Some of Warsaw tenements - renovated and in state of ruin.
Old and new side by side
The “ancient” flyover
The house edge
In my opinion one of the most beautiful tenements in ruin
This building is next to the one in ruin and houses a fancy restaurant and prestigious cabaret
Tusk : ” ‘Warto być przyzwoitym’ był dla nas wskazaniem przez cały czas naszej pracy, tak dzisiaj mogę panu, panie profesorze [Władysław Bartoszewski ] , uczciwie zameldować - przyzwoitość po raz kolejny się opłaciła i wygrała”.
“…mam w pamięci i w sercu dzień sprzed dwóch lat, kiedy mówiłem z przekonaniem, że w życiu tak naprawdę najważniejsza nie jest władza, tylko miłość”.
“…Polacy uwierzyli w jasną stronę życia” [ trąci Star Wars - ale niech Moc będzie z nami ;) ]
Kwaśniewski : ” Proszę państwa, mam dobrą wiadomość : 21 października skończyła się IV Rzeczpospolita “.
LiD : “Najważniejsze, że PiS został odsunięty od władzy”.
S. Blumsztajn : ( GW) : ” Mieszkańcy stolicy runęli do urn . […] To nasz wspólny sukces, ale przede wszystkim sukces PiS. Partia braci Kaczyńskich ma wielką umiejętność mobilizowania ludzi.
Do głosowania przeciwko PiS” .
Giertych : ” Odchodzę, ale widok dzieci w mundurkach to mój osobisty sukces”. ( brrr)
PiS w Warszawie : ” PiS zaniedbał elity. Poczuły się dotknięte “wykształciuchami” . I przez to Warszawa zagłosowała przeciw nam. To był nasz błąd”.
“Wieś nas olała, a Warszawa wykończyła”.
YES, YES, YES !!! :)
Apel do niejakiego pana Lecha K.
a to ( chyba) autor zamieszania
Przykład mobilnej agitacji
Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting! This is a cool thing check it out.
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
Now it’s your turn .
helps you to reduce cholesterol…
Polls Lie !
Xbox everywhere , here at Metro Centrum
“Up the duff ” poster
Due date - October :)
My school
Dr Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall
Taipei 101 ( 509 metres with antenna) - used to be the highest building in the world since 2004 , but surpassed by Burj Dubai this year ( 818 m metres with antenna ! )
Today’s beautiful sunset upon […] Carrefour
This is a flyer of “Archibald” - the English language school…
“Better to understand …”
;)
Opole is the medium city in the southern of Poland ( in Polish scale ) with a population of 128,864 ( 2004 census ). From an administrative point of view Opole is the capital of the Opole Voivodeship and also the seat of Opole County. In the past it was the historical capital of Upper Silesia, this influences the the ethnic composition of a region, where there is the largest German minority in Poland and also Upper Silesian.
The city is tranquil, with old tenements, many of them are fresh renovated, that brings more “old town” look, not only at the Town Hall Quarter. An observer can also notices its unhurried and quite peaceful life.
What makes Opole more beautiful is its picturesque situation - the historic heart of the city is located on an island called Pasieka which is washed by Oder River ( Odra ). The pedestrian bridge over the Młynówka - which was in the past a stream into Oder river brngs to surroundings an astonishing view which can be seen from the bridge and from one of the riverside, especially since June 2007 when municipality has launched special illuminations ” Venetian Opole”. This was to about to create an aura of mystery at nights.
(bridge photos from fot.com.pl & kobidz.pl)
In summer 1997 the dreadful Great Flood occurred, affecting the drainage basins of the Odra and the Vistula, caused material losses of billion USD
In Opole, water levels reached “the maximum by 173 cm (777 cm in 1997, as compared to 604 cm in 1813 and 584 cm in 1985) and the peak flow reached 3500 m s”.
In the city, the historic part on Pasieka island was affected the most. In many buildings water reached to nearly first floor and in some houses of low heights, water covered all levels and left survivors on the roof. Some historic buildings survived intact, many were destroyed and some felt into ruin
Now10 years after the Great Flood the city outside seems to be never touched by any flood disaster. Government and municipality made a great effort to raise the city from flood consequences but in many resident’s minds this terrible catastrophy is still fresh and it’s hard to wipe from their memories.
At the Opole Old Square there is an exquisite restaurant called “Maska” that literally means ” The Mask” . Before the restaurant started to serve a food there was a former theater called “13 Rows” where its director, a famous leading figure in avant garde theatre of the 20th century, Jerzy Grotowski was developing his skills. Derived from the theater terminology, the name became “Maska”.
The best thing in this restaurant, a part from a wonderful theatrical decoration with kind of raw Middle Ages walls look, there is a garlic bread - the best bread I have ever eaten ! I recommend also Bogracz- Hungarian style spicy soup bread ( something like goulash)
Prices : quite high - comparing to other fancy restaurants around, reasonably - comparing to good Warsaw restaurant.
More pics in gallery
Official site of Opole www.opole.pl
( 1935 – 2007 )
Luciano Pavarotti:
“Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me”
“I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera”
“It is a great honor for me to be able to take the music of the tenor to a great number of people”
U2 & Pavarotti - “Miss Sarajevo”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u4VM41immWI
Today, August 31st , is the second annual International Blog Day. According to stats there are 90 million bloggers worldwide, a lot, if we consider absolute number, but also not many comparing to a whole number of internet users , which is 1,173,109,925 ( roughly 1,2 billion ) .
There are many reasons why people starts blogging. One of them is to express yourself, to show that you are not that small out there in a the big world and want to leave a track of you existence :)
For others, blogs is a new experiment that brings a chance to make/try something diffrent - so let’s call it kind of curiosity. There are also people for which blog is their own interlocutor - talking to themselves or rather writing to themselves is a form of therapy.
No matter what reasons are there to drive us to blog, the most important thing is to keep going with what you are doing, find joy, have fun in it and if blogging is not your job then don’t let it waste too much of your precious time :)
This is a wish to myself and You.
“W Polsce rządzi układ zero jedynkowy. Zero jest nr jeden, nr jeden jest zerem. “
“In Poland binary system rules. Zero is number one, number one is zero ”.
found on onet.pl forum ( ~pierwiastek, 31.08.2007 16:32 )
My legs, my bag - Still life from a diffrent angle
“The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me.”
“Kitchen” ( キッチン ) published in 1988 , Banana Yoshimoto’s ( よしもとばなな ) novel is a book that brings a strange and peaceful mood while you reading it.
A story starts when Mikage Sakurai, a young woman who is just in fact a girl entered into the life with a suffering. Mikage is all alone after the death of her grandmother - the last remaining relative.
At the crossroads of the life Mikage soon makes friends with Yuichi Tanabe, a classmate, who knew Mikage’s grandma while working part time at the flower shop after school. Yuichi concerned that she might need an emotional support as well as financial, offers her place to live in his apartment together with his transsexual father-turned-mother, Eriko.
Mikage though is still grief-stricken by grandmother’s death, trying to find a sense in her life and to keep life going, she is cooking everyday in the Kitchen partly to repay their kindness and at the same time find it relaxing , also kind of psychotherapeutic nourishment…
Her residing in the Yuichi’s apartment becomes also her the first step to a real-life maturity, even though harshly treated by life she finds equivalent of a family ties that with the passing of time becomes her real loving family.
In the story a lot of space has been given to her relations with Eriko - Yuichi’s father-turned-mother,who makes a breathtaking first impression to Mikage : “I couldn’t take my eyes off her. Hair that rustled like silk to her shoulders, the deep sparkle of her long, narrow eyes; well-formed lips, a nose with a high, straight bridge–the whole of her gave off a marvelous light that seemed to vibrate with life force.
She didn’t look human. I had never seen anyone like her”.
Apart from Eriko’s gender also her attitudes towards Mikage was diffrent from typical Japanese older-person attitudes towards younger-one. When first meet Mikage, she speaks to her informally, whereas Mikage replied in formal way using desu/masu form , but by the time both became closer and they call each other by names.
One tragic day breaks again Mikage’s seemed stable life…
The book is like the window to Japan’s society. Shows teenagers and young who are on thethreshold of adulthood - their worries, their dreams, their first steps first step towards real-life, their search for love in the country of Sakura.
Uncover their mentality and sensitivity - that is expressed partly in infantility but also in maturity.
I have dozens of Japanese friends and everytime when I read Kitchen once more I see them and each of them has something from Mikage or Yuichi or Eriko, like each of us too.
Dedicated to my Japanese friends ( their photos in the gallery ) and Giang who keeps asking me “When are you gonna write something new?! “ ;)
“Life isn’t a dress rehearsal ”
“Życie to nie próba generalna”
“Cuộc đời không phải là buổi tổng duyệt ”
“ 生活 不是 排演 ”
- Kerry Packer
Isola Bella/Lake Maggiore /North Italy/2006
Found on www.interia.pl
