Picknik

One site that might be usefull if you have lots of foto's and you need to edit that, for example to take away red eyes (change their color) or something like that. This tool allows to do that right on line and after that it is possible to publish these fotos.
Here is the link: picknik

Sorry for my english:), there was some time with no writing in english...

Spring

What do you think, maybe it is enough of this winter? Somewhy I think that it is time for warn spring. Specially that we already had a day for winter to go away:)

Here is some nice picture to think about spring, take a look at it:

This picture was taken by ichigiku, I hope she wouldn't mind for posting it here:)

Is winter coming?

The painting of artist Winter

I live almost 23 years on this earth. And I don't remember such "winter" as we have this year. Even more, I've talked with one woman who is 85 years old. She also dosen't remember such weather in winter time. Some years ago we couldn't imagine Christmas without snow. We used to write Christmas and New years greetings about white soft snow and something.. It seems we have to forget such greetings because snow appears just now, in the middle of January. Though we have snow now, but still no freezing. There is still wet under snow, and children (me too) cannot ride sleigh. It's so pity! Anyway let's enjoy these winter views out of the window we finally have:)

Important!!! I highly recommend to click on the pictures to see full size. Only then you can see real beauty;)

Relationschips

Communication is the most important thing in our lives. We socialize to get and give information, to relax, to plain, and for many other reasons. It is so consequently that we live in community. Living in society is under pressure. Specially youth’s communication is complicated, because they want to be the best and afraid to reveal their sensitive personalities.
In the beginning people understood each other from flourishes and mimes. Words are just symbols which have no meaning. People give the meaning for them. The 65 percent information which is delivered is not verbal and only 35 percent – verbal. But when the message is connected with intense emotions, then not verbal signals reach 93 percents. Because of that a lot of young people fear that they can be not conceived. Sometimes words might sound strange and youths might tease. They don’t understand that we all are similar. Once you were laughed you will never open your heart again for that person and for others…You try to protect your self. But it is wonderful that if you show good-fellowship so you get the same.
Do you know, that youths who looks strong, actually are weak and sensitive in their hearts? They want to be invulnerable. Do you know that youths who always protect others, actually they want to be protected. Protecting others is like words: “I also want to be protected…” Do you know, that the most difficult to say: “I love you”, “for give me”, and “help me”. The reason is that young people afraid to be outcast with his/her feelings. It is unpleasant to admit you need help. Do you know that youths who wear red clothes are self-confidence. Do you know that youths who wear black clothes, want to be unnoticed and they are waiting for your support and understanding. Do you know that if you help to someone the good will be back twice. It is hard to do firsts steps. But it is always pleasing to requite with goodness. Do you know that for youths it is easer to write about their feelings than to talk about them.
Young people live very difficult life. They have to be strong and brave if they want to seek something in their lives. Having friends is also complicated and pressuring thing. They just finding friends, they don’t know if they can trust them. And this fact confuse. Only after long years you can say who is your friend. Youths are trying to find them self and are learning to accept others the way they are.

ABC for Social Behaviour and Customs in Lithuania

Almost everything can be made by Lithuanians.
Be sure that one ‘No, thank you’ is not enough to refuse another helping.
Cholesterol level is not important for Lithuanians – they adore pork and potatoes.
Drinks which have a liking between Lithuanians are beer, moonshine vodka made of rye and liqueur made of berries.
Even though mainly Catholics, Lithuanians have a few more religions: they worship beer and basketball.
Fishing is the best way for Lithuanian men to spend their leisure time (off course if there is no basketball match on TV).
Good habit to take your shoes off, if you are invited to someone’s house.
Have all type of clothes then you are in Lithuania.
In Lithuania the potato harvest symbolises solidarity and friendship.
Job is also very important – here works even pensioners. It is like a hobby :)
Kaunas is the second city in Lithuania and Klaipėda is the third city and it is the seaport.
Lithuanians think that farming is holy work. :)
Meal for Lithuanians is also very important. We eat almost everything, anytime, anywhere and with anything.
Never forget to check your change if you are buying something in bazaar.
Open people’s hearts by saying Lithuanian words like “Labas”, “Ačiū“, “Ate”.
Palanga is a resort city.
Questions about money are not well-liked.
Rain always starts when you don’t have an umbrella.
Sadly, our countrymen’s are not very happy with their living conditions.
Take tours around Lithuania in all seasons of the year, to see how Lithuanian’s nature changes.
Usual Lithuanians tries to pretend that everything is all-right even it is obvious untruth.
Vilnius is a capital of Lithuania.
Warm-hearted… whatever other says…Lithuanians are warm-hearted even they try to deny it.
Xenophobia is not very often phenomenon.
You have to be very polite.
Zeppellin do not fly in Lithuania it is not a dirigible – it is Lithuanian’s national dish.

Merry CHRISTMAS to everybody!!!

You are always welcome to visit this link http://www.fotothing.com/ichigiku/ and see some my photos!!!

When your friend is melancholy...

I don't know what happens. Just I become sad and silent. I don't have patience to answer to questions of others. I don't like to wait for my turn to work with computer. It seems to me my sister does a lot of not important things and it's better she leaves computer to me. And I don't like my grandma's talks about nothing. And I hate heavy clouds of autumn. In such moments I can say a lot of things like that.. And once again I catch myself thinking how hard it's to be far away from persons I love. How hard it's love myself. And how difficult sometimes is to feel happiness in an defective place with imperfect people.

Some work and thoughts

Here is some short summury of one of my works, lately I am spending lots of time on it.

Internet becomes more and more popular, it takes place as information and modern communication mean. On the other hand it is quite new and not much research phenomenon. Because of that this article goal is to systematize information and identify the major difficulties which are faced by Lithuania’s organization in creating there own web sites. It is necessary to touch both technical and communicational aspects, because they are very associated.
Identifying basic tapes of internet sites and basic functions they should perform lets to identify basic categories of difficulties that may rise when organization tries to create a web site or to maintain it. According to research result and statistical data, more and more organizations heads thinks that internet is important for their business and helps to earn more money (TNS Gallup).
Short research about Lithuania’s organizations web sites reveals that there is quite bis number of organizations that uses web sites as electronical business solutions or uses them as big addition to their business. But still there is quite big number of organization that do not have internet sites.

I still working on this article or something like that.

Lots of thanks to Pelene for helping with this task.

Apple With Snow Cap

One more picture from contrastive autumn. I don't need to say usually apples don't have snow on them. Usually we don't have snow in autumn and especially there is not so cold. We had -6 according Celcius, and at night even lower temperature.. Something strange!!!

But now all snow has melted, and there is terrible Lithuanian autumn, when it's so wet and dirty everywhere.. There are no more nice autumn colours. Just grey colour surrrounds..

Hi. Do you have time to play a little bit? :O) I have tried it, and now I can say that:

• There are 97,490 people in the U.S. with the first name Kristina.
• Statistically the 530th most popular first name. (tied with 6 other first names)
• More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Kristina are female.

But my last name is unkown in U.S. :)

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

A Rose In Snow...

Solo una palabra?

Hoy en iglesia el padre ha hablado sobre amor. Ha preguntado si amor todavia es amor o solo una palabra buena. Yo misma pienso que todavia en el mundo existe amor verdadero. Sin amor no sea el mundo creo...

Y una cosa muy interesante. En homilia el padre ha hablado sobre una investigacion de unos cientificos. Ellos han preguntado a ninios entre 4 y 8 años ¿que es amor? Las respuestas estaban variadas, pero como ha dicho el padre, muy profundas y sinceras. De las que me accuerdo:

• El amor es cuando mama prepara el cafe a papa y antes de darselo, ella se lo proba a ver si esta bueno o no.
• El amor es cuando abuela esta enferma y no puede pintar sus uñas de pies y abuelo siempre se las pinta aunqu le duele espalda.
• El amor es cuando la chica se perfuma, el chico se asperja con liquido de afeitar y luego los dos se olfatean.
• El amor es cuando papa esta sucio y sudoroso despues de trabajar y mama dice que aun asi, el esta mas guopo que Robert Redford.
• El amor es cuando tu pasas todo el dia fuera, sin lavarte y el perrito tuyo te lame la cara.

Os gustan estas? Conoceis el amor asi? Espero que si :)

Happy birthday!!!

My baby is already a one-year old hombrecito. It's incredible how rapidly time runs. Not so much time ago he was a little wrinkled infant in my arms. And now mano katinėlis is a lovely smart boy trying to toddle ;)

On the weekend the house was full of children's chearful hubbub and adults' talks. By surprise we had three cakes and only one birthday candle quite like in the story of Astrid Lindgrend about the small boy and his friend Karson :)

And everybody was laughing at the baby when he has tasted champagne brought from Spain by the daddy. I general the tiny likes to drink from a cup. And seeing me with the glass of champagne he wanted to try it and I let to do it. Only one sip and my angel funnily wrinkled his face - it was obviuos he wouldn't ask more at this time :)

I'm a very happy mamma. I have a gold baby. He has a wonderful smile with six teeth, I haven't passed any sleepless night with him and only once he has caught a cold...

I'M REALLY THANKFUL FOR THIS MIRACLE TO MI CORAZON, TO EVERYBODY WHO ENJOYS WITH THE BABY ANT TO THOSE WHO HELP ME TO TAKE CARE OF THE BABY.

God bless all of us.

The Two Become One

A few days ago Lithuania was visited by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.

Lithuanian media payed a lot of atention to the visit. We had a possibility to hear a lot of stories about Her Majesty The Queen, royal family, monarchy and so on. And it was really interesting. Especially because the Queen made a good showing. Many people were under the impression that first of all she was really nice, sympathetic and warm person. And one signatory ( he had an opportunity to talk with the honorouble guest) on radio interview said that the queen had such a beautiful sky-blue eyes that it's worth to fall in love :)

Personally I was rapturous when Queen Elizabeth II quoted our national anthem in her speech at the Seimas in Vilnius : "May the light and the truth accompany our steps". Check it out: http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5645.asp

However, do you think monarchy and the 21st century are compatible things? I sincerely don't know. But those monarchal things associate with romantics, splendour and raise curiosity, aren't they? :)

P.S. If you want to see more photos of the visit you can find some here: http://www.president.lt/spaudai/foto

昔々 /Once upon a time

Once I was in Japan..

Once I took Japanese ceramics classes..

It was a year ago.

and

here is a link to some ceramics pieces of mine

^_^

Zahir is coming back!!!

Do you remember? Once I've said I was going to read The Zahir,

and I promised to tell you my impressions about the novel. Like I was told it was really love story. And really nice one. And it was from very beginning till the end full of surprises.

He is a writer, she is a journalist. They were married. She has left him without saying nothing. And although he knew she was alive and he loved her, he lived with another one.

They spent a lot of time without each other, without any phone call or e-mail. During that time he wrote a few books. He have met a strange man, who told to him, where his wife was. And while he was beding the another, he understood how much he loved his wife, and that he couldn't live without her.

When the time came, he went to look for her. And he was so in love with her, and he was afraid she didn't love him anymore. But she did. She always loved him, but she wasn't sure about him. However, in the very end of the story she boomed out the news of hers. If you ask what kind of news it is, I say to you - it's better read the story yourself :)

What I've learned from the story was time answered to your questions and could give to you more chances. And if you really love, you can do everything for your beloveds.

So, if you are interesting in the story you can visit this web page:

The Zahir
Have a nice day :)

"Islandijos varpas"

Na nežinau kaip bus įvertinta, bet vis tik parašysiu gal vieną rašinuką ir lietuvių kalba. Na pabaigoje gal bus ir trumpas angliškas apibendrinimas:).

Tai va... Visai neseniai baigiau skaiyti knygą "Islandijos varpas", knygos autorius yra H.Laksnesas. Tai žymus Islandijos rašytojas, literatūrinės Nobelio premijos laureatas. Galima netgi sutikti nuomonių, kad tai gyvoji pačios Islandijos saga, šios tautos pasididžiavimas.

Haldoras Laksnesas gimė 1902 m. balandžio 23 d. kelių darbininko šeimoje, Reikjavike. Knyga "Islandijos varpas" parašyta maždaug apie 1946 metus.

Knygoje veiksmas vyksta senais laikais, istoriškai sunku gal net būtų tiksliai jį nusakyti. Iš knygoje pateikiamų istorinių detalių galima susidaryti vaizdą, kad tai maždaug tie laikai, kai Islandija priklausė Danijai. Ir vyko gana intensyvus senovinių raštų rinkimas bei perrašymas.

Didžioji knygos veiksmo dalis liečia tris gal galima sakyti įsimintiniausius veikėjus. Vienas iš jų yra išsimokslinęs žmogus ir begalo užsidegęs idėja surinkti visas senasias islandų knygas, kad jos nepražūtų ir liktų ateities kartoms ir kartu parodytų Islandijos didingumą, nors knygoje aprašomu laiku Islandija išgyvena ne pačius geriausius laikus. Kitas svarbus veikėjas yra gerai žinomo ir autoritetingo teisejo dukra, ją sieja glaudūs ryšiai su mokslinguoju knygų rinkėju ir gal kiek kitoks ryšys su kitu veikėju, kurį tuojau ir paminėsiu. Kitas veikėjas yra paprastas islandas Jounas. Knygoje jis nekartą tituluojamas kaip nusikaltėlis, vagis. Taip pat susijęs glaudžiai su anksčiau minėtais žmonėmis.
Sunku trumpai nupasakoti visus knygos įvykius, gal būt pats žiaurias ir nemaloniausias knygos įvykis nutinka pačioje pabaigoje. Didžioji dalis surinktu senovinių islandų knygų buvo saugomos Kopenhagoje. Vieną dieną dėl nevisai aiškių priežasčių Kopenhagą nusiaubė žiaurus daug nuotolių pridaręs gaisras. Jo metu sudegė praktiškai visos sukauptos knygos. Išgelbėta liko viena knyga - Skalda. Knygoje ji aprašoma kaip viena iš seniausių ir vertingiausių islandiškų knygų.
Knygoje dažnai minima ir tokios vietos kaip Altingas ar Skalholtas. Pasitelkus istorines žinias galima sakyti ,kad Islandijoje veikia seniausias pasaulyje parlamentas (Altingas), nes pirmą kartą jis buvo sudarytas dar 930 metais. Pirmoji vyskupija įsteigta 1053 metais Skalholte. Taigi aprašomi dalykai vyksta tikrose, neišgalvotose vietovėse.
Tai būtų toks trumpas pasakojimas apie perskaitytą knygą. Asmeniškai man liko gana neblogas įspūdis, nors pačioje pradžioje buvo gal kiek neįdomu.

And now couple of words in English.
This Short article is about a book "Islandijos varpas" I don't how to tranclate it to English properly, sorry.
This book is about Iceland in old times and also about some people who are living there or doing there various activities like collecting old books about Iceland and trying to safe them from rot.

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