Result of lay-offs?

Just now I started to lose trust and respect in International Herald Tribune/New York Times.

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First this: (link)

Wednesday, February 25
The Associated Press
Published: February 18, 2009

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2009. There are 309 days left in the year.

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And then also this: (link)

Key facts about Kosovo, which marks the first anniversary of its independence declaration on Tuesday:

LAND: Kosovo covers about 4,200 square miles (10,900 square kilometers) — roughly one-third the size of Belgium — and borders Albania and Macedonia. The central area around the capital, Pristina, is lowlands. There are mountains elsewhere.

How about Montenegro and Serbia? Or this data is still from the time when Kosovo was still a province of the country called "Yugoslavia" or later renamed "Serbia and Montenegro"?

private brand management

Similarly as the Latvian state I have gone bankrupt. Even though I need to work on my project about the human security issues in the Republic of Kosovo/a one year after independence, I spent most of today looking for a job. And I encountered a problem. How to brand myself? How to get rid of certain brands?
When you have finished communication science, you kind of stuck in journalism or PR even if you feel it's not really your thing. Once you have finished economics... hmm... a bit difficult one, it's better if you have finished accounting or marketing - some more practical things usual people understand. When you start combining economics, capital markets, volunteer work, politics, Eurasia and the Balkans, people really start to get confused what to do with you :) I don't blame them as I have problems myself. But why do we need so much to stick some brand or label and to categorize? I think I have a record that I can do a job and do it well, and I learn things fast. Why can't an ex-banker work as a waiter if he or she wants? What's your problem people?
You know - I have never been much into brands

amazing world

I am now sitting at home in Salaspils, Latvia. Yesterday night was flying from Skavsta to Riga, looking down at the vanishing lights of Nyköping and thinking how crazy it would seem just 20 years ago... well it is still crazy. I paid 2 SEK for my return plane ticket from Sweden to Latvia! You cannot buy anything for this money in Sweden. Not even Latvia anymore... maybe a box of matches still. Going home for a week costs the same as if I lived in Nyköping because I only paid for the train ticket. When I told this to a friend yesterday, he gave me 2 Swedish crowns - paid for my plane home, hehe :)

And another thing this morning - I open my Facebook account (that how we learn to know everything nowadays, all the newest gossips), there are some adds on the right side. And you know what they offer me? To subscribe for tampons! So I would never need to worry anymore if I have forgotten to buy them!

And the not so funny thing (though some of my friends find it funny), I will return to an empty room because the guy who lived in this room before finally removed his furniture. And I dont have any money now to buy furniture, even from IKEA. So, please, maybe you have something you dont need? Donate me some furniture!

Rocket Scientist ©

I cannot choose a life, one single life.

Kā par vilku domā...

Vakar biju uz pullsjumpu, bija daudz cilvēku... lēkāju, lēkāju un domāju savas domas, par savu zviedru valodas skolotāju, kam aizrakstīju meilu par saviem parādiem, vai ir jau atbildējusi... un man atkal nav īsti laika tos kopsavilkumus (šeit es izmantoju Tildes vāŗdnīcu, lai vārdu summary pārtulkotu uz latviešu valodu... diezgan traki) rakstītu. Un... tajā pašā brīdī skolotāja kristalizējas acu priekšā. Tā cilvēku var reāli pārbaidīt. Kā par vilku domā, ta vilks lēkā acu priekšā.

Braucu sestdien uz mājām. Rakstīšu savu individuālo pētījumu no turienes. Kāda gan šķirba. Ka tikai vēl zinātu, par ko rakstīt.