after vacation

Hello all,
I'm happy to be back again from vacation.
We did enjoy swimming in the sea and exploring around the island. The beaches are fantastic blue and pure white sand.It's a colorfull island in the caribbean and warm the whole year but above 33-34 degrees is too warm for me. Near to the sea is of course not so warm as the wind blows always.
The island is colony of the Netherlands,nice to see the old dutch architectures. Of course there are still many dutch on the island for business and to live.

a short escape to Caribbean

Hello all,
I will be leaving tomorrow for a short vacation in the Caribbean, If I have time, or If I have good internet connection then i will do some updates.
Just a short escape from cold winter to warm.
Till my next post, and have nice weekend everyone!

skin allergies

I was yesterday in the dermatology clinic to check what I have in my skin .
The doctor said it is an atopic eczema. My skin is getting so dry due from high heater temperature and makes also the air so dry. We have a humidifier but we seldom use it , starting yesterday it has to be in used.
It is also not advisable to use more bath soaps,body lotion, shampoo and too long in the shower with too warm water.
I am now using special skin creams prescribed by the doctor.
In the Philippines, I'm not having this kind of skin problems because it is a tropical country and also with very high humidity.

skin problems and care

I am experiencing skin irritation and itches mostly in winter or when the temperature is too cold.
I keep going to my housedoctor and this is now my three times in a year, I got already several medications like skin creams, anti-itch pills to stop the itches and hypoallergenic bath soap but it may stop for a week but it keeps coming back.
It's terrible and very uncomfort.
So I decided to make appointment to my housedoctor to provide me an authorization to go to the dermatology clinic (skin specialist) here in the Netherlands.

Sending money to the Philippines

I was shock when I checked my bank statements that they charge me 28 euros for every transaction sending money to the Philippines.
So if i send 100 euros it cost me 28 euros, and even I send only 50 euros so more than the half is the cost? And it takes at least 7 working days that money will be in the Philippine bank account. This is serious!
Here are the list i checked about their money transfer charges to the Philippines:
1.ABN-AMRO- 5.50 euros
2.SNS bank - 7 euros
3.Western-union money transfer - 17 euros ( and you get the money right after a minute of transaction)
So, we went to my bank and ask why they charge me so high compared to the other banks here in the Netherlands? ever higher than western union.
Ok fine, they said we will handle working with your complain, we will call you soon we found the details.
Well the next day they call and says, that is really their normal charges.
It's unbelievable! So We decided to make an official complain per writting direct to the main office.
Has anyone experiencing the same?
Your input is highly appreciated.
Thank you.

A good news of the day

Happy today at my work :-) just happy.
I spoke with my lady boss ( see my previous post) and now she is going to take an action which is fair to everybody.
I usually optismistic when its come having a problem, because I always believe that " in every problem there is always a solution".

bad news at my work

I am now working for nearly three months here the Netherlands, these will be my very first job in these country after nearly 2 years of living here.

I'm happy I have this work just 3 minutes walking away from my house, so I dont need a car ,I cant still drive :-( due to lack of self confidence. I am still busy with my driving lesson at a moment.

I start to be unhappy last week, because I have one collague who seems to be unfriendly to me. You can noticed it not only the way how people's act but by looking to their eyes also.

I find it so unhappy and uncomfort when working with someone who seems to be doesn't like at you. So one day, I ask her a some minutes to talk, so we did I express almost everything ( not everything because of the language difference).

I told her that I find her so unfriendly, that it is not good in the companionship as collagues, Did you have a problem working with me? And She answer just "NO".

I dont have a problem working with you and I didnt mean it to be unfriendly to you. Only when its too busy then I began having problem with you.

Why? because I make faults!

If my other collagues make mistakes ,it seems to be no big deal and they are working there already for nearly a year and years and I for just nearly three months but not daily basis, only 3x a week.

I ask myself, why she is like that? I am so nice to her (and to everybody) and I try to deal and speak with her with my best dutch because she speak absolutely no english.

When she experience the same someday,hope she will realize how hard and unhappy it is.