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I got tagged by Marko. And, since I do not have a blog in my native language yet [and I'm not sure if I will since it would probably contain of insults towards every single person I know and calling people illiterate for every single grammar mistake], I will do the meme here.

5 things you didn’t know about me

1. I don’t like being friends with people who are in a relationship. They always have extra self-esteem which I hate and they’re always convincing me that everything THEY like is better than what they like, that they’re better-looking than me and more worth of everything than me just because someone wanted them and I feel they’re laughing at me all the time. I feel more comfortable around single people, and they also always have more time for me.

2. I am a caffeine addict, but I don’t like coffee. Coffee tastes weirdly and leaves ugly layers of yucky stuff all over my teeth. However, I can drink 1-3 litres of Pepsi Max per day. One of my best friends doesn’t approve that and, in order not to piss her off, I went cold turkey for 4 days just because of her! Imagine that, four days without Pepsi Max, drinking just plain water and some sort of milkshakes.

3. I am really amused by this website. I have all the cartoons saved to my hard drive. I don’t think any other website on the internet amuses me that much. I wrote a couple of mails to the owner to congragulate him, but he never replied

4. The name Supersonic Squirrel, which I like to use online, although it may sound a bit immature for someone who’s almost 24 years old, is closely related to my motorsports appreciation and the German racing track Hockenheimring. The track is located in the forest, squirrels live in forests, so a squirrel living in such a place should be supersonic!

5. I am not flexible by nature. I couldn’t wait to graduate from highschool, just because of exercises at the physical education classes, where people were laughing at me and thinking I was goofing, while I really, really can’t stretch, no matter how hard I try. However, I do appreciate people who can. :p

I am tagging the following people to do this meme: Fruityoaty, Natalija, Nozomi, Vera and Lara.:)

I’m so slow these days. And this weekend I got so bored. I almost got in a fight with my online friends because of the obvious differences. I respect the so-called majority and their holidays, I really do…but at the same time, they should respect me as well.

So, here’s a link for you to learn something about Eastern Orthodox Church, Great Schism, Julian calendar and Christmas on 07th January, and one to learn about Serbian Orthodox Church. In short…if you really want to wish me a merry Christmas, do it on 07th January, not 25th December! Don’t toss your habits into my face because I would not toss mine into yours.

The solar part of the revised Julian calendar was accepted by only some Orthodox churches. Those that did accept it, with hope for improved dialogue and negotiations with the Western denominations, were the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch, the Orthodox Churches of Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria (the last in 1963), and the Orthodox Church in America (although some OCA parishes are permitted to use the Julian calendar). Thus these churches celebrate the Nativity on the same day that Western Christians do, 25 December Gregorian until 2800. The Orthodox Churches of Jerusalem, Russia, Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Greek Old Calendarists continue to use the Julian calendar for their fixed dates, thus they celebrate the Nativity on 25 December Julian (which is 7 January Gregorian until 2100).

At the same time, merry Christmas to all of you who do celebrate it today, with the tree, enormous gifts and rich dinners and other stuff that’s common for western Christianity. Hope you guys had a good time.

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So, where I was last week? Well, I spent four days/three nights in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Vienna. For those whose knowledge of geography is so bad that it’s almost unbelievable: it’s the capital of Austria;) The 640km long trip by train was worth every single second of it. It was not my first time there, but as I have not been to Vienna since 1991; now, being much older than back then, I had a chance to go sightseeing with a dear friend whom I often call an illegal older sister, and in the evenings we were doing some different kind of sightseeing with a bunch of others :p Actually, thousands of others, come to think of that. I am currently writing a whole story about it (the one on my LJ will be slightly different than the one here) and, until then, here are some of the sights I have seen:

the mechanics of the Wiener Riesenrad

Victory square, I suppose? Budapest has one too…

Karlskirche…we actually climbed the highest tower from the inside!

Upper Belvedere

Maestro himself, the wonderful John Frusciante, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!

As soon as I’m done with work obligations (which will include a bit of showing off, as I made a BEAUTIFUL website for my “main” job!), I will tell you guys more….;)

…in other words, I will be away for a couple of days. Might get to blog next weekend so…see ya.