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The man who is a siren :D

                                 


It goes without saying that when you were a child you watched the little Mermaid. But what would you say if this story would be nowadays a role model for some people?


http://wtkplay.pl/video-id-17656-facet_syrena

Today I would like to present you a men who invented that he will become a siren! 

Honestly, my first reaction to this film was to burst out laughing... But after that I started to thinking, if he only makes a fool of himself and he makes a fuss or it's something that has really huge meaning to him. However, I guess it is world apart from the his real life is. I'm not going to judge anybody, I just think it's just really controversial topic in our modern society: the liberty, Maybe it's seems quite funny, but after I watched it I became to understand I need to come to terms with "today's fashion" and there must be some sort of give-and-take with myself. :) But what you think about it? What do you think about the limits of freedom in Poland and in general? 

The best jockes on April Fool's day

I strongly believe there don't exist people who don't like April Fool's day (maybe except those with whom we practic jockes ;). On no other day you are “legally” allowed to play jokes and pranks on your friends and family. 

Today I would like to present you my favourite jockes. The first one is the spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. link

In 1998 Burger King advertised "Whopper for left-handed" or a sandwich with the components offset with 180 degrees with respect to the right-handed version. The new burger gained a huge popularity. :D 

In 1998. Newsletter entitled "New Mexicans for Science and Reason" announced that authorities of Alabama  decided to change the value of pi to the "Biblical value of 3.0". According to the government at the head of Leonard Lee Lawson, the journalists argued that the new constant value of Pi is not 3.141592653589793 etc. etc., but is consistent with the Bible. 

And what are your favourite jockes? :)

Source: polityka.pl

 

Mărțișor - one of the most representative of Romania's traditions

The Martisor, a spring token, a tiny adornment tied with a red and white entwined cord presented on March 1, is one of the most representative Romanian traditions also adopted in towns and cities, roots back 8,000 years, when people use to presented each others red and white pebbles in a string. Martisor a genuine Romanian holiday celebrates the arrival of spring. Young ladies and women dear to us are presented these spring tokens on March 1, the Martisor day. It is believed to bring joy and good luck. In Bukovina (north-eastern Romanian province) there are men who receive martisor. It is a red and white entwined cord, the red one symbolises the winter and the white one the spring, which other symbols of good luck such as a three-leafed clove, chimney sweeper or a heart are tied by.

I would like to invite you to participate at the workshop which will held place on 13 March, 2015 by Romanian Students's Cicrle. You can made with us a traditional ornament and in the same time to know what is the legend that stands behind it... ;) 

Discover the true face of Romania in 8 minutes...

Recently I came to the conclusion that even if I would do my best on this blog I'm not able to tell you my all stories and important things about Romania. That's why in this post I attach especially to you the presentation prepared from my pictures, which were taken during my trips to Romania. One of my favourites poets, Fernando Pessoa, wrote that "the real beauty is something that we can't describe in words and something that soothe us". That was my first ecounter with Romania: a real, pure beauty, some kind of mistery and in the same time simplicity. As a metter of fact, I've never took Romania for garanted, it came to me little by little... Of course, at first sight Romania may to appear a poor country, in which there are no perspectives. However, I think everybody should have a first-hand experience what Romania means, without assessment and stereotypes.  Now I know that for all the tea in China I wouldn't to do nothing else in my life, because it's something that changes your life like a thunder. :) Enjoy it! 
P.S. Unfortunately I couldn't made it in better quality, but if you won't enlarge it it should be ok :D  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buyvr2molEI&feature=youtu.be

Video sources: Tiara- Ielele, Maria Raducanu- Oh, Lord, what a morning!

The fear - Part II, but still very interesting :)

Today I wouldn't write anything, because I found very, very interesting speech. The relationship of fear and imagination, the fear in the literature and thorough analysis of fear- that's all you can finde in speech with fiction novelist Karen Thompson Walker. If tou want to see the fear from completely another point of view, you should necessarily watch it. Only 11 minutes of this speech... :)

                       

http://www.ted.com/talks/karen_thompson_walker_what_fear_can_teach_us#t-801us#t-801

Something about the biggest fear...

      The last subject of our lectures were phobias and fear. I thing the biggest phobia for everyone is the death because we have no influence on it. As we know, the concept of the death changes all the time, because it's the element of the culture in which we live. But did you ever wonder what was the perception of death in Polish folk cultre? For sure you don't because currently the death became something rational, which is not related with any symbols. 

       In the past in Poland people believed that superior foreces could give poeple the signs of about the death of a family member or a neighbor. Under superior forces people understood widely defined nature: plants, animals, dreams and superstition inherited from generation to generation. When somebody was deathly ill and was lying in the house, then all the doors and windows have been opened  for to facilitate the departure of his soul.  People has been putting all the chairs upside down because they didn't want to death soul stay at home. The coffin has been exposed in front of the house to inform the neighbors about the death. It's very interesting for me because I understand death in a different way. For me it is some kind of mystery which in fact creates the sense of our lives. And what do you think about it? ;) 

Source: Jankowska B., Komentarze do Polskiego Atlasu Etnograficznego, Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, Wrocław 1999.