Detta inlägg är till för att krydda till lite extra på bloggen, kittlas det? - Ja, Catja har tagit in en gästbloggare. Som en bresida i krysset vill jag bara dela med mig av den här gamla klassikern:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GdZI1oPEE

och samtidigt önska Catja ett försenat grattis på bemärkelsedagen och eder alla en god jul och ett gott nytt år!

Mvh.
Gästbloggaren

Last Friday we had a x-mas party here in Amsterdam with De-Construct. We mt up at Gaper a bar close to the office and then we went for a quick stop at Miami Ad Schools vernissage. Good fun to see the students work.

After that we got up on our bikes and went to the restaurants. It was lots of great food and a loads of laughs since the theme was hats. Everyone had to buy a hat to a certain person. We ended up with several cool cat hats. An american military helmet, an indian chief headpiece with colorful feathers, a really small green doll hat and a fez to mention a few. Great food and loveable people. What else do you need?

Unfortunately I forgot my usb-cable to my camera so I can’t upload any pics until I get back to Budapest.

Sterling went bust a few months and they are still doing some advertising… and I saw several of their planes

Today, the swedish agency  ( we are 3 Swedes vs 2 English people in the office right now) we all went on a field trip to a production company Glassworks. It was a great space and it made me miss the old days when I used to work in that field. I had problems taking photos and that’s why people look strange.

I’ve been in Copenhagen over the weekend to celebrate my grandpas 90 th birthday. We had a crazy fun time. We spend most of the time drinking Tuborg juleøl ( christmas beer). I will be back in the great city soon for a longer stay!

Interesting how my placement turned out to be exactly as any job I had. The weeks before Christmas is always the busiest during the year. And for some reason I have more to do now than I had over the past 3,5 months all together. Hmm… Well no question about it I will definitely be busy at De-Con Amsterdam next year. I like it already. I realised I’ve spent 20 days of my 113 days of the first placment here in Amsterdam.

But it’s so cold here. I miss the hot thermalbaths in Budapest. Lucky me I’m going back this Thursday to finish things off, join Kirowskis x-mas party, clean out the flat, buy a suitcase full of sausages, take a last hot bath, eat a big plate of Borjúpapikasz and then fly off in Sunday afternoon to Gothenburg.

The first Lucia weekend without the Swedish “glögg”,”lussekatt” and window Christmas decoration. I’ve been talking about this before, Lucia as at tradition is not existing here. So that´s why I went to IKEA last weekend to find Swedish Lucia celebration stuff to bring to work. Of course, I found the “glögg” next to the Swedish meatballs, but without alcohol I think it´s a waste of calories (vodka mix is one solution). I thought about bringing “Julmust” because of a comment I got the other day at work (and since Coke and RedBull is alreday decorating desks at work) that the “Julmust” we have in Sweden was great (!), but unfortenately difficult to find i Poland. Wow, I haven t thought about that. Well, instead of showing people pictures on yelllow “lussebullar” I will  make an effort in baking the stuff instead and bring on Monday. Remember I said “make an effort in”.. this is not equal with a nice result. By the way, I alerady showed pictures of Lucia procession with “stjärngossar” (sorry, don´t know this word in english). But the guys wearing white “night gown” with funny hats… ok I could assure people, no- this is supposed to be beautiful and not behaviours of a sect….

Last time I was talking about the Night of the AdEaters, the 6 hour show of advertising movies from all over the world. The show kept going until early morning. Redbull didn´t quite help me stay awake…. Commercials from all over the world, there were so many I haven´t seen before and many favourites of course (ads for cars and behaviours around driving or combination car + animals somehow are funny, I cant´help thinking that…)

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Lately I´ve been working with a big portal for the Polish market and this is an experience in many ways. First of all I discoverd I´m somehow stuck in the “community” way of thinking and sharing . This is not a priority for this target group on the portal and the huge mass of information, how to structure this in a good way is not easy. I´ve been working with one of the information architectures recently and we talked a lot about this.

Empty water bottles, they are a quiet installation in the corner of my kitchen. A part of the interior decorating. There might be a possibility I´ve  been a little lazy as well…

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well we are going to have a christmas dinner on friday, everyone has to buy hat for another person. Some did misunderstood the meaning of hat. We got very carried away in the hat shopping, I won’t be able to atend this fab event. Because my danish granddad is turning 90 and I will be in copenhagen freezing my ass off ( according to Eskil). We call the helmet the shame or naughty helmet in a classic tv- nanny style! We have found the best “hat” but it is still a surprise so I can’t show it to you yet.

also check out this little film http://www.ilovework.nl/sid_Lee/Store/SidLee_Store_01.mp4

well it has been snowing here twice… since I come