Final days at work

As my Swiss clock nearly reaches its alarm, I took the time and effort to have lunch with some people in my place of work. It's the time to dream and be a 'social climber' with your stiff upper lip and pretend to be rich and luxurious for a while while you rub elbows with suit-clad, bulova-sporting, charles jourdan-clothed future diplomats, politicians and civil servants. Table manners is a thing that needs to be watched as people in international organizations are supposed to be 'refined' and 'highly cultured.' Don't get me wrong, they're really nice.

No packed lunch this time for me as it would be very 'un-posh.' Instead, I opted for the vegetarian meal for CHF 8.50.

I actually hate basking in the sun. I do not need to tan as I am already naturally tanned.

We had a picture of the group after the meal.

Looking by the place where we had dinner, I took a shot of the portion of ILO's building which looked like a 1960s communist-style hotel.

It is a common tradition in the ILO to have coffee after lunch. There are no bandiclocks or timers set to guard people of their time. Actually, some people take 2-hr lunches, with most of the time spend sipping coffee and flaunting the latest fashion or telling stories about their wonderful weekend in the Swiss chalet or Monaco, or Cote d'Azur. Being part of the system already, why not have a two-hour lunch for myself as well??? It's just fair isn't it?


After that, it was time to work for my trilingual Russian boss who speaks fluent English, French and Spanish plus his native tongue, Russian. I started teaching him Tagalog as well.


Night-time, I was able to see Genevans.


This is Karim, my foyermate who has spent a year in Vancouver studying English. I helped him in his English interview and application with P&G and was really happy to have got a job with the company. As a result, we are going to fete him a dinner for his success. Prior to that, he worked as a model in a Swiss modelling firm (I'll be dead tomorrow for sure :)).


We went on top of a hill where you could see the entire city-scape. Alas, it was raining cats and dogs with thunder and lightning and was not able to have a good view. Nonetheless, we just took the opportunity to take some pictures on top.