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it's been a while since the last post here.. but life is "a bit" busy and it's getting crazy before the first weekend of July...

related to recent developments, find attached little picture below.. i find it funny, do u?! :)

music and lyrics

nice warm movie, everyone should watch it. at the moment i'm in the TC prep'meeting in Warsaw.. we watched movie last night and.. still sing lines from it. different approach towards team building :) but works perfectly.

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Diet, suggested by friend

here we go with a simple but WORKING diet suggested by my friend Cynthia Amato from lovely Malta:

you eat cereal for b'fast, a bananna at 10am, and protein for lunch with salade.
4pm you have a yogurt and for dinner again protein.

Protein is: eggs, chicken, beef, tuna, nuts. so for lunch you can have an omelet, quarter chicken, or two slices of beef steak (around 250grams). And it have always to be with vegetables.

if you try and it works, drop me a line or a comment here in the blog :)

chasing the dream..

last night i had a dream :
we are together in 50 years since now..
we have bunch of friends and few kids..
we are happy

i got up at 4:20 to chase this dream... (evidence below)

Brussels: mission completed

Finally my mission in Brussels came to the end… today still have couple of meetings but it is already more “friend relation management” rather than work.

European Youth Week, prep of seminar “role of youth coordinators in the local youth policy”, last but not least – meeting of YFJ consultative body for membership applications. Mission completed and I can go home with peace…

This time missed home as never before. Thoughts have brought me to the embrace of sweetheart so often that sometimes was difficult to realize that I am still here, in Bxl.

Besides happiness that everything went so great in all of three meetings and I had chance to meet bunch of my good friends, I got a chance to get to know City better. I have to confess that I liked Brussels, its variety, its multicultural spirit, its tranquil corners and squares… (with wireless internet:)

The more I travel this year the more I am convinced that I have found what I was looking for. With peace in mind I am going to the place where I belong to. C u there in July ;)

Economist: Planning the West’s counter-attack against Russia

WAIT until the 2008 presidential election and hope that sense prevails. That, roughly, is the West’s strategy to deal with Russia. It has come at a high price. Russia has largely won the gas wars before most Europeans even noticed they were being fought. So far this year the Kremlin has stitched up the Caspian (by striking a pipeline deal with Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan). It has nobbled Austria, Belgium and Hungary (to add to its powerful position in Germany, France and Italy). By schmoozing other producers it has begun to form a gas cartel. Russia has also built a strong pro-Kremlin camp elsewhere in the European Union (Greece, and Cyprus chiefly; Hungary, Latvia and Slovakia increasingly; and probably Bulgaria too if anybody looked closely). Its banks and businesses have created a fifth column in the City of London and other world financial centres.

On top of all this are the attacks on Estonia’s state websites and the shameless contempt shown by the Kremlin after the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, in London.

Waiting another year in the hope that someone nicer than Vladimir Putin comes along is wishful thinking. Instead of waiting for the next Kremlin stunt, why not try a counter-attack?

For a start: is Russia a fit member of the G8? Clearly not. Russia was admitted to the then G7 to bolster Boris Yeltsin’s attempt to make Russia democratic, free and friendly. That was probably a mistake; it has obviously failed. So either exclude Russia on the ground that the G7 is a democracies-only club, or include China and make it a big-economies club.

Expand NATO, both in scope and membership. Create a cyber-NATO to offer mutual assistance against state-backed internet terrorism of the kind experienced by Estonia. Sweden and Finland might be willing to join such a cyber-group now; if they are wise, they will join NATO while they still can. Restart EU enlargement, especially for Serbia and Montenegro, thus counteracting Russian influence there.

Stop Russian companies from using the international capital markets unless they have clean hands. Conniving in the sale of stolen property is a crime. Why should a Russian oil firm with looted assets (or a gas intermediary whose business seems to consist mainly of standing in the right place) enjoy the privilege of raising capital in London? Equally, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development should stop its “rent-a-fig-leaf” service to Russians who want to look respectable. Given the colossal amounts of cash sloshing around Russia at the moment, it is preposterous that Western taxpayers are asked to finance anything there.
AFP No more Mr Nice Guy

Crack down on visas. If a Russian tycoon is unwelcome in America, should he be be any more welcome in London? Even better, start chucking people out. Imagine the impact if America, Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Italy—and any other countries that wanted to join in—expelled, on the same day, equal numbers of Russian spies. Say 15 each from the GRU (military intelligence) and from the FSB and from the SVR (the successors to the KGB). The spying, stealing and mischief-making by these outfits matches or even exceeds levels seen in the cold war. So, show some cold-war resolve, and do it in unison.

More tough-mindedness would be useful in other places too, such as in Western countries’ foreign ministries. For the past 20 years, officials dealing with Russia have been promoted if they encourage trade, investment and friendly political relations. Hawkishness has been a career-killer. That doesn't help now that a tough, consistent policy is needed.

Toughness will have a cost. But the coming years need not be disastrous if the West is willing once again to stand up for what it believes in. A “wait and see” policy guarantees disaster.

European Youth Week – Youth in Action

The 3rd European Youth Week will take place throughout Europe from 3-10 June 2007. In Brussels, there will be a centralised event (3-6 June) to promote the Youth in Action Programme and European Youth Policies, and to contribute to the structured dialogue with young people.

In this event young people from all parts of Europe will meet and, through open discussions and consultation, create a tangible contribution to the European Commission’s Plan D, which stands for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate.

One objective of event will be to promote and raise the awareness of the Youth in Action Programme, which has been launched concurrently. It will also highlight the achievements and success of projects supported by the previous Youth Programme, which ran from 2000-2006.

Participants will form working groups to discuss the main elements of the general theme “social inclusion and diversity of young people in Europe”, with the outcomes to be presented in a plenary session. There will also be working groups using creative methods like music and video to contribute to the same theme.

Finally, the attendees will also have the possibility to participate in a political
round table debate attended by members of the European Commission.

The final conclusions of the Brussels event will be forwarded to the Commission and the Council of Youth Ministers, and is expected to be taken into account in their policy formulation.

atgal i realybe

dar karteli buvau pamokytas, kad ko nepadarysiu pats - niekas uz tave nepadarys..
ir dar - jei tau atrodo, kad viskas priklauso tik nuo taves, tavo patirties ir pastangu ir visi tai supras ir ivertins - zegnokis :)

negaliu sakyti kad truputeli pikta, tiesiog visad turiu to keisto ir nesuprantamo optimizmo bei tikejimo, kad viskas bus gerai ir teisingai. bet juk bus. gal ir po paskutiniojo teismo dienos, bet bus.

savo renginiu dalyvius nuolat mokau apie trikampi:
- tikslas;
- procesas;
- zmogus/zmones;
ir kasdien suprantu kad tai yra taskai tarp kuriu mes nuolat laviruojam ir turime rinktis - kas svarbiau - tikslas? ar svarbiau pats tikslu siekimo procesas ir ar mes esame patenkinti jo metu? o gal visa tai yra tik abstrakcijos, o pats svarbiausias dalykas yra kaip jauciuosi as ir kaip jauciasi kiti individai?

smagiausia, kad atsakymo i sita kasdienini klausima nera, o mes i ji kasdien atsakome savo veiksmais ir pasirinkimais...

megaukimes gyvenimu/procesu, nepamirskime aukstesniuju tikslu (artimi zmones, seima, valstybe, Europa) bei nepamirskime ir saves, nes tik save mes tikrai "turime".