Thursday, December 31, 2009

Best mix of music

At some point in my life I wanted to be a DJ - lately I even got myself a DJ software to mix live for fun - never had time nor courage to follow up on my new possession.

In the meantime so time ago thanks to Rita I managed to discover a French, Paris based radio station which plays an excellent eclectic mix of music - jazz, world music, film soundtracks, alt.rock and the occasional blast of classical music mixed in a way you cannot complain - a real gem hidden among dozens of radio stations out there...

It is sometimes referred to as the best radio station on earth - check it out - because for sure it is close to being one. Great for breakfast but equally good for late night...

Happy New Year from Warsaw!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Joy

It seems we have been in Poland for ages since I managed unconsciously to post pictures from our trip to the glacier in Polish - once that happens it clearly means that time has come to start trying to move our lives in a direction of some more exotic place. Perhaps something not as extreme as Nigeria where I went to primary school for two years but somewhere where it is sunny and warm - we will move to Africa in step two of steering our lives into the excitement path...Nigeria came to my mind because we watched yesterday District 9. The other day on our way to Berlin in the car radio on BBC World we heard an official complaint by the Nigeria Minister of Culture against portraying the Nigerian as worst villains in the movie. I had a feeling that the whole humanity was portrayed as a bunch of total assholes and Nigerian looked quite decent in that comparison :)


Anyway today we watched Julie and Julia and enjoyed it very much. Perhaps because of the fact that Rita loves cooking in the same way those two loved it or perhaps because they were following their passion in life - though it was not exactly an easy way. I probably liked it very much also due to the fact that my uncle makes the best Polish food I have ever tasted. Every year it tastes more heavenly. I am not a fun of Polish cuisine but his Christmas dinners are amazing.

Our three days stint in Kaprun is something that made me feel the same way as I guess the two feel about cooking. I always loved snowboarding and the more I do it the more hooked up I get with it. Spice snowboarding with traveling and living in new places - here comes the perfect receipe for me!

Perhaps I will be able to do it with the little Leon pretty soon. They start teaching them at around 3 years so already in 2012 the three of us can go skiing/snowboarding together. Considering that he is very active in Rita's belly I think there should be no special problem in convincing him to do so...

Oh I needed this time the Christmas break big time! Having the best year in my life while touring the world and then getting into high speed corporate world was too big of a strain for me. Hopefully I recover enough by the time new year arrives.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Error 328

Life.sys error. Please, restart the universe.

I saw this on a t-shirt at the Christams market last weekend in Berlin. General lack of light makes me feel exactly in this way though in reality I should not have too much to worry. We went to see new Woody Allen's movie while in Berlin - Everything works - Rita concluded that I have a very similiar attitude to life as the main character (though I never claimed to be a genious). Perhaps this is why I felt that the error 328 quite well captures the state of reality.

Since April we have not had proper holidays and both of us are really looking forward to Christmas. We might then recharge to erase the error. We will start the process of recharging already next weekend as we plan to go on a glaciar to snowboard...well Rita and Leon will chill and breath fresh air while I will do some downhill activities. A bit unfair - but still should be a good deal for both of us.

We have now 3 weeks left to make new years resolutions - It is difficult to say what thay should be since we have managed to change almost everything in our lifes during the last 12 months - changing more could be an overkill :)

There are some new photos on flickr from a hen party Rita organized at our residence near Warsaw for her cousin...since our camera is working again we will soon start posting pictures again...