Archive for June, 2005

[IT] De consulentia

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Un simpatico anonimo mi ha recentemente dato della “faccia di culo” perchè mi lamento del carico di lavoro eccessivo, sostenendo che fare il consulente, alla fine, non è nemmeno un “vero lavoro”.

Pregiudizio classico e diffuso, certo. E se questo mestiere somigliasse al pregiudizio che io stesso ne avevo prima di incontrare i miei futuri colleghi […]

[EN] Dinner conversation

Monday, June 27th, 2005

“So what are you going to do for your vacations?”
“May I remind you we are all consultants around this table? What do you mean with ‘vacation’?”

Ob, thanks a lot for your proposal of publishing my posts while I am at the Star Ac’, but I have just cracked the WiFi connection and I can provide […]

[EN] Star Academy

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Just to inform you (several hundreds of) readers that I will be more or less off-line for a week, as I’m taking part into a sort of training program called “the European Basic Skills Training 1″, with a few dozens colleagues from the rest of Europe. We are supposed to follow some conference and have […]

[EN] Two and three is six

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

It was not a brand new sensation that caught me yesterday night while walking away from the office.

It was the same, complex feeling I felt two months ago when the danish project was over and I did not know what was lying ahead.

Now again, after two months of semi-esclavage in New York, Sao Paulo and […]

[FR] Dernier virage

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

PNC aux portes.
Désarmement des tobogans.
Vérification de la porte opposée.

Je dois être un peu con, mais j’adore ces phrases.
Ca veut dire “ça y est, t’es rentré chez toi”.

[EN] Unsorted takeaways from New York

Monday, June 20th, 2005

The news on TV this morning were talking about a fitness center where dance music has been replaced by live performances of a Gospel choir, with great success. Healing your body and your soul at the same time, they say. A fat lady was interveiwed after an aerobic session: “You know, I feel that I’m […]

[IT] Gastrocolitici ed ikeovuittonici

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

In risposta a questo post.

Mimi, scrivere piace a molta gente. E pochissima sa farlo veramente - soprattutto tra i giornalisti.

Ora, alcuni di noi scrivacchiano ogni tanto, per motivi più o meno manifesti di autocompiacimento e di consolazione.

Tu invece sai scrivere sul serio. Scrivi di quelle cose che - direbbe Holden Caulfield - “ti fanno […]

[EN] Xochimilco and Coyoacan

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

During a one-hour boat trip across the channels in Xochimilco, I have been offered the following items to purchase:

six different beer types in an ice bucket
six different soda types in another ice bucket
a tablecloth with a picture of the Aztec Sun Stone
a polaroid photo
a red green and yellow poncho (could be used as a carpet […]

[EN] 35 hours (a day)

Friday, June 10th, 2005

It’s three in the morning, here.
And I’m getting up at six (again).

I should get more sleep.
Maybe it would help to find some inspiration…

[EN] UPDATED Triste y solitario

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

I know I should just try and write.

Forget about the white page syndrome, don’t try to write something impressive or even interesting, just write. Lay down facts. And there are plenty: a whole Moleskine of ideas, impressions, quotes, stuff I’d love to shape and model into a post. Yet I can’t and I don’t know […]

[EN] Not a single night at home in June

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Now: Mexico DF
Tonight: Saõ Paulo
24 hours later: Back to the DF
Until June 17th: DF. One-day trips to Saõ Paulo and NY from time to time.
June 17th-26th: New York
June 27th: Direct transfer from Roissy-CDG to training facilities somewhere in Ile de France.
June 27th-July 1st:European Basic Skills Training. Half-way between a long conference and Big Brother (I’m […]