Month: May 2015

Let’s smile a little with Zoya and her jokes around:

1.What is the strong health?

2. When all body is aching, but there are still forces to go to the doctor’s.

1. “Nowadays all people are fighting for their national language.” said one Jew to the other Jew.”But what is our fight for?”

2.”For our state accent.”

One man is asking to the other man: “How about your daughter? Is she getting married?”

The latter answered: “She is tried, praised, but not taken”.

The two men are fishing.One asks: “How are doing? Did you catch anything?”

The second one answers: “No, I did catch nothing”.

The first one lamented: “I’am even worse.”

“How come?”, the second one was in surprise: “What can be worse?”

The first one explained: “I even lost my fishing rod.”

Misha complains to the Hotel Manager:

“Mr. Manager, I have bed bugs in my bed.”

“So?!”, the Hotel Manager replied: “For your money you pay per night you would like to have ballerina Volochkova in bed, don’t you?”

Wife said to husband leaving for a business trip:

“Don’t waste your money for that what you can have free at home”.

Listen to:Live at Eurovision 2015-Polina Gagarina “A Million Voices’Russia-Semi-Final

These days we are getting congratulatory cards from our relatives, friends in Russia, Slovakia, Canada on the Victory Day May 8-9 th. To the right and to the left are shown some of them. We want to say our thanks to all of you, dear beloved ones.

We know that in Russia and in Europe as well the 70-th Anniversary of Great Victory day was widely celebrated with marches, military bands, singing on the streets, laying the commemoration wreaths onto the graves of fallen heroes. Wonderful tradition! In Saint Petersburg it is called “The Immortal Regiment”.

We went to the Military Museums in Calgary to participate in this big special event. We discovered the victories, tragedies, and sacrifices of the Canadian Armed Forces. With eight museums and galleries housed under one roof: The Naval Museum of Alberta, King’s Own Calgary Regiment (Royal Canadian Armored CORPS) Museum, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) Museum, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Museum and Archives,  Calgary Highlanders Regimental Museum and Archives, The Air Force Museum of Alberta, The Army Museum of Alberta, The Founders Gallery. Location: 4520 Crowchild Trail SW, Calgary, AB T2T 5J4.

The latter presents TREES HEEFT EEN CANADEES “Dutch War Brides” exhibition by Beverley Tosh opened on May 5-August 16, 2015. We visited this exhibition and were very happy to know about this. As Janko met the veteran of the Second War in France Roger Geisman, he served in the French Resistance (partisan unit), here in the hall, they started to talk about the life in the past and in the present. Roger’s wife Joanna, his war bride, passed away long ago. We looked around. On the walls were hung the portraits of the young women who were married to Canadian servicemen, such happy faces and their love letters to each other. Everything is authentic and very touching.

   We came away with the feeling and understanding of the human side of the war.                                                                                                        We highly recommend to the families with the young children of all ages to come to visit the Military Museums, the only attraction of its kind in Western Canada.

We met a group of schoolchildren from Edmonton, they all wore the orange-and-black striped ties showing that they belong to one group of     people who is interested in history of their native land, who like travelling to see the new places and learn something new and interesting. It is pleasant, indeed, to see the representatives of the young generation around us.

The young people who are serving us also were knowledgeable and helpful to show us around with the explanation of the new exhibits and artifacts in each and every display.

And the main thing-the weather was splendid on May 9, 2015, that also complemented our outing.

Listen: “Fly Away on Wings of Wind”, a beautiful Russian song

A perfume is designed to blend with your natural body odors to create a unique subtle scent that is your SIGNATURE. Anyone smelling it again, immediately thinks of you and all the good times you have had together in the past. Smell bypasses logic and goes straight to the emotion and memory centers of the brain. If you use so much that there is 99% perfume overwhelming 1% of your natural scent, it is like a song with only one note. It is flat. It is no longer uniquely you. It lacks subtlety.

Further, the nose tires easily. Any scent always present eventually disappears from awareness. You want a subtle scent that appears and disappears-that flirts with the apprehend-er, thus keeping his interest. To do that, you need the merest touch of perfume, so that it disappears and reappears only when you move, letting off a tiny burst of fragrance. Keep in mind that the smell of perfume by itself is not sexy. It is only in combination with your natural scent does it come alive. It is not a deodorant to cover up your natural fragrance.

As you get older, your sense of smell fades. This is why older people often overdose themselves with perfume. Don’t trust your own sense of smell to decide how much is enough. It will always smell less intense to you than it does to others and,, of course, it will smell nicer to you than to others since you picked the fragrance.

Beware particularly of reapplying because the scent has faded. It has not faded so much as your nose has become exhausted. In my opinion, old ladies more than young ladies should wear the perfumes.

Though perfumes don’t hurt everyone, certain perfumes can give some people migraines, nausea or mood-swings. We are gradually seeing a shift in attitudes. Hospitals are now asking visitors to refrain from using perfumes. The new thinking, fired perhaps by smoking, pollution and global warming concerns, is you don’t have the right to stink up the air from others. Ironically. perfume is supposed to make you more appealing. If you are using so much, it is making others ill, it is failing miserably for its intended purpose. People who use too much perfume tend to be self-centered. They presume that because their dosage of perfume smells good to them and does not make the nauseous, that it MUST be the same for everyone else. Common sense says: you should go extra light on your perfume for an airplane, train or bus trip, or any other time you will be confined with others, even a long elevator ride. It goes without saying.

A friend of mine from Russia kept her bottle of perfume for 41 years just because beautiful words were written inside the box. It was Sonnet #5 by W.Shakespeare:

“Those hours, that with gentle work did frame                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,

Will play the tyrants to the very same

And that unfair which fairly doth excel;

For never-resting time leads summer on

To hideous winter, and confounds him there;

Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o’er-snowed and bareness every where:

Then were not summer’s distillation left,

A LIQUID  PRISONER pent in walls of glass,

BEAUTY’S effect with BEAUTY were bereft,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Nor it, not no remembrance what it was:

But FLOWERS distilled, though they with winter meet,

Leese but their snow; their SUBSTANCE still lives SWEET.”

Listen and watch video: Tatiana Gorodetskaya, 5 Sonnet by W. Shakespeare