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Another day, another party! 🙂

Today you can find me dancing at The Flying Dutch dance festival where ten of top Dutch DJs in the world will play in three different cities around the country. How you ask? Well, in style obviously. 🙂 Following a carefully crafted timetable, the DJs will circulate between cities by way of helicopter, woohoo!

On stage: Mike Mago, Yellow Claw, Oliver Heldens, Nicky Romero, Afrojack, Fedde Le Grand, Showtek, Hardwell, W&W, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and best of ‘m all: Armin van Buuren!

Dance ’till you drop baby yeahhhh!

Paul Klee: “A single day is enough to make us a little larger.”

End of May, time to open the festival season 🙂 and it doesn’t come as a surprise that this year’s first festival is Parkfeest in Oosterhout once more! As it is my fifth time in a row here, I think it is safe to call it a tradition, one I like!

It won’t be a whole weekend at Parkfeest though; I will dance my ass off with the best Dutch DJ’s at The Flying Dutch dance festival (Amsterdam edition) tomorrow (woohoo! 🙂 ).

Still, I am much looking forward to Parkfeest (tonight and Sunday), starting with a coverband/80’s night and performances of U2NL, Letz Zeppelin and Bryan Adams Tribute. Wind and rain is also on the program, traditions are to be kept, ha! 🙂

Victor Borge: “A smile is the shortest distance between two people.”

Carl Jung: “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”

Derek Sivers: “I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn’t even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.”

Oprah Winfrey: “Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.”

David P. Mikkelson: “The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.”

Robert Bresson: “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

Epicurus: “The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.”

Hugh Macleod: “If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case.”

Ann Richards: “There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.”

Indira Gandhi: “We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

Colin Powell: “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

Wilfred A. Peterson: “The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.”

Today, May 17 (‘syttende mai’) Norway celebrates its Constitution; a nationwide party day, so GRATULERER MED DAGEN Norge (Congratulations Norway)!!

But, it is windy, rainy and just +4C (brrr!) so most of the needed/wanted ingredients for a great outdoor party are unfortunately somewhere else. 🙁 Oh well, we will make the best out of it; we just came back from the traditional ‘barnetoget’ (Childrens’ Parade) in the village centre in which Misha and his kindergarten friends participated, and are about to go to Oslo for a traditional norwegian shrimp dinner in Cafe Amsterdam yummm.

As every year, it is really nice to see everyone dressed up (and holding a Norwegian flag in hand)…ha, the Vikings won’t be stopped by some shitty weather on their national day, woohoo! 🙂

Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

Stephen Covey: “One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.”

Ingrid Bergman: “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary.”