Posts from Angela (on vacation)

I can’t express how deep is my love to St. Petersburg. From visit to visit I adore this beautiful majestic city more and more!! It was even a bit sad for me to come back to Voronezh.

Now I’m quite busy and I can’t spend so much time on iper as I did before :(( but I will try to keep on posting my pictures.

Away for a while

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:23:56 +0000

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Tomorrow I'm going to St. Petersburg again and I guess I will have no internet access for some weeks :((

As this time I'm going there on business, so I don't expect to take many pictures... but I've still got some pictures from the last trip, so I will keep on posting them maybe in the winter :-)

At this parting I'm posting my favourite picture from that beautiful city:

Hope you would like this one as much as I do ;-))

Til hamingju með afmælið Begga! (IS)

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:16:01 +0000

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Í dag er hátíðardagur vegna þess að Begga á afmæli! Hún er án efa ein sú jákvæðasta og skemmtilegasta manneskjan hérna á ipernity og ég er mjög þakklát þessu samfélagi fyrir að fá að kynnast henni og mörgu öðru góðu fólki hér.

Kæra Begga!

Ég óska þér alls hins besta á afmælisdaginn ásamt mikilli ást, hlátri, gleði og að sjálfsögðu, mörgum gjöfum :o))) Vonandi verður árið yndislegt, fullt af öllu því besta sem hugsast getur og næstu ár þar á eftir líka! Ég óska þér alls hins besta, að allir þínir draumar rætist á þann veg sem þú óskar og að draumar þínir gefi þér vængi til að svífa hátt yfir hinu daglega amstri. Einnig vona ég að þú haldir áfram að vera sama yndislega manneskjan og þú ert í dag, í að minnsta kosti 100 ár til viðbótar!!! Það tekur mig sárt að geta ekki faðmað þig þéttingsfast núna og kysst þig þrisvar á vangana (samkvæmt rússneskri hefð), en ég geri það í huganum! Til hamingju með afmælið Begga!

P.S. Veislan ætti að verða mjög skemmtileg:

It seems I'm getting popular... :-))))

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:43:41 +0000

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... or at least today I've seen my picture stolen (ok, let's call it "used without my permission") for the first time. And I like to think that such kind of stealing is a sign of popularity ;-))

Someone named "~¤°*MyNonA*°¤~" has "honored" me by using my own (!) eye as his/her (I just don't know if it is a man or a woman) avatar. Dear ~¤°*MyNonA*°¤~! I guess you've got your own eyes, so please use them for that purpose! :-DDD

It would be very interesting if you would tell in comments about anyoccurrences if you've ever found your own pictures in any unexpected places!

P.S. I've added the phrase "please don't use my pictures on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission" to my profile. Just in case... ;-))

I heard in the news...

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:15:58 +0000

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The investigation of a case of a theft of the large summs of money, appropriated for a fight with stealing, has been started.

I love this country!

I'm back :-)

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:36:54 +0000

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Hello everybody! I’m back from my short but amazing vacation in St. Petersburg.

First of all I’d like to thank all my friends for your nice birthday greetings and wishes. I was so delighted to get them!

I made many pictures during the vacation and now I need some time to sort and treat them. It seems I have some material to post on my stream at least for a year ;)

St. Petersburg is a splendid and gorgeous city. I lived close to SPb when I was a child for two years (in Pushkin), but I had already forgot the amazing beauty of the town and its suburbs. Now I’m in love with SPb again and I’m going to visit it again in the coming autumn.

Away for a while

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:38:10 +0000

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Tomorrow I'm going to St. Petersburg to celebrate my birthday with some of my friends who have moved there and I'm back on the next Friday

ДА! ДА! ДА! МЫ СДЕЛАЛИ ЭТО!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:20:08 +0000

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О господи, мы сделали это!!! Молодцы наша команда, которая не сломалась после матча с испанцами... И молодец наш тренер, Гус Хиддинк!!! Как я невероятно счастлива!!!!

Обожаю юмор Хиддинка:

"Я хочу быть предателем года в Голландии", – заявил перед игрой со сборной Нидерландов в Базеле наставник россиян. Что ж, шутка стала правдой – его желание исполнилось.

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Oh my God, we've done it!!! Our team is great because they haven't given up after the terrible defeat from Spain... and our coach is great, I love you Guus Hiddink!!! I'm so incredibly HAPPY!

By the way, we came to the championship being on the 24th position in the world rating. Now I guess we would move ;-)

And I like Hiddink's sense of humor very much:

Hiddink vowed on Friday to be a “traitor” to his country. “Yes, I hope to be Dutch Traitor of the Year on Saturday,” he said.

Time to advertise this song...

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:37:17 +0000

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The translation of the lyrics (from here).

Chaif - Argentina-Jamaica 5:0

Today the sun is hidden by the dark clouds,

Today the waves gush out so heavily,

I've seen how Jamaica was giving up all hope,

My soul is crying...

What for are you beating my drums?

What for are you dancing to my drums?

What for are you singing my song?

It hurts me as it is...

What a pain, what a pain

Argentina - Jamaica 5:0

What a pain, what a pain

Argentina - Jamaica 5:0

I see the blue sky above me,

So white clouds on the blue,

As white-blue colours of Argentina,

I close my eyes...

I see the green forest of Jamaica,

I see its gold beaches,

I see its wonderful women,

Their faces are sad...

What a pain, what a pain

Argentina - Jamaica 5:0

What a pain, what a pain

Argentina - Jamaica 5:0

Our women forgive us for our weakness,

Our women forgive us for our tears,

They forgive all the world for laugh and joy,

Even Argentina...

So, dance, dance to my drums,

So, sing, sing my song,

Sensemiglia will be enough for everybody

While reggae sounds...

What a pain, what a pain

Argentina - Jamaica 5:0

What a pain, what a pain

Argentina - Jamaica 5:0

Deutschland - Polen 2:0

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:51:16 +0000

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Ich gratuliere allen Deutschen (und Sympathisanten wie ich) zum ersten Gewinn!!!

About Russian names

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:21:02 +0000

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Name and patronymic

A little boy asked me recently why his parents called me Sasha.

Well, it is an interesting story, and it is more about the Russian language than me.

The Russian language has a remarkable capacity for transforming words and giving them new shadows of meaning and emotional colour. For example, almost any noun and almost any adjective have a host of different forms. For example, the word малый, ``small’’, has at least four forms:

маловатый, малый, маленький, малюсенький,

each marking the next degree of smallness (and not only smallness. - A.). The same is happening with personal names: the Russian language allows its users to form a huge variety of diminutive, personal of familiar forms of names.

Let us start with Александр, Alexander. The name is of Greek origin, and made of two Greek roots: “аlex-”, which means “defence” in Greek, and “andros”, which means “man”; the meaning of the name is “defender of people”. In many languages, the two roots are split out, making new names, like in English, for example, Alex and Sandy (the latter is more common in Scotland, I believe). In my local Chinese takeaway, I am known as Alex, but next door, in a Turkish takeaway, I am known as “Iskender”, which is a Turkish form of “Alexander”. The Turks remember the great warrior of the past, Alexander of Macedonia, and the word “Iskender” is occasionally used by Turks to mean something like “great, majestic, royal”. “Iskender kebab” is the name on the menu for a very big kebab, which, I have to admit, looks more and more like a fair description of me.

So, the first root of Александр generates, in some dialects of Russian, names Олесь (Oles'), Олеся (Olesya), Олеша (Olesha). The second root happened to be even more flexible: first of all, it transformed

Александр (Alexandr) – Алексаша (Alexasasha) – Саша (Sasha),

thus yielding the most common familiar form of my name, Sasha. The name Sasha is used in informal conversations between people of the same age, or between close relatives; a child can call his uncle “uncle Sasha”, but it would be deemed inappropriate if a child call his uncle just “Sasha”. There are two more basic dimunitive / familiar forms of Александр: Саня and Шура.

All three forms of Александр have a full range of derivatives:

Саша – Сашка (Sashka), Сашенька (Sashen'ka), Сашутка (Sashutka), Сашок (Sashok).

Саня (Sanya) – Санька (San'ka), Санечка (Sanechka), Санёк (Saniok).

Шура (Shura) – Шурка (Shurka), Шурочка (Shurochka), Шурик (Shurik).

If you are not bewildered yet, I have to explain that Russians have two forms of addressing people: a polite, when the plural “you” is used, вы, and a familiar, ты, which has no analogue in modern English, but had in the past, “thou” (like in the Bible: Thou Shalt Not Kill). Саша and Шура can be used with a polite form of address, but I cannot imagine anyone using Саня and “вы”. The use of Сашка, Санька, Шурка with the polite form вы is out of question: these names are reserved for conversations between boys.

And there are also patronymics: the father’s name is used with the full first name in the full polite form of address. I am Александр Васильевич, because my father was Василий (а Russian form of Basil). But I have to stop here; conventions for use of patronymics will fill a book. Perhaps, this book is already written by someone.

Need some time for science

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:00:30 +0000

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A few next weeks I'm extremely busy with my graduation project (the subject sounds approximately as "The State and the Nation in the ideologies of Conservative Revolution and national socialism in Germany") but nobody has freed me from my usual work for the publishing house o_O

Facetious temperature scale, LOL!

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:19:38 +0000

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Facetious temperature scale (Celsius)

+ 20 C The Greeks get on their sweaters (if they can find).

+ 15 C The Hawaiians turn on the heat (if they have).

+ 10 C The Americans shake with cold. The Russians plant cucumbers in kitchen gardens.

+ 5 C You can see your breathing. Italian cars don’t start.

+ 2 C The Norwegians go to the beach. The Russians roll down car windows.

0 C The water freezes solid in the USA. The water gets denser in Russia.

- 5 C French cars don’t start.

- 10 C You plan to spend your holiday in Maldives.

- 15 C Your cat sleeps in your bed. The Norwegians get on their sweaters.

- 18 C Householders in New York turn on the heat. The Russians go on a picnic for the last time in the season.

- 20 C American cars don’t start. People in Alaska put on T-shirts.

- 25 C German cars don’t start. The Hawaiians have died out.

- 30 C The politicians talk about homeless people. Your cat sleeps in your pajamas.

- 35 C It’s too cold to think. Japan cars don’t start.

- 40 C You’re planning two-week bath. Swedish cars don’t start.

- 42 C The European public transport doesn’t function. The Russians eat ice cream in the street.

- 45 C The Greeks have died out. The politicians start doing something for homeless people actually.

- 50 C Eyelids freeze together while you blink. People in Alaska close ventilator window in the bathroom

- 60 C White bears move to the South.

- 70 C The Hell has frozen.

- 75 C The Finnish special mission units evacuate Santa Claus from Lapland. The Russians get on their caps with ear flaps (“ushankas”).

- 80 C The lawyers put their hands into their own pockets.

- 114 C Alcohol has frozen. The Russians are in the blues.

- 273 C Absolute zero, atomic motion stops.

- 295 C 90% population of the Earth has died out. The Russian football team is the champion of the world…

P.S. My favorite piece is the “- 80”. And I used to eat ice cream in the street only by – 20 C ;-)

Zenit - Bayern 4:0

nobody@ipernity.com (Angela (on vacation)) — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:45:27 +0000

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O.M.G.!!! Who could believe it?!! I'm so inexpressibly HAPPY!!!