tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31456472024-03-07T23:42:58.615+01:00¤ Conform-Mystik & Sub-Versive ¤Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comBlogger874125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-68472625324679673222023-03-08T15:44:00.000+01:002023-03-08T15:44:01.512+01:00Reading: ChipwarsViewing: The White Lotus 1 & 2 + The MandalorianListening to: Blinklist podcastsThinking: Another shitty day in Paradise... I wonderTravelling: from Indonesia to Zürs to NYC for the first time ever conference on water at the UN since 1977Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-84028935000255180702021-01-15T12:38:00.002+01:002021-01-15T12:38:30.859+01:00Welcome to 2021, screw 2020.A Davos poll estimates and qualifies the new nowMore than three-fifths of respondents think most people will still be wearing masks in public a year on.Reading: Admiral McRaven's memoirsViewing: The Queen's Gambit - a must-see series, absolute 5 star ratingListening to: The Boy with the Arab strap; the instrumental version was used by a Canadian friend fighting a Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-29688616335511678092020-06-24T15:06:00.001+02:002020-06-24T15:06:17.952+02:00CoronaOver the last 105 days, I've learned a lot about myself, society, the willingness and kindness of people that do share my values. From charity to personal commitment, from artists to entrepreneurs, from simple customs agents to senior managers; of all these interactions, I learned a lot.
Today marks my first, back at the office in Paris; in front of Pompidou (under revamp-construction). Will it Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-57558228434552682362019-12-20T12:20:00.000+01:002019-12-20T12:20:28.617+01:00Rreading list of 2019
Viewing: Joker, Star Wars 9
Listening to: Interstellar soundtrack
Thinking: "hoe doen andere mensen da?"
Travelling: saw the pyramids of Cairo, travelling soon to the Red Sea
Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-73325636855018556272018-12-17T10:46:00.001+01:002019-12-20T12:20:53.411+01:00K.Debruyne
Kevin Debruyne kan hier nog iets van leren
#jem'enbatslescouillesWacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-10170509078460209722018-12-04T11:25:00.002+01:002018-12-04T11:25:25.251+01:00MEUTE
Reading: 21 lessons for the 21st century (Yuval Harari): After Sapiens and Homo deus (*****)
Viewing: Narcos (Mexico)
Listening to: Gabriel Rios, Jef Neve & Kobe Proesmans, Ausencia
Thinking: I may be wrong, but I doubt
Travelling: soon off to the far east
Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-14585590632686766172018-10-03T12:26:00.000+02:002018-10-03T12:26:17.059+02:00What I learned in the news today
Geert Noels: "Meer dan 50% van de production die in Walmart liggen, komen uit China" - we better be prepared for another global trade war and economical downswing.
Our politicians need to be better trained in "politicising" their body language: some advise here - https://www.nbcnews.com/better/business/how-be-more-effective-communicator-according-former-secret-service-agent-ncna876611
The Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-61983666164095087752018-01-17T13:28:00.001+01:002018-01-17T13:30:47.967+01:00Dans le désert, il ne faut pas se faire tuer par un lièvre, mais par un lionResolutions for 2018
- complete a 1/2 Triathlon
- make sure to not take plastic bags in stores
- read more
not bad to kick off the year right?
Reading: Het Smelt (nog altijd.... maar hij gaat eraan).
Finished reading: Oorlog & Terpentijn van Stefan Hertmans (***** hartverwarmend en echt ontroerend) en Vuile Lakens (de moeite om mee te zijn met de laatste inzichten in seksuologie)
Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-89123731626369466802017-09-13T17:11:00.001+02:002017-09-13T17:11:24.336+02:00One should make one's own fun
We
all have a fundamental choice in life, every single morning.
Be
brave, positive, looking for the good stuff, and accept randomness and
serendipity to screw you over or offer double pleasure.
Nothing beats that
lesson except the next one learnt a long time ago but insufficiently applied:
#ATRA - these are the
things you can control and choose in life
Attitude:
be a Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-39056443002492772502017-09-01T10:56:00.000+02:002017-09-01T10:56:22.822+02:00O valor das coisas não está no tempo que elas duram, mas na intensidade com que acontecem. Por isso existem momentos inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis.Just back from the annual pilgrimage to World Water Week in Stockholm.
What a city!
Over the last 15 years, I've been there every summer and I still find new views, interesting content and excitement in meeting the old guard while discovering new initiatives and organisations.
You' d say it's a load of bollocks, but I find the real-life discussions energizing and motivating for the next semester.Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-65479412914844840762017-01-13T09:36:00.001+01:002017-01-13T09:36:51.841+01:00Wishing you a less busy 2017Reading:
Just finished a monumental read from 2016, KL, a history of the concentration camps. A deeper insight in the destructive machinery and administration at the hear to the Third Reich. Scary to note the dehumanisation, the mechanics behind the organisation of the extermination of so many victims and a staunch warning:
Now reading: BUSY, an inspiring book on how to reorganise your life for Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-23492318417366305282016-04-01T11:18:00.001+02:002016-04-01T11:18:04.536+02:00March 22 in BelgiumMarch 22 was Belgium's 9/11
There is a before, and a horrible after.
Our thoughts go to the victims of barbaric violence, perpetrated by radicals.
32 people died in Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek train station.
It could have been each and everyone of us passing through, on the way to work, to family, to love. Many of us escaped; in fact almost all of us are the "lucky ones".
United we stand, Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-73749659385747490382016-02-01T11:32:00.001+01:002016-02-01T11:32:58.479+01:00Post-Resolutions
Hello,
it's me again…. Adele jumps back to world stage with a fantastic
"ear-worm". You can't get it out of your head. However, and immensely
more sadly, David “Starman” Bowie left us with the best parting gift before
being incinerated into dust to dust. Belgian radio station #StudioBrussels made
world headlines by immortalizing a “starman” constellation -
What
were your resolutions in Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-65330216216059917642015-01-21T10:26:00.001+01:002015-01-21T10:26:33.374+01:00GramToday's "Gram" inaugurates a new serial project, trademark Wacondah ventures, right?
Confined to our frustrations, we suffer; it is so much better to try to compile & cross-reference statements on current affairs and voice opinions. Lead example used to be the "Journaal" by Mark Grammens, who in the best of Anglo-Saxon journalistic tradition, tried to question our reality and comment the Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-72685117446225926032015-01-08T11:31:00.002+01:002015-01-08T11:31:55.167+01:00Je suis Charlieall our thoughts go out to the victims of the barbaric attack on "Charlie Hebdo" yesterday in Paris.
Eight puzzling questions:
1. why did one of the terrorists pauze to pick up a shoe on the ground before entering the runaway car after executing an already wounded police officer?
2. the attack seemed carefully prepared and orchestrated: however: how come did they end up in the wrong appartment Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-67443217085513109352015-01-05T22:55:00.004+01:002015-01-05T22:56:40.325+01:00New Year's resolutionsThis guy has it right in today's FT
In his brilliant article on the January Jinx that could be titled "hmmpphh.... got to have a good New Year's resolution -- just to abandon it a couple of days later when the first work party kicks in again"; it is refreshing to read things such as
Most resolutions, he explains, fail because no thought is given to how they will be implemented or Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-7102630545731957072014-11-26T11:32:00.000+01:002014-11-26T11:32:05.604+01:00World Toilet Day - 19 November
with #toiletogram on instagram, but also on the Wacondah Flickrstream; a collection of pictographs from around the world to reflect on our cultural differences and the essence of being wo)man! Le corps est un tube digestif!
Please reflect on the fact that 1 billion people are condemned to practice open defecation and that more than 2 billion people lack access to safe sanitary services!!Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-62287194929706267912014-11-18T11:08:00.000+01:002014-11-18T11:08:16.791+01:00to watch: Interstellar
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-45789233369378367002014-08-29T12:07:00.000+02:002014-08-29T12:07:54.602+02:00Matt Damon digs the real "Ice Bucket Challenge"
the only thing missing in here is that in fact more than 2 Billion people do not have their right to safe drinking water fullfilled.... and that more than a billion people are forced to practice open defecation daily.
Timely video, ahead of next week's www.WorldWaterWeek.org in Stockholm.Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-46347537978480819472014-03-31T11:55:00.000+02:002014-03-31T11:55:18.451+02:00We are f*ckedWhile reviled and bashed by some, it still remains an interesting read; "10 Billion" by Stephen EMMOTT details the next decades' evolution of life on planet earth, pointing out some harsh truths that we seemingly WANT to keep on ignoring.
Finish it in a speed-read session and then reflect on his conclusions "we are f*cked".
Asked what the one thing would be to teach someone that could change Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-79161895830375885362014-03-26T17:37:00.000+01:002014-03-26T17:37:00.735+01:00#ObamainBelgium - part2
@Newsmonkey_BE @FilipBelgie @vrtderedactie @destandaard @demorgen @florisvc:#ObamainBelgium: BE leads against NL pic.twitter.com/XT8nVPq6Av
— ThomasvanWaeyenberge (@thomasvw) March 26, 2014
Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-44996950560932311412014-03-20T12:16:00.001+01:002014-03-20T12:16:50.687+01:00Proven - Big MoFo Bang happened, almost instantanously, everywhere, at speeds higher than speed of light: question: what came right before?Source: FT.com - http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/dd301e00-ade1-11e3-bc07-00144feab7de.html#axzz2wV5hjpjc
"Astronomers say they have found the first evidence of “gravitational waves”, ripples in the fabric of space-time, bolstering the Big Bang theory of the birth of the universe 13.8bn years ago."
Scientists can now be more confident that the Big Bang triggered expansion at an Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-4046173680459264222014-03-20T12:13:00.000+01:002014-03-20T12:13:01.402+01:00La trahison des élitessource: Le Monde
18 mars 2014
SELON UNE ÉTUDE – La NASA prévoit la fin de la civilisation
Une étude du Centre de vols spatiaux Goddard de la NASA relayée par la RTBFexplique que la civilisation tel que nous la connaissons aujourd'hui pourrait bien disparaître dans les prochaines décennies en raison d'un problème de gestion des ressources naturelles et d'une mauvaise Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-56362043238321125622014-01-28T10:54:00.001+01:002014-01-28T10:54:53.167+01:00In honor of Statler & Waldorf, laugh more in 2014!Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3145647.post-83413327466136478652014-01-17T14:24:00.001+01:002014-01-17T14:24:24.773+01:00Wonder in Stilte
-- Wonder in Stilte --
Waarom - leren
we van kindsbeen af niet beter zwijgen?
Moeten - we
niet leren verwonderd en zwijgzaam kijken?
Wij - die nederiger
zouden moeten zijn en wat minder mens.
Altijd - op
zoek naar lawaai, en vuil.
Alles - vernietigend,
alles klasserend, alles benoemend en bemoeiend.
Proberen -
te zwijgen, proberen te luisteren, proberen te aanvaarden.
Uit - Wacondahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379507136252237364noreply@blogger.com