In the Notes

As my sister has just returned to Russia from Cyprus and has been so glad to spend there two months, I have few pictures made by her on the island that I'd like to show you:

"Unforgettable travel, enormous life experience, gold beaches, the bright sun, the sea of colour of turquoise, the star sky, the richest cultural heritage.... And 55 days of happiness. It is paradise on the earth... It is Northern Cyprus..."

What Irina was saying is that this place is a real paradise. Well, I've never been there, so I can't tell, but I prefer to believe my sister :) Would you like to visit Cyprus?..
*(c)IrinaSukhanova/Vkontakte.ru

Margi...Beauty on the verge of extinction

My dad sent me a link to a very nice article about amazing creatures called Margai or Margi (not really sure about its name translation, in russian it's Марги, Маргай*):

Margi - is a kind from cat's family, living in Latin America. The length of its body is about 60cm, not including a 40-centimetric tail. The weight fluctuates from 4 to 8 kg. In general the cat looks as a smaller copy of related to it ocelote. It has a yellowy-brown wool with dark ring-alike stains. The big expressive eyes of Margi are perfectly in harmony with the colourful woollen 'dress' of this cat. Their long tail serves this animal as a balance weight at movement on branches, after all Margai spends a lot of time on trees. The weight of this charming animal varies approximately from 2 to 5 kg.

This cat conducts a semiwood way of life and is active basically at night. It perfectly swarms up trees and can jump from a branch on a branch as a squirrel. Even from completely vertical trunk Margai goes down a head downwards. Life expectancy of the cat is about 18th years in general. Margi lives mainly in warm, dense woods; neither colds, nor light forests this temperamental, prompt animal loves. Time after time it gets on plantations of cocoa or coffee.

The creature conducts a single way of life. Usually the food appears in small mammals also living on trees; birds, wood lizards, frogs and even insects; sometimes the cat finishes with small monkeys. In some areas of the South America people take Margais instead of a house cat.

Last years because of cutting down of tropical woods the livestock of Margais siderably reduced. Besides, poachers quite often kill him for the sake of beautiful, dense and soft fur.

Now these wonderful longtailed cats, as well as many other cat's familys with beautiful wool, are threatened with extinction.

*(c)elLfhouSE

Modegallerian.se

Today I ran on a swedish site of cloths called Modegallerian.se, but - as I don't really know swedish unfortunately - I don't know if this is some kind of a designer site or just an online store (what it actually is). Of course, without at least tolerable understanding of what is written there, I'm not going to buy anything on that site.
However, here are few looks that have attracted me:

What do you think?

*(c)Modegallerian.se

What's up?
Seems like I'm done with that translation for now. So happy!.. Of course there a lot of work yet to be done, but not for coming days fortunately.
So now I'm starting closer work on the tourism issue. This is an amazing difficult but really nice job to do. This is something totally new for me: I've never ever thought to get involved in anything related to tourism. Never actually felt that it is "mine". But for now it seems to be a good thing to do. Well, I will be able to travel and see lots of things I wanted to see and visit places I've never been to. Of course, not all at once..unfortunately. But there is always something to start from.
So right now I'm focused on creating the most exciting tours to Galapagos Islands. I've been there, but only once. ...And really since then wanted to go there again. This is an unusually different place from what I've seen before. It has so many interesting and curious things to show!. But what really shocked me was the fact of  "slow time running". I mean, this is what you hardly believe when you hear, but it is true. Obviously, when you take a tour full of diving, sailing (what you should do also for sure) you probably won't notice that fact. But if you take some time just to relax there - you'll definately understand what I mean.
I think we all deserve sometimes little vacations, and to be honest this is what I would love to do at the moment. But well really I can't do that: as I have a lot of work to do. I can't believe that it has been about a month as I returned from Russia, but I still didn't get a chance to see any of my friends!! This is something crazy.. But at another point it should be good - I actually think I should get in shape before I meet everyone. Unfortunately, kgs gained in Russia don't want to disappear so fast =( That is killing me of course.
Another trouble is a coming wedding of one of my familiars, that I would never ever wanted to attend. But can't decline the invitation! Though I have my own reasons to.
Well, hope that something appears suddently and cheers me up =) Goodnight

Elegantly yours,
Olya Nikol P.

Terrible Day

Hello guys,
So happened that today has been a really awful day. When I woke up I couldn't imagine it will be like this. The reason of my terrible mood is not a secret: an awful translation job I have to finish till coming monday. The book itself isn't that big, and the language is pretty easy. But the fact is that this book was originally written in spanish and then has been translated to english. Now my job is translate it to russian...
Well, what can I say? The person translated from spanish to english did a great job, my congratulations! But seems that his idea of english phrases is a bit different from what they really have to be... So sometimes I'm just stupidely reading again and again, and one another time to get what is what the writer really wanted to say with that. This is horrible!.. I'm tired: I've sitting here from 10am till 8pm. I feel like a smashed butterfly at the moment. Honestly, I hate the fact that I agreed to help with that translation. Today's saturday, and I would rather go somewhere out with my friends than staying here along with this book... Arghh

Elegantly yours,
Olya Nikol P.