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As above... I don't have time for buzznet! I need to start studying and I have to leave buzznet for some time... So. See ya!

 

If you'll need something from me -> edmundmagick@yahoo.com

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Thank you so much for 50 featured photos!

 

 

 

Okay. I know I'm bored.

 

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cheers! :P

Yesterday I had a vernisagge! It was an exhibition of photos with the main theme "portrait of woman" (photos by me and Roman Biernacki)

 

 

The List

[x] 1. Sign with your town’s name

[x] 2. Photo with your parents (or of your folks)

[x] 3. An award you earned

[x/-] 4. A $2 bill

[x] 5. Bubbles!

[x] 6. Chewbacca mask

[x] 7. A note on the wall of a bathroom stall

[x] 8. Hug someone

[x] 9. You in a wig

[x] 10. You in your fave band shirt

[x] 11. Fave flower

[x] 12. You with balloons

[x] 13. Bananas with a sticker on them

[x] 14. A Zac Efron poster

[x] 15. A clown crying

[x] 16. A crown

[x] 17. Foreign money

[x] 18. Anatomy skeleton

[x] 19. Concert ticket stubs

[x] 20. Pac man video game machine

[x] 21. You on a swing set

[x/-] 22. You feeding some ducks some bread

[x] 23. Fortune cookie fortune

[x] 24. A “tract” about Christianity (one of those hand out pamphlets)

[x] 25. Someone riding a bike

[x] 26. You in a pirate eye patch

[x] 27. You making fly eyes on yourself with fruits

[x] 28. Your fave movie

[x] 29. An 8 ball

[x] 30. Novelty Salt & Pepper shakers

[x] 31. A street sign

[x] 32. A prom dress

[x] 33. Something carved in a tree

[x] 34. Photo of someone that has influenced or inspired you

[x] 35. A bug in your hand

[x] 36. Someone with an unnatural hair color (I.e. blue, pink)

[x] 37. A "free animals" sign (I.e. bunnies, puppies, kitties)

[x] 38. Younger sibling or relative making a heart with their hands

[x] 39. A snowflake made/cut out of paper

[x] 40. Your fave magazine

[x] 41. A photo of an animal

[x] 42. Your fave snack

[x] 43. A rubber ducky in a bubble bath

[x] 44. Shirt pocket full of pens

[x] 45. Digital clock reading 12:34

[x] 46. Make a Buzznet sign (or print one out) and place it in a public space

[x] 47. Leave a comment on BreeSays's page about how awesome her hair is.

[x] 48. Leave a comment on PanasonicYouth's page about his epic throat beard.

[x] 49. Leave a comment on The Frantic's page and tell em to keep rockin'!

[x] 50. Go to the Featured Photos page and leave a comment on one featured photo.

 

50/50

 

YAY

 

I'm writing this journal only to let you know that my camera is doing crazy things and probably for a while i won't be posting photos. i'm very sorry because you all know how i love buzznet and posting photos but it's not my fault...

I've been tagged! And I've been tagged by Anra.
So this is 10 random facts about me and be sure I'll tag 4 more people!


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And I tag:
desert, asherah, xadex, sycha!

Fat Thursday (German Fetter Donnerstag, Schmotziger Donnerstag, or in areas where carnival is celebrated Weiberfastnacht, Polish Tłusty czwartek) is a traditional Polish and German feast marking the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the next opportunity to feast would not be until Easter. It is similar to, but should not be confused with, the French festival of Mardi gras ("Fat Tuesday"). Traditionally it is a day dedicated to eating, when people meet in their homes or cafés with their friends and relatives and eat large quantities of sweets, cakes and other meals forbidden during Lent. Among the most popular all-national dishes served on that day are pączki or berliner, fist-sized donuts filled with rose marmalade, and faworki, French dough fingers served with lots of powdered sugar.

In Italy, Giovedì Grasso (Fat Thursday) is also celebrated, but it is not very different from Martedì Grasso (Shrove Tuesday). It is also similar to the Greek custom of Tsiknopempti (loosely translatable as "Barbecue Thursday"), which involves the massive consumption of barbecued meat. In Spain this celebration is called jueves lardero, and in Catalan-speaking areas, dijous gras.

 

Pączki                                                         Faworki

A pączek is a deep-fried piece of dough shaped into a flattened sphere and filled with confiture or other sweet filling. Pączki are usually covered with powdered sugar, icing or bits of dried orange zest.

Although they look like bismarcks or jelly doughnuts, pączki are made from especially rich dough containing eggs, fats, sugar and sometimes milk. They feature a variety of fruit and creme fillings and can be glazed, or covered with granulated or powdered sugar. Prunes and rose-petal jam^{[citation needed]} are traditional fillings, but many others are used as well, including lemon, strawberry, Bavarian cream, blueberry, custard, raspberry and apple.

Pączki have been known in Poland at least since the Middle Ages. Jędrzej Kitowicz has described that during the reign of August III, under the influence of French cooks who came to Poland, pączki dough was improved, so that pączki became lighter, spongier, and more resilient.

Faworki (also known as chrust, chrusty, chruściki, angel wings)¹ are traditional Polish sweet crispy fried pastry in the shape of thin twisted ribbons, deep-fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Most often they are eaten in time of carnival and on Fat Thursday the last Thursday before Lent - not to be confused with Fat Tuesday or (Mardi Gras) the day before Ash Wednesday.

Etymology of the word: traditionally "faworki" was the name reserved for colourful ribbons attached to either female or male clothes, especially ribbons given by medieval knights to their ladies. The word came to Poland from Latin via French, and the French "faveur" means "grace" or "favour".

¹ - Faworki (chrusty) is the plural form of the word faworek (chrust).

SMACZNEGO! :)

(from Wikipedia)

Zakopane in Polish means ~"covered". And this is how it looks right now:
(photos from gazeta.pl)








More photos here

So Im back! Finally! For me it was horrible. Karpacz is beautiful but I was in hospital to verify if I dont have any allergy or lungs disease. It was a bit scarry. Anyway, Im fine. No disease, no allergy.



Researches: blood test, urine test, spirometry, histamine, excercise test and skin test. And as always they couldnt find my vein :P



Świątynia Wang / Vang stave church in Karpacz





Karkonosze

We've got finally winter (Poland). The tempreature is about -19C at this moment.


So, do you have some special ways to warm up? What's the weather in your country (region)? Any photos? Are you happy with that?
I love winter and I'm REALLY happy with -19C. Tomorrow I'll be freezing... but it's WINTER. REAL WINTER.

Photos from gazeta.pl:

I told you I'll do that! So I'm gonna write about Christmas in Poland. I'll write about Wigilia (Christmas Eve) which is probably more important than Christmas- what I found on Wikipedia:  (oh! and one thing. I'll write about customs in my home or my friend's homes. I'm from Lower Silesia which is the most "mixed" region of Poland so if you're Polish some of this stuff may differ)

Wigilia (pronounced: /vi.ˈɡi.ʎa/ or vee-GHEE-lee-uh, depending on which region of Poland one comes from) is the traditional Christmas Eve vigil supper in Poland, held on December 24th.

Wigilia comes from the Latin word vigilare, "to watch", and literally means 'eve'. The feasting traditionally begins once the first star has been sighted (usually by children) in the heavens at dusk (around 5 p.m.). Therefore Christmas is also sometimes called "Gwiazdka" (the little star, referring to the Star of Bethlehem).

Exactly. Nothing to add at this point :)

Traditions and customs

"Choinka" - Christmas Tree

Children usually decorate the Christmas Tree on this day (if it has not been set up before). A bundle of hay is placed under the tablecloth or in each of the four corners of the room to symbolize the fact that Jesus was born in a mager.

First thing: Christmas Tree is usually decorated on 22nd or 23rd of December - sometimes even a week earlier. No one is decorating Christmas Tree on 24th. Second: whole thing with hay - I've never heard about placing hay in each of the four corners of the room  (I think it may appear in some regions), we place a hay under the tablecloth but  it's a fading tradition..

As a game, children would remove pieces of straw from under the table. Green would mean a year of wealth or possibly a marriage, while a black piece of hay would mean bad luck much like the "piece of coal" represents in modern Christmas lore. The drawing of hay was only for fun and was rarely paid attention to. Various other divinations are semi-seriously practiced such as hiding a nut (or another small food piece) in a cake and dividing it among family members. Whoever finds the nut inside his portion is guaranteed to have a successful year.

O.o - NEVER heard about it.

Another tradition is leaving one extra empty place setting for a stranger, called the "Uninvited Guest". This is to celebrate the tradition of hospitality in Poland. The extra seat was left open just in case a traveler, family member, or a friend appeared at the door, so there would be a place for them to sit. It also represents a place for family members who have died or, in some traditions, symbolizes hospitality for baby Jesus.

Everybody talks about it. I've got pretty large family and there was always a problem with a place for all of us - not to mention one MORE guest. So it is a Polish tradition but in my house it's not practicated.

"Opłatek" - Christmas wafer

Family members begin the celebration with a prayer and breaking of the Christmas wafer (opłatek- symbolizing the bread eaten daily — our day-to-day common life) and wishing each other good fortune in the upcoming new year. (After the prayer, usually done by the man of the house, the opłatek is broken and pieces are given to everyone attending the table. From there, everyone breaks off a piece of their opłatek, and shares it with everyone else, wishing luck and joy in the upcoming year, for Christ has been born. This wish is usually finalized by a kiss on the cheek.) Readings from the Bible concerning the nativity of Jesus are practiced in more religious households. In the countryside, it is customary to feed livestock (though not dogs, cats, and other pets) with the wafer, as the animals of the household are to be treated as people that day and are traditionally believed to speak with a human voice.

Prayer. Hehehe.No- seriously. We don't pray. And again: I'm talking about my home.
Opłatek is indispensable.  Yay! First Polish tradition which appears EVERY YEAR in my house! 
No reading from the bible.
Oh and funny thing - for animals are special "opłatek" which is pink. I have no idea what other dieferences they have.

The evening supper

After first star appears on sky and sharing the opłatek, the supper begins. The number of dishes is traditionally the number of expected guests plus one. The number of courses is traditionally established to be either twelve or an odd number (in  Silesia) twelve is symbolic of the number of months in the year is good as well as to celebrate the twelve disciples of Jesus.

About number of dishes. I remember that when I was little there were twelve dishes. Nowadays no one has time to make twelve dishes.

"Śledź w oleju" - herring in oil   "Zupa Grzybowa" - mushroom soup     Barszcz z uszkami"

Wigilia is observed as a Black Fast, and as such Poles abstain from eating meat on this day. Traditional dishes include breaded carp fillet, carp in aspic, żurek, siemieniotka (in Silesia), kutia, makowki, pierogi filled with potatoes, cheese, and kapusta(or cabbage), barszcz, uszka or a soup of cabbage and yellow peas, kluski, dried fruit compote, fried fish ,herring in oil, mushroom or fish soup, meatless gołąbki, and different salads and side dishes, such as potatoes with milk and herbs, pickles, and many other traditional Polish side dishes.

BUSTED! "Żurek" is for Easter, "Pierogi Ruskie" are filled with potatos and cheese but not "pierogi" for Christmas! "Pierogi" for Christmas are filled with cabbage and mushrooms. Dried fruit compote it's unfortunetelly true. Fish soup? Nooo.  Only "Barszcz" or "Grzybowa" (Mushroom soup). Meatless "gołąbki" - and what the fuck is that? "Gołąbki" can't be meatless.

The vigil supper concludes with family members giving gifts to one another. Christmas carols are also sung. Some families attend the traditional midnight mass/Shepherd's Mass (pasterka).

The gits are under the Christmas Tree but it's not Santa Claus who left them there. In Poland Santa Claus it's coming to town on December 6th and on Christmas Eve family members are giving gifts to one another.

It is still believed that whatever happens on Wigilia has an impact on the following year. So, if a quarrel should arise, it foretells a quarrelsome and troublesome year.

Really? Awesome! It was a cool Christmas Eve this year :)

On 25th and 26th we ( I mean my family and I) are visiting the rest of our family such as  grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins. And we're eating - ALL THE TIME :)

Before Christmas we have to clean up EVERYTHING, bake, cook and decorate house!

(photos are not mine!!)

I'd like to tell you something about Halloween and All Saints' Day in Poland.

First of all we don't have Halloween. At all. Now (I mean for about 5 years) we've got in schools something-like-halloween but it's only for not writing quiz or exams.
Or
If you want to make a party and you don't have any reason to make a party you can make a halloween party and everyone will be happy.

So on Halloween we look like this:




But in Poland very important holiday is 1st November. It's All Saint's Day. We're going to cementeries, to graves of our family members or close friends. But here appears weird thing because it's not a happy holiday. We're going there to contemplate. To think about life and death. We're buying a lots of flowers and candles. And what is a bit strange - it's a day when the most people die on the roads. Everyone is going to cementeries very often by car - so you can imagine what happens.

Also the truth is that the day of "dead people" is on 2nd of November. And it's called All Souls' Day (Zaduszki). We should go to cementeries on that day but mostly we're going on the 1st. Don't ask why.

And I think that the custom of lightning candles in Poland and putting them in to pumpkin in USA it's the same thing - to light the ghots' way to heaven or a better place.

Now from Wikipedia ^^:

Zaduszki (also dzień zaduszny) is a Polish tradition of lighting candles (znicze) and visiting the graves of the relatives on All Souls Day. Its origins can be traced to the times of Slavic mythology.

The tradition of lighting candles comes from ancient slavic Dziady feast and originally would take place on All Souls' Day. However, due to later common misunderstandings, it is performed nowadays mainly on All Saints Day, but, in that case is not called Zaduszki - the word Zaduszki originates from dzień zaduszny which can be translated as the day of the prayer for souls, and thus is more closely related to All Souls' Day.

The first day of November is a holiday in Poland. As many people make journeys to visit the places of burial of their relatives, heavy traffic develops and accident statistics peak. Most commercial activity also ceases.

Streets are filled with silent and solemn crowds, and cemeteries glow with thousands of candles, presenting a unique and picturesque scene.

Dziady (IPA: [dzʲa'dɨ]) was an ancient Slavic feast to commemorate the dead. Literally, the word is translated as "Grandfathers". It was held twice every year (in the spring and autumn). During the feast the ancient Slavs organized libations and ritual meals. In local mythologies such feasts were organized both for the living and for the souls of the forefathers who joined the dziady after dark.

The festival today

• In Poland, the tradition prevailed in the form of Christian Zaduszki feast.

• Lithuanians also have similar feast, called Vėlinės. It has roots in pagan times, and slightly differs form Slavic Dziady.

• In Belarus, Dziady (Дзяды) were usually held on the last Saturday before St. Dmitry's day, end of October/beginning of November (Dźmitreuskija dziady, St.Dmitry's Dziady). There were also 'Trinity Day Dziady, 'Shrovetide Dziady, and some other dates.

Photos:

Wszystkich Świętych (All Saint's Day) 01.11: (photos made by me on 01.11.2008)

Zaduszki (02.11):

P.S. Sorry for my English. I've got problems with English for some time and I don't know why...

I'm more than 2 years on buzznet. WOW.

I love her! Her Polish is sooo cute! :)



LOOOOOOOL

I LOOOOVEEE THIS GUY. *dies laughing*

Wow. Polish anthem with english subtitles! o.O You know what? I'm crying while listening to it. Really.

You know what's the best about this video? His ENGLISH pronounciation....

Cześć. Cześć. Jestem Ania. Jestem Ania. Jestem Ania.

polish idol nice ones ^^

It was like 10 years ago. But she's like the best polish voice.

La Vida Es
Pura Pasion
Hay que llenar
Copa De Amor

Para Vivir
Hay que luchar
un corazon
para ganar
Como cain y abel

Es un partido cruel
Tienes que pelear por una estrella
consigue con honor
la copa del amor

para sobrevivir y luchar por ella
luchar por ella (si)
luchar por ella (si)
Tu y you! Ale ale ale
Go, go, gol! Ale ale ale

Arriba va! El mundo esta de pie
Go, go, gol! Ale ale ale
La vida es
competicion
hay que sonar

ser campeon
la copa es
la bendicion
la ganaras
Go, Go GO!

Tu instinto natural
vencer a tu rival
Tienes que pelear por una estrella
consigue con honor
la copa de la amor

para sobrevivir y luchar por ella
luchar por ella (si)
luchar por ella (si)


LISTEN TO IT


It's a song from Paris 1998.
OF COURSE FOR TODAY'S GAMES!!
GROUP B.

Today without comments. Just listen...

The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name


The Fratellis - Mistress Mabel


Coldplay - Violet Hill


Paramore - That's What You Get


Mika - Lollipop


Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?

Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat

Madita - Because

FINALLY. I haven't been here for ages!
I'm gonna post some music. Some stuff that i  (really or just) like.

Shakira - Hay Amores
Beautiful song. Shakira is finally using her voicein a right way. I'm not really into melancolic ballads but this one is great.



Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
They're really good. I've always loved electronic-indie mixes. And here you go! Second album and brilliant video.

Yep! Finally back after conjunctivitis. I'm not sure that i'll be here as often as i was because my eyes still hurt me a bit... 

YES. I've always loved animation.

i guess this lady doesn't like me and this is the problem.
if it's not moving for you try this link:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/374/floja6.gif