my city that's never late

i love to watch cities wake up.

tbilisi is a late-wake-upper. when all other cities turn on their laptops and start meetings, tbilisi just wakes up. by 10 o'clock the ladies start sweeping the welcome signs to their corner shops, drivers open their gates and start the engines, people start walking toward bus stops. you won't see anyone running here, it is practically impossible to find a georgian who is late. because the meeting times are so flexible here. plus minus 20 minutes means nothing. and georgians never eat in the streets. i love eating on my way somewhere, because it often saves me so much time. and when i do so, i can feel people staring at me in a strange way. how can a person run with food in his hands? eating time is so precious here and cannot be rolled over like that. drivers do drive like crazy in tbilisi, but not in a quick-like crazy way - but in a sort of relaxed-like crazy.

the atmosphere of tbilisi is pretty relaxed in general. and probably this is just what i needed after years of living in big crazy cities. people move a lot, live in so many different places and i can say that i have found the place i love living in. though i still have to learn to stop running.

leaving you with my favourite georgian composer - gia kancheli

Zou Bisou Bisou

i don't know if you remember a song which was very popular last decade. 'i'm a big big girl in a big big world' was heard from every loudspeaker at every party in my school. some years from then i liked a singer who had very beautiful voice and songs - Emilia Mitiku. only some time later i realized that it was her performing that old song at my school parties but just with her first name. she has grown up, added her father's last name to Emilia and began performing some wonderful quality music.


try these songs, maybe you will like them just as i do.

clear conscience

my friend's words today inspired me to write a post about conscience. some of you who know me, also know that i am quite a religious person. there are many things that a church teaches us but i want write about one of its thoughts about conscience, which i like to interpret in my own way.

we all do different stuff, sometimes good, sometimes bad. sometimes intentionally and very often unintentionally. there are also different kinds of people, those who are more conscious and those who are less. to the first group of people i attribute those who always think they are right. who think that they have 100 per cent truth and who's conscious hurts them little less. those people do things, which they never regret and instead of feeling uncomfortable, their conscious gives them hundred reasons why. why they did so, why it was right and why there was no other way of doing it. the other kind of people are those whom you watch in a movie, who lie about something or do something wrong, but they cannot keep it inside, nor can they justify their acts or words. and you watch them and think 'don't don't say, it won't do any good - the main hero will be upset, they will split up, a tragedy will happen. but those people always say it, and in a moment you know what is best for them - clear conscious. i like this kind of people. because they spend time clearing their heart, spend time judging themselves and feeling sorry. not only in the movies but also in the real life. maybe all of us should spend some time everyday criticizing ourselves, realizing that we are not perfect and doubting our actions and words. it should make us better people in any way.

here is a song that i have been listening to while writing this post  - it gives huge inspiration, hope it also inspires you for something good today

my butterfly

this song comes to my mind every time i think about my aka. she is now high up in the sky on her way to new life and new beginnings just like a butterfly, that is why i dedicate my today's post to her

when you start a new life in a different country it is always pretty hard, especially when you are leaving such a huge number of friends, family and people who love you behind. but the thing is that such people as aka are real-life magnets. they attract people around them with the speed of sound, no matter in what city or country they are. and this happens not without a reason.

i have never seen so many great qualities combined in one person in such huge amounts. the thing i love most about aka is that she is true. she is who she is, without playing or pretending. you know when she does something she doesn't mean anything else or think about something different - she does what her heart tells her, says what she feels and acts to her conscious. she is a great friend. i don't even know if she has any limits when something is needed for her friend. absolutely opposite to selfish, she is most giving and caring when it comes to helping a friend. and she is the queen of emotions. a real-life firework and a real-life battery who fires up everything around her.

she knows how much i'm going to miss her, miss talking and laughing with her every day but she also knows how happy i am for her new beginnings, all the success and happiness that are now in front of her

and i'm from my part will be there for her when she needs me

x

leaving you with chaka khan and my butterfly song

bossa disney nova

me and bossa nova are inseparable. and so are all the variations of music in bossa nova. that is why i fell in love with disney songs resung in bossa nova as soon as i heard them for the first time. put on the playlist, will you recognize all those familiar songs in new sounding?

life is long

i like to say that life is short and we should grasp all the possibilities, start doing things now and not wait for time to pass and things to happen themselves. and i believe in this theory and always try to follow it.

but yesterday i heard a good thought which i want to share with you. it was a situation of a man who has suffered a loss and wasn't ready for new acquaintances and new emotions and then a very wise man told him that although we all think that life is very short and we are afraid that we won't have time for important things, we shouldn't be. it is a common mistake of everyone - to always be in a hurry.

it all can be said in one sentence which you see on the picture - some things take time. i tend to agree with that. i agree that a lot of things happen in life. when things don't go the way you want and some difficult stuff happens, i always know that at some moment in life it will go back to normal. the fact is that life is pretty long and if you make a mistake, worry about it and its consequences, the time will go by and you will have a chance to forget it, change things and move on. in this perspective it is good to know that you have plenty of time to do everything right. if something is not coming along right now, it will, once you will be ready and willing. if there are things you want for yourself, they will come to you when you will wait, think and work for it.

i want to share a song with you, which my dear G sent me yesterday and which made my whole day. not even the whole day, but also morning, because it was the first thing i put on in my computer today. i want to share with you its mood, its location, its emotions and love. because if some of you are not in that place right now, i know that time will pass and you definitely will be.

observation #4 (lost the count): compliments

i had two stories to write about today, and i will start with the first one about compliments.

my colleague entered the room today shining with happy face at 10 am in the morning. and those of you who like to wake up late know how hard is to come to work on wednesdays. the reason behind that smile was a compliment from the lady in the queue of a bank.

and you? think about all those compliments that made you smile and feel so beautiful, wonderful and extraordinary. your husband has noticed how great you look and changed his outfit to fit your style, or maybe a girl in the street has asked you where did you get such cool sunglasses, or a masseur has wondered how great you look despite the fact you have three kids, a taxi driver has asked you if you would like to meet his son/daughter with whom you would make such a beautiful couple, a hairdresser has noticed your great hair quality, or a colleague has complemented you new dress...



in any way, you must agree with me, compliments make us happy. so why not give them to other people as much as we can?

maybe by saying something nice to people, you will touch the thing they are most insecure about and only one or two words will build them up and make them happy..