IN MY OPINION » Nature

Sonopia picnic on the Kiev Sea

Andrew — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:17:59 +0000

Last Saturday we had a picnic with co-workers from Sonopia. It was my first time when I was on the Kiev Sea, moreover it was opening of the swimming season for me. There were lost of sports activity, delicious meals (especially grilled meat) and social chatting.
The most thing I liked at that day, that there were no any commandments from anybody, and people were relaxed and were doing things they liked. At the same time, It seems that everybody was involved almost in at least couple of activities like playing football, swimming or supporting the campfire. Excellent rest for the excellent team

Morning trip to watch the sunrise

Andrew — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:06:29 +0000

There are lots of bikers in Kiev, and most of them are communication through the local bike forum. Amongst of topics about bike equipment and maintenance techniques there are topics where bikers can arrange joint bike journey. The journey can be long or short, cross-country or in the local park. Somebody takes responsibility to set the route and timeline and invites other bikers to take part.
I found there a very interesting and unusual early morning journey and recently took part in it. The trip starts at 4.30AM every Thursday and takes about 24km with one stop near the river to watch the sunrise, then eat some snack and drink tea. The one-way route without way to home is here. The average speed was about 17 kmh which is quite hight for the cross-country.
I’d like to thank everybody who was patient to me as a newbie and didn’t steam ahead. Some photos from the trip are here.

Urban hedgehog

Andrew — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:32:29 +0000

It was a great day today. Before the May holidays, almost all of our employees took a short vocations and were absent today in the office. Only some of us (real geeks), were working today instead on the next Monday to join it with other days off. The office was empty and silent. I hadn’t seen so productive atmosphere before, and it made me extremely enthusiastic. I’ve done a lot of important refactoring of the core API today. This significant changes had been delayed for a long time, and today I decided to perform it during a day. I thoroughly planned all changes step by step: classes, database, file storage, tests. Of course, I underestimated a necessary time, so I had to work without a lunch and left the office at 9.30pm. But after I committed everything to the SVN, and our Cruisecontrol eventually build it, I overcame with joy.
When I was walking down the Pecherskiy Uzviz street towards an underground station, I met a cute animal. It was a little hedgehog approaching the nearest bushes near the local school yard. I confidently and quickly took out my photo camera from the backpack and
took a picture. It was so sweet