Posted in Personal on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be ignorant from me to just wish Happy New Year, considering that the readers of this blog come from more than 50 countries, so here goes:
Chinese (Cantonese) - Sun nien fai lok
Chinese (Mandarin) - Xin nian yu kuai
Danish - Godt Nytår
Dutch - Gelukkig nieuwjaar
Farsi - Aide shoma mobarak
French - Bonne année
Gaelic - Aith-bhliain [...]
Posted in Economy, tagged health care, medicine, reform on December 30, 2007 | No Comments »
As of January 1 there will be huge changes in the Czech healthcare system. Patients will pay fees for every visit (doctor, emergency room, dentist…). There will also be fees for every doctor-issued recipes, there will be a per-day fee for one day in a hospital.
The government wants to stop the huge money wasting process [...]
Posted in Language, Life on December 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Apparently, while filming the movie Chasing Liberty in Prague, Mandy Moore learned some Czech pickup lines and put-down lines. Those who know me know that she is so my type. So that’s why I am posting this….plus it is related to the Czech Republic….
Posted in Travel on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
More than 250,000 foreign tourists should celebrate the New Year in the Czech Republic, Novinky.cz news server reports. There are around 90 thousand hotel beds in Prague and the no-vacancy rate now is about 99 percent, hotel owners calculated…
The question is, however, how many come for the atmosphere of Prague or Czech mountains and how [...]
Posted in In The News, Law, tagged murder, police on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago a driver working for the CEO of the Sazka state-run lottery company was killed as he was getting out of the company Bentley in Prague. The police now caught the killer and they found out the Russian hitman picked a wrong person to kill. Coincidentally the real target lived nearby and [...]
Posted in Eh, Czechs on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Today I went to a fitness slash wellness center that is located in a hotel but does not belong to the hotel. The hotel itself is closed for the holidays and it opens tomorrow.
It is 12:40 p.m. and the wellness opens at 1 p.m. I am trying to enter the hotel lobby. Sorry, the hotel [...]
Posted in Life on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
It happens every year and I am sure it will happen on January 1, 2008 again. News stories about babies being born one second after midnight, or at least one minute, at 12:01 a.m., or as we write here - which looks cooler - 00:01.
It is pointless and many pediatricians condemn it. You can’t count [...]
Posted in Politics on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
President Vaclav Klaus refused to meet in a televised debate with his only opponent for the 2008 elections - Jan Svejnar. Klaus is nominated by the senior coalition party ODS (Civic Democrats), while Jan Svejnar is nominated by the most popular opposition party, the Social Democrats.
Klaus says that one debate can not make a difference. He also said that a [...]
Posted in Life, tagged animals, hunting, Slovakia on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
A Slovak hunter might go to jail for shooting a bear. The man took part in a legal deer hunt when a huge bear emerged from the bushes and ran towards the hunter. He shot the bear twice in obvious self-defense.
But you need a special approval from the Ministry of Environment to shoot a bear. [...]
Posted in Life on December 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The last three Sundays before Christmas Eve are Bronze, Silver and Golden Sunday… on these days stores are open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. so that the procrastinators can get their gifts even one day before they are to be unwrapped under the tree… I had been circling around the local mall parking lot for [...]
