Faragon's blog

Ik heb een klacht. Nou eigenlijk had ik één klacht, nu heb ik er een heleboel.

Allereerst “mocht” ik inklaringskosten en belasting betalen over een pakketje waar ik geen van beiden op verschuldigd was, maar zonder betaling geen pakketje. (In totaal 24.66 Euro, volgens uw specificatie 12.16 Euro “BTW bij invoer” en 12.50 Euro “inklaringskosten”)
Hoe veel mensen laten dat gebeuren omdat ze machteloos staan tegenover een bedrijf dat hun eigendommen in gijzeling heeft?

Tot twee keer toe ben ik zeer vriendelijk geholpen door uw personeel via e-mail. Erg tof, maar helaas beantwoorden ze mijn concrete vragen niet en negeerden ze mijn expliciete klacht.
Toen dat niet opschoot heb ik maar gebeld, waarop uw medewerkster de verbinding verbrak zodra ik vroeg om mij dan door te verbinden met een leidinggevende die mij wel kon vertellen hoe ik een klacht in kon dienen tegen de inklaringskosten in plaats van alleen tegen de hoogte van de belastingen.

I’m on Holiday, in Israel, via Switzerland… Not too shabby if I may say so myself, but makes me feel obligated to write a blogpost about all the wonderful things I see and the wonderful people I encounter. However, I don’t think words can do justice to how welcome I feel here, how much I [...]

Most of my life I’ve struggled with a perfectionist “all or nothing” approach to just about anything. A few months back, I started seeing a life coach. A life coach basically is a psychologist that doesn’t take years and years to talk about what went wrong, but someone who uses a more direct approach. In [...]

But I said ‘yes, yes, yes’ In July 2007 I hurt my back, I herniated two disks, and they never completely healed. Today I had an intake at RCA (Revalidatie Centrum Amsterdam, Dutch site) a rehab center, as they have a special program (PDF, Dutch) for patients with chronic pain problems. It comes down to [...]

I’ve mentioned before that you can search for alternate uses for your waste such as charities that benefit from recyclable materials, but you can do much more in and around your house. Glass: With a simple LED and battery setup, you can make waterproof out-door lighting in case you have a party. Just put the [...]

I came across a very interesting TED-talk today. Besides sustainable living being good for the environment, it can also be good for you. William Li talks of how specific types of food contain compounds (anti-angiogenics) that can help your body fight (and more importantly prevent) a large range of diseases, including cancer and obesity by [...]

There’s a couple of things that you can do to minimize your waste output, by not getting unrecyclable materials in your house to begin with. When you go shopping, bring your own sturdy bags. This saves only a little bit of plastic at a time, but it does add up if you realize how many [...]

Ever since I can remember, my mom has been an avid “gardener”. We only had a little balcony as I grew up, but I like to think that’s where I picked up a fondness of sustainable gardening (and living). I remember the compost bin we had on our balcony (an old plastic garbage bin with [...]

We recently had a garbage strike over here. It was about 4 weeks before the garbage was being collected again in my neighborhood, and I hadn’t put the garbage out about a week-and-a-half before that. In all that time, I didn’t have more than a garbage-bag-and-a-half worth of waste, including cat-litter, I would like to [...]

I has it not… I think, or maybe I thought… I draw inspiration from the things around me for my blog, but fiction was never my forte. Now I’m trying my hand at creative writing for a fanfic contest. I’ve written stories before, mostly to test out the type writer I got as a pressent… [...]