Category — sports

and last but not least, due to a win in Luxemburg and Albania tying Bulgaria (respect Tirana!), Romania qualified to the Football Euro 2008 championships! Yipeee!!

important game today, romania-netherlands 1:0 in the euro 2008 qualifying. with this important and surprising result romania is, amazingly, almost qualified! am keeping fingers crossed for the last 3 games. more about boston later. takes a bit of time to let things sink in. for now just to mention how awesome it was to meet [...]

the rugby world cup is going on these days. below some samples of what it can be like.

On the way back from zurich to the village on the other side of Confederatio Helvetica where I am still located for this project, I stopped briefly in Fribourg, a nice old town in shades of grey, with an impressive cathedral (like most towns here). Pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/explorish/fribourg. i live close to Lausanne, but i [...]

Sunday, March 25, 2007, 23:45 Taking advantage of the big sales going on, and inspired by the late winter, I bought meself ski equipment on Saturday. Skis and boots and everything. Doing that (plus a haircut) took a while, coz the cheapest skis were sinfully ugly, not even cool-ugly, just plain ugly, not pleasant to [...]

Those were highlights of this week-end. Yesterday, the Geneva autoshow – HUGE, many cars, crowded.. was ok, nothing mindboggling, maybe car-fans would have had more of a “mekka” feeling, for me it was just interesting. Was more excited today, went for half-a-day skiing in Verbier. Uh, skis you don’t see you forget. After the first [...]