这几天跟同在IE读书的朋友聊起今年我国接连发生的不幸：雪灾，奥运火炬传递，地震。从悲伤，气愤，到全国许多年来从未有过的团结一致，引用众网友的话：“中国有希望了”。个人也非常赞同朋友的结论：中国人是有血性的！

中国人太平盛世的时候喜欢窝里斗，遇到委屈和不幸的时候多半能忍则忍，但是从古至今一旦大敌当前，有损我华夏子孙和大国尊严了，中国人的血性就完全被激发了！这时候的中国，就像你在这些视频里看到的，是一个最最强大的中国！

只要同是我中华同胞，无论今日身在何处，是何国籍，我们既然同是炎黄子孙，势必同舟共济！！

我们这几天也在Serrano 99号1楼设了捐款箱，有在读MBA的中国学生已经带头发动了在IE校园的捐款。
精诚所致，金石为开！
沉痛悼念我50，000多名遇难同胞！（数字还在直线上升......）

“吃火锅”现在在IE的中国人学生中好像成了“去中餐馆“的代名词。

过去是因为吃火锅有气氛，10多个人的聚会火锅是最理想不过了；还有就是马德里中国炒菜的“本土化”之彻底，实在让人折服的不得不选吃他国菜系。这次年夜饭，本来我们都是要吃炒菜的，可是老板却要求我们吃火锅，因为他们生意太好，瓦斯不够，火锅是最快的。虽然很是不情愿，老板的态度和理由也让人大跌眼镜，可是她“不吃这家你也没其他地儿吃”的自信彻底把我们征服了，最后我们“不得不吃”火锅。可怜我们中IMBA Section 1的Vera, Sean, Fiona周五还要跟他们班40个老外一起再吃一次，说是要发扬中国文化，咳咳，只能祝福他们“好胃“了。

给“孔府家酒”做的带有80年代怀旧风的免费广告，咳咳。

过年，讲究的是“热闹”“亲情”和“不拘小节”，都是“饮食男女”，就不要对这满桌的“杯盘狼藉”见外了哈。

总会有媒体唯恐天下不乱，炒作“日韩誓不两立”，你看人家韩国的郑镇硕和日本的 Yoshimoto不是很有“哥俩好”的意思嘛。

Ang Lee's new film, an espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai. Tony Leung stars as Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure in 1940s Shanghai. Tang Wei, makes her feature film debut as Wang Jiazhi, a young woman who gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with Mr. Yee.

看了一些对李安新作《色·戒》的访谈，除了对那些老拿几段性爱描写说事的炒作苦笑外，到还是有几分惊喜。第一，终于有很多很多人要跟广播电视总局闹“分级制”了；第二，导演的观点－－“情感超越理智彰显了人性”－－尤其在这部影片中对“女人对一个不该爱的男人的情欲”超越了“爱国主义”的充满同情和近乎唯美的演绎，居然在国内媒体上得到很大的声援。还不知道马德里什么时候播，但是一定回去看正版，呵呵。

As Chinese, eating is very important part in our life and culture, and it never changes even if we are now in Madrid. This hot-pot place is very well known in Chinese community and almost every one of us has been there at least once (well, I basically go there once per month:p)

This video was our gathering with IE's new Asian intakes and exchange students. A pity not every one of us was there, but just show you some IE faces :p

This was my first time, maybe also the last time to actually "see" the bull fight. For me, the fight was too much, even if it is considered as art, in terms of the move, the power and the wisdom of our human beings (as most of us think so) woven into the whole performance. But here you will only see the pre-fight performance which was nice...

Have a look at this BUSINESS EDUCATION 2007: Empathetic business sense nurtured by disaster, a story of one of IE alumni from Financial Times

Jamila Bravo Maagdalia is a EMBA student @IE Business School, before that she had been working for non-government organizations long time such as commercial adviser attached to the Spanish Embassy in Johannesburg, director of international relations for the EU's @LIS programme in European Commission. She is now director for south-east Asia at Excem, a family-owned company with diverse global interests, one of her current assignments also taps her passion for international co-operation and development.

Continue reading 'IE students in Badminton World Championship'

The highlight of Term 4 was watching WorldCup with classmates from over 45 countries! The heat was on particularly during the match of Argentina vs Germany, France vs Brazil. See we even had a Germany flag in the classroom that day! Though some classmates cried after their countries' defeat in the matches, we supported each other and congratulated the winning teams!

After an intensive 9 months of studies, we are all so relieved to have a 6-week summer break! We have finished 4 terms with all mandatory courses. The elective period will start in Sep with venture lab and corporate venturing (with General Electric, Madrid). Some of us will go on exchange over US, Europe and Asia and come back to Madrid for final exam and the graduation ceremony on Dec 15, 2006. Times really flies and the hard work pays off!

¿Qué pasa?

When you arrive in Madrid, be prepared that you will hear this question very often. It´s the same as "What's up?" in English, usually the rely will be¨Nada¨(Nothing). Well, actually this is far from the case. Your life at IE will be FULL every single day.

Multinational...as always!

The current year IMBA program in IE constitutes students coming from over 50 countries and regions. We are virtually working with classmates and professors from all over the globe, and Chinese students here are absolutely minorities. We have finance guru from Kuwait, engineer from Egypt, investment-banker from Switzerland" you name it, we have it.
Cultural shocks almost every day. In my last class of Quantitative Analysis, when the prof. wrote down his telephone number on the blackboard, one classmate jerked out in a super HIGH key:
-Tomáz, is this for GIRLS???
The whole class burst in to laughter, while the prof. turned around and said
-Dear class, as you all know, he is Italian"

Before last Christmas, all the girls in my class gathered to have a chicas´ dinner(girls only). Well, 14 girls coming from 13 different countries, you can imagine how eye-catching our table was! Of course, the girls´ topic is universal"by the way, we did enjoy the gossip that night...

Fiestas

Spaniards are well-known for their night life. This relates to the life pace of local people. We usually have class from 0900 till 1500. That is, lunch comes after class" starving? but this still matches with the normal lunch time in here (1400-1600)! Dinner time is after 2200" and then, after midnight, fiestas! You can switch from one bar to another for the whole night(I should say the whole morning).. and going home at eight o´clock is not big deal.
Sounds a little bit crazy, right? ja, welcome to Spain! Here you have superb music and superb peers- irresistible.

IE has a famous club named Bar of the Week, which serves as a fantastic platform for networking. Somehow you will find another side of your classmates in the bar as compared in classroom"and you will get to know who are genuine party animals gradually.

After all, don´t forget to attend the class later at 0900, and be prepared for all the assignments!

Enjoy...
A quote from a classmate: Study hard, play harder!
Very ture.