Svetlana - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Typical sanguine person - very active when keen on something and inert without a goal to achieve. But I'm working at the lazy part of me and my curiosity is what makes me tick!

My Interests

Dancing (especially belly dance), learning about countries and cultures, cycling and any other kinds of sport on occasion, phychology and relationships between people, metaphysics and esoterics.

I'd like to meet:

People I can share my thoughts with - the ones with their lives so different from mine, the ones with their lives so similar to mine. I need different opinions.

Music:

Anything from pop to classical music. I don't have a favourite singer or composer - a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Music should just be of a good quality, influenced by inspiration or life experience- not the money.

Movies:

Made with great taste or idea. Preferably a comedy or a melodrama. Horror films often give me an unpleasant feeling.

Television:

Sex and the City, Friends. Apart from that I don't watch TV much - only if a good film is on. Never watch the news since they never have anything positive to say.

Books:

If an author writes too many books, I'm hardly likely to buy them - I begin to think of the quality.

Heroes:

Anyone I have something to learn from. Almost everyone has a feature to admire.

My Blog

The spring has come!

When people ask me which season I like best, I never know what to say. What I like best is the change of seasons. After long and cold winter the spring seems magic. With the birds singing, sun...
Posted by Svetlana on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:50:00 PST

Russian feminism

When Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg decided to commemorate women's struggle for their rights on March 8th, they had no idea what Russians would turn this day into. If an American feminist say...
Posted by Svetlana on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:02:00 PST

Development or Inconstancy?

I believe in dualism of the world. Nothing exists without its opposite otherwise there would be no need in giving it a name. Good and evil, life and death, meeting and parting, beauty and ugl...
Posted by Svetlana on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:54:00 PST

New Year! Hurrah!

Here it came New Year, the most important holiday in Russia. Well, actually there is a series of celebrations around it Catholic Christmas, New Year itself, Orthodox Christmas (January 7t...
Posted by Svetlana on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:42:00 PST

Revival

I woke up in the morning with the feeling that something was different. Its like an uncontrolled stereo system in my head. I listen the radio, then click and theres a different station. Radio noi...
Posted by Svetlana on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:48:00 PST

Axis vs. Driving Force

During a few months Ive read and heard a lot of opinions expressed by religious people. To be impeccably honest, I often grow sceptical when someone tells me that I should go to church every S...
Posted by Svetlana on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:15:00 PST

Love and the City

I always wonder how people in small towns manage to find their beloved. There are at least 1000 people living in the apartment buildi...
Posted by Svetlana on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:36:00 PST

Weekend: New Russians and pop-art.

Part I. New Russians. Last Saturday I finally managed to meet a friend of mine whom I hadnt seen since June 2004. Ive no idea why it took us so long to get together. This is what I hate about...
Posted by Svetlana on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:32:00 PST

A little bit of culture

Some of you, guys asked me to tell you something about Russia. My recent promise to write about education pushed me to get started. The most interesting things begin in the last year at school...
Posted by Svetlana on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:52:00 PST

Nem tudok magyarul (I don't speak Hungarian)

What did I know about Hungary, say, 2 weeks ago? I knew that the language is fiendishly difficult, that the Danube divides Budapest into two parts Bu...
Posted by Svetlana on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:07:00 PST