tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:55:07 +0000A blog about a gay MBA student and his perils...http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)Blogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-5759564368673394815Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:39:00 +00002009-02-11T13:50:37.437-08:00I went for an HIV test yesterday. It was almost three months since I last made love to someone and after three months of total celibacy I wanted to check that I was ok, that the lies I had been told had not extended to that part of my life too. Turns out I am HIV negative and can now breathe a sigh of relief. "I am ok, I am good" I kept on repeating myself on the drive back home last night. What http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2009/02/where-i-am-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-718333084037519126Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:39:00 +00002009-02-09T09:52:28.250-08:00A weekend in Las Vegas - gamble, drink, sex, food. You get the idea right? So when my friend's birthday comes up and the offer of a Las Vegas weekend materializes, I take it with both ends thinking that I would at least get a chance to see what Las Vegas is all about if not join in the sin!My bottom line on Las Vegas? I did not enjoy it. Maybe because it's connected too closely to people and http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2009/02/living-las-vegas-or-should-it-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-9184132034736280303Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:50:00 +00002009-01-26T10:01:12.275-08:00Hello audience and especially TrueBeijing,I wanted first of all to thank you for reading my blog. I know that most of you know me, but some know me only through these pages - the guy at Beauchamp Financials, Dong now at Purdue, and True Beijing are just some of the most regular visitors. I appreciate your interest and wonder what makes this read so interesting to you. I hope it's because what I http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/for-truebeijing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-8575693637629971838Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:11:00 +00002009-01-21T14:30:52.940-08:00Hello 2009 and to you all readers of my blog!I surely hope that this is going to be a smasher of a year! A 2009 in which we all get in touch with our deepest desires and fears. Sounds challenging? Sure! But should we not truly live what we only dream of and quash all those demons once and for all? OK!! I know I am exaggerating -fulfilling all of your dreams is near impossible, but how about http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-it-feels-like-to-be-in-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-3837833156709362305Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:05:00 +00002008-12-29T09:14:00.814-08:00A new year in AZ was not in my predictions. I was supposed to be in San Diego first and then back to Denver. Well that was in the "DD" (During Dave) season which is now over.I am now off to Sunrise (an Arizona ski resort) for NYE and in good company. I will be there with Laurence and Cindy and Cal. Cal is this 41 yo guy I have started to see lately. He claims that he is absolutely determined he http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-new-sunrise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-1400159647538704468Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:01:00 +00002008-12-15T08:06:19.608-08:00Since my life has changed so much in the past few weeks, I wanted to give you an update on what my plans are for Christmas. And the good news is that I will spend it with people I love and that love me back. I am planning in fact to be with my friend Dion and his family. It's a good thing. I spent my thanksgiving with them last year and it was great - a feast of lamb, turkey, pumpkin pie, http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/unexpected-christmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-6599057038968238705Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:22:00 +00002008-12-08T18:29:43.483-08:00So I am single again - I think you all know by now. It was my choice and so I cannot complain. I just wish I did not have to go through the whole process of rejecting advances and say no to the usual suspects who could not wait for me to be single again.Two guys especially...boy are just driving me insane with their requests for coffees masked under the pretense of wanting to be my friends. I http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/life-as-single-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-922878043547777438Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +00002008-12-06T12:10:23.151-08:00Ok so,many of you have asked me not to clise this thing off. So many in fact that I had no idea were actually reading this. So thank you especially to Drew in Michigan, Dong of course and also Pam in South Carolina! Why do you people read my blog is a mistery to me.Anyway I have just come back from Seattle - I was there on business and I turned my attention to a new American phenomenon - http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/popular-demand-and-more-chapters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-6083963495618391557Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +00002008-11-26T09:11:11.763-08:00With my MBA well and truly over, I see no reason to keep this going. I will though write some final words for those of you who have asked me for an update in the past few weeks.First and foremost it's amazing what a difference 3 months make. I was in Italy and London and seemed set on a course in life which is now radically changed.My relationship with Dave is over - it's incredible to find that http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-last-post-before-i-close-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-1771011936328996136Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:48:00 +00002008-08-25T12:27:17.896-07:00I am sure you all recognize me from the flag ceremony and needless to say I now feel a profound sense of shame at what I said, but I am proud to say that I am Italian and I think the first Italian to receive this award.No seriously I am Italian. I was born and raised in Calabria, Italy, despite this really stupid accent that makes people believe I am a deluded psychopath pretending to be Prince http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-graduation-speech.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-3296982359841870904Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:21:00 +00002008-08-17T17:28:37.014-07:00It truly is imminent. This coming Friday my whole MBA experience will be over. The graduation ceremony: a flash of people, diplomas, gowns and then hopefully silence. This will be the first time that I will have had since last August in which to take stock and look at the future. And the challenge will be having an answer ready for all of you - "so what are you going to do next?", "do you plan tohttp://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/imminent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-7895920667575173176Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:16:00 +00002008-08-14T23:34:06.164-07:00Just a few days to go before I finish my MBA and the 22nd of August will see my graduation...and an unusual post for you to ponder.BKY is not a new fast food chain in America, but rather the the acronym for Barton Kyle Yount, the general, who in 1946 founded Thunderbird. The spirit of Thunderbird is summed up by the motto "borders frequented by trade, seldom need soldiers". The school was http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/bky.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-5146627619644917366Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:58:00 +00002008-08-07T18:07:11.575-07:00I will be graduating in two weeks and it seems like a lifetime since I have left London. I will be coming back just a year later but with a new life ahead of me. It's exciting and scary at once. Packing things up for good and opening the doors to a new life. In the process I have gained a new boss - he is so great! He is from Wales and has already twice told me to buggeroff and pissoff! It's all http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/buggeroff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-2824003051038092586Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:23:00 +00002008-08-04T14:32:19.905-07:00As we are weeding the tomatoes, Dave reminds me to be careful. "Dennise says that there is a snattle rake in between the rocks". I am amazed at the amount of wildlife that is all around big American cities. Here in Phoenix there are coyotes at the border of the city. Same story in Denver in addition to mountain lions, rattle snakes and prairie dogs. Prairie dogs are really funny - they live in a http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/wildlife-and-salsa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-8002548891398180091Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:12:00 +00002008-07-31T22:30:04.711-07:00Ok before I go too further into explaining my torrid affair with America, let me tell you one thing that has really caught my attention. It's American football.Now that I have played rugby I can definitely say that it's somewhat of a meak kind of sport. You get all that gear to protect you from the hits and it really seems not so much hard work...I know, I know...I understand that it might seem http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/cowboys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-8295136437502306759Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:58:00 +00002008-07-31T15:53:31.923-07:00I am looking at my classmates in disbelief when my Professor of Global Strategy asks if I can be a sweetie and go and write on the board. "I like your writing and you are so tall and look pretty by my side" is all I can hear as I am asked to step out of my chair and take my place next to the whiteboard. I guess I have turned into the academic version of a "valletto" - an Italian Game Show http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/clear-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-8998205088509352947Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:46:00 +00002008-07-29T12:51:11.474-07:00I have contacted a bunch of you to say that I will be in town in September. I am not sure I have all of you on my email list so if you are reading this for the first time don't be offended and complain to google instead who keeps on deleting my address book...On a slightly different note, a guy at work just told me I have ethereal velcro ... I will leave to your imagination what the velcro is http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/velcro.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-5637016329475054486Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:54:00 +00002008-07-31T15:54:07.962-07:00A quick post to tell you about my weekend in Colorado. It all started with a very unfortunate incident with the TSA - two of them took issue with me looking Iraqi. From then on though it was all mighty exceptional. Dave and I went up to Pike National Forest and camped with some of his friends very close to South Park - the city of the famous cartoon series.We found a secluded campsite that http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/bizarre-mix-of-picture-postcard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-7328433497039504842Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:12:00 +00002008-07-30T15:01:01.339-07:00Yep,camping the real deal - up in the mountains in Colorado - away from everything with just a few other people and a fire at night. Will report on my experience next week.PP.S. Thanks Jamie for coming round so late and offer your book of hikes in Colorado.http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/camping.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-172151511326985900Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:38:00 +00002008-07-09T13:53:53.073-07:00last weekend independence day: kids jumping off red rocks into the creek, coolers packed with beers and food, the smell of barbequeing marinated steaks, our Hummer leaving a trail of red dust as we fishtail yetanother tightcornerwhilst a crazy blondeladyblabbersdownthemicrophone u n t i l the sky is huge and full of stars, we are holding hands in the dark, the quavering howl of a coyote, a http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/weekend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-4653680065309379875Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:01:00 +00002008-06-28T15:08:31.696-07:00Hello again,I forgot to mention over the past few weeks that I have become a featured contributor to the Harvard Business Review online. Hope you are all proud of me. Click on the title or cut and paste the link below to check it out.T'pantshttp://www.hbrgreen.org/2008/04/should_managers_have_a_green_h.htmlhttp://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/hbr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-3283878770333760251Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:59:00 +00002008-06-30T12:52:53.326-07:00Hey y'all!I think it's somewhat peculiar to hear people say "y'all"...first culprit my friend Kelly from Missouri. She is GRAND and I am really grateful for her support over the past few weeks - what with all the studying and working and the exams! I now work 20 hours a week and taking 15 credits. And seeing Dave most weekends.On Thursday Dave and I will be scooting off to Sedona. Bronwen knows http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/introduction-to-sedona.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-300999815358446569Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:45:00 +00002008-06-29T15:23:39.165-07:00And my school days will soon be over. I FINALLY got myself on track and here I am writing another page for all of you. I know it's been forever and I am sure you all hate me for keeping you in the dark. Let's then get down to business and tell you what's going on:1. Love life...errhh...2. Job front ...mmmhm...3. Social life .....uh??ONLY KIDDING!!!All is going well though it really feels sometimehttp://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/middle-of-trimester.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-7834380726649630696Tue, 20 May 2008 03:01:00 +00002008-06-27T16:58:20.224-07:00Here I am at Denver airport on my way back to Phoenix after a week spent with Dave. My flight ready at the gate - a brisk affair of people going back home and the spottiest and stinkiest teenager sitting (looks dead to me) next to me. Unusual situation to rekindle my connection with those of you who are reading.I have written so little over the past few months and I know that Dong is quite upset http://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-trimester-starts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5430661061612049747.post-5676968924123821988Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:23:00 +00002008-06-27T16:43:03.172-07:00"A distinguishing feature of rural America in the year 2000 . . . will be towers containing television scanners to keep an eye on robot tractors. The owner of the farm of the future will no more be out riding a tractor than the president of General Motors is out today on the assembly line, tightening bolts," "I am anxious to see the time come when grass will only grow to a certain height and stayhttp://thunderworld.blogspot.com/2008/04/america-in-year-2000.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Thunderpants)0