Dec 13, 2009

dalsie narodky
dalsi rok za nami
o cosi mudrejsia
o cosi realistickejsia
smutna
ale stale dufajuca
tak si to uzite
aspon tak ako ja
x

"LiFe On MaRS"

have you ever seen this series?
about a cop, hit by car, awaken back in the 70ties.
sort of interesting.
sort of a good looking main character lad...
and - a lot of similarities to a yorkshire lad i once knew.
being tempted to - ring him up (God deliver!!)

anyway, just have a look yourself and tell me what ya think

missing Yorkshire tonight
:-p

(i think it´s a BBC´s drama, starring John Simm as DI Sam Tyler)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lifeonmars

len tak... ako tak... shak-a-tack

questo succede, quando una, che mai si trucca, viene truccata... eccola (cioe´, eccomi)

ROMA - amor (nov 2009)

been to the Colloquium again, after 5 loooong years...
had a good time, met good people, ate well, rested well, missed it all way too "well"
Rome is Rome.
Oh, as a matter of fact,
Rome is ROMA
And ROMA is AMOR...

aKO sME piEkli

ucime sa piect.
a toto je ako nam to ide...
mnam mnam mnammmm

c´est la fin

hm
bim bam bim bam
a na (zabudla som kde...) bol zvonec
a rozpravke ("rozpravke") bol KONIEC

neva...

SuMmEr TiMe

ritornata a casa ad Agosto, dopo due anni e mezzo passati in Irlanda. prima pero mi sono fermata a Londra, per alcuni giorni, da Pau e il suo marito
returned back home this summer, after two and a half years spent in Ireland. on my way home, i decided to spent a few days with Pau and her husband, in London.

then the "real" summer - with temperatures higher than 22 degrees (much higher indeed), sunshine, blue skies, green warm winds, and my family
e poi - mi sono goduta una "vera" estate, piena di caldo, giornate solari, cielo blue e vento caldo e verde. e con i miei...

e poi - settembre, in compagnia dello liverpoolese. e belle escursioni nei posti dove non sono stata da tempo. e stato bello ri-esserci
then the scouser came to visit, and i´ve been to many places i have not been for ages. ´t was good to be there again

ROME AgAiN - june 2009

evening of Corpus Christi procession, Thursday

with Mark and Barbra, from Manchester. Aren't they lovely? Celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary

with Barbra, after Corpus Christi Mass, before Procession started...
... by the power of the Holy Spirit - - - we all met in Rome, without really planning it! MIQ Fraternity's sisters - Anne and Trish, with Mark and Barbra :-)
This one is OFF (how do I rotate it??) - with Q.T., by St. Peter's
... Roman pavements... from Colloseum to Altare della Patria (a.k.a. Piazza Venezia) - Domenica

on "top" of Altare della Patria (never knew of it but - there is this super extra de luxe BAR!)

in front of Church of Divine Mercy (Chiesa di Santo Spirito??), by St. Peter's
and - Campo de' Fiori... with Giordano Bruno. Or was it the other fella?? Galileo??
before departure, Q.T. and Oana. In a little bar, by St. John in Lateran...

HOME sweet HOME - or how i travelled to Slovakia to give a second set of lectures and...

in the wild, with Palka (fri evening)
in the pub, with Davidko (satu evening)

before my train home, after our sunday Mass (kosice)

from a train, past Tatry, Liptov region (sun early a-noon)

... and...
and apart from 12 hours of travelling on wednesday (from 3am when i got into a taxi to get me to beweley's hotel to get the aircoach to the airport and board the ryanair flight of 6.05am from dublin to bratislava [ not mentioning i had to get up after 1am to get ready...], to 3pm when i got off the train at 12.10pm from bratislava that got me to ruzomberok) and 12 and a 1/2 hours of travelling on monday (from 2.31am train from ruzomberok to bratislava, to 3pm when i finally got off taxi that brought me home from beweley's hotel where i got from the airport after my flight from bratislava to dublin landed at 12.30-ish)
I HAD SOME GREAT TIME HOME!!!
wednesday evening spent with my mum and dad and my mum's friends who came to visit
thursday morning spent in bed, breakfasting late, running arronds [or do you actually say "erronds"??] around town in the afternoon and having a plate of pasta at "andrea's", getting ready for my friday and saturday trip to kosice
friday mid morning on a train to kosice, before noon discussing terms of my new (God willing) employment, after noon discussing terms and conditions with my personal "financial advisor" (hmmm... dunno!), and later afternoon and early evening at my sis' place, eating, drinking, speaking with her and her hubby and, later on, going for a walk with both of them. concluding by watching "gattacca"
saturday mid morning to half five spent at the university giving lectures on bioethics... and screening gattacca (as a part of lecturing - "let the people breathe, please!!!"), then at my sis' place and then out, with my sis and bro, in a small local "pub", over a half pint of "rezane"...
sunday 10 o'clock Mass with my sis, 12.20 train from kosice to ruzomberok, in bed for two hours, fighting migraine i got after drinking beer on satu night, at night discussing "strategy" with my mum (and dad...), and then getting ready for my early morning start...
monday morning, up at 1am, to catch a train at 2.31, to get me to bratislava at 6.05, to be at teh airport for teh flight from blava to dublin at 10. and you know all the rest...

UFFAAHHH - 6 long days that disappeared in the past before they were really "lived" in present... SHORT BUT GOOD!!! as it is all about the quality, and not quantity, RIGHT???

I MISS YOU ALL...
I WANT TO GO BACK...
get ready - am on my way!!!

"I shall return!"

Rome Sweet "Home" or how i made it to the Eternal City at last

FIRST TIME IN 2 YEARS...

6 days in Rome
quite full and filled with things to do, people to meet, places to go to...
6 days is just NOT ENOUGH for Rome!!!

JPII Institute and its living stones... visited
a wedding feast... attended
6 out of 8 friends... met
a day in bed with a head-ache... spent
a plane flight being missed... witnessed

and photos will come EVENTUALLY
(for those of you who are on FaceBook - you may well check them out on there!!)

xxx

http://amici-et-al.blogspot.com/2009/05/roma-vecchia-amica-e-vecchi-amici-cari.html

this is why my day was "what a day" type of day, yesterday...

http://amici-et-al.blogspot.com/2009/05/of-dogs-and-cats-of-running-around-in.html

LuCiA mOvEd tO mOnKStOwN

So I am living as a human being is/has been ment to live...

Nice, cosy, warm, sunny, dry and non-smelling little room in a nice, cosy, warm, sunny, dry and non-smelling little appartment!

A few pics, so you can judge for yourselves in fact!

I LOVE IT!!!

FEBRUARY 2009 - 10 day holiday that became...

4th of February arrived -
FINALLY!
I was to travel home, my mum was to return home - after almost 3 months she's spent over here with me!!!
Yo yo yooo! Long awaited and looked forward to - post-Christmas and pre-Easter visit home!!!
What wa supposed to eb just another of these short stays though, has turned into a month-long "holiday" (in brackets, as it was NOT truly a holiday, ya know?) - first week spent travelling between west and east of country, with occasional stops at home and/or in near-by central-Slovakia towns (so good - I got to meet my classmates, from times long gone - from times when we were all young, stupid [some still are - - - meaning myself, dah!!], and just - so full of hopes and dreams... highschool times), and ended with a - - - FLU... so the second week spent in bed instead... sleeping the fever off first and then looking out of the window, wishing i could get out there and play in that SNOW (it snowing, and snowing, and snowing... a real winter in fact!!!). the week that followed was really just a wait-off time, really really - as there were no flights from BA to DUblin (by that meaning no direct flights, in case you were wondering "ah, really?"), and so - by the time i actually did return to dublin - it was 24 days later, 24 days after i left the irish soil, whole month later insomma!
All my holidays gone, not one single day left to be used in uture months. which means what? i will have to make some time up, get every oportunity to stay longer to help or so - - - so i can make it home in may (when, by the way, i will be giving second set of lectures on bioethicsssss.... God help me!!)
COMUNQUE - TUTTO QUA.
ORA VADO E CI SENTIAMO PIU TARDI!
ciaOOOOOOOO

vianoce xtmas natale 2008

NOW OBVIOUSLY - this story is a bit out of place in here, I mean - being posted so late AFTER Christmas time. But I trust you will forgive me that and just enjoy the pics (2 of then anyway...)

Stedry Vecer 2008

Nasa kuchyna (a sviatocna vecera) a nasa tichonocna (pred-polnocna) obyvacka... Taky mily maly domcek (to bolo predtym, ako sa to vsetko pokaslalo... Too bad...)

Vianocny stromcek "ponekud sverazny" (t.j. listnaty...), ale - lepsie nieco ako nic, no nie?? A bol mily...

CONNEMARa - "love" of my life... well, one of loves of my life, for SURE!!!

sneh na vrcholcoch irskych kopcov...

no ano!!!
bola som v galway, zase!
s maminkou.
bolo SUPER!!!
po viac ako mesiaci stradani a byvani hore dole, v suterene Dal Riady, na poschodovych posteliach, v domceku bez vody na umyvanie riadu, ci sprchy, nam vam to padlo celkom dobre... coby dobre?!?! VYBORNE!!!
no a tu je par foteciek - tak posuddte sami...
v sobotu, 23. januara, sme sa vybrali na "okruznu" cestu do connemary... tuhla par fotiek...

kylemore abbey

killary fjord

maminka na vyhliadke pri killary fjord-e

toto hla nie je connemara, ale pohlad z nasej spalne v Siol Dochais, Barna, Co. Galway
krasne svetlo...

the TiMe ReALLy DoEs FLy - - - two years ago, on this day and around this time, i was on my way to England...

... I was young then!
And happy
And beautiful :-)
And hopeful
And - so naive...

Thank God for time - the best healer of all, the best teacher of all

SCOTLAND aGaiN - ready to fly again

Off I go to this Student Pro-Life Conference in Scotland.

Organized by SPUC Scotland - great group, great mission, great people (and I do not exxagerate the way Americans do [sorry, my friends, but you so sound like exxagerating at times...]).

Wanna know more - log on to www.spucconference.org.uk and see for yourselves. Have a peak and come, too - it'll be great event, great fun, too (we had some salsa dance classes on last year, and watched "Bella, the movie", then!!), great location (Carberry Tower, Edinburgh), and, important - not too expensive (only £80.00 for the whole weekend - room and board!)

:-)

Travelling a day earlier, and staying over a day longer - who would not want to stay in Edinburgh indeed?!?!?!

Staying in a hostel, just the way I did last year. Except - it is a different hostel this time. Only £11 per night, and reviews weer truly good. Asking which one it is? Well - it's a Castle Rock Hostel, at 15 Johnston Terrace, in Edinburgh (can be found on www.hostelworld.com ).

Hope to post a few photos afterwards so - do not forget to stay "tuned"!

... how i looked for a new abode - SUCCESSFULLY!!!

my cottage's "psychological problems" and how i hunted for a new abode...