"smels like a horse"

We went to NASA today. They donated part of their land to local schools to provide young Americans with an opportunity to learn more about farming. Tram, that goes to some of NASA facilities, passes this farm by. There were longhornes. It smelled like we were on a farm...
There were lots of kids on our tram and they all started to argue about this smell. One little girl said it smelled like a horse. the other boy sait "No. that's how sheep smell I know!!!" (well... he knows. That's a good argument, so logic and manly) Others were saying something else.
Well kids, actually it smelled like sh*t. That's all. Doesn't matter if it belongs to horses, sheep or camels. It really doesn't matter...

I just though that was kinda funny.

true ladies do not age

I had my birthday recently and quite a lot of people asked me for my age. I’ve said 1) it is rude to ask a girl/woman/lady about her age; 2) it doesn’t really matter, it’s all about how I feel. (But I’ll share my secret with you… my friend put only 24 candles on the cake... he thinks I’m 24… Really? I though much younger).

I truly believe that as long as a lady feels as a true lady, age doesn’t matter.

Here’s funny example from home. Few days ago my mom called my grandmother. Granny could not talk and said she’ll call her later. Few minutes later she called and told my mom that because of her she missed a very important part of the TV program and now she doesn’t know how to get rid of dark circles under eyes. (And I’ve never seen her with real dark circles). Isn’t it wonderful, that my grandma still cares about the way she looks? She still feels flirty. And she is in age category of 80+, as if it matters.

My grandma is planning to attend a dance party in 2 weeks and she’s already asking my mom for advice what dress to wear! She loves to dance. I guess I love dancing because of her.

So girls, feel flirty, feel yourselves as real ladies and forget about your age… and everyone around will forget about it too.

Isn’t that a wonderful way to stop aging?

love and money

This Sunday priest in the church I went to told us that this year an average amount one American would spend on Christmas presents would be 907$, which is lower than the amount spent on average last year (942$). Interesting. I know that Americans shop a lot and they are spending a lot on things that they would not probably need. But when it comes to presents, how much should a person spend? Is it about money?

I always thought that present is attention! And yes monetary value matters too, but it is not the most important criteria. You cannot buy [true] attention and love, giving love to others is the greatest present of all.

Is there really a need to spend that much on presents? Or people think that the higher monetary value the present or presents have, the more the giver loves him/her? Can we really translate love into money?

Or we got to the stage where we do not care enough to devote time and give love, so we just give presents to show that we still remember.

One more thing: it is Christmas. Since when is it about giving presents to people? Isn’t it about passion, love, kindness and sharing (but not money… feelings).

spice it up and cook it

Today there was a lovely cat around our apartment and at some point it sneaked in our apartment and run straight to the kitchen. This lovely animal was very hungry and started to eat orange rind. We got her(him??) some sour cream and took it outside.
My friend said it would be nice if I would have tuna, cats love tuna. I've agreed and added that any raw fish would be good. "Raw fish??? Are you kidding me? ... What about cat food? What about canned tuna? You spice it up, cook it and give it to a cat."
Now it was my turn to say "What?" Why would you ever cook fish if cats eat and love it raw (unless they were fed with canned cat food all their life)? And why would you ever want to spice it up? Not for animals.

Save animals, save electricity, save spices... Do not cook fish for your cats please!

chineese food

We went to a Chinese restaurant today. We went there with some Asian people, including one Chinese person. The food was great, but was it really Chinese?
My friends said "NO." That's exactly what I've thought. You may pretend that your restaurant serves Chinese, Italian, Greek food, but it would be just your (in this case American) interpretation of Chinese, Italian, Greek food.
And it does make sense. You have to fit the local taste, otherwise you are pure Chinese and absolutely out of business, if there are not enough Chinese people to attend your place.

And even McDonalds serves fried rice in Asia... totally not American thing!

Kinda funny, we do attract people by the name (some exotic food), but then give them totally different thing... adopted to our taste.

they say it's good

We went to a movie today "Before Devil Knows You're Dead". It is some kind of alternative or independent movie. Critics say it is good. Actors played really well, I agree. But I would never say it is good.
When movie shows all the possible bad things: when children kill their own mom for money, when the whole life is about money, when money make you violent. Isn't it something that we don't wanna have in society? So would it be good to go public with a movie that shows all the bad things of this world and than have hundreds of critics saying that the movie is good?
I left the theater feeling really depressed. Can that be good? This movie did not motivate me to something good, but made me feel very blue.
And then again, when critics say that the movie is good, they may talk about music effects, play of actors, director's job. But when people hear that critics think really positive about the movie, do they know exactly that critics were looking at different details and not necessarily the idea behind the movie?

banana republic

It's exam time. Right now is about 2 am... I'm still studying. Actually I've just finished my paper. I went out of the room and saw a guy wearing a T-shirt that says "Banana Republic". I caught myself thinking about where this republic is. Probably somewhere in central America... Well and this is not the first time when I saw Banana Republic on a T-shirt and started thinking about location of this country...

Although it's just probably in the mall or somewhere in downtown of a big city...