Don't Think Too Much.

Met een geschilderden Band

Harold Tor-Daenens — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:32:33 +0000

Someone

Harold Tor-Daenens — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:20:51 +0000

Life and Death are the Only Things that Matter

Harold Tor-Daenens — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:53:42 +0000

The Autumn Light

Harold Tor-Daenens — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:18:16 +0000

Two Sparrows

Harold Tor-Daenens — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:08:43 +0000

The first drop of frost breathes a chill, Echoes of silence the forest fill. I open my eyes and turn to thee, Fearing to stir thy gentle sleep. Thou art a mirror of my broken self. Ruffled feathers, dented skull. From young hath thou learnt to play Hide and seek with birds of prey. Ne’er […]

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Positive reinforcement: two current generations of me, myself and mine

Harold Tor-Daenens — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:42:20 +0000

Currently in western Europe, I see a huge issue with education both in schools and in families these days, and that is ‘positive reinforcement’. The idea that you cannot punish a child for any wrongdoing and have to at the same time encourage them for performing ‘positively’ has created two generations of spoilt brats who […]

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Why is G pronounced the way it is in Dutch?

Harold Tor-Daenens — Sat, 10 May 2014 17:43:14 +0000

It has puzzled me for a long time, why the G sound is so different in Dutch, compared to the way it is pronounced in the languages around it, like English, French and German. While others are contented to just accept it as it is, I set out to discover the evolution of the G […]

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The Self-Identification of the Other: How Flanders came to be the Name of the Region Today

Harold Tor-Daenens — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:58:00 +0000

Today, Flanders refers to the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. But what about the provinces of East and West Flanders? Why is it that the region took on the name of a County that existed on the western end of the country? To any historian, the name ‘Flemish Brabant’ sounds like an oxymoron, because Brabant was […]

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The Art of Saying ‘No’: ‘Naying’ Among the British, the Belgians and the Chinese

Harold Tor-Daenens — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:48:00 +0000

Having lived in Belgium for more than a decade, I have come to notice the *Northern Belgians’ penchant for anything British: British TV, British comedians, British humour, British soaps… I guess it comes from the steady diet of BBC television and the often undubbed telecast of BBC programmes on Belgian channels, the country being such […]

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Customer service in times of crisis: The Case of Deutsche Bank Belgium

Harold Tor-Daenens — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:01:00 +0000

I recently closed my account with Deutsche Bank Belgium. The reason being that as a customer, I was being submitted to the most absurd requests and bureaucratic handling by their staff. Here’s my story. 1. Racial profiling and tracing of your money About two weeks ago (2 April), I received a phonecall from their staff […]

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