Lonely in a city

What to Say in Blog and What Not to Say

There is an article in NY Times discussing cases when bloggers have been fired due to things what they have posted on their blogs. I think it's an interesting issue where one's employee life ends and private life starts. Are comments about job private or public when published on internet, and can somebody be fired for being too critcal or not loyal to employer?

Sexist Estonia

When I moved to live in Estonia, it came to my notice that here is much more sexist advertising than, for example, in Latvia. So far I have only got more support to my notice.
Not long time ago there was advertising to Äripäev special edition Ehitus (construction) which looked like this: sweaty woman in a shirt which is much less than T-shirt, generally known as maika among post-soviet people; good size of breasts with obviously no bra; long blond hair, which is loose instead of being put together in horse tail or smth similar which is more convenient for work; the woman has an electric drill in her hand. Typical construction worker, right?
The last notice is for new yogurt drink by Valio, which is advertised on Tallinn street posters (could not find it in internet to give non-Tallinn people impression what I am talking about). They have a picture of girl, kind of portray. It most probably comes from my hobby of photography, but I pay attention where is the sharpness. Usually focus or sharpness is on eyes in portray, but not in this one. Then it could be some other point on face, like lips, but not in this one. In this advertising focus and sharpness is on breasts, of course! And rest of picture is slightly foggy. Moreover, the slogan in Shake!, which is meant that drink should be shaken before drinking, but with this picture there are provides other ideas on shaking something.
For construction I could still understand, because most probably men are still majority of those who work in construction/acquire construction materials, so their attention should be more attracted by such advertising.
But yogurt drink? I suppose that women would by more yogurt drinks, but this advertising is definitely not targeted for them. OK, there is male DJ picture, but nothing sexy or even funny. So, what is target audience: youngsters? or who?
Anyhow, waiting for next observation :))

Flowers

I noticed that all recent pictures have been flowers and decided to add just one more and then to choose some other themes, at least for a while.
This one is worth seeing in my opinion. And it's dedicated to Kaido who has his birthday today!

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Beautiful Crime

This is how beautiful is my small crime. I bought an onion of amaryllis in Amsterdam in January, and I brought it home. Bringing home is where the crime element comes in because it is not allowed to carry plants across the borders, so basically I smuggled it. Especially because I travelled home through London, and it is categorically forbidden to bring in or out any plants or food items to and from the island of Great Britain. I took care of it and hid my nice amaryllis onion in the very bottom of suitcase.
The result is worth effort, isn't it?! (Don't forget that smuggling is the smallest part: after that you have to plant the onion and water it from time to time, which altogether is more tricky than smuggling).
By the way, it was supposed to be single layered (with only 6 petals) and completely white with very small thin line around the edge :)). Be ready for surprises when buying tulip and amaryllis onions from street markets in Amsterdam!

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Lazy-lazy-lazy

Recently I have been very-very lazy. Too lazy to tell you anything, and actually I still am :)) (or perhaps :(( )