digging in local croatian sites one can find the following stuff:

now they say esc07 winner plagiarized the song from albanian singer. check it out urself and submit to esc committee:) i am wondering if it would make her disqualified, ua get the first place?

link:  http://www.index.hr/xmag/clanak.aspx?id=348276

scroll to where you see the picture of winner and on the right side listen online two songs - first piece of albanian, then piece of winning serbian.

holy cow! she's 23...

that mariya whatever - winner of eurovision

well-well-well:)
i watched it in serbia with a lot of comments on who and why will win. 
- oh in this country lives a bunch of serbs
- well, it this one as well
- and we are neighbours...
- c'mon! u know who's voting in croatia... ??? - serbs!

...and i was still hoping for ukraine till the very end (especially when I saw Masha's efforts in czech republic:)
alas. but afterall it was the first time i physically stayed in the the country that won eurovision during the contest.  [and they still were my second choice after hungary].  we contemplated however on how many more votes will former yugoslavian coutries get if [and most probably when] all of them, including kosovo will participate... or shall we move some more ukrainians outside of ukraine? avvvv, did anyone see the tremendous amount of turkish votes in western europe? i think its pretty cool...
and it's such a pity hungary didn't get more votes... i liked the girl. and other curious thing was commentator on serbian tv whenever they showed her, said, oh, that's our second entrant - turns out she's serbian hungarian [and there was a lot of hassle around her participation in eurovision here in hungary - they said 'c'mon how a non-hungarian !!! can represent hu?']

Then i tried to recall other eurovisions - in ceu dorm - and ruslana winning; in australia - in the moldovan guys house - and gryndzoly are... [well, u know], but we had mamalyga and zdob shi zdub were fun:) ; in budapest again - this time as some wifi coffee place. 

and just one last note - can be useful to whoever is still having the ukrainian passport - mine - which is 13 month old and is kept in pretty good conditions started behave funny - the photo almost fall off!!!! smelling the possible complications i went to embassy where they said: 'oh, we know about the quality.... every week at least one person comes with same problem'. they suggested how to resolve it [by putting another photo on 'special marks' page], but it costs money [!] and troubles of going twice to embassy. otherwise, they are nice and helpfull... 

beautiful week everyone

ps. the most substantial eurovision comment, is still the following: 'While others consider how to buy another car, do another economic reform, and stabilize the society, we are winning the song contest with ultra-national government coming to power'
...and a joke: Perica (some balkan name) is studying in school. He has 1 for math, 1 for history, 1 for language, 1 for literature. But he has 5  for music!. [those jokes, of course, led to other: Ivanko is studying in school. He has 1 for math, 1 for history, 1 for language, 1 for literature. And even for music he has 4 !]

this year we have here an amazingly active student council, which will most probably get in CEU history as the 'first-ever-ceu-ball-organizers' {ok, bunch of other parties as well}

yeah, all 'for real' - photographer and glass of champagne in the beginning, light and not so light music. but most importantly... one would never believe those are same ppl who have 'jeans-only' dress code at ceu:)

http://www.lirefoto.hu/ceu/
if u're lucky, might even find someone u know:) 
{65,66}

posting once every saturday can be considered a pretty good speed. 
updates on this side of web: 

- we've been working in ceu on fp7 application, lost of funny budgeting peculiarities
- seems that I would still need to write an article about the IRWM in ukraine
- since thursday I have guests at home - i am wondering for how much more my men here will tolerate this :p - but still ok...
- Yu on the usual route from kiev to lund
- a croatian friend on short but already pretty exciting visit:)
- one small cocktail party friday night - with some home-made mojitos and pina-coladas (virgins included;))
- long-long saturday walk around city with numerous coffee-stops and ending with visiting the most exciting bp sightseeing place - mng outlet [giiiiirls] + etam outlet + whatever else shop
- today was fun-fun - riding those tandem bicycles at margit sziget - for those who's still on a way to budapest, island in the middle of city. 
- coffee-coffee-coffee, medierranean food, cocktails at home - we do seem to become quite a prefessionals.
- and well. it's still two weekends ahead. 

i am loving it (c)

that's a kind of almost perfect day today. so let's see.
woke up early [no i mean it, like 8 in the morning], promised to watch just one part of satc, ended up watching half-season...
got to the market, bought my strawberries, a kilo
...back home took 1000 pics of them before killing them all.
had a nice nap, walk, cheese cake and latte with hippo's best friend.

met girls, had 'cosmopolitan' [yeeeeah, half-season of satc]...
and did more good things back home:) {no hippos involved. only their bext friends}
lord of the rings part 3 coming

nice weekends,everyone!