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Dear western-Christian friends, I forgot to wish you a happy Easter, which was obviously on Sunday, 23rd.

I did so because a couple of people force-fed it to me and I already had a couple of cases where people forgot my Slava on 31st January (that’s my family’s patron saint once again! More of a pagan thing that Christian, but, well, Serbs are an interesting sort of people and probably not completely Christian either…) and my Christmas on 07th, yet, as usual, insisted to wish me a merry Christmas on 25th December and I simply decided not to bother at all. Instead of that, I spent the weekend finalising stuff for two new one-time design jobs that I snatched during March…a successful month indeed.

Also, the chocolate bunnies mania on one side and overusing of religion and making crosses out of everything on the other side totally freaks me out! As I always say, I hate comsumer-mas and consumer-ster; but at the same time, I think various backwards habits don’t have a place in XXI century. He’s risen? OK, sure he’s risen and although I’m not religions, I believe Jesus was not a myth and I respect all of the things he tried to teach people (and failed, as people seriously suck), it was, alongside Utopia and Marxism in theory the only idealistic thing in this world…but attending a mass doesn’t wash bad things you (no one in particular, any person!) might have done and it won’t change your life. It just might make you feel calm for a day or two.

But, since I know how it feels when people don’t care and when they think their culture is the only one in the world, and today is probably Easter Tuesday, happy belated Easter! I hope you all spent a nice weekend with your families. Love from me!

P.S. Mine is on 27th April this year and YES, it was on the same day as yours last year and in 2004, but NOT in 2008. I’d put money on 3 people on my friends’ list forgetting it.:p

P.P.S. If you respond to this with “Happy Easter” and you aren’t my clown-commenter; I’ll delete it and write you a long email about what I call comments taken straight from the bottom of your butt

Two boring days are ahead of me and it’s the same every year. People laugh when I say that 24th and 25th December are the days made-in-heaven when it comes to maintenance on this site, Invisible Movement and the Serbian Lush site. And seriously, that’s what I’m going to be occupied with the next two days, apart from remembering to wish my friends a merry Christmas.

I doubt I’d ever explained this on this domain, so here I go again: please, do not wish me a merry Christmas. I’m Serbian. Serbia is a Christian country (though I’d state this because someone asked me if “I’m not dating because Muslim rules don’t allow that”), but our church is going with Greek old calendarists, Jerusalem Orthodox church, Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian Orthodox churches, as well as some noncanonised churches such as Montenegrin and Macedonian. In terms of religion, we never accepted the Gregorian calendar, according to which Christmas is celebrated on 25th December. And we might not accept it in future either, as we’re sticking with those “big names”.

According to Julian calendar, the name of which obviously comes from Julius Caesar, has been abandoned in all countries of the world in terms of real-life, but is still used in the above mentioned churches. The other Orthodox churches are using a Revised Julian calendar, the solar part of which is indentical to the one of Gregorian calendar. Ironically, although it was a Serbian scientist, Milutin Milanković, who proposed it; the Revised Julian calendar was rejected by Serbian Orthodox Church.

So, if you really want to wish me a merry Christmas, come back on 07th January 2008, because that’s when we’re celebrating it. As for Easter…that’s a whole new story.