I'm tired. It's been 18 days since I left home and I've sort of forgotten what TheWife looks like. I have this deep longing to drive my car, watch a fun animated movie in my home theater, and I'm kind of craving a good New Haven pizza and, of all things, a Miller Lite (I have no idea why). I can't wait to just veg out on the couch for a few hours at home.
I'm in Paris right now. Had a long day of meetings and a conference, which was conducted in French. Clearly, I took away very little from this conference. However, due to my sharp, contextual reasoning, I was able to look at the French slides and glean certain things--PIB means GDP (I think), croissance means growth, and Europeans are flocking like mad to emerging markets, because suddenly, emerging markets don't look so risky compared to the Eurozone. So far this year, already $7 billion of net foreign funds have flown into the Indian markets, causing quite a huge rally these first two months of the year. For comparison, in all of 2011, India's net flows were negative $400MM, and the Indian markets were down nearly 30%. Clearly, foreign fund flows have a huge influence on Indian share prices.
Not much else to report. These last few weeks, I've decided I can no longer trudge through life being such an uneducated doofus. I have to learn Hindi so I can be able to get around in Bombay without much hassle. I still feel like an 8-year old child walking around the streets of India because of the communication barrier. Even in France, I am cut off at the knees. Merci, au revoir, and bonjour form the crux of my French vocab. Even if I want to try and get away with using Spanish here, my usage has degraded so completely that I can barely utter a basic sentence without serious issues. Thus, the Assault may soon transform into the Renaissance, a larger master plan to not only get fit, but get more well-rounded. I want to get to 175 (was 183 a couple days ago), I want to learn a new language, I want to pick up the violin again, I want to get back into playing soccer, I want to visit China and Indonesia, I want to read more books, fiction and non-fiction. That all starts now. Or, maybe tomorrow. I don't know. I'm sure this will pass once I get home and notice that I have 4 new Family Guy episodes on the DVR.
In other news, apparently the Saints are terrible people. And Duke sucks at basketball. I want to talk no further about either of these topics.
Au revoir, merci beaucoups!
I'm in Paris right now. Had a long day of meetings and a conference, which was conducted in French. Clearly, I took away very little from this conference. However, due to my sharp, contextual reasoning, I was able to look at the French slides and glean certain things--PIB means GDP (I think), croissance means growth, and Europeans are flocking like mad to emerging markets, because suddenly, emerging markets don't look so risky compared to the Eurozone. So far this year, already $7 billion of net foreign funds have flown into the Indian markets, causing quite a huge rally these first two months of the year. For comparison, in all of 2011, India's net flows were negative $400MM, and the Indian markets were down nearly 30%. Clearly, foreign fund flows have a huge influence on Indian share prices.
Not much else to report. These last few weeks, I've decided I can no longer trudge through life being such an uneducated doofus. I have to learn Hindi so I can be able to get around in Bombay without much hassle. I still feel like an 8-year old child walking around the streets of India because of the communication barrier. Even in France, I am cut off at the knees. Merci, au revoir, and bonjour form the crux of my French vocab. Even if I want to try and get away with using Spanish here, my usage has degraded so completely that I can barely utter a basic sentence without serious issues. Thus, the Assault may soon transform into the Renaissance, a larger master plan to not only get fit, but get more well-rounded. I want to get to 175 (was 183 a couple days ago), I want to learn a new language, I want to pick up the violin again, I want to get back into playing soccer, I want to visit China and Indonesia, I want to read more books, fiction and non-fiction. That all starts now. Or, maybe tomorrow. I don't know. I'm sure this will pass once I get home and notice that I have 4 new Family Guy episodes on the DVR.
In other news, apparently the Saints are terrible people. And Duke sucks at basketball. I want to talk no further about either of these topics.
Au revoir, merci beaucoups!
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