Thursday, October 21, 2010

Mongolian BBQ, Budapest, Hungary

Mongolian BBQ - widely known, real McCoy self service BBQ, pricey, yet worth it. Wanna get stuffed, come here. Occasionally with dolls playing on iPad. Recommended. The place. The iPad. The dolls.

Brad Buff - WW Sales Leader for WebSphere Application Infrastructure, grew up in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is now based close to RTP in North Carolina, was with IBM since graduation, worked in many departments, last 12 years in Software Sales, back in 1990 he was managing the team trying to put Cisco software on IBM hardware and had one of first IBM PCs in RTP. 4 kids, coached and refereed soccer games, has UNC basketball season tickets, loves to watch old movies on TCM and the likes, read Lord of The Rings 20 years before it came as a movie, is now reading Let The Great World Spin, abundant wealth would let him fix kids lives, give more back to Lutheran Church and maybe run for also school board. Many beneficiaries.

The 3 secrets of Mongolian BBQ in Budapest.

The secrets revealed. Bare naked. Up for grabs. Again and again.

You don't want to get your tie stained here, you want to get it cut. Why half measures? :)

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Mongolia BBQ Kranjčeva, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Mongolia BBQ. Two locations in Ljubljana and most probably spreading further. With a reason. Come and see. Recommended.

Boštjan Pilej - Key Account Manager turned Social Media Community Manager at Pro Plus, key force behind Osvajalec.si, fostering Twittering an FB-ing in his media house, diligent Facebook infringement notice sender, reading Economy of Sex and The Search, forward looking iMac and iPad protagonist.

Igor Adamič - Web Content Manager at Pro Plus for their plethora of sites: http://moskisvet.com/, http://cekin.si/, http://zadovoljna.si/, http://golfportal.info/ and others. People get the content they ask for. And deserve. Same goes for government. Ministry of nude. Reading Pravni Vodnik po Internetu. One needs to know the safe side.

iPad - right sized for restaurants. Content is king. Traffic is queen.

Snow-white and the Fish Dwarfs. Chinglish. Chlovenian.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Rustica, Prague, Czech Republic

Rustica - Italian Ristorante near Hlavni Nadrazi. Spinch "radiators" were very good. Really, really good. Recommthumbs up.

Anna Borovska - Telco Solutions Manager for IBM in CEE, grew up in Kosice - where the only known marathon was happening in Czechoslovakia times, needs to visit restaurant Mediterran to check the wines, used to work for APP, company bought by Ness, then KPN Consult and Telefonica CZ before joining IBM. Is a wine connoisseur, is reading Nobel Prize Laureate Sigrid Undset's Saga stories. One day she will travel a lot and help people in need.

Vodafone tie policy. You don't were it. As a visitor you leave it on a tie-hanger at the reception. Cute.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Zavarovalnica Triglav - Verovškova, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Zavarovalnica Triglav corporate offices at Verovškova. With a canteen. Sometimes closed off for event attendees only.

Andrijana Zrinji - Compliance officer at biggest insurance company in the country, born in Belgrade, raised in Radeče, switching with Ljubljana mandates adaptation, was inspector at DURS, worked for Ilirika BPH and is now also making sure that SEOnet reflects reality. Used to be Yoga instructor, is founding member of Toastmasters Slovenia, parallel reading Bogdan Novak's Lipa zelenela je and Why Women Should Rule The World. One day she will travel a whole lot more, do fantastic photos and combine helping children in need and wellness business.

FT interview with Akbank chairwoman Suzan Sabanci Dincer. Interesting.