Drugs ads

Oh my God! What's with the drugs commercials on TV? I mean they got the solution for everything. And the language they use is really trying to get to your psyche too. "Do you suffer from shortness of breath after jogging?", "Do you get headaches at work?", "Do you suffer from heartburn, asthma or cough?", "Do you have ulcerative colitis, sklerose or prostate problems?" The list of would-be symptoms goes on and on. Soon they gonna hit you with things like: "Do you go to bed in the evening and get up in the morning? If your answer is YES, we got this fabulous pill for you." But for what are these pills exactly? Are they suppose to cure you or just numb the sore parts. And what happened to old-fashioned ways of dealing with headaches? Isn't it enough to anymore to take a break, go for a walk or open the window. Are drugs and medicine commercials so blinding that we forget what they're really for? How come we don't realize that it's all chemicals which in fact leave a permanent mark in our system. You know, soon they will probably have the children's songs lyrics changed as well- "If you're happy and you know it... take a pill... If you're happy and you know it take a pill, If you happy and you know it and you really want to show it if you're happy and you know it take a pill." Oh, you're sad? Well then... If you're sad and you know it take a... Prescription xanax, valium, alprazolam, phentermine are some of the most googled terms on line nowadays. The drug business is booming or it has already boomed. I'm just wandering when it's going to peak. I guess with all the junk succesively flooding Europe and Asia, I mean foodwise, our health problems, depressions, obesities, you name them, are going to hit us hard pretty soon. If only as much money and energy was put into prevention programs as it is for ad campaigns, the world would truly be a better place.

A day at tennis courts

What started out to be a mundane outing with my camera, transformed into a papparazi kind of thing. Being a fan of tennis as I've always been, I decided to devote a shred of my attention to this annual tournament that I've so successflly evaded up until now. I don't know why I've been doing that so don't ask me. I guess I was always kindda reluctunt to watch obscure players from the end of ATP rankings giving mediocre performances. However, I figured a day at the courts will do me good and indeed it did. When I saw Koellerer in action I thought not only is he a good player but also a great entertainer. After all that's really all we're looking for in our old miserable, sad lifes- a bit of fun. Not only did I decide to take pictures but I also remebered my camera has a movie mode of which I'd taken a full advantage. It's actually quite remarkable what happened at the courts during one particular match. Poor umpire must have had serious doubts about his career choice. I know I've never seen anything like this and I'm sure the fan tennis scene will have a lot of fun with this. Apparently PEKAO OPEN deemed my endeavors worth while since they published some of it on their official site: http://www.pekaoopen.pl/2007/. Didn't ask my permission though... bastards! Aa what the hell, if it's public it's public. As Ray Cokes ones said: "I am the man of the people and for the people" or something like that. Anyway, take a look. Cheers!

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Hats off to Mia Rose

What a name, what a girl, what a talent. I was fooling around YouTube and suddenly I stumbled into this. Now my knowledge about music is pretty dense but the genius here is easily seen. I love amateur singers and cover songs, although I myself cannot sing. I heard a lot of bad talents and poor imitations but this is absolutely outstanding. After hearing her version of "unwritten" I was literally looking for my jaw somewhere in between my feet but could not really find it. I wish I could sing like that. Anyways, see for yourselves.

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Broadband internet - exterminator or matchmaker ?

It is difficult to imagine a life without a broadband internet. It has become a commodity within everybody’s grasp. Even a florist can expand his business by providing internet service of free shipping to his customers. Each time when I close my eyes, I get vivid images and ideas that flash my mind with business ideas connected with the web. It has become unheard of not to incorporate one’s internet adress or email onto a business card. You can shop, get loans and whatnot with just a single click. And it is all affordable. If you are a bartender you may polish up on your drink-making skills, if you’re an animal lover you can make a donation to your favorite animals rights organization, if you’re a locksmith you may advertise or sell your products and services and if you are a gambler you may loose it all.

A comfy chaise longue, big screen LCD HDTV, cordless keyboard and mouse and you got your information/TV/movie center. Boy, must the elderly be perplexed by all this. Not only you do not have to run your errands but you can also complete a higienist course and with honors.

Don’t you wander where all this is going. Where we the mankind are going to end up. Nowhere sad I hope. We probably won’t live to see this and maybe that’s ok. According to Jehova’s Witnesses we should all be smelling the flowers from underneath thanks to the alleged armageddon that never came. Can you imagine what would’ve happened if they had gotten hold of mass mailers or spaming bots. Wow, that’d be a scary scenario.

Who knows what our futures hold.

Life or Something Like It Part 2

However, it is very unlikely for the parents to pay more attention to their young ones due to the crazy pace we adults live in. So all the technological spoils of the today’s modern world come extremely handy. “ Mommy, mommy… what is viagra ? ” – the always curious child tries to find out. But instead of the answer it is send to look it up on the internet or to the ever busy daddy. Internet, TV- very convenient, very popular but how destructive for a young, innocent mind. What happened to board games, card games or any other form of leisure that used to develop creative, logical thinking and unite the family together. Some would say this borderlines with gambling since I mentioned the card games, however it is not that easy. I have never been to the Golden Palace or the Riverbelle Casino but I’m pretty sure you need to be 18 to enter. Whereas with online gambling or internet gambling for that matter, it does not seem that difficult at all. It’s as easy as “borrowing” your daddy’s credit card or debit card and our favorite poker site or roulette welcomes us with a big grin.

Lawyers, dentists, truck drivers, you name’em, consolidating, acumulating all that money suddenly find themselves in banckrupcy all because their 16-year-old went on an offshore gambling spree. That of course is an extremely grim scenario and you might say it does not concern you. How wrong you are. It is the very negligence that might eventually lead to a substantial shrinkage of your wealth. Before you know it affordable becomes unaffordable and you have to forget about the cruises down the river nile or seine. Your child is very capable of ruining you both financially and mentally. Your insurance goes away, you get an allergy, no money for the doctor, you start popping pills, you get headaches, cancer, you die, they put you and you spouse in caskets, you go to the ground that’s it.

And it all started from the harmless, go-ask-your-daddy type of thing. Attention! It should be in our interest to provide it. That’s what the children of today need the most. Not another gadget you ordered that comes with free shipping. However amusing it might at first seem, it may eventually lead to prescription medicine that I mentioned ealier.

Life or Something Like it Part 1

I’ll start off by saying that I’ve never actually written a blog or a journal before. Strange as it may seem in the electronic era, it seems the written word has gained a new meaning. Some purchase cheap books, some write cheap books others write them and yet others read them. I myself find no use in books. Even discount price is not motivating enough, but then it never really was. Books are becoming more and more obscure like the words of Heidegger or Foucault. The only understandable babble is the language of chat rooms, internet communicators and emoticons backed up by countless ackronyms. I mean: FYI
AFAIR TNSTAAFL BG TTYL EOD. Believe it or not, that is a sentence and a meaningful one too.

Now I might be dense when it comes to books, but I wasn’t born in the barn if you know what I mean. You cannot communicate like that! That’s a sheer blasphemy of the language, in this case an English language but I’m sure many other as well.

Because of all of that suddenly we got terms like dyslexia and dyslexic and what not. Every second child seems to have a medical expert’s opinion on not being able to write properly or speak properly or behave accordingly. What a loads of bull. I say first of all parents should make their children unplug their cybernetic brains and step out of the digital world. There’s too much of it. Soon they won’t be able to write without a keyboard.