Iva’s WTF site - Squirrelism.net

I have just discovered DOPPLR by having seen a link to it on a well-known web developer/enterpreur’s blog and clicking it to see what it is.

So, I have a profile there now. I’ll be adding my humble collection of as-many-travels-as-a-lower-middle-class-Serb-can-do-under-visa-regime there soon. It is pretty interesting, IMHO. And it’s also interesting to see that foreign people are interested in Belgrade, as masochistic as that may be.

There isn’t much that I can add to it right now, I’m afraid, as my recent travels (as in XXI century/adult lufe) come down to this mere list:

• Maribor, Slovenia from 30th June to 11th July this year
• Trieste, Italy on 08th July this year
• Gyula, Hungary from 08th to 15th October 2007
• Vienna, Austria from 05th to 08th December 2006
• Zagreb, Croatia from 08th to 11th July 2006
• Gyula, Hungary from 21st to 29th July 2005
• Gyula, Hungary, 22nd to 24th July 2004 - the one with my mother forgetting the bank card at home
• Gyula, Hungary, from 20th to 31st July 2003
• Maribor, Slovenia from 30th April to 08th May 2003
• Budapest, Hungary from 25 to 31st October 2002

All of that not counting places visited in my own country.
It’s also pretty weird to realise that I have not been anywhere further than 60 km in 2000 and 2001.

One’d think us web designers/coders have an amazing life. No, we don’t. Especially if we’re not adventure-seekers by nature. I still consider 12 hours of cheap train travel to Vienna, seeing John Fr..errr…Red Hot Chili Peppers and meeting up with friends from all over Europe to be my biggest adventure in this life.

Oh well, I’m still young…just a quarter of a century old. If I think of two of my closest friends, one of them has seen the seaside only once in her life; and the other one hasn’t done anything but REALLY lo-fi travelling in the last…too many years.

First of all, if you have no idea what this is about or if you’re one of those dumb people who LOL at everything, please, stay away. Last night there was enough morons for one whole year in my life, so STFU. Oh yes, any weird, generalising, nationalist or separatist comments to this will be deleted, too. I don’t care if you’re a random troll from whatever place, you’re not going to spam my blog.

Then, salutes to wonderful people such as Sigge, Vera and Fran. And, no, I don’t think any of you is a part of the ignorant world. Ignorant world is everywhere, including here. I guess that’s what I forgot to state in my previous post. It’s those people who get things wrong and never react against anything bad:(

Things were like hell last night. The whole centre of the city was demolished by hooligans and I have no idea how does that relate to Kosovo in any way. Basically, for those of you who don’t know, 500 000 people gathered on what was supposed to be, and mostly was, a peaceful protest in front of the national parliament and later on, inside and around the biggest Orthodox church on the Balkans; against the illegal (from the point of law) independence of the province of Kosovo, which our [Serbian] government did not accept, as well as many other countries, including Spain, Slovakia and Romania. However, among those 500 000 people, there were about 1000 hooligans, likely football fans, bikers, school dropouts, notorious teenage drunks and similar waste, butthole of the country. Those hooligans separated from the main group, broke the security and robbed two clothing stores close to the parliament.

After that, they went to the USA embassy and set it on fire somehow. The staff was evacuated and the firemen managed to put the fire out, but one of the hooligans was apparently so drunk, that he ended up being caught in fire and he burned alive, they still didn’t manage to indentify him and notify his family. Then they set the Croatian flag in front of the Croatian embassy on fire and threw a couple of rocks, but police finally reacted and saved the building, so the hooligans then set a private house next door on fire and, as firemen couldn’t arrive, people in the house, among them an elderly couple, had to put out the fire on their own and they lost two rooms in fire. They also tried to attack Canadian, Bosnian, Belgian, Turkish, Italian, German and British embassy - doubt it was because of any of those countries in particular, but because those were on their way back to the innner centre of the city. Since all attempts resulted only in broken windows, they ended up setting random people’s cars and trash bins on fire.

My friend Dragana at some pont ended up in front of the Turkish embassy, trying to calm people down. The police did arrive, but only when her workmate called them. They were slow, dumb and useless and nothing was really solved until the special forces were brought out.

Then they went to one of the main squares and totally destroyed the first McDonald’s restaurant in the city that has been around for 20 years, in a house that belonged to a famous writer, which had old furniture on the upper floor and was protected by law, and back in the days, many of my schoolmates’ birthdays were celebrated there and somehow it’s a place where I like to go alone. It was also set on fire, but the firemen managed to put that fire down as well. Idiots. Too much hypocricy, huh? They have a problem with McDonald’s, yet they use foreign slang and, right now, steal foreign branded clothes? Come on, those people aren’t even extreme nationalists, just extreme morons and drunken youth on crack or something, in case they can’t afford that crack.

They came accross another, bigger one, where my friends and I usually hang out and threw a self-made bomb inside, but that one is not as damaged. On their stampedo through the centre, they robbed almost all the stores in the city, from groceries to shops with expensive watches (Lush shop somehow wasn’t robbed, maybe because we have enormous window blinds that are hard to break).

One guy filmed two random bitches among those hooligans, stealing stuff.

Later on, as this footage ended up on TV all accross the world, these girls phoned the main TV stations and claimed that “they were not stealing, just taking” because “they have nothing”. Yes, right, how about the butt tattoo and expensive hairdo? YEAH RIGHT, they have nothing and are poor, starving people who are going to eat the shoes and clothes they stole. Seeeriously They’re, of course, going to be arrested, together with 192 people who were already arrested and more of them who are being searched for at the moment. Stupid miserable sluts, using other people’s sadness to

Clearly, these people were protesting against Kosovo indepedence by destroying, well, capital of our own country…yeah, right…:(:(:(

Luckily, foreign politicians, apart from the Germans who seem to be very errr…German about this, have stated and realised that these people were hooligans and that they won’t hold a grudge against Serbia. But the centre of Beograd now looks like a sight of war and who knows how long it will take for everything to be back to normal.