tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8359906201978300382011-09-26T20:02:34.625+03:00There is always a new & different point of view. It makes my life more interesting.Andrius Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797021834087835090noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835990620197830038.post-28752109081659705512010-11-12T22:39:00.003+02:002010-11-12T23:12:33.432+02:00

Wondering how many people in this life dare to say loudly, openly and honestly - No!Is it cultural think or what? Why I have to step back to waitress which mix-up order while at the end of the day I have to pay her?Is it stupidity or what? Why I have to be modest and shut my mouth up while politicians, which took my 'voice', are stealing money, pride and faith of My Country?Is it blindness or

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There is one thing which keeps bothering my head in the last month. This annoying thought was provoked by the fact that I'm not really satisfied with current job, employers, etc. Maybe I raise too high requirements or expectations towards a daily job, working environment, relationship between employees and micro-climate overall, social benefits or at least basic social security..? Looking from my

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Seriously, I’m impressed about other peoples’ ability to be creative, stylish, cool, to be talented in sports, cooking or any other activity. I still can’t understand why and how my old fellows are getting married!? Can’t believe that I have to live on my own, look after personal savings, and soon will have to take care of my parents… Kids! They are everywhere! Small, cute, bigger and smaller.

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Play the soft music. Use your best headphones. Turn the volume up. Close your eyes and feel how your body lifts up above the bed.Fly away from your room through the open window. Smell the freshness of the night and brighness of the star. Can you still hear the music? Excellent. Keep floating in the air till your problems appears behind.Now. Start singing the song as it would be your magic mantra.

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A few days ago I came back from a trip to India. I went there alone and being a quite small white guy (in Indian eyes - rich tourist) naturally provoked curiosity for the local people. The same as in Pakistan people find the easiest way to approach by asking: Where are you from?Maybe would be cool to be from one of the largest leading world countries - it would give them a lot of answers by

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Hard to figure-out: is this video really good (official music video for Eurovision Song Contest performed by lithuanians) or I'm simply missing home and everything related to it?However it is - Go Lithuania! : )

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Black bread, white bread, radio station while driving the car, supermarket in front of my place, old town, streets made from stones, centuries old buildings, river crossing the city, the voice of news reporter on TV every evening, smell of rain in the mid of summer, basketball playground, comfortable bed, potatoes with milk, cold beer, scarf and winter cap, steam coming out of your mouth each

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PATER noster, qui es in cœlis;sanctificatur nomen tuum:Adveniat regnum tuum;fiat voluntas tua,sicut in cœlo, et in terra.Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie:Et dimitte nobis debita nostra,sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris:et ne nos inducas in tentationem:sed libera nos a malo.Quia tuum est regnum, et potestas, et Gloria,in saecula.Amen.This time I started my blog entry with a prayer

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First impression of Muslim women and Christian Nun:- Both are practicing modesty;- Both covering hair;- Both are wearing cloths covering almost whole body;- Both are religious;- Both are staying away from direct contact with a men (at least until marriage).To be continued...

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Last week I had an honor to attend one of the most exciting even which is happening in 110 countries around the world.I had an opportunity to attend LC Karachi EB elections (sorry for very technical language)... My few impressions which I got through out the day:# LC members are forced to stay in election. To do that the current EB had to make VP elections at first and move LCP candidates to the

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When I came to Pakistan, Karachi, I was lucky, because I got closet. It is pretty big. I can fit a lot of things. In beginning I didn't have too much stuff, so my closet was more than half empty. All over the suddent I started to collect all kind random stuff. Now, when I look back, I'm asking myself: why the hell I ever brought all this to my closet..?Today I have a problem - there simply too

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I talk to Pakistanis quite a lot. And I like it. I met all kind of Pakistanis, from different backgrounds, social levels, different mindsets, less and more religious, raised abroad but building career in Pakistan and etc.While talking to them I truly see how patriotic they are towards their culture, religion and history. But when I go out on the street, it is hard to believe they are talking

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How cool is to have a hero who inspires you to do something more then you would normally do... in this story I will call such people not hero’s (not because Batman and Spiderman doesn't exist) but 'role models'. As far as I remember myself, I always had role models around me. Not sure if I chose them wisely - that could be commended by you... So I started my collection as all normal kids having

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Conversation with Pakistani guy... A: so when you planning to get marry? P: oh, I don't know... Maybe in 4-5 years... A: so do you have any girl in mind? P: oh no! I don't care too much. I'll let it do to my mom... A: ??? P: what my mom will choose for me, I know it will be perfect... A: don't you want to be involved in that process? P: naah... Anyways girls don't like me... A: I'm sure that many

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People - only one creature in the world who purposely developing weapons not to defend themselves but kill each other.I like when I find a competitive enemy. I know he will not give up to me. I know we will be sneaky to each other and we will never close eyes while sleeping. I like to feel that someone can stand against me. I like to be in concious. Every minute, any second - Bang! And you are

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Why Lion is a king of the jungle? He is not the biggest one in Safari... He is not the fastest on the ground... But he has a powerful roar coming from his throat. And he has something what most of us are missing. He has a feeling of ownership... Does he asks zebra when he is hungry? Does he asks zebra for permision or approval? Is he waiting for some secret signs from other animals before going

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One thing which I can't get use to in Pakistan is Parties... Rember when I was 12-13 years old, I used to attend or organize 'parties' with my friends which looked something like that: we gether to one place, we have small snacks from a local shop (or in best case moms made food), we get some cold drinks (pepsi, for example), cool music and the party ready to go!Now, imagine the same with people

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Working in Pakistani company looks something like that:A) fixed time means nothing more than approximate time to show-up to the office (anyway management is coming much later and it just a thing of respect to be at your desk before your boss)B) verbal communication practically mean nothing until it's put it written, for example in e-mail with other 2-3 random people who might be involved in on or

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Well well well... guess who's back again! As most of the bloggers I'm not going to apologize for not posting for a quite long time. Because (!) I have a reason for that.As you know from my last post (end of September) I decided to dedicate one more year for Karachi, Pakistan. Since that decision my life was little bit messed up: a) traveling back home to Lithuania, b) flying back to Karachi with

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The moment of truth has come.I’m sitting in office (19:10) and just got to know that my flight tickets have been confirmed. Yes, in 9 hours from now I will be taking off from Karachi International airport and the same day will be landing in Baltic land. Yes, I'm excided and nervous at the same time.My visit to Lithuania is a bit unexpected, but because of that not less pleasant. As you might

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1, 2, 3, [...] 10. Almost 10 moths have passed since I started to work for one of Pakistani company in Karachi.Coming to Pakistan and joining this particular company was one of my best decisions ever (after joining AIESEC). This company helped me to realize what kind of sales person I am. I used to think, that I can be or I should be a good sales person, but working for different companies in

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After 8 months and 20 days living in Karachi I experienced mason for the first time. Actually it was first time I experienced a proper rain in this country. Last weekend I felt that whole nation was praying for the rain but forgot to mention for how much.And so it started to rain on Saturday morning and continued till late night. The result was awful… Whole streets were flooded, cars stopped in

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As in any big city around the world you can find everything starting from poverty and finishing with amazing luxury! Karachi, the biggest city in Pakistan is not an exception.Pakistan, as a country exists only ~60 years. In such short time of period Pakistan managed to gain reputation of suicide bombers, terrorist, Islamic fanatics and etc. I heard that in New York City they have more crime acts

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Many people are impressed by the idea to live and work abroad according your specialization for a fixed period of time. Going abroad you get both: cultural and professional (work) experience. The only one question is how relevant this experience will be in your future..? If you are lucky - after internship you will find job with similar product or in the same business sector (field). If not -

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Last week I received an e-mail with facts about India. All these observations were made by Indian guy himself.However, reading all these facts I could see myself in Pakistan. As Pakistan and India has close cultural similarities, I decided to convert some facts and introduce you with my daily life in Pakistan.[...]1. Some Pakistani men hold hands in the streets while they are notnecessarily gay2.

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Dear reader,first of all I apologize for huge delay with my answers. My days are unpredictible and as you see, I need some time to write this "short" post.So lets move to the answers and check your results!1. Quran forbids singingThis is absolute nonsense. Have you ever seen Indian movie? Yeah, after each 7-8 minutes they all dance and sing; doesn’t matter happy they are or sand, they fighting or

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Hello everybody! Here I come again. This time I want to check your knowledge about Pakistan and I really hope you will contribute this small tests.Rules are very easy: everything what you need to do is choose one of the optional answers to the given question and post your answers as a comment. For this you have one week starting from upload date (2009 01 02). After the time will estimate (2009 01

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When you think that everything is going down and you hate everything around you - remember this short commercial from Discovery Channel:

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UN: Karachi 25 Nov. Security UpdateLaw and order situation tense in parts of Orangi Town after killing of three political workers yesterday. IDEAS 2008 Exhibition also in progress in Expo Center at Hassan Square which may cause traffic congestion. Shahrah e Faisal (the street where my office is) will remain congested from 16pm to 19pm. All advised to avoid or tread cautiously mentioned areas.UN:

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Hey everybody! Hope you missed me as I missed you : )Today is my 19th day in Pakistan. In these days happened quite many things: I attended national conference as a facilitator, first time in my life I was going so long on the bus (a trip from Lahore to Karachi - 21 hour), exploring new dishes and drinks, finally started my job which is quite good in the beginning and going to be even better in

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Some time has already past since I wrote my last entry. It has a logic reason behind that: since my first day of arrival, I was traveling quite a lot and I was busy with some AIESEC related stuff, plus I was going into Pakistan culture.So in this entry I’m going to tell you little bit about my first week in Pakistan where National AIESEC Pakistan conference included is. I guess it would be

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Finally after sleepless night my father came to Vilnius to pick me to the airport and say goodbye as we not going to see each other for the rest of one year.All funny things started at 4:00 am on 26th of October. As you might know at this time we have to turn one hour back. Confusion started before actually leaving my place. At the end everything came out that I had more time then I needed to be

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Yeah, right! Yesterday was my bye bye party number 3. First one was introduced in my previous post. Next day I had a small party in sauna with my relatives. And finally yesterday I came back to my home town where I met my old friends whith whom I grow up. They taught me how to smoke, drink, party till the early morning and lots of other things which I don't regret.As usually we met in our most

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People usually think that parties and being in the center of attention is something natural for me. Today you going to find out about me something new!The days are running out and the date of my departure coming closer and closer. In whole AIESEC career I attended many "Goodbye parties" and "Welcome parties". This time it was all about me and I had big dilemma should I organize something similar

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Wavetec is the name of the company where I'm going to work for one year.I was told that we are going to be 3 interns from AIESEC who will work for this company. One guy already started his internship. His name is Tobias and he is from Argentina. So I couldn't miss such an opportunity not to write him an e-mail. From the reply I received, I understood that my choice was right and I shouldn't be

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Well well well... Who could ever believe that the guy like me will decide to go for one year in Pakistan?! It is simply not my style. But I was simply impressed by the job descriptions which AIESEC Pakistan offers for AIESEC network. Culture? Yes - Pakistan culture should be fascinating. As I'm going to live and work for one year in abroad, so why not to combine two most import things: a great

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...finally after long 3 years (if not more) I have holidays. Most of the people imagine holidays little bit different than I do. Usually people are going somethere out of country, home, city or whatever. I think I'm too lazy for such things. I was never good in organizing trip, excursion or something similar to that.Today is the 10th day of my free time. I'm done with my job in a company, I

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Kids, whenever you are writing a new post in your blog, try to avoid few crucial things:- Do not type in total darkness;- Don't hurry;- All the time when you start a new paragraph, save text.Ensure these three key processes and you will avoid mistakes which I experienced 2 minutes ago.F@#$k - I'm so pissed. It took so much efforts from me to make everything nice and smoothly...I need to calm

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