A new business. With bonus material and bloopers and all. And you're right, I changed the title. Bit too presumptious. But if you want to find out more, got to learn Dutch first. Coz I tried in English, i really did, and it's just too much struggle. And hey i am lot smarter and wittier in my own language. So what i'll do; i'll just give it a go and juice it up with some Dutch whenever i am stuck. K?

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Rotterdam daily photo 5 yrs!

Guys, i have had so much fun the last days collecting photo's for Rotterdamdailyphoto's 5th anniversary!

About 2 weeks ago I had written Ahmed Aboutaleb (our mayor) and cc-ed his spokesman. The latter mailed me back after a couple of days that the mayor would cooperate.
I was over the moon!

Once the day came closer of THE photo shoot i realized i had to have some gimmick to make it clear that he was actually posing for Rdamdailyphoto's 5th anniversary and i hadnot taken the photo on another moment or stolen it from somewhere else (not that i ever would, but i wanted somethign that would make it unique).

so i thought of a birthday candle. You know, the one that little children have on their cake and indicates their age.
First it took me 3 shops to get a 5 but in the end i did.
But what are you going to say to him, my colleagues asked a couple of hours before i had the meeting.
And then i thought of the well known sentence from an add from the 90-ies ; Ik durf het bijna niet te vragen, maar....

So, after having witnessed a city council meeting and having waited for some time, I almost peed my pants, but no guts no glory and said; I hardly dare ask, but could you be so kind as to hold this candle?

Did he? Check out the results tomorrow!

Thursday, February 03, 2011

With Danielle moving on this summer, I have started my search for a new au pair. Tonight after I'd come home from work I went up and found Caroline sitting on Danielle and playing with her hair while watching tv. I should have put this photo in our job description.