Ion Ciorici

I guess the best word, which describes the last week is spontaneous random adventure . It started with a peaceful Monday morning in Sweden, but ended with less peaceful late nights somewhere in the Baltic Sea

Monday - Tuesday

My responsibilities at my old new job are becoming more significant and more varied so that on Monday and Tuesday I was appointed as the official paparazzi of the that mysterious company . The only thing remains to increase the salary for this risky and hazardous job . Monday and Tuesday were really busy, full of meetings, quarterly reports and so on. I guess the purpose of these meetings is to accentuate that the main reason for being successful is not because we have a strong and tall CEO , but actually it’s because of us, every employee who is making the company more successful day by day. To motivate us for better results and to perceive this successful first quarter, our manager reserved a small boat and invited us to go for a short-long trip to a nice and lost island.

After some traditional Absolut Swedish food:

we were ready for some tango moves

since it was a natural park, alcohol was forbidden and everybody respected this rull

even the exclusive RAMBO :

More pictures from this event - HERE

Wednesday

after the boat trip on Tuesday and not drinking any alcohol you may imagine how motivated I was to work . Life is Sweden is so spontaneous and unpredicted, that I am not surprised anymore.
This time Mr. Mallon called me:
Mallon: hey Ion, what are your plans for the next 2 hours?
Ion: 2 hours or 2 days ?
Mallon: how about to take the ferry and go to Finland?
Ion: ohhhh no, again alcohol

The thing is, that most of the exchange students from SSE went on Wednesday on a trip to Finland, Baltic countries and Russia. However few students cancelled the trip, so some free tickets were in the air and without any modesty I took one and the opportunity to see the country of sailor men.

The cruise-ferry

The trip took around 15 hours and you got to see how younger people party together with senior citizens and also how they play the slot machines like they’re in Vegas.

Speaking about cruise-ferry it’s a new type of ship. The enormous demand for sea travel in the Baltic (approximately 15% growth in recent years) together with the ferocious competition between the existing lines has promoted the development of so called cruise-ferry. The English word “ferry” is used to designate a ship that allows passengers and vehicles to travel from one port to another. Ferry designers always try to increase the number of passengers and vehicles, and also improve the turnaround time (loading and unloading) and the crossing time. The factors previously mentioned (demand and competition) have made the atmosphere, the comforts and the leisure activities on board more and more necessary.

So, the ship itself has become a tourist destination as important as the two ports. This has allowed the operators to increase their revenues from passenger sales and services (duty free stores, foods, casinos, etc.). This represents up to 40% of the total revenue, allowing companies to lower, or at least maintain, present prices.

It is quite unlike anything I have seen before. Normally I tend to think that to be scenic an area must have significant undulation if not mountains. Here there are none. The islands are so low that a ship like the one we were on could be spotted even if there were two islands between us and it. It is the sheer number of islands and the immense sense of peace which give the voyage its character.

And now you may ask yourself, why 25 springs on 2 boats - yes you are right , somebody just turned 2,5 years and now has the official permission to buy alcohol without showing his birth certificate

Life standard and cost of living in Stockholm is quite high in comparison to Prague. When you are coming here your account shows few digits (in case you were working last summer ). Then you realize after 2 months that in order to enjoy your life at maximum here in Scandinavia, it’s a good idea to find a job.

I tried some part-time jobs, like serving as guardian, but it was really difficult to resist to make photos with every tourist

Finding a part-time job it’s not a easy thing. For some companies you need to speak Swedish, other companies want more flexibility. A good chance to meet representatives from different companies and to ask them for a part-time position is participating at business forums, which are organized at local universities.

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It’s an honor to study in the Czech Republic, being part of local culture, share the traditions, but sometimes I don’t clearly understand their traditions and customs. I really adore Christmas atmosphere, decoration, snow, good mood, nice people in public transportation and how every employee of different shops, banks, post offices wishes me “Veselé Vánoce”. It’s a pity that I am already out of the Czech Republic and I didn’t have the chance to enjoy the streets of snow and how Czechs really enjoy staying in queues for Christmas presents . Speaking about customs and traditions, is it there somebody who is able to explain me the tradition of staying in the queues for at least 30 minutes, when outside is -10C and to buy carp? I like carp, but I don’t like freezing in the queue . Before leaving Prague I have visited 5 places where authorized people were selling fish. Everybody were selling dead fish :- )!!! , so what’s the sense of buying dead fish, cleaning it at home, putting some salt and frosting it for 2 days? Come on friends, go to Cesco, ohh sorry to Tesco and buy how much fish you want whenever you want without freezing in the queue….or maybe you enjoy them .

In United States of Moldova everything is OK, a lot of snow and no queues in the shops, not because we don’t have money for presents, or we don’t like carp , it’s just we celebrate Christmas (Crăciunul ) on the 7th of January. Until then wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The year 2007 is almost leaving us, streets are full of snow, people really enjoy staying in queues for Christmas presents, Santa is on his way from Kyrgyzstan and also is time to complete together with the most active members of MD community in PRG the main financial statements. As it was expected everybody came without pencils, papers and scientific calculators and again we were in the situation of doing nothing just to analyze the benefits of the Lisbon agreement, tasting the Australian beer and some bloody Irish whisky. At least Axik as a loyal consumer of that brand received some gifts.

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Maybe you remember the post Where is the mistake? which was written 4 months ago. Can you believe, finally after 4 months!!!our lovely ČSOB Banka solved my problem “Server Error in ‘/’ Application”. Below you can find the email from Specialista Jan Vecek.

“Vážený kliente,

nasadili jsme opravu, která by měla řešit problém “Server Error in ‘/’ Application” se kterým jste se obrátil na náš Helpdesk EB. Omlouváme se, že řešení trvalo poměrně dlouho. Pokud by se chyba opakovala nebo by se objevil jiný problém, tak nás neváhejte kontaktovat.

Informace kde zveřejňujeme plánované odstávky a aktuální stav služeb elektronického bankovnictví naleznete na tomto odkazu:
http://www.csob.cz/bankcz/cz/Lide/Elektron icke-bankovnictvi/Provozni-informace.htm.

Děkuji

S pozdravem

Jan Vecek
specialista Helpdesk EB
Československá obchodní banka, a. s.
Helpdesk ELB
Nerudova 18
500 02 Hradec Králové
Česká Republika”

All I want to say is : Thank a lot Chonzo and to your team, for being a good specialista, taking care of your “Vážený kliente” and helping me to open a new account at KB .

Details later

Many advance fee fraud (”419″) spam emails and all advance fee fraud letters contain a telephone number for contacting the sender. In most cases these involve mobile phones, but fixed lines are used too.
The most common scam involving Senegalese telephone numbers involves a girl (usually from Liberia) who supposedly lives in a refugee camp in Senegal. Her father left her a fortune, which she needs your help to claim via a lawyer. Also involved is a pastor or reverend and a bank or security company.
The catch is that the lawyer and the bank/security company want your money and the inheritance doesn’t exist. All parties may be played by one or two persons. Don’t fall for the pretty pictures, the romantic language or the big figures in the bank statements : All names, addresses and other details are fake.

1st e-mail:
“My dear Ion,
My name is Miss mirian Fab ,i saw your profile to in fotki.com day and became intrested in you,i will also like to know you more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am.Here is my email address(mirianfab@yahoo.com) i believe we can move from here. I am waiting for your mail to my Email address above. Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life Yours Love.pls contact me with this e mail add ok mirianfab@yahoo.com” Continuare »