Avantasia #2

I never knew Avantasia had a track with Scorpions.

Sounds a bit funny - not enough Avantasia and not enough Scorpions :)

recent holidays

You may or may not know that in May Ukraine has a lot of holidays.

Usually people gather to drink and eat bbq during May holidays, but I'm not a fan of drinking. And to tell the truth, this year my friends just weren't up to bbq.
Bad weather, fires at Chernobyl, general situation in the country - all of this attributed to the fact that we couldn't gather a big company of friends like we used to.


Instead, I spent time with those of my friends who had time to spare and willed to do so. We were playing board games, visited various parks... had some food :)

I like sushi so it's no wonder we went to eat some. I don't have too many chances to eat sushi lately, so...

Even though it's May, at night temperature is still about +5C and in the morning it's generally freezing.

And it's been raining steadily for several days.








Several spring-like pictures follow :)

music and Avantasia

was reminded of Avantasia (and this song particularly) on the weekend, been listening to it quite a lot since :)

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Have a lot of boring work to do and some of it for pretty ignorant people.

Yes, I'm slacking off by writing this. Sometimes you just don't want to do your work.

another Monday morning

It's past 11am in the morning, on Monday, birds are singing outside my window, but I feel like it's past 6pm already.
Can't drink coffee any more, so I've made myself a cup of cocoa.
Happy beginning of the week.

Sea and pastels

Another A4 painting I've done some time ago and completely forgot about it...
Seriously, I need a break it seems...

About Germanwings

Lots of speculation is going on about the guy who 'most probably' brought down the Germanwings plane...
as horrible as it is to stat with,
constant attempts to make sure 'blame isn't put on him prematurely' aren't helping the situation.

Public opinion is quite set as of now.
I can't say that this opinion is 100% correct, I'm only saying that it would require rock-solid EVIDENCE to change it. And most likely there'd be no such evidence...

Therefore I think in the end the company in question would succumb and 'compensate' all parties involved.

It's very hard on the family of the pilot, sure, but what about the families of the victims? Where do you draw the line? Who's more 'victimized'?

If it'd be proven that pilot didn't bring the plane down intentionally, then it's one different story.
If he did bring it down intentionally (setting autopilot to low altitude seems quite intentional to me, though), I can only offer my sympathy to pilot's family for having such an insensible son (brother, etc.), who wasn't thinking of consequences of his actions even on people he should care about. They should understand how families of passengers feel...

Last Sunday of March 2015

Yesterday, as it's become customary in Ukraine, we had snow and cutting winds. Let me remind you that it was the last Sunday of March, almost April. You see first buds on trees and then you see big loafs of snow falling from the sky...
'Typical' April...

Air pressure roller-coaster ridden weather doesn't help you maintain mental stability... even if you haven't been prone to personality changes before.

I had a more than two hours long walk in that weather yesterday, it wasn't anything you'd call 'lovely'.

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time flies and mostly there's nothing to say...

or I don't have a fitting mood to talk about life or happenings in my life...

Ukraine is still in turmoil, and even most positive predictions aren't that good... several more years of this @#$%? Talk about lost generations...

Also there's constantly a talk of WAR. Full-scale war.
No mater how far that seems to be from EU, I'd like EU citizens to consider that possibility...

Cockroaches

Cockroaches born at someone's kitchen think they own the place.
And we think we own Earth.

Just saying...

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I'm still eating leftovers from New Year's party...

Why do we have to buy/cook so much food for celebrations?
Each time I'm trying to cook less... and still...

Happy 2015, people!

Now we must learn to write 2015, not 2014.
Always a pain...

Aquarium and my favorite fish

Found photos of my recent trip to Turkey, including that of my favorite fish - favorite to look at, of course, I wouldn't like to meet it in the water.

And another photo show tiny creatures we're not used to see... alive. Guess what those are.

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The year is nearing its end and it seems that there's been no progress whatsoever in my life... 

I always feel this way when I have to think about the past year.

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It seems that we'll be having a rainy New Year after all. Even though we had about 20cm of snow some two weeks ago... A bummer.

I'm one of those who likes snow and -5-10C better than rainy and humid +5C.

Yes, today I was drenched by heavy rain that suddenly fell in the evening... and it's 20th of December... 

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I have to make plans for NY without any desire to do anything. It's a bit of a drag each year. Hard to find something to do if you're not in for drinking the whole night.