Robert's PlayGround

Top 5 most nicked

Department store HEMA demonstrates it has a good sense of humor. They have promoted their top 5 most stolen articles in a special display. Food supplements, rechargeable batteries, lip gloss, CD-R's and Bicycle LED lights are temporarily on offer with a 25% discount. To top it off, they treated the 10,000th shop lifter in the Amstelveen shop on a little celebration. No wonder Holland loves HEMA.

Har har har!!!

It's in your hands

Who's got the biggest?

Not only buying and talking cars is boy business. Marketing and advertising them is a boy thing too. Who's next? Or did Bentley close the 'discussion' in style? (Courtesy Koen Verhagen)

Cuckoo!

Last Friday my wife and I were doing some casual shopping in Amsterdam. In particular  "de negen straatjes" and de Rozengracht are profoundly attractive when we are hunting for interior stuff, gifts, books and the unexpected gadgets that can make a day of shopping so rewarding. This time we ran into a peculiar thing for our interior. We were both electrified by a  white cuckoo clock   crossed our path at De Kasstoor. When the shop lady confirmed our hopefull question "whether the clock truly produced a cuckoo sound" we were sold. Now it sits on the chimney in our kitchen, flanked by two white cupboards. And every sixty minutes, the cuckoo sings to tell us that another hour of time passed. Yet we praise the designer of our clock that this cuckoo is equiped with a volume button ;-) We still have to get used to the extraordinary sound that probably will soon be part of the familiar humms, clicks, squeeks, cracks and buzz sounds that make up the natural soundscape of our home. The cuckoo acts as a sort of electronic replacement for the doves that leave the pear tree in our garden in order to head for warmer places during winter.

Gimme the Goodies!

Every time I visit a Mc-D or Burger King with my five year old, there's this vague jalousy nibbling my stomach. Traditionally I'll be munching a Big Mac + McNuggets Chicken 6/sweet sour sauce + french fries + sauce + large Coke light(!). Or, where it just taste better, it'll be a Double Whopper bacon cheese + large coke light(!) and some fries. Enough to satisfy a grown-up man, one would say.   Yet I cannot surpress a bit of envy when my son unpacks his Happy Meal or Kids Meal and the surprise of the complimentary GADGET brings a smile to his face. I want that, too!!!I just wonder what would happen if shops or restaurants would offer their adult guests a little playful toy, goodie or gadget with their purchase. Would that have the same magical effect on grown-ups as it has on kids? Hell, it will!Strange though, that (to my knowledge) no one ever copied that free present big idea and applied it to the adult world.

Build your virtual self @ H&M

Are you tired of fighting for parkings, the right clothes and fitting cabins at overcrowded and messy clothing shops? Then build your own virtual self at H&M and fit as many combinations as you like without even taking your shoes off. Warning: filling out your personal body specs in order to create your virtual model may come as a bit of a confrontation ;-O.