matvey's Journal in November 2007
Great Artist-John Waterhouse!!!
Thursday,Nov 29 2007, 12:46:05 PM (Last updated: Sunday,Dec 23 2007, 03:22:41 AM)
Tristan and Isolde Sharing Potion
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Teddy Bear's Pictorial English-Chinese Dictionar...
Thursday,Nov 22 2007, 01:07:41 PM (Last updated: Thursday,Nov 29 2007, 12:50:18 PM)
This is a greatly illustrated dictionary for kids. Some of the pictures r just hilarious!:)))))
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Communist Era relics in modern Russia
Friday,Nov 16 2007, 09:34:58 AM (Last updated: Friday,Nov 16 2007, 09:39:24 AM)
Sickle and Hammer:
Sickle and Hammer again:
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My father. Ты всегда со мной, батя! Forever in my heart! He was elegant He had a golden heart that just broke once... |
My Life in Beijing
Sunday,Nov 11 2007, 01:23:25 AM (Last updated: Thursday,Dec 20 2007, 05:46:19 AM)
I spent nearly three years in Beijing, it became close to me. I learned to use chopsticks, eat rice instead of bread, start singing every time I hear Jay Chou and take everything easy, having learned the magic formula – “mei guan xi”. What really admires me in Chinese people-they know how to be happy with the little things: sit under the tree, listening to their birds singing; fly a kite, or do exercises in the fresh morning air. There are thousands of ways to be happy! In fact, isn’t it true? Why do we always rush somewhere; always want to get something, when all we need for happiness is near us? I keep on learning from them, following the famous quote of Confucius. But I think Russians have something to offer too. Recently, I met an elderly couple at a restaurant. She could speak good Spanish, He learned Russian long time ago. Both over 70, but very nice, sympathetic people. We started to lunch together, communicating both in Spanish and Russian, at times switching on Chinese. I always enjoy my meals with those two people, as if they became my relatives, which are all so far away. She also reminds me of my teacher of Spanish, Zhanna Fyodorovna, an extraordinary woman, who lived in Cuba and used to know Raul Castro in person. Sometimes, in the evening , eating dumplings in the street restaurant, surrounded by my Chinese neighbors, I feel so comfortable, that I ask myself : hadn’t I spent one of my previous lives here, in China? But I do not only think about the past, I also think about the future, the future of our two great countries that were so close in the epoch of socialist revolutions and seem to be tightening mutual friendship again. I think how good our both societies can become if we keep on learning from each other and think how to become happy, but not how to buy a new TV set.   |