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You may want to click on the player button to enjoy the score while you read… (It’s Samsons and Delilah – Bacchanale, a classical piece by Saint-Saëns) For me April is a month of love, and I am not alone in believing this. According to ancient Romans, mensis Aprilis is under the protection of the love goddess Venus, the and the name of…
Being the first month of the year, January can’t be all that bad; after all the year is still young and promising no matter how strange the results of parliamentarian elections turned out to be, or how deranged the bosses in my company became trying to hold on to their jobs. This month has dealt me some crazy cards and after throwing madly the…
I was contacted today by an agency that is applying for translation jobs at the EU. In February this budding agency sent me a French translation exam that I passed with flying colours (wasn’t asked to take an English test) and today I was asked to supply them with additional documents about my professional experience as a translator and evidence of translation projects I…
We all like to use the word absolute, but there is nothing absolute in this world. There is no absolute truth and equally no absolute beauty. Nobody is absolutely right or wrong. Our eyesight may not be absolutely correct (well except for those with 20/20 vision), and even if we make it more reliable with eyeglasses and contact lenses it does not guarantee…
It’s time to share my ugly secret… The accident happened weeks ago. I am not sure how, but he stumbled and took a blow to his head. Still, he seemed fine and life went on as usual. There were no complaints and no signs of change. A couple of weeks later I woke up to a disturbing sight: two of his limbs shrivelled, and…
Thoughts flow in and out of my mind. Trying to stop them, freeze them in time. Must put them somewhere safe Where they’ll do no more harm.
I’ve just heard on the news that we are the oldest nation in Europe and that we will have to work till the age of 67 cause we will have no young work force to pay for our pensions :S They also told us that we were now paying high dues because in earlier decades our retirees used to retire in their 50s or even…
News are served to us every day. The number of the unemployed is going higher. The government boasts with new solutions consisting in selling all the resources this country still has. That is their solution to our problems. Filling their own pockets, leaving people without work, and giving the built and ready to use infrastructure to foreign concession companies for use. The whole thing…
The rain slowed down the city this morning. The traffic was dense and I was more than 15 minutes late. Elevator took ages to come. Out of three elevators in a fairly new business building only one was functioning, but being late I thought there would be no lines. A few minutes had passed and a lady came bringing a tray of steaming hot…
Common fig also known as just fig or scientifically Ficus Carica is a species of flowering plant belonging to the mulberry family of fruits along with mulberries, breadfruit, and osage orange. Now, what I wonder about is what makes the common fig so common? Is it the fact that it is the oldest cultivated fruit on Earth; (scientists have recently discovered that figs…
Lost in Translation 