Strange things...

... that make us smile.

It may seem easy, but I bet they fell down many times before this!

Have a happy weekend you all!

Thoughts from the last two weeks...

The last two weeks I've been very busy with the MBA, and I did not have much time to blog. Now, that I finished the Summer Semester, I will have some time to catch up with my thoughts in the blog.

For now, I would like to just give my point of view and feelings about some stories that made headlines during the last days (and about others that didn't make headlines in any newspaper, but were immensely important to me).

• Galicia on Fire

How sad is witness the destruction of thousands of hectares of forest in your home country? I could do it through the newspapers, but my family had the horrible honor to live it in first person. Galicia is one of the most beautiful places in Spain. It is a green-land, or at least, it was... This summer, Galicia was on Fire!

Four people have died so far, and an uncertain number of hectares have gone up in smoke since the spate of fires began on August 4. According to Galicia Government (Xunta de Galicia) 77,000 hectares were eaten by flames; 86,500 is the European Commission estimation; and PPdG maintains that, according to a NASA satellite report, the figure grows up to 175,000. Whatever the real figure is, it is huge! Enormous extensions of forest will not be recovered until decades from now...

Although Galicia suffers from forest fires every year, this year's destruction has been described as "unprecedented" by local officials. Officials believe that many of the fires were started by arsonists (incendiaries) and 27 people have been arrested so far. My question is: What motivates these people to do this?

Again, no one has taken responsibility for this. Being accountable seems to be something that is not really important when you are a politician in Spain. Any of the government representatives so far (I am talking about PP, PSOE and the rest of democratic parties) has resigned. In my opinion, it is a shame!

• Middle-East Conflict

History repeats itself! The old wound is open again, the old feelings are exposed again, and the blood is running down the streets again.

I do not want to deepen in this issue right now, as I will probably come back to it in a couple of days.

• Weeding Anniversary

Last week was our second weeding anniversary. I will not say anything more than “I have the best husband in the world!!!”

Indra Nooyi, new Pepsi CEO

Ms. Noooyi finally made it to the top!

She joined Pepsi Co. in 1994, Ms. Nooyi started her career with The Boston Consulting Group, from where she moved on to hold senior management positions at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri. In Pepsi Co., she started as Senior VP of Strategic Planning, and in 2001 she was named President and CFO of the the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company.

She is highest-ranking Indian-born woman in corporate America. Nooyi has a degree in management from Yale. She attributes much of her success to her upbringing in India. "Being a woman, being foreign-born, you've got to be smarter than anyone else," says Nooyi, who honors her heritage by often attending PepsiCo events wearing a sari.

Nooyi also serves on numerous boards, including Motorola and New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

She was named on the Wall Street Journal's list of 50 women to watch in 2005, and one of the Most Powerfull Women in the World by Forbes.

She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Raj, and their two daughters.

"From the land of idli-sambar to land of dreams, Indra Nooyi has come a long way to prove herself. "

Sources: Wall Street Journal, Daiji World, Wikipedia