Friday, July 17, 2009

Vacation! Going wild to Crimea!

Next 9 days I'm going to be near Balaclava, Crimea, Ukraine.
I was waiting for this vacation for last 3 months, didn't swim in the sea, just to get all emotions there. And now only 12 hours left before going there.
It was a bit hard months in the matter of work, life and relationships but now it's much better.

So, see you in a week :)

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Certified again :)

Today as a part of tomorrow's interview I decided to look for my weaknesses and strong points in Java. I use oDesk for this purpose the tests structure is ok and testing environment is a bit harder than usual life.
So I started to answer questions and get not bad score 3.9/5 that bring me to the 'Top 10 percent' group. I can see it as improvement in comparison of the last time.

And get the certified status:
oDesk Certified Java Developer

Friday, July 3, 2009

China Mall

Today I visited newly created scooter parts shop on Gen. Petrova.
They opened about a week ago but I didn't have time to visit them. And it was reasonable since they are not what I was looking for.
I hate some entrepreneurs who think that if something is cheap people dig it. So they trying to sell you Chinese goods: as cheap and as top items (with top prices).

As the result people who care about good performance won't buy anything (it's useless to say about performance Chinese parts - there is no good parts made in China) and the rest might buy this stuff ONLY if no other options in other shops and it's better price than others.

That's why I don't understand why they create malls for trading only China goods - it's obvious that folks with no money don't have any chance to drive (no money - no car) to the mall and left few hundreds there.

As for forecast I think their shop will exist no longer than 10 months (especially with silent ancient grandpa as the shop assistant with no real experience in anything they think they will sell).

P.S. They have 4!!!! Italian belts for scooters that just few among the Odessa ride.

"Say NO to low-quality products and goods!"