soulcreation

… everything you ever seen
… everything you ever done
… everything you ever loved
…

I recently saw the trailer in the movie theater and I loved it. Puppets are great. Muppets are great. These creatures are huge and I want to see them. Can’t wait to see the movie.

Where the Wild Things Are

http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/

About a month ago I joined Nascom. What do we do? Great things. Watch the 2009 show reel and decide for yourself.

This is a re-post of Steven’s post “What are we doing at Nascom?” on minnorissues.be. Steven is a colleague that joined Nascom a little while before me.

This is an open letter to the people from the airline company ClickAir.

Reason for this letter is that I already filled out the form on their website with a question to transfer my flight. The first time I filled out the form was on March 6, ‘over’ a month ago. The second time was 2 days ago. I received a simple standard automated message but no solution so far. What concerns me most is that I am willing to pay for the transfer.

Is this customer service? Oh, and it’s impossible to call customer service from Belgium.

The letter:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you,
Claudio Capodifoglia

Update (14/04/2009)
Via this way I want to say thank you to ClickAir’s customer service. They do read. Maybe they have technical difficulties with their web platform but they do track online conversations.
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It’s been about 5 years now that I live in this great city called Antwerp. At first I traveled around a it and lived in many other cities. But Antwerp is special. It’s a city near a river, the Schelde with a great industry and one of the biggest harbors in the world.

It’s also one of the places where you can find great fashion designers as there are Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, and many other.

But most Antwerp is the capitol of diamonds. Near the central station you can find many shops that sell these precious stones.

What makes Antwerp worth visiting is because the city center is so compact. As good as everything can be found ((bars, restaurants, hotels, movie theater, …) within walking distance or can be reached by easy accessible public transport.

Here’s a list of links with info or things worth visiting/seeing:

• Information about Antwerp
• Brabo
• Cathedral, more sightseeing and more sightseeing.
• Brewery De Coninck
• The Zoo, right next to the central station.

If you like shopping, please do visit the great website “Antwerp is the new Paris” which has a long long list of places for the shop-a-holic.

But the main reason for this post is that the company I work for, Nascom, has a campaign running (European Top Spots competition) for Club Vaio. All you need to do is register and define what makes your city special. There are several categories available for which you can add your favorites. If you participate you are in the running of winning a Vaio P Series notebook and a city trip.

If you digg Antwerp, please vote for one of the suggestions. Else please register and participate to support your own city.

Well, I am going to keep it short. I did not jump. Call me a sissy if you like. I climbed up the ridge, faced the dept and just couldn’t do it. I have some video’s and pictures which will be posted later.

Maybe another time.

Let’s start by saying I am afraid of heights. Not just a little but a lot. Terrifying.

This evening I am heading to France, Grenoble to be accurate, to jump of the Ponsonnas Bridge. With a height of 103m (337.9 ft) it’s my worst nightmare. But colleagues convinced me to go and bungee jump.

For a few days now I am encouraging myself by telling the fall only takes 5 seconds. What’s 5 seconds if I tell you the trip by bus takes about 11 hours. Hope there is enough beer to get my mind set off the height. We’ll see what happens when I am on the ridge.

Pics & video’s are for later.

How often do we hear people complain about their weight and wanting something do about it? Over and over again. Hence, even I complain since I am growing some lovely love handles. I started running a few weeks ago but results are poor up until today. But I am beating the distance. Each run I get further. At least that’s something to keep me going.

For all others that can’t get out of their lazy chair, turn off the TV, get another snack out of the fridge, … here’s a great service. We all need some encouragement or someone to push us a bit. If that someone is not around then you can fall back to this service. It’s called WeightNags. They nag and you lose (fat).

All you need to do is sign up and you get e-mails that make you feel guilty you couldn’t get out of your lazy chair. Another option is to sign up for a text messaging service. (which is not free but still only $4.95/month)

Here’s an example of an e-mail I got:

Hi Tubbo,

WeightNags Do. That’s who.

Image taken from sportzfun.com

With the sun starting to shine over Belgium people start to talk about summer festivals. Also friends keep sending me mails about which festivals I am planning to attend next summer.

One of them has send me a great video of the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. A great festival which I attended 1O times. It’s a recommendation to go there. Friendly people, an excellent program, good food & drinks, … , but it’s a survival of the fittest. The festival itself lasts for 4 days but people arrive a week before door actually open.

Here is the video to get you started.

See you around this summer.

click image to enlarge

Today I found this image on the web via Piclens, a wonderful Firefox plugin to browse Google images (and other).

A few years ago I lived in São Paulo for a year and had the best career experience in my life so far (thanks to Agência Click). Also I had a change to get to know good people, great friends. But the city, I can’t explain, is a little bit of magic.

São Paulo, a city in which you stay alert all the time, in which you never turn left or right before thinking first wetter it’s safe or not, a city with great soccer teams, a city with over 18mio citizens, a city so big you never get to see the same person twice (unless he or she becomes a friend or you ask a phone number), a city where people are totally different then in Rio de Janeiro or any other city in Brazil, a city which is the engine of the Brazilian economy, a city that never sleeps, a city that’s a concrete jungle, a city in which on a rainy day a bus ride takes over 3 hours to cross, a city in which I have been held a gun pointed at my head (by the police), a city I respect, a city in which I have some very good friends I miss, a city I adore, a city I love …

I am being nostalgic.

… joy,
… happiness,
… love,
… good health,
… passion,
… cheerful moments,
… sunshine,
… creativity,
… ,
for 2008 and may everything you wish for will come true.

Claudio