Monday, March 18, 2013

Kevdr, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 
Kevdr - a relatively new place in the cellar of a big business building on Dunajska street. Trying to make it in  recession times. Give them a try, but don't expect too much - basics are covered.
  
Tomaž Sešek - management consultant, raised in Gunclje part of Ljubljana in Sešek working class family,  scholarship took him to UWCAdriatic in Duino, worked for the other part of scholarship for Cambridge graduate study, topped it all up with INSEAD MBA, touched Club of Rome topics with Meadows, worked for Intercortex, Poteza, Adacta, Sekvenca, SRC, Ganxy, founded Mojesanje kindergarten, travels a lot, was in  Cambridge basketball club, proud father of Tristan, reading Never Eat Alone, GTD aficionado, likes his old Porsche, and will one day take a more active role in education, infusing high school entrepreneurship topics, giving students MBA-type understanding and radically change university study. A big plate that is. Mahlzeit!

Monday, March 11, 2013

Zlati krožnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Zlati krožnik (Golden plate) - a small Chinese restaurant on Dunajska street with a recently dissapeared website/domain. Nothing special, yet everything one can expect from a decent Chinese joint. If you want to be totally alone, come Monday evening. Gè bǎo!

Irena Marin - Medical Practice Professional, as name Marin suggests, her roots are from around Ohrid, Macedonia, was CEEPUS exchange student, works as PhD in cardiology in Ljubljana, goal being to become internal medicine doctor, was also exchange student in Portugal and Israel, worked for Geneplanet in TPLJ, attended Alpbach Forum once, associated with IG, wanted to attend TEDxBled, but was too late with registration, attended TEDxLjubljanaLive2013, about to get a B2 level Slovenian language certificate,  reading Mohamed Yunus' Building Social Business and will one day make sure that proper knowledge and education is available for everybody globally, starting from bottom up. PhD worthy.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Volta Cafe, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Volta Cafe - serving mostly students, primarily from Electrical and Computer Science Faculties across the street. No frills, no real memories of it, either. Visits driven by necessity, I guess. Viidea team begs not to disagree.

John Bachir - Technology Lead at Ganxy, grew up in North Carolina, BMC intern, helping them simulate large installations, worked in Centerline, had a bushy beard before Ganxy launched, built his own Wordpress fork (separate branch - alternate version), Rice University graduate, cooperates with Viidea, member of "Nikon DSLR camp", just read Voodoo Heart, regular Couchsurfer and Host who will one day finish his documentary film. Sundance is waiting.