It's been a while since my last personal post on this blog and sorry to all my followers for that (one of them even wrote me an e-mail, asking if I've ever post anything again :))) ) but recent month was a real rollacoaster in my personal and professional life, and I don't even know where to start and where to stop to tell a story about it.
So as I'm sitting in front of a window in my hometown Vilnius and see few golden trees in front of me shivering a word 'autumn autumn' already, so its about time to do some retro/introspective thinking. And those thoughts for me now starts with thinking on dearests friends, and a concept of friendship itself. It seems that recently it finally took a shape for me - sometimes it takes me a while - I don't want any random people near me, honestly, I've learned few hard lessons recently and made my conclusions: no more effort from me to to anyone who never puts any effort into the friendship, no feeling uncanny or even guilty when talking about my plans (of ruling the world!!!) in front of anyone who puts me down every time or takes that as dry careerism and an insult to their own indifference and lack of dreams. I'm done with people who take others success as something that make themselves look worse, I'm done with that and I wish I could say it breaks my heart, but it really doesn't when 'friendships' with people like that end.
Well anyway, did I mention that there was an European Basketball championship (Eurobasket 2011) just held here in my home-country Lithuania? It was and it seems a country passed the test with A+ except of the fact we didn't win any medals :))) But somehow even with no medals it felt as a big celebration over here and of course there were few more tourists than normally in September, which was not bad for my 'Lithuania' t-shirt and other souvenir-stuff sales. Plus: now I have my second favored basketball team in Europe (the most favorite of course is Lithianian national team) - so the second place in my personal ranking goooooessss toooooo.... ----- Macedonia! Well done, guys, I wish you've won your bronze, cause you really were worth of it.
So after those dramatic games I needed a break and is there a better place than St.Petersburg for that? Long walks even on a rainy day are worth doing there, not mentioning an improvised visit to the concert by Nina Karlsson or a Graphic Novel festival, great food in Petersburg's cafes, great people, beautiful old-town architecture and great atmosphere hanging in the air, and there is just nothing bad to say about that place, one of my most-loved train-destinations in the whole world.
Well, thats it for this time, fellows, sorry for a long delay, just needed to put my thoughts together, to sit in the corner of a room hidden in my bathrobe with earphones and sun-glasses on. Now I'm done with it and back to my previous life with few stones taken out of my pockets. Life gets easier every-day.
P.S. I think this band 'BrassBastardz' made of few Lithuanian musicians will be a soundtrack of my autumn2011 - check them out (at http://brassbastardz.bandcamp.com/ or their Facebook page) they just won few 'The People's Music Awards' in the UK and I don't think there is anything that could stop them now.
So as I'm sitting in front of a window in my hometown Vilnius and see few golden trees in front of me shivering a word 'autumn autumn' already, so its about time to do some retro/introspective thinking. And those thoughts for me now starts with thinking on dearests friends, and a concept of friendship itself. It seems that recently it finally took a shape for me - sometimes it takes me a while - I don't want any random people near me, honestly, I've learned few hard lessons recently and made my conclusions: no more effort from me to to anyone who never puts any effort into the friendship, no feeling uncanny or even guilty when talking about my plans (of ruling the world!!!) in front of anyone who puts me down every time or takes that as dry careerism and an insult to their own indifference and lack of dreams. I'm done with people who take others success as something that make themselves look worse, I'm done with that and I wish I could say it breaks my heart, but it really doesn't when 'friendships' with people like that end.
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Well anyway, did I mention that there was an European Basketball championship (Eurobasket 2011) just held here in my home-country Lithuania? It was and it seems a country passed the test with A+ except of the fact we didn't win any medals :))) But somehow even with no medals it felt as a big celebration over here and of course there were few more tourists than normally in September, which was not bad for my 'Lithuania' t-shirt and other souvenir-stuff sales. Plus: now I have my second favored basketball team in Europe (the most favorite of course is Lithianian national team) - so the second place in my personal ranking goooooessss toooooo.... ----- Macedonia! Well done, guys, I wish you've won your bronze, cause you really were worth of it.
So after those dramatic games I needed a break and is there a better place than St.Petersburg for that? Long walks even on a rainy day are worth doing there, not mentioning an improvised visit to the concert by Nina Karlsson or a Graphic Novel festival, great food in Petersburg's cafes, great people, beautiful old-town architecture and great atmosphere hanging in the air, and there is just nothing bad to say about that place, one of my most-loved train-destinations in the whole world.
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| train station where train from Vilnius comes. Nice architecture, especially when its the first thing you see in Petersburg at 6 o'clock in the morning |
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| a wonderful drawing from the exhibition by Kojiro AKAGI |
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| At the Graphic Novel festival (this was just the entrance, much more ofcourse was hidden inside the building and also scattered all around Petersburg |
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| At the concert of Nina Karlsson |
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| "Demand for: croissants and sandwiches" |
Well, thats it for this time, fellows, sorry for a long delay, just needed to put my thoughts together, to sit in the corner of a room hidden in my bathrobe with earphones and sun-glasses on. Now I'm done with it and back to my previous life with few stones taken out of my pockets. Life gets easier every-day.
P.S. I think this band 'BrassBastardz' made of few Lithuanian musicians will be a soundtrack of my autumn2011 - check them out (at http://brassbastardz.bandcamp.com/ or their Facebook page) they just won few 'The People's Music Awards' in the UK and I don't think there is anything that could stop them now.