While looking for ideas for a New Year's Eve celebration in a small circle of friends at our place, I came across a game that works brilliantly for sparking lively conversations. It also serves as a glimpse into personally significant events of the year - which we must now call the past year. The game also helps develop the storyteller in you.
Looking at next year's calendar, one can conclude that it will have one more day than this year. That is to say, 2015 has 365 days, while 2016 will have 366. So next year is a so-called leap year.
I decided to experiment a little in the kitchen and, after the substantial Latvian Christmas roasts with their rich side dishes, to prepare something seemingly lighter. Following an online recipe as a guide, I realised there is room to explore various variations of this dish. So this won't be quite a classic recipe.
They never seem to get old and never will. And it is a little strange - driving in the car and flicking through radio stations in the second half of December - to find not a single Christmas song. A mild irritation arises: no snow, no good old melody, the festive feeling is lagging behind.
From the stylistics of the writing, one might think one is reading an "instruction" written in the 1930s, in keeping with the understanding of that time about scientific achievements and advances in psychology and sociology. Target audience - average farmers' daughters and lads who have seen nothing beyond the people of their own village, but having reached maturity to escape the routine, have decided to go courting.
Yesterday on LTV1 I saw Riga city's representative N. Ušakovs. He was advertising how Twitter can be used to get Riga City Council to come and fix a lift in a private building. Well, if that's the case, this morning I wrote that a light bulb has burned out at home - could someone be asked to replace it?
Latvia's second BNI group has already reached 30 members and can slowly begin looking towards an official launch. It is a group of entrepreneurs who want to grow their business on the basis of referrals. Here each "membership seat" is reserved for only one sector. The goal of networking is not to obtain as many contacts as possible, but to build professional relationships.
If you are one of those people for whom it matters to have beautiful, well-thought-out and cleverly designed things to hand, then this overview of next year's planners might be useful to you. I searched for a long time and have finally found my own - a businesslike one, pleasant to the touch, very slim, lightweight and with plenty of space for notes.
One must agree with the lecturer's observation: if you look at a painting for one minute, you can notice only a pleasing composition or colours; if you look for five minutes, you already see the subject; but if for ten minutes - you can discern the conflict depicted in the painting.
A multimedia exhibition consisting of 9 large screens on which 100 paintings by Kristīne Luīze Avotiņa are projected in a set sequence, with 10 different musical fragments played to create the mood. A colour, sound, and light show repeated every 20 minutes, allowing one to experience four different moods, places in the world, seasons, and variations of tone.