Cees van Halderen

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Gender	Male
Industry	Engineering
Occupation	Civil Engineer
Location	Cormatin, Saône-et-Loire 71 - Bourgogne, France
Introduction	I was born and brought up in Delft, The Netherlands. Marriage and work brought me from place to place in the Netherlands: Maassluis, Zoetermeer, Amsterdam, Rotterdam. In 1982 I moved for work temporarily to Singapore for 6 months. Those 6 months turned out to be 3 years in the end. I still consider Singapore one of the best places I have lived and worked. I really enjoyed working there, and I still have many Singaporean friends. After having worked many years for design offices specialised in the petrochemical industry as a civil engineer, I decided it was time for a change. And the change had to be something dramatic, not just swapping civil for e.g. structural engineering! A number of things helped tremendously; bankruptcy of the company I had worked for for over 30 years, being employed by a compatitor which, at least that was what it seemed, was heading the same way, and last but not least a partner who was also fed up with her employer. And that was the start of a couple of years holidaying in France trying to find the place we would like to settle down in, a few weeks of intensive house hunting, and finally the move from the Netherlands to France.
Interests	Architecture, Art, Music, Litterature
Favorite Movies	Casablanca, Brief encounter
Favorite Music	Jazz, Classical music, Folk music, Pop music sixties
Favorite Books	The lord of the rings