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15 beautiful pictures from Romania

The Romanian landscape is approximately one-third mountainous and one-third forested, with the remainder made up of hills and plains. The climate is temperate and marked by four distinct seasons. Romania enjoys a considerable wealth of natural resources: fertile land for agriculture; pastures for livestock; forests that provide hard and soft woods; petroleum reserves; metals, includingContinue reading “15 beautiful pictures from Romania”

Black and white photography

“I love the subtlety of tones that black and white images can have. In a world that often boasts about how many millions of colors a TV or monitor is able to produce – I love that in ‘Mono’ there is such a variety of what can be achieved in a photo. Black and WhiteContinue reading “Black and white photography”

Quotes on Fate/Future along with wonderful pictures of wonderful places

“Heal the past; live the present; dream the future.” “We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.” -Dag Hammarskjold “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” -Lyndon B. Johnson “Destiny is no matter of chance. It isContinue reading “Quotes on Fate/Future along with wonderful pictures of wonderful places”

A Monday Motivation

I occasionally get some motivation uploaded on Mondays, but this Monday I really need it as I feel that the bed is the magnet to my iron.

Madame Tussaud’s Star Wars Exhibition

If you are travelling into London, you can go to the world-famous Madame Tussauds. I bought advance tickets with priority entrance and it cost me a whooping £50! Which I saw was not actually needed at 10:30 in the morning as there was a priority queue bigger than the normal entrance. But I paid soContinue reading “Madame Tussaud’s Star Wars Exhibition”

If you are looking for something to wear at Valentine’s

look no further. I have scoured the internet (just like the storm troppers did the desert) and found the classiest and smoothest stuff you could wear during a romantic night in. I’m not advertising sites so feel free to find out where I got these from.

Who said pole dancing was for women only?

Pole Dancing used to be associated only with night clubs where dancers were performing striptease. For a few years, it has become a rage in the world of fitness. And, you can not only burn about 600 kcal during a class, but also helps to tone your muscles with the only use of your bodyContinue reading “Who said pole dancing was for women only?”

Awesome marble sculptures

Think of the epic difficulty of modelling a veil on a face of a material that is among the toughest on the planet, marble (mineral hardness 3 – Friedrich Mohs scale ) . Another problem is that marble has nothing added. It is a sculpture made by subtracting 100 % .

Cymatics – See the vibrations of music take on an art form

This video is entitled ‘Cymatics,’ and cymatics is the science of creating visualizations of audio frequencies. On his website, Nigel Stanford, a musician from New Zealand explains how he became interested in visualizing sound: “In 1999 I watched a documentary on ‘Synesthesia’ – a disorder that effects the audio and visual functions of the brain.Continue reading “Cymatics – See the vibrations of music take on an art form”

Wolf Guy: Ookami no Monshou

OK, I admit to my secret sin: I still read Manga. Much like I did in my HighSchool years when I was a little introvert. I have just finished reading Wolf Guy: Ookami no Monshou and it was amazing! It starts off light enough like a romance, but pretty soon it develops into a storyContinue reading “Wolf Guy: Ookami no Monshou”