Blink - what a book!

Blink is the book which explains how I function! By reading the book I recalled thousands of situations and experiences where I used my "computer" to take decisions, to sell, to interpret different situations.

I always have thousand of feelings about things. My MC colleagues know that I always used to say that I have a feeling about this and that thing, and most of the times I was right, and sometimes of course I was wrong. This book explains why I was having those feelings.

It just makes sense. And if you wanna understand me then please read it :) Or yourself.... or just wanna find more things about how people function!

My knee is working again :)

After one week of pain and suffering my knee started to work again:) I had a small accident and for one week nothing has changed in my situation, I hardly could move my leg. Suddenly from one day to another it just started to move and now I fell much better.

I fell how the things get in place and I am recovering, I can even run:)

It is so bad to feel the pain, to fell that I am limited in my freedom to move around and run and do sports. I do not want to have problems with my knees anymore.

Trip to Bonn and Köln

Friday I was in Bonn again, I had a meeting with Media Tenor and the German chapter of AIESEC. I have been there once and I remembered it as a nice and quiet city. Now, it was very alive, a lot of people were on the streets and the cafes and terraces were full.

Bonn is an incredibly beautiful city with nice buildings and very nicely arranged streets. It has a special atmosphere and transmits a calm. I think this is the kind of city in which I would like to live when I want to retire :):):) .

After Bonn I went to Köln, which is a very dynamic city. I had not much time to walk around there, but I could visit the most impressive thing in Köln: the Dom.

It is an impressive construction. I walked inside and I was astonished. It is a unique space, which generates unique feelings. You really feel that God is close there. It was really cool to just sit there and reflect on the things that were happening to me and on the future that is waiting for me to explore. I am looking forward whatever will come…

What a weekend - what a trip

What a weekend…. what a weekend. I think it was one of the best weekends of mine in the last period. So relaxing, so much fun. Life is great :)

Amit, Liv, Ludek, Zeno and me rented a car and we went to Arnhem, Nijmegen and Dusseldorf. We started our journey Saturday morning and we went straight to Arnhem.

Arnhem is a small and nice city in Netherlands and it is quite famous because, very important things happened there in the World War II.

If you saw the movie called “A bridge too far” then you know what I am talking about. You can find a pretty good website about what happened there and about the whole “Market garden operation” if you click here.

We went up to the tower of the church and we could see all Arnhem and of course the famous bridge. It was a really nice view from up there. It was strange that we went up to the tower with an elevator. It was so cool to look around and see so much beauty. Netherlands is a wonderful place to be if you get some sunny days :)

After we admired the beautiful panorama in Arnhem, we decided to discover the Veluwezoom National Park near Arnhem. It was the first time when I climbed hills in Netherlands. We had a 5 km walk up to the top of a hill where from we could look down to Germany. It is strange the concept of national park, because you have paved road to the top and signs and everything, and at the top you have a restaurant. It was really nice to be in nature and to see green hills and trees and listen to the songs of the birds. I missed being in the nature. This walk was also a good opportunity to reflect on my learning from the AI term and to make a little bit of order in my head.

We enjoyed the park so much that we have decided to have a picnic and not to go to a usual restaurant. So we went to the supermarket, we got some food and we went to find a lake, which is a pretty easy task in Netherlands :) .

We had dinner near a nice lake where we watched the boats and the yachts. A lot of Dutch families have boat and they go to sail in the weekend. I think it is a very relaxing and cool thing to do :).

It was so cool that we just had a crazy idea and we had the freedom and flexibility to do that. The picnic was great and relaxing, we were just sitting on the grass, eating and having fun.

After the picnic we went to Nijmegen, another city famous from the World War II :). We met there Lotta (from AIESEC Nijmegen) who took us to a terrace where we had few drinks and a lot of fun. Nijmegen is a really beautiful city with a lot of students and with a very interesting nightlife. There were a lot of people on the streets and everything was so alive. It remembered me a little bit of Barcelona.

In the morning we went in a small park where it was a metal construction and a guy in Zorro clothes was standing on the top with some banners and with some leaflets and was protesting against something. It was really random, and the police were just standing and watching him, some people were just having a sunbath. It was really funny :)

There is a promenade near the river in Nijmegen and we had a morning walk there and we went for some drinks and I ate a very very delicious cherry cake :)

From Nijmegen we went to Dusseldorf and of course because there is no speed limit in Germany on the highway I could drive with 180 km/hour :) .It is cool to drive with high speed and feel that the adrenalin level is high in your body.

Dusseldorf is a nice city. We walked around in the centre a little bit and after that we went to the promenade where a nice jazz band was playing. There are a lot of terraces there and because of the good weather; people were out to stay in the sun. We took a boat trip on the Rhein. That was fantastic. It is so cool to go around and enjoy the sun, the nice view and the summer breeze. It is really hard to describe how I felt on that boat. It was everything so perfect and so good.

On the way back from Dusseldorf we drove a bit on the normal rode, not on the highway in Netherlands. The countryside is amazingly beautiful. It is so nice and so green. I am quite sad that I will leave this country. It is just great to be here. But until leave, I hope that I will have some more great weekends like this here :)

Red bull Air Race in Rotterdam

The Red bull Air race is the Formula 1 of the small planes. It is quite a good show if you have a cool place where from you can watch it and of course if you go there with the right expectations.

The planes have to make a defined distance in as short period as possible and in the meantime they have to execute some defined acrobatic elements. However speed is more important then the acrobatic show in a race like this (it is not air show but a race).

I went mostly because there was a Hungarian pilot (by the way he is leading the championship) and I hoped that he will win. Unfortunately he was only on the third place. Therefore I left the whole event with disappointment, but hope that I will catch the one at Budapest and I am sure that there Besenyei Peter will win :):)

2 great movies + 1 Sunday night movie

Living in a very multicultural environment makes possible to see a lot of non-Hollywood movies and discover that there are some many cool movies made in all kind of countries, which never get so much promotion as a Hollywood movie, which never become big - big trendsetters.

In the last weekend I had the chance to watch 3 movies (I think it was my movie watching weekend). The first wan is a Russian movie called Night Watch (Nochnoj dozor) and it is one of the best made movies I have ever seen. Each scene is a masterpiece, a lot of details are very well done. I was shocked that a cool movie like this can exist without anybody knowing about it outside Russia. Just to have a comparison, the movie was seen in Russia by more people then the Lord of the rings. And it has a lot of Eastern European Flavour. You can see the trailer of the movie if you click here and you can get more information if you click here.

The second movie that I have watched was an Indian movie called "Black". It is not a typical Hindi movie with a lot of dances and songs. It is really well made and it has a great story as well. You can see some trailers if you click here and you can read about the movie if you click here. It is one of the few movies which deeply impressed me lately.

The third movie was called "Guess who" and it is an American comedy. The movie appears to be very real (those who were in this kind of situations, know it well :) ). However this movie marked my first cinema experience in Netherlands, actually I went to Utrecht to see it :). I have never been in a Dutch cinema before, and I was quite shocked by the fact that at the middle of the movie they have a break. And the cinemas are not so well equipped as I have expected (like Dolby surround or stuff like that), but of course there are superb ones as well.

I am really looking forward to discover other non-Hollywood movies and I plan to have a Hungarian movie night with my colleagues here, to show some cool Hungarian movies for them:) .

Transition have started

My term at AIESEC International ends on the 1st of August and Abhinav Gupta will be my successor (he is on the picture below, on the roof of the Schipol airport).

We already started the transition and it is a good feeling to review with this occasion all the great things I have done this year and to share all the knowledge and experience. It is also a good feeling to know that the things I have started will continue, will be taken to an other level and will be improved.

I am really looking forward to the next 1.5 months to finish all the things I have started and pass all the things to Abhinav. And yeah, this will be my last position in AIESEC and after that I will take off and I will find an other passion :) Life is exciting :):):)

The Da Vinci Code

I think almost everybody read by now this book and knows what this is all about. I read as well this book and I really liked it. I was a little bit sceptic about it before I started to read because I have considered it a "fashion book", but at the end of the day I really enjoyed it. I really recommend to everybody and if you want to find out more information about it, just click here :)

Playing Golf is Fun

I went to play golf last Saturday with Luis and it was great fun. Playing golf in the office and playing golf outside is totally different :):):)
Luis is almost a professional golf player (his handicap is around A/B) and he taught me some really cool stuff :) This is how I managed to hit 150 meters :) For the first we went to the range to practice our swing and after that we went to practice the potting :)

Golf is a game where you have to use your brain to control your body and to assess all the conditions (wind, grass, surface, etc). It is about precision and control. It is not a game of muscles :)

And it is really rewarding. It is such a good feeling when you have a good shot, or when you put the ball in the hole :) I would recommend for everybody to try it, however it is important to have a good teacher :)

Beach & Sand Sculpture Festival

I was to the International Sand Sculpture Festival in Den Haag (Scheveningen). There is a nice beach and you can do a lot of crazy things, like bungee jumping :) Dutch beaches are not like one would imagine a beach. When I was there it was so windy that I was freezing. People have a special windshield, and they use that against the wind, this is how they manage to stay on the sun :) And of course nobody was swimming :)

The sand sculptures were really cool. I was thinking that they are just some random sand castles and stuff like that, but they were really nice and I assume that people have put a lot of effort to make them.

You can see my favourite one here :)

Great evening with great discussions!

Yesterday night I went to chill out in the newest apartment of AIESEC International (AI). It was really cool to drink some wine in a very nice room with candles and to have really nice discussions with amazing people.

It is really unique in AI to have all kind of discussions with people from different parts of the world and to share different perspectives, experiences, ideas. It is really powerful experience and helps me to have a real global mindset. I am really looking forward to have this kind of discussions in the next 2 months while I am still here in AI :)