Illegal biking and a weird insect

Today I decided it was time… I absolutely HAD to go for a nice motorbike ride with my Vespa. I had to see what it was really able to unleash before I leave for Veneto on friday.

That’s right. Veneto Banca has confirmed me indefinetly which is great news.  I’m moving to find a new house on the 1st of August so it’s all gonna be hectic in these next few weeks.

Anyway back to the Vespa… I went for a long “stroll”, illegal may I add, showing it off to all my friends.. and riding it was the best feeling i’ve had in a long time. It’s as if I went back to when I was 6 years old in Friuli. He used to carry me around with this exact same vespa and I was the happiest kid in town. I just think it’s impossible to describe how riding this Vespa makes me feel. You’ll all just have to come down here and try it for yourselves!!!

Here are some photos of me once more riding in my garden:

I’ll have to bring the Vespa to Veneto in September but luckily the bank will pay for the big van i’m thinking of borrowing for a weekend.

I also washed my car which was in dire need! That’s when i heard a little noise coming from closeby. It sounded like a cricket. I looked towards the wall and there it was!!!! It was a pretty amazing insect, about 5cm long with long antennae. It also had a pincer tail and these little, hard wings that it flapped to make the cricket sound.

If anyone knows what the hell it is please let me know because i’m really interested and it doesn’t look like a cricket because they use their legs to make sound not those wings on its back… Cool find eh? Here it is:

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Weekly Wallpapers

Haven’t had any time at all to blog at all this week. It’s been pretty hectic as i’ve had to deal with my new job offer, which involves moving, finding a new house, signing a new contract, learning a new job… More of that later anyway when I know all the details myself eheh. Here are this week’s wallpapers!

This time, it’s going to be one for the fellas… I’m talking about 1950’s Pinup girls!!!!

Crazy Weather!!

I woke up this morning to a thunderstorm. During summer here in italy, it is common to have a few weeks of really hot weather and then BAM! a week of full on red alert thunderstorms.

I went to work as usual, but underestimated how wet rain really is, so i ended up soaked with my shoes making silly noises for the rest of the day.

The weather is stable now, at least no more thunders so my dog isn’t scared anymore.

Other than all that, i got told today that I am confirmed indefinetly at my new job, and that I will be starting in Treviso on the 17th of August. I got promoted by two levels too!

Real happy about everything at the moment!

Here’s an interesting few pictures i took coming back from work. This is a small port close to where i take the ferry boat on lake maggiore to get back home from work. It was full of debris that the storm took all the way into the lake. It looked like there was earth instead of water:

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Wallpaper Weekly

Here are a few snippets of some of my favourite wallpapers:

Zombie theme and Headphones:

Useful Treadmill

CHILD ZOMBIEEEEES!!!

No fun facts about these…

Quite a few things going on right now so i’ve been quite busy. Mostly because of my new job, and having to find a place to stay in, and also still not knowing when i’m actually starting… All i know is that I start in august!!!

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New Job Offer

It was friday, 4pm, and I was still at work. The office phone rang, and the man on the phone tells me he is the human resources director in Veneto Banca Holding. He tells me he wants to meet up with me for a chat as soon as possible!!

The blog followers already know that my contract ends on the 31st of July, so this was all great news for me.

On the plus side, I was going to go to Friuli anyway this weekend, so I just took monday off to go to this interview.

Upon reaching Veneto Banca Holding, I was pretty impressed by the size of the whole building:

There’s even a stone statue in the entrance hall haha!

I must say that I was quite impressed.

They are offering me a job but I really don’t know for sure what i’ll be doing exactly at the moment. It’s something quite specific involving how all the small banks that are part of the Veneto Banca Holding group work and being given projects, working on spreadsheets, creating budgets… it all sounds interesting and quite hard.

I haven’t signed anything official yet, but from what they told me in the interview, including (when would you like to start, because we’d like you to start right away), I think it’s pretty obvious. We decided it would be best for me to start on the 17th of August, which will give me some time to move my stuff and find an appartment.

All in all, I can’t wait to start my new job in this huge building, and also looking forward to finding my own new place to stay nearby.

So I guess this is where my career starts to lift off. Pretty important step in my life i believe.

Job aside, I really went to Friuli for another reason. It was Roberto’s (a longtime family friend of our’s) 60th birthday, and he had a big party in this beautiful Villa/restaurant. I got to see Luca (his son and my friend since i was 2 years old. Visit his italian Blog: http://www.ipernova.it ), Matteo (his older brother) and I also brought along Gloria, my girlfriend. We had a great time and it was great to remenisce old stories and catch up on new ones.

We also had a wonderful, fish based lunch.

What a fantastic weekend!! Now i have 3 weeks to get all my stuff sorted, friends to see for the last time, packing my stuff, and finding a new house!!!

Oh I almost forgot. I will also have my last ever concert with OSFA on the 25th of July. We will play our old songs/covers. It will be a sad moment for me. Will keep you updated with all that.

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Wallpaper Weekly and Finished Vespa

I’ve been a little sad this week, well, these last 2 days. Firstly because my job is boring me. Knowing that i’m probably not going to get confirmed at the end of the month makes me hate the job even more and makes me less bothered to actually do anything. Secondly because my tamagotchi died… yes he died, and he wasn’t even that beautiful! I took care of him real good, but apparently i’m a bad parentchi!

Back on topic, here’s my wallpaper(s) of the week:

I present you, DANBO!!!! He is a cardboard box robot!! I love danbo, and try to have as many wallpapers of him as possible.  He can show happyness, eeriness, sadness and any other kind of emotion by just standing there. Some of these are really well made.

Fun Danbo facts:

“This toy cardboard robot named Danbo was commissioned by Amazon Japan from Azuma Kiyohiko, the creator of the manga character Yotsuba-chan who lives with her adoptive work-at-home dad, and whose happy-go-lucky adventures are recounted in the popular serial, Yotsubato/Yotsuba&___. [You can read Chapter 28, Yotsuba to Danbo in English. Remember, it goes right to left.]” Source: http://tinyurl.com/l8fzap

enjoy 😀

A quick note also to say that my vespa has finally come home!!! I put pictures up on the usual forums (link is on the left coloumn of this website). But here’s a video of me driving it in the patio haha

Sunday Lake Maggiore Cycling Tour

I have recently decided, with my new workout plan, that by the end of the summer I want to be able to go round lake Maggiore once with my bike.

I’ve been cycling since I was small when my dad first bought me my very own racing bicycle.

This year i’ve been out quite a few times already doing 30-40 km cycling sessions. Usually i manage quite easily without feeling wrecked at the end, so I have decided to set a goal for myself.

This goal is going round the whole of lake Maggiore before the end of summer.

The lake’s perimeter is 160Km long. There’s a ferry that goes from point A to point B on the map below (it’s also the ferry I take every day to get to work).

This sunday, I decided to take on half the “Tour” to see if I can cope with the whole deal.

I went from Laveno ( point A) to Intra (point B) for a total of 70.1Km in 2hours 50 minutes.

It was a great cycle, and a great achievement (xbox360style) at the end when I managed to get there.

The last 5km were the worse. I probably looked like i was a zombie on a racing bicycle… must have been funny!

So in the end I had loads of fun, stopping at random bars along the way asking to refill my water bottle with tap water, but to be honest, 70km is quite a lot and I was really tired at the end. Next up is the northern half, which is about 90km, and if I manage that I think i’ll be content with what I have achieved.

I really do not think i can handle 160km in one session like i intended when I first thought of this. I’d be happy with completing the “tour” in two separate sessions like i’m doing now.

What a workout!

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