Blogs
- Shares Red Hair
- "Red Haired Barbarians", that's how the Chinese described my ancestors when they dealt with the first Dutch mercenaries who sailed to China about 500 years ago. According to the Chinese stories around that time. The Dutch are into piracy. They live on their ships, along with their children and wiv ...
- Shares The sun is my property
- Yesterday, a 49 year old Spanish lady claimed that the sunis her property. She based her claim on a notary certificatein which she hadformalized herownership.She is planning to let everybody pay for using the sun. An international agreement states that states cannot ow ...
- Shares The most famous mustache
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The Spanish Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, marquis de Dalí de Pubol, better known as Salvador Dalihas got the most famous mustache according to an investigation executedby MSN Him. From the 14.000 Brits who voted selected 25% Dali's mustache as the most famou ...
- Shares China, here I come!
- Here I am, sitting behind my computer, finishing my travel schedule for the coming 4 weeks. The destination is excited and simple: China. With a short stop in Dubai, to see some Arabic sand, I will fly from Amsterdam to Beijing. I have visited Beijing before. Last year I crossed Tian’anmen s ...
- Shares What is happiness?
- The sentences “I am happy” and “I want to be happy” are often used. The word happiness itself is also considered to be important. To give a simple example, it was among the first 100 words I learned in Chinese from my Mandarin book. In the 19th century, the Archbishop of Dublin, Richard ...
- Shares What will make you happy?
- Last year, a company did research on the question: What would make you happy? A questioner was filled out by thousand people living in The Netherlands. Being a Dutchman myself, I was astonished by the result. Sex ended on the fourth position. On the third position ended being in the nature ...
- Shares Do you believe in money?
- Money! Everybody wants to have it, everybody wants to get rich. We study for it, we work for it, we gamble and bet for it… but what is it exactly what we want? What exactly is money? Does it really exist? Our first answer would be: “Yes, of course! Look what I have in my wallet, look at my ...
- Shares Noble
- Frank Lloys Wright (1869 - 1959), american architect and writer once said: "Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." This statement leads me to two simple questions. Wh ...
- Shares Easy question, difficult answer
- Most questions we ask in daily life are quite simple. The answers we give are usually quiteunsophisticated as well and we are easily satisfied with those answers. IfI point toan apple and ask, "what's that?", then everybody would react, "an apple".People will give this answ ...
