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The ideal woman project

Ideal woman Alan Gallicchio

flyer – click & share now!

As of today, I am officially starting to divulgate both digital and physical version of the flyer related to my unstoppable search for my ideal lover. To celebrate the arrival of n. 2.500 copies of the ad at my door, I am writing this news in the hope of furtherly promote my initiative on the net.
These days stocks are falling, workload is heavy, cost of life is skyrocketing… crime, wars, natural disasters, but I’ll keep my project running no matter what.
Please, help me spreading the voice by sharing this photo containing the basic divulgation; you could do it because you feel pity for me, because you support my dream or simply because you might want to get your hands on the 5.000 euro Im offering as a reward for your effort. In any case just do it.
Im not going to make any introductory note as the project is already speaking for itslef, anyhow make sure you check out the offical website idealwoman.info so that you may realize that one of your friends could be the one im looking for.

My certificate of Copyright registration

On a rainy evening of January 2008, (according to my best guess, the 29th), during my stay in Singapore, I filled the application form to claim the authorship of my website’s content at the US Copyright Office of Washington, sent a payment of about 45$ and went through some acceptable bureaucracy to finally get a confirmation e-mail that my application was received and that it would have been reviewed and processed soon. Well, that soon has been almost 4 years, because today, they’ve finally mailed me the certificate print…
The reasons behind my registration are personal, however Im celebrating by posting this for my own pride and hanging the certificate on my bedroom’s wall at least for the long await. I had actually almost lost hope until the unexpected happened.
For your information by the way, at present times there are many other ways to protect a certain work, especially if it’s digital.

Ikea

Today I’ve been tortured by one of the brightest business ideas of the millennium, the half do-it-yourself system of selling furnitures directly from the stockroom, have people collect the orders themselves and putting together crappy boards at home having fun as if they were children again in front of a Lego box. The capability of maintaining overall fair quality over excellent prices drives people love the store. I personally find the furniture design flat and boring and the made of wood very flimsy, but it’s still the only option you have if you need brand-new stuff , have time to waste to assemble em and a low budget (and here comes the foxy trick while they send you home with a smile someone behind the desk knows that at least 20% of the customers will never be able to install the goods or better, will end up damaging some piece and going back to the Ikea buying new screws or spare parts…no wonder why they have a huge line in the customer service desk and a copious number of counter desks). Another backstab is making you wonder around a store which is slyly organized in a way that you are going zig-zag all around the warehouse thinking that is incredibly huge, meantime you can observe their perfect expos which you’ll never be able to replicate by the way , but the best part is making you believe that there is always something missing at your place. Icing on the cake comes when they never show you the finished price but they tag every single component of a piece, so that you see a cheap price on the door, then you open the closet and realize that there is another price tag for the inner part, then another for the bottom part, then for the handle and so forth…well, no comment.
Anyway, after spending almost 7 hours in the store today (seriously, we even had dinner in there), going crazy to order and make the furniture match, various complaints, wrongly priced items and after my grandma wrote a 2000$ check at the cashier, my vision got blurry and I almost fainted in the shop. I came out alive, but with a terrible headache and blasted by their endless tagged consumerism. Long live to the antiques!

Rich dad poor dad

Alan Rooster reads "rich dad poor dad"While in Bali airport, I found a bookstore, surprisingly selling some english books, mostly all time bestsellers, where I also spotted one that many friend adviced me to read. The book is called “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, im sure you’ve heard of it before, and for those who dont know, it’s a book that teaches you the theory of how to get out of the “rat race” and reach to the level in which money work for you, not that you work for money. However, Im just writing an article about this because I found out that the book contains some of the theories that I’ve always (unconsciously) applied in order to succeed in my “travelling career”. I have survived for almost 7 years by traveling around the world for less than 15.000 US dollars. If you are wondering how I did it, let’s just say I’ve simply worked on my character, on my social networking and on my experiences, reinvesting every fragment of what i’ve learnt and earned, back into my business. I had to make some painful choices and some sacrifices too, in order to reach the objectives that I was one by one setting… I had to invest my time and my money for that kind of “education”… It was hard but it was worth it, I ultimately graduated in “university of life”. If I had to listen to my “poor dad” (such as parents, relatives, ignorant and stubborn people, media, cliches and so forth…), well then I would have never made these wonderful experiences, I would have just stayed in the middle class, being a wage slave trapped into the small circle of paying a car in 10 years or paying a house in 30, but most importantly, I would have never became rich inside, (that is what counts to me). Well, I would sincirely reccommend this book to anyone, it’s a lesson of positive attitude for whatever path you’re taking in life.

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