Lieliska pavasara diena!

Ir banāni augstu mums gaisā, nav viegli dabūt tos lejā.
Dod banānu, dod banānu!




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Man ir elektriskā giča. Yamaha RGX421D.
Un man vasarā būs darbs. Viss jūnijs alkohola nodaļā. He!

Tonight we – me, Jānis and Sniedze – spent about three to four hours trying to provide the resolution “The work of Latvia’s people abroad stimulates/does not stimulate the economy of Latvia”. A recent theme, of course. Much debated in the mass media as well. Still, as we tried to figure out the arguments, we found out, that, thinking in the long term, looking really deeply in the consequences, the emigration must give a great deal of economical benefits for Latvia. Economical.

The average wages are expected to rise; an improvement in the technologies must be made to keep up with the new circumstances of the market. Thus, the whole economy is expected to become more advanced, more competitive. And that means more money for us all. And all those people are bringing about twenty million lats a month back to Latvia.

And, when we started to figure out some arguments for the negative case of the resolution, we discovered the real difficulties, since at the beginning there were almost no arguments against this, arguments that would provide evidence for “does not stimulate” part, because – think about this – the only way of not stimulating the economy of Latvia is by working abroad with NO link to Latvia. How many could such people be? I think, not too many. And, if we look really deeply, a stimulus can also be negative. In this way of thinking we can come to the conclusion that all people that have any link with Latvia, must stimulate its economy in some way. I wonder what the author of the resolution though about when deciding about it. To my mind, there is no use of crying about torrents of people rushing out of this nice country. No need to get emotional, this can be the impulse to finally change our business environment and the average wages. And regarding some of those people who leave – we do not really need them here if they can do only mushroom cutting or any unqualified work. I am sad about the smart minds that leave this country, but I hope they will come back after years, when the emigration will have made politicians and entrepreneurs to act in order to improve the economy of Latvia.

So – this has actually happened. After the unfortunate try to get to the Pirmā Plate #3 contest, getting the 16th place out of 19, when only 9 bands were selected for the finals, we now are really determined to play together.

Why? It means music, our own music, fun, relaxation as well as the best way, to my mind, to improve our musical skills. What I like and appreciate the best is the nice environment among us, free thought, a great deal of laugh, but over them all stands the music we make. I really like it. Yes, we need a lot of improvement, actually, lots and lots of improvement, in the way we play, yet I like the tendencies in the style our music resembles. Although right now the definite style is just starting to emerge from our fantasy and musical imagination, and composing abilities. I think that when we get better at playing it will be something in between rock, ska and rock’n’roll. Anyhow, I can not tell that accurately now.

So, right now I am trying to find a used electric guitar, so we could start serious repetitions. Since the acoustic guitar is almost completely useless in the recording studio, and the way we would like to sound needs the electric guitar. Yesterday my ex-classmate visited us in one of the repetitions, and with her agreement now we have a drummer. It will be a good practice for her as well, no matter she has been playing only for a month.

Yes. We have formed a band. Unfortunately, it does not have a name yet, since we decided that the name we used to name our band in the contest of Pirmā Plate is not quite appropriate. But that will come later, when we get to know what we have really made up.

The next step is to start proper repetitions, improving the songs we already have. Then we would be able to bake our first real record. The first bit of the fame, eh?

Šodien ir Pirmā Plate #3. Neesmu tur, un trakākais, ka negribu ar'. Tīri pašsajūtas dēļ. Nav spēka.
Protams, rītdien autoskolas braukšanas eksim ar' jāsavācas. Šodien nobraucu tik švaki kā sen nebiju braucis. Nolāpīts. Un vispār tieši tamdēļ izlēmu šodien sēdēt mājā.
Un tagad - kaut ko iekost, tad vannā un gulēt.
Mīļotā būs drīz ārā, tad jau viss atkal būs labi.

Aizmirsu pasteidzināt pulksteni = šodien atrados mājās, kad vispār man vajadzēja būt pie Uzvaras pieminekļa.

Vakar abi nokārtojām skolas teoriju. Lieliski. Tagad sestdien skolas braukšanas eksis.

Ārā ir neprātīgi skaists pavasaris, un rīt mans ritenis nesīs mani pa ielām.

Super.

Vakardiena bija reti laba. Vārda diena nosvīnēta, manuprāt, godam.

Bet vispār mani pēdējā priecē sajūta, ka viss tik labi sakārtojas un veicas. Brīnumaini, pat tik brīnumaini, ka lāgā nespēju tam noticēt.

Alles stimmt. Un dodos rakstīt savu pirmo garadarbu vāciski.

Mīlēt un justies mīlētam. Ideāli. Atkal ideāli.

...you have been accepted for the United States Student Achiever's Programme.

Tas nozīmē, ka tuvākā pusotra gada laikā mani apmācīs un darīs visu, lai es tiktu kādā ASV universitātē. Viss iekļauts cenā.
Konkurss - no visas Latvijas izvēlēti ir tikai 6 cilvēki.
Ai, man prieks.

P.s. Es tomēr esmu nolēmis pasākuma atskaiti atstāt Jāņa ziņā.

Atzīmēju, ka šodien atklāju sezonu vellim.
Piebilstu, ka jūtos ļoti labi, jo sāku atpūsties un ārā ir pavasaris ar sauli un smaržu.
Palielos, ka rīt lieku LIELO anglenes testu un runāju intervijā.
Lepojos, ka pabeidzu Black Ceasar's tulkojumu un man tas patika.
Priecājos, ka skan polārie pērtiķi.
Ceru, ka rītdiena pienāks ātri, tātad laiks ar manu mīļoto arī.
Parādu, ka man ir mazliet īsāka frizūra.
Paziņoju, ka mana dzīve ir skaista un tik vērta, lai to izdzīvotu vairākkārt.

Šodien lielā diena. Lai ir vēls, viss nāks vēlāk.

Man ir bijis lielisks pilngadības dzimenes pasākums. O, jā.
Un tās dāvanas, tās dāvanas - labākas nevar vēlēties.

Paldies visiemvisiem. Bet visvairāk - manai mīļotajai.

Kaut nu tā turpinātos.

This one goes for my stand on the recent matters with the caricatures in the Danish newspaper. As far as I know, the European Council has agreed not to apologize about them, but has only expressed regret for the disorder they have caused. In my opinion, their idea is right, since we should not apologize for something that we can not be blamed for.

First of all, the Western World, the society of Western Europe and North America, highly appreciates freedom of thought, freedom of expression. In our culture the censorship is abolished, and there are very few limits to state openly someone's ideas, opinions and beliefs. We can make comments on politicians, officials, presidents, kings and queens. We can draw caricatures or comics about them. No one is so absolutely high-ranked that we would be afraid of saying something bad about him or her. Therefore I think the islamic world has to accept this, as well as we would accept their traditions when living in their country.

Secondly, this is a secular society. There are thousands of comics about God, Jesus and other religious characters of christianity. And, although they sometimes may seem offensive , the most of religious people do not tip their hat to them. I mean, if someone truly believes in something, they do not take nonsense like this seriously. To my mind, this could be some kind of intended trouble-making, since there are many groups of fighters that are very aggressive towards the West.

And finally, there is certain proof about this statement. According to what I read in "Diena", the caricatures were first printed in September. September 2005, much time has definitely passed since then! AND, those two most offensive pictures printed in the booklet, that created the scandal, had been added only then. They had never been printed in the newspaper. It seems to me some kind of provocation, to increase pressure and tension between the West and the East.

Of course, we should be careful not to hurt other people's feelings. Still, this case looks like a deliberate act of provoking hate, thus no apology is needed. In contrary, I think the politicians should keep this accident in mind as a method of causing trouble in the world.

Tas bija lieliski.

I just can't stand the state I am in. There is total unwillingness to do anything that is concerned school. Anything. No a snigle task seems interesting or worth to make. This is very unusual for me, since I almost always have done what I have to do without complainig. Senti's essays, for example. Those were loads of work, I could spend whole day writing them, and doing my other homework. And I did not feel that this would cause me any inconvenience. I mean, what you have to do, you have to do, this belief has followed me since my childhood.

But now it is like this. Whenever I have to do something, I hesitate. I do not want to. I have even started to dislike going to school, which is also uncommon concerning me. Really, the best way to spend the day now would be just being lazy and doing nothing at all, without even thinking about duties, homework, without keeping the timetable of the day in my mind.

And the worst part of this is the fact that I do not know why this has happened to me. Maybe it is because the winter goes to the end, and I am physiologically tired of it, but the spring that could bring some energy has not come yet. Or, it is because of the driving school, which I must attend each Saturday and Sunday at 9 o'clock, thus depriving me from the usual sleep in the weekends. Or maybe I am just tired?

I hope this ends soon. The spring is coming, after all.

Es esmu enerģijas pārpilns, kaut arī neesmu gulējis tik, cik vajadzētu. Gribu apskaut mīļoto, gribu spēlēt, līdz pirkti sāp, gribu ēst dzīvi pilnu muti.

La vie est belle!