The shortest night of summer is approaching once again, and with it the summer solstice celebrations - Līgo and Jāņi. One of the indispensable and mystical symbols of the festival is the fern flower. Today I even received by work email from a business partner a traditional Latvian folk song with a greeting - wishing me luck in the search for the fern flower! I shall try to find an answer - what exactly is the fern flower?
This afternoon I attended a thoroughly positive event - Sales Tiger 2009, organised for the fifth year running by Dienas bizness and Mercuri International. In my view, taking part in such a competition is primarily good advertising for the company and a confidence-building exercise for the salesperson.
When working with a client, you must create a liking for yourself - and by extension for the company you represent - whatever your true intentions may be: whether you plan to tear into the prize like a tiger or gnaw your way through a successfully won cabbage leaf like a rabbit.
Each of us enjoys going to the nail technician from time to time and getting our nails sorted. Some also prefer to do their own manicure. But the nail shape we choose and the nail polish colour we most often use is entirely personal - a question of taste, practicality, beauty, and it turns out - character as well. So let us take a look at girls' nails to perhaps decode a little of their secrets!
However informative and brief I am about this annual event in Old Riga, it is without a doubt, for me, an occasion for the joy of life. Traditionally, two days in June, in the picturesque inner courtyard of Konventa Sēta, there is an opportunity to taste many different wines and listen to lovely music. Here, then, are a few shots and observations from it all.
For fun, I invite you to evaluate nine silhouettes - that is, nine types of men. It seems that both men and women have the opportunity here to look at themselves from the outside with varying degrees of seriousness, to smile a little - and perhaps also to reflect? ;)
I registered one myself on 9 May of this year at www.gravatar.com - iinuu. But later, when I proudly announced to friends that I finally had an avatar on the web, many replied: "How nice - but what exactly is it?" So then, about avatars.
Whenever I receive a certificate after completing a training course, I liken myself to that squirrel from the Ice Age animated film, who stretched and stored acorns in her hollow for a rainy day and worked so hard for each one. :) This time my acorn comes from the language centre "Diversus" - certificate of English competence: presentation skills and meetings in English.
I had promised myself I would never, ever write about politics on this site, but I can no longer hold back. Every day, without fail, party SPAM keeps arriving at the office email and in the letterbox at home. I must say, in these elections the parties have spammed in earnest - they have mastered the latest technologies and are keeping up with the times. I recommend watching Šlesers's video biography for amusement: "...he cried long and insistently, which is why he was named Ainārs".
Walking around a cemetery on a sunny day seems even interesting - reading inscriptions, years, dedications and studying photographs, the forms of monuments and crosses, it feels like walking through an open history book and database of persons. Here are reflections on the institution of the cemetery - why it arose and why people and society need it. What motivation would I have to be buried in a public cemetery after death?
If you type the following keyword into Google, you will find in equal numbers on various Latvian websites both the phrases "masu mediji" and "masu mēdiji" (mass media). So which is actually correct - with the long or short vowel "ē" - and how do popular Latvian portals use it?
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