Back to the drawing board. Again.

Me and nita started working on the EDGESOUP mag again. The last couple of weeks have been messy (me screwing up with my exams, and nita's tons of work), but now, I think I have a week off from school and more time to finish where we left off with the mag. We want it to be uber-good, and nita is coming up with some real good stuff for the mag. We worked a bit today - just checking where we left, doing some minor changes, and writing things we (mostly nita) work next time (which is today). We then watched "The Science of Sleep", and then talked cardboard/paper buildings a lot after that. The schedule is to have the mag ready by the beginning of spring quarter, and have it printed in the first or second week of the same quarter. I work till 5PM, so that will give me plenty of time to work on the mag after work. I really want this mag to work. Nita wants that more than me I think. I so want it done, I can't wait to finish it.

ODA THEATRE: "ENDRRA E NJE NATE VERE"

ODA THEATER: "QYTETI PO RRITET" (THE CITY IS GROWING).

Went to see a play tonight. It really expresses the dissatisfaction with some recent "moves" by the Municipality to try to be more "closer" to its citizens, and more "transparent" as it's decision making process goes. A lousy box or the "Complaint box" was set up in order for dissatisfied citizens to voice their concerns to the heads of the local municipality. It shows a story of a girl who falls into a ditch that was not marked with any warning sign, dug by irresponsible workers that just complain about pay and do nothing to fill the damn ditch/hole. The father tries to seek "justice", as an ordinary citizen should. The play shows how that is simply impossible: corruption, threats and other means. A family that came back to Kosova - for "patriotic" reasons - finds itself in a bitter war to find justice and save the little girl's life, by trying to hold someone responsible for her accident. I really liked it. A good satire and full of messages critical to our "leaders".

Kosovar flags /concepts.

These flag proposals were displayed in the National Art Gallery. Personally, i don't know that the /artists were thinking when they made these concepts. i did not like any of them, i hated them and got angry with them.

MY GIFT FROM JAPAN. THANK YOU VISKA.

THE DAILY VIEW BACK HOME FROM WORK. I LIVE IN CROW HEAVEN.

THE SITUATION DURING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BREAK-AWAY FROM SERBIA

THE MOMENT IN WHICH I WITNESSED/LISTENED THE OFFICIAL DECLERATION ON THE BREAK-AWAY FROM SERBIA

THE HELICOPTERS CAN BE HEARD OVERHEAD
MAIN ROADS ARE CLOSED TO TRAFFIC
SIRENS DASH THE STREETS

THE FLYING FINN IS IN TOWN.

Man, I'm so psyched about everything "PACKAGE". As soon as the word "PACKAGE" comes up, I'm really ready to flip. It has become one of the words that I associate with exams, your aunts that you don't like or the guilt of letting a banana half-eaten on top of the refrigerator. Seriously, you don't want to use the word "package" around in these coming 2 days. It is so amazing how peoples' attention are shifted to someone who uses the word "PACKAGE". Man, the "PACKAGE" scares the hell out of me.

PACKAGES
ARE
OUR
FRIENDS.
BUT
WHY DO
OUR
FRIENDS
COME
IN
PACKAGES?

Today I went to Fushe Kosova, a small town on the outskirts of the industrial zone of Prishtina. Reason: get my driver's license back after paying a 25 euro fine. There were lots of people on the narrow/overcroded streets, and there were even more surrounding a young man as he was speaking from the top of his lungs so that all of the gathered could hear. A big box was in front of him, and a dummy wearing a box with the pictures of Mr. Ahtisari was right next to him. Maps of Kosova were visible, and this whole scene signified one thing: VETEVENDOSJA was out doing what it does best - communicating thought provoking messages that could easily spiral into violent ideas by not rational individuals. It is their right to do that, even if it involves covering a dummy's head with a package, and displaying the "Ahtissari Package" in fron of all that crowd.

SORRY N.KOREANS. NO MORE COGNAC, IPODs, FINE WINES, AND FAST CARS FOR YOU.
YOU BAD BAD NUCLEAR BOMB TESTERS.

Saturday. January 27th, 3:13 PM

Saturday. January 27th, 2:52 PM

I JUST HAD MY BIG TOE NUMBED OUT BY A NEEDLE. THEN THE DOCTOR GOT HIS KNIFE AND OPERATED ON MY IT.

It was not big deal. A minor operation, lasted about 30minutes. I kept asking if I was able to play soccer tomorrow, and they laughed. Sarcastic. My big toe is still numb, but I am starting to feel a little tickelish feeling now. This is the first time that I saw how my flesh is sliced and diced, which is not nice. I apologize if you I added to many details of the whole procedure. Hey, you might want to know stuff before you have something like this. Like, I'm offering you an insight into this. Wow, I'm writing if I was a war veteran hit by a granade that cut his entire leg down to the bone. Yeah.

NEPALESE AND SOCCER

It is so strange when you did not try the foreign restaurants that opened here. A Nepalese Restaurant in Prishtina? Yeah. There is one, and thanks to Peter and Julia, I had some delicious dish, the name of which I cannot remember. Next, we will go to the Japanese and then Chinese restaurant. The soccer match started at 10:00. I finished my Nepalese dish at 9:34. My digestional system requires at leas 12 hours to process all the food. I though that it would be impossible to play, kick, and run around the soccer field. But the food was delicious, and it did not give my stomach a hard time. For all of you that want to try Nepalese food, they're in Qafa, the second floor.

Saying

"ONCE YOU'VE BURNT YOURSELF WITH HOT MILK,
YOU'LL CRY EVERY TIME YOU SEE A COW."

Mavie, a really good friend of mine from Rosario, Argentina, told me this today. It is a spanish saying.

I HATE MORNINGS. I REALLY TRY TO HUG THEM REAL TIGHT, AND MAKE THEM MY FRIENDS, BUT SERIOUSLY, I JUST CAN'T WIN THEM OVER. I'M TRYING TO ADAPT TO THIS SAD FACT.

Bad-camera-luck continues.

- I HAD A CAMERA STOLEN FROM ME ON ELECTION DAY. IT WAS NOT MINE. I DON'T VOTE NOW.
- A CAMERA'S LENS BROKE WHILE I WAS USING IT. IT WAS NOT MINE AGAIN.
I BOUGH A CAMERA A FEW MONTHS AGO. GUESS WHAT,
- IT HIT THE GROUND TODAY, AND NOW SOME BUTTONS DO NOT WORK.
BUT I CAN STILL TAKE PICTURES. MERELY.

Feeling sick.

Toilete paper roll for you runny nose. What a way to spend the weekend.

YES. I'VE JOINED MILLIONS OF OTHERS IN...

"The iPhone Pandemic". Who cares if CISCO has filed a patent infringment lawsuit against Apple. iPhone kicks mobile phones' asses. Just pinch me.

Click to watch the 4min. presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgW7or1TuFk

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

PUBLIC FINANCE CLASS: INCOME SUPPORT FOR THE POOR

Who is poor? In Kosova, If you live with less than 94 cents a day, then you are extremely poor. This constitutes about 15% of the population. If you make 42 euros monthly, then you are poor (1.42euros daily). 40% of the population are in this group.
This is according to the professor, who deals with these statistical data from the ministries. During the lesson, Ereblina, a friend of mine, showed me this book she received as a gift, titled: " Transcendental Meditation" by Maharashi Mahesh Yogi, a guy who thinks that the state of man is joy. A passage on economis said that economics should be perfected if it could create an abundance of materials, not distributing the ones that are already scarce. Can we make more oil, or other resources? Probably not, but that does not mean that we cannot use other renewable resources and replace the scarce resources with some other more abundant one. This is quite a thought by Maharashi Mahesh Yogi. He also stated that even If the man had all the material wealth, he would still not be happy. That's when the Transcendental Meditation comes into question. He sparked the whole Transcendental Meditation Movement. Beach Boys, Beatles, Clint Eastwood and David Lynch are few of the million practicioners. Neat.

English Language Learner's

"pizzazz" or "pizazz"

Function: noun [noncount]
Status: informal
Meaning: the quality of being exciting or attractive
Examples:
The young actress has a lot of pizzazz.
The song has plenty of pizzazz.

Just got the daily email of the English Language Learner's Word-of-the-Day and found this word. Could they possibly be mistaken with this word for a simple pizza +extra "zz" for that extra taste and maybe super-extra large size. "Can I have the special Pizza with quadruple z's? Oh, and don't hold the cheese." Merriam-Webster doesn't think so.

weird dream.

Having a turkey, then a peacock attack you in your office is not a dream you wish you remembered.

"Well, I won't talk to you anymore...

... I will just shoot my mouth and not say a word"
- nita.

This sentence can find its way into many usages during a complex, unintended conversation. Yes, it's funny, but it kind of stuck in my mind and it really gives a sentence a eerie meaning.

took a shower and now I'm feeling better.

"I washed away last years dirt and now I'll let myself be covered in this year's dirt."

CNN: The U.S. military on Sunday announced its 3,000th fatality from the Iraq war.

"On Monday, the military said two soldiers were killed Sunday in an explosion in Iraq's Diyala province, north of Baghdad, bringing the death toll to 3,002."
"More than 22,000 other U.S. troops have been wounded in Iraq since the war began nearly four years ago. "
"The war has also claimed the lives of about 250 allied troops, more than half of them British."
"Estimates of Iraqi dead range from about 50,000 to several hundred thousand."

Isn't the number game fun? It makes you remember the number, and the problem is that, it just remains a single large number (in your head). These numbers might portray a sad fact, but nothing compared to the sad fact that lies underneath these large numbers.
HappyNewYearYeahRight.