Briefly I am wishing you a Happy International Women´s Day for 8 March. On the eve of IWD there were many work related activities today available whereby I was only able to attend the Brown Bag Lunch as I attended a 4 days training on "Results based management and monitoring & evaluation" - does not sound very sexy but something that is must nowadays in the life of projects.

Tomorrow I am travelling to Bangkok to escort Silja who has been here on "ski holiday" and enjoyed especially shopping. I had never realised how cheap all the teenager stuff, e.g. Converse sneakers here are. Just a small portion of the price in Finland. Real or not, never mind, as the young seem not to wear same clothes too long. (Now I could say that the life was different when we were young, we only got one pair of jeans/year!!).

I hope you all - both women and men - will enjoy this particular day!