Thursday, September 10, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Welcome to Newcastle
Renewing with the past, i.e. before China, I flew tonight to Newcastle. As usual there were plenty of people of the company in the aircraft.
My flight being a bit delayed I met the team directly after landing for dinner at Piccolino. As says the name it was an Italian restaurant which I found put too much garlic and oil in the dishes. But once again what matters is company and we had great fun.
Shortly before midnight I reached the hotel and was welcome in my room by drinks and a card :)
Surely this little attention makes a difference :)
My flight being a bit delayed I met the team directly after landing for dinner at Piccolino. As says the name it was an Italian restaurant which I found put too much garlic and oil in the dishes. But once again what matters is company and we had great fun.
Shortly before midnight I reached the hotel and was welcome in my room by drinks and a card :)
Surely this little attention makes a difference :)
Monday, September 7, 2009
The Belgian cost at sunset
From the aircraft flying to Newcastle
Sadly the picture does not render the real shades of colors. But can you expect from a picture taken from the aircraft.
Sadly the picture does not render the real shades of colors. But can you expect from a picture taken from the aircraft.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Pixar cards
Delhaize supermarket have a special offer going on throughout the summer: the Pixar cards. It's very simple, each time you spend 20euros you get a sachet with 5 cards. On top they have special offers on some products giving you more sachets when you buy them. There are 216 cards from 9 Pixar movies.
They have created a website where you can see all the cards that exist, register your own collection and even trade with others.
Needless to say that all the children in Belgium are trying to get the full collection. Some grown ups, including Wolfram, are also collecting them.
The offer will finish on September 16th and as we are going through the last days, everybody is going crazy about those cards. Whoever goes shopping at Delhaize takes the sachets and either add the cards to his/her own collection or give it to those collecting. You can see children waiting at the cashier and asking people who are not collecting to give them their cards. Colleagues are exchanging cards for their children (and some for themselves).
To make it even more exciting, they have added 5 golden cards to the collection available as of September 1st.
Today, no Colruyt for Wolfram but Delhaize. We went grocery shopping at Delhaize and browse through the aisle to find those products giving you extra sachets. And we were not the only one doing so. Still we managed to get 25 sachets today and in one of them Wolfram found the Golden Cards!!!!
No matter how old he gets, a boy is always a boy :)
In case you wonder, next Saturday we'll repeat the operation and might visit the exchange fair on Sept 9th or 16th.
PS: I am amazed by the whole Marketing operation behind. As not only they get people to go to Delhaize when they would go somewhere else usually, but on top they get people to buy more and different products to get the cards.
They have created a website where you can see all the cards that exist, register your own collection and even trade with others.
Needless to say that all the children in Belgium are trying to get the full collection. Some grown ups, including Wolfram, are also collecting them.
The offer will finish on September 16th and as we are going through the last days, everybody is going crazy about those cards. Whoever goes shopping at Delhaize takes the sachets and either add the cards to his/her own collection or give it to those collecting. You can see children waiting at the cashier and asking people who are not collecting to give them their cards. Colleagues are exchanging cards for their children (and some for themselves).
To make it even more exciting, they have added 5 golden cards to the collection available as of September 1st.
Today, no Colruyt for Wolfram but Delhaize. We went grocery shopping at Delhaize and browse through the aisle to find those products giving you extra sachets. And we were not the only one doing so. Still we managed to get 25 sachets today and in one of them Wolfram found the Golden Cards!!!!
No matter how old he gets, a boy is always a boy :)
In case you wonder, next Saturday we'll repeat the operation and might visit the exchange fair on Sept 9th or 16th.
PS: I am amazed by the whole Marketing operation behind. As not only they get people to go to Delhaize when they would go somewhere else usually, but on top they get people to buy more and different products to get the cards.
It does work
A few days ago it rained (I know, so what?). I noticed that my wipers were not wiping so good and thought maybe it's time to change them.
Today while driving I noticed some yellow spot on my wiper and wondered what kind of stain that was. Actually it's just the sensor that turned from black to yellow with a "Danger" triangle, obviously telling me that I have to change them.
I have to confess that I never really believed in those sensors that I supposed to tell you when to change your wipers, but it seems it does work. Maybe the previous times, I was just faster at changing them than was required.
Today while driving I noticed some yellow spot on my wiper and wondered what kind of stain that was. Actually it's just the sensor that turned from black to yellow with a "Danger" triangle, obviously telling me that I have to change them.
I have to confess that I never really believed in those sensors that I supposed to tell you when to change your wipers, but it seems it does work. Maybe the previous times, I was just faster at changing them than was required.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Sweet surprise
After a night that was definitely to short, I rushed back to the office for further preparation before joining the review. Around lunch time I came back to my desk to get samples and found this:
Wolfram had left some sugar bread for me this morning. That was a very sweet surprise!
Wolfram had left some sugar bread for me this morning. That was a very sweet surprise!
2in1
Wednesday and Thursday we have a review with our Marketing VP. As a consequence the whole Marketing team came over from Geneva and you can feel the stress in the building while everybody is running around getting ready. Traditionally these days before a review are long days as no matter how early you start preparing for it, we always end up doing a lot of things last minute.
It's now 1am, I worked 17 hours today to get the presentation complete and "sexy" enough so the Value brands team looks as premium as the Premium brands teams.
I'm exhausted and going to bed thinking I managed to work 2 days in 1.
In 5 hours I have to get up as I have to be earlier than usual in the office to keep preparing. Wish me luck.
I wonder, can I take a day off in compensation???
It's now 1am, I worked 17 hours today to get the presentation complete and "sexy" enough so the Value brands team looks as premium as the Premium brands teams.
I'm exhausted and going to bed thinking I managed to work 2 days in 1.
In 5 hours I have to get up as I have to be earlier than usual in the office to keep preparing. Wish me luck.
I wonder, can I take a day off in compensation???
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