My uncle, the photographer

My uncle, the photographer

Dear readers of my weblog.

Today I would like to write about my uncle. My uncle is a photographer. He really makes beautiful and sharp pictures. Photographing is not really his job, because he doesn’t earn enough with it. But he would like to photograph and make it his profession. He is often asked for big jobs and events. For example, last week he had a photo shoot with the model Janice Dickinson and he was invited to photograph on the private party of Victoria Koblenko.

I found the pictures and the work my uncle does extremely impressive. It's also nice to have a photographer in the family, because every time we have a family meeting or a birthday, he makes beautiful pictures and it’s really nice to look back at those pictures.

Nowadays it’s really hard to make a profession out of photographing. If you want a job as photographer you have to be very good. This is also the reason why a lot of people don’t choose the study photography. Not because they don’t like the study. In contrary, they like the study a lot and really want to do it, but they aren’t assure of a good job in the future so they decide to choose a study who does give that certainty.

I would like to photograph myself too. I love those big cameras which make extra sharp pictures. I’m thinking about buying a digital Canon camera in the future. But I don’t think I’ll ever be able to make such beautiful pictures as my uncle, I leave that to him!

Avatar

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The film that broke several box office records during its release and became the highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. and Canada and also worldwide, surpassing Titanic, which had held the records for the previous 12 years. It became the first film to gross more than $2 billion. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director and won three, for Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction. I’m talking about the film Avatar.

Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi (a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora). The film's title refers to the genetically engineered Na'vi-human hybrid bodies used by a team of researchers to interact with the natives of Pandora.

I went to Avatar myself and I think it’s a very beautiful film. I saw it in 3D which made it a little more real. I found the film very touching and it amazed me how real it actually looks. You can definitely see that it took a long time to make this movie. The only thing I found a bit unfortunate was that it’s a very long film. But if you haven’t seen it yet, you definitely should see it!

The voice of Holland

Dear readers of my weblog,

Today I’m going to tell you something about a program that is very popular nowadays: The voice of Holland. The voice of Holland is the most popular talent show of Holland and you can watch it every friday on RTL 4.

The Voice of Holland is all about unique singing talent. The auditions take place online and after that there are four coaches to guide the talents that made in through the auditions to the finish. The four coaches are: Nick en Simon, Angela Groothuizen, VanVelzen and Jeroen van der Boom. The presenters on stage are Martijn Krabbe and Wendy van Dijk and the report out of the Red Room is presented by Winston Gerschtanowitz.

The Red Room (sponsored by Vodafone) is the Room where the singing talents go after their performance. In the Red Room you find a lot of Samsumg Galaxy Tabs, where the performers can see Twitter messages about themselves.

Tonight is the final of The Voice of Holland. The four talents that are left are: Kim de Boer, Leonie Meijer, Ben Saunders and Pearl Jozefzoon. I think it is going to be very difficult to pick a winner from these four finalists, because they’re all four are extremely good and they all got there own qualities. But if you ask me who I think is going to win tonight I’d say Ben Saunders, because he got a lot of fans and everybody adores him.

So, everybody watch the final of The Voice of Holland on RTL 4 at 20.30! Believe me, you don’t want to miss it!

Renault Clio Commercial

Dear readers of my weblog,

Today I’m going to write about the funny commercial of the Renault Clio. First of all I like to say that I really think I Renault Clio is a very nice car. Not too big, but also not too small, and I like the way it looks.

Now I’m going to tell you something about the commercial. I saw it like a hundred times, but every time I see it I have to laugh again! The commercial start with a young man in a car. First you only see the car and then you hear a song and see the man in the car. The man sings along with the song very hard. At a point the man stops by a stoplight. There he sees another man beside him in a car. He still sings the song very hard and because his window is open, the man beside him hears everything, that is also the reason why the man in the other car looks a little strange at the man who is singing very loud. After that, the singing man arrives at the home of his girlfriend. There he meets the father of his girlfriend for the first time. The father appears to be the man from the car that stood beside him by the stoplight! The father recognizes the man and looks a little surprised, then after a while he says: ‘Well.. at least you have a nice car!’ And then the man says: ‘Well.. at least you have a nice daughter!’

The reason I think this commercial is very good, is because it’s funny but you do realise where the commercial is about, namely the Renault Clio.

My 'ex'- job as a Callcenteragent

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Two years ago I worked for a company that called Square² Contact Center. Square² is a little Callcenter in Delft which sells Oxxio (energy) and raises money for the Dutch Heart Foundation. It is a nice company that employs mostly young people.

I worked there for six months. When I started there I was only sixteen years old and I had no experience what so ever. The first day I was very nervous, because I didn’t knew how or what I had to do. Fortunately I got a lot of help from my supervisor.

My job was to call people and sell them energy from Oxxio (an energy supplier). When you work in a Callcenter you sit behind a computer with a headset on which include a microphone and at your computer screen you see exactly what you have to say. .At first I really liked the job. I thought it was challenging, because your goal is to score as much costumers as you can. But after a while I started to like it less and less. It not only became really boring, but the longer I worked there, the more I began to notice that I was actually lighting up people. Because Oxxio isn’t cheaper than other energy companies, but our job is to make it seem like Oxxio is the best and the cheapest.

After I found out that they were trying to sell Oxxio to old people who don’t even understand what Oxxio actually means, I resigned. And after this awful experience I decided to never work in a Callcenter again.

My life as a student

Dear readers of my weblog.

To be honest, I hardly know any more topics to write about. Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of subjects where I can write a interesting blog about, but not all subjects are related to the study Commercial Economics. That’s why I’m going to tell you something about my life as a student which, of course, is also very interesting.

My life as a student is quite varied, busy and stressful, but also very fun and extravagant. It has nice things and things that are less nice, just like everything in life has good and less good things. School is sometimes really dramatic, at some moments you’re doing three or even four projects at the same time and there are many deadlines. The exams also provide a lot of stress. But the fun part is really outrageous! Going out with friends, the crazy assignments we sometimes get, the new people you meet, new experiences, everything is one big adventure!

I’m very glad with my choice to go to the Hague High school. I really love the school, the people and the atmosphere is great. It’s also a very big school, which I think is a big advantage, because there are a lot of places where you can study, do your homework or meet with your workgroup and work on a project. Something I also like a lot about the Hague High school is that there is an activity or a promotion of a product or company almost every week. You notice that by the flyers that are being handed out and last week I saw a group that sold condoms.

The Burj al Arab

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Today I'm going to tell you about my lovely holiday in Dubai. I went there in April 2009 with my family (my father, mother and my sister). We went there for one week, which I thought was way too short! I really loved it there, the weather, the people, but especially the awesome buildings they got there. One of the most beautiful buildings I saw there was the Burj al Arab and because it amazed me so much I’m going to write about the Burj Al Arab today.

You may wonder how this subject is related to the study Commercial Economics. Well, the Burj al Arab is a famous building in Dubai and it attracts a lot of tourist and when you talk about tourist you get the subject tourism and tourism has a lot to do with the economy of a county, so this subject certainly is related to the study.

The Burj al Arab (in Arabic: Tower of the Arabs or Arab Tower) is a very luxury hotel in Dubai. This remarkable building was designed by Tom Wright and is promoted as the only 7-star hotel in the world. With a height of 321 meters the Burj al Arab is the tallest building used exclusively as a hotel.. The building was built in the shape of a sail of a dhow (a type Arabian ship), because ships have a important role in Dubai.

During my vacation in Dubai I went in the Burj al Arab with my family. It was so beautiful inside! We went there for breakfast and got a amazing tour through the hotel. My advice: if you ever go to Dubai, you should definitely visit the Burj al Arab! Believe me, you won’t regret it!