The Divine Miss N

CPM is everywhere!

Outside the Windsor Castle tonight, having a drink on the picknick benches, when I saw this sign... CPM (LBS MBA elective Creativity and Personal Mastery that I'm taking right now) is everywhere :-)

Holiday

Even this over-zealous MBA student needs a break from the MBA every now and again and what better way than to celebrate a mini-one-day holiday in my own lovely London? I woke up, pottered around for a bit, then headed over to the V&A to check out their Surrealism exhibit, which I liked after a rocky start. Once you walk in, you're plunged headfirst into surrealism, and for someone like me who only really knew Dali and Magritte a little, it was a bit confusing. I decided to lean into it though, instead of getting frustrated and I ended up enjoying the exhibit a lot especially the furniture and ballet sections.

After buying some postcards (I have a thing for museumshops and the one at the V&A is one of the best and most imaginative I've seen) I headed over to Harrods, tourist destination extraordinaire. Their foodhalls are some of the best in London, and I got some lunch, wandered into Hyde Park and had a lovely picknick. Read John Maeda's Laws of Simplicity which I enjoyed tremendously (read it if you're interested in design, you won't regret it), worked on my tan, and then headed over to Oxford Street to check out Primark. Ever since it opened a little while ago, there's been a lot of hooha about it and I wanted to see it for myself. Oh my word. It's definitely a retail phenomenon, even though it isn't my taste. It was interesting to see people drag baskets of clothes around as if they were giving them away for free and most weirdly: there was an endless line in front of the changing rooms, with dresses for £8, I would take a gamble and not wait 30 minutes in line to try it on I guess...

Tomorrow it's back to MBA reality with the kick off of the class gift campaign, CPM class and yearbook preparations.

Face of Fashion

Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. It was good. Not mind-blowingingly awesome, but pretty good and well worth the effort.

[edit: So I thought about this exhibit some more. There were a lot more women than men visiting the exhibit. Is it art or advertising? Or both? This was my favourite photographer. But I also like this guy's photos a lot. The National Portrait Gallery rocks. Listen to the exhibit here. If you want to see it, hurry, Face of Fashion closes May 28th.]

This could very well be

the second nicest cheesecake I've ever had (it's the swiss mountain one, available here, made by this company). The best is still my mum's. Nothing beats her cheesecake. Or appeltaart (Dutch apple pie).

The student ambassadors were treated to dinner last night by the admissions office. Admits Weekend 2007 is coming up fast and we're getting ready to receive the MBA2009 class on campus on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd: the first year student ambassadors and the admissions office are running around like mad trying to get everything organized, this year I'm taking a back seat in organizing, although I'll definitely be there on the weekend itself (come up and say hi if you're coming!) running around like a headless chicken.

In the meantime I'm still working hard on my 2YP, it's kinda coming together now, later than I'd hoped, but better late than never. Special mention goes out to my very good friend H who helped me with the model, without you I'd still be stuck :-)

Not there yet

Unlike my friend Al, I'm not there yet (congrats, Al!). But getting there. And enjoying the 2YP ride.

Aaaah this is the good life!

The quad at LBS today. Life is good.

Now this is a good motto to live by

Oh, mr G, nice sunglasses!

My mug

I have a thing for mugs. The bigger, the better (although the top limit for comfortable drinking seems to be about 500 mls, above that my tea gets too cold). This is my latest addition to the collection. Contrary to what it says on the outside, it's mainly used for tea.