Gaudeamus Igitur Juvenes Dum Sumus - I present to you a University Graduate!!! - DONE

Gaudeamus Igitur - Students' Anthem

Gaudeamus igitur,  Juvenes dum sumus; Post icundum iuventutem, Post molestam senectutem Nos habebit humus.	Let us therefore rejoice, While we are young; After our youth, After a troublesome old age The ground will hold us.
Vita nostra brevis est, Brevi finietur; Venit mors velociter, Rapit nos atrociter; Nemini parcetur.	Our life is brief, It will shortly end; Death comes quickly, Cruelly snatches us; No-one is spared.
Ubi sint qui ante nos In mundo fuere? Vadite ad superos, Transite in inferos Hos si vis videre.	Where are those who before us Existed in the world? You may go up to the gods, You may cross into the underworld If you wish to see them.
Vivat academia, Vivant professores, Vivat membrum quodlibet, Vivat membra quaelibet; Semper sint in flore!	Long live the university, Long live the teachers, Long live each male student, Long live each female student; May they always flourish!

     The day had come when I can cross out another thing from my list, and tell everyone I have graduated. Finished University! I am now part of that 6% of the people in my country with higher education. The elite some might say. Personally, I am not sure I would ever use that term.

     On Monday(26th) I had my last exam, and on Tuesday afternoon, I found out that I passed with a great grade. It was thrilling, since I was in the hospital getting ready for my surgery, which I will explain in the next post. Anyway, my last exam was Human Resorces, and I was pleased to say I had lots of luck, and I knew 90% of the questions that were on my exam. That is why I got the grade 9, and my average grade will be around 9.35.(I will get back to you on that)

     How do I feel now that I have finished with another part of my life? I must admit, it makes no difference to me. I still feel the same. Except now I need to see what next. I mean what is there after this? I have applied for a scholarship for a DAUS program here in Belgrade, and I will apply for a Master Course in London. And I will try to enroll on this interesting Master Course in Belgrade, but somehow, that is all just a plus, because, I have finished my 16 years of, in my mind, obligatory education(don't get me wrong, and I will explain why I find it obligatory for myself one day), and I might be tired of studying more... But if I do get a scholarship, I will see that as a sign, that I need to continue with my education!!!! But that won't happen until September/October, so there is time!

    Until then, I will just be happy I can enjoy the spare time I have and read, relax, and think about what next during this promising Summer of 2012!

Oh, I almost forgot!

8/100!!!

One Month as a Vegan - DONE

     It has been done, and it felt great!

     I haven't eaten anything that comes from an animal for a month, and I must admit that though it was hard at times, I was pretty happy about the outcome. I don't look any different, but I feel cleaner. Like I was on a cleanse!

     The second week was the hardest, but after that I think I could have gone on for ages! I almost forgot the taste of meat! I remember it now, and even though it is not really nice to say it considering I was a vegan for a short while, it is divine...

     I really have no idea what else to say about this, except that i suggest everyone to try it, because it will open your eyes, and you will see that there are other choices rather than always eating meat. I guarantee I will make wiser choices when what I eat is concerned, and I am really proud of myself! :-)

    Cheers!!!

Watch an orchestral performance in Vienna - DONE!!!

     Vienna is beautiful, and I will extensively write about how beautiful it is in my next few posts. But the most amazing thing about Vienna is something I will try to explain now. You can never actually explain the feeling, because it is one of those things you have to live (like most of the things from my list), but I believe my writing skills are good enough to serve the feeling justice.

     I will start of by telling you that Vienna has an amazing cultural heritage, and that everything we see as culture has some roots in Vienna. Music, Theatre, Arts, Food... You name it, you will find it there. And you will love it! I was impressed and frankly, a bit ashamed by the fact I didn't know that there is so much to see there. And not just see, but feel and acknowledge. It will all be explained more in my next post, but it is important for me that all of you who read this understand that Vienna has a wealthy heritage in all aspects of culture that is defined by arts. The Habsburg Monarchy and most of it's members were all artist. They sang, played, painted, spoke many languages! They did a lot for the upbringing of culture in Vienna and I am very grateful! Why am I grateful! because if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be able to attend a concert were amazing music was performed. 

    Frankly, I know it wasn't a really full experience, because it wasn't as good as it can be, it was just made for tourists to get a part of Vienna's soul for a low price, and I am not sure I will ever be able to afford attending something that has the highest value in terms of quality and experience but this was satisfactory, I enjoyed, had fun, and I can check another thing off my list!

     

     The concert took place at the Wiener Börsensale, at 8.30PM, Saturday, November 5th. The orchestra wasn't big. I think a flute, 4 violins, a cello, a contrabass and a piano. The solo performers were Rita Scheider, mezzo-soprano, and she was amazing!!! I don't remember the names of others, but there was a baritone and two ballet dancers.  cute tiny blond, and a guy with a pretty nice behind :P (I could see it because I was in the first row ^^)

    I would tell you the names of everything they played and sang, but i don't know the names... I was a slacker at school when we learning those pieces. I do know that they played Mozzart and Strauss. And that out of everything they played, I heard most of them before. In cartoons mostly, but hey, I never said I listen to classics in my free time...

     We had a break for the performers to rest, and we had champagne. It wasn't very good, but it made the experience much better.

     I enjoyed the music, I had a smile on my face all the time and never, for a second I though this was boring, I will fall asleep, I shouldn't have come. I was thinking about how good they sound, and that it is a pity I never played an instrument... And that my kids must play something. maybe the piano, because the sound of piano is the best. Then I thought about how amazing it was that people invented instruments, and that all that amazing sound came from wires and ... stuff. 

     When the ballet dancers came out, my heart was full. They were ok, but the fact that I have evertything at one place was amazing! Rita was sooo good! I was amazed! The voice that woman has! I rememeber that I wanted to sing opera when I was a kid.     

     They didn't let us take photos, but I took a few when I thought no one looked. So they are not very good, but you can see some of the atmosphere ^^ 

This is where the concert took place, I had a seat in the first row, on the right!

 The orchestra

The champagne ^^

My comrad-in-crime  

 Ballet dancers!

 Rita Scheider(in purple)

I also have a few videos, for you to hear the concert. It is a weird angle, and they are all very short, but I think you will like them :-)

5/100 <3 ^^

Red as Fire

     I know I haven't been very productive with blog posts lately, but life is busy! Classes have started and I took salsa lessons and also started taking German. Plus the time I have to spend working to pay for my trip to Vienna! YES! I am going! In exactly 15 days, and I am soooo excited! Not only one more thing from my list will be checked, because I will go to an orchestral performanse, but I will also have so much fun, see a beautiful city, practise a bit of my German (I know how to say my name, where I am from, how old I am and ... That would be it... For now!) and all in all be enriched with a brand new experience! But all of that will be more important in a few weeks. What is important now is the following:

I AM A REDHEAD!

     Yes, I did it. I couldn't wait any longer because now is the right time. The result is satisfactory, though I must say that I pretty much freaked out when I saw my roots are a very bright shade of red and the rest of my hair not that bright. When I dried it, it looked much better. It is not perfect but I believe that even though my hair has a few shades od red, not divided in a very good way, I still look great. It suits me and I don't regret it! I still can't stop laughing when I look at my roots, and the fact that my scul will be red for at least a week until the colour washes off, and I can use only one towel or my mum will kill me for ruining her others... But it is all funny and I don't care. It is just hair. I will keep this until I get bored with it. But I REALLY like myself in red! I think it faltters my skin colour. Some hair colours can make a person disappear under it, but that is not the case here.

     Yesterday I read that redheads draw a lot of attention and that if you feel uncomfortable by that red is not the colour for you. I am sitting at a restaurant typing this right now, and people aren't staring. I will see what will happen later on these days and I will get back to you on that. Personally I am a tall girl. People see me even if they don't want to. They rarely stare, and I am rarely annoyed by the looks. I guess when you live in a big city it is normal and doesn't bother you after a while. So red should be a good colour for me. I have a black towel, I don't care if people stare and I've wanted it for such a long time that now that it is finally on me... It feels normal. I am genuinely happy and I really think the colour suits me well!

This is me in the sunlight, so it looks much brighter...

What do you guys think?

Anyways, 4/100 WooHoo!!!! 

Sushi bar!

Feel the rain on your skin 

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in 

No one else, no one else 

Can speak the words on your lips 

Drench yourself in words unspoken 

Live your life with arms wide open 

Today is where your book begins 

The rest is still unwritten 

     This chorus of an amazing song that is an inspiration for me is one of the things that made me write my list. me wanting to see it all and feel it by myself. And I have started. yesterday I went to Ikki Sushi Bar and I ate sushi! Finally!!! I got the voucher a few days ago, yesterday I made a reservation for 7PM, and there I was! We couldn't choose what to eat, because the voucher said which meal we were having. But we didn't mind, because we had no idea what would we have anyways. So, here are some pictures, of me and Maja, before our plates arrived!

Maja - holding a napkin with chopsticks

    So, we were looking at the Menu, trying to decide what to have for drinking, and to see what else is there, and we were rather surprised to see that many things we actually could dare to try... And that we might come again some day :-) And then our plates arrived, and they looked like this:

     There you have 5 pieces of Nagiri, each with a different kind of fish: salmon, eel, tuna, seebass, and what they said was shrimp. I am not sure there was all of it there, but from what I could recognize there was definitely tuna, salmon, shrimp and seebass. But eel... Not so sure... maybe sole... It also contained Maki crabs with sesame! The green little thing is wasabi, aka Japanese horseradish, and I didn't dare try it. Maja did, and she said it very hot and strong, and she will never have it again!!! The other garnish is ... well kind of a salad I think, it is spicy, hot, sour and I had trouble swallowing it. I tried it then, and never again! Maki with crab and sesame is the best thing on that plate, and I really liked it! The sesame gives it an amazing flavour. To be honest, I wasn't all that overwhelmed with the food. It is nice, healthy, and I might go again if I get the chance, why not. The experience and the fact that I am checking another box on my list is what made it so exciting. And I did have a good time, because I was there with Maja, and she is just amazing!

    Here are some more pictures, so you can see what else we had, and that we did have fun! 

Japanese Jasmin tea - I drank the smell <3 

 Maki crab held by chopsticks!

 The Menu

Me trying to hold Maki crab with chopsticks

     Oh, and the chopsticks! It was so funny how we tried holding them, and things would come to my mouth and fall back in the plate! I suck at it. But by the time we ate everything, we kinda figured it out, so it wasn't that bad. 

Anyways, the conclusion would be: I HAD FUN AND WOOHOO! 2/100 ^^

Correction: 3/100 I used chopsticks! thank you anonymous follower from Formsprings for pointing that out :-)

Bowling!

     I have done it! The first thing I can cross off my List! 

     You know how in movies and cartoons (The Simpsons) they all make it look very easy and they just love playing it, and do it ALL the time... Well, DO NOT be fooled! It is sooo much fun, and it is not THAT hard, and I LOVED playing it! And I will go AGAIN in a few weeks! BUT!!! There are some things that I didn't expect when I bought the discount voucher for bowling in the Bowling First (they call it Zabac(Frog) now) in Zemun a few weeks ago!

1. Those balls are HEAVY! It says that the lightes one are 7 pounds... Which is 3.2kg, and that is A LOT! Most think nooo, it is not THAT heavy... Well, it is not, but just try throwing lets say... 2 bottles of water... on the ground... kinda gently, with concentration, without your hands shaking, and make them go the way you want them to... NOT easy... And those are just those of 7 pounds! There are those that are much heavier... 8 is ok, but 9!!! Gosh, my hand was killing me!
2. If you have nails, DON'T go bowling! My right hand thumb was left wounded :( I left home without a nice, long nail afterwards, and it hurt because of the way I was throwing the ball. (it was chopped, and next time I will just cut it, so it doesn't break)
3. If you are a sore loser, DON'T go bowling! I hate losing, but this was all about having fun, and since i really sucked until i figured out how to throw the effing ball, I had very little points. In the end I figured it was all about the way you throw it, and after I started doing this:

           it was much better!

     4.   Be prepared for sore muscles afterwards! I had it, my sister, my friends... It was painful, and so funny,

           because it didn't hurt while we were having all that fun, but two days later, I had trouble walking!

     If this warnings don't affect you, join me the next time I go, because even though I had sore muscles, I had one finger without a beautiful nail, and I had the worst result, I had SO much fun! Feel in love with the shoes, because they are uber cute! I can't wait to again, and I already bought a voucher! If you want to go, make sure you do it with people you always have fun with, and it will be awesome! 

     Also, a warrning! If there is two or three of you, one hour is quite enough! If there is five or six people, go for two hours. Never go in a group of  four, because one hour is not enough, and two hours is too much.(unless you can go for an hour and a half!)

     There we are! Had sooo much fun! Me, Maja and Suki. Nenad took the picture. 

After 8, they turn off the light, and everything in the Bowling Alley that is white starts shining like my awesome bowling sneakers!

My 100 ThingsToDo List!

   Many of you who know me have heard of this list I keep mentioning. The idea originally came about five years ago when I first saw the movie A Walk To Remember. A sad saaad story... :-(  But an inspiration as well! I forgot about the list and never thought of it until last year when I started thinking about all the things I wanted to do in my life. I wrote down many, many are a mental note, and many are still to be figured out. But I can proudly say that my list is something every person should make, and tend to fulfill every single entry that list has!

    I am aware that there are many things that aren't easy or probable, at least not from where I stand in my life right now, but I will work towards achieving all of them... By the time I am 30, or I start my own family... Whichever comes first... Also, some of the things on this list aren't entirely up to me and I can't really do much about it but hope they do fulfill... 

     This blog entry will be LONG and edited often because I will need to find all those notebooks and mental notes to form my list, and later on think of other things I want to do to fill the remaining entries to my List. One other thing I want to do is after I have done something from the List, I will make a blog entry about it and link it. Right now it might sound weird but after I have completed a  few dozen things, it will be clearer and very easy to navigate if you want to see how exactly did I fulfill one of those things!

I shall start my List now: *

*the things I put in this list aren't arranged in any particular order 

1. Drive a Red Convertible (preferably Toyota Solara) with a floral scarf on my head and huge white sunglasses
2. Have waist-long hair
3. Drive a trolley
4. Read 100 books in one year's time
5. Have a star named after me
6. Be slim
7. Travel through Europe by car
8. Swim with the dolphins
9. Live on my own
10. Organize a successful surprise party
11. Try those famous cookies they serve in Amsterdam (just one, because it won't hurt and I need to be irresponsible at some point!)
12. Have a beer at an authentic German pub
13. Watch Nut Cracker(or any other ballet play) at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
14. Have a jeep that is also a convertible... Like Rav4 convertible, but a younger version
15. Die my hair RED! DONE
16. Attend a Red Carpet event - DONEish
17. Write a book, and have it published by a good publishing company
18. Have an article written about me (a positive one, ofc)
19. Learn two, preferably three more languages (minimum intermediate level)
20. Learn how to do this
21. Buy myself a Burberry coat: this one... or maybe something like this one
22. Have a Golden Retriever
23. Have a wall full of books
24. Have a wine collection, but high quality wine :-)
25. Visit Japan 
26. Spend a week at Boro Boro enjoying myself
27. Go on a road trip through USA
28. Have a HUGE round bed
29. Wait for the New Year to come at a warm place, with a beautiful beach
30. Go bowling DONE
31. Have a completely white smile!
32. Shoot a gun
33. Learn how to make chocolate souffle
34. Write a recipe book with my favourite dishes  
35. Learn Morse code
36. Eat frog legs
37. Read 100 Classics
38. Go on a Transylvania/Count Dracula's Castle tour 
39. Go to a huge sports game
40. Stay up all night and see the sunrise DONE
41. Sleep under the stars
42. Take a trip in a hot air balloon
43. Kiss in the rain
44. Learn self-defense
45. Visit the Great Wall of China
46. Ride a gondola in Venice(if I ever go to Venice again, it will be specifically so i can fulfill this one!)
47. Be given flowers DONE
48. Eat shark meat DONE
49. Get a (small) tattoo
50. Go to Las Vegas
51. Ride a horse DONE
52. Eat sushi  DONE
53. Learn how to make poached eggs
54. Go to an audition to be in a movie, even if it is only a small part
55. Jump of a cliff (a small one) into a natural body of water in an exotic location
56. Go skinny dipping at midnight
57. Take a shower under a waterfall
58. Go to Rio during the Carnival (and be in it if possible)
59. Take singing lessons
60. Make three course dinner for at least 10 people
61. See the Northern Lights
62. Hug an oak tree
63. Go camping
64. Go to Zakynthos (again) and say thank you to Agia Mavra  DONE
65. Go to Prague (again) and eat deer goulash in that pretty little restaurant like I already did in 2010
66. Ride a mechanical bull
67. Throw a HUGE party and invite everyone of my friends (bigger than my 18th B-day party)
68. Run away for a weekend without telling ANYONE
69. Have a dozen of red roses delivered to my mum 
70. Send a message in a bottle
71. Plant a tree
72. Stay all night dancing and go to work without going home ( a little hard at this point, since my home is where I work, but I will live alone someday)
73. Make a complete and utter fool of myself
74. Learn to bar tend (flip and throw bottles without them breaking)
75. Learn how to make a three layer cocktail
76. Visit all continents (ok, 6/7 is acceptable too)
77. Get a scuba diving certificate
78. Cross over a border on foot DONE
79. Attend the Olympics
80. Go to Octoberfest
81. Watch an orchestral performance in Vienna DONE
82. Meet a president
83. Hold a tarantula and/or a snake (this one will be tough)
84. Hold a lamb
85. Milk a cow
86. Skydive ( I make NO promises, but if I ever get a chance, I will do my best to get rid of my fear of heights)
87. Ride in a helicopter
88. Learn how to use chopsticks DONE
89. Drink vodka with Russians
90. Finish University DONE
91. Learn how to REALLY dance
92. Fly a kite (again, cause I think I did it as a kid)
93. Be a vegan for a month DONE
94. Fly first class
95. Visit a castle in England
96. Visit a castle in France
97. Visit a castle in Germany
98. See Mona Lisa in Louvre
99. Go to KST costume party 
100. Get married and have children (the last one because it will remain open longest)

There it is... MY LIST...

I know some things might seem silly, and some may be really hard, since I have little time... Eight years tops... But even if those years pass, I won't give up. I want it all, and I want it now... 

Also, I have to add that I didn't put a lot of things in my list because those things have already been done, and I might write an entry about them these days, when I get the inspiration. 

Progress so far: 14/100