There are, out there (here), evenings that simply don’t look like they’ll ever end.
They just keep going on and on again, without bringing you anything if not bad news (from home in this case…) and a general sense of uneasiness and frustration.
You start thinking about going to bed very early for your standards, especially counting you’ve a day off tomorrow and so no real reason not to enjoy the night you so much love, but the hot weather and/or the noisy neighbors still going on with their barbecue dissuade you from the idea of crashing on your pillow, and so…
…and so you end up living this awkward evening, helping yourself with loud music in your ears (Tool in this case) and you try to lose yourself in the vast and placid sea that can be the Internet.
Then, exactly when you were thinking again of switching everything off, you stumble upon a piece of great art, in the form of a video, and you end up grinning like a fool exactly like the title of the post you got the link from was suggesting.
The amount of incredibly moving stories of victims, rescuers, volunteers is simply shocking at the moment. I have been collecting newspapers of all the stories, and telling them in the form of comic strips. I hope these stories could show the UK readers the love, warmth and courage of the Chinese people, also the sad and cruel reality of the horrible 5.12 Earthquake.
This series of comic will make you cry… it sure made me cry. Those illustrations are moving, and the stories told just tear you apart.
Something sure worth reading and sharing.
Floating around the net following the main stream from one link to another one, lead me to a wonderfulphotoblog.
I still have to go through all the pictures, but there are some amazing views of Edinburgh (like this or this) as well as to other subjects, including, San Francisco…
Curious, both two cities I’ve been always quite been fascinated about.
Anyway, thanks to the author (Paul - at least this’s stated by his whislist title) for a nice and well appreciated addiction to my favourites RSS feeds list :)
Update: if you want a good place where to start your photoblogging browsing experience, there’s not better place than Photoblogs.org.
I’m sitting on my sofa now, in the same place where I was 5 years ago.
Like then, I’m watching the television, probably on the same news channel I was that day when I first understood what was going on.
Still today, a deep shiver runs across my back thinking about what happened in New York five years ago, and still today I feel deep sorrow and pain thinking about all the people that died there and for all whom that have died since than because of that terrible act of madness.
Hello here, I’m back from my second flight (that went smooth and nice. I already love this job)!
I am quite sure some of you were hoping not to see me for longer, but what can I say: world is a very unfair place. I’m back from Maldives where I spent 8 days hanging around white sand beaches and beach-volley matches (which we won against the locals, *yay* for Livingston crew!!! ^_^)
Wonderful places and a very nice island but trust me: what a boredom!
I mean, it’s good to stay there when someone (…the airline in my case) is paying it for you, but either you’re going there with your “special one” to have some time for you two alone, or you’re really going to be bored and spending a lot for nothing exciting. Being stuck on a 1km long island you can see totally in less than 5 minutes, and walk around in 10, is not something so incredible.
Anyway, I took some pictures, and here they comes… enjoy them all. Continue reading…
“At a time when Russia is reviving the Cold War the EU pretends to be seeing positive signs, as if there is no conflict neither in interests nor in values.â€
I haven’t followed or covered the Belarusian election some times ago, but lately I read quite a lot about it, especially for what is (or could be) concerned about possible influences on it coming from Russia. Tobias Ljungvall reports an interesting point of view on this matter. I think it’s worth taking a look.
As originally posted by Mosnewshere, the Sport Minister of Japan (Mr. Kenji Kosaka), happens to be apologizing for some of his consideration after the Olympic gold medal of Japanese female figure-skater Shizuka Arakawa.
Japan’s sports minister has been forced to apologize for a public gaffe after saying he was very happy to see Russian figure skating star Irina Slutskaya fall at the Turin Winter Olympics, AFP reported.
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“We should not be pleased with others’ misfortune, but I was happy when (Slutskaya) fell. I felt terribly happy, thinking ’This is it!’†Kosaka said, freezing Arakawa’s smile.
So… 1, 2, 3 laugh!
Come on isn’t this a completely normal reaction?
He’s japanese, she’s japanes, she needed Slutskaya to do some mistake to win, and when she did (*sigh*) they were both happy. Would have been just polite not to confess this happiness in public.
The real problem here is that he is a Minister, and in particular the Minister of Sport, and being that he should give a clean and fair image of him even when he stops to be a Minister and become a supporter.
I must admit, I am always a little happy when someone who could beat my favourites do something wrong, I know it’s not fair and outside the Cubertain’s spirit but we’re all human after all, and sometimes is also nice to win more than just participate.
Anyway, I’m glad Mr. Kenji Kosaka decided to give his apologies to the whole sport world, but I feel that in his inner self, he is still a little happy for Slutskaya’s fall :p
And I am not going to blame him for that, that’s sure!
Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), and is with great pleasure that I give all my best wishes to all the women in the world.
I really hope you all already know what is one of the more important reason why this day is celebrated on the 8th of March, but in case you don’t, since I believe in the importance of memory, here is it:
Among other relevant historic events, it commemorates the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (New York, 1911), where over 140 women lost their lives.
Have a look on the specific Wikipedia page for a good memory-refresh about all the reasons that should make this day something more and more important.
Today 27th of January is, at least in Europe, a very important and particular day. Since last year has been decided that this day (the day of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945) would have been, for all Europe the “Memory Day“, remembering the Holocaust, the victims, and all the tragedy that it led.
Indeed, maybe for the first time in its history, Italy came first, having taken this day as a national day of memory since 2000. Many other European countries had done this too, but was only since 2005 that European Union declared it officially.
I’ve been unable to find a european wide office home page of the event (let me tell you the EU web portal is quite a mess…) so I’ll link you to the UK official page.
Changing subject completly, the last Thursday in January (yesterday), NASA stopped to commemorate all of his victims from Apollo 1 (27th of January 1967), Challenger (28th of January 1986) and Columbia (1st February 2003). I wasn’t there to witness the first two of these tragedy (I was only 6 years old in ‘86) but I lived in first person the loss of Columbia, and that signed me deeply.
So, while the sky keeps snowing like in a desperate effort to cover this piece of the world, I’ll let my thoughts to go away for a while, mourning for all the victims this world have ever seen and will ever see.
I suggest you to read this as a appetizer before your dinner. Then, please, take a look at this amazing gallery about Moscow Metro system.
Oh yes, it’s not something new that I fell in love with that charming city, but one of the thing I definitely loved more was travelling around aboard its metro trains, and visiting the different stations all around the city. I’ve not been there enough time to judge it in terms of functionality (but it surely works better than Milan’s one…), but it’s impossible not to be amazed while walking in the underground of it.
Only in Prague I had seen something comparable in beauty.
Worth a visit, believe me!!!
You haven’t seen Moscow until you’ve taken the metro. (Sean Guillory)
This is something that I read in these past months, and that I’d like to suggest to you too. An amazing journey, nothing more to say about it apart… mhm… did I say READ it? :)
Now all I have to do is waiting for the book.
Thank you David&Lisa for letting us following you around Russia.
