pinboard2
marker  User Functions
marker  Categories
marker  Archives
marker  Syndication
marker  Search
Pimousse
Quid Home Sweet Home?

CSR: fact or fiction ?
01.11.06

Pour ceux que ça intéresse. Mémoire dispo sur demande à partir de Mai 2007.

In today's post-Enron environment, ethics has certainly become a trendy concept. Every wrong move by a corporation is magnified and sometimes distorted either by the media or academics. Whether it is about environment, health or safety, consumers, shareholders and employees now question the behaviour of multinational companies. The reason is, according to the public opinion, the multinational companies would be the main actors and beneficiaries of a globalisation of which they do not carry the consequences. Under these circumstances, they are asked to play a greater role in the social sphere: time has come to ‘globalise the social progress’. Facing the growing expectations of the ‘citizen-consumers’ - more aware than ever of the damages of an hazardous globalisation -, corporations all claim motivations that outperform the profit: they seek to be ‘responsible’, even ‘moral’. ‘Companies of the 21st century will be ethical or will not be’ ...

=> Lire la suite!

Posted by pimousse at 13:29:05 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne


Toujours d'actualité
01.11.06

Marrant – voilà des lignes que j’avais mis de côté pour le blog & que j ‘ai retrouvé ce week-end en faisant le nettoyage de printemps d’hiver de mon PC.

30 Juin 2006
Souvenirs ? Souvenirs !

1 an déjà. Il y a exactement 1 an je posais mes bagages sur le sol suisse. Je me tenais pareil, en bas de chez moi a 4 heures du mat en train de fumer une clope, à me demander qu’est-ce que j’étais donc bien venue faire dans ce pays. 1 an après, rien n’a changé, juste en plus tout plein de souvenirs dans un coin de la tête…

PS: Putain, j 'ai encore des potes qui croient que (1) Genève est la capitale de la Suisse (2) que j'habite toujours à Genève (3) qui n'ont pas la moindre idée de ou est Lausanne (4) et qui ont encore moins l 'intention d'y venir me voir. La loose ! I knew it: j'aurais du habiter à HK.

Posted by pimousse at 13:20:10 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne, Humeur


Tell me a story about
19.10.06

...the dark side of Switzerland. Malheureusement, cela traduit bien ce qu'on peut parfois ressentir en tant qu'expat en Suisse.

Welcome to Switzerland !
Welcome to Switzerland !

Welcome to Switzerland ! 2
Welcome to Switzerland ! 2
Welcome to Switzerland ! 3
Welcome to Switzerland ! 3

Moralite...
Moralite...
Posted by pimousse at 13:13:45 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne, Tell me a story about


Nick Hornby – 31 songs (p. 9)
22.08.06

But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are, perfectly. And they don’t do this in words or images, necessarily: the connection is a lot less direct and more complicated than that.

It’s a process something like falling in love. You don’t necessarily choose the best person, or the wisest, or the most beautiful; there’s something else going on.

Posted by pimousse at 13:23:33 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne, Z - Me & Co, Playlist


21.08.06
OrangeCinema Open-Air
OrangeCinema Open-Air
Imaginez: le lac, le coucher du soleil, une glace, un ecran geant...Orange l'a imagine et propose un cinema open air dans les principales villes de suisse romande et ce pendant tout l'ete. Juste le pied.
Posted by pimousse at 13:35:48 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne


Tell me a story about
21.08.06
Bin made in Italy
Bin made in Italy
...Bins. Comme quoi, des fois, ca sert de lire des revues telles que Construction Europe ( Cf cet article.
Posted by pimousse at 12:19:57 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne, Tell me a story about


L'ICN vu...
10.08.06

...par l'ICN. A hurler de rire.

PS: Et un autre pour le fun.

Posted by pimousse at 18:44:31 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne


Sunday Bloody Sunday
08.08.06
Yeah man !
Yeah man !
Que faire un Dimanche d'Aout, quand il pleut et que l'eau est a peine 10 degres. Du canyoning of course ! Au programme: quelques sauts (8 metres !!!), des toboggans, ainsi que'une tyrolienne absolument terrifiante sur une chute d'eau. La preuve en images...Le tout suivi d'une ballade a cheval de l'autre côté de la Suisse & d'une heure d'initiation a la boxe thailandaise. De retour sur Lausanne dans la soirée absolument dead. Bref, le genre de Dimanche qui me rappelle pourquoi j'adore la Suisse (exception faite de leur administration a la con).
Tyrolienne
Tyrolienne
Posted by pimousse at 14:29:59 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne


Holiday Holidays
04.08.06

Lu sur le blog de Aittouati: 'Quitter Paris pour une petite escapade au soleil, pour se régénérer : faire le plein de soleil, de chaleur et de bonne humeur ! Voilà une idée qui fait envie, n’est-ce pas ?'

Horse-watering
Horse-watering
Oui, defnitivement ! Pour me remettre de ces derniers mois (demissioner de job, demenager,ect...) & apres 5 semaines dans le nouveau job, direction la Tunisie pour 1 semaine de farnienete ! Des vacances qui seront sans doute plus reposantes que le trek a cheval en Haute-Provence du mois de Juin (Plus d'info).

Anyway, away a partir du 12 Aout...

Posted by pimousse at 18:09:23 into the following categories: Switzerland, Lausanne


Vis ma vie
22.06.06

6am: Clock's on...Mmmmh joie&bonheur
7am: In the train, half awake, a coffee in one hand, Gourmet P&L's on the other one
10-12am: 2-hours interview at Nestle Purina PetCare Europe (NPPE pour les intimes)
2pm: Back in Geneva...Smoke !!!!
2.15pm - 4.30pm: Creative agency briefing for 2 NPI
5pm: Blocked time to prepare 2 interviews the day after ( Electronic Arts & TAG Heuer)
6.45: Refuse HP's offer
7pm: Horse-riding
9pm: Find a place to get drunk

Et rebelotte les jours qui viennent.

Bref, tout ca pour dire que ma companie m'a (finalement) proposé un temporaire jusqu'a la fin de l'année, que j'ai mis en hold jusqu'a Vendredi, date a laquelle Nestle est cense me donne leur reponse...Fingers crossed. Pour sur, ma fin d'annee sera suisse.

Posted by pimousse at 22:02:15 into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva


Lego party
14.05.06

Some days, everything just seems to go wrong. That kind of days when you keep repeating yourself you've better stayed in bed. News come one after another and just make you feel worst & worst. Life is slipping away & it seems to have no end. That kind of days when butterfflies in your stomach remind you it is really a f*** 'loose' day.

And then, out of a sudden, destiny shows up, smiles to you and winks and after a drink, brings you all solutions on a plate. Everything just seems to synchronize. Everthing just becomes crystal clear.

I like when life is as simple as a lego.

To bookmark on my agenda: June, 1 2006 where I'll know if I stay in Geneva & in which company.

Posted by pimousse at 15:01:05 into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva


Pipotron
14.05.06

Toujours utile: Pipotron.

Posted by pimousse at 14:45:36 into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva


What’s next ?
31/03/06

The world is never the same.
Always comes a time to say goodbye.
Goodbye to people we thought they would never abandon us,
Goodbye to what we took for granted.

When the familiar is deported,
And the unfamiliar comes around,
All that we can do is to say Hello....and Welcome ?

PS: Some much shit’s going on that I wouldn’t know where to start with.

Posted by pimousse at 09:47:56 am into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva, Humeur


“Today’s work, Tomorrow’s world” ?
31/03/06

Reality is
... I belong to a wealthy majority - as any white catholicist more or less educated person
... I belong to a potentially discriminated group – as any woman
... I work for a company whose credo ‘Values in action” (i.e Excellence, Integrity, Teamwork..) is pure fiction – as in any US firm
... I was not considered for a position based on my nationality – as a French & non-local person for a swiss & local payroll
... I can do everything but nothing about it – as any expat in Switzerland in a US company
... I got deeply screwed by XXX
... I have 4 months left for payback in a way or another.

Welcome to the real world. Meanwhile, I’m in rage.

Posted by pimousse at 09:46:37 am into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva


And now ?
07/03/06

I am listening to the radio, all the music that is on and every song they’re playing is about that love that’s gone. A wise man wrote what isn't there is what you want to find. So now I'll have to find myself so that I won't lose my mind. I actually thought you would relieve my pain by drawing myself into you. Fool...Is there any trick to get over it ?

The story tells that one day, I will wake up and it would look like a bad dream. Time sweet heart, you (all) say, time will make it happen. Well, time better hurrys up its ass ‘cause I'm counting the days.

Posted by pimousse at 10:22:44 pm into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva, Humeur


Break up
07/03/06

This song worth more than a tousands of words...

sometimes i go walkin through fields
where we walked
long ago in the sweet used-to-be
and the flowers still grow
but they don't smell as sweet
as they did when you picked them for me
and when i think of you
and the love we once knew
how i wish we could go back in time
do you ever think back on old mem'ries like that
or do i ever cross your mind

do you ever wake up lonely
in the middle of the night
because you miss me,do you darlin
oh and do your mem'ries ever take you back
into another place and time
and do you ever miss the feelings and the love
we shared when you were with me,do you darlin
i just wonder do i ever cross your mind

oh how often i wish that again i could kiss
your sweet lips like i did long ago
how often i long for those two lovin arms
that once held me so gentle and so close

and when i think of you and the love we once knew
how i wish we could go back in time
do you ever recall these old mem'ries at all
or do i ever cross your mind

(Joan Osborne, Do I Ever Cross Your Mind )

Posted by pimousse at 10:17:52 pm into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva, Humeur, Playlist


Revival ?
07/03/06

No, no...my blog is not dead, neither am I. From now on, thanks for subscribing, then drop me an e-mail for me to grant the access.

See ya around my blog !

Posted by pimousse at 10:15:03 pm into the following categories: Blogland


Men Dance while Girls laugh
10.01.06

You, guys, just never know what you want. You're just worst than girly girls, with your steps forward and your steps backward, your need for definitions, borders and gateways. You keep moonwalking while we already know what you're up to.

Posted by pimousse at 15:57:21 into the following categories: Switzerland, Geneva, Humeur


marker  Links
marker  Credits