After this years dinner, we decided to go shopping early with Thanksgiving. How about 10pm at the Toys’R US? Every year Black Friday shopping starts earlier. For the stores it’s the biggest day of the year, but their revenue gets eaten up by the run on Internet shops. To be able to compete, stores open […]
Party City Customer Parking Only
Every Sunday I go to the Farmers Market at Kooser Road, at Meridian Ave in San Jose. It’s a popular destination for those who like to shop for organic fruit and vegetables. Since the market is taking up a decent amount of parking spots, I’m sure the stores around the parking see some sort of […]
Delft Pictures
After 3 weeks vacation back home in The Netherlands, I am finally back in the US with some time to post some nice pictures of pure Dutch sceneries. Here are some pictures from Delft. Delft is the place where William of Orange was murdered. Still all the royals from The Netherlands are buried in the […]
Roy Lichtenstein Style Graffiti for Hair Salon
How do you draw attention to a hair salon that is situated lower than the road where everybody passes? Right, a large graffiti on the side of the building! Check out this Graffiti in the style of the well known artist Roy Lichtenstein. The woman in the Graffiti says: “Oh, Jan, your hair is wonderful” […]
Holland World Cup
I’m having a well deserved vacation back in my own country The Netherlands. And I’m very happy I can watch all the games of the world cup. The World Cup is much bigger in Europe than in the US. Whole streets are colored Orange in Holland, where all commercials are World Cup oriented. All stores […]
Student Curb Service Real or Scam?
Last week, we got a notice our number of the house was newly painted on the curb stones at the street again. The notice was from Student Curb Service, where they highlighted the curb stones were freshly painted for convenience of police and fire department in times of need. All sounds good right? Your house […]
Positive Thinking
Are you thinking positive? Are you really? Thinking positive goes beyond the cliché of the half glass full or the half glass empty. Thinking positive is a state of mind, and showing insight to yourself and other people even without thinking about it. Thinking positive will make other people smile, be more productive, get the […]
Silicon Valley Roller Girls
Saturday evening, time to get out of the house. On upcoming I stumbled on an event I have never been: Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. San Jose has it’s own team, the SVRG, short for; the Silicon Valley Roller Girls. A roller derby is exciting. The two teams try to score points and block the […]
7 Year Old Car Thief
Imagine you are just 7 years old, and you don’t want to go to church. What do you do? Right, you hijack a car, and get involved in a car chase with the police. Problem solved, I bet the boy didn’t went to church, rather he went to the police station to be questioned. A […]
Zurich Trip
Summer in Zurich is awesome. Although winter is not bad either, as I was there last December and it was not that cold or rainy at all. Last week rocked in Zurich Switzerland! The first three days the temperature was over 30 degrees Celsius, which is approximately 90-95 Fahrenheit. With a Monday night dinner at […]