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Public Transportation

Thomas — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:51:59 +0000

Goooooooooood morning people,

I hope you are enjoying this sunny wheater a bit different then me. Cause this man found himself in the lucky position of using public transportation in order to travel half the country. Why you might be asking yourself.
Well I’ve been working at a beach restaurant this weekend so in order to make some money by doing something I like, drafting beers and selling other drinks, you need to give something from time to time and in this case that is sacrificing this beautiful sunny day by using a train.
So I guess that is how I should end this post.
Sometimes you’ve got to sacrifice something in order to achieve something!

Cheers!

Never do anything that doesn’t reward you with enoigh satisfaction!

Thomas — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:01:01 +0000

Never do anything that doesn’t reward you with enough satisfaction!
It’s something I tell myself when I need to make a choice. I ask myself the question if choosing to be in that team, starting a program at that university or getting that new job rewards you with enough satisfaction.
With my job I’ll almost always answer that question positive since at the end of each month I get a reward for the work I’ve done. And as long as that reward is equal or more to the amount of work I had to put into it I’ll answer yes to my question.
Now there also is choiching your education. See a lot of people will say that school sucks and that you won’t ever be able to answer positive to that question. But I disagree. This was the year where I had to make up my mind and choice an program at an university. Though those years studying look hard the education it self does create more opportunities for me having a better future and career. See if I wouldn’t like the job that is most likely to come after that education, I wouldn’t pick that education. Now if I do like the career that lays in front of me I’ve got to admit in that case, I’ve made a good choice.
So now every time you need to make a decision think about if It gives you enough satisfaction.

Concordia res parvae crescunt

Thomas — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:04:31 +0000

Concordia res parvae crescunt better know as Unity Makes Strength!
It’s a motto used by the dutch back in the time Holland still was a republic. It also still is the motto of Belgium, Bulgaria and Haiti.
The motto at first is just like any other motto but I started to wonder if there is some truth in it does unity really makes strength?
And I’ve got to be honest it does. When you don’t cooperate with your friends and neighbors things will go terribly wrong. For example having an argument with your neighbor about a fence or the need to go to war with your neighbor country because there is no other option. On the other hand you can be great friends with your neighbors and celebrate new years eve together with a glass of champaign or have multiple countries joining each other in organizations like the UN, EU or the NATO. Countries will certainly think twice about declaring war to NATO or EU member states.
And another example a football of hockey team can’t perform properly with out unity look at Real Madrid buying the best people in the business but not winning a major trophy cause they only bought players, who think there is an I in team.
But on the other hand there are teams who just feel know exactly what the other players do, what they think and how they will react on certain situations. This is unity and with unity comes strength which brings victory which brings happiness.
So to come to the bottom line of this post unity does it only bring strength it also brings happiness.
King of Belgium let’s just change your motto in to ‘Unity Brings Happiness’

It’s all relative.

Thomas — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:41:25 +0000

It’s all relative. A sentence I first heard in the hit-series Generation Kill, a.k.a. the best military series to ever hit your television screen, a show about the first recon marines of the United State Marine Corps entering Iraq in a couple of open top humvees trying to get to conquer Iraq.
Now during their trip they were accompanied by a Rolling Stone journalist who was… well afraid of almost everything. At a certain moment the recon is taking heavy fire and the journalists decides to dodge behind a while. A lieutanant named Nate Fick walks up to him and tells the journalist that right now the journalist is dodged behind a wheel making it impossible for him to get hit by a bullet so that makes Iraq a save country for the journalist at that given moment. Walking away and screaming it’s all relative.

Now these couple of words are able to be used in almost every situation.
Your regular Boeing 747 is big but compared to a Antonov 225 it’s a pretty small plane.
Saying that you are starving once you haven’t had dinner at 8 o’clock thinking about millions of people around the globe who haven’t eaten in days.

Now I can write down a lot more of these examples but I won’t I will just tell you that next time something happens just think. It’s all relative

A goal has got a goalkeeper!

Thomas — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:06:44 +0000

A goal has got a goalkeeper. It’s a line that has been going round in my head for the past couple of days. I read it somewhere on the internet in a text which would explain why you would be able to score a girl who has also got a boyfriend. A goal has got a goalkeeper though that doesn’t mean you can’t score.
This might sound cheesy and it exactly is but since it has been going trough my mind for some time I kept thinking about it and started to see that sentence not as some cheesy line but as a sentence that means something.
Cause with everything we do in life we face obstacles some bigger, some smaller, some tougher and some pretty easy. Just like there is a goalkeeper in the path of Louis Suarez every time he wants to score. Some bigger, some smaller, some tougher some easier.
Obstacles can be a lot of different things it could be your exam or trying to get that one girl that absolutely makes your head spin round. Every time we face an obstacle we work on getting past that obstacle we don’t really care how as long as we get past it. Just like Dirk Kuyt.
Sometimes we don’t succeed and we fail. We run towards the goal keeper and we miss the goal. The ball might go way past or get stopped by the goalkeeper cause you shoot just 5 cm to low like Arjen Robben did while facing Igar Cassilas.
Some of those misses influence a lot of people or have a lot of consequences. Just like the penalty Assamoah Gyan missed in the Semi finals. And some misses might be very small and not important at all like the miss of Eljero Elia while the Dutch were already ahead.
The only thing you’ve got to remember is that misses aren’t always bad. Sure the hurt emotionally or physically like Dirk Kuyt’s bicycle kick. But they will make you stronger in the long run.
So get yourself ready for the world cup final of 2014 The Netherlands-Ghana. Ghana scores trough a penalty. Dirk Kuyt scores with a Bicycle kick and Arjen Robben runs towards Ghana’s goalie in the last minute and….

Most wonderfull time of the year!

Thomas — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:34:14 +0000

Yes ladies and gentleman it’s the most wonderful time of the year again. Now you probably think I’m a little too late for the most wonderful time of the year but no I’m not because to me January is on of the most wonderful times of the year.
See december is only about three things; food, being social an gifts. Now I don’t say I have anything against shopping or buying things. Just the only thing I don’t like is being forced to buy things during December all for some day that should bring peace and hope to the entire world. I’m not a christian nor am I raised that way but aren’t we missing the whole point of christmas? The birth of Jesus? Or have we as citizens of this world forgotten about that and are we seeing christmas more as one of those days in the year were you have to be polite to each other and have to visit your family? Is christmas something like an excuse to be polite and to visit your family?
I don’t like fake at all. Why can’t you just come visit me or bring me a present if you want to on a total different day lets say the 20th of july?
See and that’s why I think January is the most wonderful time of the year. Not because of the freezing cold or the snow that has either became some muddy grey thing or has disappeared but still making roads as slippery as a curling rink.
And it’s also not because everybody is working out in the gym to get in shape for summer after christmas and new years eve.
No I like this time of the year because everybody starts to act normal again not very social from time to time, not stressed out any more and of course done with all the family dinners.
And this is also the reason why I’ve just spend christmas in Israel where you can hardly tell by the looks of shops that it is christmas time.
Take that Santa!!