2000

Thank you all, the blog has reached 2000 pageviews and it makes me really happy as it's increasing day by day.
It such a lovely feeling to know, there are people coming back regularly, sharing with their friends, or every new visitor who took their time to read a post... Love you all and appreciate all the support!

Soon I open my adventurous year with the first trip to..... MADRID!
Until that I keep posting about all the little, funny or less funny, helpful and useless stuff... Just about those daily things and crazy thoughts. Just being me.;)

...please, please, please.

Lately I'm having this in my mind a lot and I guess it's one of the most useful advice we can get... So true. Sometimes we're keep wishing, but not giving the chance to become true.
Of course it's not about lottery, but actually... yeah... I'm planning to buy a ticket long time ago. Maybe it's time to do it!:D If I'm in Greenland next week, then this little quotation was a good advice!;)

“There’s a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, “Dear saint—please, please, please…give me the grace to win the lottery.” This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, “My son—please, please, please – buy a ticket.”

-Eat, Pray, Love

Frances Ha

"It’s that thing when you’re with someone and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it, but it’s a party! And you’re both talking to other people and you’re laughing and shining and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes. But…but not because you’re possessive or it’s precisely sexual but because that is your person in this life. And it’s funny and sad but only because this life will end. And it’s this secret world that exists right there in public unnoticed that no one knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don’t have the ability to perceive them. That’s…that’s what I want out of a relationship or just life, I guess."

 

-Frances Handley (Greta Gerwig) in Frances Ha

 

 

Blurry night

I took a few pics one of the nights on my balcony. I was fascinated by the magic of colours, mist and cold... I love those late night moments when everything seems much simpler, less stressed, and somehow I always have the feeling that nights are promising something new, something that is worth waiting for.

 

I didn't edit or use filter on them, they are just the way that moment was.

Sliding doors

Yesterday night I watched a movie, Sliding doors with Gwyneth Paltrow.

It's not a new one, and maybe a few of you know the story, but it seriously made me think, and it worth a post I guess.

In a few words, the story is about a successful London women, works as a manager, has a handsome writer boyfriend, basically her life is perfect. And then... one day to an other, loosing her job. 

From that moment the movie is showing us two lines, and the only difference, whether or not she catches the subway. In parallel, we see both ways how that tiny thing changes her life.

It makes us think about fate, timing and decisions..

Personally, it's not the first time I'm thinking about this topic. I never found the real answers, and maybe I never will, but just imagine for a second....

... There are hundreds of moments a day that are mutate your life one way or an other.

What are those coincidences that made your life the way it is today?

If you think back, how did you get to know your best friend, your lover, wife, husband..?

How did you hear about that job you are working at right now?

How a life changing idea came to your mind?

Any, I mean really ANY of your seconds are changing you and where do your life lead!

It's scary, but true. It's not even magic, just the reality. That's simple.
But I'm more interested -and the story writer was too- if whatever happens, whichever ways we choose, and whether we miss that subway or not, is there a moment, when no matter what, but fate does it's job?!

If I have to meet someone, I meet him no matter what? Imagine, you met your boyfriend in a restaurant, (true story!;)) in a place you never went before, by chance. This day, that time, you had lunch there, so you got to know him. But what if you went to eat Chinese that day? You lost your chance to meet? That's it? Or you meet that person on an other day, maybe not even that year, in a different life situation, the story line will be different, but at least you meet, because that's your fate?!

Sorry if I'm annoying using questions in my whole post, but without knowing the answers myself, I won't try to convince you about anything. Make you interested and curious about that topic, is more a success to me, then make you believe my point of view.

But of course, I tell you want I think. 

I believe there are main, important events, people, happenings in our life. They will find us, no matter what. But thinking that everything is written, from A-Z... No! It's my personal choice if I smile back at that stranger on the street, if I let someone to be my friend, if I can use the opportunity to get my dream job, if I enjoy my life, or crying and feeling blue until it's too late... So what I guess, it's 50-50%. Fate and ME.

And one more thing, well, actually two.:) 

1. Watch that movie!

2. Don't be grumpy if you wake up too late, miss the bus, get fired from your job... Because everything happens with a reason, maybe that's the second that saves your life!

Abracadabra

Have you noticed that every year we start with hunderds of plans and end up doing almost none of them!?

That's why I'm proud of my last year, finally I felt I made the steps for a happy life and at the end I found a happy bucket list!;)

But... 2014 is not a year to be lazy, I have more plans than ever!

All I want for the new year is...

More good burgers

More cozy cafes 

More time to read

Discover nice new music

Visit Iceland again, including a journey to the Faroe Islands

Finally start learning to play on the guitar

Driving license!!!!!!! ( not a thing I want, but a thing I need!!!)

Do yoga regularly

Meditation before I go crazy ;P

Eat real breakfast even if I work early

Skydiving

Do not destroy all my laptops

Eat healthy, be healthy

Write, write, write! --> buy a vintage typewriter

Make a real big photoalbum and fill it with the greatest moments

Spend more time with old friends

Be open to find new friends

Less stress, more breathe:)

TRAVEL

Clean my apartment from A - Z!

What else can I wish for? Honestly, the most important is to be happy... And that tiny little word includes everything! You can be truly happy if all the pieces are in the right place.

And I'm working on this. To find pieces, answers, or simply find the right questions.

What's your question to me, to you, to a friend...anyone?

Everyone has a question wanting to be answered.

So this is the 2nd day of 2014 and all about 2013

So here I am. First Thursday of 2014, sitting in a cafe, drinking a latte and thinking about last year, about all the things I did, and preparing my list for this brand new year, where I still have 364 days to enjoy.

It's scary, especially if I think about how fantastic things happened to me in the past year. But I have to mention all the tears, all those blue days, depressed times... Yeah, from that perspective, I see, I can not only expect pink clouds, love, happiness, stressless days, but most definitely I have to be ready to LIVE life the fullest and accept it as a package. A package with good and bad things, but I'm pretty sure, that we are on this World to enjoy, to smile, to laugh. And after all those deep points, the good and bad things are slowly start to make a little sence. (Here is the time to listen to Pascal Pinon: Good and Bad Things:))

I've missed lots of opportunities to share my life events, although day by day I'm just dieing to write more. My mind is a big chaotic novel and I keep typing every seconds of my life. A big goal for 2014 is to use more pen and paper, buy a real old typewriter... Or worst case, use my ipad and write blog!;)

So, let's try to overview the coolest achievements of 2013, including all the big great adventures and the tiny crazy moments..

- Adventures

~ I was travelling 6 times in 12 months.

~ Visited Sicily, Iceland, Portugal, Kiev, Malta and Rome.
~ I was flying by plane exactly 14 times.

~ I managed to see as much as possible from Iceland in 2 weeks on a wild, spontaneous and adventurous way. I met with the loveliest, open minded people and after all I had a cool daytrip to Grimsey, the northernmost island of Icleland and so typically being me... lost my coat on the way to the Arctic Circle. And so what?! It was even more special that way, especially that i met really great guys there and I can still call them my friends since this day.

 

 

 

~ In Portugal, I spent lovely days with my parents, fell in love with Lissbon and enjoyed the sunshine and Ocean of south parts, glad to say I went parasailing and visited the westernmost extent of mainland Portugal and continental Europe.

 

-Let's jump a bit back from journeys to Hungary, especially the 5th of August...

If any of you have ever checked my bucket list, you know, on first place I have hot air balloon ride.

And so we did it! I got it as a surprise experience from my boyfriend as this was the day we we're together exactly one year ago. I have to admit, this was the coolest present, so he put the level pretty high!;)

That was such an old dream... and finding no words to describe the feeling when you are up in the air, you're free and feel the fresh air, above the lake Velence, so it was the perfection of fire meeting with air and water. Now I can check it on my list, but it doesn't mean I don't want to experience this again and again. Definitely have to visit a big hot air balloon festival, those seem so wonderful!

 

~ Oh and here comes the event I can talk about the most passionate way!! t.A.T.u.

I'm a fan since.... At least 10 years ago. And it was a very top wish of mine to see them at least once again in my life on a big concert. And it happened 27th of September, including a nice long weekend in Kiev. And not only a long, live, big concert, but a wee talk with Lena, autographs and photos with both of them! Secretly, not that I'm insatiable, but still hoping for a concert, maaaybe in Moscow this time... and that would be the 5th concert I visit. But ok, we'll see what future brings!:)

 

~ And Malta... Was really a nice journey. Lot of people was trying to convince me before that it's not nice at all and boring, but glad I didn't listen to them as I experienced the opposite. I'm a fan of northern places, but still, this one became one of my favorite places. So anytime, anyone is thinking about offering me a house there, do not hesitate!;) 

We not only visited Malta, but spent the half time in Gozo, and from there we had a daytrip on the island of Comino, famous about the Blue Lagoon.

 

~ Rome. Won't talk too long about it. Once, because this post is becoming a quite long novel, twice, because I drank all my coffee.

It was not my first time there. I visited Rome about 6 years ago, but this time was special, because I went alone (some last minute changes in plans.) and I have to say it was still good. Long weekend alone, just me and my thoughts, I needed this.

 

~ Oops. 

I forgot to talk about Sicily that was the first trip of the year. But I guess, both me and Sam are on the same opinion. There were nice momenrs and pretty places... But... Alltogether it was not the journey of our life. Too busy, too noisy, too dirty. I mean, mostly I'm talking about Catania. I admit there are lovely places out there.

 

- Except adventures... This year I've got some new tattoos! Exactly 5. Oh wow... That sounds a lot!:D Sorry Mum!;)

 

And I could talk about more concers, parties, moments with friends, moments alone, but it's time to go out and have a walk, breathe fresh air, because after all... it's a new year, that's a new day, and I can not sit for ages in front of my ipad. So I keep my 2014 list for later...