Konstantin’s Weblog

Okay, the fact that I’m seeing these posters can only mean one thing. There has been a rift in the space time continuum and we are in fact now in the year 2001. This movie was bad when it was originally released and so no one would bother remaking it especially this soon. Therefore, the [...]

So I was working at the library yesterday like I do every Friday, when my boss asked me if I wanted a lacquer Russian vodka set. Naturally I said yes even though there is really nothing that I can do with it. However, it is kind of cool and clearly hand made since there are [...]

This is an interesting feature that I hope will work this time. I am always stuck in line somewhere so it would be really nice to be able to do a little blogging. Once I get the hang of this I might actually use my blog a little more often.

The other night I organized a little night on the town for a bunch of the people in my program at a couple of bars on the lower east side. I picked an awesome fondue restaurant called “The Bourgeois Pig” and a place called the “KGB Bar.” If you know me then you probably understand [...]

What is this linguistic abomination? On my walk through Saks Fifth Avenue (a mistake in itself since I can’t afford nor have the desire to afford most things in that store) I noticed their strange new slogan which was plastered everywhere. They decided to take Cyrillic letters and present them as English one to spell [...]

This is something that I went to through the Columbia World Leaders Forum. It was a panel discussion of sorts between a group of select students, CU president Lee Bollinger, and Suzanne Malveaux who is CNN’s current White House correspondent. While I am certainly not a fan of CNN, I must admit that it was [...]

It took me forever to finally go check this place out but I can honestly tell you that it is worth the trip. McNulty’s is a tiny tea shop on Christopher Street that has been there for ages. They sell amazing loose-leaf tea of all sorts and flavors. I managed to find myself some very [...]

These are things that you really don’t think about or that you never see happen. However, once in a little while we get a small sliver of drama in our lives. Mine happened last week when I witnessed a fire in a building only two doors down from mine. Needless to say, a fire in [...]

About a week ago, I had the pleasure of participating in a simulation to one of my energy and corporate responsibility class. The idea was basically to represent the realities of negotiating a major oil deal in an unstable African country. There were two companies arguing for a contract, six or seven NGO’s lobbying for [...]

Recently, we had the pleasure of having Krzysztof Zanussi come talk to us. He was actually a really surprising character since he is fairly well versed in diplomacy and a very famous director as well. He spoke to us before the screening of his film “Persona Non Grata” which was actually pretty good for the [...]