Marin Heideman’s BLOG

Yes, it is right!! I’ve got my bachelor degree in the pocket! Yesterday I received my diploma.

So now i am officialy Bachelor of Business Administration!

Yesterday, the last show of the Dutch television program ”the golden cage” was on. For al the foreign people:

The golden cage is a game. A few people were locked up in a very luxury villa. (like big brother) They had to act like a millionaire. The winner won 1 million euro and €1000,- per day of which he was in the villa.

The duration of the show was 451 days. The production company ended the show because it could last forever (a player could only leave if all the other players unanimously vote him away. That’s the show at a glance.

Well, you can imagine what will happen if you were locked with a few people for 451 days! A lot of aggression, fights etc. But the production company only worries about the amount of viewers..

But what is the next step? Lock up people in a real prison?? Or Worse? What a shame for the Dutch television!

The abbreviation EVP means Electronic Voice Phenomena. What does it mean? Well, simply it is a way of talking with dead people. How? Easy, take a transistor radio, put some noise on and record that…Now, ask some questions and the spirits will answer.

There are a lot of websites about the subject on the net… Hollywood also produced a movie about it white noise”

I really have some skepticism on this subject. But, I don’t have any proof cause I haven’t tried it. Maybe you? What do you think? Can we really talk with the deads? Or is it just the sound of your neighbor’s dog??

Everyone is blogging today… A few years ago blogging wasn’t even a word.. Today it is a well known verb in many languages. But why is everyone blogging? Why is everyone putting his personal life on a website? A lot of cell phones do have a mobile blog which you can synchronize directly with the internet… Get the picture? You are walking to the local grocery while a couple of aliens are beaming you up to have some research on your balls… meanwhile you are catching up on your mobile blog so you can synchronize it with the internet when you are home. And then, the whole world is able to read about your testicles in a few seconds… That is the whole idea of a blog??

Well, don’t be so naïve! Do you really think that people are interested in your personal pathetic life?? But still, it is also little old me who is blogging… And why? Because I like it to write down all my frustrations. Not for the outside world but just for myself… But when I see my visitor statistics growing, I have to admit… maybe I am blogging a little bit for the outside world, just to get that little bit of fame…

Nowadays, there are a lot of car commercials… But they are all the same… You see a car, mostly in a dessert or a mountainous area. Or, and these are the most boring ones, a familly who is very very happy with their car…

But now there is the Audi R8. And I think Audi has done a very good job. Especially with their commercial. The commercial is really about the car.. No stupid famillies or mountains, just the car.. with background music from Simone White “beep beep song” This commercial really makes you buying this car…. If it wasn’t €150.000

Audi closes the commercial with “the slowest car we’ve ever built” This doesn’t represent the speed of the car (it is the fastest car Audi has ever built) but the production time. The car is totally hand-made. If you look very well to the commercial, you can see the productionworkers building.

Watch and see:

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=9YKH6eX-CJI]

One of the best songs ever written… What do you think??

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, Come on, Come on, now,
I hear you’re feeling down.
I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I’ll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying.
When I was a child I had a FEVER My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am.

I have become comfortably numb.
(solo)
I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.
Just a little pin prick.
There’ll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working, good.
That’ll keep you going through the show
Come on it’s time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
but I have become comfortably numb.

Okay, just for the foreign people on this log a translation from a typical dutch song… Kris de Bruyne – Amsterdam (Do all the dutch visitors know the song??) Anyhow, the lyrics (translated by myself) And.. What do you think of Amsterdam??

You can buy books there,
Which are hard to find here
You can walk along the canals
Your hair loose in the wind
You can spend hours there
The parks are green
You can look at van Goch
That’s one thing you really should do
You are free like a bird
Because everything is possible
So close
And still so far
Is Amsterdam

Cause there in Amsterdam
Are you so far from me
Still I feel Amsterdam so painfully close to me

There is always a party
in the concert hall
Did you knew that even Randy Newman has been there?
Who of us expected then
That you have found a shelter totally alone
We used to go there together
Who of us is free as a bird?
Who of us who can still do everything?
So close
And still so far is Amsterdam

Cause there in Amsterdam
Are you so far from me
Still I feel Amsterdam so painfully close to me

It looks like Christmas begins earlier every year! We hardly have time to celebrate the birthday of Sinterklaas (poor bastard). As soon as we are back from holidays in August, we all think about the decoration of the Christmas three! And why? Is it because we are all familiar with the bible and the true story of Christmas? No! It is because the retail trade made us like this. Christmas is rather a marketing strategy (for a lot of companies) than a Christian celebration.

But imagine, what if Christmas was only an opportunity to go to church and have an enjoyable simple meal with your family? Sounds boring doesn’t it? The idea of getting presents, walking in “winter wonderland” shops and buying a lot of food sounds more enjoyable! Right?

And all those managers can’t wait to transform their shop in a “winter wonderland”, and launch their “come to our winterwonderland, it is already Christmas in September. Bring all your money with you!” campaigns.

But on the other hand, who cares? The Retail stores are doubling their Christmas turnover every year, and we keep spending more and more on our presents and, especially, al lot of absurdness! Merry Christmas!

Today I read an article about the freemasons in Nijmegen, Holland. You probably know that the freemason is an very secret and mysterious organization. Well, if that is really true, the freemasons in Nijmegen have to do something about their Web Security.

The organization has an “secured” section on its website. (http://www.vrijmetselarij.net/SintLodewijk/restricted/paswoord.html). If you want to have a look on it, try the pass “Hildburghausen”

Well, please don’t think that I am a member of the freemason’s! I just “stole” the password by looking in the source code of the webpage. The password is literally readable in the source.

The website is build by 3a-productions in Nijmegen. If you ever need an secured website, don’t go to them!

Pretty stupid huh?

Global warming.. the topic of conversation today. Most people think that global warming is caused by co2 gasses. But there is another interesting theory which is supported by several scientists. Global warming is hot since the rise of the mobile phone. Community antenna’s are sending microwave radiations. Since mobile phones (and other methods of communication like UMTS, HSDPA etc.) are being used more and more, the radiation in the air has also increased. The influence of the antenna’s on natural waters can be compared with a glass of water in the microwave. It is already proven that a mobile phone heats up the brains a little. It sounds strange, but…Is it impossible?