Haha, test results...

You're a bold, confident orange. A warm, powerful color that indicates a strong, welcoming personality, orange is the mark of people who are social and extroverted by nature. Vibrant, with an upbeat attitude, you have a bright, inviting demeanor. Energetic and fun-loving, you're a real friend-magnet. Your easy charm and unassuming manner make you the sort of person people want to meet and get to know better. Well-rounded and fun to be around, you enjoy helping others, so it's no surprise that orange also symbolizes attraction. Orange is an extraordinary color — for an extraordinary person.

Anybody could write those...

Ireland - part 3

Sunday Niamh took me to Dún Laoghaire (read Doon Leary, that language is messed up:), we walked on the pier, I liked it even though it was raining cats and dogs. Must be gorgeous in summer. Saw a movie aftrewards, Inside Man, quite good. In the evening Tom joined us and we went to the part of Dublin called Temple Bar to see what it's like. It was Sunday though, so not much was happening, but I imagine the place is mad on satrurday or wednesday.
More sightseeing in Dublin as Tom had to do his own stuff and Niamh had to study, took loads of pictures but I'm afraid they're no good. I lost the lens cover and it was raining most of the time, so I didn't have time to fiddle with composition and things. Back in Beauvais at 11pm, we missed the last train to Versailles, so had to sleep at Eamons again. Tom's handbag got lost/stolen on the metro:-(, and I forgot my camera at Eamon's, I'll see him Thursday after the business project, so I'll upload pictures then. Anyway, there was a general strike on Tuesday, made it jusst in time for class (was 15 mins late:)

Ireland - part 2

We met Niamh in the center, had my hair cut, walked to her dad's place (which was under reconstruction so there were no concerns about trashing it:-) Walked around Dublin, saw the Trinity College and the center, had a sandwich...Dublin is, well, cant describe it in one word:
- they drive on the wrong side of the road
- the traffic is absolutely disastrous
- therefore crossing the streets was a royal pain, I always looked at the wrong side, thought it was clear, and almost got hit by traffic coming from the other direction on several occasions
- the buildings are 3 floors high max
- it mostly grey or brick red
- people everywhere
- its small (well the center is)
- their traffic signs and everythiing is in Irish first, then English (An Lár, City Centre)
- the Irish are fun
- I was walking down the street, listening to the people: "Watch out you fucking gobshite wanker!!", "Aah piss off you cursethegod fuckin eejit of a knacker!!"... folkolore everywhere:-)
- their beer is nice, cheaper than Paris, I tired real Guiness (tastes different than anywhere else), Murphy's, Oyster (brewed with oysters) and Brain Blasta
- there's construction everywhere!
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Anyway, in the evening we took a bus to Tom's mom's place, took a shower and drove to Waterford to meet Tom's Spanish friends who study there. We went out that night,  had loads of fun.
Saturday morning Tom showed me Waterford, made Shepherd's Pie, and I left to Dublin to meet Niamh. Sarah got on the bus in Carlow so it wasn't too boring:-) After dinner at Niamh's, we went out to these posh places, but I didn't spend a cent since the girls (especially Sarah) got all the guys to buy drinks for them, and they passed them on to me, haha. Just for the record, the typical Irish girl is not to be touched by a 10 foot pole, they're ugly:-) Well the girls got really tipsy and we had to go home.

Ireland

So before leaving the campus for Paris on Thursday, I managed to lose both my student ID and restaurant card, so I had to go hungry and have Gabor open the gate for me (it opens with the card). I met Tom at St. Michel, had a cafe and went to m eet his friend Eamon where we were supposed to sleep, get up at 5 and get a bus at 6am from Porte Maillot to Beauvais airport. This simple plan was easily shattered by an invitation to a party of science-po people in someone's appartment. The appartment ended up being the whole floor of a very old Paris buliding, very chic. The people there were quite interesting even though we didn't know anyone before, food and wine excellent...We stayed untill 4am:-)
Back at Eamon's we set 3 alarms, but they all failed to wake us up, we woke up at 7. Having missed the bus, we had to take a taxi. 130EUR. Ouch. Very ouch. But in the end it wasnt that bad, the whole trip (plane there and back +taxi) cost the same as flying Paris-Prague-Paris. That's my rationalization and I'm sticking to it:-)
Let me say that Beauvais is a joke, a lame excuse for an airport. It's in the middle of nowhere 70km outside Paris. First they didn't want to let me board the plane because Slovakia wasn't on their list of visa-free countries. Idiots. Then they made us wait in a big tent until the plane arrived,  then we had to walk all the way to the plane...Never ever go to Beauvais, Orly is well worth the extra 50EUR, especially when the bus to Beauvais and back costs 26EUR.
We arrived in Dublin half an hour after liftoff , due to time change;-) As I was stepping out of the plain, I got a real hard and wet slap to my right cheek by the typical Irish weather. This was going to be fun:-(

Ireland

Right, so after 3 parties in a row at the campus, the next one will be today in Paris. I'm just waiting for the dryer to finish so I can pack my clothes and set off, coz tomorrow morning I'm flying to Dublin.
WOOT!!!

In my country there is problem...

:-D This is too funny not to post :-D
Ali G as Borat, singing country...
Fot those of you who think I'm antisemitic, well, I don't care, you're wrong.

Work in France pics

me with some random people


Alexis, Christoph, Tom, Igor

Places where I live

So I was fooling around with Google Earth the other day, trying to find the HEC campus, which took a lot of time (Google really should do something about indexing cities and making the earth searchable). So here goes, this is the building I stay in at HEC.



Yes, the lake and football field and forests around do belong to the school...
While I'm at it, here's my Prague crib:-) (my school is just south of me, the white building, close eh?)



and our good ol' house in Dolna Micina in Slovakia (you can even see the white "sun-shield" we have put on our terrace that summer; also check out the gypsy colony just north of us:)



P.S. Here are Google Earth shortcuts to those 3 places:
HEC | Prague | Banska Bystrica

the links might not work due to stupid hosting, in which case try ftp://empty:kanur@ftp.host.sk

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Friday - woke up after the party @ 12 or so. The party itself was good fun, there were two stages (one with a progressive and house DJ and the other with a chillout/nujazz live band), lots of people, alcohol by the gallons, girls...all the atributes of a great party. No cuts and no mud this morning though;-) Afternoon we went to check out St. Patrick's - Paris style. It was a bit of a dissapointment. We went to 2 Irish bars, they were full of people, they served green beer, it was loud, everybody was drinking...but the crowd was sooo boring, mostly French people in suits talking about serious stuff. Boooring.

Saturday - nothing to report

Sunday - there is some country-wide film-week right now, all the movies everywhere are 3,5EUR, so we went to Versailles to see "Capote". It wasn't too horrible;-)
School starts again tomorrow morning, and in the afternoon we're going to a Work in France forum in Hotel Crillon. Not that I'm particularly interested in working with those companices, but the hotel is one of the best in Paris and they're famous chef will be cooking for us...I'll be like a sow with a turnip, can't let that pass right?

La Tribale

BIG night coming up! Student groups wishing to hold the BDE (Bureau des Eleves) seat for next year are presenting themselves (in the best light possible),  people from ESSEC (another school, big rival in everything) r commig as well, every association will have their own dresscode (i just finished spray-painting our CEMS tshirts)...should be a lot of fun. Free drinks of course, lots of sponsors...Dunno how to describe it. Everyone here is quite excited, its supposedly the second biggest thursday during the year (after "return of jeudi" in sept.). I'll let u know how it went tomorrow, if I remember:-)

Another week

Lets see, what did I do this weekend. Nothing really. Saturday we went to Versailles to have dinner. Sunday morning I woke up early to go to Paris (the far east of it) to pick up my suit that Zolo sent by bus from Prague. It was almost 2 hours late, and waiting at the station in freezing weather in a dodgy neighborhood wasn't all that fun. But in the end, I got the suit so I'm happy.
I was extremely tired this morning (think I'm catching a cold), so the cancellation of the morning class was great news. Lunch, Energy&Finance class, shopping (I took Cathrin's car:), arsing around (another Irish expression) with Tom, and here I am writing this post.
Kat is asking me if I'm going to the Zinc for a drink...bye 

EDS

So the EDS business project seems like a sweet deal. Their offices are in La Defense, which is nice. They are the second biggest IT consultancy after IBM. Which is nice as well. It also seems like the job that we were assigned will not involve too much finacial crap, which I like. Plus, the person responsible for our team in the company is young and easygoing. The only "bad" thing is that we have to dress up all the time, so I had to buy an emergency suit for the forst meeting. Zolo is trying to send me my real suit, if that goes well then Bob's my uncle (an Irish expression meaning everything's fine:)

In other news, there was another Thursday party. First we (all 60 cems people) went to a restaurant, where we had open wine bar and pizza. We had to play some sort of a traditional drinking game...I for example had to drink a bottle of rose bottom-up. Then I woke up covered in mud and with bruises on my hands again. Mud and blood, it's beginning to be a routine Friday morning:-)

Nothing else worth mentioning happend. We have to finish (i.e. start) a paper that is due on Monday, and I should look into some things I've been putting off fopr the last 2 weeks. Like working on my bachelor thesis and such:-)

Hope you're all doing well and not working too hard...8-)

Monday

Getting up was a pain, again. The fisrts course, Management Tools and Social Behaviour, was first of all long (as all the courses, 3 hours) but could be interesting. Seems like we'll be doing a lot of assignments though. The other course in the afternoon was Energy and Finance, taught by some high ranking Deloitte guy who is a key figure in the GDF/Suez merger (for those of you who follow these things). He is really into energy, maybe too much. E.g. he is in love with coal and argues that it'll be the energy source of choice in the near future. At least he understands what he's talking about. I'm a little worried about the finance part, but at least I'll have challenge in front of me. Speaking of challenges, I was assigned to a Business Project with EDS in Finance, so it seems I'll be doing more finance stuff than I ever wanted. Oh well, maybe in the end I'll be happy this happened, who knows...

Road Trip

So after the thursday party (it was amazing, free drinks, tons of people. I stayed until 4. In the morning I found out that I cut my leg pretty bad that night, but it's healing fast....) Waking up was painfull, we were still "tired" while picking up the car from Montparnasse at 3. Tom was the one renting the car, so he was supposed to be the driver. BUT, in Ireland they drive on the other side, plus he was "tired" as well...Long story short, we had an accident 200m from the rental place. Tom hit the curb really bad, the front right tire exploded and we had to emergency park in front of a police station. An armed policeman told us to get the fuck out of there, so we did, changed the tire and returned to the Hertz garage. They gave us a new car (Opel Meriva) which I then drove all the way to Utrecht (needless to say, we got lost at least 5 times) where we stayed at my friend's (Alex) place. Right after arrival we had a little Indonesian food and went straight to a party, danced until 6 am (yes, I did "dance", it wasn't too bad since the Dutch are horrible at it as well:). Next day (after having slept 3,5 hours) we visited Amsterdam in the most random weather ever, but it was good nevertheless. We visited a local brewery, saw the Red Light district (the girls there were far nicer than the last time I was there!), had a couple of drinks, the girls got their boobs stamped in a random bar...Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that "we" means Tom, me, Madison and Brat. They're these two Californians who everyone thinks are the prettiest girls on campus (They call Madison Paris Hilton;) and envies us spending the weekend with them, haha;-) We smoked some in a coffee shop and were too exhausted afterwards to do any partying, so we just chilled at Alex's place. We returned to Paris on Sunday at around 6pm after an uneventful journey (no accidents, no getting lost...), and to the campus just in time for dinner. Then it was just a bottle of wine with Honza and Tom, watching Starsky and Hutch...
I slept less than 16 hours in 4 days, and Monday was the first lecture day....:-(

Party ahead

Sitting in my room, listening to Pearl Jam, sorting out yesterdays photos. We (Honza, Gabor, Ditta, Kay, Anneke and Ingrid) went to Paris for the day. For some reason we went toa quartier called Belleville, which was ok with me since I've never been there before. We then went to Parc de la Villete, seen a show in La Geode. The show was amazing, just the thing I always wanted to see in IMAX (it was called TOP SPEED btw)! On the way home, after eating alone in a Chinese restaurant, we spent an hour on the train back to Jouy (we bought some beers to make the time pass faster;-).

Tonight is the supposedly awesome "thursday soiree", so we'll see how that goes.

Oh yeah, and we're going to Amsterdam tomorrow. NIICE!

Routine?

More drinking tonight at the Zinc, a bar/club at the campus. Twas good thoug, I spent a lot of time talking to Cyrille, Tibo, Tom of course and Ingrid. After they closed I watched Road Trip at Cyrille's, it wasn't as funny in French but oh well.
I finally opened a bank account today(although I'll have to wait for my card a couple of days), turned in my business project preferences etc. Also in the news, I took a French test, which I probably screwed up, we'll see. Doesn't really matter. I can feel my French improving every day now.
Tomorrow I'm supposedly going to Paris with Cyrille, I'll see about that in the morning depends on who else is going...There's nothing to do this week, so I might as well take advantage of it.