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In se je le zgodilo, ze tako dolgo znana zelja po malo bolj ‘cool’ fotoaparatu in ustvarjanju slik se je koncno uresnicila :)

Ampak to ni samo majhna malenkost. Je veliko vec, ker predstavlja pomemben korak, da se ena izmed zelja oz. sanj koncno izpolni, torej uresnici. Taksna odlocitev najprej prinese vznemirjenje, pricakovanje in nestrpnost od sanj do dejanja, trajnejsa pa sta zadovoljstvo in sreca, da cas namenis necemu, s cimer lahko izrazis del sebe. To ni samo tista sreca z nasmehom na licu, ki jo lahko nadene vsak, ampak to je tista notranja sreca, ki pride prikrito, na tak nacin tudi deluje, ampak je vseeno vidna, saj se dotakne tudi drugih.

Tako zdaj je objavljenih nekaj prvih slik, ki so nastale v teh posameznihj zelenih kotickih, ki jih Ljubljana ponuja. Ker sem precej zacetnik v slikanju, se bolj pa v PS, sprejmem vsako pohvalo, kritiko, nasvet,poucne informacije…

Let’s say you love foreign languages. And let’s add to that the fact that you are pretty good at foreign languages (since you do love them :D ). So your knowledge of the basic (most-global) world languages is not really bad, so to speak.

And then you visit a country like Hungary, France, Italy etc. and can’t even buy a soda. Or even better: you go to a post-office (POST OFFICE!!!) … and speak about 6-7 languages (among them also global languages like English, German, etc.). But since your language repertoire doesn’t include the language of that country you can’t even get 5 postcards and the stamps for them … without the skillful use of hand-language, that is.

Would you say that that is appropriate for a country? Isn’t it them … who get the money from us tourists. Why do we, when tourists come to our country, always go all the way to even try to speak Japanese xD or some other to us very distant language, but they won’t even speak English, German etc. when we go abroad?! Is that the attitude the EU-member countries or any other country should be having? And then we look like the stupid ones; I don’t know about you … but that doesn’t make me jump around with joy. =)

I’m not saying we should forget our language and culture. The exact opposite!!! =) Especially you stiff idiots who are too proud to speak a foreign language, READ THIS: By using a language the tourists can ACTUALLY understand, you can share more of your language and culture. And that’s what every country should be (and I think it is) aiming to achieve. But the approach they use … no more comments on that xD.

English-speaking countries … you aren’t an exception. Learn some more friggin’ languages. English IS NOT the only global language anymore and YOU are not better than people from other countries. Remember… different, but equal! =)

Basically what I’m trying to say is … foreign languages are important. So people; no matter how old or young you are - keep educating yourselves! ;)

Let me start by presenting what the usual after-people-get-home talk with their roommate/spouse/living-cost-sharing-partner talk sounds like:

#1: (just came home after a long day at work/university, probably Monday) Bwaah, home finally. Hi there #2
#2: (has been home most of the day) Hey there :D How was your day?
#1: Unbearable! I forgot my [insert something] at home, then I missed the bus, then I almost fell asleep in the office/classroom …
#2: Whoa whoa, calm down for a moment. Everything can’t have been bad!
#1: No? It gets worse. I didn’t get promotion/A-mark I was hoping for which means I’ll be stuck in the same position for the next year at least!
#2: Well that certainly sux. But did really nothing good happen throughout the day?
#1: Not that I know of.

Now you will probably say something like, “No wonder that #2 was in such a good mood. He spent the whole day long sleeping, eating and basically doing nothing but enjoying himself, while #1 had to do all the work.”

But imagine the following. #1 is a girl, who spent the whole night learning for an exam, then went to university and forgot her lucky pencil and almost fell asleep during her exam. #2 is a dude, who was learning the previous evening, without being full of coffee, went to bed at 2AM, slept until 10 AM skipping the morning classes that day, wrote and exam of the same difficulty as the girl and then returned home. #1 does it the same way every time and #2 does it the same way every time. #1 didn’t get the A she wanted before and probably won’t again. #2 got an A- and will probably again. Why I wonder? I’ll share a secret with you.

BECAUSE #2 TAKES IT EASY!

He found the perfect way in life. He’s doing what he has to but not because he has to but because he doesn’t consider it vital to his survival. Sure, if his life depended on it, he would probably be a bit more nervous too, but it was just an exam. He learnt until he was tired, then went to bed. He got enough sleep for his brain to actually work the next day and probably got his A-. #1 on the other hand was all nervous about the exam, probably for the past week as well, studied every day like crazy and instead of taking it easy and chilling for the last day, she spent all night long revising the materials. On the next day she was deprived of sleep, unable to focus and doomed to not get her A.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that you have to be satisfied with grades/payment lower than what you actually deserve. But as in the stock market and all the other places in real life, there is a certain ration. It’s called for-how-much-would-you-torture-yourself-a-set-amount. The only difference between #1 and #2 in these terms is that #1 is willing to take 300% punishment to get 100% out of it and #2 is only willing to take 100% punishment to get 90% out of it. #1 will be totally burnt out by the time she hits 40 and #2 will be nice and easy and affluent for the rest of his life.

You have to take life easy. If someone asks you what happened to you today, at least TRY to think of something positive. By thinking about bad stuff only, you’re just asking for it to happen again. And if you don’t believe me, look at Heffner :D Do you think he’s thinking about some old hags at all? And before you say that he isn’t only because he is constantly surrounded by his bunny squad ask yourself this. Before he became THE bunny master, would he have started creating his bunny squad if all he was thinking about were old hags?

Be positive ;)

So, we finaly made it to Google :D Now that we’ve truly embarked on our quest to eternal web-based glory we will do our best not to let too much water flow by without interesting reading materials for YOU!

Carlita also promised the first batch of pictures no later than tomorrow. The girl passed her Latin exam (we sho proud of her!) so now she has too much free time on her hands ;) GO GIRL! ;)

I’ve always known that there are some people who aren’t the brightest. But seriously now, today’s events surpass all previous stupidities, when dealing with people that are actually in charge of something not completely unimportant.

Let’s say we have this student named George James Smith Wesson. He’s just your normal student, who had to send some documentation to his university, to be able to enroll in the next year. He however lives in a student dorm, where the security people are responsible for keeping all the important mail, that needs a signature, and only forward notices to students, who then come and pick that up. Everything goes nice and well for Joe Banks, Joel Jackson and Jack Daniels. However once it comes to George James Smith Wesson the security person suddenly has a problem. A problem that wouldn’t be a problem to anybody but someone who is seriously under the normal niveau of IQ. He gets an envelope that says “personal delivery only” which means he has to keep it and send a notice to the mailbox of the building GJSW lives in and keep the envelope for personal collection by GJSW. Everything works out nice. He writes the notice and sends it. The person responsible in the building sorts it out in the correct mailbox according to the first surname on the notice. GJSW knows that his mail should already be sorted so he goes and checks. Nothing. Goes and checks again in a few days. Still nothing. He starts ranting around and suddenly after a few talks with friends it dawns on him. He goes and checks again. Apparently his mail arrived already the day before even his first crusade to check for it. So what went wrong u ask? The !R! security guy thought that James sounds an awful lot as a surname, and even though the name and surname were written like George James Smith Wesson it was apparently still totally impossible to see that James is, in fact, a name and not a bloody surname! So the security guy just sent out the notice with the surname James, which got sorted under J obviously.

By now, GJ has his mail and is just a bit pissed off about losing valuable time because of some narrow-minded security person who apparently cannot comprehend that just because 99% of population only have 1 name and at best 2 surnames, this doesn’t mean that NOBODY CAN HAVE MORE THAN 1 BLOODY FIRST NAME

*rant off*

Oh and in case you’re wondering, yeah, I’m GJ :P