Weekend updates and a few movies watched

The market is a little boring so I thought I’d write a bit about the last few weekends. I’ve not updated much lately. I’m slowly going into a routine over here. With weekends spent mostly doing some shopping, eating, movie going, relaxed visits to the pool and watching my favourite sitcoms (Two Men and Half […]

A big heart

Tour de France cyclists’ hearts bigger than normal - CNN.com
Researchers who examined the hearts of former Tour bikers found that the athletes’ hearts were from 20 to 40 percent larger than average, said Dr. Francois Carre of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes, France.
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Scientists have long noticed the phenomenon of the “athlete’s heart.” Athletes […]

World’s Best Awards 2007

Travel + Leisure Magazine has published its 2007 awards (are we done with 2007 already?). Anyway check it out.
2007 World’s Best Cities | Travel + Leisure
Top 10 Cities Overall

Rank
2006
Name
Score

1
1
Florence
86.90

2
7
Buenos Aires
86.75

3
3
Bangkok
86.56

4
2
Rome
86.30

5
4
Sydney
86.27

6
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Weekend fun

Had a nice relaxing weekend. Not very well rested yet, but then a whole week of sleep deprivation doesn’t get fixed with 1 or even 2 nights of sleep. Still, a good mental re-charge. The programme included:

Authentic home cooked Thai green curry with ultra fresh air-flown ingredients from Bangkok :-) yumm!

An hour’s sleep by the […]

Clive Cussler

Just finished reading Clive Cussler’s Cyclops. The trigger that got me interested in reading the book is a bit unusual, I came across the author and his series while checking out a wristwatch, an orange faced diver’s called Doxa. It turns out the fictional hero wears this watch in all his adventures and there’s quite […]

Transit

Having Starbucks at Istanbul on transit and checking out last night’s market action I can see a few dummy trades that crapped out. Good day to not be trading ;-) On another less positive note I’m sick to the core, some nasty flu I caught on Tusday and which I think peaked right on my […]

Weekend

Weekend was great. I just realized I don’t refer to it as vacation anymore, it’s becoming a normal part life. I was dead tired on Friday but Saturday - Sunday were very pleasant. Spent my time going out, meeting with new people and doing some shopping. Except for the spa screwing up our booking on […]

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