Autumn in Calgary is delicious. Janko went out to the Pinecliff Park just opposite our street and started the conversation with the foreman of the Volker Steven working at the moment. Janko (1): The weather is fine today, isn’t it? Foreman (2): Yes, indeed. It helps us to make it easier to conduct the maintenance…
Ian Tyson, an iconic western singer, is a 100th Calgary Stampede parade Marshal. Listen to the Ian and Sylvia’s performing on CBC TV in 1986:“Four Strong Winds” The Stampede Parade is much more than 350.000 people converge on the streets of down town Calgary. One of the rituals during stampede is to inculcate equality and…
Magic the Gathering (MTG), also known as Magic is the first collectible card game, created by Richard Garfield and introduced by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately 12 million players as of 2011. Each battle represents a battle between mighty wizards, known as “planes-walkers”, who employ the magical spells, items, and fantastic creatures depicted on…
If not L. Petrushecvskaya’s “Linguistic Tales” I would never have thought about my fellows of the Technical Translators’ Circle. Here they are: “ПУСЬКИ БЯТЫЕ Сяпала Калуша с Калушатами по напушке. И увазила Бутявку, и волит: – Калушата! Калушаточки! Бутявка! Калушата присяпали и Бутявку стрямкали. И подудонились. А Калуша волит: – Оее! Оее! Бутявка-то некузявая! Калушата…
“Rag Doll” song (1929) brings us the old beauty of Victor Orchestra, Nat Shilkret, Harold Scrappy Lambert, Dolores Costello. Listen: Nat Shilkret, “Glad Rag Doll” (1929) “They call you Glad Rag Doll, Admired, desired, by lovers Who soon grow tired. Poor little Glad Rag Doll, You are just a pretty toy, They like to play…
International BADEK Club has on agenda: Happy Birthday, Valya! Rimma Levchenko took a floor: “Dear friend-classmate of ours! In our childhood could we assume that our huge great country is split up and many people have to live abroad. It concerned you too: you live in Canada. Perhaps, God blessed you! it is for the…
“How do you do do, my dear parents and sister Emma? I’m o’kay, glad to meet you at home. I remember you, Mom, always worrying about me. You used to invite me to the telephone booths at the post offices wherever I stayed to hear my voice. Thanks for your worries. That kind of attitude had passed…
I was born in the Russian city of Bryansk, so my classmates Nelly Gopina, Lyuda Krokhina, Lyusya Kuznetsova, Galya Kalinina, Valya Popkova, Zoya Lapitskaya, Rimma Levchenko and Emma Korneeva got together on March 17 at 10-30 a. m. by Moscow time at the Emma’s apartment where was turned on SKYPE. This is a cheerful song:…
Among Russians there is a saying that all in vain to wait for good weather at the sea shore because if the weather is bad, it means for a long time. But here, in Maly Karpaty everything is not so. It was drizzling rain in the morning in Bratislava, the sky was overcast. We were…
To-day 40 candles are lit up for 40-days’ remembrance of Gennadiy’s passing. Each candle is a personal memory. Me and Janko are lighting our candles and reflecting on the memory of beautiful days we spent together in Slovakia and Russia. Here it is our photo of us together in Bratislava in 2010. Candles1-2: Janko’s and…