Yesterday Bettine Vriesekoop once again placed an article without really researching the details and I find this very disturbing.
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victim of blog censuring 2
Over the years I have unconsciously developed some feud with Bettine Vriesekoop who currently writes a blog on NRC Handelsblad, one of the leading Dutch newspapers. A couple of years ago I already written about an instance of blog censuring, but now it seems I am totally banned from her blog. Last week part of [...]
Student visa Mia approved!!!
Great news! Mia just called that this morning (it’s 7 hours later in Beijing) the Spanish Embassy called to inform her that her student visa to Spain has been approved! So in a couple of weeks the long wait is over and we can together start our life in Valencia! The initial date of the [...]
Ericsson 4 finished 1st in 1st leg of Volvo Ocean Race
Today at 5:54am GMT the yacht Ericsson 4 has finished the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. The Puma yacht is expected to finish within the next few hours orso and of the trailing pack Telefonica Black is the last boat with a distance of more than 560 nautical miles (nm) still to go [...]
visa regulations tightened for Chinese coming to Europe
A recent post on China Herald is about visa-regulations for Chinese people wanting to go to Europe. Dutch companies who want to invite staff or business partners to the Netherlands face now new barriers to get visas, business people in China and Hong Kong complain. Well actually the article is about Dutch businesses in Hong [...]
Earthquake
The age-old saying “There is a first time for everything” once again comes true! This afternoon at around 14:30hr my desk and floor were not so stable anymore and instantly I knew that I was in the middle of an earthquake! Now, since it was my first, I did not really know what to do. [...]
Homestay again featured in Wallstreet Journal!
Via a client, I received the wonderful news that Homestay Beijing 2008 again was featured in an article in the Wallstreet Journal. In August last year they already published an article where my initiative was mentioned and on February 9 this year they did a follow-up on that article. Homestay Beijing 2008 is mentioned as [...]
ridiculous news
Just read an article in the Volkskrant, a Dutch newspaper, and it sounds pretty ridiculous. The article states that evolution biologist Michael Worobey of the Arizona University discovered that 1 person is responsible for the arrival of the aids virus in the USA in 1969, much earlier than everyone had assumed. One person and one [...]
victim of blog censuring
Last year I commented one or two times on the blog of a correspondent (Bettine Vriesekoop) of one of the most renowned newspapers in The Netherlands (NRC Handelsblad). She used to be a Dutch top table tennis player and for some reason people think she can write nice stories, so she ended up in China [...]
Snippets intro
What is it with blogs? About a year ago I started writing a blog. Obviously the start was enthusiastically, but within a couple of months I found less time and/or energy to write about stuff that happened in my life. This year March I decided to get rid of it altogether, because I hadn’t been [...]