April 27, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
The last workday before a three day weekend! Monday is Queen's Day here in the Netherlands and for Amsterdam that means that the city will be coloured orange (the national colour) and that the days before Monday will already be busy with people preparing for a party. A big party. The weather today was completely not promising yet. In fact, it was grey and the skies looked threatening. It didn't stop me from me from going for a swim in the morning of course.
At work I typically have an Internet Browser window with Facebook open. It's not like I spend entire days on Facebook, but in between tasks I always enjoy checking some new updates. Well, I almost always enjoy that. Today, both my upstairs neighbours posted pictures on their profiles showing that on the lion statues on top of our building was painted pink. This is the statue that was initially painted white (until the city disapproved of that colour) and that will soon need to get repainted in a very soft yellow. The upstairs neighbours had decided to paint the statue pink until the moment it would get repainted. According to their Facebook statuses they figured it would be fun to tease the city a bit and they also thought it was appropriate for the Queen's Day weekend. Me? I was furious when I noticed it on Facebook. It's exactly what's wrong in this building. The upstairs neighbours thing they own the entire building, and didn't even bother to discuss this with any of the other floors. This might have been a funny prank if they had bothered to share this with everyone, but right now it makes a building that had already been turned ugly into an even uglier one. Naturally this will not be the end of it. That list of questions I mentioned in yesterday's post? That will have one or two questions added.
In the early evening I went to see Intouchables. Finally! After two failed attempts last week, I managed to get a ticket with my Cineville pass in the Cinecenter cinema close to Leidseplein. And I must say, it was worth the wait! I loved it! It's a funny film, and also a very touching one, that never gets slapsticky, or silly, but just stays very endearing. I can definitely recommend it to anyone! Well, except to my upstairs neighbours. Not them.
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