evening reading "Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take. you never really know what will come up and very few jobs get done as quickly as planned. Impatience is the first reaction against a setback and can soon turn to anger if you're not careful" - Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

How true. A few weeks ago I would have read through this passage without noticing much, but tonight the words reached out of that book, and touched an understanding that has started to grow in me.  ¶ 1:19 AM 0 Comments  

  AdCo Last Thursday featured our Advisory Council Meeting in the Palais des Nations in Geneva... problems when collecting our badges at security were suitably explained by the fact that Kofi Annan was addressing the General Assembly that exact afternoon. So the members of our AdCo actually went to listen to him speak while we set up the room... whose AdCo meetings have an "opening speech" by the Secretary-General of the United Nations?

;o)

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  We ACTed with torches and triangles After some "intense" days, we ran our first conference of the year last weekend.... ACT 2005
With our one-and-only Dhruv as chair (introducing India's role calls to random classrooms in Berne) and sessions galore (14 different sessions on Saturday alone!!!) triangles and torches featured in abundance.
And thanks to Peter and his wheel of fortune, the world of @CH had an intimate insight into random striking, St.Gallen's church building, Zurich's traffic jams and things that are just down-down-down-down-down!
It was a fantastic weekend, and triangles and torches are the silent reminders...


The Wheel of Fortune (also dubbed as mis-fortune)


How to mime "Zürich"?!? Zürich Street Parade


Exhausted but happy!  ¶ 10:25 AM 0 Comments