Silver night
I have 5 month in the UK and although I have gone out quite some. I hadn’t really gone properly clubbing at the London way.
Last Saturday, we decided to go to Silver. So lets start by the fact that we were queuing at the entrance for 20 minutes in a freezing evening wearing our almost hard core winter clothes when half of the girls around were in one tiny bit of clothes and high hills. We were in the guest list and since we were late I had to become Ellis Vis to enter. Fine! I did so. I mean I could also have a dutch name, what about Indonesian-dutch girls?
Once inside, it was pretty cool and literally cool as well. God, the AC was on as if It was summer and still those tiny dress girls would leave their coats right at the entrance. All over the place, Barbie dressing at the style of paris Hilton and Lindsey lohan (if you read glossy magazines). Party mode in london standards means dressing up and showing-it-all regardless of the shape. Its not what fits you, its what fits into the fashion. You are lucky if another girl has the same dress you are wearing, that means you are on top of it!

I had the idea that in latin America we dress up to go out, but this would have left the latin outfits out of range. Although, I have to say that latin means are way different.

Commonly as in the other clubs I’ve been to, girls modelling around the bar, guys walking through to pick up someone or being picked up… and artificial mini fireworks while dancing as in new year for a second look.

Take a bite here: http://www.glm.uk.com/silver.html
Cant wait to go out with my latin music in Peru next weekend!

My desk recently
This is what has been taking my 100% attention over the last weeks, Mission YOU awards and recognition program for UK & Ireland is the project I inherited and took ownership to grow. I have certainly enjoyed it!

Ayacucho, Peru - Pack your six senses

Cusco, Peru - Pack your six senses

PERU - Welcome to my country!

This was the video used in the presentation. Really excited to introduced Peru as a multicultural country where you can find almost everything. A big round of applause!

TWO in London

Rita always pulls out the deepest reflection of myself. She is quite unique in this sense. I have worked with her, I have lived with her and she, Johi and David made my time in Brazil and during whole my term as SSGN ER in all aspects...
Its great to share with your friends a different stage of life; professionally, personally. Rita is now working in ABN AMRO in Amsterdam and soon going to Maastricht.

After running from different part of London where showing Rita my favourite places, we managed to reach "The hems", the ducth bar where we were meeting Petr. When we met, we hugged so strong as when having something you dont want to let go. Just seeing Petr brought me to my ER team in AI. I havent had a similar noisy non political correct and FUN environment since then... The closest to it was our Fridays in DHL in Peru, where at 4pm we would start playing the famous latin "Atrevete" from Calle 13. It was hillarious, full 3 minutes where the whole area, were updating me on music "on" in Peru and recharging the last piece of the battery for the last day of the week.

Anyway, there was Petr nice, charming (a bit drunk also I would say) remembering all the good times we had and projecting on the future ones. The present came along in between. It was certainly great to see him...

Peru in little India

I am bit late updating news so they are not that new anymore, but still...

One of things which I didn’t do during my AI term was having a proper Peruvian presentation and show my team the wonders of my country…

When my company was doing an Spanish presentation and they asked me to convert it into an Hispanic presentation, I got excited about the idea. After 2 weeks of coordination and 3 members of the Hispanic crew down (we were initially 3 Spanish, 1 Colombian and 2 Peruvians), we hosted the Hispanic day in the main board room of the company at 5pm on a Thursday…

It was great! Starting with the fact that I went through the floor and randomly invited people to join the presentation. Of course I had to give e little introduction of myself after a couple of attempts to people with a I-have-no-idea-who-you-are face. It was indeed my first presentation to most of the company.

We presented ourselves in Spanish followed by a creative live fairy-tale of the colonization of America. It was great cause we would take different roles as being the voice of the “Spaniards” or the “natives” or the story teller, etc.

The good thing is that 3 of us were actually fun cause we did had fun.
After this day, I find randomly people in the elevator that ask me “your are from south India right?” teasing me as a result of a joke I did about people in the company believed that Peru was in the south of India. I mean there is a city which name I don’t remember, and I don’t look necessarily British so that’s the most natural option that come to their mind…

At the end of the day, we had nice Peruvian and Spanish food (which by mistake was mostly non-vegetarian, but almost nobody notice jiji).