Just simply awesome evening

I had the greatest evening today in weeks! if not in months!
On the evening of tuesday, me and my best friend decided to go out to our favorite Korean restaurant. I was so looking forward to it that I ended up counting hours! Seriously... I did count... and counted the minutes for the last hour before I could leave.

For whole day I felt like dancing and singing around. So I was really glad to see her. We both had pretty hard time lately, so this meeting was exactly what we needed!
Really good and incredibly tasty meal, lovely place, perfect service, ideal company.. lot of talking. By the time we was done there and left, we was so charged up that we started to joke and full around. As we walked around the old town, me holding in her elbow, I understood that we might look like bit drunk. I guess we was drunk from the great evening.
We didn't want to leave, so we went to nearby mall walked around there, spent some money on useless things, joked around more, complained about some sellers and their attitude and only then parted our ways.

I am so happy today!!!

More than just music - sign language

I have always had a weakness for music. But especially I like to look and find some "hidden gems" - someone not that well known, but with big talent.

Lately songs performed in sign language have caught my attention. I usually only enjoyed listening to the song. I listened to words too, but I rarely heard them. But after "seeing" those words, the songs gained a new meaning for me. Here are few examples:

But this one was simply awesome! Awesome is kick-ass way!

Candle art

Now this is something! I want to learn to do something like that!

Sparkly stones

Which girl doesn't like jewelery and gems? Sure there are some who will say that those are just stones and some minerals. But nobody can deny that those minerals are really beautiful. I myself prefer blue gems...

The Star of India - The presence of the mineral rutile in the Star of India gives the stone its milky quality. This also yields the star effect, as tiny fibers of the mineral, aligned in a three-fold pattern within the gem, reflect incoming light in the star pattern. This effect is known as asterism, and, along with color, is one of the characteristics that makes star sapphires so highly prized. Such stones are polished in the domed shape you can see here, called a cabochon, to best reveal the star, which moves with changing angles of illumination and observation.

A Large Unnamed Star Sapphire - This large star sapphire has no apparent name. It appeared at Sotheby's Auction House in April of 2002. Here is what they ha

d to say about it:

"Star sapphire and diamond pendant-brooch, circa 1955. The large oval-shaped star sapphire cabochon weighing approximately 145.00 carats, within a frame set with 23 marquise-shaped, 1 round and 1 kite-shaped diamond weighing a total of approximately 23.00 carats, mounted in platinum, with pendant hook."

Hope Diamond - Legend tells that this diamond came from the eye of an statue of god in India. If it is so, then one can only conjecture that the eye must have had a mate, but the fate of other "eye" is unknown. It is also rumoured that this stone is cursed and its owner won't end well. By the way, know the movie Titanic? The beautiful Heart of the Ocean (necklace with blue stone) is based on Hope Diamond. No wonder that Titanic went down too...

Koh-I-Noor - Which British doesn't know the Koh-I-Noor! The amazing diamond, which shines in the royal crown? It has been said that who ever owns Koh-I-Noor is suitable to rule over whole world. There has been rummors that this stone was around at the time of Christ. These legends surely are suitable to one of the worlds most famous gems



The Tiffany Yellow Diamond - Not blue... but still really beautiful. The gem is high in fluorescence and retains rich colour in artificial light, but it is even more beautiful by day. However, it is important to draw a distinction between light yellow and yellowish diamonds and those of rare deeper canary yellow. The Tiffany Yellow remains one of the finest examples of the latter of the three. You can also see it in the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany"

The Crimson Heart of Siberia - The gem has received its name cause of its breathtaking and unique colour. It truly glows with crimson fire! This colour is indicative of high quality and rare rebellite tourmalines found in the Siberia region of Russia. Although it was held privately for and undisclosed period, now it is part of display of the House of Louis XV gem collection.




And those are only few of amazingly beautiful gems... Just dare to tell me that you didn't find even one of them beautiful!

Victory

"Victory at all costs,
Victory in spite of all terror,
Victory however long and hard the road may be;
For without victory there is no survival."

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

Victory is victory no matter how small it may seem. Now just hope that this is victory, not just a trap!

Revelation!

Actually... when you know that there are some people who do read your blog... you kinda start to feel more motivated to write something! Lately I started to think what I could write, what I could say and what would be the best way to put it :)

When everyone wakes up....

I love night! Or more like really really early mornings. So early that you can't tell if night is over or not yet. I kinda get problems getting up that early, but if I get up that early, then I enjoy every little moment of it.
Why I like it? Cause of few reasons

City is sleeping. Get up at 4-6am and check it out. Even the most active and chaotic city is sleeping at this time period. Party people have fallen asleep at different possible and impossible places. Working people and students are still trying to get the last 5min of sleep. Streets are almost empty. Only few people are walking around, who seems to be misfitting in this peaceful sight. And even familiar sights seems so different and more beautiful in the light of rising sun. This peace reminds me of the feeling at the Saturday mornings when you can stay in bed under the blankets bit longer, without any reason to get up early and don't have to worry about upcoming work week as well... Thats the feeling I get to walk around the city that early. Drowsiness, peace, warmth and beauty.

Nature is waking up. Get out of city in early mornings and you will get quite different feeling, especially at spring and summer. While it does seem that nature around you is drowsy too, it is actually full of energy. All these little crickets has been up for oh so long! Bird chorus is so loud like an alarm clock which is trying to wake up everyone around. And slowly the foggy blanket disappears too...

Yea... That time period makes me poetical like some medieval troubadour who is singing odes of joy to the early mornings... lol

3 Guys

Today I was thinking about how many different people I have met and with how many of them I have become friends as well. 2+1 extraordinary guy friend I have...

I know dirty minded bunny who curses like a sailor and is game addict. At the same time he is a person with who I can talk about whatever and I can be 100% that he will understand me and will be on my side. Need to get a bit of confidence back? I just have to go to talk with him and he covers me with compliments (he says - if it is truth, then is it compliment?). Cause of all this... I really hope that he will get to fix his life at last. He deserves some love and care from a lovely bunny girl!

There is a little bit crazy French guy, who really likes red-headed girls, dancing and bikes. He is slightly younger than me so I just can't help but to treat him as little brother. Though, I don't think that my little brother would give me links to sites with revealing girls and guys. And I probably wouldn't discuss what kind of breast size guys prefer or about what kind guy body girls like with my little brother. Our fooling is just fun fun fun! But I still hope that he will find a girl soon... I am running out of excuses why I am not going to France. Actually, he is quite good looking... wonder why he is single.

And there is my stalker, self proclaimed Nr.2 (he was trying to get Nr.1 spot too...). I think he would win the first prize at fast typing, fast talking contests. I think I knew more about their relationships than the girls he was dating or trying to date. Daily hearing " what do you think about this?","Do you think she still loves me?", "Why she isn't responding at the same moment I ask something?", "Why she isn't spending her every free moment with me?", "Ask her what she thinks about me".... and I didn't even know the girls... Well, at the moment I am happy that he stopped to send me messages! Yay!

Wisdom in comedy

"Lord, give me strength to change the things I can, courage to accept the things I can't and wisdom to see the difference"

A wise comment from a kinda funny movie, which came in the right time. For now I will accept what I can't change... but in the mean time I will work on what I can change. And who knows... Maybe tomorrow or day after tomorrow the bothersome things will disappear on their own.

Just wait and see.... I haven't fully given up yet!

Yesterday at the end of So long, but so good I mentioned something about reality kicking in... I knew it... That if I have some really great day, then next one is really bad one. I keep getting bad and disturbing news today...