back to the roots

Favourite interior details in old good @flat;)

fabulous spring in Lithuania

The best first day at home after one year beeing away- far far far away- was just great! thanx to Vika...meeting at the airport with a jacket and two side poster" zverukas ievute" and "madam ievute"! hilarious, isnt it!?
Vilnius was just breath taking!

Home sweet home

Korean style

New style of entertaining your clients: Let cockroach walk around your restaurant... and if guests sitting on the floor, like in Inseul Korean restaurant in Chennai..
Well, yesterday was having very nice dinner with David in Korean restaurant. when I saw David start moving like something was burning or water spilled. Bur it was neither nor...just a HUGE cockroach walking towards me. I jumped and screamed ( I know it's not according to etiquette of fine dining, but my basic instinct)...all waiters ran to me, guests from other tables looking... Im standing and also looking for that BEAST... when David suggested to shake a bit....apparently that cockroach was climbing on me....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
besides/together with this entertainment, the evening was very nice

Dining Korean style

just a picture=) cute,maaaan

Just a cute picture from midnight auto rally ana nagar-shenoy nagar

restart your sim card? why not!

recently Im extremely technologically challenged, my laptop is hardly alive- well, i cant use it...
now my cell phone- just stopped working...I called to Vodafone helpline and after hundreds of press 1 for English, press 2 for something, press for...they told me that I have to restart my SIM! And this option was hidden in roaming section... not too friendly use, uh?

back to radio coverage

Do you believe in Miracle?

Miracle or my success story at FRRO, mysterious "counter #5":) the place where ppl usually has to come back N times....well- I broke the record- did everything in one day!!! just standing in 5 different lines, being nice with officers and staff, and not giving up....ah, and 1% of the lackh less in my account! i got my visa extenssion and cointinue staying in India till my DAY comes

magic Ieva

fancy brunch time

here it is....fancy brunch (5*hotel and brunch worth 1/5 of your month rent;) time with great, fun and easy people, you are feeling relaxed and with no feeling of pulling the conversation or making other fake stuff:)
Irene, David, Rolf and me!
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ok, it's after fancy lunch post now. the food was great, restaurant beautiful, tasting salmon with champagne after one year something hard to desdribe!
the last minute more people joing our group, in a way i had bit different picture of this thing, somehow besides food it was bit of disapointment. usually the more the better, but not for this.

keeping your dreams for yourself

100th post!!!!

sleepless march

looking back...there was no single night I had enough sleep. but luckily march is over and now i can lazy around more:)
Besides lack of sleep, march was awesome, full of action and adventure. the main highlights:
conquiring north india with Irene. in 9 days we visited delhi=jaipur=agra=varanasi=kolkata
Sports day ( well 3 weeks full of action before that day) at work and grand finale on 29th march! great fun! my team won a lot and i personally brought gold medal:) champions!!!
my family visit and all crazy tempo they survived here: holi celebration, wedding in the middle of nowhere at 6am ( wedding not mine;)) kerala trip and finally some relax time in mahabs.
cathing up my missing sleep:)

N.India rally

Miss March

You can easilly call me Miss March:)

This month Im smilling from the callendar, also... for the International women's day there will be posters distibuted in all India offices...

Smilling miss march

views from diplomaed political scientist

last week i heard good expression about elections in the world:

in the US even one month after president' elections- not sure who become the president
in Russia three month before elections everybody knows who is the president
in Belarus after second president' election everybody knows who wins the third one:)

that's it about democracy in the world...for now

diplomaed political scientist (me)

Momenets of Indian traffic

Yesterday saw it on the way from my work. Catafalque or a hearse , in many other cases it's popular taxi car model, pretty crowded ( at least 4 ppl, 1 driver and body)... but the best part- open trunk.

Indian roads are not the best ones in the world, I hope they didnt loose anything from the car while jumping on speed brakers or just holes on the road...

Mysore:::reloaded

Lovely weekend=)

Incredible India

It's been 10 month since I came to India...

It's incredible how it can still surprise me very often!

Enjoying colours & dynamics

Etiquette vs India

One of the things I'm enjoying most at my work- campaigns! Etiquette campaign is coming up. Today I tried to look for some books at Landmark ( one of the biggest book stores in Chennai)... first I was suggested to look in "self development/improvement" section, near "relationship" section. Good news!!! huge stalls full of books, now it's up to you: become millionaire in year or take 10-100 steps...but how to behave when you are millionaire - nobody knows, nobody cares.

The only thing I managed to find there was Etiquettet for Dummies. When inquired books on protocol...shop assistant took me to astrology section ( no logical connection, at least in my head)


I think that David' picture and caption shows general approach to good manners ( ok, at least SOME manners) This notice is in the middle of bus station, Chennai.
"What? I can't pee in the middle of the bus stand? Damn!"

Independence day!!!

90 years back Lihuania became independant country! Today celebrating big birthday!!!!
So, today Shenoy Nagar area in Chennai had a chance to see LT flag, I was making my "pin soup"- saltibarsciai!

Also, today my sister is celebrating her 20th birthday!

Happy Birthday:)

Meeting tiger or one more awesome weekend

weeend with colleagues somewhere in the middle of nowhere? Why not!=)
43 ppl spend all weekend together... no stress, no stugling, easy going weekend ( even for organizators)...saw "out of the office" faces and behaviour.
The place we went ( overnight train journey and 3 hours by bus) so it's really in the middle of nowhere... it reminded Lithuania very much- lake, some birds flying around, calm, silent and peaceful...nothing like Chennai. Evening cam fire was also like old good times in scouts camp:)

Beautiful, fun and simple time where all of us had no designations, suits, badge cards:)


I was really very nicely impressed by some people! Lot's of songs, cards games, and talks! that's the furmula of great weeend out. This was just phenominal trip... also dont forget to mention the fact that on jeep safari we saw a real TIGER in the forest!!.... also knowing myself as not the best morning person... i managed to kick myself from the softest bed I ever slept i India at 6 am and took boat safari ( no tiger this time...better stayed in that divine bed!)

One more great thing- Jacuzzi bath in every hut and big swiming pool....well, my colleagues ( wishing me all the best) didnt want let me go swim there. they agreed only if I swim with my normal clothes...well, at the end, after long discussions i was enjoing my swim:) ah...cultural difeerences once again! how fun is this?!!

p.s. it's been 2 weeks and ppl still talking about this trip!!!