1. One year ahead choose the date for the wedding and select bridesmaids and the best man.
2. Decide on lications for the wedding ceremony and for the reception and book the places which you've chosen.
3. Make a guestlist and send the invitations.
4. Six months ahead choose the dresses for the bridesmaids and select the flowers.
5. Choose the meals for the reception according to your wedding budget.
6. Organise accomodation for your guests.
7. Choose the best place for your honeymoon according to your budget and finalise all the arrangements.
8. If you're going to spend your honeymood abroad, three months ahead check if your passport is valid.
9. Organise a photographer who will have your wedding photographs taken.
10. REMEMBER THAT YOUR WEDDING DAY SHOULD BE A HAPPY ONE!
Monday, 18 May 2015
Friday, 15 May 2015
"You are what you eat" - six ways to eat smarter
1. Food like bread, pasta and rice should make up a half of your diet. This kind of starchy food is the main source of energy and fibre.
2. Fruits and vegetables are very important for our health. Eat fife portions of fresh or dried fruit and vegetables every day. They're one of the main source of vitamins and minerals and, what is more, are low in caloreis.
3. Don't eat much food and drinks like jam, sweets, fizzy drinks. They contain a lot of sugar and are high in calories, so try to eat them in moderation.
4. Drink still mineral water not carbonated which is high in sodium. Remember too much sodium is bad for your heart!
5. Eat lean meat, fish and eggs because they're a good source of protein.
6. Limit fatty food. It is better to choose unsaturated fats than saturated because they are healthier and can be found in vegetable oil, fish, such as mackerel and salmon, and soft margarine. Also, it is better to drink semi-skimmed milk than whole milk.
2. Fruits and vegetables are very important for our health. Eat fife portions of fresh or dried fruit and vegetables every day. They're one of the main source of vitamins and minerals and, what is more, are low in caloreis.
3. Don't eat much food and drinks like jam, sweets, fizzy drinks. They contain a lot of sugar and are high in calories, so try to eat them in moderation.
4. Drink still mineral water not carbonated which is high in sodium. Remember too much sodium is bad for your heart!
5. Eat lean meat, fish and eggs because they're a good source of protein.
6. Limit fatty food. It is better to choose unsaturated fats than saturated because they are healthier and can be found in vegetable oil, fish, such as mackerel and salmon, and soft margarine. Also, it is better to drink semi-skimmed milk than whole milk.
Sunday, 10 May 2015
QI
Some
time ago at English classes at the University we were talking about a
British comedy quiz show QI. The abbreviation QI stands for Quite
Interesting. In the programme four people try to answer questions.
Most of the questions are not very clear and that's why it's very
hard to give the right answer. One section of the programme, which is
called General Ignorance, is dedicated to questions which seems to be
very obvious, but later it turns out that they're not so easy.
After
this lesson I decided to look for some examples of questions which
are obscure. I've found tree exapmles of questions which have
obviously but wrong answers.
Firstly,
it is generally claimed that the only human-made object which is
visible from the Moon is the Great Wall of China, but that's not
true. Neither the Apollo astronauts nor Earth-orbiting astronauts saw
any human-made object from Space. Surprisingly, city lights are quite
well visible from the Earth orbit.
Secondly,
it is also commonly known that bulls react nervously to the red
color. This is false. Bulls, like all cattle, are dichromats and
they're unable to percieve the red color.
Thirdly,
many people think that swallowed chewing gum is digested by seven
years. This is also not true, because chewing gum is indigestible and
passes through our digestive system with other food
Frankly,
I have to admit that I've never thought that there are so many
widespread but false beliefs. It was very interesting experience to get to know how little do we know.
Sunday, 3 May 2015
Olga Boznańska
During
the long weekend I had an extraordinary occasion to see the
exhibition of a Polish painter Olga Boznańska. She was one of the
most eminent female artists who lived at the turn of 19th
and 20th centuries.
The
National Museum in Warsaw presented 150 works from various periods of
her activity. Her artistic heritage was contrasted with paintings by
such names as Diego Velázquez,
Édouard Manet, Eugène
Carrière, Henri
Fantin-Latour and Édouard
Vuillard as well as Japanese woodcuts so as visitors were able to see
her work from the global artistic perspective. Boznańska is usually
associated with the French impressionism what seems to be not
entirely true. In the circle of her interests were still lifes,
interiors, landscapes (views from the window at her atelier) and
predominantly portraits of the members of her family, friends, high
society and self-portraits.
Despite
the crowd every sight at the each painting was mystic. Boznańska was
a real master of emphasizing the spirituality and psychological
expression of her models. The moderate technique based on a wide
brush strokes, narrow but harmonised range of colours made her
paintings nearly monochromatic. Thanks to the sketchiness of forms
she was able to maintain intimacy and melancholy. Her paintings make
impression of dematerialisation and eternity. Under the guise of
austerity Boznańska's paintings hide a range of emotions and
profoundness of feelings. Her paintings emanate sincerity.
With
no doubt Boznańska's paintings are the masterpiece of it's kind. It
was just astonished. It was a really good decission to spend some of
my free time during the long weekend to see that exhibition. It was
absolutely worthwile standing in a queue around two hours.
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