The Alexandria Quartet

Last night I started to read the book The Alexandria Quartet by the British author Lawrence Durrell. I have heard a great deal of positive comments for these 4 novels (Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960)) and look forward to reading them.
Having seen that the entry for The Alexandia Quartet in Wikipedia is [...]

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Allers-Retours

The play we are setting up in the Aula of Collège de Voltaire on May 31 and June 1, Citoyen de nulle part, is based on von Horváth’s Allers-Retours. The poster on the left is from La Comédie’s setup of the piece last year (and which also inspired our teacher Denise to pick this play for her [...]

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Citoyen de Nulle Part

The theatre group I belong to, directed by Mme Denise Chollet at Université Populaire here in Geneva, is setting up the play Allers-Retours by Ödön von Horváth on May 31 and June 1, 2006. We have changed the name of the play to Citoyen de Nulle Part as our version is radically altered from the [...]

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Moving to Vernet…

From yesterday and two weeks on, the Varembé swimming pool (which is situated  very conveniently just around the corner from our office) is closed for annual maintenance work. To go swimming they refer the visitors to the Vernets piscine, down by Plainpalais. I went over there this afternoon, the weather was good for once so the bike ride there [...]

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I like business…

I like business because it is competitive, because it rewards deeds rather than words.
I like business because it compels earnestness and does not permit me to neglect today’s task while thinking about tomorrow.
I like business because it undertakes to please, not reform; because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding hypocrisy and sentimentality.
I like business because [...]

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Drumming

We  are practising a song by the French group Téléphone, Un Autre Monde, and I have taken the drummer's role.
What an experience that is. Being the heart of the band really, there's not a lot of room for mistakes. On vocals or as a bassist, the other instruments quietly continue to play their accords when [...]

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Orangino in English

The Swedish board game Orangino is being translated into English, its creator Ulla Osterman told me a couple of weeks ago.
It was released on the Swedish market in 2003, and has made a success. It is a board game that can be used just for fun or as a personal training tool.

In his book “Flow [...]

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Le rêve d’un homme ridicule

Last night I went to the S:t Gervais Thêátre for the monologue Le rêve d’un homme ridicule. It is a pience adapted from the writings of Dostoïvski. It was a test to see whether my French would be up to it, if I could follow a whole play. The first half an hour went fine, then [...]

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Mangal Pandey – The Rising

I was quite positively surprised yesterday when I watched the Indian movie Mangal Pandey – The Rising. I picked up the DVD at a friend’s place, and didn’t know what to expect of it. Now I wonder why it never was screen here in Europe?
It isa nice mix of Bollywood style and European narratives, and [...]

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Live Au Château 2006

Last night we had the first organizing meeting for the 2006 music festival "Live Au Château." Important questions at this stage are: which groups should be allowed to participate? Here the criterias are not only that they should be good musicians but foremost that they can take part in a festival where timing is an [...]

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The diary

Last night La Comédie à Genève organized ”La Nuit du Journal Intime” where a new reading started every 15 minutes. Actors, politicians, media people, etc. were reading extracts from classic or anynomous diaries. When I was there, from 23 to 1 o’clock, there were quite a lot of people. I wonder how big the audience was in the [...]

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The blog as a personal marketing tool

Does it work to blog in order to market oneself on the job market?
For sure. A well-done blog gives the reader a chance to get to know you better than at a job interview, and in more depth (if they are interested readers, that is).
And if you want to come across as knowledgeable in a [...]

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Corporate blogging

Blogs, that are known to be personal diaries published on the net, have become fashionable for companies to run as well. How come?
Well, for several reasons it seems. Let’s take a look at the most evident ones.

Google. That is, to get higher up in the search result of search engines. If you are not linked [...]

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First one out

After having tried several other blogging platforms, I’ve settled for WordPress. This is where I’ll be.
It was at LIFT06, the gathering of web enthusiasts here in Geneva last week, that my interest in blogging really took off. And now when I ask friends and colleagues about blogging, I realize how difficult it is to comprehend [...]

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