On common trends

Life is a social experiment

Being a minority tends to be a refreshing change.

pif paf

Everybody likes to be liked. Some of us like to pursue the appeal towards them. They've well shaped-up routines to ensure their success on their way to the goal. They're doing pretty well unless the object realizes that it's all about his appeal not him and doesn't want to appear on the scoreboard.

5P truth

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

The awkward switch

Starting to speak to a person in a preferable foreign language of yours, while knowing well that you speak his mother tongue better than he does your chosen language, is a recipe for disaster. Eventually you find yourself unrestfully considering when to make that awkward switch.

You quit by naming the game

the bounds of humor

You can't make fun of something that in general doesn't exist

Mac without keyboard

Apple makes yet another major leap in its minimalism efforts. I think this is a must-have for all of those tech fans.

Running in background villain.exe

Just found this hilarious picture in Ļena's picasa albums. I hope she doesn't mind me posting it here and even if she does then she will have to catch me first :P!

On decisions

  I used to ponder upon the decisions i've made in my life that have brought me to that particular point of presence - being wrong or right to turn left or right. Of course it doesn't matter much, actually it doesn't matter at all, if you don't learn from it. But that's yet another banality, as well as statement that people often make that they don't regret anything that has happened in their lives and the decisions they've made, because they look from the point-of-now and if it's all good, then it means that being wrong at some points of their lives has eventually lead them to the right path.
  After the decision has been made and we've already faced the consequences, we tend to judge whether it was right or wrong - more often I find myself thinking that I've made the wrong decision, because of unfulfilled expectations or smthn. But then you find yourself thinking - maybe the other alternatives were even worse? Maybe all of them were good but it was all the matter of performance. Yes, then you come about issue of performing under conditions and situation you're at - perform your best in situation of now. You can screw up all the great chances that come across and might as well make a wrong situation better.
  Then again, I look at the persons around that have done the right thing even if there was really little information given, just relying on their senses, intuition and ultimately - the golden state of mind. Right! Keep your poise, take a breath, push the button and don't let the leash go to loose. Determination of course is another story :).

the dream

Build it and they will come

Oh my god, you think I'm in control

So much for psychedelics. First I saw the clip I was smiling and laughing all the way both because of the lyrics and the expressions.
This is good, but the other track even better - I like you so much better when you naked. You couldn't even call those lyrics explicit - they're just too straight and unambiguous :). In either case surprisingly amusing stuff from Norway.
Undoubtedly those emerging indie girls come running at me starting from "Ting Tings", "M.I.A", "The Gossip", "Metric" and then "The bird and the Bee", "Florence and the Machine" and etc. Makes me wonder how much there is out of my scope - really frustrating the thought :).

Obstacle course

The location changes, but the trends stay the same. There must be some international directive with a purpose to keep the men away from women shops - the ones of hygiene and the domestic chemistry stuff. The aisles are so narrow, and the turns may appear to be too costly as you really have to watch out not to catch anything while cutting the corner. But there are some better surprises like suddenly a box of some hairspray or lipsticks in the middle of the aisle, which you can't surpass without leaning. But ultimately the coolest stuff of it are advertisement posters hanging down from the ceiling at the height at around 1.90 all over the shop - Herzlich Willkommen! Verdammt!

Sticky rubbish

Mostly you don't need all that rubbish that comes along, you just need the bin.

Reinforcement learning

I have to beat my head against the same wall for 10 times on purpose to be able to escape it the 11th time while being blindfolded.

Don't be late we gotta skate

Last week, I finally had a chance to tryout my skates on the Vienna ice. After the Christmas market has been removed after the new year, now there has been settled a gigantic skating place - even bigger than Lido in Riga. Fun thing about it is that there are many lanes that are connecting the main pools, so that you don't have to just go in rounds and circles but you can go on the track around the park like in a race lane or smthn. And the site is spectacular as well - on the Ratsplatz. Those pics are taken from an Austrian site that post picture from public places and events.



My course mates Natalia (in front), Oana(behind) and Nhung made me a good company.

zuppā

Wie man verdoppelt den Preis von Kartoffeln? Umbennent sie als Erdaepfel.

Somewhat a clumsy studying anthem

Thrust your instincts,
Pull your senses;
Whip the excuses,
Strip the complaints.

Never the case when it's not the case

You're asking for commitment while I'm somewhere in between

Oh what a fun!

Rainy, early city run

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Hipocrisy-extinguisher

So do you want me to be fair or polite?

On battles and wars

They say you can't tell the players without a scorecard. Then again, sometimes you can't tell the winners even with a box score.

Dzelzsceļa tilts

Sorry, just couldn't resist posting another Rīga's photo. This one from the Riga daily picture blog.

Making a promise is such a tempting thing.

Rīga no skābbarības torņa

On bargaining

Your life is worth nothing more than the creepiest creep you'd give it away for.

Not necessarily a bad thing

I'm subject to being an object

I want my friends to be egoists

Whilst roughly simplifying

Life is like a plane - it eventually lands or crashes.

On latvian roads

Latvian roads are very fly! Literally!