Tags Results for 'holidays'

Happy Easter (Friday 21st of March 2008 12:57:00 PM)

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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY (Monday 17th of March 2008 10:00:00 AM)

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Microsoft Giving Xbox Live Users a Free Game (Monday 07th of January 2008 06:15:06 AM)

Earlier this week we covered the Xbox Live outages over the holidays. Several users have
pointed out that Microsoft has acknowledged its lack of performance, and is now offering a free
game to compensate its users. Unfortunately for Microsoft, disgruntled ... (more)

One New Year's Eve I care to forget (Wednesday 02nd of January 2008 12:44:00 PM)

Of all the holidays we celebrate during the course of a year, my favorite has always been New
Year's Eve. The staying up late, which I've always thoroughly enjoyed as a kid. The complete
disregard for my health when it comes to the fat foods. ... (more)

Happy Holidays (Wednesday 19th of December 2007 02:58:00 PM)

Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Saturnalia, Winterval, Eid, etc. to all of you. I'm off on a
Christmas break. I won't neglect this blog however. I'm just not going to add to it. A little
warning for those who visit my blog the coming days: I have ... (more)

2007, it's a wrap (Friday 28th of December 2007 12:53:00 PM)

Another year over. Time to thank the visitors who have kept this blog going throughout that
year. First of all, thanks to all those who have posted comments: Fightingfemale, Dawnie,
SilverWind, Heather, Shannon, Sunshine1028, Happycancer, JournalHome, ... (more)

Healthy Holidays: Tips For Making Smart Food Choices (Sunday 09th of December 2007 08:00:00 AM)

The holidays offer mouth-watering* challenges to your healthy eating plan. Parties have you
eating away from home more often, and sweet treats appear unbidden at your office or doorstep.
It's enticing to relax your efforts over the holidays, but your ... (more)

Saint Nick across Europe (Wednesday 28th of November 2007 01:16:00 PM)

Last year I covered Sinterklaas as celebrated in the Netherlands. We're not the only ones
celebrating it, however, so for this year I had planned to share with you what I know about
foreign customs. I don't know that much, and I don't want to ... (more)

Saint Nicholas confusion (Friday 23rd of November 2007 12:49:00 PM)

To stay with the end of year holidays, there's some news about Saint Nicholas. He's landed in
the Netherlands only last Saturday, but children across the country are deeply confused. A few
years ago, a TV station started filming the preparations of Saint ... (more)

The world's largest Christmas tree (Friday 23rd of November 2007 12:43:00 PM)

The world's largest Christmas tree will be plugged in again on Dec. 14, after a one year
absence. It's actually a TV tower, the Gerbrandy Tower, in the Dutch town of Lopik, but the
Guiness Book of Records agree that when light bulbs are suspended ... (more)

Good News Day (Friday 09th of November 2007 01:55:00 PM)

Another highlight on the Dutch calendar. 83% of our population feel a need for some good news,
so the news media have come up with... Good News Day! Yay! I'm on a quest to deliver you some
good news to mark this special occasion, and ... (more)

Halloween (Wednesday 31st of October 2007 12:48:00 PM)

Halloween has hit my town too. And it just pisses me off. It's still small scale, but it's not
a tradition in this country, nor should it be. We have Saint Martin's day for the distribution
of candy to begging children, and only then will ... (more)

Saint Nicholas (Wednesday 24th of October 2007 03:16:00 PM)

It's still well over a month away, but the first Saint Nick controversy is here. American-owned
chocolate maker AMD, a big player in the Dutch chocolate market don't want to have anything to
do with Saint Nick's helper, Zwarte Piet, who is black. They ... (more)

Prinsjesdag (Tuesday 18th of September 2007 12:47:00 PM)

Finally... This is the one special day on the Dutch calendar I haven't covered yet: Prinsjesdag
or Princes' Day. I'm not going to bore you with the reasons behind the name. Let me just tell
you what it is. Today marks the beginning of the ... (more)

Happy Conception Day! (Wednesday 12th of September 2007 02:33:00 PM)

Another questionable holiday, this time in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk. People are getting
several hours off from work to have sex and conceive babies. The Russian population is
declining rapidly (if the trend continues they will have gone down from ... (more)

Biking, a gateway to discovering the unseen Bangkok and urban lifestyle, in between old charming traditions and modernity (Wednesday 18th of July 2007 10:54:00 AM)

Thailand has been long time known as a country in Southeast Asia with warm
hospitality, friendly Thai people and cultural richness to experience such as
excellent foods, charming and exquisite Thai cooking, exciting Thai boxing, traditional Thai
massage, ... (more)

WWII commemorations (Tuesday 01st of May 2007 02:10:00 PM)

The next Dutch holidays are just around the corner now. Neither are official public holidays,
but are important days on the Dutch calendar. The first one up is Memorial Day on May 4.
Everybody who owns a flag flies it at half-mast all day. Then ... (more)

International Day of the Laboratory Animal (Wednesday 25th of April 2007 12:35:00 PM)

I was disgusted, when I switched on my radio last night. There was an interview with someone
who is in the business of testing medication on animals, the occasion being the 'International
Day of the Laboratory Animal'. Usually all it takes to annoy me ... (more)

The next Dutch holiday (Monday 23rd of April 2007 03:50:00 PM)

Yep, there's another Dutch holiday around the corner. I'm almost done with these entries, after
this one only two or three more. First up is Queen's Day, on April 30, when the Queen
celebrates her birthday. Her birthday's actually on January 31, but it's ... (more)

Happy Easter (Saturday 07th of April 2007 09:27:00 AM)

HAPPY EASTER! Y'ALL DON'T WRITE TOO MANY ENTRIES UNTIL TUESDAY! IT'S HARD TO KEEP UP THESE
DAYS, HAVING TO USE THE LIBRARY. ALSO, HEED THE WORDS FROM THIS DUTCH NURSERY RHYME:ONE EGG IS
NO EGGTWO EGGS IS JUST HALF AN EGGTHREE EGGS IS AN EASTER ... (more)

Easter (Friday 30th of March 2007 12:58:00 PM)

It's only just over a week away, and I've written entries on other Dutch (versions) of
holidays, so I find it only fitting to add one about Easter. I doubt whether the way we
celebrate Easter in the Netherlands differs much from the way in ... (more)

Religious hypocrisy (Monday 26th of March 2007 03:36:00 PM)

<diggthis align='left'>When I started this blog, I never intended to tackle this subject.
You just never know who you may offend, when talking about religion. Religions are screaming
ever louder these days, however. What little I have to say will ... (more)

Dutch National Compliments Day (Saturday 03rd of March 2007 09:59:00 AM)

I just discovered there was another Biblically commanded feast (read the sarcasm) in the
Netherlands, just this past Thursday: National Compliments Day. It was started not too long ago
by an employer whose philosophy it was that his workforce would do ... (more)

Happy Groundhog Day! (Friday 02nd of February 2007 01:45:00 PM)

Happy Groundhog Day to all you North Americans out there. May Punxsutawny Phil and Montreal
Mike, and all their associates prophesie an acceptable continuation of winter. Special
greetings go out to Dave1972, aka. The Groundhog!And to all you Scots out ... (more)

A Dutch New Year's recipe (Tuesday 02nd of January 2007 03:14:00 PM)

Although I've had similar product in various countries, ranging from Germany, to the US, to
Argentina, I've decided to put a recipe online for a thing we traditionally eat for New Year's
Eve and New Year's Day. It's called oliebollen, which translates ... (more)

2006: it's a wrap! (Wednesday 27th of December 2006 01:26:00 PM)

This may, or may not, be my final session on JH this year, so I decide to devote an entry to
wrapping up the year 2006, and who knows, discard it. I'm not dissatisfied with this year.
Could've been a lot better, yes, but it ... (more)

Happy days for the Fonz (Wednesday 27th of December 2006 12:36:00 PM)

Good news for Henry Winkler! Yesterday I finally saw a version of the ole Scrooge story that
was actually worse than 'An American Christmas Carroll': Tori Spelling's 'Carol Christmas'. I
also wonder what this obsession with certain actors and actresses ... (more)

Christmas... (Monday 18th of December 2006 01:10:00 PM)

Finally got my Christmas cards out of the way. Only four this year. There have been years when
I sent out thirty+, but this year it's only four. But, I do really care about those who are
getting them. Anyone else who feels (s)he needs ... (more)

An appeal to the American people (Monday 20th of November 2006 04:00:00 PM)

Abolish the upside-down Christmas tree. It's just too silly. Do whatever you have to. Write,
fax, email, call your congressman, petition Pres. Bush, but get rid of it!!! Burn them, if you
see them hanging somplace, if you have to, but please, cleanse ... (more)

Save Our Sint (Monday 20th of November 2006 02:56:00 PM)

Another little thing about Saint Nicholas. A radio show have started a petition to save him.
There's this show on Nickelodeon, which they regard as a sell-out of everything Saint Nicholas
stands for. I don't know the proper English name for the genre, ... (more)

 

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