by Jan : 1:27 PM
Flu and elections... is there a causal connection with the results.... older people are often more conservative and get a flu shot. Will that be decisive?
# posted by Jan : 1:32 PM
--------------------------------
Why get a flu shot if you're healthy? To stay healthy, and avoid the most severe complications from the flu. Of course, here that is not an option this year.
I wouldn't be able to venture a guess on what[if any] impact the flu season will have on the election.
# posted by WriteWingBlogger : 8:17 PM
Voting
I wonder why in the US voters have to registrate themselves before the day of the elections. Maybe you can give me the answer?
Here in The Nethertlands all Dutch get a votingcard, sent to their registrated adress.
# posted by Jan : 11:31 AM
Jan,
Here in the US, you have to register to vote -- and if you ever move -- you register again. The deadline to do so before an election varies from State to State.
# posted by WriteWingBlogger : 12:45 PM
1 Comments:
Jan said as reaction on the quote
"Another interesting or disgusting thing she was saying was that there are lots of gay and lesbian in Iran these days"This maybe means that people are more open that they can express their feelings than in the past.
"Where is society going? To the deepest level of hell?"
In America and the whole world the same is going on. In the USA the Bush regime doesn't tolerate gay's and lesbians... that's unpleasant.
Hell is there where you can't express yourself.
# posted by Jan : 10:52 AM
Friday, October 15, 2004
Windstopper
I can't use the name Windstopper cause that's a licensed brandname of Gore Tex, but I bought a windstopper although of the Italian brand Nalini.
I bought one cause it makes cycling in bad, windy and cold wetter much more comfortable.
After work I cycled some kilometers with the new clothing.
Fabelhaft how the Windstopper feels when you're riding.
stats
21.71 k
33.00 k/hr
39.31 hr
39 k/hr (max)
243 k
3137 k (total 2004)
I feel great 33.00 k as an average is real fast. It is a pity I didn't ride it 21 minutes longer. That should be a record for me. This I don't recognize as a record.
I bought one cause it makes cycling in bad, windy and cold wetter much more comfortable.
After work I cycled some kilometers with the new clothing.
Fabelhaft how the Windstopper feels when you're riding.
stats
21.71 k
33.00 k/hr
39.31 hr
39 k/hr (max)
243 k
3137 k (total 2004)
I feel great 33.00 k as an average is real fast. It is a pity I didn't ride it 21 minutes longer. That should be a record for me. This I don't recognize as a record.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Cycling in the rain?
Yeah, I'm gonna cycle a few kilometers It depends on how late it starts raining.
update:
at 5.30pm I was ready. I decided to cycle along the canal. All flat (besides 2 bridges) In Houten, a commuter village for the workforce in Utrecht, in had 31 minutes on the clock and it started to rain. That was the signal to turn back. The same route back with an extra bonus of 2 k along the Amsterdam-Rhine canal. Then a short climb cross the canal. At 6.40 pm I was back home.
Showering, cooking, watching part of a movie and updating my blog. Reminds me to do some laundry.
stats:
32.25 kilometers
29.34 k/hr
1.06.11 hr
46 k/hr (max)
221 k on bike 2
3115 k (total cycled in 2004)
update:
at 5.30pm I was ready. I decided to cycle along the canal. All flat (besides 2 bridges) In Houten, a commuter village for the workforce in Utrecht, in had 31 minutes on the clock and it started to rain. That was the signal to turn back. The same route back with an extra bonus of 2 k along the Amsterdam-Rhine canal. Then a short climb cross the canal. At 6.40 pm I was back home.
Showering, cooking, watching part of a movie and updating my blog. Reminds me to do some laundry.
stats:
32.25 kilometers
29.34 k/hr
1.06.11 hr
46 k/hr (max)
221 k on bike 2
3115 k (total cycled in 2004)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Headache
After a long day I am finally off duty. However it almost feels that this blog is a duty too.
But what for. I almost have no readers. So I write for myself and anybody who flies by.
My day started at 7.20 am and I started work at 8.30 am. I heard something about my colleague who is very much injured. After going to first aid he went home with his left knee in a brachelet. 5 day he has to wait for his knee to be examined. Nothing seems to be broken but he feels an enormous pain. The pain has to eb away.
After the tournament, three players went home on their bike, one of them hit a peg on the cycle-path. (placed there to prevent cars to cross)
So in total 4 of our player were injured just before or just after the tourament.
And the frame of my glasses is just bent in the right position, lucky me.
Today I did some testing on a new version of an (computer) application we work with.
There was a lot to do but after the bad luck and the 2 quick beers of yesterday I didn't have a sharp mind.
At the end of the working day there was some hillarity about a pigeon which flew against one of our office windows. We all heard a loud and clear -pof- and then it fell 4 meters down on the ground. The bird was still alive but with a severe headache I think. Those pigeons are very tough I learned.
A headache is what I get when I see the menslaughter in Sudan, Darfur. Knowing it's an European issue and that we are doing about nothing. If your French is excellent then look on google-Darfour for example.
The French are writing a lot about the cruelties in Sudan. This is not something the USA should interfere.
Doing nothing is a criminal European act. Sending 18 or 19 year old highschool kids to a war is criminal too. So the EU has to send troops to resque people and the US have to save their own soldiers. (More than 1,000 right now.)
Of course US soldiers have to know that they aren't in Iraq to find terrorist who attacked them. The terror which is in Iraq is there because the US army is there and because they uncorked the bottle with the evil spirit.
So I'm gonna have a macaroni dish and watch an important football match: The Netherlands-Finland
You'll hear from me,
Jan
Update: The Netherlands won 3-1 I didn't watch it all. After the Finns scored 0-1 I saw a Dutch team who was waiting for the counter. I don't like that kind of play. The old Dutch teams of 1974, 1978 and 1988 played the right kind of football, -total play-
just a poem of a nobody
John Lennon
If he would live
He should be the working class hero
If he would live
He should have dumped Yoko Ono
Long ago
If he would live
He should still sing
and protest Bush's war
If John Lennon would do all that
He would be my friend
But what for. I almost have no readers. So I write for myself and anybody who flies by.
My day started at 7.20 am and I started work at 8.30 am. I heard something about my colleague who is very much injured. After going to first aid he went home with his left knee in a brachelet. 5 day he has to wait for his knee to be examined. Nothing seems to be broken but he feels an enormous pain. The pain has to eb away.
After the tournament, three players went home on their bike, one of them hit a peg on the cycle-path. (placed there to prevent cars to cross)
So in total 4 of our player were injured just before or just after the tourament.
And the frame of my glasses is just bent in the right position, lucky me.
Today I did some testing on a new version of an (computer) application we work with.
There was a lot to do but after the bad luck and the 2 quick beers of yesterday I didn't have a sharp mind.
At the end of the working day there was some hillarity about a pigeon which flew against one of our office windows. We all heard a loud and clear -pof- and then it fell 4 meters down on the ground. The bird was still alive but with a severe headache I think. Those pigeons are very tough I learned.
A headache is what I get when I see the menslaughter in Sudan, Darfur. Knowing it's an European issue and that we are doing about nothing. If your French is excellent then look on google-Darfour for example.
The French are writing a lot about the cruelties in Sudan. This is not something the USA should interfere.
Doing nothing is a criminal European act. Sending 18 or 19 year old highschool kids to a war is criminal too. So the EU has to send troops to resque people and the US have to save their own soldiers. (More than 1,000 right now.)
Of course US soldiers have to know that they aren't in Iraq to find terrorist who attacked them. The terror which is in Iraq is there because the US army is there and because they uncorked the bottle with the evil spirit.
So I'm gonna have a macaroni dish and watch an important football match: The Netherlands-Finland
You'll hear from me,
Jan
Update: The Netherlands won 3-1 I didn't watch it all. After the Finns scored 0-1 I saw a Dutch team who was waiting for the counter. I don't like that kind of play. The old Dutch teams of 1974, 1978 and 1988 played the right kind of football, -total play-
just a poem of a nobody
John Lennon
If he would live
He should be the working class hero
If he would live
He should have dumped Yoko Ono
Long ago
If he would live
He should still sing
and protest Bush's war
If John Lennon would do all that
He would be my friend
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
What a lovely sad day...
The day started with a clear blue sky. It was cold on my bike to work. When I arrived a lot of work was waiting for me and my direct college I have not spoken for 4 days was back. We talked a bit and did our work. Trying to streamline payment of creditors. At half past five he had a volleyball tournament. 6 Of my colleagues and I were the team. We had only one reserve player to rotate.
At 5.30 pm we had the 1st match. Only after 10 points played we lost an injured player. It wasn't a real bad injury but Hanneke couldn't play on. So the team had to play with 6 men, just enough. In the second game after a 15 minutes it went wrong with Bas, my cycling mate, who I gave some cycling lessons the other day. He wanted to stand up when he lay on the floor then he twisted his knee. It was like crack it said and he lay there with a lot of pain, with a pale white face. After a while and some ice on his injury he couldn't still stand. Another colleague brought him to the first aid in a hospital near his home. Wonder how he is, because next week in the fall holidays and he wanted to go to Denmark with his extended family.
It's so sad to have such an injury on such a moment.
At the same moment of Bas his injury a ball hit me in the face and bent a leg of my glasses. I just have to go to the eyeware shop/ optician. Bas has probably a longer way to go.
Overall the tournament was a joy for us. We could laugh and we will do the same thing next year. Maybe we should train because we were last of the 5 team.
Well, we enjoyed ourselves mostly between 5.30 pm and 10.30 pm. Hopefully Bas's damage isn't really bad after all. Tomorrow I'll know.
The day ended black of the night blue sky. It wasn't really cold. You could cycle home without a coat. (maybe some beer will warm you up)
Groeten, greetingz, Jan
At 5.30 pm we had the 1st match. Only after 10 points played we lost an injured player. It wasn't a real bad injury but Hanneke couldn't play on. So the team had to play with 6 men, just enough. In the second game after a 15 minutes it went wrong with Bas, my cycling mate, who I gave some cycling lessons the other day. He wanted to stand up when he lay on the floor then he twisted his knee. It was like crack it said and he lay there with a lot of pain, with a pale white face. After a while and some ice on his injury he couldn't still stand. Another colleague brought him to the first aid in a hospital near his home. Wonder how he is, because next week in the fall holidays and he wanted to go to Denmark with his extended family.
It's so sad to have such an injury on such a moment.
At the same moment of Bas his injury a ball hit me in the face and bent a leg of my glasses. I just have to go to the eyeware shop/ optician. Bas has probably a longer way to go.
Overall the tournament was a joy for us. We could laugh and we will do the same thing next year. Maybe we should train because we were last of the 5 team.
Well, we enjoyed ourselves mostly between 5.30 pm and 10.30 pm. Hopefully Bas's damage isn't really bad after all. Tomorrow I'll know.
The day ended black of the night blue sky. It wasn't really cold. You could cycle home without a coat. (maybe some beer will warm you up)
Groeten, greetingz, Jan
Monday, October 11, 2004
A quarter of the Museumplein, October 2 2004
A view at the Amsterdam demo from the Van Gogh museum.
I just wanted to show a picture of the demo which sets our politics on fire. Yesterday a director of an employers organization (FME) said that he already talked with the vice minister president, mr Zalm (his weblog is only in Dutch I think).
But Zalm didn't give in. So the FME man should try again. Also the pressure to resign is put on the minister who is mainly responsible for the tripartite talks (between state, employers and employees) not going on.
So there will be more action. Thursday Oct.14 all public travel services (Busses, trains, trams, metro) will be down, a national strike against the plans which are reality according to the ministers. As if we don't have a dual political system.
the dude was here too
Sunday, October 10, 2004
The Ledig Erf Tour
Woke up at 8.30 am. Listened to the radio. Got up at 9.30 Did some paperwork and watched the 12 o'clock news. Ate some pasta and put on my cycling outfit. At 12.45 I raced to the cafe where we left at 1.05 pm. 3 hours later we were back.
Had a beer and saw Erik Dekker win the classic Paris-Tours.
This altogether made my day!!!
stats:
85.26 k
29.48 k/hr
2.53.33 hr
49 k/hr (max)
188 k (total)
note that a 4 k extra is in the total and not in the trip distance. It's the distance between my home and Ledig Erf.
Had a beer and saw Erik Dekker win the classic Paris-Tours.
This altogether made my day!!!
stats:
85.26 k
29.48 k/hr
2.53.33 hr
49 k/hr (max)
188 k (total)
note that a 4 k extra is in the total and not in the trip distance. It's the distance between my home and Ledig Erf.
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