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Eve vi ubava prilika! Ova e link za mojata nova serija podkasti na kolokvijalen makedonski jazik! Ne mu ja mislite. Sega mu e momentot. Ednostavno kliknite ovde - i tamu ste! Ve molam ostavite komentar! There will be a special English podcast library there too. Have you listened yet to my very first podcast in English? Now is the best time. Click here - comment there!

This may serve you to develop new and interesting experiences. All it takes is click the link. Link to Seed Newsvine. Opens up a different world, different community. Then, which more important, you can promote your or other texts, blogs, posts that you would like thousands of people to know about.

These podcasts are fun. Thee may make you learn Macedonian. Do not miss them. Tel a friend from the Balkans, especially if from Skopje. Enjoy the fun.

Well, this is just the beginning of an idea, pretty entangled right now, very private, almost intimate. It is about my personal feelings arising from a visual contact with faces of public figures by proxy. I mean, this is sort of reflections triggered by published pictures of various people without or definitely before reading a word about their characters. Say, so far there are these accounts about Giovanni Accongiagioco Elkann, of the Agnelli family; Howard Stern, the King of All Media in the USA; Barack Obama, possibly the next US President; Toshihiko Fukui, governor of the Bank of Japan; Patricia Joan Remak, former Dutch MP, now convict; Peter Hartz, VW and Germany's super crook; Chad Hurley, co-establisher of YouTube; Nobuyoki Oneida, CFO of Sony Corporation; Florentine Rost van Tonningen, Dutch Black Widow I'll read your portraits too, if you send the pic! TRY ME So, all you need to do is Click here to go there. Those portraits are interesting pics.

Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit I think Turkey deserves every possible argument supporting its impressive drive to full EU membership. This link takes you to a selection of my articles on Turkey and related issues. There are numerous posts entered that qualify under the term Macedonia . Some of them retain their intrinsic value, others are reminders of once acute issues. This link takes you to a full list of the entries related to Macedonia and its people.

There is this multi-faceted Turkey Now" festival in earnest preparation going on all over town these days. If you read Het Parool you would know this already. There will be, just after St. Valentine Day, at least 20 events and one of the highlights is a jazz concert that you can sample here: the well known Ayse Tutuncu Trio but other stuff as well. So, it will be fun. Some original "classic" Turkish music as well. More information? Hit here then. One of the organizers is Stichting Kulsan established by the Turkish community in the Netherlands in 1987 for promotion of the culture. It works hand-in-hand with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and arts. There will be music, theatre shows, dance and film. This is yet another Istanbul events link

This is a worksite where an exhaustive collection of pictures-cum-comment posts pile up and will one nice day form a maze of memories I like visiting and re-visiting. They, the posts, will allow the visitor to add, correct, renege or comment in one decent way the entries. Eventually, people and places may be enlightened by fresh opinion and be a source for biographers and historians. Ambitious, eh? Thus by entering Memorabilia here you will have found yourself in the middle of a very personal domain: my views of events, people and places which still compose my life. Be polite, not courteous, and if you leave a trace behind you, it will live for as long as this blog lives.

Tom, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM. He sat down next to a blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV. The 10:00 news was on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on ledge of a large building preparing to jump. The blonde looked at Tom and said, -Do you think he'll jump? Tom says, -You know, I bet he'll jump. The blonde replied, -Well, I bet he won't. Tom placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, -You're on!" Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death. The blonde was very upset, but willingly handed her $20 to Tom, saying, -Fair's Fair. Here's your money. Tom replied, -I can't take your money, I saw this earlier on the 5 o'clock news and so I knew he would jump. The blonde replied, -I did too; but I didn't think he'd do it again. Tom took the money.

Reading Times Literary Supplement Is one of my great pleasures. Sometimes I use the paper sometimes the on-line edition. The topics are carefully selected and absolutely first class. They are often my well of inspiration. The TLS enrages me often and I write letters to the Editor (Tom Stothard, he also bloggs) who acknowledges their receipt but throws them in the bin, though I'd prefer the other way round. He will send you a sample copy for free so that you can check whether I am right or no.

Some of you may be interested in my impressions from travels around the world. Just begun developing that site. A bit early for promoting it, but that is how I tick. This is your link if you wish to visit. The trips have taken me over to Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australia and very much around Europe. The software of that facility counts as "one country" Lichtenstein with poor Vaduz and the USA with some 30 states (including Hawaii) as "one country" again. By such a count I have covered paltry 17% of the globe. Which is funny. Navigating though that site is not as easy as one may expect. But it is interesting. See for yourselves if you like!

Try this.  It is really fun and you may learn  some...   WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ   Passing requires only 4 correct answers....a measly 40%. 1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 2) Which country makes Panama hats? 3) From which animal do we get catgut? 4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? 5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? 6) The Canary Islands is named after what animal? 7) What was King George VI's first name? 8) What color is a purple finch? 9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? 10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?   All done? Check your answers below! Panama hat: hand-made exclusivily in Ecuador from a plant called Toquilla. 1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?        216 years 2) Which country makes Panama hats?         Ecuador 3) From which animal do we get catgut?         Sheep and Horses 4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?      November 5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?       Squirrel fur 6) The Canary Islands is named after what animal?       Dogs 7) What was King George VI's first name?       Albert 8) What color is a purple finch?        Crimson 9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?        New Zealand 10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?      Orange, of course. What do you mean you failed? That's nothing. Do not frett. It is the language barrier, nothing else!

So, this is about new places with unknown faces. About longitudes where the sun casts different shadows and the air is full with new scents. This is about awakening of memories for fresh beginnings and the comfort of returning to old fireplaces. Above: The castle atop, typical architecture, the Roman theatreseen from the terrace of the best accommodationin Ohrid, Macedonia + + + DO NOT MISS THIS: Believe you me, I know every single trick from the vaults of the newly announced Gogan's School of Newsmanship. Travelled the world on the magic carpet woven from those subtleties, dined and wined with kings, queens, princes, the lot. Go, hit the road. Try it! (Left: Daddy with a student) THE TURKISH PART OF CYPRUS will have een feest and I am invited. The man who will be my host is a University professor who earned his Ph.D. in economics from Utah, but I think he is nowhere close to the religion preached out there.

After a year of fun and play we, the bloggers, know that there is a lot of time, effort and skill poured into the VK. I believe that GJB and us could chat a bit about a new, commercial, twist to the individual pages. Since we are a sort of one big family maybe we should see whether and how we could contribute to the costs of this facility, gather money for improving it and, doing so, earn a decent buck individually. The proposal is simple. GJB supplies those who are interested the price-list for a 300x300 pix slot on this column, agrees to pay us commission (which he anyways pays to others) and we contract sponsors who pay directly to VK upon which VK shells out our part. We as authors do not promote those sponsors in our posts. There are parties which do not even know about the VK but may be interested to advertise here for any reason, especially sponsoring an acquaintance's or friend's hobby or whatever. To secure that the big-time advertising wizards are not affected, we, the small fry, would be allowed to bring adds at least 600 pixels under the ad at the top for which VK gets money. So, that is it. Simple like Senate Beans Soup. But please click here and have a say, file your post on the other side. Go there now. Pleeese!

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