Fuck yeah, snow!

Even thought people here say that's not really snow, for me it is, so it is.
It already melted and it's sunny again (but not hot). However, it was nice while it lasted...

The white thing in the ground is what locals say it's not snow, but according to wikipedia it IS snow. Hmm

Number stations!

After a long while looking for a good radio that could receive in SW, I found a great one that had the SW1 and SW2 channels. Of course it's also cool to have FM so I can listen to normal radio (so I learn the language better), but I was really interested in the Short Wave because of one of the most interesting things I've ever found: Number Stations. (All thanks to The Conet Project and my passion for the XX Century world history, specially the two World Wars).

So here I was, in my bedroom while it was snowing (and not melting!) out there. I decided to turn the radio on and check how the meteorological conditions afected the signal reception... and seems like it works better on cloudy days. Since I bought the radio I could barely find radio broadcastings in the languages that are around the country. I've even found a Romanian radio station broadcasting a program to learn chinese (fun!).

In the end I found this! which sounds like some typical coded transmission (hours scanning the spectre with different antennae on teh internets gave me some experience).
It's probably not a number station, but it's kweeeeel.

Demonstrations in Plac Konstytucji

This is one of the interesting things of Warsaw. You just decide to change the path to go back home and you find a concert in the middle of Plac Konstytucji.
My first impression was: why the hell are all this people here in this cold??
Everyone wearing coats, hats, scarfs. It was like 1ºC.
Well, I don't see things like this back home!

To prove it, I recorded this poor quality video:

Then I found out why this all happened.
It was a demonstration that was planned to go to the house of Wojciech Jaruzelski, because he was the one who called the state of war (stan wojenni) and responsible for the Martial law, even though there was no actual war at the time.

Demonstrators - http://www.tvnwarszawa.pl

LINK: Manifestacja przed domem Jaruzelskiego.

Super Sam is not even his final form

If you don't know Sam & Max, that means you're too young.

I took this picture during my first weeks in Warsaw because I thought it was funny and it reminded me of Sam, from Sam & Max, in a super hero style (I know, I'm always talking about super heroes, and I feel like I'm 7 years old again... but whatever!).
The picture, with its terrible quality and everything, was forgotten in my lol-folder until yesterday, when I saw...

Is this his final form? the world needs to know, I'm sure.

So I had to see it with my own eyes to believe it.
It exists!

Google Images didn't have any good pic of Sam to paste here for the lulz. Sorry.

I've heard there's an Ultra Sam somewhere. I need to see it aswell...

First snow!

Even though it wasn't for a long time, it snowed.
YAY!

I wanted to see some snow before going back home for Christmas and I finally did it! although it melted right away, it did snow "hard" (yeah, lol) while I was at the Polish language lesson. Then it stopped.

I took this picture in the morning, while waiting for the bus in Centrum. It was snowing then too, but the quality is not really amazing.

I spend an average of 20 minutes here every single day waiting for some fucking bus. Then I'm late hohoho

I hope it snows some more, at least to make some snowman!

Brand name fails. Part 3,14

Everytime I go to Ikea, I wonder how they choose the names for the products.
I always imagine a bunch of workers discussing on their coffee break:

-Hey Ingvar, does this word sound swedish and cool?-
-No, add some umlauts. (Beware my viking friend! too many of them will make it Hëavÿ Mëtäl).
-But we always write everything with umlauts! and we're running out of them!
-Then we'll have to be obvious... how can we call this brown carpet?

Kolon! Because "Rëktüm" was already taken.

And now going into the beautiful Polish language, a funny fail:

They mean "orto" semiconductors

Explaining the joke: Osram, derived from the verb Osrać, would mean something like... "I'm dumping a shit".

Monday, Bloody Monday

Mondays should be forbidden.
That's all folks!

Now, seriously, I'm so thankful I only have a couple of weeks till Christmas. I will be able to rest back home, in a place where everything is written in my language and I understand people in the street, while I won't need to switch the language constantly and end up not knowing what the f**k I speak anymore...

Mondays are terrible. They're pretty interesting though, but terrible because I end up really exhausted. I have lessons in English, Polish, German, Italian and Norwegian and I have them non stop from 8:30 till 4:30. 8 hours of continuous effort that leave me completely destroyed.

I just found a great example of how I feel when I arrive home on monday:

/Rant

Erasmus Cooking: Part I

Tortilla-burritos with fried vegetables that were found in my fridge (yes, that's the name of the dish)


Ingredients:
- Eggs
- Vegetables
- Salt
- Oil
- Flour

oh, and a frying pan, to fry, of course. Not an ingredient, but you'll need it.
I always feel like Arguiñano when I'm in the kitchen, although my experiments always suck big time.
Anyway!

You shake the eggs and add the flour until you think it's okay. Mix it well. Add the salt too! I just forgot it. You add the salt and keep shaking.

Then you fry it in the pan. Put oil in the pan first.
And once it's fried it should look like this.

Om nom nom nom!

Then you fry the vegetables. Like tomatoes, pepper, onion, a bit of garlic. You can add many other things, like non-vegetable but edible stuff, like ham, bacon, cheese, weed (for a space tortilla burrito!).

That thing should look like... this?

Hi! I'm a mix of vegetables in a pan.

And when it's done, you put it on your tortilla to wrap it like an amazing burrito! Like this:

This one has cheese. Cheese is amazing. I love cheese.

Then you open the trash can and dispose it because it tastes bad and you order a pizza.

By the way, here they put KETCHUP on the pizza! that goes for everyone back in Madrid who always scream and shout and cry that you SHALL NOT PUT KETCHUP ON THE PIZZA!!!.
I do, and people here do it aswell.
Hard to believe? look at this:

I'm a hawaiian pizza with ketchup!

Yes! that's a hawaiian pizza. With pineapples, mushrooms, pepper and fucking ketchup for the lulz.
And it was good!

CROSSWALKQUEST!

Everytime I'm in the street here and I have to cross the road, I think the same thing.
The green guy in the traffic light always reminds me of BRODYQUEST (one of my favourite and yet simpliest videos of the History of the World).

Dun dun dun dududunnn!

And it reminds me that so much that I can't do anything about it, but start singing it mentally.
Sometimes I even cross it like in the video. For great awesomenessssssss!

P.s.: the video!

P.s.2: I know, stupid entry, but I always think of it when I'm crossing the street and I think it's keeeeeeeeewl.