An amazing performance

This wasn't given as a home task or anything, but you should watch this video. It's a story of a homeless boy who grew up on the streets by himself. After hearing a singer perform at a nightclub when he was selling bubble gum, he decided to learn to sing by him self. So sit back and enjoy the fruits of his hard work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tZ46Ot4_lLo

Mixed Marriages

       Inter cultular marriages are quite common now days. I myself see no problems in these kinds of relationships, but there can be many certain difficulties couples may have to face. Like religion, cultural or even regional problems.

       First of all, the cultural problem. Being from different cultures can cause disagreement between partners. Let's say a muslum marries a jewish woman. So the agreement what to celebrate or not can be very common. Because both cultures have their specific events they celebrate, in certain places and time. So this problem probably does occur very often.

      Second of all, the regional problem. As I mentioned before, people celebrate different events in different places and time. They all have their own custom holidays and way they celebrate them, so if both of the families live in different regions, the agreement on what and where to celebrate  can be very difficult to solve. For example, one of the partners in catholic, and the other one is lutheron. They both celebrate Christmas, but in a bit different ways. This problem do tend to be inflicted on the children, because they have to embrace one of the following religions, and celebrate these events just, because they cant be both catholic and lutheron. And we must not forget the location problems, because living in different regions can cause the problem of family gathering too.

         However, being in a family of mixed cultures is not that bad. You get to know different cultures, customs and traditions. So the children from these kinds of marriages will be more open minded, and that means that this will help them to adapt to the different groups of society and not just be sceptic and one sided, because the interracial problems are quite strong these days.

       To sum up I would like to say that, even if the differences can be very big in mixed marriages, the couples    will have to adapt to these circumstances, and find a way to please both of the families. It depends on the people them selves, you just have to accept the differences and not push them away.

The Problem with Generations

The biggest problem is the common stereotypes, concerning this problem. I recently have read an article about intergenerational problems and the stereotypes that are followed because of this problem. I tried to divide it into a few sections, so that i could find the root of this problem, too bad, but it all comes to the same spot, its the common, public stereotypes we face every day. It's not cool, the elders do not know anything about anything and so on. But the problem is that, the elderly, your parents, grandparents do have a lot of experience that can be very useful in many ways. They have lived through many difficulties in their lives, economic, health concerning problems or emotional dramas, they saw it all. So just by saying that they know nothing is just ignorant and immature. I have my personal opinion that everyone can tell you, or teach you something interesting and useful by sharing their life long experience. I've got a perfect example, when I was going to Kėdainiai by train, I met a man, he was 60 years old or more, I myself was about 15 years old. So we started talking about random events that happened in our lives, then the conversation suddenly turned towards history. I never was very good at it, but I did know a few interesting facts about certain periods of time. So we started to exchange experience, stories and information. So after this interesting and totaly random conversation I did find out a lot of interesting facts about the city of Vilnius during the Soviet occupation and so on. Even if I never was very interested in it, it was very pleasant to chat with, and even after all most 4 years have past, we still keep in contact. So he is now all most 70 if I'm not mistaken, and I'm just 19. I do not tend to follow the public stereotypes, that's why I have such an interesting person, a friend that I can talk to. So this story just shows that this problem is just something the people made because of being left overboard by the people who do follow this stereotype. So I think everyone of us should break these fences we built, and just do what we like, there is no such thing as age boundries between friends. So just think about it, what will you lose, and what will you gain from the stereotypes you follow.

P.S. Here is the link to the article. http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5002559541

A good recipie for a healthy relationshp.

       There are many different ''recipes'' for the perfect relationship, because as every person is different, irreplaceable and unique, so there are as many unique ways to crack this problem so to put it. My recipe  is very simple and probably not very special, but I think it works perfectly. My recipe consists of three ingredients.
   1. The first and most important key to a healthy relationship is Trust. If there is zero trust, the relationship is fragile, because the bonds you make will not be trustworthy and hold nothing important, they will be worthless.
   2. The second ingredient is honesty. Trust leads to honesty, and being openhearted with your partner helps you break your safety boundaries which people tend to build to keep them selves safe from any emotional breakdowns that can occur because of being hurt, betrayed or rejected.
   3. Last but not least is passion. Love, all the spontaneous actions and passion itself helps to keep the relationship alive and fresh, because if there is no emotion, it just feels cold and lifeless. They idea is to bring as many colourful events into your life as possible to keep it fresh and interesting.
      So that's my simple recipe for a relationship worth keeping. I hope it helps you to maintain the relationship between you and your partner in the best state as possible.

DAK presentation

So this is my presentation on types of relationships in different literature stories. I made it short because I was to present most of the information while showing these slides. So if you have any questions, feel free to ask, because all the criticism ant questions only will help me to improve my language skills, yet again, thank you for your time.

Mask in relations

      There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. It's a quotation written by Francis Bacon. I really liked this saying because it shows an aspect that is needed in many kinds of relationships, but of course, this social skill can really turn out bad, because you have to know when to put on the right mask, otherwise you will hurt the people you adore and care about. Everyone knows how to put a mask on, but not everyone understands when they  should do so, because keeping a mask on is safe, you can hide your real intentions and secrets not to get hurt and not hurt other people too. But of course, doing this to your closest friend is simply unfair, because by keeping a mask on , is just the same as lying to your friend. You put on different masks in many different situations to keep certain relations stable. For example,  even if you don't like a certain co-workers or your group mate, you still have to put up with him, because you will have to spend time with him, and if you will not adapt to the situation, you'll have problems just passing the day. for example, we have a class mate named Vladislav Kucarenko ( I hope I spelled his name right) and he is very unreliable and ignorant when keeping even a mutual friendship with his class mates and lecturers. He shows no respect to the people he studies with, he doesn't even try to do so. He can't even keep a formal standing with anyone, he just acts childish and ignores the help from anyone, he's just lazy. That's why we have to put on a mask when we are communicating with him, because ignoring him completely wouldn't be very friendly, even if it seems to be the best solution towards this relation, I have to put on a mask and act a bit nicer, that at least helps me not to show myself as an ignorant person.
I hope I didn't offend anyone with this story, I just wanted to say that you should stay true to your friends and learn how to deal with certain people in certain situations, even if doesn't look very pleasant, that's a social skills which everyone has to develop just to help you maintain your friendships and relations.

A short summary

  The blogs I've chosen to write about were done by Stasys, Rokas and Ernesta. The reasons I chose them were pretty simple, Ernesta has provided a lot of information about our addiction concerning the computer problem in our lives, Rokas has given us a useful ways to improve our writing skills, and Stasys has provided us with an interesting article about the monotony that follows us in our lives, that I really enjoyed.
       Let's start with Ernestas article. It showed the bad side of computer influence in our modern day lives. Even if they help us gather information a lot faster, share it, or develop new methods of learning certain things, they make us lazy so to put it. We don't need to go to the library, we ca get all the information on the internet, the lecturers just need to point the way, and you can learn everything using the world wide web. It's also putting a stop to our creativity, we just tend to copy other people ideas, just to make our lives easier. And the hardware isn't that long lasting that it seems, the information can get lost just because of a simple power outage, or because of the hard breaking down.
       The second blog I really enjoyed reading was written by Rokas. He has given us the perfect, course the most obvious plan of learning how to write. It's simple, yet very useful, it mainly consists of three things. READ, WRITE, THEN READ SOME MORE !!! It also involves checking your grammar, checking your theory, minding your commas. He mentioned two key ingredients to help you overcome the problem of writing incorrectly, a little bit of trust in your self and A LOT OF PRACTICE ! Even if it sounds that simple, it's a lot more difficult, you just have to sit on it for a long time, don't get lazy, you can watch a movie, play video games or check your facebook account after you did a little writing exercises, a little time management will do the thing. TIME MANAGEMENT !  Remember this.
       And the last but not least, the article Stasys has written about the monotony of life. I really liked it because it's something we all think about from time to time. Life is a never stopping stream of different events in different places, right. Just sometimes, the events happen to be the same for along period of time. For example, a simple boy just going to school, he will do the same routine of going to school for at least ten years, ten long years. In that passing period of time you'll have a few moments you will truly cherish your whole life, but that will maybe be just a small fracture of the ten long years. That's why everything will start looking the same, even if the circumstances may change a little, the idea of repeating the same event will still continue, and that will  get to your head. It's something we can't avoid, so the best solution is to follow the flow of the stream and just try to make your life a little more colorful, because the little thing count.
       So this was my short summary on my group mates blogs, I hope you enjoyed it as much I did reading them, so thank you for your time and remember, TIME MANAGEMENT! :) Have a nice day.