What does that remind me of?

Privet, my readers!

It's been a tough period of my life, especially when you are waiting for a job offer from a very famous company! But I got it. I'll be working at John Deere since October 15! I guess that's exciting. But it's not the point of my writing today. I was reading something today and I came up to this analogy of the relationships between men and women. I'll put the original first and then translation of this in English.

"У женщины есть близкий друг - мужчина. Это значит, что, скорее всего, она ему нравится, поэтому он и проводит с ней столько времени. Она же воспринимает его строго как друга. Мол, ты классный парень, но ты не привлекаешь мне в "этом" смысле. Это все равно как если бы человек пришел на интервью, а работодатель сказал:

У вас замечательное резюме, вы обладаете той квалификацией, которая нам нужна, но мы вас не примем на работу. Впрочем, мы используем ваше резюме как образец для сравнения с другими кандидатами. Но мы собираемся взять
того, кто намного менее квалифицирован, чем вы, и, скорее всего, алкоголик. И если не получится с ним, мы возьмем кого-то еще, но все равно не вас. На самом деле мы никогда вас не примем. Но иногда мы будем вам звонить, чтобы пожаловаться на тех, кого мы приняли."

Here it is:

"A woman has a close friend who is a man. That means that most likely he likes her that's why he spends so much time with her. And she treats him like a friend, saying he is a cool guy, but I don't like you in "that" way. That reminds me of this concept - a man coming to the job and an employer tells him:

You have a great CV, you've got an awesome qualification we need, but we don't give you this job. Anyway we can use your CV as a model for other CVs. We are gone take someone who is less qualified than you, maybe an alcoholic. And if he's not gonna be good for this job, we'll take someone else, but not you. To tell you the truth - we never gonna take you for this job. But sometimes we are gonna call you and complain about the one we took to do this work."

Does that remind you something? We all went through the same feelings. Please keep this story in mind - it's a good example of what we are going through before we find our better half!

Your sincere corespondent of life
Andrew

Am I Still Alive?

Privet, readers of the dullest man now!

I know it's been a while since I posted something here, but I wanted to share something laying down in the only corner where I can steal some internet at my dad's apartment. It's past 12 am now and I'm so glad to have some time with www. It's not comfortable to sit here, but that's all I can do now. I have no money or time to put my own cable here or at my mom's place, so I go to my friends' or McD's to check my mail and now I've found some here...

My job situation is not pleasant, though I have some joyful time now... I help my friends who are looking for an apartment and will be working with me now. They are American. We had some great time together this and last week, but we are still looking for a place to live for them. My boss is pissing me off with not being punctual or delegating me stuff she can do herself. I'm still looking for an answer weather I'll have a new job or not and it's taking too long and I'm about to give up.

It seems to me that something is happening in my life, something is changing, I'm back at my dad's apartment and at mom's too. No proper Internet here, but it's kinda survival without it.

It's all so mysterious and unknown, not settled and questioned... I don't know what to say now, too frustrated about life itself. Seems like I'm separating from God, but I don't want to. I 'm trying to run back to him, but a lot of things are on my way and I don't know what to do with them. Seems like business world and Christianity take different roads and you need to decide where you gonna end up - in heaven or at the 1st place at Forbes top list of the most successful men. But I'm pretty sure you can be both. I don't want to desert God and go my own way, it's wrong and I know can't be without Him! SMS, people! (I mean Save My Soul)

And the most unknown thing for my now - why I put my headphones in my ears and forget to turn my ipod on? I can go the whole way without it, but wearing the headphones. I guess I have too many thoughts or too many questions without answers...

And it makes me wonder...

Here we go!!!

Hi! Oy, Privet! Of course privet! Russia is speaking!

I hope you are having a wonderful and joyful summer!

Ok, let's get down to the topic - here we go, camp is chasing us and swaling us and taking us to the holy of holies of the English Exchange routine! Those who have been there at least once would never forget what a wonderful time we spend there!

Today the American team has come and it's been a beater sweet time for all of us! The fun part for me is too meet new people and see familiar faces again! But it's been a day of surprises one by one - don't go into the details... Only thing I can say, we had to play it by ear! 1. Planes are always fun - when to land, what to expect, customs... lost luggage ad all that stuff. 2. People forgetting stuff at home or bringing way much more with them...

But the best part is - C'lish is here (go figure) - love to spend time with her... Smilingallthetimeandeverywhere person! Can't wait to talk to her more and more when I come there.

I'm leaving with the Russian team on Monday - always a fun bus ride (never-sit-down time)! More to come, lot of things to do to be realized! Welcome to my world!

I'll keep you updated and tell you all about exciting things there, read me after August 6...
Bring it on... HERE WE GO!

Andrewshka

Life after Birth!

Hi to y'all! I was looking through some of the stories and this one stuck to my mind! I hope you'll understand it! There are Russian and English version (I translated it from Russian into English, so don't blame me if you find any mistakes).

"Про жизнь после родов

В животе беременной женщины разговаривают двое пузожителей. Один из них - верующий, другой - неверующий.

Неверующий: Ты веришь в жизнь после родов?

Верующий: Да, конечно. Всем понятно, что жизнь после родов существует. Мы здесь для того, чтобы стать достаточно сильными и готовыми к тому, что нас ждет потом.

Неверующий: Это глупость! Никакой жизни после родов быть не может! Ты можешь себе представить, как такая жизнь могла бы выглядеть?

Верующий: Я не знаю всех деталей, но я верю, что там будет больше света, и что мы, может быть, даже будем сами ходить и есть своим ртом.

Неверующий: Какая ерунда! Невозможно же самим ходить и есть ртом! Это вообще смешно! Да и зачем? У нас же есть пуповина, которая нас питает. Знаешь, я хочу сказать тебе: невозможно, чтобы существовала жизнь после родов, потому что наша жизнь и так уже слишком коротка.

Верующий: Я уверен, что это возможно. Все будет просто немного по-другому. Это можно себе представить.

Неверующий: Но ведь оттуда ещё никто никогда не возвращался! Жизнь просто заканчивается родами. И вообще, жизнь - это одно большое страдание в темноте.

Верующий: Нет, нет! Я точно не знаю, как будет выглядеть наша жизнь после родов, но в любом случае, мы увидим маму, и она позаботится о нас.

Неверующий: Маму? Ты веришь в маму? И где же она находится?

Верующий: Она везде вокруг нас, мы в ней пребываем и благодаря ей движемся и живем, без нее мы просто не можем существовать.

Неверующий: Полная ерунда! Я не видел никакой мамы, и поэтому очевидно, что ее просто нет.

Верующий: Не могу с тобой согласиться. Ведь иногда, когда все вокруг затихает, можно услышать, как она поет, и почувствовать, как она гладит наш мир. Я твердо верю, что наша настоящая жизнь начнется только после родов!

Life after birth

Two belly citizens are talking to each other inside a pregnant woman. One is a believer and the other one is not.

Unbeliever: Do you believe in a life after birth?
Believer: Yes, of course. Everyone knows there is a life after birth. We are here to become stronger and ready for something that’s gonna be afterwards.

Unbeliever: This is a bullcrap! There is no life after birth. Can you imaging how that kind of life can look like?

Believer: I don’t know any details, but I believe there will be more light and that we are likely to be able to walk and eat with our own mouth.

Unbeliever: That is a total delirium! It’s impossible to walk with our own feet and eat with our won mouth. That is really funny! And why do we need to? We have umbilical cord that feeds us. You know, I want to tell you: it’s impossible to have a life after birth, because our life is short itself.

Believer: I’m sure it is possible. Everything will be just a little bit different. But it’s possible to imagine it.
Unbeliever: But no one returned back after being born! Life ends with a birth. And in general – life is a horrible suffering in the darkness.
Believer:No, no! I don’t know for sure what our life is gonna be like after birth, but in any case we’ll see our mom and she will take care about us!
Unbeliever: Mom? Do you believe in Mom? So where is she?
Believer: She is around us, we are inside her and she helps us move and live. We cannot live without her.

Unbeliever: Bullcrap! I haven’t seen any mother and it’s obvious she doesn’t exist.
Believer: I can’t agree with you. Because sometimes, when everything is quiet around, you can hear her singing and you can feel how she caresses our world. I firmly believe that the real life start only after birth!"

I'm glad it gives you some time to meditate on this and think about what is truth! We all can believe in different things now, but only by the end of our life's journey we may realize what is the real truth!

Do you want to be a "Black Spider Man"?

"What is wrong with me? I feel this great desire to change myself, to see who I am... Being this unnoticeable person, just like everyone else, is not so nice. I wanna be something else: black suite, white shirt, cool hair style... I want all the nice girls to be mine and I just wanna use them, have sex with them... I want them to want me - sounds cool, right? I wanna dance like no one else can, I would sing songs with a perfect voice, that would attract girls, I can even humiliate someone for people to see that I'm strong, that would be rude, but cool. That's what girl like, right? At least, that's what I think they like. Yeah, I bought this clothes, walking in the street and everyone is envy and jealous... I have the most beautiful girl by my side. She admires me, she doesn't know my personality, she just admires how I look. Would she even care who the real me is? Well even I don't care who I am now! I just like it... And what is it about this black stuff that covered me? I just like it, actually I love it....

... What is wrong here? I lose all my friends now, what is wrong? I wanted to be better... and where did I end up and with whom? Seems like I'm alone and no one wants to even look at me? WHY??? I had so much when I was real without changing myself, I had friends who love me, one and only girl who loved me, my family... Where are they all now? Maybe they didn't like what I did to myself??? But I thought... no, it should have been for good, not for bad... And what should I do now? How to get rid of this black stuff???" - Based on the movie Spider Man 3szh5ZsAcgJU

Privet to all who are with me today!

About 2 weeks ago I saw this movie and this part of it and it just stuck in my mind... Why do people think they need to change themselves to be better (as they think)? It might happened because they want to be like some movie star or a singer (or a wrestling fighter, which would be just funny). you can try, but all what you had before would be gone. What the modern world considers to be cool and sweet would not be attractive to someone you love. Or vice versa, he/she can hurt you for asking you to change yourself to be "better". There are so many people who love you for who you are and think you are beautiful right now, without any changes... Maybe you don't know about it, maybe you think you are alone in this world, but there is always someone who thinks you are the most beautiful/handsome person in the whole world (even more beautiful then Brad Pitt himself). Or maybe someone loves your personality, how you act on public, your sense of humor, intelligence or just your laugh. It may be so simple. Just be yourself, be the one who they once met and started to love. People met you when you were yourself, they don't want to see you being deferent.

I hope you find something new to think about here. For me it was the right timing... I was about to change myself for someone I loved... And my friend told me I became rude and prideful. Later on I saw it myself. I decided to stop it before I would change completely. I hope you, my reader, understand what I'm talking about.

In Russia we have this quote: "Sometimes better is much worse then good, because you need to be content with your good. Better can spoil your good"

Andrewshka

You like to do what?

"... the entrance is so dark. I am going in and then I see the highlighted stage with a lot of musical instruments. It all looks so prepared, as if the crew was working all day long. I peep from the curtain and notice that all the tickets were sold out, because there are no free seats in the hall. "Wow" - I surprisingly think - "is it really happening with me?". Then I see the musicians coming on the stage. It's David Gilmour, guitar player from Pink Floyd and his friends. Sax, cello, stand bass, dozen of microphones, 3 different guitars, drum set, piano, etc... The musicians take their places and start. I can hear every single sound that they make. Everything sounds so perfect. I look at the stage itself and found that every single wire was taken care of as if it was someone's favorite pet. I hear the claps of the crowd as every musician begin their part in the masterpiece of the concert! And I am amazed how balanced their instruments are! It was the moment when I realized how you define who professionals are!..."

Privet to all how missed my blogs and want to read something interesting.

What you read before was just a dream... Yes some people dream of being on the stage or listening to some live music. But I'm weirdly strange in having a dream about preparing for this kind of concerts to happen. Let's call it "the work you never see, but hear if it's done wrong". It's never praised or thanked by the crowd, that's what makes it difficult. But I get excited when I hear professionals playing and singing when everything sound right. If something is wrong I try to fix it asap. And if I manage - that's what makes me happy. I'm ready to be as dirty as a pig.

I once was at my good friends' house. Joy, Tiff and I were watching "High School Musical" and after that there was a video how this movie was made. It showed some of the spoiled takes that happened during the making of the movie. (This movie is more like a musical when you can here how these high school guys sing and dance so well) Tiff said - "I wanna sing like this", Joy said - "I wanna dance like this", and I said - "And I wanna make it all happen, to make sure Tiff's mic was on and balanced and Joy's music was not destructive but helped her to dance well".

That's just who I am and you may make fun of me or laugh about this blog, but anyway I wanna say we need different types of professionals who would do everything they can to carry out their works using their gifts. (As it is written in 1 Corinthians 12).

Andrewshka