Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Polska cz.1 - torba
Caly pobyt w Polsce byl cudowny. Podroz okazala sie o wiele mniej meczaca, niz oczekiwalam. Tym razem jechalismy pociagiem i chyba przestawie sie na koleje na dobre, bo jest o wiele wygodniej. Niby traci sie dzien, ale mozna go spedzic na czytaniu, mozna sie przejsc do wagonu restauracyjnego i zjesc obiadek albo napic sie kawy. Jedynie podroz powrotna byla odrobine gorsza, poniewaz musielismy wstac przed czwarta rano, zeby zdazyc na pociag do Warszawy o 5.15 i potem zlapac polacznie do Pragi o 9.10. Do tego towarzyszyla nam wielka grupa Mongolow jadacych do Olomulca albo do Ostravy (nie pamietam gdzie wysiedli), z wielkimi walizami, prawie calym dobytkiem. Wygladali, jakby sie przeprowadzali na dobre. Podziwiam tych ludzi, taki szmat drogi od domu, podejrzewam, ze jechali calkiem w ciemno, nie znajac jezyka (ani czeskiego, ani angielskiego). Przynajmniej w duzej grupie, zawsze to razniej.
Do Lublina dotarlismy w piatek 21.12 poznym wieczorem, wiec tylko cos szybciutko zjedlismy i do lozeczka. Trosze byly perturbacje ze spaniem, bo lozko w moim pokoju nie jest przystosowane dla pary i bardzo niewygodnie sie na nim spi we dwie osoby. Na pare nocy spalismy u mojej siostry, ale z tym z kolei bylo zamiesznie, no i Ksieciumio musial przenosic komputer itp itd, co mu sie zupelnie nie podobalo. W kazdym razie jakos znalezlismy rozwiazanie.
Wiekszosc czasu spedzilismy albo w domu, siedzac z rodzinka, po prostu gadajac (i z tlumaczeniem nie mialam az takiego problemu, chociaz Ksieciumio czul sie chwilami opuszczony i ignorowany, niestety; musi sie nauczyc polskiego). Pare razy wybralismy sie do miasta na zakupy, oczywiscie wydalam kupe kasy :) Jak zawsze. W kazdym razie kupilam sobie torbe, a nie bylo to latwe. Zobaczylam ja u mojej siostry, ale ona kupila ja na poczatku grudnia i obawialam sie, ze juz nie beda miec i rzeczywiscie, w pierwszym sklepie nie mieli, ale poradzili pojechac na drugi koniec Lublina (nota bene do centrum handlowego, ktore wybudowali pod naszym dawnym blokiem). Nastepnego dnia pojechalam. I nie znalazlam, i zaczelam wpadac w panike, ale zapytalam sie ekspedientki, ktora udala sie na zaplecze w poszukiwaniu tego skarbu. I zginela tam na dobre 15 minute. Niestety, wrocila z pustymi rekami i poprosila, zebym wrocila pozniej, gdy bedzie kolega, ktory podobno bylby w stanie pomoc. Na szczescie nasza rozmowe uslyszala druga ekspedientka, chyba wyzszego stopnia (hehe). Poprosila o dokladniejszy opis i znalazla torbe, aczkolwiek w innym kolorze: zoltym! A ja chcialam fioletowa i tylko fioletowa. Zolty nie wchodzil w gre pod zadnym pozorem. Do czego ja bym takiego pisklaka zalozyla. Moze jedynie na Wielkanoc, bo pasowalaby tematycznie. Takze wyjasnilam pani, ze ja na prawde chce fioletowa i jak bardzo mi na tej torbie zalezy. Ona na to, zebym poczekala 15 minut. No to ja sie zdecydowalam przejsc po centrum, bo tym sklepie znalam juz kazdy szczego na pamiec! Wrocilam po 15 minutach i jest! Widze ja w rekach ekspedientki! Coz za radosc, jakbym co najmniej odkryla nowa wyspe albo znalazla jakis dawno zagubiony, starozytny skarb. Okazalo sie, ze torba caly czas wisiala na wystawie, a ja minelam ja co najmniej 5 razy! W kazdym razie kupilam torbe!
Ach, coz za opowiesc!!! Musze chyba na chiwlke zerknac na prace.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Wazne sa tylke te dni ktorych jeszcze nie znamy
We had a great Christmas with all the family and all the 12 dishes (I will post pictures when we'll get back home). We had even better New Years Eve: big party with Adam and Agnieszka (my cousin and his wife) and their friends. I had a wonderful time, it was trully magnificent way to start the new year. Hope you all had an equally good time!
And now back to Prague and work and normal life.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Discoveries
The second thing I noticed is that how hard I work out depends on the music a lot. Before, when I was going just from time to time, I just thought it's because I'm in a bad shape. But this week I was going every day and yesterday I had the best prove. I was going not so fast and not so hard, and still I felt tired. But when they played Rammstein I got a extra powers suddenly! It was great!
Thursday, December 13, 2007
RPG Superstar round 3
To see his name click here.
So now, he is going to create a villain. And an initial idea was mine ! :) But I'm not telling anything until he publishes it. This also means that I will be without boyfriend for a week. If he had an office or a basement, I wouldn't see him at all. At least we have one room being living room, bedroom and office so I will still see him. And maybe we will even have some dinners together :) But honestly, it doesn't matter, it's just a week and this contest is great and I'm so happy that Robi has an opportunity to show his talents.
So, vote for him! All of you!!! It's very easy to register and you can vote!!! For Robi!!!
Friday, December 07, 2007
Grand night out
So yesterday I was out. Narcis' good-bye party. I will miss him a lot, he is a great guy but it's very possible that I will not see him again. He went back to Romania. It was too difficult for his family to live here so they decided to go back.
OK, so I was out. But I came back before midnight, which is very early for me. Today is Glossa's Xmas party so Prince is out. He didn't really want to go, he was complaining and so on. When I said that he should be out for at least 2 hours 'cause I want to watch a movie, he told me he will be back when he wants and so on. So I was under an impression he will be back between 8 and 9. It's almost 11 now and he is not at home! I'm shocked :)
I hope he is having a good time.
Cesky Krumlov
First a few of a most charming place I discovered wondering around alone, because Prince felt sick and decided to stay in the hotel.
And the ones below are taken a day before.
At the top of the castle tower.
Right before the big moment:
Even our shadows are in love:
RPG Superstar
So if someone wants to support Prince, go to the site, log in and vote for Iskandia. It is a very cool place. I love it. (And I have no idea about D&D all of that stuff, but I like fantasy and Iskandria is a great concept.)
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Annoying
IT'S DONE :)))
Now, I'm going home.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Przewlekle chora: starosc
I am not that old!!! It seems that all the health problems I didn't get in the past years are coming to me now. I want to be young again :D
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Time to go home
Stupid post, I know. But at least you know I'm still alive.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Friday, November 09, 2007
Sicko
The main thing, I cannot understand about America is the ideology of "the American dream" and individualism so extreme that only the individual. OK, you believe that every hard working person can live "the American dream" and earn millions of dollars. Somehow, I do not think it is possible. I guess I know too many people who could not live under pressure of success. I don't think I would like it, because for me success in life is something different than big bank account, something you cannot measure. But I am under the impression that it is extremely hard in the US for people who think similar, or who were simply unlucky. Because if you don't have money, no one will support you. And here is the difference.
In most European countries, the idea is that people should support each other and help the ones in trouble. You pay according to your means and get according to your needs. And everybody is happy. (I know, it's not that simple and every system has it's problems, but in my opinion it's still better than dumping sick people on the streets, 'cause they are not able to pay their medical bills.)
I know that this is again a post "how I don't like America". It is not my aim. Being with Prince makes me think about some things we in Europe take for granted. It makes me happy that I live in a system which cares about the people, where the government is for people, not the other way.
I have nothing against Americans, I loved the time I spend in the US, I think it's beautiful country with great people. It's just different. In some ways it's better, in some it's worse. Maybe I am trying to convince myself and Prince that Europe is better. But no, I know it's better :D (It's a joke.) It's just different.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
A year older
That was the first thing I heard this morning and it was very sweet. Generally, the whole day is cool except I'm sick. But at least I'm working from home (meaning: checking email every half an hour, 'cause there is nothing to do).
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Oh, you Americans
But I don't want to write about cars, but about Americans. So they are talking about consumers not liking the car. The reason:
"For most Americans when we talk about sensitive energy policy, what most Americans hear: you're gonna make me drive a small car, you're gonna make me keep my house cold and essentially you're gonna make me live like European."
No comment.
BTW Iceland is using hydrogen powered buses - for those who saw the movie, it is actually possible.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Sad, sad day
Today is also sad in different respect. Someone left us, my company. Someone I really liked and who was fun. I know it may sound silly especially compared with the above paragraph. But I don't care. I will miss this person. We were not even good friends, that's probably even worse, because if we were, we would probably go out sometimes together. And I doubt we ever see each other. And there are so many people leaving my company... It's just sad. We are loosing good people but the management is not willing to realize it, to think about the reasons and to find a solutions. And they are usually so good with finding mistakes, causes and solutions. Except that they only think about processes and not real people. I don't think I fit in this, I am after all in "the management" (even though I have no power and no possibility to change things). Oh, this corporate world... I hate it.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
My sister's brain
My sister has been having those terrible headaches for the past few weeks and no pain killer would help. On Monday she had a CAT scan and got the results yesterday. She promised to send me a text after she got the results but forgot so I texted her in the evening. This is the answer I got:
" They did not find anything. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of my brains (since when does she have more than one??) but only a piece of paper with the results."
She is feeling better. I'm very happy. I was very scared that something bad may happened.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Take me where I want to go
1. Poker night last Friday: we had a lot of fun, Prince won a lot (well, compared to what we played for - 100kc each, about 5$, so he won 20$). I end us even, which is good considering the state of my mind at the end of a game, around 2 am :) I tent to bet higher later in the night... and loose more. I guess I should not drink if I want to win, but then it wouldn't be such fun. At least this time I saw my card till the end :)))
2. Meeting with Jan and Vladka: a week ago Jan (known from posting comments as Bolek) visited Prague so we met for some beers. It was great seeing him! He did not change too much, with his bitter but funny comments :)
3. Rugby Saturday evening both weekend: it was a lot of fun. The first game England won with France which made me very happy. Unfortunately, they lost the final against South Africa, but I do not mind South Africa winning (and I mind France - I became very anti French because of people at work).
4. Elections in Poland on Sunday: I voted in the embassy. Platforma Obywatelska (Civil Platform) won! I am extremely happy. Finally, the end of right wing conservative rule! It was too much for me. Surprisingly, the turnout was very high: almost 55%, the highest since the end of communism. Hopefully, people realized that their vote is important and that if you don't vote, you may end up with two twin ducks ruling the country :) (For those not in the loop of Polish politics: the president and the ex-prime minister are twins and their surname is "Duck-like"). I hope that the new government will change something, especially economically. They have huge potential in my opinion, we will see how they will use it.
5. Discussion about the future cont.: yesterday we spend some time talking about the future, moving to Scotland, the wedding and so on. We decided what we want to do, but then Prince was looking into visas and work permit for Scotland and it did not sound optimistic. Now, we are thinking he might have to go back to school (which I think he might like and going into Academia is his best bet, but he does not fully agrees). The problem with that is the tuition fees - extremely high.
If we will not make it to Scotland, I am not sure about anything. Prince does not want to stay here for too much longer (I think a year is maximum), there is no more English speaking countries in Europe except for UK and Ireland. Maybe we should reconsider moving to the US, but none of us particularly wants that for certain reasons (two most important for me: not being able to see my family as often as I would like; the benefits I am used to does not exist there, for example free health care or maternity leave or 25 vacation days ... a lot of things like this that we, Europeans are used to).
6. Work: it's getting worse. We are currently doing performance reviews and I got frustrated because they didn't let me promote a person who is doing a great job. Also, I am going to look for another position within the company and my manager is going to support it. Which on the one hand is very good, because I am tired of what I'm doing now and I don't really want to manage people; on the other hand I am disappointed that I didn't manage to do very well. It's not only my fault, but still, I could have been better. Oh, well. Now, I'm concentrating on moving somewhere, learn something new, work with different people and more with clients.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Memory
I started therapy. Yesterday I had my second meeting, the doctor did some tests. It was generally fun. One of the things she checked was my memory and she said I have an excellent memory. At night, already in bed, we were talking about it and I proudly told Prince how good my memory is. He asked: Did you remember about you dad's birthday three days ago? Yes, of course! And then I realized that it was my sister birthday! And I forgot about it! I quickly texted her, right before midnight!
So that's how good my memory is :)
If I remember what was so important, I will post again :) But it is probably lost! I think I would be globally known genius if I remembered all the ideas I have before falling asleep.
Monday, October 08, 2007
I want to go home
We spend the weekend in the usual way: slept most of it :) No, it's not really true, but we took naps both days which is not usual for me. Friday I worked until 7.30pm so I was dead tired when I got finally home and we just watched TV. Saturday we went to Ikea, both some Swedish delicacies (glog, cheese and bread, all mniam mniam), tones of candles and other stuff that we always buy at Ikea even though we shouldn't. Nothing really important. And a pillow for Prince. I hope he will enjoy it.
We were supposed to watch rugby, go for dinner and a concert after shopping but Ade got too hammered the night before and when I called him at 3pm I woke him up. So we just went home, took a nap, went grocery shopping and watched Buffy.
On Sunday I went to Church and verified that we can get married in a Catholic church but the bishop would have to give me permission. Basically the priest did not see any problems with anything, not even the language. One problem solved (I don't mean that we decided that we will get married in Prague but at least we know it is possible.) And then we ate lunch, watched Buffy (we have to give the DVDs back at some point - sorry Megan that it's taking us so long, but we're really trying) and took a nap :) Prince had a lot of "me time" and by the evening he was a bit suspicious why I'm not complaining. Well, I just wanted to read my book in bed - the fall came and I'm all lazy and not wanting to go out of bed. At least for some time until I get used to it and the Prince will have to do stuff with me again :)
In the evening we went to see rugby: Scotland vs Argentina. I have to say that Scotland played much better than I expected especially at the end but they still lost (19:11). It was a good game.
Today I made a first step to move to Scotland. It sounds very serious, but what I really did, is put my CV on line on Scottish website. We will see if there are anyone interested, just to get an idea. Also, we could theoretically move any time. Prince does not know about it yet. He will find out soon.
I have not done any work today! Terrible, I know, but it's Monday.....
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Yet another problem
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
And the winner is...
The story starts sadly: one of senior managers in my company had a serious accident this summer. He was on holidays in Italy, jumped to the swimming pool and broke his spine. He was in comma for a long time, now he is getting better, but he still does not move his legs and is connected to all sorts of medical equipment. As it happens on such occasions, people decided to collect money for him and his family (he has a very young son, just over a year old). To make it more interesting, it was decided that we will organize a raffle. So today was the final day and the prices were given away. And I won! Not the iPod that I really wanted but something quite interesting, although much less healthy. Those are my prises:
Absolut Bling-Bling Vodka - Special Edition
Jose Cuervo Classico Tequila
2 bottles Red wine (Château neuf du pape 1996)
Turkish delight from Turkey
I am going to take it home and enjoy during Christmas with my family. Well, except for the wine probably. We will drink it with Prince, at least one bottle.
Nieoczekiwani czytelnicy
No nic, rozpisalam sie strasznie, a chcialam tylko napisac, jak mnie to zaskoczylo, ze Mam-Kryzys-Wieku-Sredniego czyta mojego bloga :)
Monday, October 01, 2007
Announcement
We went for the weekend to Cesky Krumlov, beautiful medieval town in Southern Bohemia. Friday was a public holiday here so we went in the morning, we stayed in a pension that used to be a part of city wall, it was build in 1502. Cool. Saturday was beautiful weather, unfortunately Prince was not feeling too well, so in the morning I went alone for a walk, but in the afternoon we took a tour of the castle. He really wanted to go to the tower, even though we were there a year ago with his Dad. But he really wanted so we went up. It was late afternoon, sunny and warm and beautiful. We went to the corner with the city behind us and he knelt... I wasn't sure what is he doing, I was so surprised. I don't quite remember what he said but it was beautiful. And when he opened the box with the ring, I knew that he is proposing. Of course I said yes. (When I thought about it later, I realized I should say something like 'I will'. I hope it still counts.) We stayed at the tower for some time. It was the best moments of my life. I never felt so happy and so much in love. And I know I want to spend my life with him.
Now, we have a lot of things to talk about and to plan. Of course, it can't be too easy with us: we have totally different expectations (Scottish castle vs church, preferably catholic). But we will find a compromise. And we will be happy always as we are now.
I zyli dlugo i szczesliwie....
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Only 2 days left
Is there anything else going on...? We're having a wave of people giving their resignations at work (end of the month). I wonder who will be next. Actually, I am pretty sure I know two others. I would probably start looking for something else by now but we are talking about moving to Scotland so it doesn't really make sense to change the job for half a year or a year. Especially that nobody will pay me as well as here (I am the manager after all). And it's better to have more experience in one company than to change too many times.
OK, need to go for my English class.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Another day in the corporate world
Except for that, nothing new is going on. We went out Tuesday to watch rugby. Scotland won 42:0 with Romania! WOW!!!!
Yesterday, I went out with work, as usual to say goodbye to someone. This time it was a Polish girl who was here in Prague just temporarily until she received her work permit in France. She just got it and is moving to Paris.
And that's all. I'm going to go early to bed tonight. Before maybe watch Buffy. And do nothing except reading.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Rano
Nic to, trzeba popracowac (chociaz teraz nie bardzo mam co robic, ale za chwile ide do lekarza, a jak wroce to cos tu na pewno bedzie).
Friday, September 14, 2007
Zyd przed wojna
"- To wam powiem: oni byli kiedyś poglądowo bardzo czerwoni, ten Izaak Halber i ona.
- A to, że Żydzi?
- Kogo to tam teraz obchodzi, kto był Żydem przed wojną?"
Wesele
Mloda para przed kosciolem
Ach, ta milosc
Mart (tak mnie nazwala moja partnerka)
Ja, Kamil (nowo odkryty kuzyn, bo juz z mlodszego pokolenia), Monika i Artur, Mloda, Tomek, czyli nasza szczesliwa rodzinka. Jak to dobrze, ze mam takia fajna rodzinke. Na centralnym miejscu, oczywiscie, wisniowka domowej roboty Matki Teresy.
Monika, Mloda Para, Mloda i Kamil - czyz nie sa piekni?
A tutaj moja urocza partnerka z wesela. Niestety, zachowala sie nikczemnie i bawila sie z jakimis mezczyznami zostawiajac swojego Marta na pastwe losu (a dokladniej kuzynow i nalewek).
Zdjec jest bardzo duzo, nie bede sie wszystkimi dzielic. Jak widac, wszyscy bawilismy sie super. Najlepsze wesele w mim zyciu. Do tego mojego ulubionego kuzyna. Wiekszosc czasu spedzilam gadajac z rodzinka, ktorej dawno nie widzialam. Chociaz nie powiem, na parkiecie tez sie pojawialam. Pod koniec zaciagnelam Tatusia, ktory drugiego dnia bardzo narzekal, ze go tak zmeczylysmy (wszystkie jego 3 kobiety), ze chodzic nie moze. Moral z tego plynie taki, ze albo nalezy trenowac czesciej, albo nie plodzic dwoch takich corek :)
Poza tematem wesela musze dodac, ze dom mnie zauroczyl. Widzialam, jak rodzice sa szczesliwi. W koncu im sie udalo. Na prawde zrobili kawal dobrej roboty wykanczajac ten dom. Bardzo mi sie podoba i czuje sie dobrze, jak w domu. Tylko jedna rzecz mi sie tam nie podoba: schody. Sa bardzo sliskie i nawyrazniej mnie nie lubia, bo jak w poniedzialek ze wszystkimi gratami schodzilam na dol, to jeden mi gdzies uciekl spod nog i spadlam na leb naszyje. Bolalo, nadal boli, musze sie z nimi policzyc nastepnym razem. Macie jakis pomysl jak sie odplacic?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Hi back
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Slodka rozlaka - nie rozlaka
Mieszkamy juz osobno, od niedzieli. Jest nawet fajnie. Tym bardziej, ze ja w tym nowym miejscu tylko spie jak na razie. Jest to o wiele lepsze rozwiazanie od poprzedniego miesiaca, gdy nie moglismy sie spotkac. Teraz wiem, ze gdy bede w zlym nastroju, moge do ukochanego zadzwonic i on przyjdzie i mnie ukolysze do snu :) A poza tym te randki to fajne sa :) Bo ja przeciez nigdy nie mialam takich zwyczajnych randek, kina i kolacji itp itd. Zawsze to jakos bylo bardziej skomplikowane. A teraz jest fajnie :)
Monday, September 03, 2007
The fall is comming
Except for that, I moved yesterday. My new room is very nice, big and smacked in the middle of Vinohrady, which is extremely convenient for meeting people. Except that my life is centered around Andel and Karlovo Namesti. But it's still ok. I met Ade yesterday for dinner and it was perfect: less than 5 minute walk. And it's also around 5 minutes walk to Prince. Yes, we did not break up. We're still together. But we are going to have a "romantic" moth with dates and stuff. And more time to think. Keep you fingers crossed that it works!
The place is very nice and quite big. There are 3 bedrooms, 2 kind of connected but kind of separate. I sleep in one of them. There is a kitchen with a couch and a balcony! The balcony is small but it doesn't matter - it's a balcony! There are 2 guys living there: Czech and American. They seem nice. We will see, I'm not planning to spend too much time there and have time to become friend but who knows.
I should go back to work, but to be honest, I don't have anything to do. My team got smaller again: we're only 3 me, L. and T. So L. is also on the Internet and T. is working. It's good for him - he is normally the lazy and slow one. He should learn more responsibility :) So that I can chill out!
My dad is amazing! I'm going to Poland this weekend for the wedding. I'm going by bus to Warszawa. This time I didn't want to be a burden so I told my dad that there is no need to come and pick me. I also spoke with Kris who promised to drive me home. So it's all set up. Even if something happens and Kris cannot come, there are tones of trains. I explained this to my dad. But he cannot believe me. Every other day he asks me if I am sure, if I will be ok, because he really can come to pick me up. It's very nice but I am a big girl and can handle 160km. And I really don't want him to come always - he would have to get up very early and it's quite tiring especially for him. So we will see how I will get home. The last time I planned to go by train, my bus had problems, it was a few hours delayed and my dad came to Warszawa. Hopefully this time everything will be ok.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
c.d.n.
Znowu mam nadzieje.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Monday's update
Rob is coming back this afternoon. I'm looking forward as much as I am afraid. Keep your fingers crossed.
The weekend was quite nice. On Friday we were going to go to a movie party but at the end we (me and Ade) just stayed in his local and talked. It was very nice, he is a very intelligent guy.
Saturday David organized a tournament in ...hmmm forgot how it is called :))) Table football maybe (football = soccer). It was a lot of fun. He has a garden so we were outside, grilled some delicacies. Mniam mniam.
And Sunday was similar to the last one: I stayed at home, cleaned it all again. Now it's ready for Rob. It's shinning! I cooked something nice for dinner, then I realized he does not like cooked veggies. Oh well, I love it. I can eat it all (it would take me at least a week but I would).
Now, it's just waiting.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Wazne rozmowy, wazniejsze decyzje
Nie moge sie zdecydowac, w ktorym jezyku to napisac... Ostatnio najwiecej jednak mowie po czesku, ale moje pisanie jest bardzo slabe. Mimo to, ze piszemy sobie z Lida maile w pracy. Tutaj jeszcze duzo wysilku i nauki potrzeba, a biorac pod uwage, ze sie nie ucze aktywnie, nie ma o czym mowic.
Humor i nastroj poprawil mi sie o 100%. Po pierwsze ciekawie spedzialam tydzien. We wtorek poszlam na koncert irlandzkiej muzyki z Amerykanka, a ona przyprowadzila Irlandczyka. Aczkolwiek stojac w kolejce po piwo zdarzylo mi sie cos niespodziewanego - spotkalam znajomego! Alesa, bylego chlopaka Lidy, a mojego bylego wspollokatora. A znajac nasza podobna milosc do rumu, szybko skonczylo sie na znalezieniu wspolnego stolu. Co mnie rowniez zaskoczylo to to, ze Ales nie byl z kumplami, ale z dziewczyna. Zreszta bardzo mila. Takze wtorek spedzilam po czesko-irlandzku, pijac rum.
Na srode nic nie planowala, bo szczerze mowiac te rumy mnie zmeczyly, ale Adrian napisal, ze idzie sie na kolacje. No wiec sie przylaczylam. Skonczylo sie na tym, ze bylismy tylko we dwojke, ale bylo SUPER! Juz bardzo dawno z nikim nie mialam tak ciekawej dyskusji na wszystkie mozliwe tematy: zaczelo sie o glupich typu ubiegly weekend i co u kogo slychac, przeszlo na polityke i religie, imigracje i ogolnie problemy wspolczesnych spoleczenstw, Ameryke i Anglie i Prage.... skonczylo sie na tym, ze mi opowiedzial czesc swojego zycia, ktore bylo wyjatkowe. Bardzo wyjatkowe. Natchnelo mnie to nowymi myslami na temat tego, co robie ze swoim zyciem, a co bym chciala z nim robic. Niesamowity czlowiek, ten Adrian. Jestem nadal pod wielkim wrazeniem. (Malutka uwaga: on ma czterdziesci pare lat, takze mial czas aby duzo przezyc.)
Wczoraj bylam juz pewna, ze po pracy pojde jak grzeczna dziewczynka do domu, bo w pracy usypialam strasznie. Nie mialam kaca, ale po prost bylam bardzo zmeczona. Az tu okolo piatej po poludniu Lida dzwoni, czy bysmy nie wyskoczyly na piwko. A ze ja Lide kocham niesamowicie, nie moglam sie nie zgodzic. Do tego zaproponowala, ze tym razem pojedziemy do niej i u niej sie przespie. Nie moglam stracic tej okazji. Siadlysmy sobie w bardzo przyjemnej knajpce, w ogrodku "U kasztanu" i tak sobie dobrze porozmawialysmy. Oczywiscie nadrzednym tematem byli mezczyzni, ale w bardziej ogolnym kontakscie. Juz dawno razem tego nie analizowalysmy, bo zawsze szedl z nami pan j. A nim sie nie da bo rowniez on jest naszym tematem. W kazdym razie jak to mowia Czesi, "probralysmy" facetow, po czym zaczelysmy analizowac nasze wybory zyciowe i drogi jakie wybieralysmy. Drogi, ktore bardzo czesto byly bardzo rozna od typowych, utartych i wybieranych przez wiekszosc. Dla przykladu Lida nigdy nie byla w powaznym, dlugim zwiazku i niekoniecznie dlatego, ze nie miala okazji, ale dlatego ze zawsze uciekala. Jej edukacja tez byla bardzo skomplikowana (szczerze mowiac, nie pamietam do konca, jak to szlo). A ja - to wiecie wszyscy, wyjechalam na studia z miasta, do ktorego sie przyjezdza na studia, mialam tylko powazne zwiazki i to bez przerwy, golilam glowe na lyso (albo prawie)... itp itd nie chce teraz tym sie zajmowac. W kazdym razie doszlysmy do tego, co kazda z nas na tym etapie w zyciu potrzebuje dla siebie osiagnac: ja potrzebuje byc sama i znalezc w tym szczescie (bo jak sie nie jest szczesliwym samemu ze soba, to nie mozna byc z drugim czlowiekiem), oraz robic cos poza praca, cos co bedzie mialo sens i bedzie zgodne z moimi idealami (bo teraz pracuje w takiej globalistycznej firmie, z jakimi w pewnym stopniu walczylam, chociaz nie aktywnie; weszlam w wyscig szczurow, mimo ze staram sie trzymac z boku; tutaj jest tylko wielki biznas i pieniadze, pieniadze, pieniadze... dokladnie tego nigdy nie chcialam). Lida potrzebuje znalezc czlowieka, z ktorym bedzie szczesliwa na tyle, ze nie ucieknie; potrzeuje powaznego zwiazku.
Bardzo mnie podniosly na duchu te dwa ostatnie wieczory i te rozmowy. Mam sile na przyszly tydzien, gdzy Rob wroci i bedziemy musieli przejsc bardzo trudne rozmowy. Mam nadzieje, ze w jakis sposob uda nam sie ....... skonczyc ten zwiazek bez niepotrzebnego bolu. (Wiem, ze bezbolesne to nie bedzie. Bedzie to bolalo bardzo i dlugo.... Ale wiem, ze musze to zrobic, mimo ze go bardzo kocham.)
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Krotko
Jest ok.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Loneliness as a redemtion
I joined Ade and some other people on Friday, we had a few drinks at Noel's and then we went to a party by the river, in Zlute Lazne. It was OK. It was nice with the river right there, we were sitting on the pier chatting. I came back home quite late so Saturday was a lazy day. I went to Vysehrad, where I met a friend of a friend. It was nice. I needed to talk to someone. But that was short and I was too tired to join Ade & co. for a boat party that they planned. And yesterday was another lonely day. I went to church and cleaned the kitchen (finally!) but I was done around 4pm. And I had nothing else to do. I didn't want to go to Vysehrad again. It was too hot for skating and too cold for swimming. I wasn't in a mood for any movie either. It was a bad day.
Fortunately today is a new day. Not that it's much better. I'm still depressed. People are going to karaoke but I don't like it and I'm not in a mood for a big party. But Lida and Andrea are in town so maybe I'll go out somewhere. I don't know myself what I want. (That's not new, should get used to it.)
I need to find me some new friends, see some new faces. But when you're not a student any more, it seems extremely difficult.
I'm such an idiot! I need a brain surgery. Or better heart surgery!
This should a good time, a redemption time! But I'm not able to make use of it without someone to share this time with. Which makes no sense because I was supposed to be alone and enjoy it!
Friday, August 17, 2007
Marzenia
Bywa że nie jestem szczery
Czasem zwyczajnie kłamię
Jestem próżny pazerny
Dbam tylko o swoje cztery litery
Bywam małostkowy
Cyniczny i bezduszny
Osądzam bez litości
Bez serca i miłości
Miewam nieczyste intencje
Łamię własne zasady
Jestem niekonsekwentny
Drażliwy i nieznośny
Nie potrafię słuchać
A sam bez przerwy gadamJ
ak bym istniał tylko ja
A światem rządził szatan
Chciałbym być zawsze niewinny i prawdziwy
Chciałbym być zawsze pełen wiary i nadziei
Tak jak Bolek i Lolek
Tytus, Romek i Atomek
Dzieci z Bullerbyn
Tomek na tropach yeti
Tak jak król Maciuś pierwszy
Asterix i Obelix
Jak załoga G
MacGyver i Pipi
Kocham sie
Nikt tego nie wie, jak ja kocham siebie
O sobie tylko śnie!
Nieważne dziewczyny, nieważne przyczyny
Ja po prostu kocham się
Na nikogo nie czekam, tylko sobie przyrzekam
Z sobą tylko być
Nigdy się nie pokłócę, nigdy się nie porzucę
Nie rozdzieli mnie nic
Nigdy z sobą się nie kłócę, nigdy siebie nie porzucę
Całe noce, całe dnie, ja po prostu kocham się
Całe noce, całe dnie, ja po prostu, ja po prostu kocham się
Każda dziewczyna ma swego chłopaka, a ja tylko siebie
I najlepiej się mam, sam ze sobą na sam
Ze sobą sam na sam
Swoje włosy uczesze, jeszcze raz się pocieszę
Całusa sobie dam!
Nie rozdzieli mnie nic
Tylko z sobą chce być, bo ja tylko siebie mam
Wszyscy udają, że kogoś szukają, znajdują tylko łzy
Jakis czas się kochają, potem się porzucają
Nie umią sami być
A ja jestem sam i dobrze sie mam
O sobie tylko śnie!
Nieważne dziewczyny, nieważne przyczyny
Ja prostu kocham się
Moze kiedys sie uda. W kazdym razie najwyzszy czas sprobowac.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Another depressing day
Maybe tonight I'll go out with Andrea. If she'll come back from Plzeň. I dont want to spend another evening alone in the appartment. IT's depressing.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Sokoleč, les, kočka, pes...
Teď Vám něco napíše Liduška:
Hoj! Očekávání je pěkná sviňa! Ale bohužel, jsme v tom všichni až po uši. Někdy je to bohudík docela fajn. Jak již jsem předeslala, mám ráda hosty v domě, i když ten dům není tak úplně můj. Martu strašně pobavilo, když se mě brácha zeptal, jestli dojdu zavřít slepice. Nešla jsem je zavřít. Zítra se ocitneme nedaleko slavného slavníkovského hradiště, kam dovezu všechny zájemce vozem. Alespoň si odpočinu od vína, piva a panáků. Už se musím šetřit, Martičce je přeci jen 25, je v rozpuku. Ale mně už zbývají jen pomakované houstičky. A je to dobře. Vivat všichni upřímní lidé, kteří si nepletou upřímnost se zvracením způsobeným momentální nevolností. Jsem asi taky trochu opilá. Na lásku a na přátelství, Martičko. Jsem zvědavá, jak na tom budou v pondělí Tvoje očekávání...
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Nahoda - nehoda
Dzisiaj juz jest woda w biurze i trzeba pracowac :( na szczescie za chwilke weekend. Chyba jade do Lidy na wioske. Zobaczymy...
Monday, August 06, 2007
Przyjaźń, Miłość i Muzyka

Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Woodstock!
Jak wroce, zdam dokladna relacje.
Wczoraj bardzo zasmucila mnie wiadomosc, ze Niedzwiedz odchodzi z Trojki. To moj ulubiony prezenter, ukasztaltowal moj gust muzyczny w duzym stopniu. Poza tym on nadawal ton Trojce, byl wyznacznikiem jej poziomu razem z Kaczkowskim. A teraz odchodzi.... Gdy o tym mowil, glos mu sie lamal :(
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Siedem obciachów architektury
Friday, July 20, 2007
Juz piatek!
Najgorsze, ze slucham Trojeczki, a tam graja z Jarocina i tak mi smutno, ze mnie tam nie ma. Dzisiaj gra Hey. Wlasnie leci Teksanski... klasyka. Dawne czasy sie przypominaja. Nostalgia i tesknota. Wczesniej byl koncet Dzemu. Nie to, co kiedys, z innym wokalista, ale coz, lepsze to niz nic. Wlasnie powtarzaja... Ale bym teraz chciala byc w Jarocinie. Sprobuje w przyszlym roku. Musze tylko sobie uswiadomic troszke wczesniej niz dzien przed poczatkiem, zebym mogla zorganizowac transport. Tym bardziej, ze nie wiem, gdzie za rok bede mieszkac.
Z jednej strony zebralabym sie do domu, ale z drugiej tu mi gra Trojeczka, a tam nie. Z drugiej tam jest Ksieciunio. Juz jest lepiej o niebo lepiej. Mimo tego, ze oboje mielismy stresujacy tydzien. Ja tylko dzisiaj musze sie jakos trzymac, zeby nie wybuchnac. Poszlabym na basen, ale nie mam rzeczy ze soba, a wracac sie do domu i dopiero na basen to bez sensu. Jutro sie wybieram, o ile bedzie pogoda. Wracajac do tematu, w domu spokojniej. I nawet dostalam kwiatuszki przed wczoraj. Chyba czekamy, az Ksieciunio wyjedzie. A moze nie. Ja juz mysle, ze sie bede czuc samotna. Z drugiej strony nie bedzie mi sie spieszylo do domu, wiec bede chodzic na basen. Po drugie, w zwiazku z tym, ze nie bedziemy jesc razem (co trudno byloby zorganizowac w zwiazku z tym, ze bedziemy przebywac na innych kontynentach), nie bede gotowac, i moge spokojnie zaczac jakas diete. Jasne, tak sie ludze.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Jarocin
Na szczescie Jarocin nie jest jedynym festiwalem w PL, chociaz najbardziej kultowym i na prawde zespoly super graja (HEY, Armia, Dezerter, Myslovitz, Trebunie Tutki, itp itd... zobaczcie sobie sami tutaj). Ale skoro nie da rady, to nie da rady. Tak wiec sprobujemy sie z Mloda wybrac na Przystanek Woodstock. Wiekszosci zespolow nie znam, ale to sie nie liczy. Liczy sie atmosfera. Tylko bede musiala Mloda poprosic, zeby moje glany zabrala, bo bez tego sie nie obejdzie. Wydaje mi sie, ze atmosfera moze byc fajniejsza, bardziej wyluzowana. Chociaz nadal nie wiem, jak tam dotre, ale cos wykombinuje. Trzymajcie kciuki.
A teraz na Tara-Fuki!
Reality better than plans
And today I'm going to see Tara Fuki with Lida, Jirka, maybe Ade and Prince. It will be fun. Especially that they are playing on the island - Strelecky Ostrov.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Evening plans
The plan is:
1. go shopping on the way home and get something delicious
2. get home early, before 6 if possible
3. do the dishes as quickly as possible
3. clean all the clothes and other crap lying everywhere
4. cook something delicious
5. watch a good, optimistic movie, probably Jasminum, with dinner and the delicious thing bought earlier
Tomorrow I'll let you know if it worked. It's after 5 already, so I have to get going.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Neuveritelne
Cena je pojmenována podle 81ti leté Stelly Liebeck, která se kdysi polila kávou a úspěšně za to nechala odsoudit McDonalda. Tento případ inspiroval ke každoročnímu vyhodnocení nejkurioznějších a nejúspěšnějších soudních případů v USA.
Bohužel se do loňského hodnocení nedostala současná kampaň teenagerů, kteří nyní houfně žalují McDonaldy, že po jídle u nich ztloustli.
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5. místo (dělené)
Kathleen Robertsonová z Austinu, Texas, vysoudila $780,000 za zlomený kotník v nábytkářském obchodě, kde zakopla „…o pobíhajícího spratka“.
Majitelé obchodu byli rozsudkem dosti překvapeni, protože ten předmětný spratek byl syn paní Robertsonové.
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5. místo (dělené)
19ti letý Carl Truman z Los Angeles, Kalifornie, získal $74,000 + léčebné výlohy, když mu jeho soused přejel ruku vozidlem Honda Accord.
Pan Truman si zřejmě nevšiml, že někdo sedí za volantem právě toho vozu, ze kterého kradl poklice.
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5. místo (dělené)
Terrence Dickson z Bristolu, Pennsylvanie, opouštěl přes garáž dům, který právě vykradl. Nepodařilo se mu ale otevřít dveře garáže, protože vypovědělo automatické otevírání. Zpátky do domu se taky vrátit nemohl, protože si zaklapl spojovací dveře z garáže do bytu.
Majitelé domu byli na dovolené a tak zůstal p. Dickson uvězněn v garáži 8 dní a přežil jen díky zásobě Pepsi a velkému pytli psích granulí.
Od vlastníka domu pak vysoudil náhradu za duševní újmu ve výši $500,000.
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4. místo
Jerry Williams z Little Rocku, Arkansas, získal $14,500 + úhradu nákladů léčení, když byl napaden sousedovým psem beaglem.
Pes byl na řetězu a za plotem – tedy na dvorku svého pána.
Vysouzená náhrada byla poměrně nízká, protože porotě přece jen připadal ten pes poněkud vyprovokován, vzhledem k tomu, že p. Williams lezl přes plot na onen sousedův dvorek a po psovi opakovaně pálil ze vzduchovky.
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3. místo
Filadelfská restaurace musela zaplatit panu Amberu Carsonovi z Lancasteru, Pennsylvania, náhradu ve výši $113,500 poté, co v podniku uklouzl na rozlité limonádě a zlomil si kostrč.
Limonáda se na podlahu dostala několik vteřin před popsaným incidentem, kdy ji p. Carson chrstl do obličete svému příteli během poněkud ostřejší výměny názorů.
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Kara Waltonová z Claymontu, Dealaware, vysoudila na nočním klubu v sousedním městě náhradu za to, že při vylézání z okna záchodu spadla na zem a vyrazila si dva přední zuby.
Stalo se tak proto, že pí. Waltonová se pokušela utéct ze záchodu bez zaplacení poplatku $3.50. Získala náhradu $12,000 + náklady na zubaře.
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Vítězem letošní soutěže byl p. Merv Grazinski z Oklahomy. Ten si koupil zcela nový obytný vůz Winnebago. Při cestě domů z fotbalového zápasu vjel na dálnici, nastavil automat na 130 km/hod, přelezl ze sedadla řidiče do obytné části a vařil si kávu.
Nebylo pak divu, že vůz opustil dálnici, havaroval a převrátil se. P. Grazinski se tudíž soudil s výrobcem, že v návodu k obsluze vozidla nebylo výslovně uvedeno, že toto se nesmí.Porota mu přiřkla náhradu $1,750,000 plus zcela nový Winnebago Motor Home.
Výrobce pak skutečně v tomto smyslu upravil návod k ovládání vozidla pro případ, že by se na světě vyskytl ještě další úplný blbec a naneštěstí si opět koupil jejich vůz.
To je opravdu možné jen v Americe…
I'm sorry that it's only in Czech but it's too long to translate during such a hot day. As I mentioned before, we should all learn new languages :)
Praski piekarnik
I'm dying today - it's crazy hot and I went for lunch. It was a big mistake. I should have eaten fruits or yogurt as I planned. I'd feel better. On the other hand I'm going to the swimming pool today with Lida, so I thought that I should eat something normal to have energy to swim. But now I have even less energy than I would without lunch.
I will continue dying for the next 2 hours. I'm leaving early today to meet Lida. And I don't really care. It's too hot to stay here especially without work to make me busy.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Pics
There is hope
Yesterday was a very bad day for our relationship. I got up in a bad mood and the it screwed up everything because Saturday was OK. Normal. And now normal is good. But yesterday was not normal. We were together but separately. I couldn't feel anything between us, it was like two random people in the same room. It was extremely hard.
In the evening my aunt called me and told me to go for a walk. So I went and it was good. I walked for over 2 hours ad thought a lot. I realized that I am behaving very stupid, not like an adult. That I'm running away from the problems. I do not control my very changeable moods. That I should finally decide what I want. And decide for good.
When I came back from the walk, it was much better, because we talked honestly. Prince agreed that it may be good for us to take some kind of a break and we had an idea that he could go to the US for some time. Especially that he is going for a wedding in August, he could prolong it. He hasn't discussed it with his parents so far, so it's nothing sure but we think it's a good idea. We would have time to think about our relationship without being together (it's very difficult now, because we live together).
We hope that a short time separately will make us realize if we really want to be with each other. And if we both decide that yes, we want to spend the rest of our lives together, we can work on the problems. Otherwise, it makes no sense to put an effort but without commitment.
All right, enough of this. We will solve it. And we will be happy - together or separately.
One more thing: Czech Rep was suddenly moved to Africa... it's crazy hot. Today it's supposed to be 39 degrees! Crazy! I cannot function normally in those conditions, it's terrible!
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Piekny dzien...w praacy
Mam nadzieje, ze u Was wszystkich tez swieci sloneczko i robicie z tego lepszy uzytek niz ja.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Nowy dzien, stare mysli
Nic sie od wczoraj nie mienilo, nadal panuje tu depresja, pesymizm i brak nadziei. Moze jutro bedzie lepiej...
Chcialabym gdzies pojechac, chociaz na chwilke, na weekend, zeby odpoczac i przemyslec rozne rzeczy. I w koncu podjac decyzje, co chce zrobic ze swoim zyciem i z kim chce je spedzic. A moze wlasnie potrzebuje po prostu byc sama przez jakis czas. W koncu od kiedy skonczylam 16 lat, ciagle jestem z kims. Ciagle w powaznych zwiazkach, z wyjatkiem pol rocznej przerwy na 1szym roku studiow. Moze powinnam sie najpierw nauczyc byc sama, zeby moc byc z kims. A moze nie. Moze boje sie tak do konca zaangazowac, przed sama soba zlozyc przysiege, ze z tym wlasnie czlowiekiem chce byc do konca. I stad mi sie w glowie przewraca. W kazdym razie, musze podjac jakas decyzje, bo to co sie ostatnio dzieje, nie moze trwac, ja tego nie wytrzymam, tej nieistoty, niejasnosci, oczekiwania na jakies rozwiazanie, ktore mi spadnie z nieba.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Glupiutka
Co zostalo z tego postu?
Nadal czuje sie jak w klatce. Jak ptak w klatce. Ale ta klatka sie zmniejsza z kazda minuta. Kazdy wie, jak wyglada ptak przyzwyczajony do wolnosci, zlapany w klatke. Tak sie wlasnie czuje. Najgorsze, ze sama sobie ta klatke zbudowalam i sama sie w niej zamknelam.
Nevermind.... moze jutro bedzie lepiej.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Another boring day
Today is a very nice day. I done nothing! I worked for the first hour and then all the clients were kind of quiet, two team members were taking care of anything there was to do, so I read blogs, visited myspaces of some friends, read newspaper, watch videos (news).... And then I had an English class, I was the only one there for the first 20 minutes, then one other person came so we had a conversation class. It was a lot of fun. Not that I tough so much, I have "conversation classes" every day at home, but it was nice and relaxing. Then I went for a coffee. And here I am, waiting for a conference call, that I will just have to listen. After that we're going to a party: a girl is leaving the company.
I spoke with my parents yesterday. They are all happy about the house. They almost finished everything. The only main thing left are doors, it's supposed to be done the next week I think. I'm so happy for them, that they made it!
I hope this time I will not crush my glasses during the party! Keep your fingers crossed :)
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Frustrating job and relaxing 4days weekend
So this was one thing. And the other was even worse because I had to explain myself and I looked like an idiot. I won't go into details, it's not worth it, but the reason was the same: not taking into considerations differences between regions. America is really not the center of the world! Regardless of what most Americans think.
So that's that. Quick update on my work. I would love to move on and find something else now, but it doesn't really make sense if we want to move to Scotland. This is apparently another problem...
Prince was all about moving to Scotland before we went there for the holidays. Now, he is finding many many reasons why it will not work out, all the problems that we will have - up to moving our stuff. In my opinion, we should not worry about actual moving right now, but look for a job / studies, find out how big chances of getting a good job do we have and so on... Then we can figure out how to move all of this crap that we collected and how to find apartment and so on.... So I'm a bit frustrated with this as well.
At lease I started to run again, which helps me to get rid of all bad emotions. Spots is really good for mental health.
Now, let's move to the nice and happy aspects of my recent life.
Last week we had two days national holidays Thursday and Friday, so we planned a trip to Czech Paradise with hiking and camping. Actually it was Prince who planned it all. The plan was great, but a little bit too intense. First day, on Thursday morning we took a bus to Mlada Skala. As soon we get of the bus it started puring rain. So we waited for some time till it got better, went to the campsite, got totally wet. And then it stopped, so we put up our tent and went hiking. It rained again during the day, but there were times with sun. So went hiking, we got to the best castle ever Vranov - Pantheon. The castle was carved in the rock, it's really amazing to imagine people living there in XV th century! After that we hiked to Frýdštejn, another castle on and in the rock. From there we went to Drábovna that supposedly had ruins but really, there were only rocks, on which a wooden castle used to stand. It was still really cool. We walked trough Besedické skály, a wonderful rock formations and rock cities. I will try to post some pics soon so that you can see how wonderful it was.
The only problem was that Prince started having problems with his knee in the middle of our hike. It was quite bad. But we hiked the way we planned, although I hoped we could go to the other side of Mlada Skala in the afternoon. We came to town, had some dinner and went to sleep very early. We hoped to get up at 6 but we slept quite late. I slept very well, which was surprising, because usually I cannot get comfortable on the sleeping pad. Ad Prince had problems during the night so he finally got some sleep in the morning. And we left much later we planned - around 9. We went to Zbirohy, another ruined castle that was build on three rocks. On the way back we couldn't decide what to do and if we should stay or go back to Prague. The main reason for going back was Prince's knee but an uncomfortable night played an important role in his attitude. So we decided to hike a little bit more to another part of Besedické skály. I wish we made our decisions quicker and not second guess them over and over again. This way we could have take a longer but easy hike around Suche Skaly. Well, at least I saw them from the tow. But we have serious problems with making decisions together. Yet another issue of our relationship....
So we went back to Prague, we got home around 4 or 5. I cannot say that we didn't spend a nice two day is Prague. We went for a very nice dinner on Friday (this time Prince didn't even complain that I do not talk, we had a very good conversation). On Saturday I went running, we gamed and in the afternoon we went to have dinner with some friends. They were planning to go to a blues pub for some concert, but we decided to go home. We planned to go back to Cesky Raj the next day - to the castle Kost. So we missed what seemed a very interesting event and the next morning we did not get up :))) We are so lazy.... But we had to get up really early to catch the bus, and we were tired and so on... OK, I'm rationalizing it. In the end we spend most Sunday separately - Prince was working on the game and I went running and them to Vysehrad (I had a nice walk and I spend some time there reading; it was quite nice). We gamed a little bit in the afternoon, that was cool.
So that's our "great" weekend! We thought we are tough and can camp and hike in the rain and so on...but we're not :) I have to admit this. Still, it was a fun weekend and except for two tiny things (hiking longer on Friday and going somewhere on Sunday), I wouldn't change anything.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
I left Friday morning with Marysia and her 2 friends, we got to Karlovy Vary around 11, left the bags at the hostel (it wasn't a real hostel, it's just a school where people can sleep during the festival, so it's very basic - just a piece of floor to sleep on, sinks and toilets; not shower!). And we started our great adventure with movie!
First we got out passes that allowed us see 3 movies a day for free, the schedule and all the info, how to reserve the tickets, which is not that easy - there are tones of people and not so many seats in the theaters. So we got tickets for Friday and Saturday and we went for lunch (fried cheese of course, girls came from the country where fried cheeses was not discovered so far) and for a walk. The town is really beautiful, obviously build for the richest to come and relax in the spa. So the buildings are very fancy and the theater is amazing, and the hotels, everything! Even the communist didn't manage to destroy it too much. The town was build by the valley of a river, so on both sides there are hills / mountains. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to explore them, but I hope we can go there some day with Prince and do that.
The walks we managed to do, were between the movies, to get from one cinema to the other :) But in Karlovy Vary, everywhere you go it's beautiful and you can always discover something new and pretty. The first day, we decided that we have some time before the movie starts so we decided to go for a walk. So we walked and walked, and couldn't find the path in the right direction! We almost missed our movie, we got there just 6 minutes before the screening and the rule is that if you won't take your seat up to 5 minutes before, your ticket is given to someone else. Well, we managed it. But I think that Marysia wished later that we didn't. The movie was Japanese thriller. It sound very interesting, about the guy who can enter people's dreams. But both Marysia and me have issues with scary movies. Marysia is even worse than me. And I just don't watch such movies, because I'm too scared. So we went, sat in the first row and hold each other's hand not to be scared. Marysia missed probably half the movie, me around 25% - we were too scared to watch. At the end I wasn't so scared - I was laughing too hard at us. But the movie was good, it's just the way Japanese movies are - very bloody.
So that's what we saw:
1. Venus, a British movie about being old, weird relationship and dying, almost a comedy,
2. Nightmare detective, the Japanese thriller
3. Pingpong, about 16 year old falling in love with his aunt, very German movie
3. Hranice, short movie about a very interesting episode in Czech history, starring actors from a TV show I watch sometimes, proved to be better actors than I expected
4. Marta, there is war and partisans, father and son who finds a wounded women soldier and takes her home, a bit too minimalist
5. Rozpominani a documentary about the Czech society, a series of short interviews with people met on the streets, in pubs, hospital and so on; the questions is: does it captures anything we didn't know yet; it was quite funny
6. Klopka very depressing Serbian movie; how much is life worth; can you kill a man to save a child
7. Bestiář light comedy about a girl and a boy and a few more boys, the only one movie we saw that was not depressing in any way, it wasn't that good either; so maybe a good movie has to be sad and pessimistic....
8. The Letter classic, black and white psychological movie, directed by William Wyler; if only now directors learned from it; there was not action as such but it didn't need to, that's the way to show person's thoughts and motives;
9. Przebacz Polish movie for the end; again depressing but there was a bit of hope, with good hip-hop (sometimes I miss laud hip-hop from behind the wall) behind
Unfortunately, that's all I managed to see. I saw 4 movies on Saturday and it was a little bit too much. I wish I could stay longer, but work.... And I went without Prince and not, we have 4 day weekend so we plan to go to the Czech paradise.
The weekend was great, Marysia - than you for invitation!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Odleciec
Moze po prostu wybralam zbyt trudne zadanie: zyc w obcym miejscu z kims, z kim tak na prawde nie mam nic wspolnego, w niczym nie jestemy podobni. Same roznice, ktore trzeba pokonywac na kazdym kroku. W koncu sie to staje nie do zniesienia. Pozostaje pytanie : czy warto?
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
One minute blog
2. I'm stressing out - Prince's sister with her husband are comming to Prague, actually they should be already in Prague, probably on their way here.
3. Prince posted on his blog - check it out!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
We're back!
But now, I'm swamped with work. I had almost 700 emails to read. It's been only 7 working days! Crazy!
So I'll write more and post some pics when I'll finish reading them :) No, I'm already done. But still, I need to catch up with everything else.
Maybe you could convince Prince to write a few words, I'm sure it's much more enjoyable for you to read than my crapy English.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Short post written in a hurry
I'm sorry for a long break but for some reason life is really crazy recently. I wanted to write about so many great things that we did, for example canoe trip or Prazske Jaro (we saw Wagner's opera made into one concert "Ring without Words" and China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra - traditional Chinese music). Now, we're preparing for our greatest trip of this year - to Scotland. We're leaving tomorrow eary afteroon and I still have a lot to do, so I'll leave you here.
Take care and keep you fingers crossed that we both fall in love with Scotland - it might be our future home.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Ordinary day
Przepraszam za dluga cisze, ale mialam stranie duzo pracy. Teraz sie troszke uspokaja. Ale tak juz sie przyzwyczailam, ze mam okrutnie duzo pracy, ze teraz mam 5 minut i nic do roboty i nie wiem co robic :) Gazet mi sie nie chce czytac online tym bardziej, ze przywiozlam sobie caly stos i ledwo zaczelam. W domu tez nie mam zbyt duzo czasu, bo trzeba nadrobic stracony czas i z Ksieciuniem i ze znajomymi. Tak leci...
Czy cos wyjatkowego sie stalo ostatnio?
Caly weekend przespalam - doslownie. W sobote wstalam z lozka ok 16-17tej. Ach, w niedziele bylismy w botaniku, na wystawie bonsai. Super! Jedna z najlepszych - miniaturowa wierzba. Na koniec tez dostalam, ale nie pamietam jakie to drzewko. Adze Adasiowej by sie spodobalo. W ogole fajny ten botanik. Jak mnie kiedys odwiedza, to ich zabiore koniecznie.
W sobote po tym lezeniu w lozku, poszlismy przynajmniej na spacer wieczorowa pora po Pradze i znalezlismy bardzo fajne miejsce, gdzie jeszcze niegdy nie bylam. Nie, zebym tak dobrze znala Prage, ale to bylo w samym sercu miasta, kawaleczek od Mostu Karola (jak mowia Czesi: stal, stoi, bedzie stal; nie ma potrzeby po nim chodzic).
Poza tym nic sie nie dzieje. W ubieglym tygodniu bylam oczywiscie w knajpie w czwartek a dzisiaj tez mialam nadzieje, ale Lida moja kochana jest chora, ma zapalenie oskrzeli juz drugi tydzien. Biedactwo. Takze pojde chyba do domu, puszcze sobie jakis film i bede czekac na Ksieciunia az wroci z pracy.
I jeszcze slucham nowej plytki Dolore. Jest sliczna.
Saturday, May 05, 2007
@ home
I did many things, too many to write about now (it's late at night and I'm waiting to talk to Prince). I have to mention that I went to Krakow. It was a very sentimental trip: I visited all places I loved and hated, places I spend most of my time like the campus, my student house, Blonia, favourite pubs (the ones still existing), ate traditional polish pierogi. Of course I met my best friends: Marta and Gucio. We had to go to see Gucio 'cause he was working late and couldn't come to Krakow so I even had a short trip to mountains. It's a pity more people couldn't come but that's life. I lost many of my friends, well it means they were not really my friends. Still it would be nice to see them. But the trip was great even if only one day. Pics from Krakow.
I also posted some photoes from grill at my cousin's place on Monday here.
And that's all for now. I will try to write more when I get home - Prince got online.