White Christmas!

December 26th, 2008 by svetla

We’re celebrating Christmas in Portland this year. It is a white fairy tale outside (when it’s not raining) and it is nice to spend time with the family. Everything would have been perfect if we were both not sick - Petar even lost his voice yesterday and he is only whispering today. He says he feels very helpless!

Merry Christmas and be healthy everyone!

sigh of relief

December 4th, 2008 by svetla

Good news is, we won’t come knocking on YOUR door for a piece of bread for us and a cup of milk for Princess … for now :)

Adobe laid off 8% of its workforce yesterday and thankfully Petar was not on the ’sniper’ list. We can only hope that this was it for the near future …

Recession is phew!

home

November 28th, 2008 by svetla

KL was very interesting but i wanna go home …

First quick impressions of KL

November 23rd, 2008 by svetla

1. Kuala Lumpur’s airport is waaaay nicer than Taipei’s airport
2. Despite the expected storms, the weather is hot and humid but bearable so far
3. The hotel is not great but the people seem very nice
4. White people are definitely minority here
5. KL’s downtown is a construction zone - obviously the economy is doing better here
6. KL’s downtown is a skyscraper jungle
7. Malaysia is doing better than Bulgaria
8. They just banned yoga because it’s spoiling the faith, and are thinking of prohibiting women to wear pants / men’s clothing because it provokes lesbianism
9. 90% of the people in the pool are with clothes
10. We’re still getting used to seeing Asian looking women wearing head scarves.

reality check

November 19th, 2008 by svetla

Looking at the forecast for the next week in Kuala Lumpur:

High: 31°C
RealFeel®: 46°C
Humidity: 94%
Considerable cloudiness with rain, wind and a thunderstorm or two

Next time we decide to go to the end (or the center) of the world, we better check the weather pattern before we book the trip … or someone please put some sense into our minds before it is too late :-)
Gotta start packing tonight … we’re leaving tomorrow night and with or without rain, doing nothing sounds GREAT! :)

When the publishers start cutting costs …

November 15th, 2008 by petar

… then we really know we are facing serious problems. This week it seems like Business Week arrived in an edition that included only the title page.

business_week-title

Ok, perhaps I am exaggerating, but this came in a bad moment - I was so looking forward to go over the latest Business Week issue on Sunday morning !

Obamarama

November 12th, 2008 by svetla

http://change.gov/

If Obama’s presidency is half as good as his marketing campaign, he /they might even be able to sort out the economic mess.

when your husband is …

November 11th, 2008 by svetla

… destroying the house, trying to mount the projector on the ceiling, you can only enjoy a margarita (or two) after you’ve improved your Wii score :-)

Boo!

October 31st, 2008 by princess

Give me a treat or better a mouse raw
or I’ll scratch you with my paw

Happy Halloween! (~~)

3 more weeks

September 18th, 2008 by svetla

In 3 weeks we’ll be in Bulgaria … far far away from work and never ending chores at home. I can’t wait and I’m counting the days! we need to take some pictures of the new house and post them but we’ve become so lazy recently … it’s not even funny :-)