This is what just everyone would like to have in their houses.

In case you don’t know where I’m from, here is a small website with some general information regarding Kosovo.

Today i took a day off in response to my full time weekend engagements recently. Meanwhile I was checking today when is the complete 24 hour ShutDownDay which im going to respect also by shutting down for 24 hours. Check some amazing user generated content in YouTube in contribution to ShutDown day videos.

I will launch the new version of my blog and brand logo designed by trokit.com

Finally! Fibes oh Fibes made it to come and perform in Prishtina at Spray Club, on Friday 09.03.2007. Last time I saw the band performing was 2 years ago in Stockholm, Sweden now I’m happy to see them in Prishtina too. Also very nice poster design by Trokit.com, see you there.

Greetings from Berlin 2007
Update: Here are some Youtube videos

I was reading about The 10 Gadgets That Changed the World on Wired and I found out that my first computer game system console Atari 2600 was in there. Article drove me back 15 years when i was playing Atari 24/7. Atari 2600 that time was equal to today’s Playstation. Games I miss the most are: Frogger, Chopper Command, and all other Atari 2600 games.

Another summer another vacation. This year on the list for vacation was Montenegro because of two reasons. First, I haven’t been there since 1996 (10 years) and second to explore the newest independent country in region. So together the “travel team” Me, Agne, Dovile and Jeton decided to start the engine of Volkswagen Golf II and start the journey.

First impressions sent me 10 years back when I saw the border in Montenegro, the border police didn’t even check anything and just let us proceed with our way. So nothing changed!

But, wait a minute, there is one thing that really changed, the New Montenegro Tunnel build in very European Standards which cost 2.5 EUR to pass was really impressive and also save you plenty of time on travel around 44 KM.

This time we decided that first target will be Budva, a well known place for having vacation, on the way to Budva we stopped to St. Stefan old coty very very busy but very nice, we spent some time there, turned the engine again and on the way to Budva again.

Budva needs improvements, need more roads and need some infrastructure to manage all tourists, we stayed for 2 hours in car queue, too much traffic, too busy, at the end we found a way to escape which leads you to Kotor and Herceg Novi cities. We stopped for a drink in Kotor, the place was good except the small beach they have, so we told ourselves to stop in Budva on the way back.

We got back to Budva, and spent time there, in the mean time we spent time also in other places called Ulcinj (Ulqin) and St.Stefan.

Beaches and accomodation were ok, not that good as we had last year in Saranda. Ok, since I didn’t check on internet for more regarding Montenegro, I was fooled by BBC and CNN advertisements on Montenegro, but it weren’t that English that we expected. You get stock if you only speak English, so with our Serbo-Croatian language skills we managed to communicate, Albanian language is not welcomed there yet, a friend of mine from Podgorica told me that Montenegro bar owners made a criteria for waiters to know English, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian language, well it wasn’t like that at all or maybe we were into a wrong place.

What really disturbed me in the beach (even was private) was people trying to get money photographing kids with large snakes and other animals, such as pony with jeans (Diesel) and monkeys.
I saw lifeguards passing around monitoring the sea, why they don’t demonstrate how they would act if someone is in troubles. Probably they need a creative manager :) maybe I was so much influenced by reading 5 issues of Wired Magazine that I took with me.

But, the vacation was great since I was with people i like so much; thanks to Agne my vacation was excellent. Even if it was raining all the time I would enjoy. Thanks to Jeton and Dovile for controversy discussions we had. It was more brain releasing thing.

When I got back to Prishtina I’ve got a book I’ve ordered early from Amazon.co.uk, “Fast Company’s Greatest Hits: Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business” waiting for me, so I will enjoy reading it now.

Apart for being in Montenegro, we also spent one day in Prizren and around. Most of the time I was away from internet and I was accessible only through my Pocket PC, but phone system was disabled until yesterday.

Vacation was nice
Nice is Good

Weeks ago my colleague Ali Beshiri invited me to go and try some shooting sports activities with him. To be fair I never heard for existing such a thing in Prishtina then i felt ashamed hearing that this existed more than 25 years.

Being fan of Biathlon sports for ages, after the first bullet that I shooted I started to like this sport, because it requires fully concentration and you see the progress more you practice. I will try it this week as soon i get the yearly membership from Kosovo Federation of Shooting.

I just watched for the second time my favorite movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind which is about the showman Chuck Barris who is television producer by day and CIA Agent by night. Movie directed by George Clooney and screenplay by Charlie Kaufman who is one of my top favorite screen player who also did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind best movie ever.

In both movies I like the movements and the interactivity between scenes that only Charlie Kaufman is art master on that. Since his job really impressed me on my new list of watching will be Being John Malkovich movie and reading of the book An Unauthorized Autobiography of Barris.

“My name is Charles Hirsch Barris. I have written pop songs. I have been a television producer. I am responsible for polluting the airwaves with mind numbing puerile entertainment. In addition, I have murdered 33 human beings.”

Best Rating (5 Stars)!

Good news: My friend Matt from Slovenia got the driving license today, Congratulation Matt and thanks for reminding me.

So, what about my driving license?
I still don’t have it. I’m really getting worried if I will be able to gain this year since I’m engaged in many things. Same thing happened last year when I decided to get it also but I didnt had time to run after it.
But, this year i made it as high priority and if I check the schedule, it can be middle of March 2006 when i can start. I really hope that I wont pass another year without driving license.