Spiro, ergo sum

I have just created my new "business card" for my MBSR & Yoga activites.
Here you go with it:

Signing off....
Eugenio

Violence of the mind

I am thinking about the ong packed boats (packed with frustrated militants of hamas too in fact) that were blocked by Israel and I am just feeling an immense compassion for both sides (that are not opposed to each other but seen as separate entities) and for the violence applied. I do not like war by definition but I do support helping other persons, here materially. Gaza is a lager like it or not and nothing is done (enough at least) to help the people of Gaza, the people of Palestina and the people of Israel to cohabit ate peacefully. I was born with peace talks and will probably die with ever-going potentially peace talks for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There might not be good solutions that satisfy ALL parties, but there must be a way of at least not inflicting additional violence in an over heated situation. Then again on a rational level this is politics, and the PR of tsahal is doing a magnificent job in proving that they blocked the navy by their right, killed arms less persons that allegedly attacked them with knifes and bats. I am on neither side when it comes to this conflict. I have mates in both zones, and feel compassion for both suffering, the immense primary suffering of the Palestinians, the fear of Israel for being isolated in Islam dominant region. I do not think this is really about religion, even though the 3 monotheistic religions are by default in competition mode. I think it's about suffering and expressing major a revenge or jungle mode survival behavior. I condemn terrorist attacks, but terrorism is always defined by governments, never defined by activists. Peace!

It's been a while...Part I

Hello friends and readers of this post (billet)
It's been a while. 1 year from the latest post.
12 months. 360 days.

What happened during this time ?

Well I went from a starting MBA in Paris, France to an almost finished degree, still 1 year in Saint Germain en Laye with Céline, my beloved wife. She's a PA at Veolia International, assisting the CEO of one of the Veolia branches, Dalkia.

I have wonted for months to post a feedback from the MBA.
I have been quiet to my friends about my state and my status , to use a facebookish web 2.0 terminology. I KNOW I am not up-to-date on this mobile 2.0 I sms-my updates-from a pool-from my office-from my w.c...-to facebook-and others .

Now I am missing the copyright-special symbol , you know the circle with a small cute c inside ;) to terminate the previous sentence. Hey you developer genius out there, could you hack an add-on of browsers (browser independent, compatible with IE/Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Mozilla and the other so-called-standards out there...) with an icon/box with a special character touchpad popping up (a google apps).

I am actually working on a consulting project, involving the vision and creation of a senior residence in beautiful ocean city of Essaouira, 150 km west from Marrakesh, in Morocco.

Big residence with 200 units, a monthly full-service package for European seniors, initially only for the French market.

After that a job, I am actually looking at some interesting proposals.

Kim, this MBA wouldn't have been possible without you.
You constantly look for solutions for the students, for the school and fight daily for the improvements of this programme.

The IIM MBA is good, good value for the money, but for different reasons.

It is an accredited international MBA, with a lot of +++ and a lot of ---- too.

I have learned a lot, from the teachers, the courses, the fellows with me, the struggles, the teamwork we had. Why the teamwork ? The main teaching of the MBA was to be able to interact with others so that 1+1 became more valuable than 2 units, which is NOT the case if you can not work with others. A lot of fights for the injustices we faced in this MBA, from the Fashion specialization issue with the unannounced increase of fees, that was improved, for the casual no-backup-treatment of the classes during the big metro strike, for the stress put on for the Fashion show, a great wonderful event where we had a lot of fun . Talking of the event, if a student has to be elected student of the MBA, I would as my friend Darth (A biosolar Mister X., , a future great start-up experienced guy (oops Darth, you want me to delete the biosolar thing, your company might not understand ;))))), elect Mister Christophe Grouhel, for the STUDENT OF THE YEAR.

Christophe is a 39 year old Briton (by that I mean if from Brittany guys, not from Britain), from la Bretagne. What to say about Christophe.
Well we went last weekend to the Clos Lucé

And lived some hours in the same house where the genius Leonardo lived a couple of years back.
Da Vinci was an excelsior in engineering, painting, architecture, the perfect man, the perfect body and spirit of a 360 degrees renaissance man. He invented the bike, the air plane, the helicopter, the rotating bridge, the 2 spiral bridge (as to be seen in the Château d'Amboise another famous castle in Loire, we've been there too it's a beautiful spot).

Links:

• Clos de Lucé, castle where Leonardo lived
• Chateau d'Amboise, beatuiful park, the silicon valley of the renaissance

Well, Leonardo and Christophe have a thing in common , well 2 actually.
The're both Italians, no I'm joking, Christophe is breton, but he's also an honorary citizen of Italy, because he shares the Italian spirit, to share his joy.




No no wrong direction of the sentence, sorry. They are both left-handed, part of the 10% community of left-handed persons, for the majority right-brain dominants, that is highly gifted for their creativity and innovation. Of course a minority has to always excel in what they do, and the Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Diego Armando Maradona, Mozart, Woody Allen and Bill gates definitively were or are for the living ones ;), famous geniuses in their own fields. I have a lot of respect for the Microsoft company, from the first start back to today.
Dear Mister Allen, genius of humour and irony, I know you'll feel strange being on the list next to Bill, I know you would have preferred being next to Django Reinhardt, but was Django a lefty ?

I have rediscovered an old friend of mine, Mister Manitas de Plata, real name Ricardo Ballardo, a wonderful gipsy musician that would deserve more spread than now, his music is magic, like the place where I discovered, Saintes Marie de la Mer, a truly amazing landscape of wild soil, beautiful animals and wonderful gipsy spirit.
More about the mba later...

Yuri and Co

IMG_0226, originally uploaded by heno.sthlm.

Yuri, Barbara and Victoria (might be wrong) and myself in front of the future Veg sushi restaurant in Old Manali

Manali med Alex och Henrik (fotografen...)

IMG_0228, originally uploaded by heno.sthlm.

Nice picture on Henrik's blog: http://www.flickr.com/henesthlm

BBC Radio Player

Indian radio online.... BBC Radio Player

A fish cloud

A fish cloud, originally uploaded by Shantaram.........

A big big fish perhaps a whale is swimming in the hymalayan sky of nepal. March 2007

Buddha Nilkantha: Vishnu on snakes...

Buddha Nilkantha: Vishnu on snakes..., originally uploaded by paraponzipi.

Nepal 2007

Thousands of red cars blowing up....

Cars on fire
Cars rumbling on the street
People and misery in fire on french streets and backyards ...
There is a red house that's where my baby stays
Well I ain't being home to see my baby
Wait a minute something is wrong...
The key won't unlock the door.
Wait a minute something is wrong...

• Claro que ca crames...
• Cherchez la racine, tout le monde parle des branches
• 1 minute de silence
• Dialogue social & spirituel