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The BBQ is on! (Pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Friday, 3 September 2010 by admin

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Day at the beach in Jinshan

Posted under China on Sunday, 29 August 2010 by admin

We swam in the East Chinese sea today, something I didn't expect to do this summer. Rather spontanious we decided to hit the beach of Jinshan. I'm telling you, nothing like a fake beach with screaming Chinese kids to relax on a Sunday afternoon. Now, nothing bad about the beach. We had a...

OH YEAH! checkout my amazing sixpack (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Saturday, 28 August 2010 by admin

How to get a sixpack in 1 day: 1) go to store 2) buy sixpack...

My @akinasuna is back in China and made me dinner! (Pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Thursday, 26 August 2010 by admin

Korean dinner...

At the outdoor pool (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Sunday, 22 August 2010 by admin

At mandarin city pool. Excellent Location to read a book. Lots of people meet here; Chinese Korean American and Italian. The water is warm...

We are having xinjiang (uyghur) food for lunch!

Posted under Quick posts on Wednesday, 18 August 2010 by admin

Just in time before rain...

@KoreanClass101 @ever4one Koreanclass101 my favorite Korean class but is it free as you say?

Posted under Quick posts on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 by admin

Thanks for your interest in KoreanClass101.com! The lifetime account is Free. We will not charge you after the 7 days are over. You'll just lose access to the Premium content. After the trial you'll have access to the most recent audio lessons but everything else will be blocked. ...

Japanese instant coffee works really well (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Friday, 6 August 2010 by admin

What a smart...

The most enjoyable way to learn Chinese (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 by admin

Spotted ad with western intention at Xu jia hui...

Japanese food

Posted under Quick posts on Saturday, 24 July 2010 by admin

Drinking...

That can’t be right. Unwanted fountain (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 by admin

Broken pipe un shanghai. Police and fire men on the other side of the street are just staring. With 31 degrees it must be nice and cool...

Chilling at the pool today

Posted under Quick posts on Sunday, 18 July 2010 by admin

Spending the late afternoon reading a book at the water side. Suna and Jadeline are taking a swim. Very relaxing. House beats during the day with people dancing. I'm liking the water bar they have here but I wonder how to get my money there without it getting...

Just bought the ferrari of the toothbrush world (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 by admin

It features an lcd screen with coaching instructions and more. My dentist would be so proud....

2 in the morning. At the dcc Shanghai watching the match #worldcup

Posted under Quick posts on Monday, 12 July 2010 by admin

Dutch government opened their expo theatre. Thank you ING for sponsoring the beer! The mood has been set, Hup...

Birthday present from my favorite restaurant

Posted under Quick posts on Friday, 9 July 2010 by admin

At gokohai shabu shabu, plum wine from the new...

Korean sashimi

Posted under Quick posts on Thursday, 8 July 2010 by admin

Eating delicious raw fish with Mr Lee the CEO of innocsr.com a Chinese Korean CSR...

Watch the exciting #worldcup, be a civilized person (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Saturday, 26 June 2010 by admin

And other great...

Shabu shabu with suna

Posted under Quick posts on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 by admin

All you can eat...

Moving to new house (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Sunday, 20 June 2010 by admin

All our stuff in a 16 year old van, crammed all in and on our way! Thankfully it's colder today We have a video too var videoDiv = $('html5_embed_171960'); var flashDiv =...

On our way to watch the worldcup with @akinasuna (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Saturday, 19 June 2010 by admin

Hup...

real karaoke (pic)

Posted under Quick posts on Friday, 18 June 2010 by admin

All the...

Eating Korean bbq with the Japanese

Posted under Quick posts on Friday, 18 June 2010 by admin

Koreans and africans, we are NOT talking about tomorrows world cup...

#wk orange crowd in shanghai!

Posted under Quick posts on Monday, 14 June 2010 by admin

At o mlleys, theyeven build a stage. Crowd is singing...

Monkeys walking the Shanghai streets (picture)

Posted under Quick posts on Sunday, 13 June 2010 by admin

Spotted these monkeys in Shanghai. At first I thought they were dogs, had to blink my...

Spilgames outing 2010, Moganshan and Nanxun

Posted under China, travel on Saturday, 29 May 2010 by admin

I've spend last night at Mount Mogan 莫干山, the destination of the Spilgames spring outing, is about 250km south-west of Shanghai, close to Hangzhou. Build by missionaries in the early 1900s as a retreat from the Shanghai heat. These days Moganshan is experiencing a true revamp in tourism,...

Celebration of Dutch Queen’s day in Shanghai 2010

Posted under China, Netherlands on Friday, 30 April 2010 by admin

Whilst Shanghai is upside down due to the opening of the Expo with many world leaders flying in, the dutch in Shanghai held a separate party: 'Queen's Day' a Dutch public holiday celebrating the birthday of the Queen of the Netherlands and supposed to be a day of national unity and...

Big bus tours in Shanghai

Posted under China on Thursday, 29 April 2010 by admin

From today, well known London double decker busses from The Big Bus Company will allow tourists a grand city tour of Shanghai. Whilst I was waving back at that bus riding sunburned crowd, seeing them take pictures of everything the bus drives by, I realized Shanghai is about as ready as it can...

Installed @opera on iPod touch 2G. Doesn’t work ☹

Posted under Quick posts on Tuesday, 13 April 2010 by admin

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Spilgames New Year party

Posted under China on Saturday, 6 February 2010 by admin

The crew of Spilgames is growing fast, this party, we had eight round tables full with people. The dinner was accompanied with speeches from management and our Sales assistant and Sound architect being masters of ceremony. There were lot's of fun games during the dinner, for instance, I had to...

Google ad in the metro

Posted under asides on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 by admin

Google decided on new 'no cencorship' approach on China a few weeks ago. While this created a lot o buzz around the brand abroad, Google has, or commenced advertising in the Shanghai city metro. In China, google represents 30% of the search engine market. The ad features their short g.cn domain, a...

Sushi

Posted under asides on Tuesday, 2 February 2010 by admin

I like sushi, especially good sushi from Japan. But I also have a craving for cheap sushi, in korea I lived next to a sushi bar where every sushi was a dollar, and here in china its even less then a dollar per dish. Japanese spit on these cheap things, but I love cheap...

Shanghai fog levels going down?

Posted under China, thoughts on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 by admin

My Swedish friends like to do business in China, but often state to me that they would never want to live in such a dirty city like Shanghai. They remind me that Stockholm is so clean, they can fish for salmon in the rivers going through town! This is not possible in Shanghai obviously, the water...

Ice Skating Madness at FlevOnIce in The Netherlands

Posted under Netherlands on Monday, 14 December 2009 by admin

I'm back in the Netherlands for a short business trip and it's very cold outside. Sadly, it's not cold enough to ice-skate on the lakes and rivers yet. Ice-skating is a favorite sport in the Netherlands. Not only are we proud of our famous ice skaters, when there's a cold winter all Dutch people...

Pictures of 2009 Shanghai marathon

Posted under asides on Sunday, 29 November 2009 by admin

In early August, Marc van der Chijs threw up a ball whether we wanted to run a half marathon in November. Shortly, a big deligation from Spilgames signed up and started exercising. Today was the day - now the Shanghai marathon is over, I'm looking back to a great event. Besides my father Johan...

Shanghai Marathon 2009

Posted under China, sports on Wednesday, 16 September 2009 by admin

With the whole Seoul Hangang Marathon experience still fresh in mind, I decided to subscribe for half a marathon in Shanghai. This particular run is quite a bigger event, taking place in the heart of the city. Isn't Shanghai a terrible dirty city to run the marathon? While some might expect...

ING Life Korea goodbye party

Posted under Korea on Friday, 22 May 2009 by admin

Yesterday night: Friends, a barbeque and the properÂ amountÂ of soju on the 24th floor of the Ramada hotel, looking over the ING building and the famous landmark of Seoul, the Namsan tower. What a nice goodbye party! Besides the ridiculous hat you guys made me wear all night, I want to thank...

MBC Marathon – the results are in!

Posted under Korea, sports, travel on Monday, 27 April 2009 by admin

Those happy faces are me and my collegues, Frank-Jan, Zdenek, Marten and Arjan from ING - just - before we started running our (half) marathon. Perhaps we were even happier when we finished - it would have been better, or at least more fair to share a before / after picture I suppose. Together...

Dutch Orange ball 2009

Posted under Korea, travel on Thursday, 23 April 2009 by admin

The highlight of the year for the Dutch community in Seoul would be the Dutch â€œOrange Ballâ€, held in the grand hyatt. It's was true Dutch evening with "oranjebitter" and a Dutch band that was flown in to Seoul for the occasion. The champagne reception. The theme of the Orange...

Holiday in Jeju

Posted under Pictures, travel on Wednesday, 8 April 2009 by admin

Woman done fishing for today Traditional Korean seafood soup is enhanced by distinctive shellfish harvested by the famous woman divers of Jeju Island. An age-old tradition, the fisher-woman of Jeju spend long hours in the waters surrounding the island relentlessly diving again and...

North-Korea vs. South-Korea match at Mapo-gu Stadium

Posted under Korea, sports, travel on Thursday, 2 April 2009 by admin

The national football teams of North and South Korea have played a World Cup qualifier in Seoul today - which the South won by one goal to nil. Although the game was quite boring, there was a good atmosphere in the stadium, especially after Kim Chi Woo scored the first goal for South Korea. The...

In Hong Kong for the week #2

Posted under China, tips, travel on Thursday, 26 March 2009 by admin

I like this city so much that I decided to upload some more pictures to give you first hand about what I think is beautiful around here. Hope you like it! You can go up any skyscraper in Hong Kong, (which I almost did) but you can see the city best from the Victory Peak. Simply take the...

In Hong Kong for the week

Posted under travel on Monday, 16 March 2009 by admin

After having lived outside my home country for almost 3 years, I can tell you that working abroad will always bring exciting experiences, reveal cultural challenges and â€“even though the rent, dishes and laundryâ€“ feel like a holiday. However, a foreigner has to comply to some basic...

Enlightment about that foggy substance in the sky

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Friday, 20 February 2009 by admin

The Korean government sends text messages to all mobile phones every once in a while. This way of informing the nation is new to me and proves to be rather effective. Sometimes it's a simple request, asking to clean your porch from snow, but today I received a warning. "Tomorrow the yellow dust...

Adidas MBC Hangang Marathon 2009

Posted under sports, travel on Friday, 6 February 2009 by admin

I haven't participated in a sport event ever since the Funda run in 2008 - a fun and fulfilling event, but I had no incentive to continue my healthy habits afterwards. I put my running shoes back on later that year, to find out that I would never reach a peak of runners satisfaction again without a...

Times of distress brings families together in South Korea

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Thursday, 5 February 2009 by admin

Hold your horses, the financial crisis actually has some positive effects too! In South Korea, criminality is on the rise - making people long back to happy times at home. This is good news because many weddings are failing here due to struggles related to work. You see, every downside has its...

Gloomy skies over Osaka

Posted under Entrepreneurship, Japan on Saturday, 3 January 2009 by admin

Originally called OzakajÅ, this is one of Japan's most famous castles, it played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Osaka Castle is situated on a plot of land roughly one kilometer square. It is built on two raised platforms of...

National exams, national precautions

Posted under Korea on Monday, 29 December 2008 by admin

Saleem writes about the measures the South Korean government have set for the national exams: "Yesterday was a holiday here b/c 3rd grade high school students took the university entrance exam all across the country. Get this â€“ during the Korean listening and English listening portions of...

First impressions of Osaka, Japan

Posted under Japan, Pictures on Saturday, 27 December 2008 by admin

Japan: Small coke is actually a small coke Grannies play Mario Kart and are actually good at it. Where are the garbage cans? Am I supposed to hold my trash all day? Namba The luminous tubes in the picture are the number one icon of Osaka. The running man in the middle has been a...

At a Korean PC room, playing Starcraft for two days straight

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 by admin

Koreans love online gaming, example: This is a "PC room", where one can play multiplayer computer games online. PC rooms like this are extremely popular among South-Koreans, ever since Starcraft came out in 1997. You have a room like this every block! Interesting because the computer and broadband...

The Korean Demilitarized Zone

Posted under Korea, travel on Thursday, 4 December 2008 by admin

South Korea's military says it is preparing for the possibility that North Korea may try to provoke a naval skirmish along their disputed sea border. (december 2008, voanews.com) While things look calm for an expat, South and North Korea are officially still at war, because of that military...

Three presentation tips you probably didn’t know before

Posted under thoughts, tips on Thursday, 20 November 2008 by admin

About a million presentations are going on right now, but 50% of them are unbearable! Chances are you know what sucks and what doesnâ€™t â€“ I'd like to share three tips that I found very useful in becoming a professional speaker, perhaps it helps you! 1. Two seconds of eye contact ...

Now available: African land for overpopulated countries

Posted under Entrepreneurship, thoughts on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 by admin

I came across a news article about a project that just dazzled me. What can a country do that has little land but a lot of mouths to feed? Right, you can import! But what do you do as a logistics company when your turnover is decreasing because commodity prices are rising? Exactly: You lease your...

5:45 AM, sunrise in Gyeonju

Posted under Korea, Pictures on Monday, 17 November 2008 by admin

The thermometer slowly declined down to zero degrees over the last week. We headed up to the roof to see the sunset in the clean frosty sky, I realized that this was not the first time we were going up for a view. 5:45 AM, sunrise in Gyeonju. We woke up early to see the sunrise in Gyonju,...

[Pictures] Han river in Seoul

Posted under Korea, Pictures on Thursday, 13 November 2008 by admin

Some pictures I took of the Han river during the last months here in Seoul. The total length of the Han River is 514 km. Although it is not a long river, the lower Han is remarkably broad for such a relatively short river. Within Seoul city limits, the river is more than 1 km wide. We visited...

A peek inside the British American Tobacco factory in Korea

Posted under Company visit, Korea on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 by admin

Korea is the 10th biggest cigarette market on the planet, not so weird because you see smokers everywhere. I visited the British American Tobacco (BAT) factory in Sacheon together with the DBCK last week. The flight to Jinju was already scheduled at 07.30 AM, took a cab at 5AM. We gained more...

Paragliding at a Korean army base

Posted under Korea, travel on Sunday, 9 November 2008 by admin

Want to join paragliding this weekend? - off course! that's a no brainer! In reality, the relaxing chair and the calm speed got me disappointed, I should have thought of bringing a good book to read. Some people manage to stay up there for a long time! As the first foreigners at this Korean army...

What do you get when you combine a cinema, pool and cheap hotel?

Posted under Korea on Friday, 7 November 2008 by admin

We visited a jjimjilbang in Busan last night;Â The jjimjilbang concept comes close to a bath-house, it is a combination of sauna, hotel and gym. I just spend a night there for $10, andÂ I amÂ excited, what an experience! I slept on the marble floor but had a massage in return! Imagine a 24...

[openidea] Stream free Internet TV on your iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted under Entrepreneurship, Internet on Tuesday, 7 October 2008 by admin

More and more people are starting to watch TV on their mobile phone. Not so strange, the reason is simple: The amount of bored office clerks waiting for their bus/metro of train is huge! However, millions of iPhone and Touch users are not so fortunate and have to watch iTunes provided content,...

Why so little Korean web companies get ‘Techcrunched’

Posted under Internet, Korea on Friday, 23 May 2008 by admin

Most Koreans are addicted to the web, I wondered; Seoul must be a breeding place for new web ventures? I approached Chang W. Kim, to get an idea of what is going on. Chang is CEO of the biggest blog portal (80%) in Korea. He explains his views on European projects, the Seoul web-scene and funding...

Improving entrepreneurship in your city.

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Monday, 3 March 2008 by admin

1. Find the unique characteristics of your location. 2. Base everything on local values and culture. 3. Plan and mobilize the ecosystem. 4. Find global partners. 5. Initiate conferences and an ecosystem of networking. 6. Market globally. 7. Revise national...

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