...all of them are on my mind now. And none of them is International Marketing, the course of which I am supposed to make a summarize. But I just can't read anything...too many things are happening, too many things that should happen are NOT happening, my mood is up and down and then again up...
I wanted to tell you I voted! YEAP! Am I a great citizen of Romania or what? One day before my exam (oh, and the exam on Dec 1st, Romanian National Day), I dressed warm (it's starting to smell and feel like winter here), and went with 2 trams to the Romanian Cultural Center. Beside my adventures on the way (surprisingly enough, even the perfect-timed Vienese public transportation has its moments of break...but don't understand how come I was caught in between...), I got there and used my constitutional right and voted. Why did I bother? Beside the fact that Silvian nagged me to vote for Mr. Vainer, the representative of the Jewish Community of Romania for the Parliament, I voted because I want to complain. I want to be able to complain. And if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain. And i sure know there will be a lot to complain about:) In the same time, I met with some friends of mine from Romania that brought me some more things that I needed from home. Thanks guys and thanks Erwin! Oh, and also on the way there I passed in front of the Rathaus (the Municipality) and saw a wonderful Christkindelmarkt (gotcha! you don't know what that is! hehe...i didn't till 2 weeks ago but not even till now I couldn't manage to get there)...It's a Christmas market with a lot of Glukwine (for sure i mis spelled it) and other yummy things and a lot of small nothings that you can buy.) I do want to go there one evening but always i am so tired to do it. note to self: Dana, please get yourself together! :)
Then, yesterday i wanted to dress myself in the colors of the Romanian flag. Of course here I feel much more patriot than back home. Being the only Romanian in the whole dorm doesn't help too much to express this patriotism. After trying some outfits that included red, yellow and blue, decided that people will not appreciate my purpose and will just see the clowny outfit and judge me for that...eh, superficials!:) But I made sure to announce all my classmates about the event, my teachers, and especially the teacher that gave us an exam on that date. And i mentioned that he should be greatful that I'm having this exam instead of celebrating at home...riiiight:) (the exam, at "Scientific methods and tools of research" went good. Got an 1:) here it means the best grade:P)
How was Dec 1st back home? Anybody wants to tell me?
Today I had the first shift in the library. I told you about the points one must collect doing different chores in the campus. So I had time to read the book for school. The fact that I didn't is something else. But at least I got a GREAT massage for my achy (no, not heart:) ) back. It was worthed!:)
Going back to the votes, we witnessed an unbelievable result: the representative of the Jewish Community received 22.400 votes. Taking into consideration that the number of members of the Jewish Communities all over the country is of only 6000(!!!) nobody can explain where does the HUUUGE difference come from. I still don't know how come, but for sure it shows that the Jewish Community is a strong one in Romania and this can't but make me very proud, knowing that I was an active part of it and I (still) am a small part. And I am really curious to see how many votes did Mr. Vainer get from Vienna...:) One is sure mine and another is Miriam's:)
Besides all these...what can I tell you? A great weekend...going to a very nice Shabat evening organised by Eytan at his house, meeting nice people, walking back (yes, on foot!!) 1 hour and 15 min by the Donau, laughing a lot, playing ping pong at 3 am (!?!):)) and waking up with a great mood at 12:00 at noon...
Oh, and I found out that it might be that next March I will be dancing at a Jewish Ball in the Rathaus! That is beyond any expectation! I'm soooo excited...yea, yea yea...
And with this excitement in mind, another thing poped out: me needing to go back to my Intl. Marketing...see yaaaa!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Hanukia Bait...
...or how to do anything else than working on your project. This time i really didn't have anything important to tell you (beside the pictures i promised from my room) but as the other option was to finally start working on my project for quality management, I chose to put ideas down on the blog. I know, not very productive :)
Oh, and there is another worth-mentioning event! Today i got another package! From my aunt, back in Bucharest:) It makes me feel so good, no matter what it is there. Not to say that i got Salam de sibiu (a special kind of salami), Smoked yellow cheese, zacusca (yummy Romanian dish), jelly (although i already eat here jam and jelly as for all the previous 25 years in a row. And also tea i drink like crazy. Somebody said that they give us so much tea to be able to digest better the untasty food. And to have less stomach aches:) Makes sense:P) So thank you, Rita!
Today we had again the finance class with the great teacher. I know i said it before but I sooo much like how he explains. And we all agree on that. I could stay and listen to him all day long and all the boring book would be so much easier to handle. He is funny but keeps the distance, serious and looks and talks like a real professional. His teaching skills are very developed. And today we had the most difficult session from this semester (from his perspective). Talking about corelation between risk and rate of return, standard deviation, R hat, SML and CAPM. All things i had no idea about till now...wow!
And after that, the class of Resource Planning, in which we negotiated eliminating the exam in favor of presentations of different subjects around the ERP. And here it is where the balagan begun. Most of us don't really understand the topic and what does the teacher expect from us. He gave us individual subjects on which to work. For me, knowing i (teoretically) have knowledge of programming (yea right!) he gave me something that i never heard of before and that till now doesn't make any sense. Anybody willing to enlighten me? It sounds like this: "JCo, Netweaver and MII in MES" :)). Where J comes from Java. Cool, isn't it?:D
Ok, meanwhile Olga came to my room and we talked as usual for like 2 hours so it's already 1 am so I should call it a day. We decided we need some adventure in our life so now i am looking for adventure parks and Cart places around. yee!
So my room. I officially announce that this is my online Hanukia Bait (innauguration of new house). You are all invited, and you didn't even need to bring presents:P This is how it looked when i first came in and dropped my luggage:
All you see is all there was. bed, closet, table little chair and a bath.
And this is how it looks now:
I would say it's much nicer and blue-er:) 
And yes, all these pictures i got from mom and sis and the leaves are
collected from the LBS campus. But there is a problem with my home. The window doesn't close properly so i get some wind in under it and also the air is very dry. I wake up in the morning with a very dry throat and lips, can't breath and I'm either too cold or too hot. But, besides this, everything is wonderful:) Next time, a picture from outside and towards outside;)
So guten nacht for now...
PS: Please try not to pay too much attention on the layout. I am too tired to play with it. Please accept it as it is. Thank you.
PPS: Today I wrote to the administration that I want to start the sessions of Israeli dancing and Salsa in the campus! Ye! i hope everything works out and there will be a lot of people. So far everybody says they want it very much, but we'll see if they will come. Anyway, I'm excited!
Me really going to sleep now.
Oh, and there is another worth-mentioning event! Today i got another package! From my aunt, back in Bucharest:) It makes me feel so good, no matter what it is there. Not to say that i got Salam de sibiu (a special kind of salami), Smoked yellow cheese, zacusca (yummy Romanian dish), jelly (although i already eat here jam and jelly as for all the previous 25 years in a row. And also tea i drink like crazy. Somebody said that they give us so much tea to be able to digest better the untasty food. And to have less stomach aches:) Makes sense:P) So thank you, Rita!
Today we had again the finance class with the great teacher. I know i said it before but I sooo much like how he explains. And we all agree on that. I could stay and listen to him all day long and all the boring book would be so much easier to handle. He is funny but keeps the distance, serious and looks and talks like a real professional. His teaching skills are very developed. And today we had the most difficult session from this semester (from his perspective). Talking about corelation between risk and rate of return, standard deviation, R hat, SML and CAPM. All things i had no idea about till now...wow!
And after that, the class of Resource Planning, in which we negotiated eliminating the exam in favor of presentations of different subjects around the ERP. And here it is where the balagan begun. Most of us don't really understand the topic and what does the teacher expect from us. He gave us individual subjects on which to work. For me, knowing i (teoretically) have knowledge of programming (yea right!) he gave me something that i never heard of before and that till now doesn't make any sense. Anybody willing to enlighten me? It sounds like this: "JCo, Netweaver and MII in MES" :)). Where J comes from Java. Cool, isn't it?:D
Ok, meanwhile Olga came to my room and we talked as usual for like 2 hours so it's already 1 am so I should call it a day. We decided we need some adventure in our life so now i am looking for adventure parks and Cart places around. yee!
So my room. I officially announce that this is my online Hanukia Bait (innauguration of new house). You are all invited, and you didn't even need to bring presents:P This is how it looked when i first came in and dropped my luggage:
All you see is all there was. bed, closet, table little chair and a bath.
And this is how it looks now:
And yes, all these pictures i got from mom and sis and the leaves are
collected from the LBS campus. But there is a problem with my home. The window doesn't close properly so i get some wind in under it and also the air is very dry. I wake up in the morning with a very dry throat and lips, can't breath and I'm either too cold or too hot. But, besides this, everything is wonderful:) Next time, a picture from outside and towards outside;)So guten nacht for now...
PS: Please try not to pay too much attention on the layout. I am too tired to play with it. Please accept it as it is. Thank you.
PPS: Today I wrote to the administration that I want to start the sessions of Israeli dancing and Salsa in the campus! Ye! i hope everything works out and there will be a lot of people. So far everybody says they want it very much, but we'll see if they will come. Anyway, I'm excited!
Me really going to sleep now.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
snow, stolen hanger,floridita,new sweater auction, security guy...
...and many more happened since we last "talked".
If somebody said that living in a dorm is boring, probably didn't live in ours.:) I will again talk about mails received on our school mailing list. I still consider them funny, although some of the things happening here are not that funny and you get to ask yourself "what the hell is going on?" (this talking about the first e-mail i'll attach). As for the second one, I love (again) people with humor. And guess what? it totally worked! i understood he had about 12 replies from girls. And that he added all of them on facebook too:) Oh, and this guys's favorite color is PINK! really pink!
PS: i am keeping my laudry hanger in my room, i have my food on the window as it's anyway cold enough and i (usually) watch where i'm stepping. So mom, I'm good:)
PPS: Most of the students here, because they receive scolarship, need to do some jobs inside the campus, jobs that give them points in the Work Study Program and they need to reach a certain amount of points. This to explain what he is saying there.
Also, today SNOWED!!! First snow this year! Although i saw
snow before in June (!!!) when i was in Austria, but up on the Grossglockner at about 2600 m altitude, not on my window, in the middle of Vienna. The park of the campus looked so nice...Took some pictures of it to see how heavy the snow was.
And not only in snowed but it was a huge snow storm!
And as I don't have nor winter jacket, nor boots, nor gloves, nor warm pants (yeap, i don't know what i was carrying in those 45 kilos when i came, i really don't know:) ), i needed to go out and buy all these stuff. So here was I, confronting the heavy wind and snow, but hell I was successful! Managed to buy not only gloves and boots (really nice and matching!) but also...SKI SUIT!!!;)) yeap! I know you will all think: right, she really needed ski suit to wear in the 2 minutes between her room in the dorm and the class, but hey, it was incredibly cheap, looks good and i needed at least the jacket. I am really proud of my aquisitions and the fact that now i'm REALLY ready to go skiiing:) So, this was on the way to buying the stuff:
And here are the things I bought:
But till skiing, going to do my quality management project...or maybe some sleep first...:)
Here are the two e-mails i was talking about and I am waiting for your reactions:)
"Dear all, Usually I would not like to make a big question out of that issue but I really got mad. I went today to pick up my clothes from the laundry room and what I saw was that my hanger ( which by the way has my name on it and is in red and white) was missing and somebody had put my clothes on the washing machine. I don't know how you do it at home but I was personally taught to ask first and then take. So I kindly ask whoever took it to return to to room 1**. Otherwise I will personally find the person and explain him how he should not do it again. And I'm not joking. All the best, R"
Mail no 2:
"Dear Students, Due to the ongoing complaints from my female classmates that I am wearing only boring colours (except for my green sweater), I need 1-2 ladies to go and buy me a new sweater that will save me from the shame. The budget is subject to your negotiation skills, though by now the pressure has grown so dramatically that I am willing to pay up to 40 Euros! There is no specific experience required for this job, except for good taste. This assignment does not officially fall into the Work Study Program, but upon successful completion of the task, I might ask Mrs. K for permission to transfer you a work study point from my account. Whoever replies first, will get the job!"
Oh, and one last thing: I was finally in Floridita, the salsa club, on Thursday night. This after trying with the girls 2 other clubs. It was nice, not too many people so there was enough place to dance, but not so many boys that knew to dance. I was surprised (in a good way:) ) by the amount of black guys there. I was invited to dance and i also went and took a guy to dance. Had fun (and an elbow in my head:) ). The Austrian clubs have this habit of getting photographers inside to picture the people and then to post them onto their website. So we became famous. Here is the picture. The guy was just the security guy, but me and Olga decided he is goodlooking enough to enter in our picture:P
If somebody said that living in a dorm is boring, probably didn't live in ours.:) I will again talk about mails received on our school mailing list. I still consider them funny, although some of the things happening here are not that funny and you get to ask yourself "what the hell is going on?" (this talking about the first e-mail i'll attach). As for the second one, I love (again) people with humor. And guess what? it totally worked! i understood he had about 12 replies from girls. And that he added all of them on facebook too:) Oh, and this guys's favorite color is PINK! really pink!
PS: i am keeping my laudry hanger in my room, i have my food on the window as it's anyway cold enough and i (usually) watch where i'm stepping. So mom, I'm good:)
PPS: Most of the students here, because they receive scolarship, need to do some jobs inside the campus, jobs that give them points in the Work Study Program and they need to reach a certain amount of points. This to explain what he is saying there.
Also, today SNOWED!!! First snow this year! Although i saw
snow before in June (!!!) when i was in Austria, but up on the Grossglockner at about 2600 m altitude, not on my window, in the middle of Vienna. The park of the campus looked so nice...Took some pictures of it to see how heavy the snow was.And not only in snowed but it was a huge snow storm!
And as I don't have nor winter jacket, nor boots, nor gloves, nor warm pants (yeap, i don't know what i was carrying in those 45 kilos when i came, i really don't know:) ), i needed to go out and buy all these stuff. So here was I, confronting the heavy wind and snow, but hell I was successful! Managed to buy not only gloves and boots (really nice and matching!) but also...SKI SUIT!!!;)) yeap! I know you will all think: right, she really needed ski suit to wear in the 2 minutes between her room in the dorm and the class, but hey, it was incredibly cheap, looks good and i needed at least the jacket. I am really proud of my aquisitions and the fact that now i'm REALLY ready to go skiiing:) So, this was on the way to buying the stuff:
And here are the things I bought:
But till skiing, going to do my quality management project...or maybe some sleep first...:)
Here are the two e-mails i was talking about and I am waiting for your reactions:)
"Dear all, Usually I would not like to make a big question out of that issue but I really got mad. I went today to pick up my clothes from the laundry room and what I saw was that my hanger ( which by the way has my name on it and is in red and white) was missing and somebody had put my clothes on the washing machine. I don't know how you do it at home but I was personally taught to ask first and then take. So I kindly ask whoever took it to return to to room 1**. Otherwise I will personally find the person and explain him how he should not do it again. And I'm not joking. All the best, R"
Mail no 2:
"Dear Students, Due to the ongoing complaints from my female classmates that I am wearing only boring colours (except for my green sweater), I need 1-2 ladies to go and buy me a new sweater that will save me from the shame. The budget is subject to your negotiation skills, though by now the pressure has grown so dramatically that I am willing to pay up to 40 Euros! There is no specific experience required for this job, except for good taste. This assignment does not officially fall into the Work Study Program, but upon successful completion of the task, I might ask Mrs. K for permission to transfer you a work study point from my account. Whoever replies first, will get the job!"
Oh, and one last thing: I was finally in Floridita, the salsa club, on Thursday night. This after trying with the girls 2 other clubs. It was nice, not too many people so there was enough place to dance, but not so many boys that knew to dance. I was surprised (in a good way:) ) by the amount of black guys there. I was invited to dance and i also went and took a guy to dance. Had fun (and an elbow in my head:) ). The Austrian clubs have this habit of getting photographers inside to picture the people and then to post them onto their website. So we became famous. Here is the picture. The guy was just the security guy, but me and Olga decided he is goodlooking enough to enter in our picture:P
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
really?? One month??...
...exactly, to the day! I have arrived in Vienna one month ago. One month ago I left Romania to settle in a new country, new place, new occupation, new people. And so far, I can say that the choice is wonderful. As i was telling you before, I enjoy a lot of things going on here, I am (still) enthusiastic (as the dean noticed today), i am still looking forward to meeting even more new people, especially outside of LBS, and i am considering traveling a lot.
One month in which i started managing myself, my own time and activities, my room which has become my home now. For sure there are a lot of things to still do, but hey, only a month:) I am already thinking about what i will be doing the 5 days i will be home in December and how fast i want February to come to go to Israel, to see mom, Sorana and most beautiful baby in the world, Eytan. Him i miss the most! And I am sure the feeling is totally mutual:) This is how he's looking at the camera, knowing that Doda Dana will see this picture.
How can't you miss such a baby? But no worries, by february, he will be 7 months so he will be for sure able to have a conversation with me...in German even, as I need to practice it:)
Besides all my family, be it in Israel or Romania, I miss Woody so much...I even dreamed of him one night...sniff sniff...
Now...happier times! TODAY I had a celebration! In the honor
of my first month here, I cooked my first real meal! In the community room...And it was heavenly delicious!mmmm....Chicken breast with mushrooms ...yummmmmmmmmyyyy...In the reality it was much better than it looks here. We were laughing that the LBS horrible food regime makes you cherish on an unbelievable scale the little pleasures in life...like the pancake the Indian-that-thinks-he-speaks-Romanian from the kitchen gave me today, specially and only for me :) (i know that from that moment on i have some new enemies:P).
And also...a very important event happened yesterday: I have received a package from mom and sis!!!! You have no idea how i rushed to the offices to take it and how all cocky I was walking back with it to my room! My rich relatives didn't forget the lost daughter that they sent in foreign land!:) Not to say that now I could start some sweets illegal traffic, but also I have Bamba, soup, choco. And a lot of printed pictures (that are already on my wall). And even a bamboo that i will take care of and will grow up to the sky:) I felt so excited yesterday...little things again:)
So now, i have almost finished decorating my room so expect by the end of this week pictures with my sweet home. People say it looks really nice and cosy and i really feel it this way too.
Now, I have moved to Olga's room cause she has windows to the "outside world" which means she can reach some outside wireless networks, (yes, but me, with my inside the campus windows have the advantage of being able to put food on the window. She is not allowed, as it "bothers the neighbours with an unpleasant view!!!?!") so I came here to download a torrent as I miss my Amazing Race sooo much. And with our LBS network downloading illegal torrents is not an option.
Tomorrow evening we are going to visit the Christmas Market. I understood there are different markets but we will go to the main one and will drink also some "vin fiert" (is it mild wine in english?). Anyway, I expect some quality time with colleagues, although they announced that it will be colder and colder, reaching on Sunday the wonderful -5 degrees Celsius air temperature!!!!
Guten nacht lekulam!:)
One month in which i started managing myself, my own time and activities, my room which has become my home now. For sure there are a lot of things to still do, but hey, only a month:) I am already thinking about what i will be doing the 5 days i will be home in December and how fast i want February to come to go to Israel, to see mom, Sorana and most beautiful baby in the world, Eytan. Him i miss the most! And I am sure the feeling is totally mutual:) This is how he's looking at the camera, knowing that Doda Dana will see this picture.
How can't you miss such a baby? But no worries, by february, he will be 7 months so he will be for sure able to have a conversation with me...in German even, as I need to practice it:)Besides all my family, be it in Israel or Romania, I miss Woody so much...I even dreamed of him one night...sniff sniff...
Now...happier times! TODAY I had a celebration! In the honor
of my first month here, I cooked my first real meal! In the community room...And it was heavenly delicious!mmmm....Chicken breast with mushrooms ...yummmmmmmmmyyyy...In the reality it was much better than it looks here. We were laughing that the LBS horrible food regime makes you cherish on an unbelievable scale the little pleasures in life...like the pancake the Indian-that-thinks-he-speaks-Romanian from the kitchen gave me today, specially and only for me :) (i know that from that moment on i have some new enemies:P).And also...a very important event happened yesterday: I have received a package from mom and sis!!!! You have no idea how i rushed to the offices to take it and how all cocky I was walking back with it to my room! My rich relatives didn't forget the lost daughter that they sent in foreign land!:) Not to say that now I could start some sweets illegal traffic, but also I have Bamba, soup, choco. And a lot of printed pictures (that are already on my wall). And even a bamboo that i will take care of and will grow up to the sky:) I felt so excited yesterday...little things again:)
So now, i have almost finished decorating my room so expect by the end of this week pictures with my sweet home. People say it looks really nice and cosy and i really feel it this way too.
Now, I have moved to Olga's room cause she has windows to the "outside world" which means she can reach some outside wireless networks, (yes, but me, with my inside the campus windows have the advantage of being able to put food on the window. She is not allowed, as it "bothers the neighbours with an unpleasant view!!!?!") so I came here to download a torrent as I miss my Amazing Race sooo much. And with our LBS network downloading illegal torrents is not an option.
Tomorrow evening we are going to visit the Christmas Market. I understood there are different markets but we will go to the main one and will drink also some "vin fiert" (is it mild wine in english?). Anyway, I expect some quality time with colleagues, although they announced that it will be colder and colder, reaching on Sunday the wonderful -5 degrees Celsius air temperature!!!!
Guten nacht lekulam!:)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
experiences in LBS dorm...
...can go on and on...Remember the post about the food stolen from the fridge? Because many of you found that funny (as I did), I am posting this too. We found out that it can go beyond it. Only few days passed and we received another email from somebody more mad. And I totally understand him. The fact that, again, this e-mail will probably not help at anything, is even more annoying. What lessons does Dana learn from all these?
Watch your step and don't carry anything with you, especially things that you want to remain in one piece:)
I am adding it below. I didn't answer to the guy because his tone was not funny, even the situation was. I don't know thought why does he consider that he is Dana Scully and Mulder all-in-one, in order to solve this case, but I wish him good luck.
I wonder...only in this dorm things like this happen??
"Dear LBS Students,
Usually, I do not bother myself writing about trivial issues concerning
lost scarves or community rooms, however this is an obvious exception.
November 15, between 11:30pm and midnight I was walking in the corridor
towards the direction of community room 101 when all of a sudden I slipped
on
a disgusting puddle of food (which magically matched the color of the
floor, by the way), obviously cooked by someone on the 1st floor.
As a result, my laptop ( which happened to be in my hands at that time),
fell from a distance of at least 1.5 meters on the stone floor. As it is
right now, the webcam on my computer does not work and some of the computer
drivers are damaged.
If you know who is responsible, please give me his\her name in order to
settle this thing and compensate for the damage. If the person does not
choose to confess, he will be found anyway (sooner or later) and the
consequences will be much worse.
Sometimes it really sickens me to see how little the students on campus care
about each other and about the school.
Peace,
LL"
Watch your step and don't carry anything with you, especially things that you want to remain in one piece:)
I am adding it below. I didn't answer to the guy because his tone was not funny, even the situation was. I don't know thought why does he consider that he is Dana Scully and Mulder all-in-one, in order to solve this case, but I wish him good luck.
I wonder...only in this dorm things like this happen??
"Dear LBS Students,
Usually, I do not bother myself writing about trivial issues concerning
lost scarves or community rooms, however this is an obvious exception.
November 15, between 11:30pm and midnight I was walking in the corridor
towards the direction of community room 101 when all of a sudden I slipped
on
a disgusting puddle of food (which magically matched the color of the
floor, by the way), obviously cooked by someone on the 1st floor.
As a result, my laptop ( which happened to be in my hands at that time),
fell from a distance of at least 1.5 meters on the stone floor. As it is
right now, the webcam on my computer does not work and some of the computer
drivers are damaged.
If you know who is responsible, please give me his\her name in order to
settle this thing and compensate for the damage. If the person does not
choose to confess, he will be found anyway (sooner or later) and the
consequences will be much worse.
Sometimes it really sickens me to see how little the students on campus care
about each other and about the school.
Peace,
LL"
Thursday, November 13, 2008
people can snore in Bratislava...
...and this i know now for sure!:) not that i ever doubted it anyway. But anyway that doesn't make those people less nice, overall...cause in the moment when we're about 15 people that want to sleep and one of us wants to show us how loud he can be, or how small throat he has, for sure he's anything but nice, cute and wonderful:)
Ok, and now when i lost already all those that were bored, i can explain to you, the one that remained, what i am talking about:
It is already 1 week ago that we went to Bratislava for a short weekend in which we were planning on visiting the capital of Slovakia, on partying biiig time and on...finding good cosmetic saloons:) (it is universal known that the prices are much better than in our beloved and expensive Vienna). Well...if you ask me whether these goals were achieved (talking business already:) )...i would say about 53.2%! How did i reach this exact no? I will elaborate:
1. Visiting Bratislava - we, the happy gang, Olga, Luka and myself, decided we'll go before everybody else, to get to visit and to walk around also on Saturday. But what we forgot is that it's winter already and that by 4:30 pm it's already pretty dark. But anyway, we only got in Bratislava at around 5:30 pm...so what sighseeing to do? We learned that walking around in the city center doesn't take more than..30 min, especially when you're totally hungry. So, at my persuasions, we got to eat in a very Slovakian restaurant (not!) called La Rambla...as some of you might know already, it was very spanish, but i enjoyed a lot the salsa music in the background. So much that at a point i went and asked the waiters if there's anybody that dances salsa around here. At their negative answer, I started dancing by myself...lame? nice? cool? i enjoyed myself and this is what's important. (and also Olga and Luka were pretty embarrased with me - but it's ok, as it was only the beginning) Then we walked some more, laughed some more, sang some more, noticed how everything resembles Prague only that Prague is 100 times more beautiful and full of life, found everything closed and headed to the party.
The party all in all was ok, not too bad (good music, on my taste - but this was the problem, the music on my taste = oldies and latino, was not on the tastes of most, so a lot of the LBS people left soon). But going to sleep...that is the interesting part...this is what made all this trip worthy:)) We were told we're going to have a place to sleep, and to bring sleeping bags but if we don't have, we'll be provided with sheets and everything. Only to get there and discover that the place we'll sleep in is at the last floor of this building!
So you can imagine what great test had the organizers in mind: with all the free alcohol...drink as much as you can but after that...it's your business how you reach up there. Should i mention that there was a HUGE hole at every floor, by the stairs?:) fun fun fun. And also
, we slept...on the floor...i don't know what is more on the floor than that...sqeezed in between girls (yeap, i know, other were luckier than me:) ) cause we didn't have enough sheets. no mattresses whatsoever anyway(this is why i said that i can fell my BONES!).
and with all these...also the nice guy i told you above...that woke us all up with his snoring...and here i was, the courageous one (cause this guy is by far the best built one among us) going to practically shake him. He stopped for a few minutes but we couldn't sleep anymore and we started laughing so loud and unstoppable that we woke the rest of the people up. But it was fun! These are the things i remember from the whole trip.
In the morning, after sleeping all in all about 3 h, we went visiting the city again, this time with a guide and with a group of about 10 people. Taking pictures in weird positions, drinking hot chocolate, visiting the synagogue, taking the bus back, sleeping in the bus, sleeping in the metro, laughing some more...and this was my last weekend.
Most of the pics i have uploaded here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=83334&l=af573&id=720410940
Ufff...such a long post already...and i wanted to tell u about the Klezmatics show and the Salsa congress on Saturday. But hey, out of all these you will get the idea i am only partying. Which honestly this time would be so far from the truth...really! again studying a lot, but liking the subjects, not having almost any free time in the weekdays but, mom, dad, i'm great!:)
Ok, and now when i lost already all those that were bored, i can explain to you, the one that remained, what i am talking about:
It is already 1 week ago that we went to Bratislava for a short weekend in which we were planning on visiting the capital of Slovakia, on partying biiig time and on...finding good cosmetic saloons:) (it is universal known that the prices are much better than in our beloved and expensive Vienna). Well...if you ask me whether these goals were achieved (talking business already:) )...i would say about 53.2%! How did i reach this exact no? I will elaborate:
1. Visiting Bratislava - we, the happy gang, Olga, Luka and myself, decided we'll go before everybody else, to get to visit and to walk around also on Saturday. But what we forgot is that it's winter already and that by 4:30 pm it's already pretty dark. But anyway, we only got in Bratislava at around 5:30 pm...so what sighseeing to do? We learned that walking around in the city center doesn't take more than..30 min, especially when you're totally hungry. So, at my persuasions, we got to eat in a very Slovakian restaurant (not!) called La Rambla...as some of you might know already, it was very spanish, but i enjoyed a lot the salsa music in the background. So much that at a point i went and asked the waiters if there's anybody that dances salsa around here. At their negative answer, I started dancing by myself...lame? nice? cool? i enjoyed myself and this is what's important. (and also Olga and Luka were pretty embarrased with me - but it's ok, as it was only the beginning) Then we walked some more, laughed some more, sang some more, noticed how everything resembles Prague only that Prague is 100 times more beautiful and full of life, found everything closed and headed to the party.
The party all in all was ok, not too bad (good music, on my taste - but this was the problem, the music on my taste = oldies and latino, was not on the tastes of most, so a lot of the LBS people left soon). But going to sleep...that is the interesting part...this is what made all this trip worthy:)) We were told we're going to have a place to sleep, and to bring sleeping bags but if we don't have, we'll be provided with sheets and everything. Only to get there and discover that the place we'll sleep in is at the last floor of this building!
So you can imagine what great test had the organizers in mind: with all the free alcohol...drink as much as you can but after that...it's your business how you reach up there. Should i mention that there was a HUGE hole at every floor, by the stairs?:) fun fun fun. And also
, we slept...on the floor...i don't know what is more on the floor than that...sqeezed in between girls (yeap, i know, other were luckier than me:) ) cause we didn't have enough sheets. no mattresses whatsoever anyway(this is why i said that i can fell my BONES!).and with all these...also the nice guy i told you above...that woke us all up with his snoring...and here i was, the courageous one (cause this guy is by far the best built one among us) going to practically shake him. He stopped for a few minutes but we couldn't sleep anymore and we started laughing so loud and unstoppable that we woke the rest of the people up. But it was fun! These are the things i remember from the whole trip.
In the morning, after sleeping all in all about 3 h, we went visiting the city again, this time with a guide and with a group of about 10 people. Taking pictures in weird positions, drinking hot chocolate, visiting the synagogue, taking the bus back, sleeping in the bus, sleeping in the metro, laughing some more...and this was my last weekend.
Most of the pics i have uploaded here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=83334&l=af573&id=720410940
Ufff...such a long post already...and i wanted to tell u about the Klezmatics show and the Salsa congress on Saturday. But hey, out of all these you will get the idea i am only partying. Which honestly this time would be so far from the truth...really! again studying a lot, but liking the subjects, not having almost any free time in the weekdays but, mom, dad, i'm great!:)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The direct relation between financial crisis and the fridges in our dorm....
....is much easier to spot now than it was before receiving the e-mail that i am attaching below. And you will see why. I laughed so much when i read it that i had to reply to this guy from my dorm. I love when people have good humor and manage to mock stupid situations especially when they can't do anything else. I said to share this with you now, cause the copy+paste actions don't take too much of my time, but other than this, i again want/desire/need/thrive/wish to tell you about my weekend in Bratislava (so much to say) and about the Klezmatics concert on Monday evening (amazing at least) but i literally don't get more than 10 min off school things. really. for example now, i need to make another presentation, as last week, proving this time that "A company is NOT a machine". Last week, as i was telling you, was writing about "A company IS a machine". If i get to do this fast enough, i will for sure write another post about the events mentioned above. For now, enjoy the exchange of e-mails and tell me whether u found it as funny as i did:
Quoting xxx.yyy@lbs.ac.at:
Hello all,
Today I felt the world financial crisis directly. Seems that impoverished from the crisis, a poor student, desperately craving for food took some of my own food from the fridge in community room 123.
Of course, I understand that to sustain his biological existence he or she had to go to this extreme measures. However, I kindly would like to ask the person who did that to bring me back the leftovers from bread and cheese, and in turn, I officially promise to give him half of my food from now on.
Ashamed, I have to admit that some part of me believes that its not about the crisis but about greed, laziness, and misunderstanding of the concept of property. Nevertheless, I would not
let this part prevail over my belief that there are only decent and worthy,young Jewish people in the dormitory.
I guarantee full confidentiality for the student and his social status in our wonderful little community will not be harmed by any means.
And my answer after laughing a lot:
> Loved your message! :)
> this is how i see it (yes, from a mathematical point of view cause this is what i f...ing studied 4 years:))
> the relation between you-the stolen food-the thief- the general public looks like:
> 1. you = empty stomach and without resources = -1,
> 2. stolen food = ate already = 0,
> 3. the thief-not so decent anymore but totally content and full = 1+ (cause we don't count only the actual food but also the increase of his general state of being. and we don't have what to decrease cause that would be the decency and the correctness, which seem are totally 0)
> 4. the general public = 0 (as usual not intervening and being just a regular outside observer, cause the drawbacks of being called a traitor, are bigger than the satisfaction of being called a friend by somebody else)
> So then, which is the impact of your email on the involved factors?
> 1. you= still empty stomach but at least happy u took it out on somebody and even with a good humor = - 0.5
> 2. stolen food remains stolen food =0
> 3. thief= i assume no change whatsoever (hope i'm wrong)
> 4. general public with sense of humor = +9 and others = 0
> So the conclusion? Even though i never step foot in 123 yet (yeap, newcomers), just because u made me smile and get from 0 to 9, u get a share of my cheese when u want (and when i will have bought a new one, cause the one from now got rotten;) )
> Dana
> PS: if there is anything in the mail u don't understand, either
> 1. ask me and i will draw u a scheme :)
> 2. ignore and delete the message:P
Of course the funny guy approached me at dinner telling me that he will make use of that cheese as soon as possible:)
Quoting xxx.yyy@lbs.ac.at:
Hello all,
Today I felt the world financial crisis directly. Seems that impoverished from the crisis, a poor student, desperately craving for food took some of my own food from the fridge in community room 123.
Of course, I understand that to sustain his biological existence he or she had to go to this extreme measures. However, I kindly would like to ask the person who did that to bring me back the leftovers from bread and cheese, and in turn, I officially promise to give him half of my food from now on.
Ashamed, I have to admit that some part of me believes that its not about the crisis but about greed, laziness, and misunderstanding of the concept of property. Nevertheless, I would not
let this part prevail over my belief that there are only decent and worthy,young Jewish people in the dormitory.
I guarantee full confidentiality for the student and his social status in our wonderful little community will not be harmed by any means.
And my answer after laughing a lot:
> Loved your message! :)
> this is how i see it (yes, from a mathematical point of view cause this is what i f...ing studied 4 years:))
> the relation between you-the stolen food-the thief- the general public looks like:
> 1. you = empty stomach and without resources = -1,
> 2. stolen food = ate already = 0,
> 3. the thief-not so decent anymore but totally content and full = 1+ (cause we don't count only the actual food but also the increase of his general state of being. and we don't have what to decrease cause that would be the decency and the correctness, which seem are totally 0)
> 4. the general public = 0 (as usual not intervening and being just a regular outside observer, cause the drawbacks of being called a traitor, are bigger than the satisfaction of being called a friend by somebody else)
> So then, which is the impact of your email on the involved factors?
> 1. you= still empty stomach but at least happy u took it out on somebody and even with a good humor = - 0.5
> 2. stolen food remains stolen food =0
> 3. thief= i assume no change whatsoever (hope i'm wrong)
> 4. general public with sense of humor = +9 and others = 0
> So the conclusion? Even though i never step foot in 123 yet (yeap, newcomers), just because u made me smile and get from 0 to 9, u get a share of my cheese when u want (and when i will have bought a new one, cause the one from now got rotten;) )
> Dana
> PS: if there is anything in the mail u don't understand, either
> 1. ask me and i will draw u a scheme :)
> 2. ignore and delete the message:P
Of course the funny guy approached me at dinner telling me that he will make use of that cheese as soon as possible:)
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