No smoking

A rather depressing and shocking video showing why is it not good to smoke!Well, I don't but...they do not say anything for passive smokers.

The sweetest thing :)

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A little international afternoon :)

Today I accidentially decided to go out for coffee with Stassy. Should have guessed that she is going to bring some Erasmus students along...
So here we were - me, Stassy, Galya , Jasmina (Austria), Sebastian (Germany) and a Spanish girl (whose name I forgot, but she was sweet).
We went to Apart:mental - it was rather nice, seemed that the teens don't go there so much already. I drank coffee with some liqueur - I do not know what do they do - but it is always marvelous!
We talked a lot about traveling, well...let's say already I have some kind of ideas for travel plans for the summer...Istanbul, Budapest and Belgrade were the first three destination. No it is all a matter of organizing ourselves.Which...indeed is not so easy, but we have to manage!
Then, we went into the nearby garden of "Ugo" where we met Mareike with two other Germans. The girl happened to write a thesis on Media issues and she had met two of my collegues!The world is really so small:)
Then, Vladi promised to drive us home with his car. Yet, he is not a very experienced driver and not without the help of Stassy we got lost 2 times:) It was great fun though!
Tomorrow I am leaving for Turnovo:) I intend to explore some of the streets of the old part of the town I haven't been to...Keep fingers crossed for good weather and expect pictures :)

24 may -the day of the Slavic alphabet

Well, a bit too late from my side, but still - before midnight!
Happy 24 may - Day of the Slavic alphabet.
Or, if I should say it:
Честит 24-ти май :)
And because of that - Google today is written like GoogЛе :)
Ah, I love that!

Big Google is watching you!

Today I read an article about the Google personalized pages (IGoogle) and I thought how transparent I actually am by being registered at so many places on the web.
Let me see...
I am using Gmail, Google reader, Blogger, Google of course...
Then - 4 (or something like that) more mails.
Another couple of blogs.
Several registrations for different websites (Postcrossing, Hi5, LinkedIn,YouTube, Flickr)
Oh, my! Feels a bit scary when I think that my personality is exposed to such an extent.
I do not even mean the things I write explicitly here. I mean the "secret" connections, the visits to different websites that show some kind of a consumer pattern.
When I first read about people getting more and more transparent with the usage of technology (it was something like 10 years ago, when I didn't even dream about having a PC)I was a bit sceptic...
Now I know that Big Google (and not only)is watching me!

Elections for Europarliament

Bulgaria will be represented in the European parliament by the Socialistic party, The party of the Sofia mayor (and media star) - Boyko Borisov, a Nationalist party (ATAKA, led by a crazy guy, who, in my opinion thinks he is Hitler re-born and the party of the Turkish minority, led by Ahmed Dogan.

The news is not very good for the image that Bulgaria is trying to create in the EU.
A party of a populist guy like Borisov (who supposedly has connections with the mafia)against the representative of ATAKA Slavi Binev (who also has strong relations with the mafia it seems) and the Turkish guys...

I frankly do not see these guys working together - they will rather be quarreling all the time and will not reunite to defend the Bulgarian interests in Brussels...
I am really disappointed, maybe I have to blame myself for not voting...
But every day I loose my hope in the future of this country.

Mafia and corruption.
That about sums it up!
And can u imagine - on one of the Bulgarian TV channels they invited the pop-folk singer Kamelia to comment the elections. Well, what the F***?

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Rain

It has been raining for two days now.
It makes me a bit melancholic.
But Sofia is so clean and beautiful after the rain. And I feel so full of hope,beauty and dreams...
I am thinking of my favourite "rain" songs:

Singing in the rain

November rain

Kiss the rain

I'll take the rain

Purple rain

The Rain (a song by the Bulgarian singer Vanya Shtereva)

It's raining (by P.I.F)

Truffels extermination :)

Today we made an improvised visit to Bonjour shop and Stel4eto bought a box of chocolate truffels.
I love chocolate, and truffels are one very nice way to consume chocolate...
Obviously - it was the same with Sevi and Stel4eto - so in less than 5 minutes the truffles were gone and we were covered with chocolate :)
Here is a short photo-story of this notable event!

Let us see what is in the box...


Sevi: "I hope this doesn't have too much calories in it..."


Well, who cares anyway ...


How come they disappeared so fast? :)

My First Postcrossing Card arrived!

Recently I registered at a very cool site, called Postcrossing.
The idea is that you send postcards to random people around the world you do not know.
So, I sent two cards - one to a woman in Finland, and one to a guy in Switzerland.
Today I got the great news that my card has arrived in Switzerland and the following answer:
Helle Svetla.
Thank you for the nice postcard.
The eye is very beautiful. I like it a lot.
I must give you quite. Swiss chocolate is really very good.
If you want, I can send you 2 bars of chocolate.
Write me your address if you want.
Many greetings from Switzerland.
Daniel

I am happy that it reached its destination and waiting for a card to reach me now :)

Russian cartoons :)

To all the people that remember and love the Russian cartoons I would like to dedicate the following song.
I just grew up with Nu Pogodi.
There was no American or western cartoons at this time. So we loved them :)
And I just chose that song, as it always makes me remember my childhood and feel so sweetly melancholic.
Enjoy (even though birthdays come only once a year) :)

Happiness

I am feeling happy at the moment. Well, let's say - the closest to happiness that I have been for the last 2 years. Maybe I am just happy of what I am without blaming myself for anything.
Yes, I admit I have made mistakes.
I still do.
But I do not feel , as before, that my mistakes are among the main reasons for something screwing up.
I am happy with the change that is happening - I feel it is going to bring me more opportunities to express myself and to bring more added value to my work.
Yes, sometimes I really feel depressed when I think of all my friends - they are living in different cultures, living these cross-cultural experiences...and I am just ...staying here.
Well, whatever...

I just wanted to post two pictures of the youngest person I know.
His name is Svetoslav and he was born only 42 days ago.
Life is ahead of him and it is full of opportunities!
For me - as well.
From my humble experience - things always happen for a reason. If I have to pass through a stage - I'll just pass. If I am meant to change - I will change.
Accepting this means a lot less stress for me.

Sex sells everything

If you have any doubts, please see this video:

and this one:

You take one sexy girl and multiply her several times - voila - you have a great video. Who needs more, anyway?

My recent "party" song

First heard it at one OSTAVA after-party and have been in love ever since :)

My "goodnight" song

This is one wonderful LOVE song for saying "Goodnight".
And dreaming that I meet a guy like Robert Downey Jr...aaah
Sweet dreams:)
I just couldn't resist to post the lyrics as well.
Goodnight lovers:)
Goodnight dreamers:)

I want love, but it's impossible
A man like me, so irresponsible
A man like me is dead in places
Other men feel liberated

I can't love, shot full of holes
Don't feel nothing, I just feel cold
Don't feel nothing, just old scars
Toughening up around my heart

But I want love, just a different kind
I want love, won't break me down
Won't brick me up, won't fence me in
I want a love, that don't mean a thing
That's the love I want, I want love

I want love on my own terms
After everything I've ever learned
Me, I carry too much baggage
Oh man I've seen so much traffic

So bring it on, I've been bruised
Don't give me love that's clean and smooth
I'm ready for the rougher stuff
No sweet romance, I've had enough

Lazy labour day at home

This weekend it was labour day.
In fact - 1st of may was Tuesday, but we had 4 days off (Saturday to Tuesday). I spent the Saturday writing...It took me 9 hours to write a Profile of a person - I never imagined it could be so time-consuming. Now I understand why writers are so self-contained.
Then, Sunday I went back home, as Mury came to visit me.
It was rather strange, as just a few minutes after getting on home ground, I met Alx4o, then Kremba, Lili and Velislava. Obviously - Turnovo is a small town and everybody comes back for the weekend. In the next days I met Nasko and part of AIESEC VTU, one girl I had met on the BWB Enterpreneurship classes, one collegue of my mother and Ogi (Megan's friend). Maybe I am missing someone...
Well, indeed it was crowded in Turnovo - it seems that my hometown is becoming a popular tourism destination. Which on one side is good. But from another point of view...not so much so...
The first day (Monday) we went to drink coffee in my favourite Turkish coffee shop - there coffee is prepared on hot sand. It is really nice, and the host is a very welcoming lady. After the great coffee, we went to the popular "40 marthyrs church". It has been renovated recently and the bones of the Bulgarian tzar Kaloyan have been re-buried there. I was quite surprised that the entrance to the place costs 5 levs (I think the last time I went to the museum it cost only 1 or 2 levs). Anyway - I wouldn't be so frustrated if the money we paid was worth it. But indeed, besides having the Omurtag column and some icons...it was a strange thing that the builders decided to leave the electricity sockets visible...As a whole - it was made too modern. And...as anywhere in Bulgaria...not much information boards.
Then, after the Church, we passed through the Vladishki bridge - a wooden bridge I was once very scared to approach.I thought that it might break and I might fall in Yantra. Well...I almost overcame this...not fully it seems.
We reached the other bank of the river, near St Dimitar Church. It was really nice and calm, but also a bit sad...as there were a lot of houses fallinga apart. I dunno why I really feel sad when I see a beautiful old house falling apart:(
After our walk we tried to find a place at the "Shtastlivetza" restaurant, one of the most famous Turnovo restaurants with wonderful huge salads and a beautiful view towards Asenevci monument and the old part of the town. But...of course...no places left.
We went to another place, but what made us a great impression was that instead of enjoying their meal together people were making scandals, pushing the waitresses to work faster (as if if you cook at home, it will take you no time). It was rather unpleasant.
Then, pretty tired, we went to the Asenevci monument, where the previous night there was a concert organised by one of the Bulgarian political parties. It was rather disgusting, cause obviously nobody cared to clean after...
On coming back home, we watched "The march of the emperors".Mury obviously didn't like it...Well..some movies are not made for everyone :)
The next day we went to the Central mall (I am almosta specialist on malls, I just had to show our mall to Mury ). Rather boring...I really do not like the mix of shops there...
Then, we finally found places in "Shtastliveca" and happily had lunch...then we made a little walk down Gurko, making lots of funny pictures (Which can be seen on Flickr)
It was a rather nice weekend...Thank you my dearest Mury for the nice time spent together:)