New job!!!!!

Yesterday I sent out a life update to my international network. Unfortunately some emails bounced, so if u are reading this and have not received an email, please contact me!

Next Monday I will start my new job at the regional treasury desk in Rotterdam. It means I will be protecting clients from risks they are exposed to in global financial markets. The first two months they planned a very elaborate and intense course for me. I am quite happy to be working on an intellectual challenge again. So in the future I might be the one to talk to when u need information about hedging, swaps, foreign exchanges etc. ;-)

I also just recently returned from my first business trip ever, to Milan and France. I had an amazing time in both places.

Life in pictures

Men vs women (thanks to Harman)

Disclaimer: The content below is extremely "sexist" and "biased" towards the male specie of the Homosapien kind. Any resemblance to anybody living or dead is purely intentional :D:D

Most of the comments below hold true in the modern world. Although exceptions are always present; any offence caused due to reading this email please take them like a big girl ;)


Men Are Just Happier People

NICKNAMES
If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura,
Kate and Sarah .
If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other
as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.

EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in £20, even
though it's only for £32.50.
None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they
want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEY
A man will pay £2 for a £1 item he needs.
A woman will pay £1 for a £2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving
cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from M&S.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337.
A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.

ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

CATS
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the bins,
answer the phone, read a book, and get the post.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children.
She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite
foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes.
There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

New record in TV land

The Netherlands has a new celebrity for all the long reasons: Joran van der Sloot. He confessed yesterday in a tv crime show that he made the body of American student Natalee Holloway dissapear. His confession lacks empathy, he makes disrespectful comments and he seems unmoved by the event (after he dumped her body, he went home to donwload porn and then went to sleep). Little psycho in the making....

Yesterday the Dutch crime reporter that got the confession out of Joran broke records in television land. 7 million people watched his show (out of a population of 16 million). The media took this opportunity to publish which shows, excluding sports, attracted most viewers.

The conclusion: we are a simple nation.
1) Joran van der Sloot confesses
2) Wedding of our crown prince
3) Funeral of Dutch folk singer
4) Idols 1 final
5) boer zoekt vrouw (=a farmer's search for a wife)