Made it to the Top10 Best of Blogging Applicants!

My blog is named 6th in the Best of Blogging competition! Many-many thanks for everyone who voted for me and to ClearAdmit for organizing the competition!
It was a great opportunity to vote for the blogs I love, and I am glad that my voice counted.
Congratulations to Angel Angie and Rungee!!! You both got the well deserved awards for great blogs and effort you put in them!
Angie, thanks a lot for offering the Room Of Inspiration! I appreciate that ;)

Happy@Work

I've been silent for quite a time being on a wonderful holiday in Spain (promise to post some photos later). But now I'm back to my drafts and applications... and there was a wonderful advice waiting for me at my favourite Happy@Work blog: Top 10 tips for productive, creative, fun writing.
Alex, the author of the blog, is writing his 'Happy at work' book. In fact, he is nearly done (spent just 20 days on it)! So I couldn't leave my fellow MBA applicants without his advice.

I love this blog and would recommend it to anyone who believes that 'work' is other than 'make tons of money and go'. Some random postings I'd share:

• Learn to say "No" to your customers
• The strongest force in business
• Jerks at work
• Why having world's highest taxes is a good thing

And for fun:

• Friday weirdness

Quote:

• Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is
  a different gender than you are)
• Wear a hands free phone headset throughout once in a while drift off into an unrelated conversation, such as: ‘I don’t care if there are no dwarfs, just get the show done!’

• Test for MBAs: What's your negotiation style?

My tur... no - tag! now :)

Thanks for Angie and RSR and Moe for this tag! Wow, what a tag :))

I'm still waiting for my Oxford interview and preparing for a businesss trip, why not write something?
I wanted to write a post about reapplication to LBS, but found out that I don't have anything to write about: if you reapply the following year, you have to submit again one application and the whole set of essays, but the School doesn't ask you for transcripts and recommendations. In two years time you're a brand new guy (gal) and you have to submit every single thing again. Short post that would be, isn't it? :)
But I digress! I wanted to write all those 4-letter-wor... or no, 4-things-whatever. Let's start.

Four jobs I've had in my life:

• Ballet dancer
• Secretary
• Programmer
• Sales manager

Four movies I can watch over and over:

• Love actually
• Insterstate-60
• Die Hard (1,2,3) - will that go as one movie? ;)
• Run, Lola, run

I'd better stop right now and not mention "Italian Job", "Some Like it Hot", "Dogma", "Ocean's eleven", "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels", "Crocodile Dundee", "Ice Age", "Matrix", "True Lies", "Hitch", otherwise you'll consider me a film fan which I am not.

Four places I have lived:

• Arhangelsk, RU
• Kaliningrad, RU
• SaintPetersburg, RU
• Moscow, RU

And these are not my home towns! ;)

Four TV shows I love to watch:

• Friends

well... I don't have a TV thus I don't watch shows. Cartoons from childhood count? Then...

• Disney series on Fridays
• Macron-I
• Star Sheriffs :)

Four places I have been on vacation:

• UK
• Czechia
• Lithuania
• Turkey

Four of my favourite dishes:

• Pasta
• Pizza
• Potatoes (fried, baked, boiled, any kind of)
• Roasted meat

Four websites I visit daily:

• My project (that's 1 website and 2 forums)
• My mail
• Forum "Rupoint in UK"
• EAtlas map

Four places I would rather be right now:

• London, UK
• Rome, Italy
• Dublin, Ireland
• somewhere on the south coast... I should have put this first if it was not for London!

Four bloggers I am tagging:

• Al - he's been tagged, but not responded ;), so one more label!
• Karibu with his new job
• Guillaume in L.A.
• Mave who has disappered in the R2 rush. Come back!