I am still alive !

Hi everybody !

If somebody was curious about me I am obliged to upset you - everything is all right with me, just nothing interesting has happen last month :)

Everything going as usual, I continue to train to the Tiberias Marathon for coming winter according to the training program I got from Jarred. Oops, I forgot to tell you it before ?

Yeah, each time I had finished the Haifa-Atlit-Haifa run along the beach I was thinking about myself able to do a real thing and run complete marathon distance ... and with the time the wishes transformed to something more realizable. Hopefully everything will go smoothly and you will be invited 10 January, 2008 to Kinneret to support me !

But now, when the marathon dream already realized itself, its place was taken by another dream, much crazier than previous one! Actually I am still in doubt but looks like it is only matter of time :)

What do you think about a sky diving ?

Actually I already decided that I don't like tandem jump only idea and now the question only if I will be able to find single jump course or will go for full AFF program. All the sky diving clubs I found here, in Israel, not allowing single jump courses for some reason. It looks like the services provided by all the clubs are pretty similar, the difference is only in club's location and course prices. For example you could look on one of the clubs at http://www.skykef.co.il/.

You are welcome to leave some comments (or sky diving experiences of you had some) to help me with my decision !

Department Event

Finally I managed to collect a pictures from Department event we had last week. So better later than never, here is a photo account of Intel MG Architecture Department event, July 29, 2007 !

Reminds some old good school days, isn't ?

We started the day with a track on Banias river, walking along the stream under the sun and looking for the best place to jump in.

Banias stream

Time to get wet !

After the track we continued to Kayaking. Kayaking of Kfar Blum is very well known route and for most of us it wasn't the first time doing it. I did exactly the same route about 4 years ago with army but it still was fun. Actually this time I even understood how to control the boat and make it sail in right direction :)

Unfortunatelly this time also nobody took pictures during the Kayaking (probably because of nobody wanted to stay on the shore with the camera instead of having fun).

You could find more pictures from Banias here.

Happy Tu B'Av !

Today Israel is celebrating the Tu B'Av day.

The Tu B'Av is the 15th day of month 'Av' and it is namely israeli 'Hag Ha'Ahava' or an israeli version of Valentines Day. Haifa celebrated Tu B'Av earlier this Thusday, the Moria st. between Kikar Sefer and Merkaz Horev was blocked, all the bars and restaurants were opened till midnight, it was rock concert till 22:00 and after disco club Luna organized dances.

So I am joining to the celebration and wish all of you Happy Tu B'Av !

Live, love and enjoy your love !

On the picture: Tu B'Av at Intel

Prepare to your pension !

Summer ... heavy sun ... hard work ... but Intel is a great place to work, even if it great place to work hard :)

Last Wednesday it was team event time for the Core Architecture team. The options were "Team building activities + Paintball Game" vs "Playing golf at Keysariya Golf Club". Unfortunatelly paintball lost in the voting so we will have to organize it sometimes on our own :)

At the beginning we had a short lecture about the game and a tour over the court which we used to have some fun racing the golf cars.

According to the guide you need not wait for the pension to begin playing golf, you have to prepare yourself to the pension and learn playing Golf now !

Because we are beginners we weren't allowed to play at the court and went to the training ground. And it turned out that playing golf is not so easy as you could imagine. It might take you a hour or two until you actually will be able to hit a ball correctly. So we had a lot of fun playing field hockey with golf balls and joking who is winning a competition of deepest hole on the ground :)

You could look for more pictures and comments from the event at my Zenfolio Gallery: http://nightman.zenfolio.com/

My Zenfolio Picture Gallery

Finally I managed to open Zenfolio gallery and currently work on selecting and uploading pictures from Jordan and Monfort.

You are welcome to visit: http://nightman.zenfolio.com/ and enjoy fine selection of hundreds of pictures we took !

Haifa Go Club Meetings

Haifa Go Club Meetings continue at usual place. The location is Mandarin in Moria st, every 1st and 3rd monday at 19:30. The average players ranks are between 10k and 3d.

The next meeting is tomorrow, 15th July.

Monfort Castle

Hi everybody, thank you for reading the weekly travelling newsletter again !

Today we went to the Monfort Castle located on the north of Nahariya a few kilometers from the Lebanon border. We were almost the same friends again - Julien, Michele, me and Leeor with his girlfriend Lilah. It is really great to have such a young company which is not afraid of climbing or hicking under heavy sun just to see some beautiful landscape :)

The Monfort Castle view from the valley:

And inside:

As you could see I really enjoyed the trip. So where are the pictures you would ask ?

Tomorrow hopefully I'll open a Zenfolio account and will upload there the best pictures I took today and last week in Jordan.

Stay in touch !