Korean recipes:
http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/egg-side-dishes
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Grandmas Pernik
There is one thing between Heaven and Earth which is better than grandmas Pernik filled with blueberry jam, the grandmas Pernik filled with blueberry jam and chocolate on the top.
I was asked what do I miss from Czech Republic, my answer was of course grandmas Pernik. The visitors from CR were so kind to make a Pernik for me and it was tending to grandmas Pernik (of course grandmas Pernik can not be reached).
Pernik with mug method
Ingredients:
2 mug wheat flour
1 mug rye flour
1 mug sugar
2 spoon of cacao
1/2 mug of nuts or oat flakes
1 small spoon of spices
3 spoon of baking soda or yeast
1/2 mug oil
2 eggs
Process:
1. Mix together all the ingredients
2. Bake it on 180c
3. Enjoy with blueberry jam
I was asked what do I miss from Czech Republic, my answer was of course grandmas Pernik. The visitors from CR were so kind to make a Pernik for me and it was tending to grandmas Pernik (of course grandmas Pernik can not be reached).
Pernik with mug method
Ingredients:
2 mug wheat flour
1 mug rye flour
1 mug sugar
2 spoon of cacao
1/2 mug of nuts or oat flakes
1 small spoon of spices
3 spoon of baking soda or yeast
1/2 mug oil
2 eggs
Process:
1. Mix together all the ingredients
2. Bake it on 180c
3. Enjoy with blueberry jam
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Way of learning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Gattegno
"Caleb Gattegno’s pedagogical approach is characterised by several radical propositions based on the minute observation of human learning in many and varied situations. This is a brief description of three of these propositions.
First, Gattegno noticed that there is an “energy budget” for learning. Human beings have a highly developed sense of the economics of their own energy and are very sensitive to the cost involved in using it. It is therefore reasonable to seek ways of learning which are “cheap” in terms of the amount of energy spent. He proposed a unit of effort in learning elementary maths, which he called the ogden. This is similar to the modern notion of computational complexity.
Second, Gattegno considers that only awareness is educable in human beings and therefore proposes pedagogical procedures based on awareness.
Third, he suggests that for pedagogical actions to be effective, teaching should be subordinated to learning."
"Caleb Gattegno’s pedagogical approach is characterised by several radical propositions based on the minute observation of human learning in many and varied situations. This is a brief description of three of these propositions.
First, Gattegno noticed that there is an “energy budget” for learning. Human beings have a highly developed sense of the economics of their own energy and are very sensitive to the cost involved in using it. It is therefore reasonable to seek ways of learning which are “cheap” in terms of the amount of energy spent. He proposed a unit of effort in learning elementary maths, which he called the ogden. This is similar to the modern notion of computational complexity.
Second, Gattegno considers that only awareness is educable in human beings and therefore proposes pedagogical procedures based on awareness.
Third, he suggests that for pedagogical actions to be effective, teaching should be subordinated to learning."
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Real Batman
I always wondered why is batman and superman wearing his underwear on top, but this one does not! He is the real one!
Friday, October 9, 2009
Memento mori
The autumn has come,the leafs are getting rusty, time to think about mortality. Once I was told that there were monks who greeted each other 'Memento mori' ( Remember that you will die ), so I was searching to verify this information on the net.
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/isaacfitz/europe-2007/1190533980/memento-mori.jpg/tpod.html
(Looks like the guy on the left was killed by Zorro. ;-) )
http://www.riehlife.com/2006/11/12/memento-mori/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
What about "Memento mori et memento amor" ( Remember death and remember love) ? What does it mean? Love without grasping? That there is new beginning? Time to meditate and experience...
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/isaacfitz/europe-2007/1190533980/memento-mori.jpg/tpod.html
(Looks like the guy on the left was killed by Zorro. ;-) )
http://www.riehlife.com/2006/11/12/memento-mori/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
What about "Memento mori et memento amor" ( Remember death and remember love) ? What does it mean? Love without grasping? That there is new beginning? Time to meditate and experience...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Who let the wolfs out? (Trekking in Seitseminen NP)
1st day:
The wild animal inside of me feels free again, like fish thrown back to the water. With wild I don't mean something without control or bestial, I mean something natural, something what is deep inside, something original. To get back for a while where part of me belongs, to the forest, to the lake, to the vast space and to the night sky filled with stars.
We have been walking for 20km in an amazing pine forest, crossing some streams and walk beside some lakes. The sun was shining and the sky was blue. The guys who I was with are pretty cool, one of them is an environment and trekking specialist (http://www.hikinginfinland.blogspot.com/) and the other one is vipassana meditation practitioner. Later a suomelainen mushroom and trek and cooking expert joined our team. We stayed in a small wooden house, but I slept outside, it was too warm inside.
2nd day:
The dawn at the lake was breathtaking, how the sun came from the mist...
We stopped at the Seitseminen Visitors Centre and I saw amazing pictures from Hannu Ahonen book called Marjatta (http://hannuahonen.com/). That night we stayed in a laavu. We were sitting around the fire, "just like the sex in the city girls" ;-). We also picked lots of different kind of mushrooms, like black trumpets and suppis.
They were really tasty in the cheese soup. I learnt about the Finnish mushroom snobism, big ones are just for export, the small ones are tasty and that the refugees from Karelia thought Finns to pick mushrooms.
3rd day:
We finished our 61+-1km trek and got back to Tampere and later I continued to Oulu. Back to the city where the domesticated part of me can check the internet, write this blog and take shower and sleep in a bed. I felt tired, but full of amazing experiences. Big up and respect for organizing and for participating to guys who I joined!
The wild animal inside of me feels free again, like fish thrown back to the water. With wild I don't mean something without control or bestial, I mean something natural, something what is deep inside, something original. To get back for a while where part of me belongs, to the forest, to the lake, to the vast space and to the night sky filled with stars.
We have been walking for 20km in an amazing pine forest, crossing some streams and walk beside some lakes. The sun was shining and the sky was blue. The guys who I was with are pretty cool, one of them is an environment and trekking specialist (http://www.hikinginfinland.blogspot.com/) and the other one is vipassana meditation practitioner. Later a suomelainen mushroom and trek and cooking expert joined our team. We stayed in a small wooden house, but I slept outside, it was too warm inside.
2nd day:
The dawn at the lake was breathtaking, how the sun came from the mist...
We stopped at the Seitseminen Visitors Centre and I saw amazing pictures from Hannu Ahonen book called Marjatta (http://hannuahonen.com/). That night we stayed in a laavu. We were sitting around the fire, "just like the sex in the city girls" ;-). We also picked lots of different kind of mushrooms, like black trumpets and suppis.
They were really tasty in the cheese soup. I learnt about the Finnish mushroom snobism, big ones are just for export, the small ones are tasty and that the refugees from Karelia thought Finns to pick mushrooms.
3rd day:
We finished our 61+-1km trek and got back to Tampere and later I continued to Oulu. Back to the city where the domesticated part of me can check the internet, write this blog and take shower and sleep in a bed. I felt tired, but full of amazing experiences. Big up and respect for organizing and for participating to guys who I joined!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Orthodox icon
"Icon-painting in Old Russia was a sacred profession."
"Tempera painting required expertise and high capacity for drawing, that could be achieved during the long years of apprenticeship. Icon-painting was a great creative work and icon-painters were specially prepared for performing "the deed of icon creating".
It was an act of communication with God and required spiritual and physical purification "… when writing a holy icon he touched the food only on Saturdays and Sundays, being restless day and night. He spent nights in wakefulness, praying and obeisance. At daytime he devoted himself to icon-painting with humility, non-possessiveness, purity, patience, fast, love, and God-thinking.""
http://www.orthodoxworld.ru/en/icona/5/index.htm
"Tempera painting required expertise and high capacity for drawing, that could be achieved during the long years of apprenticeship. Icon-painting was a great creative work and icon-painters were specially prepared for performing "the deed of icon creating".
It was an act of communication with God and required spiritual and physical purification "… when writing a holy icon he touched the food only on Saturdays and Sundays, being restless day and night. He spent nights in wakefulness, praying and obeisance. At daytime he devoted himself to icon-painting with humility, non-possessiveness, purity, patience, fast, love, and God-thinking.""
http://www.orthodoxworld.ru/en/icona/5/index.htm
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Some music with nice texts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-ezEtJ_-s
Nina Simone-I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holding me
I wish I could say
All the things that I should say
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole round world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars
That keep us apart
I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you'd see and agree
That every man should be free
http://www.chordmelody.co.uk/files/wishiknew.html
http://www.theguitarguy.com/iwishik2.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEyMdtMLjfI
The Cult - Rise (Acoustic)
Its the way that you feel
Its the truth in your eye
You got wings upon your back and you can fly
We are not chained to the wheel
Friday, May 15, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time to play some guitar
Antoine Dufour
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BC16A196F01434FE
Tommy Emmanuel - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZNJf-h7F8s&feature=related
Eric Roche - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zxZcUrfX0o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BC16A196F01434FE
Tommy Emmanuel - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZNJf-h7F8s&feature=related
Eric Roche - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zxZcUrfX0o&feature=related
Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Oh heart, calm down...
This is music version of a Hungarian poet Attila Jozsef's poem "Oh, szív nyugodj" (Oh, heart calm down).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7j_P50wg4&feature=related
I haven't found any English translation, but it is about wandering on snowy landscape, and about the illusion of love...
I wonder why we haven't learnt this in school...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7j_P50wg4&feature=related
I haven't found any English translation, but it is about wandering on snowy landscape, and about the illusion of love...
I wonder why we haven't learnt this in school...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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