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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Oct 31, 2004
Haning in book shops relax me.I forget everething there.
I read two Pratchet's books about Discworld(with wizard Rinsvind)and i like it.I think that was first two books.I am not sure.
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Oct 31, 2004
Wizzard Rincewind
right.. I think I have all books .. there are .. what .. something like 25 or more .. I have a lot of them electronic (well.. that is to say I would have them if that wasn't illegal) The bookshop downstairs had "Monstruous Regiment" (I think #28 or so).. the first books in the series are best (well.. that's my opinion).
..I just notice I miss one book.. "Going Postal" ... I'll get that one as well
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 1, 2004
I have "The light fantastic" and i borrow "Color of magic" from my best friend.She also have "Small Gods"(with story about turtle and eagle).When i finish with learning and if i pass tests i shall by few Pratchett's book to read and enjoy.
(I am not sure does headlines are ok)
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 1, 2004
Those are very good! but be sure to read "Soul Music" and "Interesting Times" as well! and don't forget the witches: Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg (Equal Rites, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies.. and more.. ) the Ankh Morpork watch (Angua!) and Death and his granddaughter Susan (Other children got given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off.)
If you send a message to my e-mail (on the page) I can send you E-versions of (I think) most of the books.
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 2, 2004
I want to read all Pratchett's books.I like that kind of books which make you laugh.("Death and his granddaughter"
geniuse idea,very funny)
I shall sent you e-mail.
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 2, 2004
Susan is his granddaughter.. well.. Death adopted a daughter and then after some time he got himself an apprentice. Death's apprentice would typically have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals.
So the unavoidable happened and he ended up with a granddaughter. Read "Mort" for the full story.. Read also about Granny Weatherwax!
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 3, 2004
I get your e-mail.Thanky you very,very much.I shall read it,but first i must learn sociology
and i hate sociology.It is so boring...I have test at 15th November.
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 3, 2004
Right! So this is possibly the worst thing I could do..
overload you with 25 books to read while there's an interesting thing like sociology to be studied!
Sorry about that..
(* sociology .. what the
..
I mean to say "What an interesting topic"
*)
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 4, 2004
sociology,i shall start with learning next week.
Very very interesting i am simple crazy about it...All those theory and such beautiful deffinition of everything,it simple make me
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 6, 2004
sociology.. really ...
I always suspected it would be interesting; I never cared to find out if that was true
I'll do some travelling next few days.. I'll probably not be around that much .. and .. no: no holidays; w*rk, w*rk, w*rk...
ah well.. it does bring in
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 7, 2004
MMM travell...Travelling is good and
is useful.I want to say travelling for work=good+useful.It is some kind of math thinking or math language
.
I want to go somewhere,and maybe i shall go to Kikinda.Student Union of my faculty working on action against violent and about tolerance and in Kikinda they will make presentation of action.There is lot of volunteers and and we have one buss(one of most important think that everething is free,no money at all).I hope they will choose me for going,they will need photographer(i hope so).
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 12, 2004
travel in itself is .. boring.. terribly boring.. wait for trains, busses, planes, passport control, luggage, busses, planes, ... well ... what more can you wait for.. travel itself is boring. The trip as a whole is good fun
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 15, 2004
Hi!!!I was learning last few days and took part in some action on faculty and i was very busy.
I do not travel very much and when ever i go somewhere i am very hapy,and waiting is no big problem.Once i travel from Novi Sad to Shid 9 hours.Shid is small town on state boarder with Croatia,around 100 km far from Novi Sad.I was go there with my best friend,who is from Shid and take me there to show to me that nice little town.Travel to Shid became adventure...
We traveled by train.In first time we
when we wait 3 hours for train.Than we were
(in some town i don't remember which one)and at the end(around 4h A.M.)we were completly
.Next time we were go by bus and that time we traveled "only" 6 hours.
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 15, 2004
the trip sounds reasonable
I don't travel that much really.. I just travel up and down between w*rk and home.. each trip is about 11 hours; a return trip average every three weeks.
I did make trips (w-asia ... now not a nice place to go) that were 400 km by car, roughly 8 to 12 hours by car (highway!) and one flat tyre per day.
summarising every trip was ... waiting, waiting and after that wait some more
wait for the driver to say his prayers
wait for the tyres to be repaired
wait for the policeman to check papers
wait in the car
wait besides the car
wait
good fun all in all stories, dreams, and a nightmare or two
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 17, 2004
Nice fuuny nightmare.We allways
when we remember it.
It is funnier when you remember it and when you talking to someone,than you are in middle of it,sitting on some station and thinking:O God it's not happend to me.This must be dream...Yea,very horribly dream, everything be all right...I just must wake...How i can wake myselfe?
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 18, 2004
real life nightmares
I set a new personal record: I managed to fall asleep in the plane yesterday before it took off, I woke up for the meal (Aeroflot! they still serve meals and quite reasonable! I personally think they are by far the best airline flying on Moscow, and one of the cheapest as well) and then I woke up again after landing.
The bad news was I was in the wrong queue for passport control. The brainless officer took 5 to 10 minutes for each of the eight people waiting. Russian passport control officers are selected on (1) hate of anything foreign (2) no knowledge of any language (probably including Russian? reading anything at all is out of the question) (3) inefficiency (4) stupidity.
A pity really.. she had a very nice face
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 20, 2004
Maybe they cultivate specially sort of people for working that kind of business,and of course for working in bureaucracy.They train them to be angree and learn them to hate every form of life
Here he have very angree officers,too.Specialy officers in bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy is compicate by itself but people who work on it behaviour like they want to make it more complicate,or they just enjoy to ruin your,already bad day.It is look like this(more or less):
Infinute waiting in line for few milions necassary paper and when finnaly comes your turn She(in most of case it is she)makes brake to drink jogurt.Never brake here brake and do not ask anything and never,never interrupt her when she paint nails.When she finish all of that,then phone ring and she must to speak on phone next 15 minute(minimum)and then when she finnaly pay attention on you she start to shouting on you:"Why you come here when you don't have all paper",and then you say:"but your colleague did not tell to me for that paper..."
Now she start to mention colleague and say very insolent word about colleagues familly and etc.That story can go... and can make yuo
No really they are so unpleasnt and angree and inefficiency and very often stupidity.
Do you wathc cartoons "Asterix and 12 tasks"?
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Nov 21, 2004
Asterix and the 12 tasks! where Asterix and Obelix go through Roman bureaucracy, nearly lose the fight but win in the end beating the system by improving it! Brilliant! I enjoyed every second!
The bad news in this is that it is not limited to a country or a continent. I travelled with a group of Russians to London about half a year ago. For me, waving an EU-country passport there were two officers, neither was interested in my passport, and they cheerfully waved be on my way, after 2.1 seconds. My nine Russian friends had to join the queue of about 200 "other nationalities". There were some twenty officers servicing that queue, average time per passport was about five minutes.
They asked me if this was a revenge for Sheremetyevo. It is not. It is bureaucracy
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 25, 2004
It means there is no hope.Bureaucracy is like weed, growing everywhere and you can fight against it, but you can't win it
.We believe in: there is no problem with bureaucracy in west and everything function very simple.
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Dusanka...I'll be back(once) Posted Nov 25, 2004
P.S.When i wrote west i mean on the country of EU,US and that economicaly strong country.
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