VRUC VETAR

An old Yugoslavian TV series from 1980. One of my favorite. It is so funny, that even the newest comedies could learn from it. The main character is Surda (Borivoje Surdilovic), but also his friend Bob, and his family gives so much to laugh about that without them it wouldn't be the same. It's just a great time to watch such an entertaining film, and if you have a chance to download or buy it on DVD, you won't regret it. I guarantee.

MY APPRECIATION

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Whoever is reading my blogs, it is really a great feeling to know that somebody out there cares.
Well... maybe doesn't care too much, but at least has a look at my writings. Whoever you people are, thank you guys!

Anyway, I just celebrated my 33rd Birthday yesterday and since I can not sleep, I would like to live with the opportunity to tell everyone that my luck - even though slowly, but - is coming back.

My weight is 86 kg, my height 1.8 m. And I did not do my promised exercises in the last month. So much for my motivation.

I keep looking for job, I do trialshifts in restaurants and I keep waiting for their answers. Next week I will go back to the coffee-shop to make some money... and some coffee:[ What can I do? No other choice. But if I could make it by bicycle, at least I will save money on the underground:] Nice eh? Here in London it is a bit risky. Lots of thiefs, can not keep anything safe. If something happens to my bike and I catch the thief, he will take me home on his back! Together with my bike.

Keep reading me.
Bye.

LATEST NEWS

Hello people!

Something is wrong with my luck:] Things just not want to work out in the last couple months...
But heads up... or how is it? Chin up! Nothing last forever:] Even I had a month long job and a chance to learn how to make espresso based coffees, now I am back where I started this year: Looking for job again and getting the answers that it is not too busy right now:[ For some reason I just can not think positive... wonder why? Ha-ha! WRS form is not coming... just when I need it the most. Looks like Home Office doesn't like me at all. Now Dewi has to go back to Indonesia and we have no chance to do anything against it. Bureaucracy. Makes things go slower or even stops them. Money + Politics + Bureaucracy = NOT GOOD = BAD. Okay something else: I finished Dragon Age Origins... was a long game but excellent. I go check my spinach. It's still green. How is this? Doesn't matter how full I am after eating, I still don't feel good until I got some dessert? Chocolate, fruit or anything sweet. I think I got used to it home-home in my younger years. Oh yes...I haven't done any exercises since 3 weeks. Now I have to do push-ups and sit-ups every hour for I don't know how many days! Boy, it will be fun and sore muscles.

That's it for now. If you want to know more details, ask me!
Don't be shy:]

ANNOYING THINGS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

I go to buy some food in the supermarket and I face hundreds of mothers pushing their babies in the stroller. Blocking my way, holding me up, stopping in the middle of everything... Man, I feel like in a kinder garden. Then the old people, doing the same stuff, just without the children. Or some full member families... OMG! Why they have to go there when normal people want to make their quick shopping?

I'm sitting in the tube, some stinky person (mostly men) comes and sits next to me, legs wide open, touching my legs...why? I don't like to be touched by strangers! Why do they like it? I have my personal aura and some people (from some culture) just don't feel when they break through! I try to pull my legs away and still they keep closing towards me. It really pisses me of!

It's Friday. I finish work at 4pm. I really want to get home, so happy for the weekend! I should bring my timesheet to the job-agency, but it would take an hour extra time for me. If they don't get it until Monday I won't get my salary. I'm tired, so I decide to go there on Sunday. Sunday comes. I'm in the bad mood already because it will take 3 hours for me to get there and back. Only traveling, nothing useful. Okay, 65 min later I'm there, tossing the paper under the door. 5-6 other timesheets lying inside already. I go back to the station. The tube is late. More and more people gathering. I still hope that I can sit 'cause it will take me an hour to get home. Tube is finally here. I find an empty seat. Next stop more people coming in. 2 drunk bastards standing in front of me, joking with some american chicks. Stepping on my feet, smelling like beer and dirt and armpit. And they won't get off for the next 10 stops. Great!

It is 4 weeks that I'm waiting for my worker registration form. It is critical for us to get it in time. It's not even the first so it should take less time for the authorities to deal with it. Just renewing the old one. But no, takes longer than the original was. I'm trying to call the solicitor when my new mobile gives up. Battery dies. Crazy! I regret 1000 times that I bought this sh*t Nokia 1680. Menu is slow, display is just a peace of crap, and on top of all (it goes for all Nokia phones) whenever I take out the battery to change the SIM card, the phone forgets the time and date. It's sooooo annoying. So I get home. Check post - no mail...again. Only a delivery message, that the postman left a package for us by the neighbors. They are not home... great! Okay, I call the solicitor. He is not there... I call back 3 more times every 15 minutes. Still not there. In the meantime I check my emails. Got an email from him (Respect!), but bad news: Home Office does not take any calls until Wednesday.... OMG why now? Why us? The last weeks are passing by with hope and disappointments. It's not fair. We are good people. We don't deserve this.

WET NOKIA

This story is about my mobile phone: Mr Nokia 1208 and the others.

This is my 2nd phone... very good, has a flashlight, and no annoying smart-functions:] Last Thursday I dropped it in the water. Seemed like nothing is wrong, it was working normally. All until next morning, when I saw that it shows the icon of the headset. So I switched it off but couldn't turn on again. My colleagues told me to dry it on top of the coffee-machine. So I did that. Then I tried couple times and wasn't working.

That afternoon I bought another Nokia.. 1680. This was the cheapest. I did not wanted to spend more than 35 pounds and there was not to many choices. It has camera and can connect to the internet. But other than that no good. The more simple is better.

My first mobile phone was a Philips Genie. I found it on a bench in my university-town. It belonged to an Italian soldier. I think. Because the language was set to Italian and that time we had lot of IFOR soldiers in Hungary. That phone was very very good. I still have it but too bad it's not working perfectly now. That time (1998) it already had voice command option.

And today (Saturday) my little 1208 Nokia started working again. Resurrection. Now I have 2 phones.

End of story.

WHAT HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST BLOG

Hi Everybody, how are you today? Things going well? Good.

I had to extend my contract with the "coffee-shop" which means I will work for them 1 or 2 more weeks. Why is that? Well, the river-cruise-ship job sucks as it is. The interwiev/training thing was a peace of crap, huge disappointment. After that I just regretted I ever registered with a job agency.

My colleagues are very nice people and it is fun to work with'em, but I don't like the job:[ Standing behind the till and selling sandwiches, coffee and stuff - even washing the dishes in the kitchen is more fun:] Thinking about the situation, I say this is the better way. Better than when you do something you like but the colleagues are real pain in the ass and make the job like hell. So I am happy for now, and I can make some money too. Even though I found out that the agency got paid after me almost double comparing to what they pay me. Whatever, it won't take forever:]

We are still waiting and hoping that next week my WRS form will arrive. If not, then we have to go to court and we really don't want that. If yes, then we could straight apply for new VISA for Dewi and wouldn't have to go chit-chat with the judge. So pray for us people!

I'm also waiting for responses from other restaurants, but they just keep me waiting. I wish I could start working on a nice place, making good money, starting the IT course and then get a real job I could base my career on. This happening pretty slow... oh boy!

The weather is getting better. Time to time we see some sunshine which loads some extra energy to our body and soul. Sometimes it would be nice to go out but here in London transportation takes lot of time (there and back) and makes me loosing my mood for the outside activity. Today we will make pancakes and listen hip-hop:] He-he.

Okay, bye for now.

DON'T READ! ... BORING BLOG

So how is it now? It is kind of slow, regular and flat. Like British weather:) That's how it is.

After a month of unsuccessful jobsearch, I decided to register with a catering agency:(
The good thing in it: they got me a job straight for whole February. I'm lucky to be working with a small friendly team. After that, I'm going to be a waiter on a river-cruise ship. Since I have 3 years experience on real big ocean cruisers, this shouldn't be a problem at all. Can't wait until the end of this month. If it turns out that I don't really like it, I'll just quit and I'm pretty sure it won't be too hard to find a new job when the season starts. The funny thing is, that after I got this coffee-job I keep receiving phonecalls for job interviews from really nice and quality restaurants. How ironic!

My daily exercise program is starting to give me results. I feel fitter and stronger. And I do it every morning and evening. It is another thing that my lovely wife still cannot find my "shy-muscles" under my fat:) But she knows that it's almost at the surface... not so shy anymore!

Our fox friends are back. Not as healthy as ever though... they lost half of their fur, but still surviving here in the city. City-foxes. No chicken, just digging in the trash, I guess. Similar racoons.Today we officially pronounced Rosy as our family member. Rosy is our pot-rose. Very very faithful to us since we are in the UK. Our motto for her is "Always dry but never die." Same like our love. Need water sometimes. So for this occasion here is a photo of our friend.... and tomorrow is Valentine's Day. She's got new soil and some fresh water. Now everybody's happy:)