I wish other countries would be as popular as Ireland is in Poland. There's always something interesting going on during the Irish Week in Poznań. Today I had the chance to re-watch  "Bloody Sunday." I mean "re-watch" in two senses. I had already seen it before, but this time was different in two ways. It was not on a TV screen but in a movie, my ( Read more... )

Last Friday I finally managed to go and see Polski Teatr Tańca (Polish Dance Thearte). Wooow. All those people who used to tell me that this dancing troupe from Poznań simply rocks proved right, sooo right. I did not expect that watching modern dance could move me so much. And those bodies...  I'm straight so it's not surprising I find male bodies ( Read more... )

That was my first thought after watching "Paris, je t'aime" (a.k.a. Paris, I love you or Zakochany Paryż) yesterday. This movie stole my heart. It made me believe again that the topic of love is still productive. I mean, I know love is not a cliche but a really great and important thing. It's just that good movies about love happen so rarely. (Not ( Read more... )

Always thought it it would be great to find out more about the nature of creativity, you know, what makes people creative, how creativity works, etc. Now, having spent the last couple of days reading and writing a paper on creativity in translation, I feel like doing anything but thinking creatively :P ( Read more... )

... but it's better than nothing... The brainstormy  "Thunder without rain" is back in Poland... The song can be heard in the newest commercial of the Warka brewery. Pity guys do not appear there. At least I'd have the illusion they are in Poland ;)

A few minutes ago my intuition told me: "Ignore Dutch verbs for a while. Go make some tee and turn the TV on." Fortunately, I followed my intuton (or actually my lazy guts ;P ) and the reward was... Discovering that they are showing the 6th series of Gilmore Girls on TVN7. Finally! The world got prettier & my love for TVN7 got stronger :)
Maybe I ( Read more... )

Whenever you think YOU had a bad day, whenever you think only YOUR life's full of irritation, when you're on a losing streak, when you simply think you have had enough of everything and everyone... CHECK THIS OUT for consolation * and fun ( Read more... )

It is often that one mayor event can change a lot in someone's life. Well, I must admit there have been no major changes in mine for some time, and yet I do feel a very refreshing breeze somehow. I guess it's the sum total of the following:

- I got a bit ill about a week ago. Though it's nothing very bad, I'm a bit out of shape and so I had to ( Read more... )

I've just came across "Desiderata" and I can't decide what I think about that poem. I mean, there are those fragments I like, but I just cannot say that I like the poem in general. That's why I've put it here to have a place where I could easily find it in the future and I've marked those fragments I appreciated more in bold to be able to check ( Read more... )

Yesterday...No wait, it's already Saturday... Well, on Thursday then I went to a club with some uni friends and since it was St Andrew's Day, they organized this fortune telling for single women which we traditionally have on that day in Poland (elsewhere as well?). I usually don't even remember about this tradition, but this time I wanted to go ( Read more... )