Sunday, March 20, 2011

Lanzhou La mian, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Lanzhou La mian - what bushes (Grm) become after they die. La mian is a type of hand-made or hand-pulled Chinese noodle. Lanzhou is the place the owners are coming from - if we understood right = not trivial. The Chinese-food-lover in me would say recommended. Others not necessarily so.

Gregor Beslič - Co-founder and developer at Appoteka - web apps for a better world, makers of Shopamine, Ljubljana roots and leaves, recently married, cooperates with Boundbraker, worked for OpenAd (wiki article is an orphan, so is the company), Klika, Sonce.net and is also a DJ - part of P4B - recently performed at Rogla Freestyle week, reading Enchantment by Kawasaki, believes that intelligent ET species are visiting our planet and had FB account only for testing purposes. After inevitable success of one of his ventures, he will keep funding and supporting interesting ventures. P4F - Place4Funding.

Just like hot-sour soup and Szechuan chicken, a poorly written ads and menus are a must in a proper Chinese restaurant. This one is stretching the still-funny to the limit. Boundbreaker Chinese style.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Od Dans do Jutr, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Od Dans do Jutr - one of the latest incarnations of this corner in Župančičeva jama. Facebook based from start. Serving Cafe Britt from Costa Rica. Or maybe not. But they do make you wait on Cola for ever. And ever.

Hans Houmark - business developer in digital media marketing, grew up in Esbjerg in Denmark, moved to Slovenia as exchange student at EPF in Maribor, stayed for job and anchored for love and now family, worked for Tobačna - 1 year in Belgrade - and ReckittBenckiser, re-acquainting himself with Danish language with daughter Inya, avid cook, used to work in restaurant as a student, reading trilogy by Stieg Larsson, at 45 he will move to the seaside, open a restaurant + hotel with spiritual conference room and maybe start another regional Groupon with a system along the way. Crowd-ooohm.

Supply and demand. Oncology institute in the back, tobacco shop in front. System works.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Plato, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Plato - smack in the center. Upstairs and downstairs. Poshy. A bit. Waiter commented "you'll be sorry" when I did not order a drink with lunch. Attitude?

Matej Delakorda - Project manager interested in personal developement, IT and social change, grew up in Velika Pirešica near Žalec where they have presumably the biggest quarry in Slovenia, surprisingly was never involved in local hops business and doesn't drink beer, graduated in Social sciences at FDV, started working as a volunteer at Kiberpipa, was involved with Bog.si company before joined Studio12 and is also running INePA, genuinely interested in developing human potential, does climbing, basketball and is reading The Divine Matrix, a vegetarian while his father is involved in meat industry, will one day totally devote himself to developing, sharing and demonstrating potential leadership within people. A way to lead indeed.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Matyas Pince, Budapest, Hungary

Matyas Pince - world famous Etterem in the center of Budapest. With wine bottles on top of dancing girls included.

Oliver Senti - WebSphere Tech Professional at IBM in Dubai, moved to Middle East from Zurich where he grew up with Lichtenstein roots, left podcast traces on IBM Schweiz page, his father was also an IBMer, but did not get IBM package for newborn like they do in Poland, worked also for Swisscom, cyclist in Dubai when it's not too hot, shoots with Canon 550D and reads a Frank Schätzing's book. Lots of extra time would make him an expert and even more avid photographer. Click.

Hrvoje Živko - Software Group manager at IBM Croatia, grew up in Vrbovec, moved to Zagreb, worked for Oprema Vrbovec and started in IBM as inside sales rep, has 2 kids, plays Lego Batman and Harry Potter PC games on console with them, played tennis and graduated from dancing with his wife, currently reading Jack Welch's best seller and would - time and money permitting - immediately travel around the world.


Our photographer-du-jour, Achal.