Archive for January, 2006

[EN] What if the Dark Side is the right path to follow, after all?

Friday, January 27th, 2006

“Here’s a temporary badge - I’ll get you a permanent one as soon as I can. I’ll also send you the newbies’ survival kit, just to know how to find IT, travel agents’, production and coffee lounges of course. Office lunches are on Fridays and I warmly recommend you participate, they’re usually good social occasions. […]

[FR] Ascenseur

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Un mec au téléphone, dans un ascenseur, Paris VIIIe

“Ouais, après à droite ya le boulevard de Magenta, tu vois ?”

“Et après tu tournes à gauche”

“Non, je t’ai dit de tourner à gauche”

“Gauche!”

“ET TA MERE AUSSI, ELLE EST EN SENS INTERDIT ?”

[IT] Quotidianità

Friday, January 20th, 2006

“Carlo”
“Dimmi”
“Sei a Londra?”
“No non sono a Londra, sono a Parigi, a Londra ci vado la settimana prossima, perchè?”
“Peccato!”
“Peccato?”
“C’è una balena che sta risalendo il Tamigi a nuoto e te la stai perdendo”
“Una balena nel Tamigi”
“Una balena nel Tamigi. Se fossi stato a Londra, te la saresti vista”
“Sfiga”
“Sfiga”

[EN] London calling

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Banking in Italy’s over.
New topic, starting on Monday: the energy market in the UK. Based in London, 10 weeks.

Just a matter of changing more or less my whole lifestyle once again - which is the reason I love what I do, after all.

[IT] Un mondo migliore

Monday, January 16th, 2006

I Vanzina dichiarano di non voler più fare film di Natale.

Pare che l’uso delle parolacce nei dialoghi li infastidisca.

[EN] Bye bye Skype

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Starting today, I’m not using Skype any more.

(and besides, my adsl provider offers free of charge calls towards any European fixed line)

[IT] La matematica e le opinioni

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Capisco anche che ai giornalisti non servano capacità matematiche straordinarie, ma questo francamente è troppo.

[EN] Gaijinspotting

Friday, January 6th, 2006

“It is unbelieavable as your life looks exactly as you had chosen it and told us one year ago in Japan. Your apartment looks like I imagined it. Your working life seems exactly as you tried to depict it. And most of all, you look happy about it, and that’s great!”
(a friend I met in […]