October

October is always the worst - but still somehow the best - period during the year.
Let me explain.

October is the busiest, we are closing the old fiscal year, and starting the new one. This means, we have to prepare for the sales letters to be released before end of November.
This year, however, we had an even more agressive readiness plan, countries have 3 weeks to release the letters to the sales force.

On the other hand though, this rush, the stress, the ongoing movements, the long office hours (with ordering pizza in), the continous phonecalls, meetings, trackings, that's what it all makes it so great.
Ok, I am not saying that it is not awful, but i like it... i like it more comparing to the days when there is nothing good to do.

So, work.
October is all about work.
I had my 4th contract started Noember. It was uncertain what i am going to do after December.

I went to interiews, I got job offers, in poland, in Wien, in Ireland... not just from HP, but from companies outside...
There was also one quite good and serious in Geneva too...

Everybody was suggesting me, i should just go for it, and leave HP behind...
Howev,er somehow, i just can not do that.
It is a love&hate relationship.
Sometimes I could just stand up and run away, leave my boss behind, and leave the whole thing in a deep shit... but who deosn't feel it from time to time at work?

It is however strange, I admit, that they first can not offer me any position. Than - out of nowhere - exceptionally, I could get a contract for 2 months! 2 months!!! I am that idiot that i take it, so yes, i deserve what i get.
Than, they offered me a position in Poland!!???!!
In Poland?? I mean, why not than back in Hungary???
What's the difference?? Seriously... They thought I would take everything...

Than, exactly on the same day when i had my extrnal interview, and it was obvious that they want me and i also liked them a lot, on exactly that day, my boss was telling me, that ever since he otld me there is no way i can stay with this team, he was devasteted, and he was so sad, so he was fighting for me, for me to stay... so i should be happy and grateful, that he was fighting for me a lot... as a headcount..

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so, those political games.. i dont like...
you are either good at what you do or not.
the rest is politics.. which.. unfortunatly.. part of the game.
So yes.. don't hate the players, hate the game...
but...
it is a vicious circle, the players determine the game...
aawhh

anyways, if recent hirings happens.. than life will be very very strange at work..
And i keep on asking myself what did i do.. why did i deserve that?
If that is charma.. than i really should apologize for all my mistakes...

But... bottomline is: I accepted the 2 year contract, I am happy. but also I think this is the minimun, and i think of it as an other chance, an opportunity to finish and accomplish my goals, why i came to switzerland at the first place. (hm. afterall, sth sticked out of those aiesec years... ;))

Also, October was special, as my childhood friend (our friendship just turned 18.. ;)) and her boyfriend visited me :)
It was so good to see them.

And you know, when you are spending lots of times with married people, you keep on thinking marriage is missing from your life, than when you are spending lots of times with single ones, you keep on thinking, partying is cool...anyways, so it was just great to see them together, couple. spenidng some really good time together... having fun, long discussions.. so yes, it was fun :)
Missed you Reka!!!! Can't wait for that hot wine... ;)

Guess what... : Gruyeres... love that place ;)
I have been there like 6 times.. or more :)

Big boss in Geneva

Well, October is the busiest month for me.. I would say...

We have the year-end closing, H2 closing, the new fiscal year quota setting, quota load, deployment guidelines, training to the countries, etc. Really interesting, but tough period. However, I don't want to complain, because this is how I like working.
Under stress.
I know that as I am so lazy, I don't do anything till it is not burning..
Than I am working on 200%...
Ok, some may say the key is time management.
I agree... I do...
But it doesn't work for me.
I tried several methods, DO-IT lists, prioritizing, rating methods, still... my best performance is under pressure! :)

That's why I was happy - ok a little bit threatened too - when my new boss arrived to Geneva for a 2-days training.

IT WAS AMAZING!!!

You know, when there is a really good manager in the team, a teamleader... he might not understand anything at all what u are doing... but he has always key questions:
- Who is accountable for that? (RACI questions...)
- What is the aim of this...?
- What is the process/the flow?
- Who and how will control it?

You can always apply those questions.
And it was so great to see our team working together, really working together, in one conference room for 2 days, having real face-to-face meetings.
I totally understand the aim of HALO room (a great product of HP), I get it that we have travel freeze, but still... u can not compare the efficiency of a f2f meeting with a netmeeting or a virtual classroom training... :) Not to mention the evening team dinner ;)
Matching the voice to the face..getting to know some gossips about your team leader ;)

back to serious again:
At the end basically we are all analysts.
At yes, we do things by heart...
And we forgot to stop and THINK OUT OF THE BOX!

And yes, here we are again... aiesec...
;)

And basically Sales Compensation EMEA is the same as aiesec.
(We are going to have a great inner meeting in Germany... and for that we have to prepare our communication and marketing strategy... to reach out for the sales force... very very familiar tasks to what we did in aiesec... ;))

Anyways, so coming back to the big boss...
Amazing, how he can turn things up side down... just with asking those basic questions...
Than with that motivation speech he delivered at the end of the 2 days training...
Well yes, that's why he is the manager, and we are the analysts.

And.. also really amazing, that 3 days passed, and the motivation is back again to normal, our way of thinking is back again to normal. Why???
I want him back! :)

Ok, I think it will help when we get our own direct manager... and we won't be anymore a headless team... :)))

And also about the economic crisis that we are all facing now...
Well, in Switzerland you can also feel it... ;)
Ok, not at all in the same level as in Hungary for example, but definitely impacts our work as well. Who wants to buy a new printer now?? When the growth of countries are slowing down? China for example as well...
Or in the Middle East and Africa... the fastest growing region was dropped by 20%...
shocking...

Or when the political situation is not that stable in a country... how can you set a terget for your sales force knowing all those facts?
How can u implement new compensation schemes?

Don't even mention the exchange rates... $ against €...
Hmm... nice... work is great! ;)

3 weeks silence

Nowadays i am quite busy, that's why no news from my side.

But here i am, again, after 3 weeks.

That's so strange, when i finally start feeling that yes, i am on the right path of my life (in connection with all 3 "legs" : family/friends, work/carreer/university, love) than sth happens and everything collapse.

But so far, so good:
With work, everything is fine, finally i can travel: Barcelona, Grenoble, and again to Grenoble. :)
I got my contract and also my WORKPERMIT, which is a great news, i can stay in geneva for longer.
However, i feel sometimes a little bit left out form some important meetings or happenings within my organization, and that's not the best.
That is also strange, that it seems that my bosses are counting on me only till August. Well, it could be however a good news too.... I have more time to look for a job! ;)
And here you go, I said it..moreover, I wrote it down... look for a job, updating CV, uploading CV everywhere, going to interviews, etc. I found actually a CV-buddy already ;)
But, first step: find a great CV photo.... well... we all know, the first step is always the hardest :D

University:
That was/is the tricky one. I got a call from my university, saying: "Where are you? Are you finishing your studies or what? Cause it seems that you are not registered in our system..."
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So, yes, that's so meee..... I let everything on the very lst minute...than have to freak out, than calm down, get together myself, and start thinking, organizing, and usually win.
Well... i think i am somewhere getting together myself... long way to go though... but not unmanageble!!!! hope so :)
- 2 paper/thesis to write
- 5 exams (3 difficult one, 2 so-so)
- several translations, presentations
- till May 14 :)

Family/friends:
I am having lots of fun with the RDL guys, for example we went skiing - but it deserves its own post -, we went to dinners - i ate mexican food, indian food, etc. , and we went to CERN too.... but again - other post. And of course lots of lots of great parties - SIP ;), MAD, RDL, or our own private Shakers party :) Oh, and I was in Zurich too... :)

My family will visit me, and I am sooo much looking forward to that!!!! :D

During Eastern, a good old friend visited me with her flatmates. She is DITTKE (yes, yes, from Szeged, we were LCPs in the same term...) from Bonn, and her flatmates.
They managed to prove that my "studio", which is 25 m2, is big enough for 5-6 ppl :)
And be aware, i am going to Bonn soon... :D But just because we couldn't gossip enough!!! ;)

Barcelona

I've just came back form Barcelona!!! :)))

Yes, yes... I had a business trip there... So, according to the HP policy (try to choose the cheapest solution), I've arrived to Barcelona on Sunday moring, spent the whole day with sightseeing, than on Monday left to the HP site, than on Monday evening came back.

It was cheaper to spend 1 night in Barcelona, rather than flying and coming back on the same day...

It was amazing.

When I was in Grenoble and in Lyon, I followed Coelho's advise: you can visit a city if you just let yourself walk around it... without any goal, or map.

Well, I didn't want to risk that in Barcelona, so the first thing after my arrival was to get a map from a toursit office. I already checked earlier the famous bulidings, and important things I want to see... So this time, even myself was really amazed, how prepared I could be... :)

Anyways, after checking in the hotel... (the guy at the recption was really helpful and nice... ;) ) I made my plan:
- would like to see everything... :)))

What a great goal!!!! :)

I have to say, - maybe because it was 20°C, and the sun was shining- but Barcelona is AMAZING!!!!

I visited some famous buildings:

La Sagrada Familia - it is the big art of Gaudi, ha had been working on that church for 40 years, and it is still not ready. Hopefully it will be finished by 2020...

Arc de Triomf

It 's not a typical Arc de Triomf, like in Paris, but definitly not an ugly one. :)

Actually that was the entrance of the World Exhibiton in 1888. If we walk from that Arc the Triupmph we end up in a beautiful park, with the Zoo inside:

The Parc de la Ciutadella

In the middle of the parc there is a huge fountain:



Ok, to tell you the truth, it was under construction, when I arrived.. so... yes... i stole this photo... :)

Casa Battlo and Casa Milà

Both house was bulit by Gaudi, however, Casa Milà was bulit only by a scatch..there was no plan for that.

Basicly the idea was: not to have any straight line:

You can visit these houses, and also living there is possible.. however, of course for a fortune... :)

What really surprised me, was a hospital, Hospital de Sant Pau.

You can visit it, as a museum... however, somehow I didn't feel approriate to take photos in a hospital...

The famous Guell Parc:



It is also the art of Gaudi - the famous catalan architect.
Originally the park was planned to be a huge park with houses, however, nobody wanted to live there, so as a business it was a total failure. Gaudi lived here with his family.

Tha park is amazing, the branches are also made from this mosaic, there are arcades, and the best view of Barcelona.

Tha famous avenue is the Ramblas.


This street is full with restaurants, bars, pubs, living sculptures, shops, souveniers, etc.

One of the main reason, why I should go back to Barcelona, is the Font Magico, the magic fountain.

I haven't seen the show...so I definitly have to go back there once, ando f course, I missed the bull arena, the FC Barcelona match, the Picasso museum... so lot to do still... :))

So, more information about Barcelona is here in hungarian or in english.

Than on Monday we had meetings, presentations, etc.

I think it was useful, and it was great to meet face to face with some of my teammembers.

So now, at least I can associate a face to each voice... :)))

I am wondering, how others picture me after my voice...

From a business point of view, it was maybe not the most useful meeting, however it was nto that bad... netmeeting, presentation, work, fun. :)

The WW HQ of Graphic Arts is in Barcelona, with a huge LFP museum... (those huge printers, that makes the huge advertisements...) pretty impressive...

I definitly have to go back there once for a demo or a training...

Zermatt - Skiing weekend

Everything started with a great opportunity within HP... We can rent a chalet in Zermatt for a very friendly price.
So, why not?
Let's go and try skiing in Zermatt!!!

Yeah!!!!

4 of us (out of 6) couldn't really ski, but who cares?
Among friends... :)
With Julia we didn't even had skiing outfit... :)

So, the fun part started already on Thursday, when I got an email with the subject: Julia bought her stuff!!!!

And she managed to buy all the clothes, and everything that is needed for a "professional" skier...
Yes, but all the clothes were for children!!!

So, in the afternoon I also checked... And yes, I managed to buy also a trouser and a jacket!!!
(Who cares that the trousers are RED, the jacket is ORANGE???)
It is absolutely not important... ;)

Than the only thing that was missing : THE SKI, the boots, the sticks...

We really wanted to buy them earlier... but the shop had just closed before we arrived...
Anyways... :DDD

So, during lunchtime, we quickly went to the town (for me quickly means: 45 minutes to get in, than 45 minutes to get back to HP....) and manage to rent all the stuff!!! :)
Again, for a very nice price!
And also, we got a great deal:
We can try out the skis this weekend, and if we like, can keep them for the whole season... and the price for this weekend will be included in the "seasonal rent's price!!!

Oh...this weekend was amazing!!!!

So, after 4 hours on the train, finally we arrived to Zermatt... Actually in this town cars are not allowed to get in, only special, electronic cars...
So, also the taxis were these special, small electro-cars. :)
Funny!

I talked to them in German!!! Trinkgeld, trinkgeld.. of course :DDD

The apartment was great, even good for more people, not just 6... :)

On the very first day we had ski lessons... :)
It was very useful!!!
And the view!!!
Oh my god!!! Breathtaking!!!
:DDD

(The Team: Anthony, Manuel, Ikran, me, Emilia, Julia)


We had a wonderful lunch:
In front of us: Matterhorn - One of the greatest mountain in Europe, the most famous one in Switzerland, because of its special shape. :)


The sun was shining, it was so hot!!!
We had beers and special Swiss-German "Hubertuswurst" (Hubertus... hmm... ;)



Actually after lunch we were so well, that we didn't really went skiing.

Than for dinner we got Lasagne from Manuel.. Oh.. magnifico!!! :D

On Sunday, we tried out an other mountain... but commeon, that was killing one!!!



We also climbed up till the highest viewpoint of Europe (climbing means taking the elevator... ;)


We were crazy in the whole weekend, just laughing, skiing, eating a lot (as usual.... ;)... fantastic...
:)

One of the best weekends ever!!! :D



We decided to keep our skis, and try to go to France next weekend!!!
I am looking forward to it!!!

And... in February, I go to Austria, Gerlitzen... :DDD

Finance or not finance that is the question

The show must go on.

My "little boss" is leaving The Company tomorrow. Yesterday we went out for a beer, and talked a lot about this 7 months, and of course about our future.

And also Mr. Voice would like to organize sth for him!
He will come from ZH just because of this! He is a really cool guy. Old, but still, cool! :)

Next week I will go out for a dinner/drinks/dances with Mr. Voice. ;)

I will miss my boss. He was great. It was strange, because he knew he is leaving, still he was always helpful - in his own way, but still.

And the coffee breaks, the cigarette breaks... :)
It was always fun.

Not to mention his knowledge.
I can not even imagine how we will survive... in the middle of the closing and just in the beginning of a new fiscal year. Cool.

Of course I can decide alone in many questions... I am an analyst or what. :)

Tomorrow will be interesting.

Anyways, so yesterday I talked to my "boss", exboss, future exboss, and he asked me whether finance is the right field for me or not.
Hmm...

Nice.

Actually, of course I am aware that my analytical skills could be much better, but the job what I am doing right now is very exciting and challenging.

I am coordinating the quota setting & deployment process centrally, and coordinate the tasks and acitivities of the countries in EMEA.
So, it is a cool job. If a country has got a problem, they are coming back to me, asking several questions, I have to investigate, where is the issue, where discrepancy is coming from, than has to communicate it to them.
So, at least it involves a lot of interactions with others, not just "playing with numbers".
And also, my operational task, the monthly accrual calculations and preparation for booking, so this task is now even better, since I got a counterpart for CEE & MEMA region. So I also have to communicate and coordinate our tasks.
So, now I am really happy with this.

I can imagine myself, working in this field.
Even if it is not only analysis.
Moreover, mainly because it is not only analysis.

But, we agreed to meet in 7 months again, and we will see how life is going on with each of us.
Who knows where I will end up.... :)

Maybe I should be more conscious about this, but I still feel I have time.

And who knows?
Maybe I try out myself in the banking sector???

:)

Watch out Zurich, I am coming! :)

Work, work, work

Life is nice, life is fantastic:

- Well done.
- Good job.
- Your commitment and dedication is visible.
- I like the way you work.
- Don't worry, even me, I do make mistakes...
- Don't worry, nobody will blame you...you are just an intern

Ok, ok, of course I know, I know that I am just an intern, so I do not have that much responsibility...
But still, it is me...
I am like this... if I do something I want to do it perfectly.
I can not accept mistakes.
And even if I know that is not my fault, that there is sth I can not change, because the guy who worked before me, he did it...still... it is our team's fault, so it is my fault...

And I am worried...and stressed...

Anyways, it is just me.

This period will be over soon, than I can take it a bit easier...

(Heeey....it was me who asked more tasks from the boss...so stop complaining...)

But, Murphy's Law:
- I am not going to Grenoble, to my romantic chataue...
There is a French strike now going on...so no train is available...or at least not for business trip...
Anyways, next time! :D

Romantic chateau in France

I am going to a business trip with Peter to France.

We got a new boss and he is based in Grenoble.

It is amazing, how everything is well-organized.
We had to register to an intern site, where they asked our preferences.
What kind of room do you want to stay: King :), Double, Twin or Don't Care, Smoking, non-smoking, etc.
What kind of car do we want:
as default it was set up: automatic gears... :)

For flying: what kind of food do we like: There were like 15 different opportunity: low-calorie, low-fat, vegetarian, (all kind of vegetarian), Chinese, Mediterranean, or Regular... :D

And the hotel, where we reserved our places is surrounded in the mountains, it is a castle, very romantic. :)

Or at least, that's what I can see from the photos... :)))



And if we are already in France, we will look around in Grenoble and also in Lyon... :)
If Orsi will have time/space for us... :D
So it means that I won't be here on Friday... oohhh... :S

now I can go and talk to my "almost-never-seen" flat mates.

I am looking forward to the Chateau trip. :)

HP Product Day

On Monday we had the PSG and IPG Product Day in the office...
Seriously...it was amazing!!!

This event was about our products, it was an exhibition, we got the chance to see almost all our new products, lap tops, printers, touch sensitive screens, new photo printers, huge lap tops, or small ones, the ones those screen can be moved, revolvable screens.. or whatever it is called... :)

There was a quiz as well... I knew all the answers... ;) NOT...but hope i will win sth...don't need to be big one, a camera would be enough... :D

And also I managaed to see our new table.
It is really a table, designed for living room... but the top of the table is basically a huge touch sensitive screen....so the whole table itself is 1 giant computer...the legs of the table consist of 6 computer... :)

Anyways, the screen is awsome!!!
It is not that perfect and welldesgined...yet...you can choose a photo, frame it, drag the size, choose music...

Ok, it is true that Microsoft has already developed that kind of table 1 year ago or so... :)
They use it New Yor or Las Vegas or somewhere in the US in bars...
You can order from the table, pick up your drink form the menu simply just touching the table... cool... :)

21th century! :)
Amazing!

On the other side it was great to see what are exactly our products that I should analyze... Shame on me..and not just me...but we discussed it with my colleagues too that we do not really know about our products...just that it is which PL, which lib item goes to which metric description, etc.

But here is the real business thing.. :)

Later on, in December there will be an HP Employee Xmas shopping day too... so, just let me know about your wishes.. :)
Hope the wheel of luck will help me to win sth there too... ;)

Please let me share with you one of our huge marketing campaign running now...

Crisis over

Unbelivable! :)

I had a training today. It was me (!) who trained the country representatives... because i am the one in the central... funny..some of them has got much much more knowledge than me...
And the same old story: central approach or local view...always different :)))

The problem is that now I am in the central and not in local level... :P
You never know... :)))
Anyways, so just wanted to tell you: the training started at 2:00...

I had a last meeting with one of best colleague from Italy... she really helps me a lot... so:
1:45: let's go through on your slides
1:51: ok, so change this, this, this
1:54: let me check sth...
1:57: change this
1:59: change this!!!

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and at 2:00 i opened the call... :DDDDD

It was so great!!! :)))
Of course it was totally different like a normal presentation... everything depends on your voice! :)

Anyways, I don't really think that it was that bad... ;)

Good learning points in these days... seriously! :)
Basically that's why I am here... to learn, to experience more, to challenge myself in different situations, specially in those areas where I am aware of my weakness... :)

That's why it is soo challenging!!! :)

I love taking presentations...
But on phone???
Funny...

Anyways, today is over, just the Friday one is missing... :)

I will go soon and pick up Kleshi from the airport!!!! :)))

I should really update my profile in LinkedIn... so, find me there too!!! :)

By the way...today it was the last year of FY07!!! :)))
Tomorrow NEW YEAR'S EVE!!! :)))

And Friday we will have a small drinking within IPG to celebrate the Q4 closing...

And on Monday the other businesses will organize "Open Doors" for everybody, so basically we can see our products, our new marketing strategy, campaigns.

Interesting :)

Trick or treat?



Happy Halloween! :)
(HP is a US company...fyi)

I will survive

I will survive this week.
Today I already had 1 presentation. It was not that bad...
I have good presentation skills.
Yes, but only if I can emphasize what I am saying with my gestures, my hand, etc.
While I am using netmeeting... people can not see me, just my desktop...so they can not see it how confident I am what I am saying...because of my hands...
So they just hear my voice...whixh is not that confident... :S

Anyways, today I survived 1 presentation... it was not that bad...i survived the Q&A session too...the whole thing was less than 20 minutes... :))

I don't like this modern world... I prefer to see my audience...check whether they are listening to me, using the eye contact, gesticulating, etc. Now I have my voice..that's the only tool I can use to make the presentation more interesting...

And as you can mute your line, you do not really have to take care what the other one is telling you...
It would be interesting to check how many managers, or even how many ppl are listening carefully during netmeetings...
Modern world it is...

Tomorrow I will have an other presentation... it will be bigger and more important than the today one...

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I am scared... so please cross your fingers for me... hope...I will survive...

And tomorrow a friend of mine will visit me... :)))
Ok, it will be just a short visit, as he is traveling forward to his girlfriend to Lyon...but still... :) At least now I can hear some gossips!!! :)))
Kleshi, I really need some gossips from home, so prepare!!! :)))

Nowadays, I am always reading Kipling - If.

I really like that poem.

" If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"


"And so hold on when there is nothing in you,
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!""

Change

Change is good.
Change is necessary.
Change helps to improve, to develop.
But if everything changes in every second????

How can you work like that???

I am getting more and more angrier when I finish my work...than i have to start from scratch again, because everything has CHANGED!!!!

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So, I was so fed up and pissed off, and anyways, why should everything always change???
So, I bought some chocholate...
Some...ooo...some nutella, and 3 kinder eggs...because now you can win Shrek figures... i.e a CAT. :)))

On my way to go home... i was guessing which eggs could have the Cat.... :)
Than I met my flatmate, and gave him one...with 1 condition, if he has got the cat...it should be mine..
Yeah I know it is not that nice, give sth as a present than ask it back... :)
Anyways...so you are not gonna believe this!!! He HAD THE CAT!!!!

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I can not be that unlucky...

But he gave it to me... :))))

back... :)))

Fight or flight

Oh my God!!! That Heroes was soo good!!!!! :)))
Unbeliveable!!!
Fight agains your biggest nightmare!!!
Fight or flight!!!
That is sooo true!!!
Nobody can fly away from that!

I am soo bored.... really this work is sooo operational... áááááááááá

Just want to finish... have 2 more GTMs to simulate....
will take 1 hour or so...
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Yeah probably it is not the most efficient way..working AND watching movie together.... but if excell is sooo sloow....
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Anyways, the weekend was great... :)

Saturday evening we had "Girls night out"!!! :)
Without guys!!!
It was so much fun!!! :)

We went playing bowling, before that played with this "Csocsó", table soccer or sth like that... and also played with the basketball...
but for just one it is not that funny...so we went crazy and 3 of us were trying to male point at the same time!!! :)
The system couldn't follow us...got confused..but it was sooo cool! :)))

Oh, dammit... and because of this work, now i can not join to one of my flatmates dinner.... he is cooking very well...it smells good... :S Next time! :)

Oh yes, and today the clock adjusting thing was just sooo useful for me!!! :))) After I realized the change... :D
Finally I could use more hours!!! :)))

I hope i can finish soon so i can go for running or sth... i hate being in my room now...

Just a short sign in...

Yesterday we celebrateed Manuel's birthday... he is from Italy, working also at a hadgefund, and he used to live in Rue De Lyon...

Oh, yes.. the famous Rue de Lyon... :)

We found a really good restaurant...it is basically an italian restaurant, but the owners are from Spain and Portugal. So for us it is just a Spanish/Portuguese restaurant... :)))

And they serve French/swiss food too... We ate fondue, and pizzas... :)

This restaurant will be a definitly must go, when my friends are coming and visiting me... :)))

And, moreover, yesterday it was fullmoon... so beautiful... :)))

Today I have to work.
Yes, I know, it is a workingday in Hungary, so now I am solidariting with my friends, but still... :)
On 1 Nov I am in the office!!!
Not like you, guys! :P

And my first high.-school reunion will take place today... Hopefully i can participate virtually... :)))
Would be so great... :)

Have a nice autumn, enjoy the colorful trees, the sun is shining, life is beautiful. :)

HP

These 3-4 weeks...terrible... working-working-working....after 2 weeks, coming home every night after 22, i am not able to do anything, just jump into my bed....maybe watch some tv series... maybe not just sleeping, and than at 7 everything starts again...and i was soo fed up with that, fed up that can not finish my work on time, always extra work, but because of the never-ending changes, i am always working on the same thing... :)

so, and i was fed up because couldn't meet my friends, couldn't do the laundry, couldn't go shopping (the shops close at 7...)

So, Saturday I slept a huge...i slept all day, and stayed the whole day in my bed...eating in my bed(!), watching 24 and Grey's Anatomy, and House again - because i am addicted...

Than of course on Sunday I felt guilty that I didn't do anything, so I went for a huge walk with a friend of mine, than did the laundry (3 times...:)), then went to the gym, and planed my week, so now i can finish late, but after work, i am still going out...

Tuesday: Sara's birthday :)
Wednesday: German - Hungaraian - Canadian Kebab & Winetasting - that cellar was something extra nice :)

The athmosphere in that cellar was very nice, though the prices were nice too... ;)

Tonight I am leaving, hope to meet Sarah - who has just arrived from Spain for a short visit... :)

(of course till now i was working... but who cares? :)

Next week just 3 presentations are waiting...
Till yesterday just 1...but today i organized 2 more... :)workholic!! :)
and i have an insurance as well...

And i got a glass from Pickwick ;)

So, life is beautiful...

At HP... things are cool...now i know what i do, why i am doing and how should i do that... :)
There is a woman from Italy, she is sooo helpful...really...and...I don't know how, but she knows me already so well... :)
Always the right sentences in the right moments!!! Unbelivable!!!

AND!!!!
MR. VOICE came back!!!
Haven't heard from him in a while...and on Monday... he just called me... :DDD

And there is an other colleague of mine... i am still thinking of his nickname... Krishi any idea more than welcomed! :)

Oh, and by the way: It is snowing in Croatia!!!
No, no, it is nothing to do with any "spy sentence" or something like that...
:DDDD
In Baska.

How was it guys in Croatia? Tell me, tell me... :))))
All the public details...and non-public too... ;)

Khm...well..
ok, not that one :)

I am starting to be too random, should finish now...

Strange, my intention was to write about something...that i feel somehow now that I am far far from Hungary...i feel more the importance of Oct 23 or all other stuff like that... strange...

ok, it is a serious topic, next time, when i am not that "havas-like"

Be back soon,
Hugz

I am still alive...

Yes, I know.. it is always like that... during the weekdays.. I do not have time, cause I am working... but what if I am working during the weekends too???

pathetic, I know... workholic..that's who I am...

Actually, I love challenges, and I love the changes...but this is unbelivable...that 3 minutes before the deadline..I have to change the whole project... aaaaaa

And my boss is asking: Are u stressed now?
Than laughing, because i twas ME who asked more tasks....
How stupid I am????
Why is that that for me nothing is enough???
I always want more, better???
I should learn...good is enough...

On Thursday, Enid and me cooked for our bosses....
Peter organized the whole Hungarian dinner.
Hmm...

I think, everybody enjoyed it.
My bigboss is now on diet... that's why we cooked Gulash and pancakes....good for his diet... :)))(I left the office earlier....around 2-3, we had to take back some meat, because uit was brown!!!
Unbelievable!
In switzerland...ok, the meat was from Migros, but still...
I was very stressed that we will not be ready on time...
But we managed to do it...!!! :)

Than, when my bosses arrived, one of them said to me:
Oh, how interesting it is, seeing you in the kitchen... :DDDD

Welll...maybe they know me... :D

Last weekend I was at home...again... :)
My grandfather turned 85!!!
So I had to be there!!!

It was great family lunch... I ate sooo much.... but really, so much... :)

And finally I managed to visit my cousin! And her child!!!! :)
Alíz!!
They trusted me to let her in my arms.... well... :)
I am happy that I didn't drop her... :))))



Isn't she cute??? :))))
And look at her design hair!!! :)))
I love her!!! She is sooo small...but how strong!!
She grabbed my finger... :))))

Now I have to find the iron...so have to go... kisses

Things that I like now

- An email from an old-old friend, I haven't seen him for a while; saying that he is organizing our 1st high-school class reunion (after 5 years)
- My identity test - it is pretty cool actually, i did it yesterday evening (5 factor model of identity) it says very true things about me...strange...
check it out here

- Every first Sunday of the months - the museums and exhibitions are free...- so i will go and check one... (i really miss some culture in my life... theater, musical, poems, or museums...so now i will go to feed my art-hunger... :) and have to find a great theater soon
- New flatmates - Heba, the egyptian flatmate of mine id not coming back...strange.. I totally understand Vesna, who really misses her...of course, they have lived together for 2 years...so, instead of her, yesterday a guy from U.S moved in...he seems to be o.k, and cool... and he pronounce my name the same way as Mr. Voice... ;)
- House M.D Season 4
- Grey's Anatomy Season 4
- I am going home at the weekend :) For my grandfather's 85th birthday!!! :)
- my membership at the gym (seriously, I had CAF on Tuesday...i can not even sit down normally...i really should do more sport...and go to the sauna...)

Things that I have to arrange during this week: (a.k.a. things that bother me)

- insurance (well...i really have to check this out...penalty of more hundred CHF...wouldn't be that good for my financial plans...
- Mdme Girardi and her flat ... i will need my negotiation skills for that
- have to write to my professors... i don't know how long i am continuously postponing these things... what i am afraid of??? about my english -hungarian program, about my thesis(es)... nooo :S Ok,maybe I am afraid, or rather worried about the answer: NO.
She could do that. Just simply says no to all my plans, my dreams, my well-constructed speech (well, email at least). She could freak out, that i didn't tell her earlier, that I am leaving the program, in the middle of the semester... i haven't even paid the fee yet... oh, i am BAD. Very bad...
- maybe (MAYBE) I can not attend our class reunion...ááááááááááááá, have to calculate, and check the flights, buses, hitchhiking opportunities...

@THE company

I don't understand it.
I am searching on the intranet.
No information.
An other abreviation.
An other one.
Oh, ok, the 14. abriviation, I don't get it.
I am lost.
Technology, again...where are these long cables going?
What if I cut one off? Or unplug it?
Who should I ask to?
Who knows the answers?

I am lost.

Lunch!!!!
Finally...

The sun is shining, people are eating outside, Thursday, so we have BBQ!!! Yeah!!! :)))
Go out to the parc, eat there! :)

Everything is nice, funny, happy lifestyle, no job to be worried about, no deadlines, just interesting people around you, smiling, sky is beautiful, birds are singing, sun everywhere :)

Oh, Life is beautiful, I am happy. :)

I am not lost anymore.

I am optimistic, full with energy, dedicated to my job, start to see things clearer, dare to open my mouth, ask, ask, write emails, contact people, contact strangers at the buffet :)



I got my the answers.
BUT
More abriviation.
More questions.
Getting be lost again.
Sinking deeper into the huge "grey mass".
Examaining the organizational charts for all the BGs, BUs, VPs, FAs for 100 times today...
I am lost!

But it is good, that makes me going forward! :)

Technology...IT...HP...

I am still wondering, what am I doing @HP???
Really...

Everybody around me is an IT expert, IT specialist, IT genius...or at least know everything about lap tops, headsets, pixcels, and the other words I do not even know...
It's strange...

Specially, when you have to order a headset for yourself...and you have to choose the best...

Why did they give me this task???

ok, no complaining...it's a challenge...and it is just about a headset..at least I know what it is...

And, the IT helpdesk already knows my voice,and nowadays, always when I would like to talk to him, he is always away, busy, out of the office... Strange, isn't it?

Technology...yeah.. on Wednesday we had a telephone conference, on the net!!!
With Netmeeting...:)
That was sooo greeaaat!!!

Previously, I got an email, with all the instructions I should do (really, for dummies: dial 0, than dial 33523257, then press 2, than wait till..., than..)
So it was easy to install the whole process...

But of course, it's me.. so.. nothing is easy for me... :)

Still, it's really cool, we have the opportunity to see i.e. an italian employee's desktop, and if he gives us the right to control his lap top, we can even write on his lap top in Italy, form Switzerland, form my desk...
Cool...amazing...

Of course, we were totally shocked, and excited about all this, told it to our boss as well, and he just: "Oh, yes..that's HP...the best technology, the best ever..."

(ok, maybe know I broke some blogging rules accoriding to HP Standard of Businees Conduct...:)) )

But still, really, if we have all these brand new technlolgy, internet, everything, we do not need to go TO the office, we can easily work from home...
I can see that in the future...and I don't like it...
no personal relationship, just contact via net, writing, no real meetings...

Maybe I am too traditional, not openminded enough, or maybe it is because of my lack knowledge of IT...but still...

Anyway...

Yesterday, we had a BBQ party!!! :))))

It was very very great!!!
The food, the people, the environment, the drinks, the people...!!! :)))

Here are some pictures:







Ok,the last one was the toilett...but the main thing is the wallpaper!!!
The whole house was an antic style house...but wonderful! and the garden...wow...

The best was the key in the toilet...but no photo about it... :)

So, everybody is asking me, what am I doing @HP...
Well...the whole department, where I am doing my internship is about to change...to change as a whole, people are leaving, new are coming (Peter and myself)...the whole system, how they worked before my boss came, was totally different, what my boss now wants...Actually, there is only 1 person who knows the whole process from the begining til the end, and that will be my task to follow up, to understand, to document this proccess, and the main part is to find out a tool, a system, how to communicate this whole process... It is actually very interesting, because the planing has just started, so now I can influence from the begining, and see everything...
BUT.. it is not really a financial job...

My other task will be more operational...we are colllecting datas from all over Europe, Middle East and Africa...I have to collect them as well - from our partners, employees, everybody - than play with them - structure them, a little analyse as well, but the biggest part of that will be Peter's job. He will do more technical job, delaing with excell, with metrics, and d osome simulations, forecast...
Well, his job is more financial... :(

So, basicly, Knowledge mmanagement, and Data management is my job...
sounds interesting... :S

Ok, I didn't expect to be a manager, or a decisionmaker, but still... yeah, it is an internship...

but so far, I like it... there are also other traniees at the company, so, networking is working :)

This week was about learning, get to know the company a little, do some trainings (well, american style...international company...training about the Standard Business Conduct, IT security, Health... "intersting" but usefull topics...)
And form tuesday we can start working...:)FINALLY!!!! Yeaaahhh

First days @HP

Yees, finally we got our workpermit...

Ok, I don't want to write a lot about it...It's enough, that I was totally freaked out, almost (maybe not...) crying, how will I have money, what is going on with our contract, etc.
The best was, when a man from the workpernit office said: It is not even legal for the 2 hungarians to stay here...

OH COOOOOMMMMMEEEEOOON!!!!

Hungary is EU-member country... What's going on???

So for this statement, we went to the Office Cantonale de la Population...personally...
First they were not that helpful, but we were trickier, so finally, after half an hour begging, shouting, politly asking finally we got the right to start working...

We are still waiting for the workpermit, but it's just a small detail...doesn't matter...

Unbeliveable, the burocracy is almost as bad as in Hungary...
Maybe worst...

So, than we called the boss..He was soooo happy!!!!
Almost as we were... ;)

And finally on Tuesday we could start.
Yes, just for the joke.. on Tuesday at 7:30 in the morning, I got an sms saying that my boss is ill, we won't meet him in the morning, but somebody will take care for us in the office...

Nooo...nothing goes so easily...
But..why not????
Why does it have to be so complicated???

Anyway, on Tuesday, went to the HP...
The company is almost in France...from the office I could see the mountains, which belongs to France... :)))
really...around 5 minutes :)

HP is an american company, so the whole office is a 3-floor building.. I imagined something like Deutsche Post in Bonn... but no... :(

And there are boxes...yeah, that's not the proper expression, I know, just I've forgotten the name of it... anyway, so we are working on boxes, cabins, and I've got a lap top :)
Ok, yeah, it would be weired, if a company wouldn't have given a computer...
I can take it home as well...but it doesn't have so much sense...

The job sounds really nice, challenging, and responsible...
SOUNDS...

we will see...

And my boss is really cool, funny, lazy, crazy... :)
He remembered everything what I told them on the interview...(maybe because of the records...Móni? :)
And he said, yeah, well, I think, you like working together with people, talking, talking, so I give you 2 projects...
:)

Actually, after 1,5 day "hard working", now I have 2 days off..which is cool...

Today there is a national holiday in Switzerland :)
And Friday is off as well :)

I am wondering what are my friends doing,...final thesis, lots of work, work, work...
HOLD ON!!! :)))
Just a few more days!
And send me photos taken for the yearbook!
I need all...or at least send me the link lateron :)

I would like to be on the photos as well... :((

Anyway...before I cry, I upload 2 pictures about HP :)





Yesterday we went out, to celebrate Diana's birthday! :)

We went to Heaven...which is a very nice place, specially, if u can find it :)
After some minutes in the rain, finally we found it :)
And this is a pub, where u are not allowed to smoke!!!
What a nice idea!!! And there ARE people there, so it worth to the pub :)

It was a good night, until...I sat between a girl from Israel, and a palestin guy.. well...that was interesting.. listening to 2 people, talking with each other about their situation...blow my mind...challenging my worldview...

After a guiness we left the place...because they close at 1!!! or even earlier...

But I am waiting for tomorrow! Vodka and some people, and party!

(Unbeliveable, I am writngi again about the party...:))

kisses,
Havas

(Something has to happen in Heroes 23...it starts being borring and predictable...but House :)