Money, money, money

Two days before I finish my work here, I decided to calculate how much I actually make per day. I work full-time in a decent paying job, I’m around the national average.
Make a guess in your mind.
Any guess.
Don’t read on until you have made a guess.
Okay, ready? How about less than sixteen per day, but [...]

Is it too late to say Happy New Year?

Okay, it’s been a while. Actually, it’s been three weeks. The longer I waited with posting, the more I had to tell, the less I felt like making time to tell all of it. This kept looping and looping, until now. I present to you…
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Three weeks of Bas – in bullet points
self-indulgence

Bouwe & Roos arrived [...]

10 things I want…

when I come back. I need your peer pressure to make this happen

When I come back to Holland I want to live in Amsterdam.
When I come back to Holland I want to cut down alcohol to lower levels or maybe quit completely.
When I come back I want to start networking in various [...]

Shift happens

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I was ill for a week and I’m not really in the swing of things anymore. This week I might go to the mountains to take pictures since it’s the start of the ’snow season’ there. Oh, did I mention it will be for my work? Sweet.
Anyway, I [...]

On The Air

It was unsure until about 15 minutes ago, but yes, I will hit the studio to do my Philip Kotler piece… and yes, I did find out only 45 minutes before recording.
So exciting! Not sure if I’ll be able to get the whole audio recording of what I’m doing, but I can show you what [...]

Great quote from Kotler

At the press conference here in Sofia, Kotler answered the following upon being asked by a journalist whether he had ever made any statements in his books which turned out to be wrong over time:
Well, I would sound arrogant if I said I never made any mistakes…
and I’d be foolish if I told you what they [...]

Philip Kotler in Sofia, seminar and press conference

Two things:

I’m extremely busy, so this post will be short;
I’ll be able to go back to my marketing professor in Holland, after my placement, and tell him I had breakfast (or high tea) with Kotler.

Yesterday as I went to the Philip Kotler seminar I spoke about earlier to interview some of the participants, I was [...]

Philip Kotler in Sofia

The past week or so, in between all the partying, I’ve been trying to arrange for me to attend the Philip Kotler seminar here in Sofia. Now I really wanted to attend, since it was a great opportunity to do my job as a journalist and learn about marketing at the same time… Kotler being [...]

I’m not a megalomaniac…

clipped from www.bnr.bg

Published on October 31, 2007 at 4:26 PM BG

Dutch student talks about Radio Bulgaria’s message to the world – objectivity and no stereotype

They made me do it… They made me write about myself in third person… Go check out the article, though. It’s about the presentation I gave at the radio today.

Weekend Recap

What a weekend. Friday morning I left for Troyan with my colleague and her husband to make a report on an event there. Took a lot of pictures. That evening we went to have dinner with all the people who were invited to the event. The deputy mayor of Troyan sent a group of students [...]