Dienstag, 24. April 2007

Bread and butter or enyoment?

An article about jobs in general and tipps on this topic intiate me to summon up some of the most important tipps.

Firstly, everybody should think deeeply about their personal traits as well as their wishes. What kind of businness would you like to do? Mainting law and order or doing the washing-up? Comparing facts and figures of the economic market with your own wishes will give you an idea how high are your chances of achieving whatever imaginative job you would like to do.

Secondly, entrepreneurship might seem attractive at first, but you have to consider all pros and cons and what way of life does that brings to you.

Thirdly, try to specialize in a particular field. It is even more promising if that is a field where experts are few and far between.

All in all, it is of major importance to do your best in achieving your success and remain grounded. Constantly doing somebody else a favour would not help you make aprofit. Good luck!

Mittwoch, 18. April 2007

Martin Strel - Amazon 2007

A Slovene marathon swimmer Martin Strel has succeed in swimming more than 5000 km long Amazon river in approx. 70 days. Doctors declared he has returned from this extremely exhausting route safe and sound.

In my opinion, that kind of challenge demand your whole mind and soul as well as physical strength. Broadly speaking, you do not make any noticeable progress in the first few days. In addition, such ordeal is a real touch and go considering the great peril lurking in the river in the forms of crocodiles and piranhas. To top it all, you have to do your duty no matter what it takes once you start such expedition. I believe, he deserves everyboy's admiration.

Austrians

A saying: Birds of a feather flock together might come in handy when describing Austrians' main features. According to "The Xenophobe's guide to the Austrians" they strive to be one country when they can help themselves financially from the main Austrian budget, otherwise they are patriotic members of federal provinces.

Moreover, these are the characteristics that find common ground in Austria, no matter what their provenance is: miscegenation, devious, morose, time-serving, but on the other hand pleasure-loving as well as genial. Some federal provinces bordering on Swiss are deemed to have features, such as thrift, piety and stubbornness.

In historic terms, the whole nation was ruled with an iron fist. By the same token, here lies the root of Austrian ambivalent attitude to power. What is funny in my opinion, is the fact that Joseph II attempted to burry dead people in coffins already used for financial reasons.

A footling idea that European Union means living in England is the same as in Austria is not true. As a traditional nation, Austrians need time to be tampered with modernised way of live. Consequently, their religios holidays bespatter the calender and their workes get generous holiday allowances.

Austrians do not trust novelties for a simple reason;namely, they believe somebody will make money at their expences.

All in all, you cannot lump all Austrians together, cause each and every individual is beautiful and different.

irish characteristics

According to the article in our script some expertsarrived at a similar conclusion: What is typical Irish is their contrariness. It has also lodged in their minds that they are lucky, which is a nice characteristic in my opinion. One logical explanations for this luckiness could be found in the definite and great peril imposed on the Irish throughout the history (wars, famine...). Consequntly, they consider themselves lucky to have survived all the troubles and tribulations.

A remarkable factor which has a great effect on their life is the economic boom that is transforming the country beyond recognition.

The quintessential word in Irish vocabulary is "craic".Everything connected with conversation or having fun can be deemed a "craic". The spelling is probably phony. However, the term found itself so much in demand that it stayed in the language.
Broadly speaking, "Craic" is a vital word of Irish everyday life.


The second important symbol of Irishness is the shamrock can thrive only in Ireland.

types of human "sounds" and reactions

So, in the past days I was searching for some intersting vocab in our script and I came across some illustrative words, such as: stammer, snigger and squeak. A person who stammers is normally quite annoying to talk to, although you know it's not there fault to speak like that. To squeak reminds me of the door in our old house who squeaked open every time you entered the main room. Snigger is something I connect with my teenage schoolmates who did this each and every time a cute boy strolled aroung the corner.
A reaction which is typical for a half of my family is scowling - my father and my sister do this constatly when tired, bored or in the process of getting angry. Consequently, my father's forehead is an embodiement for wrinkles.

pharmacy lobbies

I' ve read an instructive article about pharmacy lobbies the other day and I managed to scribble the main points on a pice of paper. So, here it goes:
A lot of successful pharmacy companies are often implicated in financial scandals due to the fact that they pay their own scienties to "proove" their medicine to be in line with standards or that this medicine really cures a person's illness. What is more, nowadays it is almost impossible to acquire objective information as well as impartial advice on the topic of cancer due to pharmacy lobbies. In other words, the majority of information you pick up from everyday's news are đ misleading. So, therefore trying to be up-to-date in that way has really no intrinsic value. Sad, but true.

easter holidays

As one can see, I haven't touch my blog over the holidays. There is no explicit elucidation for that, just the fact that I sometimes need a incentive to start a computer over the holidays. The inherent part of my holiday's was writing seminars for my home university, which I considered enough of a contact with a stupid machine. So, now I'm back agains, full of energy and new ideas what to write about.

volunteering

When Rebecca first mentioned the volunteer project we were about to focus on in the next few weeks, it did not seem nothing particularly new to me. However, it has turned out to broaden my horizons on this particular topic although I was not physically present on the fair itself.
Firstly, I have gained a bunch of new information considering types and names of the organizations. Although I had done some quite intensive research on this topic in my home country a few years ago, I had missed some vital aspects – such as working in order to give aid somebody. As far as I remember, there was much more stress put upon the fact that you gain new experiences and learn a foreign language (in most cases this means English) than to draw the volunteer's attention to the simple humane characteristic – will to help.
Secondly, on account of working in a group I have managed to discover others' opinions and experience about that. I believe that majority has a positive view on volunteering and would join a group of volunteers one day. Nonetheless, one should still remain realistic about that – saying is not the same as doing.
All in all, volunteering might be a rich life experience for a young person, that is why it is certainly worth trying it out.