Kitchen and more...

My kitchen has finally been delivered. As I told you before I hated the kitchen my apartment came with, so I had it destroyed. I went to Keuken Concurrent by SieMatic and had them design a kitchen for me. exactly how I wanted it. After the kitchen was designed you had to select which kitchen appliances you want in it. Everything will be built in into the kitchen, so nothing will be loose. I chose a fridge & freezer, an oven/microwave, a dishwasher (like I'm really going to be washing any dishes by hand), a stove-top etc. etc. The kitchen is expensive at € 5.921,- ($ 7.461,- / AWG 13.057,-), but I only want the best of the best... they last longer.

My kitchen design

The Keukenman truck in front of the apartment building





The kitchen parts in my apartment

The kitchen will be set up on Tuesday. I'm a career person and as you guys know, I am always on the go. I need things to make my life easy. I can cook really good, but I hate to cook. Between the two of us R. is a much better cook and he loves it.

I also hired an interior designer to furnish my appartment and give it some style. I just don't have the time to do it. Sure it is costing me a bundle of money, but I have no other choice.

Later on I'm going to Lesley in Hoofddorp. My buddy is leaving me for 4 months to work in London. As you may know Lesley used to work at easyJet in their Sales & Marketing team at Schiphol. A few weeks back he was approached by British Airways (BA) and he was offered a position in their Sales & Communication Team Europe.

BA

He will be based at Schiphol, but he needs to train at BA's headquarters in London.

BA Training does traing for all of BA's staff, personell and crew worldwide.

When he is back he'll be working in a team that will perform duties for Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany. I'm so proud of him!

Can you imagine... he started out as a baggage loader at Ogden in St. Maarten when he was 16, working part-time. He came to Holland to study and at the same time worked as an aircraft cleaner at Asito and Lavos. Then he started to work at Ogden/Menzies in Amsterdam as an agent for Transavia Airlines. Then KLM Ground Services took over the handling of Transavia and created KLM Passage Ground (SPL/PG)... and that's where we met about 5-6 years ago. We had a ball together! In the meantime he was also going to school (HBO). Then of course he left SPL/PG and worked a few months at GlobeGround and part-time at KLM Cargo (SPL/FD) and then he joined easyJet. Now he is working for BA. Wow! Of course BA is Air France-KLM's competition, so I have to be careful what I say around him.

R. is going to spend the weekend by his parents in Leerdam. His mother had a knee operation, so he wants to check up on her. Beterschap ma!

Have a smashing weekend everyone!