Christmas in Mumbai

Kerst in Mumbai. 30 graden en vochting. 3 Copco's Igor, Michel en Maarten op pad.

Den Taj Mahal hotel. Gesticht door wie anders dan Tata, vlak aan de Gateway of India en dicht bij het nog veel bekendere Harbour view: ons plekkie.

Igor 's morgens: een sigaretje een omeletje en een gidsje. Alles wat je wil.

Michel 's morgens: zonder woorden.

's Avonds wordt het beter: Kerstmis vanuit een hangmat. 't Is eens wat anders.

Kiting at every place continued

The states: Malibu beach

The right vehicle for surfers

Golden gate bridge.

Amol joined...in March

So he's giving his party now.
In a cool place not far from office that's called Shree Punjab.
Everyone was there, except for Rajesh, Shreni, Renuka and Kamlesh.

Amol, the party animal.

Every one around the table. Eating butter chicken and drinking Kingfisher.

Janam Din Bahut Mubarak Ho

Happy birthday to Igor.
Sunday it was Igor's birthday. Time for some office-bouffe on monday.

Rajesh is enjoying his piece

There's still plenty left.

So sourcing comes up to join...


Thanks Igor!

Cricket... niet vet!

Vorige zaterdag wat gaan meespelen met de mannen: Cricket. Een sport die dubbel zoveel calorieverbruik vereist dan schaken. En half zoveel techniek. De bal moet niet gesmeten worden, maar gebald: je zwaait je arm rond en laat op de juiste moment los.
De batsman heeft dan een soort gigantische plank om de bal te raken.

Klinkt zielig, maar is eigenlijk best moeilijk (aan m'n gezicht te zien zeker).
Een half uurtje wachten tussen 2 gesmeten ballen is dan ook standaard.

Zie ons gelijk de groten int wit in een echt stadium spelen.
Leden van het Atlas Copco-Alfalaval team.

They say: "Actions speak louder than words"
I say: "The bullet does too."


Michel: This is for you!
Don't keep her waiting.

Housewarming

Rule:
Don't invite women at your place...certainly not when their husbands are coming too.

Mieke, Tatum, Michelle, Lotje and Janneke got me this nice present.
They painted not only the floor and my sheets, but also this canvas.
The result is stunning, the pictures Wouter took of it also.
Thank you all loads.

From left to right (Janneke, Mieke, Maarten, Tatum, Michelle)

Managers and magarers to be are hard to deal with.
They will give extended visions on everything and require you to listen.
See Wouter's idea of sourcing and the enthousiastic reaction by Stijn (left) and Bart (right)

You and me and the bottle makes three.
As a precaustion Michel was asked to drink his beer out of a Nespresso cup. We took the smallest size...

Oil and gas - pakjesdag

Last week was very busy.
Oil and gas guys from all over the place found their way to India for a global team meeting.
Some decent organisation by Dahlia and myself and 80000km flights later, everyone was in the place.
We did some meetings, got some diners... played a contect in brand promise.
Guess who won?
My boss gave me this very nice present that Neeraj bought.
Luckely I had some gifts for the visitors too.

Bye.