Nokia 5800

March 12th, 2009

I won a new Mobile Phone / GSM: The Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic. It is supposed to be Nokia's answer to Apple's iPhone and costs about 350€. Not bad for just making a little chat with Roos Van Acker on Studio Brussel, Flanders 'alternative' Radio Station. They had asked their public to send in a list of their favourite songs for every moment of the day. And my song "Drive" by R.E.M was choses as "ideal song to wait in a traffic jam".

They called me up one morning (when I was just waiting in a traffic jam) and we talked a couple of minutes about traffic, BeWelcome.org and life in general, and then they told me I was the proud owner of this new mobile phone. Since my old GSM (also a Nokia, not sure about the number since it doesn't say so on the cover, but I imagine it's a 3120) is getting a bit old.
I'm looking forward to my little playtoy...hopefully it arrives soon and I can tell you all about it.

PhotoCompetition about France

I am participating (together with my Thorgal67) in a PhotoCompetion about France.
The idea is that you send in maximum 4 picture (one per category) in 4 categories :
1. Nature & Sport
2. Fun and Party Time
3. Fashion & Culture
4. Relax

Claudia wins the France Photoguide competition

Great news! Claudia won first prize in the France Photoguide Competition, with her "Relax" photo taken in Etretat.

First prize is a week's holiday in which to discover France, from East to West!

- 1 weekend to discover Strasbourg: 3 nights in a double room including breakfast and 2 Strasbourg passes

- 3 days in Paris: a stay of 2 nights, including breakfast

- 3 days in St Malo: 2 nights in a youth hostel (double room, breakfast included) and a Sensation pass for a nautical activity of your choice;

Eurostar - A Bad Experience

I would like to share with you a bad experience I had with a competition organized by Eurostar on Facebook. The competition rules were very easy : Upload a picture or a quote with regard to "London & Love", and post it on their facebook fanpage. The 14 members who had the highest number of votes, would win. It specifically warned contestants to make sure their entry was about London & Love, otherwise they would be disqualified.

I invited all my friends, bullied them into voting for my picture (which i'm happy to say was not a silly snapshot but a very nice picture) and I ended up 15th. Ok, so I lost. It's not the end of the world. 14 others scored better, right? Well, not really. Out of the 14 winners, at least 2 did not refer to London AND love, and one didn't even have ANY reference to either love or London.

According to the rules, they should have been disqualified, which would also mean that my picture would have won. So you can say I have been cheated out of 2 train tickets.

I have tried to contact Eurostar, but they "refuse to discuss the competition". So I will take it one level higher, and contact Test Aankoop/Test Achat.

If anybody else feels he has been cheated, you can always contact me here below.

Tickets for the Chippendales

My wife won two tickets to the Chippendales Show in the Cirque Royal in Brussels, this Friday 30 October at 8pm (doors open at 7pm). She also won two goodiebags from Flair with lots of surprises.

Unfortunately (for her LOL) she won't be able to go. So if somebody else wants to take the 2 tickets, you can contact me. The value of the tickets are 35 € each, but if you can make a nice offer the tickets are yours.

Free tickets for Millennium: The Movie

I won 2 free tickets for Millennium: the Movie. Based on the bestseller of Swedish thriller author Stieg Larsson, this film tells the story of 16-year old girl Harriet Vanger who disappeared without a trace, on September 29th 1966. Nearly forty years later a journalist by the name of Mikael Blomqvist gets an unusual assignment.

Unfortunately I can't go to the cinema, but I am giving 2 tickets away for the Première on Wednesday May 6th in the UGC De Brouckère in Brussels. The movie starts at 20h/8pm and you need to be there 15 minutes in advance to collect the tickets.

Warning: the movie is Swedish spoken with Dutch and French subtitles.

Write me a mail and I will send the invitation through mail. Please respond only if you are 100% sure that you will go. By the way: the original title is "Män som hatar kvinnor" which means "Men who hate women". Sounds like a really interesting movie ;)

Oh, In England this movie has another title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo