The Rainy African Sky (part 1)
The first part out of two in which I tell the story about rain, kindship and adventure in Zambia, Africa
Daniel Arendzen
English and Global Perspective teacher, living with my beautiful wife in Malaysia, counting blessings, enjoying life, working hard with passion to make each moment memorable!
3 Buses (part 2 from The Rainy African Sky)
Part 2 of the story ‘A Rainy African Sky’ in which the trip did go that slow!
F*ck them Trolls!
Blog post about how not to take trolls on internet seriously and what attitude can be too
Dutch Racism
This article explains how racism influenced me, how it is visible in the Netherlands through Sylvana Simons
Losing Toes in an Indian Train
This Saga, though not true to the true meaning of the word is about the story I have told many times, yet never written down, so here it goes! Maybe a bit of a read, but relax and enjoy the ride :-). It was nearly December 2006. Together with my study team I was traveling in […]
I want to want
If life is a U, then, in September ’14, I was somewhere in the bottom and this is what I wrote as answer to the question: “Daniel, what do you want?”
#Brexit (?)
Is the pro-EU block afraid that the UK will become a newly self-imposed North Korea after a Brexit?
Surrendering to Principles (?)
As seen on and written for TechAcute.com as guest writer A couple of days ago I was randomly surfing on the internet and came across 2 articles regarding net-neutrality. It was an article from The Wallstreet Journal and The Guardian, in which they discussed how Facebook is using its powers in developing countries by serving […]
The (non) Nuance of Fast Media
On Twitter I am connected with Silvia Spiva who is also writing for TechActuce.com. In her latest article: “How Intimacy Travels the World”. Silvia opens with: “The librarian in my soul doesn’t understand Snapchat. What is the point of creating something beautiful that can only be shared once? If it’s worth seeing, it’s worth defining, labeling, and […]
The Toilet (a.k.a. The Restroom)
One of the basic fundamental thoughts about existentialism is the question: “What was first? The idea/concept or the result/object?” Imagine living before the dark ages has started, before Christianity became popular, before we had proper houses, before paper was invented, and in a time when there were a mere 1 billion people on this planet. […]
What is life?
I think everyone has asked this question at least once. So did I, quite some time ago, but just recently I came across a paragraph that made very much sense, I connected it with other ideas and want to share it with you. It’s from J. Krishnamurti from his book ‘What are you doing with […]
#IKKOMINVERZET
Open brief aan Geert Wilders (open letter to Geert Wilders English below Dutch) Geert, Geert, Geert….. Ik heb het eigenlijk met je te doen. Ettertje, galbakje, muggenziftertje, van me. Gaat alles goed met je? Misschien een aspirientje nodig? Misschien iets sterkers? Te veel paddo’s genomen zodat je nog altijd hallucineert? Waren de kikkers lekker […]
Dutch’s Refugee Debate
The other day a friend read this article of The Telegraph “Refugees could be fined or lose residency for failing to uphold Dutch values”, written by Senay Boztas on the 28th of November, retrieved the 29th of November 2015. On facebook she tagged be and asked what my opinion about it is and this is my […]
Pentagonism
Pentagonism makes suddenly 100% sense. In the book of Juan Bosch, Pentagonism: A Substitute for Imperialism, former President of the Dominican Republic, he is describing how it is working and the relation with colonialism and imperialism. In pentagonism all is revolving around war and weapons. The science has been done, the weapons are produced and […]
Utopia?
I don’t need possessions, or consumption to define who I am. I don’t need money to buy the attention I need. I don’t need wealth nor material richness to show other people how good I am and how well I have arranged my life. I don’t need a big house, an expensive car, fancy clothes, […]
“YOU go home and you go to school” My time in India next to a slum (2009)
I wrote this experience some years ago when I still was in India in 2009. I found it again and published it here on the blog. It’s a story how I have learned from people I met at a school where I had an intern period. I was part of a task force, making an […]
How global warming and climate change is fueling Boko Haram.
This article tries to give a wider understanding of Boko Haram and tries to show that the situation is more complex than it is explained on the media. When we go back
How neoliberalism tries to find its way in Greece, or not?
In the year 2008 the biggest recession and economic crisis broke out in modern day history. The crisis went that deep that it was compared to the crisis in the late
How FoxNews spreads fear and is misleading
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo events a lot of information and news is created to ‘inform’ us how bad the situation is, how big of a thread Muslims are and how ‘we’ are victims and that we have to stand up and protect what we have been building and that this is something […]
Inspirational
If I were to believe in a God, how would I connect? How would I feel? How would I react? How would I approach life here on earth? What would become of me if He was indeed there and be a guide, a father, a common spirit in us all? He might appear differently in […]
