1. Visit Japan, Holland, India, and some icy-cold place (Alaska or Iceland).

2. See all oceans.

3. Smoke a Peace Pipe with a real Native American.

4. Have a baby

5. Figure out all those stocks, shares, bonds, dividends and investment portfolio things.

5A. Get rich.

6. Become successful (still very vague on which field though! Need to work it out).

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Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived a girl who thought she loved horses.

She read somewhere that horses were kind and intelligent and she had been horse riding a few times, so she thought she knew enough to call herself a horse lover.

Until she met another girl, who actually lived on a farm and looked after the real horses for a ( Read more... )

The first musical I ever saw was Chicago, and it wasn’t even a live show, it was the movie. I loved it so much, I had it on DVD and listened to it like 800 times. (Yes, I treated it like a background compilation CD). When 5 years later I saw the “real” Chicago on Broadway, New York, I was shocked to see how the movie makers misinterpreted the story ( Read more... )

I was buying a drink from a small cafe today. One takeaway earl gray please, - I said to the cafe girl. Then I noticed a large jar of fudge on the counter. And two fudge, as well, I added. Russian? - she asked me. I am, - I answered. Fudge - you prefer Russian or chocolate? she repeated.

:))) I am still laughing when I think about it.


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OK, well, the worst city I have been to is Bangkok. When I found myself there, on a four day stopover between England and New Zealand, I was both disgusted and horrified. First it was the heat, second it was the smell. The smell of the sweat and the sewage was thick and overpowering from the moment I stepped my foot to the ground.

The very first ( Read more... )

When I think about death, I think more of technicalities rather than of the actual fact of departing this world. I have never understood why would people choose cremation over funerals, although there is some logic to it: mess-free, hassle-free, tears-free; burned and scattered and done with.

I, on the other hand, want to be buried. I want to have ( Read more... )

Number one. Overused words. All those words that annoy the hell out of us. Webinar. Wordsmith! And organic, everything is bloody organic these days - well, literally, everything is organic. Random, sweet, awesome, POP.

My list of words that make me shiver:YUM/YUMMY from anybody over the age of 6. FASHIONISTA - only dorks say that! Also, A WHITE LIE ( Read more... )

I think you get old when you stop taking your birthdays seriously. The moment you stop caring about gifts, clowns and face painting is when you might as well prepare your will and your cremation arrangements. I think the transition period is tough, but the moment when you stop caring whether you are 26 or 86 is crucial. Nothing can save you after ( Read more... )

As previously stated, technological progress scares me a little. Yet the spam filter on my letter box is doing a good job, shielding the unwanted information and burying it forever in the trash tin. Still every now and then I would receive a letter offering some lasting longer enlargement replicas, or - the best restaurant in the world.

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Hey, I deserve it! Some me time. Bit of a treat. Luxury. Spoiling myself. Pampering. I mean, I work hard. Really hard. Not paid work, necessarily. But I’ve got a lot on. Especially at this time of the year. People rely on me. If I say I’m going to be there, I’m there. You could call some of it social, I suppose, but it’s all about meeting ( Read more... )