I'm still alive...

Hey, hey, hey! I'm still around! I'm so busy these past days, that I hardly ever have time to blog. So let me catch you up on what I've been up to the past few days. Of course I'm busy busy busy with my house! It's a lot of work and I want to move in by December.

This is my street

View from my livingroom: Erasmusbrug

My mother coming up to my apartment

Toilet before...

... toilet after. Hanging toilet and new floor tiles. Toilet room is far from finished!

Me taking-off wallpaper

After the wallpaper is off

I ordered a kitchen with a built-in fridge, stove, microwave, dishwasher, oven etc. It is designed specifically for me by a company. Here I am at the company showroom in Barendrecht

My kitchen design on paper. It will be delivered in October

I already started dismantling the old kitchen





Dad tiling the bathroom

New blue tiles on the bathroom floor

This is me painting the livingroom ceiling

Me hard at work

My friend Timmy is also helping out

Of course I didn't only work on my house. I had stuff to do at AFC as well. The Taiwan trip is coming up. We got our shots against Yellow Fever and we are now awaiting our visas. As soon as they are in, Staff Control (staffco) will make flight arrangement for us and then we're gone again.

I also celebrated the 30th birthday of my friend Thomas. Tommy kept his b-day party at Club Hollywood in Rotterdam. It was great!


Birthday boy Thomas (red) together with Marianne and Amid

R. is hopping around the world as usual. After doing a 24 hour Seoul (ICN) he had 5 days at home. It was his Dad's birthday so he decided to treat him to a trip to Barcelona. So he and his Dad enjoyed themselves in Spain.

R. and Jan de Geus - photo used with permission

After Spain with Jan he did a 24 hour slip in Washington DC (IAD) and now he's home for 3 days and then he is on standby for God knows where. Oh and R. finally got the news... October 18th, he will finally get the MD11 schooling! It takes a few days and then he is allowed to crew the Mad Dog 11! Aruba here Robin comes! As of December 31st, 2006 he will completely drop the 767-300. His package will then be 737, 747 and MD11.

And then there is also my best buddy Lesley. After we had our weekend trip to London it was back to work for him at easyJet. Normally he always goes to St. Maarten in the summer for a few weeks, but this time he didn't, because of expensive tickets. I said to myself... what the hell... the year is almost over and I am allowed to use 2 buddy passes each year. I used one on Jeandrina already, so I gave Lesley the other one. After I called AF Staff Travel I arranged the ticket. He flew KLM straight to SXM and when he's coming back, he'll fly AF via Paris CDG.

Lesley and his aunt, cousin and her baby at Schiphol

Pushback of Lesley's aircraft from gate F3. I was standing on the Panorama deck

He even got to sit in the cockpit for the landing in SXM! Lucky dog! - Photo by L. Peterson and used with his permission

And here he is with his sister Larissa on the island of St. Maarten. Enjoy your holiday, dude! - Photo by L. Peterson and used with his and Larissa's permission

My brother Junior went to Singapore for his job at P&O Nedlloyd. His flight was heavily delayed and eventually he arrived in Amsterdam after being rerouted via Bangkok and Copenhagen. He was pissed-off and tired when he came in the house. Junior hates to fly! Strange, huh? He is just scared. He went upstairs, dumped his bags on the floor, took a shower and headed straight to bed.

Click! Got ya Junior. I know... when you see this you'll kill me! But I know you still love me, bro! - Photo bt R. Mitchell and NOT used with permission from Junior! Lol!

And so my life goes on. Busy, busy, busy....