I took some photos and we both agreed that the first two remind us of cars covered with snow flakes in winter ;)
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Tea time
Today, thanks to my beloved, we have a very Australian tea time (if there is anything like Australia + tea time?). We have real Australian cake which I am trying for the first time in my life! Very very tasty...
I took some photos and we both agreed that the first two remind us of cars covered with snow flakes in winter ;)
I took some photos and we both agreed that the first two remind us of cars covered with snow flakes in winter ;)
Last day of summer
Well, actually the last day of calendar summer is, as far as I recon, 20th September, but everyone connects this day always with 31st August... is it because school starts on the next day?
Anyway... my last day of summer was beautiful... Thank God for bank holiday, one of few things I really appreciate in here (next to amazing railway services!).
We were walking down narrow, busy streets, sitting on the beach, soaking the sun and feeling its heat on our foreheads, chicks and knees :) A really good, suuny day. Felt like real holiday time for a moment.
By the way, I really like the song by the Cure named the same way. I heard it on the radio a couple of years ago and it has clung to me, I guess, forever... I always remember it in the end of summer. Makes me feel melancholic about the passing time...
Anyway... my last day of summer was beautiful... Thank God for bank holiday, one of few things I really appreciate in here (next to amazing railway services!).
We were walking down narrow, busy streets, sitting on the beach, soaking the sun and feeling its heat on our foreheads, chicks and knees :) A really good, suuny day. Felt like real holiday time for a moment.
By the way, I really like the song by the Cure named the same way. I heard it on the radio a couple of years ago and it has clung to me, I guess, forever... I always remember it in the end of summer. Makes me feel melancholic about the passing time...
Thursday 26 August 2010
I am going to Poland in October! Just for a couple of days (nearly a week actually!), the weekend after I have my final exam at University. I am very excited about it, especially that there was a bit of a trouble finding a cheap flight and having my time off accepted at work. But everything turned out fine :)
I called my Dad to let him know when I'm coming (he is the poor one who always has to pick me up from the airport around midnight and then drive me back when I am leaving...). He was very happy when he heard that I am coming to visit. I was quite surprised (but positively of course), because men, at least those I used to know, don't usually show their feelings too openly. In this situation I would rather expect hearing something ironic or sarcastic, but this time it was purely posithive - I can tell, because I am fluent in sarcasm, so I would have definitely noticed!
I called my Dad to let him know when I'm coming (he is the poor one who always has to pick me up from the airport around midnight and then drive me back when I am leaving...). He was very happy when he heard that I am coming to visit. I was quite surprised (but positively of course), because men, at least those I used to know, don't usually show their feelings too openly. In this situation I would rather expect hearing something ironic or sarcastic, but this time it was purely posithive - I can tell, because I am fluent in sarcasm, so I would have definitely noticed!
Saturday 21 August 2010
Another fantastic day
Tired, but... happy :)
I love our one-day jump-outs to London and wandering around in different parts of this huge city. We explore and discover it little by little, one tiny part after another.
Today we were at Notting Hill market, walking up famous Portobello Road, checking out the shops with antiques and other vintage more or less valuable stuff.
Then we went to Science Museum, where we watched two movies in Imax 3D (amazing experience! I loved the one about space travels!) and had a visit to Victoria & Albert (my favourite art museum in London I think...).
At the end - delicious dinner in our very liked Indian restaurant.
The best thing in the day? I spent it whole with my beloved, who is usually very busy with very important stuff. Today it was just the two of us. And the city ;)
This is Leonardo da Vinci notebook! Really!
I love our one-day jump-outs to London and wandering around in different parts of this huge city. We explore and discover it little by little, one tiny part after another.
Today we were at Notting Hill market, walking up famous Portobello Road, checking out the shops with antiques and other vintage more or less valuable stuff.
Then we went to Science Museum, where we watched two movies in Imax 3D (amazing experience! I loved the one about space travels!) and had a visit to Victoria & Albert (my favourite art museum in London I think...).
At the end - delicious dinner in our very liked Indian restaurant.
The best thing in the day? I spent it whole with my beloved, who is usually very busy with very important stuff. Today it was just the two of us. And the city ;)
This is Leonardo da Vinci notebook! Really!
Wednesday 18 August 2010
It's official!
Today I was late at work after my lunch break. I will have to take shorter lunch tomorrow. And it's because we spent over an hour... booking our holiday! Yes, it's all done! I am so happy and so excited!
We got a really good deal as for booking the holiday so late and with certain expectations. We are going in the end of September, exactly when we wanted and could go. We got the flights perfectly suited and we don't have to worry about the transport to the hotel and back to the airport. We will spend whole eight days under the greek sky... warming (hopefully heating!) our bodies up in the greek sunshine :)
Beautiful, undiscovered to us, Rhodes Island - we are coming soon, to sunbathe, swim, and explore...
We will stay in Rhodes town, so we can do a lot of sightseeing there and also easily go by bus to different places on the island to see as much as possible. Also the beach is just few minutes from the hotel, so we'll get plenty of relaxing time :)
I think this is more or less the place where we'll stay... beautiful seaside just a few moments away... and close to the great Rhodes town with its medieval buildings, castles, museums and acropolis! I am getting so excited :)
We got a really good deal as for booking the holiday so late and with certain expectations. We are going in the end of September, exactly when we wanted and could go. We got the flights perfectly suited and we don't have to worry about the transport to the hotel and back to the airport. We will spend whole eight days under the greek sky... warming (hopefully heating!) our bodies up in the greek sunshine :)
Beautiful, undiscovered to us, Rhodes Island - we are coming soon, to sunbathe, swim, and explore...
We will stay in Rhodes town, so we can do a lot of sightseeing there and also easily go by bus to different places on the island to see as much as possible. Also the beach is just few minutes from the hotel, so we'll get plenty of relaxing time :)
I think this is more or less the place where we'll stay... beautiful seaside just a few moments away... and close to the great Rhodes town with its medieval buildings, castles, museums and acropolis! I am getting so excited :)
Monday 16 August 2010
Sunday 15 August 2010
You can be surrounded with people, and yet you can be so lonely.
Loneliness tastes bitter the most, when it catches you unexpected, hits from the side you would never believe it could come.
Loneliness is the worst, when it comes with disappointment, sorrow and regret.
And it's hard to fight this state, when there is nowhere to escape. Life is not a movie, where you can pack a bag, leave everything behind and run away. And then, if that imaginary possibility wasn't enough, you find a happy ending to your fake story.
Life is different - it's all for real here and risks are much higher. So you have to stick to your job, because it allows you to live on your own. You have to stick to your town, your responsibilities, your everydayness. A lonely one.
Loneliness tastes bitter the most, when it catches you unexpected, hits from the side you would never believe it could come.
Loneliness is the worst, when it comes with disappointment, sorrow and regret.
And it's hard to fight this state, when there is nowhere to escape. Life is not a movie, where you can pack a bag, leave everything behind and run away. And then, if that imaginary possibility wasn't enough, you find a happy ending to your fake story.
Life is different - it's all for real here and risks are much higher. So you have to stick to your job, because it allows you to live on your own. You have to stick to your town, your responsibilities, your everydayness. A lonely one.
Monday 9 August 2010
one of the best...
...bands ever.
The music hero of my childhood - and not only mine.
Fantastic music, fantastic voices, great lyrics. Today's pop is absolutely nothing compared to Roxette.
I love many of their songs. This one has sticked to me recently...
The music hero of my childhood - and not only mine.
Fantastic music, fantastic voices, great lyrics. Today's pop is absolutely nothing compared to Roxette.
I love many of their songs. This one has sticked to me recently...
failure
I failed. Again. And it won't help that some very important people were very impressed with my performance. And it won't make me feel better to know that it was just between me and one other person. This one other person was a tiny bit better, more suitable...
It hurts to hear that maybe I wouldn't be challenged enough in the new place... I am dying from boredom already, any change would make me flourish! I don't care if the manager of my not-to-be manager thinks that my English is excellent.
I am not there.
It's the day of feeling miserable, definitely. I got myself a healthy fruit-and-nut-and-chocolate bar. And I received a couple of messages from my friend, which made me feel a bit better.
Hopefully my true destiny (and destination) is still awaiting me. And hopefully it'is quite close...
It hurts to hear that maybe I wouldn't be challenged enough in the new place... I am dying from boredom already, any change would make me flourish! I don't care if the manager of my not-to-be manager thinks that my English is excellent.
I am not there.
It's the day of feeling miserable, definitely. I got myself a healthy fruit-and-nut-and-chocolate bar. And I received a couple of messages from my friend, which made me feel a bit better.
Hopefully my true destiny (and destination) is still awaiting me. And hopefully it'is quite close...
Sunday 8 August 2010
Away
This weekend was outstanding! So much fun, just by getting away a bit...
We saw beautiful plants, trees and butterflies, we tasted delicious cupcakes and Indian meals... we were walking in the sunshine and in the rain :)
It's lovely to be able to spend so much time with my beloved again. I even feel kind like reunited or something! :)
Today we felt very tired, but it was a good feeling - a memory after an exciting, long day...
We saw beautiful plants, trees and butterflies, we tasted delicious cupcakes and Indian meals... we were walking in the sunshine and in the rain :)
It's lovely to be able to spend so much time with my beloved again. I even feel kind like reunited or something! :)
Today we felt very tired, but it was a good feeling - a memory after an exciting, long day...
Thursday 5 August 2010
Tuesday 3 August 2010
Buddhism
So I am writing this essay on meditation in Buddhism. The subject is fine and I think I will complete my work within one or two days.
But after reading quite a bit about this religion/philosophy (at least seems quite a bit in such a short period of time as few weeks), I have to admit that... I don't get it completely! Am I really dumb? Or maybe I expected something huge, something revelatory and overwhelming, and I haven't found it?
In the end, I think I learned something about Buddhism but most of all - about myself. I absolutely, consciously, and even slightly unexpectedly, rejected Buddhism. I could, for the first time I guess, realise aloud that I do affirm life and I can't see any point it getting rid of suffering, detaching from desires, and aiming for... nothingness. What? Why?
Life is a gift. The most precious, the most beautiful, and the most fragile gift human beings could possibly imagine. If life is happens only once, then the challenge for each one of us is so much greater than if we could be reborn (the whole point of reincarnation is weird for me anyway, if according to Buddhist there is no self...) I don't want to run away from life, from desires, dreams, from people and places I love and from little things that make me happy. I know that one day it all will disappear, and I also know that on my way I will suffer not once or twice, but pain can only make my experience of life richer, fulfilled... I will not waste my chance.
If anyone would like to try to explain to me how come Buddhism is actually called optimistic, you are most welcome.
But after reading quite a bit about this religion/philosophy (at least seems quite a bit in such a short period of time as few weeks), I have to admit that... I don't get it completely! Am I really dumb? Or maybe I expected something huge, something revelatory and overwhelming, and I haven't found it?
In the end, I think I learned something about Buddhism but most of all - about myself. I absolutely, consciously, and even slightly unexpectedly, rejected Buddhism. I could, for the first time I guess, realise aloud that I do affirm life and I can't see any point it getting rid of suffering, detaching from desires, and aiming for... nothingness. What? Why?
Life is a gift. The most precious, the most beautiful, and the most fragile gift human beings could possibly imagine. If life is happens only once, then the challenge for each one of us is so much greater than if we could be reborn (the whole point of reincarnation is weird for me anyway, if according to Buddhist there is no self...) I don't want to run away from life, from desires, dreams, from people and places I love and from little things that make me happy. I know that one day it all will disappear, and I also know that on my way I will suffer not once or twice, but pain can only make my experience of life richer, fulfilled... I will not waste my chance.
If anyone would like to try to explain to me how come Buddhism is actually called optimistic, you are most welcome.
Monday 2 August 2010
wow
I am bringing the news with the speed of light - today in the morning I received an email which I expected to receive tomorrow or on Wednesday, or even later. What a surprise! On top of that, the email contained positive information... Wednesday 3pm is now my very important date :) Until then it'll be a bit stressful, but oh, I'm so excited! I think that the early email was a good sign.
In the meanwhile, I came back from work, I vacuumed the flat, I am doing the laundry and trying to write my essay... And I just ate a big bag of crisps, but well, I think I deserve it ;)
In the meanwhile, I came back from work, I vacuumed the flat, I am doing the laundry and trying to write my essay... And I just ate a big bag of crisps, but well, I think I deserve it ;)
Sunday 1 August 2010
Busy and excited
Okay, Friday passed and turned out to be quite nice, but unluckily I don't know anything yet, and more unluckily, I cannot see the end coming soon! It might take two more weeks to know the final answer, the decision... For now, I can say that I am even more excited and interested than I was at the beginning!
Lately I am busy again, trying to finish a couple of things (my study course!) and to keep up with other stuff at the same time (gym!). On Friday I went spinning for 45 minutes, and today I swam 1km in 25 minutes :) Pretty good. Today afternoon is the essay writing time though :/ Well, at least that keeps me from thinking constantly about the nearest future. Because in two weeks so much can change... ;)
Lately I am busy again, trying to finish a couple of things (my study course!) and to keep up with other stuff at the same time (gym!). On Friday I went spinning for 45 minutes, and today I swam 1km in 25 minutes :) Pretty good. Today afternoon is the essay writing time though :/ Well, at least that keeps me from thinking constantly about the nearest future. Because in two weeks so much can change... ;)
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