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woensdag 8 november 2006 02:57 door Gogan
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 descriptive list of the entries and the threads, when there are any.
foto What Happens With Macedonia -
Now that Bulgaria is in the EU in 95 Days?
What can Europe expect from Bulgaria? How will the people in Macedonia react once their eastern neigbor is a member of the European Union on January 1st 2007? Will the demand for Bullgarian passports, citizenship continue? foto Macedonia is All Set To Push a Thief
to the Top of the UN General Assembly?
Srdjan Kerim, former minister of foreign aairs of Macedonia is in the middle of controversy. It is related to his alleged plagiarism of the master degree paper already disclosed by the weekly Student in Belgrade. Why the government came out with this lame proposal? foto A Special Purpose House
From New Wonder Material
Two architects from Skopje, Sanja and m-r Nenad Ragjenovic, sister and brother, work on an EU project designing a wonder-house... The star of the project is the material not the design. Can that be true? foto About Pepi Terzioski's party in Waterloo
thrown for friends on occasion of his new house;
But also about Mobutu Sese Seko.
And about Blagoja Vidinik, the forgotten Olympic gold-medal winner and goalie of Vardar
And about my trip to Zaire.
Great party, fine company! foto Macedonia Votes a New Parliament
on 5th of July: Every Tom and Harry Gives Advice
A text on the impertinence of foreign diplomats and wandering minstrels presenting themselves as journalists - friends of Macedonia.
They are all brazen enough to extend unwarranted advice on any issue.
Unfortunately for all, those are half-baked ideas... foto A Dutch Gay Ambassador is recalled from Talin:
comparison with Bejbi's show with Trifun Kostovski,
the Richest Man of Macedonia...
The Slavs are often described as not emancipated lot, but this time a pair of Dutch homosexuals get the shorter end of the stick in Talin, ridiculed by the locals. Tell the Dutch how Bejbi asked the Mayor of Skopje whether he could describe the smell of the vagina! foto Simon Trpceski plays Stravinsky in the Concertgebouw
and the Entrance is Free of Charge!
About Simon's piano concert (with his famous sponsoring conductor)
while entrance is for free, which annoys me terribly;
it is all so very ideological, almost out of hand;
The last madame Stravinsky makes a fool of herself; fotoTo Fly Easy-Jet to see
A. den Doolard Plaque in Ohrid is a Stupidity
About this project of building a plaque of the Dutch author,
completely absurd idea, inflated, pushed by an impostor
and making the people of Ohrid look even more stupid than they already are when the Dutch tourists loom in the horizon... foto De Zeven Zigeuners from Ohrid, Macedonie,
the Future of TUI & World Tourism
A novel translated after 70 years, tells of a marriage of seven gipsies in Ohrid
triggers a decision to erect a monument to the author
with an induced hope that such a gesture will bring in Dutch tourists. iditical and degrading idea... foto Misho Goeorgiev in Amstelveen
Between Luxury Summit in Vegas
and Hard Work in Barcelona
The chief after-sales engineer of Kadis-Seat from Skopje
on his way to Barcelona makes a stopover in Amsterdam
and we evoke some fine, not so old memories mixed with plans and projects for the future foto You Must See This:
US State Department World Website Award
Goes To a Provincial Delchevo, Macedonia
The kids from that small township share the prize with the spirit of their content and the country is proud with them. foto What Do Den Dolard, Kliment Zarov
and Emperor Samoil have in common?
Love for Ohrid? Macedonia?
A story about Ohrid, about ing. arh. Kliment Zarov,
his interest in tourism, about the people one meets along the lake:
sketches from a beautiful place... foto Epiphany in Macedonia
and elsewhere around the Orthodox world

Of the religious holiday,
hadits and how it is marked in Macedonia,
the archbishop serves the holy mass
illustrated with present-day photos foto Macedonia Shocks England on Old Trafford: Superb Game! (See Pictures) Macedonia Elated A story about the soccer game 0:0 on Manchester's holly ground,
reflections of other games of the national team
reactions from all over, What Happens With Macedonia
Now that Bulgaria is in the EU in 95 Days?
This is more introduction of the question than real answers to it.
They will come shortly.
There are no reactions: people appear confused foto The Problem With the Shrinking $1 m.
Affects My Friend Nevenka and the Other Rich
This is more about money in principle
than about Nevenka Tikvesanska-Ivanovska,
a very successful businesswoman in US - although she is mentioned in the title and illustration. Valentina the Third Visiting Aalsmere A short drink with Oliver and Valentina on the terrace of Silversant, prior to their return to Skopje, with Tosko arranging and paying the drinks Gligor Stojkovski, John Updike and The Terrorist...for a Macedonian run! The editor of Kultura calls me to arrange for a permit by the author (John Updike) for the translation into Macedonian, of his latest book, The Terrorist A great Japanese Band Hits Millions of People on YouTube With a Macedonian Song Jovano, Jovanke This was an instant world-hit achieved by a New Zealand-Jap band and vocalists. Exciting performance of a most popular song. Wrigley Appoints Katarina Goseva-Ceslar a Key Account Manager for Seven Arabian Countries Born in a smal East-Macedonian town Gosheva was partially educated in Chicago,Il. but earned her stripes and medals with Wrigley around the Balkans. Now she is a big-time manager. Congratulations. A Bunch of Kids Throwing Stones Initiate the National Holiday of Macedonia On 11th October 1941 a group of young communists attacked (with stones) a police station in Prilep, fired few shots and zet the country ablaze on the liberation trail. Can You Read Faces? Then - Recognize a Mega Crook and Get a Prize Macedonia proceeds with a scheme to install a Mega-Crook among Plagiarizing community as the next president of the General Assembly of the United Nations. What Happens With Macedonia Now That Bulgaria is in the EU in 95 Days What will be the mutual feeling after the underdogs (in the eyes of the arrogant Macedonian elite) become full-suze members of the EU? Pope Benedict, my Cousin Ivan Zarov and the New Holly-Jolly War The Pontiff had goofed it big in his lecture by deciding to quote an obscure Byzantine emperor as an argument between islam and Christianity Macedonian Prime-minister Gruevski Returns Satisfied From Brussels, The Hague Practical and matter-of-factly Nikola Gruevski leaves an excellent impression, hugely different than the one his staff brazenly allows itself to demonstrate

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Avatar van Isis Nedloni Isis Nedloni 08-11-2006 14:09
I love some Balkan tunes...music
At this moment I dance the stars out of my body on music from Goran Bregovic
especialy number 4. Sex
and number 6. Maki Maki
They make me so happy and on top of the world.
So much temperament and fire!!!
It Touches real life!
Wonderfull
Wonderfull
I hope you ll listen one day and afcourse you ll understand the meaning of my words.....
Have a nice day Gogan; )))
Avatar van Gogan Gogan 09-11-2006 00:37
Thanks a lot for the motivating words, Isis. Let me build the skeleton of this construction first and then you will get plenty of REAL GOOD music. Goran, eh, Brega is a virtuoso. Do you know that he unabashedly uses, transposes original folk-music, especially Gypsy but hell of a lot of Macedonian. mixes it, imports oriental instruments - gets thrilling sounds. Yeah, you are quite right. he elates.
You did surprise me with this comment. Take care.
Avatar van ronald ronald 19-12-2006 13:37
just tell me, what is it about the tension between macedonians and kosovars? i was in Skopje 25 years ago and didn't feel differences, but what is it that you were fithing about? I just don't understand the history and other subjects like religion etc. give me some links please?
Avatar van Gogan Gogan 02-01-2007 00:49
Sorry for this huge delay in responding Ronald, but I was out of The Netherlands, returned before Xmas, then jaarvisseling, Season's festive time. In a nutshell - this is expansionist story per se. The claim that the Slavs mistreated the ethnic-Albanians (in Serbia, in Macedonia, in Montenegro) just as much as the Greeks did - is offered as an explanation for the low development. That is a fable. Who governed Albanians in Albania proper? Whether kings, communists or "transition-dedicated reformists" during the past 15-16 years - the land remained what it was.
There is a huge gap between ambition and possibilities, material and human resources are meagre while refusal to integrate wherever huge.
Will try to supply you with some links.

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fotoDuring the darkest of the winter one would hardly pack up and roam Turkey. Even its deepest south, right there by Alexandreta and Hatay, although covered with lush citrus gardens in full harvest - is not exactly warm. There are at least 20 events on the programe for the Turkey Now Festival 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. You will enjoy the rhythm and the temperament of Turkey here in Amsterdam right for St. Valentine day! Click for the full program in Dutch and Turkish. Pure Music and Art - good for the soul!

They may not be whoring but wantoon they are

fotoOne may be confused with the people of the South. They are so pationate. Begin from its West or East coast - all the same. Fiery. Promiscuous. Volatile. Irrational. And now comes the sober Financial Times with this interpretation about the Greek women whoring at such a grand scale. You might be interested to read my review of a book FOR THE LOVE OF WOMEN written by Elizabeth Kirtsoglou a professor at the University of Wales. She describes the life of a lesbian community in a town near Athens.

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My very first real book is just out from the presses. It is lavishly revied peace of work in which I did my best to present Turkey and the Turks, Asia Minor, as acurately as possible. The reviewers (ethnic Turks and Macedonian) kind of insist that the 368 pages are written with lots of affection dor the people and the land, that it insists on dispersing the mists of prejudices and that it can be read as a novel. I also like the title. You can buy it from E-Bay (the Dutch branch)at € 12. This is the first book ever written and published in Macedonian about the people and the land which governed Macedonia and the Macedonians for nearly a half of the past millenium. I claim that we, the Macedonians, would have been incomparably better if the Ottoman Empire did not crumble about 100 years ago. The book in mirrored on the web-site WWW.TURCIJA.NET. My printers are expected to be ready with setting the book on GREECE (also in Macedonian, with plenty of detail, geography, history, arts, myths) which should be on sale for the main tourist season

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foto foto fotoNeque 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.

MEMORABILIA

fotoThis 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 Memorabilia you will have entered one 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.

AROUND THE WORLD IN MANY YEARS

fotoSome 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. See for yourselves if you like!

A JOKE A DAY KEEPS THE BLUES AWAY

A FAST MOUTH HURTS MORE THAN A BIG ONE? There was this big boss coming back from a successfull business trip so he thought he could have a break and told his driver to stop at the first seaside restaurant for a late lunch. When the driver parked the limousine, the capable secretary fixed a table by the shore and when he came from the restroom the appetizers were served and it was all spotless. During the middle of the lunch a golden fish sprung out of the water and somehow landed on the table. The Queen of magic fish said: -I am the one who fulfills those legendary three wishes. You are three, thus one for each of you. The secretary jumped elated and said: -I'd like to enjoy my life with my darling in beatiful villa someplace in the Carribean. -Piece of cake,-said the golden fish, flapped with the tail and the secretary was gone. Then the driver, almost stuttering, said: -I wish to pass my days with my wife and kids on Hawaii, in a mension and two chaufers for two big cars. The golden fish flapped with the tail and the driver was gone. After some time, the fish turned towards the boss and said: -What do you wait, it is your turn! -Cant't you see I am eating? When the boss finished eating, he said: -Bring those two smart-asses back, the lunch-break is over. MORALE OF THE STORY Do not speak ahead of your boss or you may be in for some nasty surprises.

MY BEST WEEKLY

fotoReading 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. The enrages me often and I write letters to the Editor (Tom Stothard, he bloggs) who acknowledges the 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 if I am right or no

ON MY NIGHT-TABLE

[L] Mark Mazower: THESSALONIKI, The City of Ghosts, Contact, 558 pp, 2005, When it becomes obvious that counting sheep will not help me sleep and when I have 10 mg Lexilium pill next to the glass of water (this text goes to my nerves) then I take this book. It is an ementaler-like history of Salonica. If Mazower carried on back-packing around - he might have produced a travelogue but I would not trust him with a thing he writes. Poorly read reviewers shamelessly say his text was exciting. Further to being greatly false - it is dull and so lopsided that I need to write a review. Do not throw away your money on this piece of crap. [L] Bas Soetenhorst en Michiel Zonneveld: AFREKENEN MET PEPER, Van Gennep, 235 pp, 2001 een spannende en onthullende reconstructie van de affaire. Met bijdragen van Leo Huberts en Hans van der Heuvel, Uri Rosenthal en Ruud Veenstra; Probably one of the most illustrative documents about the Dutch political zoo and its exotic exemplars. I have be re-reading this now and again. It is an effervescing spring of incredible twists of logic [L] Only curiosity made me buy, on the outbound flight to Turkey, Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul, Memoirs and the City. Of what I made myself read, this is one of those impressively misconceived and then miscarried products under the authors loom. It is more a sadly borring collection of family album images by an ambitious high-school brat than anything remotely similar to literature. If Mr. Pamuk did not decide to extend his superfluous views over the Armenian question - it is most improbable that the worthless text would have been reviewed at all. If you have €30 to spare you may consider rewarding yourself and three friends for a Burger King meal on Schiphol instead. There is always something far more interesting going on and you will have eventually created an event more memorable than this book by Orhan Pamuk.

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