World of Jop

Probaly the Malaysians, Indonesians, Singaporians and also I guess the Pinoys among you would laugh about it, but here in Holland we have an official ‘ tropical heatwave’ now. According to ‘ the rules’ it is officially such a tropical heatwave when the temparture during day is higher than 30 degrees for at least 5 days. Consequently, we were sent home 2 hours earlier last two days. I decided to go with the flow and not mention the fact that it was always like that in India and Malaysia, allthough AC’s are not standard in Dutch buildings. I am still like a schoolboy in that sense that I love some free hours and feel like running outside the building after getting them. But being a interim professional finance now, I managed to control myself :-b

One should think we Dutch are happy now, because we all are always complaining that the weather is too cold and too rainy and the sky is too gray while the wind is too strong to go with our bicycles and the temparature too low to walk without our coats.But it is not like that, we Dutch just love complaining all the time. Now still almost nobody is happy: ‘ I wish it would be rainy again soon. This sun is so hot. My garden needs water. What a stupid climate we have ANYWAYS. Yes I wanted some sun, but not for so many days. I get sweaty all the time when I am cycling. And I just bought an expensive fashion coat….now it is too hot to wear it!!’. Yup, complaining is definitely part of Dutch culture, which sometimes can be a little bit annoying indeed. Never ask a Dutch person feed-back about some work….He will pay attention to the bad points only without giving a single compliment at all, as only looking at the negative points ;-). 

Well, the heat makes me too lazy to write more….So here is the shortest blog of Jop so far ;-).

Enyoy the weather…

Still a proud Dutch, Jop