Congratulations brother :-)

It's time to say..."Dottore, dottore...dottore del b**o del c**0"...Grande Ferro, an other important achievement for you and for all of us...I'm sure this will give you a new jump into your future :-)

I told you. this summer...touching the balls will help :-)))

Gianpy

Smiling time: Friendships...

A guy goes over to his friend's house, rings the bell, and the wife answers. " Hi, is Tony home?"
" No, he went to the store."
"Well, you mind if I wait?"
" No, come in."
They sit down and the friend says "You know Nora, you have the greatest breasts I have ever seen. I'd give you a hundred bucks if I could just see one."
Nora thinks about this for a second and figures what the hell - a hundred bucks. She opens her robe and shows one. He promptly thanks her and throws a hundred bucks on the table.
They sit there a while longer and Chris says "They are so beautiful I've got to see the both of them. I'll give you another hundred bucks if I could just see the both of them together."
Nora thinks about this and thinks what the hell, opens her robe, and gives Chris a nice long look. Chris thanks her, throws another hundred bucks on the table, and then says he can't wait any longer and leaves.
A while later Tony arrives home and his wife says "You know, your weird friend Chris came over. "
Tony thinks about this for a second and says "Well did he drop off the 200 bucks he owes me?"

Future of the world? Is it time to wake up???

Today, while I was reading some news on internet, my attention was catched up by a picture. I want to share it with you and invite everyone to reflect on it.

People like chickens!! If people lives in this situation, something is not working well.

Just think about it and...maybe something will come up in your mind...to change that small thing that will create the difference in our daily life.

Always for a better world...Gianpy

Walking on the Bridge: Golden Gate

The story of this blog started walking on the Brooklyn Bridge in NY. Yes, I had the lucky to visit this city also on the 2002, the summer after 09/11. Since that time, I always dreamed this path. Now, it represents one of the most important pieces of my life. Crossing a bridge it's a mix of feelings, meanings, thoughts. It links point A to point B. But, everytime you walk on it, personal persepctives use ot change. This is the reason why it seems everytime to live a unique experience.
One year ago, I bought a calendar with the most important bridges of the world. I sat down and I started to observe each one of them. That was the first time I was thinking to the experience the crossing of the Golden Gate, in San Francisco. 2 weeks ago, while I was travelling on the West Coast of the USA, I met 2 guys. 5:30 in the morning, we were both ready to start our life experience in the Gran Canyon. We introduced each others and after few minutes, they showed me some picture of San Francisco, last city they visited before to arrive to Las Vegas. In one of the picture, the Red Bridge! I started to think about my trip and see if there was an open window. But, the idea to go to San Diego and after to Los Angeles was great as well.

After the entire day spent in the Gran Canyon Reserve, I moved to San Diego. One day in its wonderful bay and the new decision: that night I decided to leave again. 11 hours were dividing me from the Red Bridge. Exacly one night of bus trip. I cancelled my hostel in San Diego and the Sun of the morning after was shining on San Francisco. Temperature was extremely cold and foggy. But, this situation facilitated the meeting of new people. Cathy, a girl from Cezch Republic, was travelling alone as well. In agreement, we decided to live this experience together and...We finally did it. We crossed the bridge, twice.

At the end of this trip, we stopped in a Chinese Restaurant, drinking hot green tea, eating some fresh sushi and recovering ourselves. We spoke as old friends, was amazing! We were extremely tired but happy for the common adventure. We spent the rest of the day together with several new experiences and there was a bit of sadness at the end of the day. A new night was coming in: my new direction was Los Angeles. Before to leave, we promised each other to remain in contact. After the Golden Gate, next dream is to see the sun on the top of Machu Pichu, in Peru an maybe, we will find again a common road to walk together.

A new bridge has been crossed, it's time to find the next one. Any suggestion?
Take care Gianpy

"Into the W..est Coast"

One week ago I had the chance to walk on the West Coast of the USA. One week trip, moving from Las Vegas, Nevada to Gran Canyon, Arizona. Then, going to the South California in San Diego, up to the North in San Francisco and down again to Los Angeles.
An amazing trip, sleeping during the night in the bus and walking each day in a different city, different colors, different place, different people and... chilometers of thoughts.

While I was living this experience, a book with me. "Into the Wild", written by Jon Krakauer... a perfect combination for a trip alone.

I want just leave you one of the part of the book that is reflecting this status.

“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun…"

Life is the path...never miss it!!!
Take care
Gianpy

Italian humor...

Thanks Alfo for the smiling moment of the day :-)))

For several years, a man was having an affair with an Italian woman.
One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin
his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she
would go to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to
raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child
turned 18. She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born.
To keep it discrete, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write
"Spaghetti" on the back. He would then arrange for the child support
payments to begin.

One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife.
"Honey," she said, "you received a very strange post card today."
"Oh, just give it to me and I'll explain it later," he said. The wife
obeyed and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and
fainted.

On the card was written:

"Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti.
Three with meatballs, two without.
Send extra sauce."

a sentence to keep in mind...

Dear all,it's long time that I'm not posting. This means that I have a lot to write you back :-)
so, day by day I will try to make up all the details of my absence :-)I

would like to share a sentence with you. I found it while I was in San Diego one week ago.

"If there is light in the soul,
there is beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
there will harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
there will order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
there will peace in the world."

Enjoy the week
Gianpy

Crossing Union City: the pool, the fisherman and our good sense!!!

Welcome to this story written with four hands...
Did you ever cross a place in a unusual morning without a concrete objective? Some times happens...
If this happens with one of your friend, in a foreign country...you are only at the beginning of a unknow trip!!!

It was an early Saturday morning, after have seen an episody of "Il commissario Montalbano". Close to noon, we decided to go around to find out a place to have breakfast. For people who doesn't know Union City, it could be useful to know that it's a "South American Colony".
Find a breakfast, without eat chicken and beans in the morning is like to become millionaire with the national lottery.
Walking on the street, we discover a little door. It was looking as a pub, but we decided to go inside. A barman, a pool and 3 strange people were populating this place.

As good Italians we decided to have an "aperitivo" before to proceed with our plan. Nobody was thinking that Frank Sinatra and the Blues Brothers were ready to seat in this place with us....

Changing the pilot....

sometimes you just need to see something new, doesn't matter what is your past or who you are. You need more. It always happens if you are in a different city, country, place, sky, language…the conlclusion will be most of the time something that you will never forget.

In a small street between two avenues, where nobody was around and just few dirty shops were open, we found a small closed door and a small closed window. If you fell normal or if you have a plan, you would never stop and think one second to get in.
To see that door, to stop in front of it and try to go in, was remembereding me an hold mysterious house that was abandoned on the hill around my grandparents house.

“What do we want to do??” It was the unt old question that was on our eyes. Without waiting for a word, we opened the door and we felt in a dark dirty pub, wide as 12 ft (less than 4 meters) and length around 30ft (9 meters). Personally I was starved but no where I was seing an oven or a toast maker. No way to eat something!!!

Once inside we were not finding anything enjoyable as a normal pub can offer. I have to be honest. Looking our movement around, it was so clear that we were new of the place, full of ourselves and looking for something exciting. Starting to play pool, tasting some frozen beer was just the first and natural consequence.

The perfect match for two men in their middle 20th or early 30th. Have been a matter of a minute and a short fat man, South American looking like, approached us putting some coins on the table and booking for the next game. Our small, hidden and dark pub was not the best place to be for a banker who was dressing a suite and an overcoat in a pretty sunny Saturday in the middle of April.

Raphael or whoever he really was, started talking to each one of us in a way that can be felt as familiar, we can say….friendly. Steve, the bartender, joined us. I don’t know a lot about the American people, but I have to say that Raphael is for sure more fantasious name than Smith, Joe, Jack or John as you expect from any American man.

Meanwhile Raphael was challenging one of us for the first game, that of course he would wisely lost, he paid the first shot of old Sambuca. It was his game, his first movement and of course his first fake step. If there is a scene to describe this, it is like to be a fish watching the fisherman to settle its position. The Sambuca was playing his game. I was personally enjoying everything: the unknown dirty dark place, the beer as breakfast, the pool table and the Sambuca taste on my mouth. Balls were on the table, Raphael ready to play and waiting for challenging. The fisherman was ready to put a bunch of worms on the river. Amazing!!

But here,

our knowledge and experience came out. Dear Raphael,
thanks to show us the game but we know already how to play in this case and we really enjoyed to see you, fisherman, showing your masterpieces on the art of mystification. In another moment maybe we would enjoy more, have more Sambuca shots paid,… by you of course, and also play the first two game, winning of course!!! Next time fisherman!!! We are still younger than you, but in our library we already have this book!!!

Now I am starting feel the effect of the alcoholic drinks…and most of all, I am starting to feel the emptiness of my belly and the hole in my head. It’s only 14:34 of an unusual Saturday!!!

changing the pilot

Moved by our research of food, a little diner came in our soccourse. A mix of eggs, mushrooms and peppers was our lunch time. Orange juice and american coffee our drinks. Dreaming our Italian Dishes and putting them in comparison with the food we were currently tasting, a feeling of sadness came out. But, the sunshine was back soon. Our friendship in Union City.. it was the best consequence of an unusual Saturday Morning in which a fisherman, is still looking for fish!!!! Go home safe!!!

Take care

Gianpy&Alfonso

AIESEC IPM 2009 in Italy

It' always a pleasure to receive this kind of news. Our Italian Network will host this huge and amazing conference in the 2009.

Live contact: Cisco, IPM 2007 Egypt. If you want to read more, just click below:
http://cisco.nomadlife.org/
Live from Egypt: 3rd part!
Incredible! AIESEC in Italy is proude to announce that the
International Presidents Meeting 2009
will be held in our beautiful country!
For sure it's an incredible achievement, result of the work of amazing people and the commitment of all my team!
AIESEC in Italy is here!
Cisco

Congratulations guys, good job.
Gianpy

"You will be either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety"

I'm back. After a week end spent with friends and relax, I'm trying to get ready for the new week is coming soon.

But, as promised some days ago, let me talk about something regarding the personal growth.

Reading one book on this topic, I found this sentence:

"You will be either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety".

Since the first moment, I found really interesting the meaning of this sentence. I used to describe the same concept as: "you can decide to stay in your bed, under a safe quilt, or you can decide to stay all the time out of your confortable zone".

Personally, I think there is not only one way to act. However, it's also true that more we live in unconfortable zone to us, more we learn for the future. Conclusions can be traced by everyone of us...

But, let me leave with a reflection. Think for a minute to all the problems you faced during the day. After that, click here and see all the pictures. Is not the same world we are living in?

Take care my friends

So long time....

So long time... it looks like I never had a weblog!!!

If it's true that I didn't write anything during the past 2 months, coming back on this weblog is becoming again exciting. Why? Because I have thousands of news to tell to everybody.

So, from now on, I will start again to use this space to communciate what is going on my life.

Let's start. I'm still in this city, and the above picture is still reflecting my favorite and magic place to be.

My working experience is going well. Everyday I can find something new and this is exacly what I was looking for. My passion is not the shipping, but, this field is full of challenges every day and it's becoming a nice experience to live.

However, every day I take the chance to read and study something regarding one of my passion: The People Development. It's unbelievable to see how many things every human being can discover in yourself.

Just today, after finish my previous book, I began a new adventure reading a new one. I'm sure most of you know this masterpiece. The title is "The art of War" by Sun Tzu's. I just started and ... I already understood that I will be awake all night!!!

Wheather...believe or not here it's so...so...so cold!!! It's happen almost every day to be under the zero... I'm looking forward to see the spring...and enjoy the free time in all the New York parks. In the mid-time...too many thins are waiting for...so, there is not chance to get bored.

This is just a new start...keep in touch for the next post. New Title will be: "You will be either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety" Abraham Maslow.

Interested? Keep in touch....

Gianpy

Leonardo and his new job!!!

Leonardo is back to New York and all the police man already are looking for him. Believe or not, this time he will risk a huge punishment.
What I'm talking about? I'm talking about his new job...
Is Leonardo helping a baby and his grandmother to enter inside their house or...it's only an excuse to working in the new field of the robbery? Let's take a look... votes are open :-)

Gianpy

Fabio...New York..e i castori...

Some days ago, Fabio, one of my Pavia's friend, came to New York for one week.

Before to arrive to NYC he went to the West Coast. I'm sure his experience will be a great inspiration for his future. After 2 full weeks of travel, He conluded his american experience staying one week in this city.

With my huge pleasure, we had a great time together, going out and talking on how our lives changed in the last years.

There was only one thing that never changed and never will change:
Where ever you go, we will be always castoro-hunting!

Let's drink on this :-)
Gianpy

New York, land of friendships...

It's some times that this blog didnt' see new post..but, let's go ahead to find a remedy :-)

It looks like yesterday the moment when I came here. More than 10 months are alreday gone. The life here use to run more than you, but fortunately, nothing happens without a reason.

My working experience is giving me a lot of opportunities to learn. I'm lucky to work everyday with people from which I can learn. And, as always, from my side the 200% of my self is guaranteed. I try to do my best in every things I do...and I'm sure this is the best way to growing in my life.

New York is also the land of friendship. Why? Because there is always some friends who is coming to visit New York; because the 90% of the young people in this city is living a similar experience, studying, doing an internships or something else, and because, you just need to be open minded and start to talk with the first person close to you.

So, it happens that during the week, a group of friends meet each others living te cultural mix of this city. During the last month I had the pleasure to host Fabio from Pavia (viva i castori e la vita di...); to meet Alessandro(one of the LCPs of my National AIESEC terms) and his friend from Ancona; to see again my cousin Teresa and boyfriend, to have back one of the person who I use to call "brother". Yes, Leonardo is back to New York and we started to share our love for all that could be called "Arts". First stop, Broadway, "Les Miserables" di Victor Hugo. Unbelievable and unforgettable. Which will be the next broadway show?

And so, as good italian, could not miss a nice pizza into our house... with something nice to drink and a good music as a background. Final results? Some good pictures to keep in the place called: friendships.

Take care my dears

Gianpy

Listening voices around us....

Hey dears,

in this Saturday morning, finally one without work, I was jumping between different websites and I found an interesting an reflecting sentence, coming from the initiative "Business as an Agent of World Benefit (BAWB): Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change".

I will post here the sentence, from Bobby Sager, Founding chairman, young Presidents Organization Peace Action Network. If you want to read more, just visit the AIESEC INTERNATIONAL webblog. Take care.

He said:

"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. But no one can count the apples in a seed."

For italian friends, seed=seme