message in the bottle

NY: a trip to the center of the world

2009-04-09T01:08:00.000-07:00

Usually at the moment when Im landing to a country Im feeling excited because of the specific things I have planed to see or the places to visit. When the airplane wheels touched the JFK asphalt I felt I was already into this excitement: being in Manhattan is itself a unique feeling even if you wont visit all of the hundred attractions, you just feel that you are mentally at the Rome of Julius Caesar, the center of the knowing world.

I spent around 6-8 hours per day walking at the streets, seeing places that I had see in movies, taking photos, tasting local and international kitchen. The amazing museums, MET, MOMA and Guggenheim were my cultural stops as well as the excellent Broadway musical "Chicago".

It was a surprise for me how friendly and helpful the NY people are. During the 9 days being, 3 times people offered to help me at streets just because they read my troubled face on the map, or even offer to help me decide on a patisserie window over hundred kind of cakes. We the greeks are very proud of our hospitality but I could never imagine such a friendly behavior in the streets of Athens.

In the other side, I didn't like that much the behavior of the salesmen at the most of the shops. There was a cold arrogance in their faces that I couldn't understand however most of them were effective on covering my needs. Some of them were very warm however they were so artificially "friendly" that they made me feel that they see me just as a bag of money or a victim of their selling techniques.

I will never forget the taste of the delicious lobster spaghetti on Sofia's Cucina at Little Italy district or the feeling of the sun on my face, chatting with Casper at the Battery park with the Statue of Liberty waving on us at the horizon. The night with the huge Hammer limousine with my friends and colleagues from Denmark who I was traveling with, was a unique experience as well as sketching sculptures Degas dancers at the MET museum.

The World Trade Center Tribute museum was one of the most emotional moments of my life. You cant hold your tears watching the wall of the photos of the people died or the paintings of the little children about this tragedy. Im just hoping that many other victims of genocides and other human brutality actions around the world could have museums like this where so much pain is gathered to remind us how low the human race can fall.

One year at Malmö

2009-02-08T03:53:00.000-08:00

It has been almost one year since I left Stockholm and actually since my last post here. Starting a new life is not an easy thing but its really exciting and I regret nothing so far. Im living at Malmö, Sweden and working at Copenhagen, Denmark, two beautiful cities, two wonderful countries and one huge bridge-symbol in the middle taking me from home to work and back to work every day.

I already feel a kind of vindication about my decision to leave my homeland Greece back at 2007. I work for an ascendant web design agency, where one of the primary objects is to make employees feel part of a family and be productive using just their own will and a team consciousness. Besides I really believe that during the new era we entered after the global financial crisis, strong human values as trust and faith inside the company-related people will be better to invest, instead on easy and fast profit of money that can easily fly away buy a market crisis or a wrong investment.

However the most important thing I found here in south Scandinavia is a girl that gives me tones of energy just being by my side or smiling to me, a girl that makes me want to spent my whole life trying to give her all the happiness of the world. She is a very special girl with the biggest heart which is only beating when she is sure that she made happy all people that surround her.

Princess of my heart you bring the color in my life and you are the reason that I wake up every morning with smile.

Bye bye Stockholm

2008-02-20T12:44:00.000-08:00

After 6 months I had to leave Stockholm. This city will be in my heart for ever not only as a beautiful place when I was lucky to live for a time-space but also as the first harbour at my life's big sailing which is still on progress.

Millions of thanks to my friend Kyriakos, his help was valuable for all those months. He was a smile face in a strange land.

Hej då

After Amsterdam

2007-10-06T11:55:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I returned back to Stockholm after a 5 days trip to Amsterdam.

I had to go there becouse of an interview for a company and I catched the chance to see and learn as more as possible into this timespace. Unfortunately I wasnt 100% free to enjoy it becouse of work load - oh yes I had my laptop with me :( - but I m quite satisfy from everything I saw those 5 days.

3 images are printed strongly into my head:

1. The last painting of Van Gogh, "Wheatfield with Crows" probably his deliberate goodbye to the world. I was seeing the paint which contains all his sorrow and disappointment as he wanted to goodbye us.

2. The sorrowfull stare of the beautifull girl behind the window somewere at the Red District Area, just before she smile to me as I was walking by the window. It was the most beautifull, empty smile I ve ever seen.

3. The view of Amstel river with the fog surrounding a huge building at the backround and a small red ball floating at the water.

I want to thank The Write Company for the interest they showed about my work and the chance they gave me to have an unfiorgetable experience at Amsterdam.

Swedish- English lexico and 15 more languages

2007-08-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

Here you will find some good examples of "the virtual dictionary" on Internet. The dictionaries have been issued by the Swedish National Agency for School Improvement. They are included in the Lexin series. Lexin is primarily produced to meet the need of immigrant education and currently consists of about 30,000 words.

Lexin

ingmar bergman is not dead!

2007-07-31T04:41:00.000-07:00

I see the last days all media in Sweden and around the world are full of news about the grate Bergmans dead.

He is not dead actually!

Bergman will never die.

He is immortal becouse he is a creator! And he who creates is alive for ever conversely he who deny to create is dead even he is walking on earth. I say "deny" becouse everyone is able to create something: a family, a food, a relationship, a company, a friendship, a paint, a war, a scientific type all of them are in human dna and makes this planet alive.
I really scare the moment we wont be able anymore to create as humanity, everything will stop evolute, everything will die.

Bergman will not die becouse his creations had and will affect many peoples' lifes, so he and his work wont ever forget.

But we all have to be creators even we will never be famous isnt it? We are just adding a brick to humanity's stairs up!

auguste rodin & carl milles

2007-07-26T07:59:00.000-07:00

Today I visited Millesgården, the museum (where sculptor Carl Milles lived) into the beautifull island of Eckerö.
This summer (26 may - 26 august 2007) museum hosts some interesting artwork of Rodins sculptures in parallel with the permanent garden collection of MIlles' statuaries. I spent almost 45mins in front of the "Thinker" trying to scetch his face expression. It was a way to take this amazing form with me at home :)
Fountains, aeriform figures, sensual girls and wild guardians created the image of a garden where time is changing in every step and there is a new fairy tale waiting for u at every corner.

inspriration

2007-07-25T14:58:00.000-07:00

Today I saw this logo walking in Södermalm streets.
Its one of the bests I've seen in this city by now.
Look at the playfull opening at the middle of the F letter.
"Fönsterdesign" means window design and the shop is selling mainly window blinds.
www.fonsterdesign.se

follow your instict

2007-07-25T14:07:00.000-07:00

Many people ask me why i came to Stockholm.

The answer is simple like swedish design:
I just needed to change life, not just to see and do some new things but to live into them, a complete new life that probably suits to me.

I always loved to open new envelopes, folders, boxes, packages. The procedure is all the satisfaction. I just want to do the same with my life. Damn, a whole life in one small corner in a huge planet is too much...
So here I am.

But why in Stockholm?

I can talk for hours about the clean city, the kind people, the clean-clear swedish design, the amazing museums, the huge green parks with rabbits and ducks, the eternal warm water for shower, the bulle cakes, the smörgåstårta, the blue eyes of the girls, the respect of drivers to pedestrians, the Junibaken, the public toys in playgrounds, the grate service everywere, the multinational tastes, Milles' sculptures...

But the real reason is that I just have a strong inside feeling that I belong here

Its simple :)

message in the bottle

2007-07-25T13:41:00.000-07:00

Hi
My name is Teo and i need to express.
So I created this blog,
and maybe it will be usefull to someone someday.

:)