tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85212033079152900862024-03-14T04:54:00.475+02:00My BlogRambling ThoughtsConstantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-32198303933287593832012-10-28T10:10:00.000+02:002012-10-28T10:10:37.128+02:0028 October 1940 - Greece in WWIIOn this day in 1940, Mussolini's army, already occupying Albania, invades Greece in what will prove to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce's forces.
Mussolini surprised everyone with this move against Greece; even his ally, Adolf Hitler, was caught off-guard, especially since the Duce had led Hitler to believe he had no such intention. Hitler denounced the move as a major Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-45237487272763600582012-07-27T13:12:00.000+03:002012-07-27T13:12:11.125+03:00Summer Holidays in SifnosI haven't been around a lot lately as business trips around the world and work have been keeping me busy for the last 6 months. Wintin 2 weeks I flew from Athens to Frankfurt, from there to New York and L.A California, from L.A I flew back to Europe. In London I had a flight to catch to the Scandinavian countries. Then back to Germany and from there to Sydney and later to Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-61823959472753375002012-05-19T21:52:00.000+03:002012-05-19T21:52:23.780+03:00The Lying Game
I hate being lied to. Short of violence, it is the worst thing you can do to me. Not because of God, or the Ten Commandments, or any universal moral precepts. The reason that I hate lies is because, like you, I wish to navigate carefully through life, and to do so I must be able to calculate my true position. When you lie to me, you know your position but you have given me false data Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-48461708978092067302012-04-22T11:33:00.001+03:002012-04-22T11:33:31.250+03:00Spring in Greece
At this time of year, wildflowers are in full bloom all over Greece, the weather is pleasantly warm during the day but it can get rainy and stormy and quite chilly at night - especially in April. In May it often feels like summer, hot days are not unusual and we can expect temperatures around 23C / 74F
The refreshing season of spring adorns the fertile landscape of the Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-56187030324524838892012-03-04T12:32:00.001+02:002012-03-04T12:32:19.238+02:00Success
Yоu сannоt hаve success if yоu do not know whаt іt means for уou. Evеryоne views success differently. Set clear goals аnd bе realistic. How wіll you know when you've achieved уour goals? Your standards shоuld bе quantifiable, оr еlse yоu сould spend your entire life chasing after а vague goal. For examрlе, lеt's sау уou wаnt tо be good at уour job. Yоu get a promotion, уou get а raise, but youConstantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-73688171227339372482012-01-28T21:11:00.000+02:002012-01-28T21:11:54.866+02:00Compassion Gives Strength
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
--Thomas Merton
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest
reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment. --Arthur Jersild
Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy.Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-3217997264307411522011-11-20T21:21:00.001+02:002011-11-20T21:31:32.237+02:00MirrorsA mirror, like a picture itself, reflects "reality". Due to its
respective qualities, it either depicts, magnifies an object or makes it
smaller, sometimes it even evokes infinity. Just like the objective of a
camera, a mirror delimits excerpts from a variety of pictures either
through its outline or with its frame and cuts them. Depending on its
position, it either tilts them or puts Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-86190936398930242232011-10-28T11:41:00.000+03:002011-11-20T21:28:40.006+02:0028 October 1940At 2:50 am on Sunday, 28 October 1940, General Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece , was awoken in his Athens home. At the door was the Italian Ambassador, Count Emmanuelle Grazzi, with a written ultimatum to the Greek government demanding that Italian forces be given free passage into Greece from Albania and that they be allowed to garrison certain unspecified "strategic points of Greek Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-3793370635502491182011-10-09T22:05:00.000+03:002011-10-09T22:05:01.523+03:00Privacy on FacebookFriends and family have often asked me if I have a Facebook account so that they could add me to their friends. The answer is that I don't have a Facebook account now. I used to have one, though, just to keep in touch with my daughter when she moved to London for her university studies. She had talked me into creating an account then claiming that it's the most inexpensive way to keep in Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-58473490402415785332011-09-04T13:26:00.001+03:002011-09-04T13:39:41.804+03:00Sunday Breakfast
I am the kind of person who can't start the day or..... function without a hearty breakfast. On weekdays, I always have 2 cups of green tea (I love it!!) and toast with butter and jam, a small piece of cheese and a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. Twice a week, I may also have for a change a bowl of wholemeal cereals with fruit and nuts and a fruit yoghurt. Only then can I start my day. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-62268452263973419262011-08-27T13:02:00.000+03:002011-08-27T13:02:35.493+03:00The Great and the BeautifulWe live in a world that seems to worship its own kind of greatness and produce its own kind of heroes. Popular tv shows like Greek or American Idol X-Factor or Master Chef and reality television shows that are anything but reality, capitalize on this exact thing. Oprah Winfrey needs only mention a product on her "Favourite Things" list and the sales skyrocket. Athletes' are paid Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-38785099686124155632011-08-17T15:16:00.000+03:002011-08-17T15:16:05.460+03:00Back from Sifnos
When you are on holiday, time flies. Ten days flew by in Sifnos without realising it. I went there alone but this did not prevent me from having a great time. I enjoy being my own company in the first place, doing whatever I want like swimming, fishing, sailing or basking in the sun reading my favourite books. Secondly, I've made a few good friends there - all islanders - who won my heart Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-48877062852065500552011-08-10T14:10:00.000+03:002011-08-10T14:10:03.173+03:00Summer HolidaysWith the new recession in Greece and a depression in Asian and European markets yesterday (almost a black Tuesday), I shouldn't be taking a holiday at all! June and July were busier than ever before - hence all work and no play. It's not easy these days to be an economist and run your own business. Since June, people have been protesting all over Greece against the government's new Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-73770461290502764902011-06-26T09:27:00.000+03:002011-06-26T09:27:48.201+03:00The Good of God Throughout your lifetime, you are going to be faced with many different kinds of decisions and temptations. Most of these will be small and hard to see coming towards us. Allow me to elaborate on what I mean by that. For example, it’s a Sunday night, and I know I have an important meeting at work early on Monday morning.. I need to spend time preparing that meeting.. My friends call me Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-88568141341574012462011-06-14T20:07:00.007+03:002011-06-14T20:25:16.125+03:00Flood Festival - Kataklysmos
A Greek Orthodox festival with strong pagan roots focusing primarily on water, Kataklysmos or Festival of the Flood marks the day of the Holy Spirit. Coastal cities make the most of the opportunity, staging concerts and games near the waterfront, but even inhabitants of inland towns and particularly children – their water guns a necessary accessory, enjoy a good ‘splash’. The feast of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-33833445882347895042011-06-01T21:34:00.000+03:002011-06-01T21:34:37.498+03:00Adoption
It's natural for people who are adopted to wonder about their birth families (also called biological families) and where they came from. This curiosity often becomes more intense as part of the process of self-discovery that happens during the teenage years. Sometimes there are health reasons, or other important reasons, for searching for one's birth family. Adoption is the creation of a new, Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-70116730456452698972011-05-26T19:48:00.000+03:002011-05-26T19:48:29.994+03:00Green Houses
As the effects of climate change are felt across the world, both governments and individuals are beginning to take the task of building eco friendly houses much more seriously. Fuelled by increased demand a new industry of eco friendly home building has grown up and a whole host of technological innovations have created an arsenal of eco friendly building materials and techniques. Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-7422178749678781612011-05-18T20:35:00.000+03:002011-05-18T20:35:00.227+03:00The Good Old DaysWhen I was a kid, I used to play in the streets of the small neighbourhood in Athens where I grew up. We played lots of games like hide-and-seek or thieves and policemen. These games proved to be most beneficial for us kids as they involved a lot of physical exercise. Sometimes. they turned out to be quite addictive to such a degree that our mothers would start calling us to go back home because Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-56987180856284288182011-05-07T15:30:00.001+03:002011-05-07T15:49:18.245+03:00Choices
I know I have been away from blogging for a long time and some of you rightly thought I had probably given up My Blog. But for the encouragement of a few good friends, I would have abandoned it - not because I had nothing to say, but because I had practically no time to spend on blogging. Anastasia, who is not only a great contributor but also a wonderful friend, sent me an Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-3628039591750635742010-08-24T14:31:00.000+03:002010-08-24T14:31:45.888+03:00Nature Imitates Us
The human being is the being that has destroyed more his own environment, destroying himself second by second without even understanding the magnitude of that destruction, giving in this way the worst example to nature, that more each day imitates the behavior of its older Brother called Human.Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-49446175072276167012010-08-03T14:06:00.000+03:002010-08-03T14:06:13.272+03:00A Difficult Year
Sifnos
It's been a difficult year for me. Considering the recession and the hard times Greece has been through recently, I was too busy at work and most of the time travelling for business. I tried to spend my very limited free time with my children and I am very glad we spent together a great weekend in Sifnos - my favourite island. So there was practically no time left for my favourite Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-34499989987556769882010-07-06T09:43:00.014+03:002010-07-06T11:44:57.168+03:00The Summer Effect: Happy July
I'm afraid I'm not much of a contributor as I was quite unable to cover for Constantinos these last two months. As per usual, May and June were quite hectic at the school as I had to organise final reviews, prepare final exam papers, mark them and issue end-of-year reports. But now it's the time to forget about work, at least for the next two months.
July is here with all the happy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-79562557688659995882010-04-21T19:44:00.001+03:002010-04-21T19:50:38.326+03:00PassionIn dictionary.com, passion is described as any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate. So passion has both a negative and a positive aspect. It can be the driving force that makes you creative or successful but it can also be the destructive force that can ruin your life. Personally, I believe that passion has really nothing to do with romantic love unless it supplements to Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-46014043356294425492010-04-01T09:48:00.000+03:002010-04-01T09:48:36.727+03:00Some Good News and Reasons to be Thankful"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time"- Thomas Edison
The last few months have been quite exhausting both physically and mentally in my effort to save my company from bankruptcy after the severe economic crisis in Greece. The good news is that after many negotiations, the eurozone approved the loan for Greece and things are Constantinoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07025325298961852658noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521203307915290086.post-55627582749575836522010-03-25T15:45:00.005+02:002010-03-25T16:27:34.282+02:00The Greek Revolution - 25 March 1821
Happy Greek Independence Day! Xronia polla se olous tous Ellines.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0