A blossoming Yup’ik Elder once told before he died,

"When you’ve taken the opportunity to listen, and the opportunity to observe, then you, too, will have a story to tell"

nädalalõpu võlud

Siis kui nädalalõpp on sama pikk kui nädal ise, jõuab juba hakata pihta sellise printsessi-kassi eluga, millest igal argipäeval unistad. Tunne on nagu iga-aastane jõulupuhkus kodus andis end varem kätte. Magasin ilule õiglaselt oma 12 tundi täis, õppisin südametunnistuse kohaselt järgnevad 5 tundi, et siis gym-spas oma keha toonida ja vaimu värskendada. Nüüd on aeg kõige maitsvamateks itaalia roogadeks. Elu on Ilus :)

4 detsembri kringlitegu

Siis, kui hommikul on ära tervitatud gaasikeha iga-aastane kontrollmeeskond ja suurem õde on saadetud tööpostile, on varajane perenaine minus tärkamas. Leidsin, et üks õige šokolaadi-rosina kringlitegu on ootamas oma järge. Selleks on kõige enam vaja omada sada erinevat kodutööd, mille eiramise ja edasi lükkamise nimel ollakse meeleheitlikult valmis kõigeks. Enne seda aga pidin ma muidugi tervele linnale jala ring peale tegema. See käib nii, et õigest metroopeatusest tuled 5 peatust varem maha, et siis aega hästi pikaks venitades homsete kinopiletite järele kõndida.. Aga siis selle kringliga oli lugu järgmine..

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e Voila!



Mulle meeldib see müra minu ümber. Eriti siis kui ma kirjutan. Aga see müra ei tohi kõnetada mind otseselt või oodata et ma vastan, et ma huvitun sellest, mis toimub minu ümber. Inimesed voorivad, uksed pauguvad, lusikas kukub, tassid purunevad, aeg liigub, paarid vahetuvad, Seminaritöö ületab 7000 sõnapiiri, tuul. Jõululaulude CD teeb kolmandat ringi. Kohvitassidest tehakse nii palju pilte, et Mona Lisa jääks selle kõrval varju. Tabatud peab saama see nurk, mis toob koju kõige enam laike. Thank God ma ei pea enam kunagi olema 13. Ja seal kaugemas nurgas Hispaania keele tund. Ja kõrvalistme suhteprobleemid. No pintsakutes härrade vaateväljale võib selle paar minutit puhkepausi lubada.. Need, kes parajasti Hofburgist Starbucksi reaalsusesse kiirustavad. Oh ei! Ausõna võtke tuba, teie kaks, kes oma kuuma kakao külmaks minemisest sugugi ei hooli, sest käed pannakse kohvitopsi asemel ümber teineteisele. Uuuh!!! intensiivistub mu kritiseerivalt kade pilk teil, kui juba on mu meelelahutus möödanik ja suudlusmaraton on lõppemas. Ja mulle meeldib, et see müra kostub igasuguses keeles peale minu oma. See lubab mul keskenduda, see lubab mul kirjutada mistahes sõnu siia erendavale ekraanile, ilma et keegi mõistaks.

 

Ma usun, et päikesepaistelised päevad on palju lõbusamad. Ma ei taha sulle läheneda, kui käeasend sinu rinnal ütleb, et sa ilmselgelt pikkisilmi mind ei oota. Ma mõõdan sind üdini vaid kahetähelise vastuse läbi. 

Kas sa hüppad öösel jääkülma tiiki? Miks sa oled vihane vihma peale? Kas sa ei näe kui ilus ta võib olla? Ma jätan sind tõenäoliselt nii või naa siia samma. Ma tahan anda endast kõik, kui ma tean, et kui ma jooksen, jooksed ka sina. Samas suunas. Aga kord, miski kahvatub mu ees ja ma saan aru, et ma olen parem ilma sinuta. Vikerkaared tulevad tihemini, sest sajab rohkem ja päike tuleb nii või naa ühes sellega. Varem või hiljem, aga ta tuleb. 

Lase tal minna tuules, sest ka tuuled pöörduvad, omal ajal.

teel olles

Iga päevaga üha lähemale selle järgmise eesmärgi täitmiseni. Me ei lõpeta oma eesmärke, me näeme vaeva, et need täita. Me oleme seanud piirmäärad, mille järgi kalkuleerida sinu väärtust. Keeled? Kraad? Töö? Kogemus? Vanus? Nahavärv? Tunnustused? Omandid? Nende järgi oleme õppinud nii osavalt analüüsima ja kritiseerima ja vajadusel lausuma, et sa ei ole piisavalt hea. Meie headus on tihtipeale niivõrd kahjustatud teiste inimeste pilkude läbi, et enam isegi oma headust üles ei leia või ei tea, kust otsida. Sellepärast on vaja hoida oma indu kõrgemal teiste pilkudest, teiste piirmääradest, et kuulda selles ühiskonna müras enda südant. Ja uskuda iseendasse iseendasse iseendasse. Sest enne igat eesmärki on ju see insurmountanable tunne, et noo kui ma sinna jõuan, siis ma olen küll valmis. fertig. tehtud. Ja jällegi on iga see esmapilgul ületamatu eesmärk tagasivaates vaid üks hetk. Too kord. siis kui ma... olin, ükskord, seal.. Lõpuks, saavad kõik need suured asjad kokku pakitud väikesteks eluetappideks ja lisatud sinna suurde pagasisse, mis kannab sinu nime. Ja ainus, kes seda seljas kannab oled sina. Kuula oma südant, ära kahetse, tee viib vaid edasi.

Ms. Condoleezza Rice - a decision maker

As my father always says, no decision is worse than not making one

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Inspiring and motivational for every soul seeking its place in this world full of ups and downs, trials and lessons, hardships and high ups. To keep your head up and spirit strong despite the defeat what is also a perfectly normal part of life. Learn to accept and love the imperfections cause some of them are not the subject to change. However, have the courage to step up for your box, territory, rights and for your subjects of change. And have courage to make unpalatable choices that are necessary in the moment in the name of future change. Have Hope for Your Luck.

Just fucking do it

21 km

1:41 hours

August

178 km on the run

34 km on the bike

3 hours of cardio

Ready to rock my body.

THAT is how HAPPY I am to be soon back at HOME and in TALLINN and in STOCKHOLM

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see and enjoy and party with my FRIENDS & FAMILY !!!!!

perfekter Samstag

Tie up high your hairband. Color your lips bright (so that the all the other dressed-in-grey Austrian senioritas on the steet would also be touched by your "crazyness"). Hop on your bike and drive to the other end of the city to get the fresh and unpreserved and a thousand times tastier fruits, (in the back of my mind I also hope for supporting the small agricultural producers, not so sure about that anymore though). And fill your bike basket with EVERYTHING. Na bitte, das wird genannt perfekter Samstag :)

Massive brunch preparations for tomorrow are on the way.... Can't Wait! Liisa kommt zurück nach Wien :)

How You know you're from Estonia

1. You always use of the word "normal" when something is well 
2. You always take Kalev chocolate with you when visiting friends abroad
3. You know that going to the sauna is 80% leisure and 20% washing 
4. When you were small you thought that the Latvians have six toes
5. You spit three times over your left shoulder so that everything would go well
6. Words such as "veoauto", "täieõiguslik" or "jäääär" is easy to pronounce for you 
7. You like brave speeches
8. You say, "noh" (sounds like "no") and the word "oota" (which means wait), even when speaking in English that makes people very confused  
9. Your best friend's girlfriend is your English teacher's daughter and they live next to your grandparents who were your colleagues mentors who are your friends ...
10. You would think that less than 20% does not count as alcohol drink
11. You always view thermometer before going out
12. You are checking both sides of the road before crossing, even if it is one-way traffic
13. You're smiling when people ask you about your ethnic food
14. If anyone asks you, "Where is Estonia?" you'll quickly answer "In northern Europe, a little south from Finland" --> never heard about Eastern Europe! We are so different from Latvia and Lithuania.
15. Your grandma's "handbag" is an old plastic bag that has been used several times
16. You would think that sour cream goes with everything
17. When some foreigner speaks Estonian with terrible mistakes you constantly tell him that he is still much better compared to most of the Estonian Russians
18. You always ignore gendered words in other languages, he-she-it --> who cares? 
19. Your think that running to a liqueur shop10 minutes before the closing time in Friday evening is a separate sport
20. You would think that the blue-black-white combination is a cheerful  
21. Everyone in your family has pictures of funerals
22. You're so proud of Estonia that if a foreigner should say the Estonian population is 1 million, you quickly fix them by saying its actually 1.3 million  
23. When someone says "ühesonaga" (that means shortly) then it is followed by a long explanation  
24. It has been weeks since you last saw actual cash money because everything goes by card, or by mobile phone, or ID-card, or by internet banking
25. You're assuming that the Internet is widely available in all the other countries
26. When one day the summer actually arrives, you're probably working that day
27. You know the names of all three black peoples living in Estonia
28. You are not impressed of people who speak three different languages  
29. Your biological clock can understand exactly when 15 minutes of parking in the Old Town is expired
30. If going somewhere in a city takes more than 10 minutes, you're seriously upset that it is so far away  
31. You know how to correctly pronounce "jüriööülestõus"  
32. Your doctor will tell you to go to solarium because of too light skin
33. Buildings that are higher than 20-storeys are sights for you and you also show these to your visitors
34. There is an irresistible desire for men to drink beer and women to drink cider and eat barbeque on 23 June 
35. You're proud that Ernst Hemingway wrote once that in every port in the world you can find at least one Estonian
36. Ten months of the year it's too dark to stay up and two months is too white to go to sleep

M&H Berliinis

Berliin oma segasummasuvilas toob värvid esile ka meis endas. Lase minna oma ideel, ütle tegelikult, mis sa arvad ja tunne õigust tunda õigust oma sõnades. Naudime head hommikusööki parasjagu siis, kui 7 km jooksusamme karskes hommikuõhus on juba seljataga. Keerame Berliini biiti taustal valjemaks. Tõmbame jalga taksaspüksid ja mõne soojema pulloveri, sest sügist ei anna enam häbeneda. Vihmavarjul aga endiselt pole meie peos kohta, selleks kasutame puid Juudimemooriali kõrval. Metrood, nii kitsad ja väikesed, aga kuuldavasti 100-aasta vanused, täituvad Huvitavate inimestega. Üldine unisexi vaib on silmatorkavalt kinnitunud tänavapilti. Kampsunid juhtuvad selga neile tagurpidi, käekotte kanname seljakottideks, näolappidel korraldame piercing võistlusi ja statemente teeme ühistranspordis õllepudelite ja lillade kukeharjadega argipäeva hommikuil. Berliini Mauer, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburgi väravad, Bundestag. Mõned Curry Wursti Stallid ja paljud värvilised karud, kes Beriinile maskotinäo annavad. Jookseme vihmas ja räägime armastusest. Kui siis ära väsime, otsime sooja kodutunnet Eesti kohvikus. Naerame rahvuslike stereotüüpide üle ja janu kustutame ainult külmas veiniklaasis. Küsime, kes on päris rüütlid ja, mis peamine, kus on need rüütlid meie elus? Suvi ära mine siiski veel.. meil on sind oma nooruse taustale kauemaks vaja. Aga, kes veel ei teadnud, siis kõige paremad kokteilid valmivad ikkagi koduköögis. See lihtsalt on nii. Punased huuled ja kontsad ja õhtune vaib. Tellime 14 erinevat valikut parimaid Tai roogasid. Sööme. Naudime. Sööme. Vahepeal aga seletame hispaanlastele, et Austria rahvuskeel on ka saksa keel. Jah, ajab ehk tõesti teie väikesed pead segadusse, eksole. Riigi nimi üks ja keele nimi teine. Šveitsini meie vestlus õnneks ei jõudnud. Eestlased, kurat, te ikka olete üks intelligentne rahvus. Kell 3 öösel naaseme koju uueks kokteiliringiks. Sest need on seal ikka endiselt kõige paremad. Räägime hingede uuestisünnist. Google kinnitab, et eriti suurte ja pisemate hingede vahe on täpselt 6 grammi. Ma otsustan olla 6 grammi võrra raskem. Hommikuks sööme Baileyse jäätist. Ja siis avokaado-laimi-kondenspiima oma. Ja siis veel kama jäätist. Ja seda kõike siis, kui peekoniribadest ja munapudrust on taldrikud puhtaks lakutud. Sest, kui te veel ei teadnud, siis hommikusöök on neist kolmest kõige mõnusam. Mõnnadus jätkub Flohmarktil, taustaks hommikused diskobiidid. Korjame kotid täis Berliini Avant-Garde, ja hinged täis kunsti loovust. Recycling At Its Finest. Taustal täituvad Instagrami news feedid ja muud elu wallid. See lihtsalt käib nii. Huvitav, millal ma nii käima hakkan? Õhtul loeme sammudega meie ilma drastilisi piire ja vaatame ajalooväravaid, jalutame läbi päris Berlinerite ghetto. Distantsilt on põnev, isegi väga. Distantsilt. Totaalne Austria Gemütlich'likkuse vastand. Sööme India lammast. Jällegi üllatavalt hea maitseelamus. Poeme teki alla, paneme küünlad põlema, nopime veinipudelilt korgi ja harime end Prantsuse moeväljadel.
Jää peatse jällenägemiseni Saksa kantsi lipulaev. Berliin, Sa oled üllatusterohke!

Aitäh Kristile ja Kevinile meid kostitamast!

Palmeninsel Regensburgs

Having these moments in your life, when you don't think about how hard it sometimes is, or can be, how frustrating it is when you don't get what you want. Being in these moments you don't think about anything because anything you ever wished for is in these moments with you. We live for these moments. 

Warm der Asphalt, kalt der Drink in der Hand

Heiß die Sonne, kalt der See wohin wir Springen

Pärast kolme päeva vihma võtsin südame kokku ja jalad alla ja ütlesin endale, et kui kiiresti töölt ära minna siis jõuab ka täna jooksma! Kõht oli veel lõunast täis ja võtsin ette pikema vahemaa. Naljakas, et olen enda jaoks avastanud täis kõhuga jooksmise- jõuab paremini, pikemalt, kiiremini ehk üldiselt vastupidavus on palju parem, kui umbes tunnikese enne kõhu täis sööb. Seni oli pikim distants mida olen läbinud 12-13 km. Täna tegin 17, vahepeal ka natuke sadas, mis oligi natuke mõnus ja värskendav. Ainuke asi, et lompidest ümberjooks ja ülehüpped ja lendav pori hakkasid natuke pinda käima.. Kokkuvõttes tuli aeg 1 tund ja 16 minutit. 

Go-Go-Go!

Nüüd aga tuleb vahele Stephi sünnipäeva tripp Regensburgi.. Igatahes võtan jooksutossud kaasa, ja ka mõned pohmellitabletid, et siis laupäeval ehk saab ka päeva ära kasutada, kui muidugi taevas lubab.

#44päevaTallinnaMaratonini

Kui vihm otsustab, et kolm päeva järjest jooksma ei saa minna, siis tuleb leida muud võimalused äikese, tormi, välgu ja paugu hirmust jagu saamiseks. Kõikide kõige paremate lugude ja bassi rütmi taustal tegin maailmahead pastat, lõin läikima kogu korteri, tutvusin oma raamaturiiuliga, pakkisin asju, pesin pesu, küpsetasin töö juurde neid õigeid Subway tripple chock küpsiseid, ja nüüd istun siin, selg surutud nurka sellel armetul roosal taburetil, mängib the Edge of Glory ja ootan, et see välk ja pauk minema läheks. Mine minema, palun.

If you ever have doubts about whether being a mom should be counted as a job, then make no mistake - it is a 24/7 full on, day and night constant position. Only with the exeption that no leaves are possible, no mistakes are left unnoticed, and no guidebooks are always right. 

a beautiful week of 37 km on the run and 30 on the bike

7 more to go until the half marathon

 Feeding My body  ---  Feeding My horses

Feeding My Life

Summer Hue

päikeselapsed Mia ja Matteo

 Donau Insel Festil tegime Alexi ja Liisaga mõned räpivärsid kohaliku hiphop crewga ja tantsurütmid electrobiidi järgi ja lõpetuseks karjusime hääled minema Sweet Home Alabama saatel. Mõn-Na.

Suvi, töine ja kiire, jätkub samas rütmis edasi, natuke üle kuu veel minna, kuni lõppeb töö ja lõppeb ka suvi ja algab kool :D Ei, pole hullu midagi. Vahele jääb üks Septembrikuine Eestimaa :) Ja pealegi, tuleb neid suvesid veel, millal ehk töötama nii palju ei pea. Või kui peab, siis ehk makstakse natuke vaevatasu ka... haha. Jah, natuke naljakas on küll täita tihtipeale samu ülesandeid, mis tavatöötajad, aga ainult selle vahega, et nemad teenivad Eesti presidendist enam, sina aga üritad hommikuti kodus lõuna kaasa pakkida...

Nobedate näppude sagedusel edasi!

Õnneks on eesti diplomaatide koondis, kes neid õhtuid päris edukalt sisustanud on. Neegrirüü on ka Krawas juba hangitud, ja bassein Viini kohal jahutab ka mõnusalt!

suve sumedat

The Empire of Lies

“How did you go bankrupt?”
“Two ways, gradually and then suddenly”
Ernest Hemingway

To understand Russia’s lighting fast descend into the abyss one has to understand a simple truth that many (myself included) suspect all along: Russia was and is a failed state. What is seen from the outside is just a facade imitating a functional country and government. High oil prices, residual infrastructure of USSR and internal mass propaganda machine maintained the illusion for more than a decade.

The idea that Africa is naturally divided into countries, which black Africans are supposed to live and die in, is a colonial illusion. According to Aviva Chomsky, daughter of famous American intellectual Noam Chomsky, the idea that people should be divided by citizenship or into different political categories with differential rights exists to maintain islands of prosperity and privilege. Obviously, people who reside in these islands have an interest in preserving them and in rationalizing their own access to them.

the story of two proud sisters and even more proud dad

Masters of Arts in Business, die Liisa Karu

the story of the pink crisp bacon on my plate

preparing myself a full pack of bacon. fried and crisp.. mmm so delish! after eating 4 strips, and having 4 left on my plate, and even though I have a salad on the side, starting to have doubts.. should i finish or not? going to google, googling 'crisp bacon calories' answer: 541. Shit. and realizing while doing that I already ate the remaining 4. Oh, what the hell. Should i become vegetarian? No, def never. Should I go running? yes, please.

Näita mulle maailma kõige halvemat õppurit, oh wait! see oled ju sina.

17 aastat tagasi ühel augusti kuu kuumal päeval astusin ma ühest Kadrioru rohelise puumaja vanast ja krääksuvast puu-uksest sisse trennisaali, kus parasjagu väikesed tüdrukud ringis soojaks jooksid, sossuks, nagu oli meil kombeks öelda. Trenna samal ajal alati vaatas läbi erinevaid plaate ja otsis muusikat, mis on omajagu naljakas, sest 9 aasta väletl toimus soojaks jooksmine AINULT Boney M'i plaadi saatel. Jah minu lemmik oli Ra-Ra-Rasputini lugu :D Sel samal päeval läksime ka õue rahvastepalli mängima maja kõrvale muruplatsile. Suutsin kohe ka libastuda ja oma põlve marraskile tõmmata, aga selle peale võttis trenna mind sülle ja pani teelehe peale. Mäletan seda hetke siiani väga selgelt. Me olime jaotatud minu mäletamist mööda 3 gruppi, esialgu kuulusin kõige "madalamasse" Ave rühma, kust edasi liikusin Trenna "väikeste" rühma ja sealt edasi said meist suured. Tähtsad Suured tüdrukud, kellele väikesed alati uhkusega alt üles vaatasid. Teekond nende tüdrukutega ei ole kindlasti veel läbi, ega arvatavasti saagi kunagi otsa. 

17 aastat

HHNM

alles wird immer noch besser

Friends Time Out, the best kind of after work hours what a working mind could wish for :)

one day at a time

maailma kõige nõmedam nädal tuli minema saata maailma kõige paremas klubis

 Before and After

M&L

UNHCR

Happy First Day was kinda perfect

Happy :)))

Cocaine & Sachertorte

Holy Shit. Be Loved was it called, the Night that we do not remember but never forget. Cocaine & Sachertorte on top or our crazy heads, 60-euro Champagne in our hands, to the blood danced toes inside the forever-high heels. Hingetuks me end tantsida suudame veel, sellest saab meie suvi.

Just go with the flow. Just feel the beat for 6 hours. And they had a full on Beyonce's playlist with all the new songs. Carreeiizy. Surrounded with big dicks and small dicks, guys from military with six packs and gentlemen. And yet, all there for one and only one reason - not to go home alone. Even if it means dancing until 7 am, dancing inside the fountain, dancing until the sun rises and then until the city wakes up for the next day. Obviously they all had in their pants and in their pockets, all what was missing was the head part hahaha. 

Oh Lord. Ich bin Sprachlos. Es war ur Geiiiill.

Bitch , Please. Get Out of the Way.

Forever and Ever Yours

M&L&S

It's called American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it

kuum kuum kuum on tuul

Iganädalaselt saab käija palju koolis ja saab veeta aega kaksikutega mäe otsa ja viinamarjaväätide vahel jalutades ja saab lugeda palju poliit-majandusest ja muust maailmast ja saab jälgida põnevaid juhtumisi valimismaastikul. Saab ka pikkisilmi nädalavahetusi oodates end üles lüüa, et värviliste kokteilidega elu mugavamaks ja põnevamaks teha. Oleme viinud end ühesõnaga suvekursile. Tõesti-Tõesti! juba jälle.. alles oli suvi ju!? Alles töötasin Haapsalus ja tegin välisministeeriumis praktikat. Jääb loota, et sellesuvene praktika Üro's tuleb kordades parem.. Esimesed päikese triibulised hankisime endale eile pargis. Ja üllatuslikult läks selleks vaja ainult 2 tundi pilvist ja tuulist, kuid salakavalalt kuuma ja päikselist ilma :)

päike sulas põue ära

What do we eat and Where does it come from?

When President Kennedy recast a food aid program as “Food for Peace” that was later articulated as “Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is helping to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want”, it definitely was not speaking on the behalf of American Big Brother, who always gets your back no matter what. Food aid, based on corn, soya oil, rice and dry milk powder – exactly the basis of western processed foods, was in first hand given to the governments judged to be facing a communist threat, including military dictatorships in Latin America. Though, we might be aware of the swindling tactics that outwits people’s natural blindness for good will, we still applaud for the Big Brother and wow to always stand next to him. Even the food aid goes around political strategies just as another extreme – various types of Art, even protests – interpret it. Another cause for food aid is to provoke underdeveloped countries to open up the markets for international trade. The food aid will be followed by import of western products, in other words, western appetites and necessities, making the new vulnerable consumers unsatisfied with the domestic range of commodities and making them dependent on the outer trade flows. In sum, making the poor countries poorer and rich richer.

The processed food, developed in U.S., started to emerge in mid-20.cent with the Marshall Plan that played a key role in internationalizing the distribution of food and part of its legacy is the food system today. With the plan U.S. ensured access to foreign markets by removing tariff barriers and also by paying financial aid to increase the U.S. export to non-communist countries. In sum, markets developed the appetite for processed products of U.S.

In a world of energy scarcity and famine of 800 million people, we are feeding the livestock instead of traditional grass with crops, in order to make them fattier quicker, so that an average UK’s folk could eat 84 kg meat per person in a year. This in turn makes also the meat fattier and in turn people unhealthy (a chicken in 1970 contained average 8,6gr of fat per 100gr and by today it contains nearly average 23gr per 100gr).

21 per cent of the UK’s total energy use is accounted for by its food supply – this means that today’s industrialized farming uses energy 50 times as much as traditional agriculture. And this accounts the production only taking place in the farm. Here we must add also the packaging, transporting (plus warehousing on the way), just-in-time delivery systems and supermarkets centralized distribution methods that move food around and round the country, the out-of-town supermarkets that require our cars to be fuelled to do the shopping. Think about the energy wasted on all of these acts and proceedings. In contemporary food industry we use 10 kcal of energy to produce 1 kcal of food energy.

From all the agricultural products only five - corn, rice, wheat, soya beans and cotton - keep ending up in increased number of food products. With the help of governmental subsidies, exactly these products are maintained cheap, although, their value is exceeded heavily when processed as commodities. The benefits, in turn, fall into pockets of big processors, the export companies and corporate farms (globally we could bring up 4: Cagrill (U.S.), Archer Daniel Midland – ADM (U.S.), Bunge (U.S.) and The Louis Dreyfus group (French)) leaving small agricultural entities with bear hands.

The medium sized box of cereals that contains 1,100 kcal uses 7000 kcal of energy to make. The same calculations can be made for frozen vegetables or canned fruit or heavily packaged ready meals. Thus, without cheap supply of fossil fuels our food would look very different.

Quickly, calculating my own consumer habits and making a small conscious check in my kitchen, before exhorting others, I just wish people to think more why and what we choose to eat. The paradox is that it’s going to be always harder and harder to reach unprocessed food and ‘clean’ food not only because of their label bio or their shape as shiny, bright and perfect size tomato, but because of we know where these are coming from and how these are grown. McDonald’s and packages of Kellogg’s frost doesn’t make us fat. Our choice of picking these products onto our food table makes us fat, as any other processed food that is consumed in exceeded way. The key is not extreme ways of vegan or whatever other raw diets. The key is balancing and realizing where your food comes from and what does it contain.

(The factual data comes from Felicity Lawrence book "Eat your heart out", Penguin Books, 2008)

Wishing You all Happy Happy Happy Weekend!

Wishing my Lovely hon Hannele the most dearest Brithday. I am very very very lucky girl to have you around in my Life and celebrating together with You and Nele was only another blessing ♥

Time out with my Girlzz

These past days have been only Wonderfüül! Nele & Han were visiting us for just a short time but this does not mean that some things can be left out of schedule. No-No, it means that we run from one event or visit to another. chop-chop-vutt-vutt-vit-vit ha-ha! On the first day, Thursday we had an amazing brunch und dann sind wir ein bischen spazieren gegengen in Innere Stadt. Because, it was a free day for everyone in Austria, and besides that also a very warm and sunny day, we had to search for a free table in a cafe for quite some time but eventually we were lucky enough to enjoy one absolutely over the edge ice cream in Mozart cafe :) Zusätzlich ist ein Himmel auf Erden und sehr empfehlenswertes Cafe Pure Living Bakery in Burggasse ;)

 The Best Breaky is always from 13 til 16 ;)

On Friday Nele arrived and we visited the new WU complex, which, with its space ship computer game thematic atmosphere, brings lots of students together not just for studying but to enjoy life and good drinks, food, party or your compananionship in several different outdoor cafes ;) The third day was specially dedicated to cultural events. After another Sehr Lecker Frühstück at 13 pm, we headed off to Albertina museum where a new exhibition is about Dürer, Michelangelo and Rubens. The exhibition's collection is a family heritage from the Habsburg Herzogin Marie Christine and her husband Prinz Albert von Sachsen whose private collection was something over 200 000 pieces of different art works. Among others, also containing some of the world's most famous pieces, like Dürer's rabbit painting from 15th century that until today is the main symbol of Albertina's museum. This actually was a very beautiful exhibition, not just some modern splashes on the canvas. Later in the evening we had ordered a box of donuts for Hannele's early birthday.. and then they run off for Carmen's opera play at Volksoper. After this we had some guests over and the evening continued with lots of cocktails and some energizing and vigorous arguments over world's capitalist order and life in general :D And then we were out for partying of course. Salsa for the warm up and then some hip hop raping beats at Leopold's cafe where we formed just a minority of the overly black visitors, from who every single one seemed to smoke crazy amounts of weed :D You can only imagine how our clothes smelled afterwards :D

These lovely and enjoyable moments with Hannele came to an end in a Thai restaurant Bangkok . Another utterly lung swallowing experience with its tom kha soup for starters, roasted duck as main course and sweet prosecco for the very cherry on top.

After these little treats, that one must allow to herself once in a while, it only makes you feel good to return to your every-day responsibilities where self-determination continues on full speed. Now, when Nele went for shopping to the biggest Shopping City Süd, I have returned to Staatsarchiv für Recherchieren über Historische Migrationsforschung von Österreich nach Neuseeland in 1950s für Feldpraktikum..

Foodart - weirdest thing ever! ha-ha-ha

Wandern im Hackenberg

With Love from Vienna
M & L