Facts

My grandma used to make vodka (horilka) in her private house on a stove, my mom - at the gas stove in her flat, I buy branded horilka from supermarket.
1989 my parents could buy a car with their savings, in 1990 they bought 2 TV sets for the same money.
Web site of my University looks the same as in 1995.
Lviv (my city) has app. 2500 employees working in IT outsourcing companies.
In April I spent one day in the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan, next day in Amman I met a Ukrainian prostitute, 4th wive of a local driver.
I do not have nephews because of property prices in Kyiv.
To travel 600km to the West I need to travel twice 650km to the East to get a Shengen visa.
My best friend returned from New York from talks with the NYSE about floating shares of their company.
An employee of one Ukrainian association called me asking how to buy a flat in Brussels for not more than EUR 300K.
I am taking lunchbox to work.
My Columbian friend has just paid her student loan, my Ukrainian one - got second child and built a house, I am thinking about getting a mortgage.
It is not clear who was my granddad on father side.
First time I rode a horse was in Iceland. I was hearding sheep there also for the first time.
My first realized traineeship in Iceland was in IT company for an American student.
I do not know a single Ukrainian manager who is blogging.
Almost all my blogging friends from outside Ukraine are managers.
I have fundraised EUR 150 for Orange Revolution in 2004.
In November 2004, I was demonstrating for Orange Revolution next to Berlamount (Commission building in Brussels).
Summer of the same year I watched EURO Cup in the Irish bar nearby.
In 2005 I attended conference on ICT policies next door.
The only thing I know about new UN Secretary General is that he is from Korea.
An average management consultant I have met has never worked for one company more than 2 years.
I got a CV of a Ukrainian with excellent English whose current position is Executed Director.
An Australian friend of mine who works in London and speaks Swedish has just returned from a tenure in Afghanistan.
A Ukrainian friend of mine with who I went with to Jordan spoke mixture of Ukrainian, Russian, English and Dutch. I spoke mixture of Ukrainian, English, Russian with ocasional French and German. Neither of us spoke Arabic.
A Ukrainian PhD friend of mine working for a French research institute wrote an article about Chinese banking system.
3 Ukrainian friends (incl. me and 2 PhDs) meeting in Paris could not remember for 10 min how to say mint tea in Ukrainian.
Major advantage of a MBA is to get yourself emersed into international environment.
An average senior professor from a business school does not know how to login to a web service.
An average business school has a research center on Knowledge Management.
When European social system was created, pension age was equal to life expectancy.
Majority of French youth does not have a permanent contract.
A doctor from Ukraine came on his jeep to Germany to check health of his son.
Daily allowance for a patient of a Ukrainian hospital is EUR 2.
Ukraine has world's leading implantologists and cardiologists.
One needs to wait 3 hours on average to cross Polish-Ukrainian border.
Ukraine and Poland will host EURO 2012. My relatives refused to speak about Polish-Ukrainian events of 1943 in Volyn.
I got 90 GB of music on my external hard drive.
The most irritated I felt last year was when I could not find access to the Internet.
The most relieved I felt in last month was when I washed myself after swimming in the Dead See.
Several hundreds of new species were discovered in the depth of the Atlantic Ocean close to Antartics.
I got 50 friends on facebook within 3 days.