back in cracow

Back from the country. Wasn’t that freezing after all :) But besides that it was as always – got a little depressed about the fact that my grandma lives all alone and reached the TV bottom since my grandma has only 1 channel – I watched “Bold and the beautiful”, Hannah Montana and a cartoon about talking tools… And now I continue to go down the bad TV path – I’m watching 4th episode of KYLE XY in a roll. Till T comes back I’ll keep on doing so. Weak me…

Oh, and I again had a totally weird dream. I came back from the country and my brand new DELL wasn’t on my desk! It was stolen! But in exchange for it the thief had left a very old 5 kilograms red MSI laptop plus all the drives, loudspeakres etc. Can you imagine that? Thief with conscience! Of course my first thought was “Please, wake up at grandma’s! Please!” And so I happily woke up:)

finally on winter break !!!

The term-end exams are taken (the whole six of them by the way) and now it’s time to rest! A weekend of kriotherapy is what comes next. But don’t get too jealous about that – it’s nothing like a posh spa procedure. I’m just visiting my grandma in the country :) She has one of those old houses that are impossible to heat to a temperature I feel comfortable in. So the one thing I always take from there is ugly cold and running nose. But cold is good in kriotherapy terms at least :) It supposedly helps with sleep problems, relieves symptoms of tiredness and depression, regenerates and revitalizes the body and such magical stuff :) It seems a slightly severe way of healing the body, but what do I know. I guess that the Bulgarian side of me prefers the +40 C therapy better than the -100C. What likes my Polish half? Don’t know and definitely don’t care. The Bulgarian half has far more acceptable understanding of pleasure!

"Why do you want to work for us?"

Since I have a job interview in 2 weeks I decided to perform a desk research on how they are conducted – most common questions, how to make good impression etc. There are so many articles about that! According to them the most important question (and my personal favorite) is “Why do you want to work for us and what can you offer our company?” Very important matter, I agree. When you start your job search, the most important thing is to know what you are looking for, i.e. what you want. It is mandatory to determine one’s wishes and expectations and thus choose a company. But asking why we applied to the offer is simply stupid!

“Why did I apply? Because you need a worker while I have the needed qualifications and need the money. End of story.”

Right? The problem is employers want us to stroke their ego so that they could fell good about the great company they’ve made and thus expect something more of that kind:

"Why do I want to work in your company? Well, because your offer suits me perfectly. Moreover, because your company is unique, wonderful, exceptional, simply the best and since I was 16 I wanted or rather dreamed to work for you. I follow your fate from the beginning and my hobby is reading about your numerous market successes. I promise to work long hours for the minimum wage if only you hire me and allow me to devote myself to you - the most advanced company in the whole wide world."

If you were an employer wouldn’t you hire me after such speech? ;)

After reading too much on the topic I plan to stick to sincerity and see where this leads me. But if the reaction of the interviewer doesn’t turn out as expected I plan on reciting the paragraph above!

1st day of recalling Bulgarian

REPORT:

READ: 4 articles
TOPICS: 3 business, 1 about self-improvement
LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING: excellent
NEW WORDS: 0 (but there are a lot more borrowings from English than … before I guess)

CONLUSIONS:
1) I still have it in me! Reading is easy!
2) Bulgarian is beautiful

memory fail

Somebody please hit me! I’m beginning to forget my native language! Well, one of them at least. I’ve got a new possibility for a job on my radar and the biggest requirement is very good Bulgarian. So far so good, because I am Bulgarian, right? This made me think about my actual command of the language. The problem is that I’m not practicing my language skills for almost 6 years. I barely talk ones a week in Bulgarian, not to mention the scarce number of Bulgarian articles I’m reading. I don’t know when did it happen but at some point I even stopped thinking in Bulgarian. Shame on me! I definitely have to do something about it, not only because of the job opportunities ;)

On today’s phone interview a few words slipped my mind… I’m even beginning to speak with an accent - when I worked about the consulting company and was phoning to Bulgarian manufacturers one of the interviewee told me I have a “cute Bulgarian accent”! How dare she! I don’t! I’m a native speaker!

Beyond doubt I at least have to start reading. Let’s say 2 articles a day?

new recipe with cranberries :)

After reading 2 months ago „Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” I decided to cook at least one new thing a week. Well, I kind of forgot about it after the first week. But I returned to this idea since the finals are coming and it is a well known truth that nothing motivates you more to cook (or clean) than the prospect of studying. Moreover, few days ago my roomy Moncik bought a cooking magazine which inspired the breaded camembert on Tuesday. Today I cooked the next new thing - pork chop with cranberry-garlic filling. I wasn’t sure whether cranberries and garlic are a good match, but it turned out to be a fantastic combination.

That’s how it looked:



My life before discovering cranberries must have been so empty!

Dreams

I have a very vivid imagination which results in stunning dreams. Probably as everyone, I put in a kettle everything that happened during the day, my thoughts, hopes, fears and then mix it until weird stuff start coming out. Today for example I was dreaming that I was traveling to India by train with the whole cast of “Na Wspólnej” (polish soap opera…just don’t ask questions because I won’t confess in public that I watch it). Somewhere on the road the cast of “New Moon” joined us. Luckily, Pattinson didn’t honor me with his presence, but you should have guessed it because the title of the post is not nightmares ;) And just when I was about to ask Taylor Lautner for a photo I woke up… Such a cliche…

I don’t know what is it about me dreaming about “famous” people. A couple of weeks ago I was dreaming about endless stages of job interviews and finally when I got the job I was to meet the company’s boss. You would never guess who that was. I still can’t figure out what event during the day caused this guest appearance in my dream but in the chair in front of me was sitting no one but… Putin… Somebody call a psychiatrist ;)

sincerity

Me: I liked only 2 boys in Bulgaria.
T: You mean ME when I was there the first time and ME when I was there the second time?

That’s what I call true self-confidence!