Tuesday, August 19, 2008

beijing2008 - Estonia won 1 Gold /1 Silver


For me every sport person from any country make me feel proud. They all deserve praise and bow. Every athlete works so hard to prove his or herself. From all around world champions participates but the best is honored by gold, silver, bronze medal.

I really liked Estonia as a country. While watching Olympics 2008 live, my family was overwhelmed with the achievement of Estonian athletes. My dad living for 9 years feels this country from heart. I am glad to know employees in his company says " Deo is our Estonian". I am proud of my dad as he speaks and understand Estonian very well despite a very hard language to learn. He was very happy, I can't express that in words. It was the same happiness when he came to know about Abhinav Bindra in shooting, India won gold medal. Today in celebration we ate ice cream, favorite one.

I found every youngster and kid has sporting spirit inside while cycling, skiing, swimming, running and many more. Everyone here are adventurous and less or more have sport attitude. Maximum you will find here are health conscious, this I liked the most.


Estonia is being represented in the Beijing Olympic Games by 47 sportsmen and sportswomen in total of 13 different sporting events.

Gold Gerd Kanter Athletics Men's Discus throw
Silver Jüri Jaanson/ Tõnu Endrekson Rowing Men's Double Sculls


You know what most excited me that Tonu is from Parnu, Estonia. I am living and known to this place in Estonia.
You can visit here to chek the medalists in the official site of http://results.beijing2008.cn

Monday, August 18, 2008

Recession arrives in Estonia - first of the Baltic states

he Baltic states' economies - last year among Europe's fastest growing - have abruptly gone into reverse and Estonia is already in recession, official figures confirmed yesterday.

The downturn in the three states is a grave blow to their hopes of swiftly catching up with the rest of the European Union. Even Estonia, the richest of the three, still only has a gross domestic product per capita of about three quarters of the EU average. "The key thing is that it's only going to get worse from now on," Neil Shearing of Capital Economics, who forecasts a 2.5 per cent full-year decline in Estonian GDP, said.

The country's economy contracted 0.9 per cent in the second quarter compared to the first, during which there was also a 0.5 per cent quarter-on- quarter decline, according to the statistics office. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Latvia is also poised to enter recession by the end of the year and Lithuanian growth is also slowing sharply, though it is likely to escape recession.

Both in Latvia and Estonia policymakers are now scrambling to revise their economic forecasts downwards and to balance budgets that are set to go into the red because of falling tax revenue. Source

http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/21072/

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Top 100 companies - 2006 - 2007

Gild bankers did market research and compiled this report in 2007.
Top 5 companies

1) hansapank
2) Eesti Energia
3) SEB Eest Ühispank, AS
4) Eesti Telekom, AS
5) Tallink Grupp, AS

Just read more if interested in this report top 100 companies

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

My visit to Altex, Tallinn

My parents want me to be with them in Estonia. I am over with my education and they feel i can get my profile job to work here. So, felt I should try as I see my mom not well and she needs me or my bro (Nirnay pursuing Btech IT) with her.

Estonia is good place peace, purity everything you will find here. But u can't live idle, its too boring. No Indian channels, community its really difficult to plan your day. In weekends I go out for recreation even I joined shaping class but not visit daily. So I think to make yourself busy and easy here, u should have some job or some home creative work.

I started my search by mailing my candidature to reputed companies. I have long list of top 100 companies but very few are in Internet marketing field and Altex is one of them. They called me for interview, i felt honored to get response at least.

I was ready at 10 Am as meet up was scheduled at 3PM, Tallinn. It is approx 2 hours distance from Parnu. It was rainy day, and car driver by mistake filled petrol ( "bensiin" in Estonian that day I came to know). It killed 2 hours waiting for another car from dad company. He(driver) was very upset for his mistake, no problem he is human afterall rite!!!. Anyways he is nice human and perform his duties responsibly.

hmmmmmmmm........ Atlast with the help of GPS (global positioning system which earlier just known the definition saw it in real how it fucntions, found it great :-) ). Reached the complex of Altex Group of 10 people in team were working hard in rented flat. I was so happy to see them and their dedication towards work. Past memory reflashed of 1Softsolution, website development company started with people of 5 in small rented room not even flat... days and night hard work paid 1Soft team...now they have their office in sec 16 and 100 of projects worked world wide and good clientèle.

Heads of Altex they were so kind and nice that all my nervousness was out. All talks was genuine, atlast I am foreigner here.I need work permit!!!! You can visit them and their expertise areas here at their company website but all is in estonian accept this page Internet marketing Agency

Then around 6 PM I had yummy cuisine in Indian restro owned by an Indian owner, Mr Pradeep Gupta. It was beautifully interiored, frankly speaking i liked the service part best. Beautiful english speaking gal wid sparkling dress and bright smile was centre of attraction.
I had there paneer pakora, thai vegetable, veg biryani, naan, cheese naan, panner saag, and juice. I was feeling as if I am in India same taste and flavor.
I came late till 11 PM. overall I slept with good experience and learning.

May be next week i will go again, I am again called by other good company. Will surely share that visit too.. after all they are Estonian companies..

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Dont know estonian??? do not worry I have listed english online news on estonia

Tere (hello),

I have searched and found three english news website for reading daily news around baltics and estonia.

www.momoestonia.com

www.baltictimes.com

www.baltlantis.com

www.balticbusinessnews.com

these days i see so many banners of www.posttimes.ee nice site but in estonian and russian.

Hope i will learn soon this sweet language...bbye

Sunday, August 3, 2008

know about viljandi - estonia


























is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in southern Estonia bordering Pärnu, Järva, Jõgeva, Tartu and Valga counties. 4.2% of the total population of Estonia live in Viljandi County.