maybe baby;) / może dzidziuś;)

Regardless of whether you’re planning a baby or not, there’s a fun game you can play on the VW website if you’re curious how your baby would look:) I don’t really want to comment on the wittiness of the new Routan campaign. To a certain extent I find the satire and the punchline (have babies for love not for German engineering) amusing; plus I Iike Brooke Shields;

[our Routan Baby emailed to us by the VW/nasz dzidziuś efekt gry]

and on the other hand, the sarcastic lines which are supposed to be making fun of incentives to buy a car, sound only half funny, and feel a bit like the authors run out of ideas.

Ad creativity aside, the BabyMaker game is fun! We tried it:) Had to make 4 babies until we came up with a result we were pleased with;)

I found out about the game thanks to a blogger friend to whom I want to give credit:) and include her in my blogroll:)

[picture copied from the VW email to us]

Bez względu na to czy planujecie obecnie dziecko czy nie, na stronie VW jest gra, którą polecam, jeśli jesteś choć trochę ciekawy jak może wyglądać twoje dziecko. Nie chcę wdawać się w dyskusję na temat błyskotliwości kampanii reklamowej Routana. W pewnym sensie satyra o amerykańskim wyżyu demograficznycm i hasło (róbcie dzieci z miłości nie dla niemieckiej inżynierii/technologii) jest zabawne; poza tym lubię Brooke Shields; z drugiej strony sposób w jaki VW kpi sam ze swojej reklamy podając motywy jakie skłaniają ludzi do kupna samochodu jest tylko trochę śmieszne i brzmi bardziej jakby zabrakło im pomysłu na kampanię.

Nie wnikając w trafność i kreatywność reklamy, do zabawy zachęcam! Nas wciągnęła. Co prawda musieliśmy zrobić aż 4 dzieci zanim się nam któreś spodobało;)

Tu reklama osądźcie sami/Here’s the ad judge yourself:

O grze dowiedziałam się z bloga koleżanki bloggerki – Dzieki Nina! Włączam Twój blog do mojego blogroll:)

I discovered who I am/Odkryłam kim jestem

At least in terms of eating habits, I finally have a name for who I am, a flexitarian. In short, it is someone who is not a vegetarian, but eats so little meat that for periods of time could easily be taken for one. The article I found this term in, did not explain flexitarian’s view on eating fish, neither does wikipedia, calling it a “practice of eating mainly vegetarian food”. This clarifies little for me as I’m not clear on  whether vegetarians eat fish or not. I have never paid much attention to the various forms of vegetarianism and similar life diets. I’m not oblivious, just never considered these philosophies/lifestyles for myself so never dug into the topics. Nevertheless I have reduced drastically the amount of meet, keeping fish to a moderate, mostly in the form of sushi:)

Most likely the source of this was unhappiness with the quality of meat in Amsterdam. Maybe we shopped at the wrong place, but with majority of shops closing at 18h, hardly any restaurants serving dinner till 21h, we had little choice but to get our food where we did, which lead to disliking meat we cooked 9/10 times. I used to generalise saying that Dutch meat was bad, point final. Yet since we normally liked meat at restaurants…obviously not the entire Dutch meat market was bad. Good quality meat just required the extra effort we where not used to, i.e. either knowing the little neighbourhood butcher, translating meats names prior to going shopping as not all butchers spoke English, or adjusting shopping hours to small shop schedules, etc, etc.

Friends of hours took us once to a farm between Rotterdam and Amsterdam where the meat sold came straight from the fields you purchased it on; so did other produce, like cheese, butter and plenty of fruits and vegetables (although not all, as they sold Sicilian oranges as well). Apparently this is the farm that supplies the Amsterdam restaurants, so mystery solved:) Everyhting we brought from there was delicious! Going to that farm once was also fun; perhaps a few more times would have been just as fun, but naturally it could not have converted into a regular shopping habit. Plus you can only buy so much meat in advance… Slowly but consequently we stopped buying meat. Eating it only when we would go out or in the form of cold meat in sandwiches. We never missed it, never even thought of going out precisely with the purpose of having some.

Certainly my dislike for handling meat while preparing a dish added to the longevity and stability of this practice. Furthermore, there are just so many dishes we enjoy which do not include meat that the practice solidified. What influenced it most significantly is the fact of having certain expectations on how something should taste and being disappointed at how it turns out tasting:( makes you not want to eat a particular dish any more, or at least eat it only where you know for sure it tastes best. I had tagliata fiorentina once in Florence, loved it to death, hated everywhere else; I simply don’t bother any longer. I know if I go back to where it tasted perfect, I’ll enjoy it again. Ordering it elsewhere has given me no gastronomic pleasure. Same is true for many other meat dishes. Obviously similar expectations-disillusion conflict might occur with vegetarian dishes, yet in my case happens much less frequently and therefore discourages me less from ordering veggies:)

I could not believe when I found out the term flexitarianism has been around for 16 years! describes my eating practice of the last 3 years so perfectly and I only find out about it now:)

More in the Newsweek article

witam/welcome

I was asked this morning what this blog will be about; and replied everything. Blogs aren’t supposed to be cluttered with topics of all walks of life, they’re meant to be thematic, targeting  the interests of a particular audience and consequently matter limited. After 2 narrow profiled blogs I plan to start a blog which is not thematically limited. My thoughts don’t follow 3 specific streams only. I’m curious about too many issues, most likely too shallowly, nevertheless, helicopter view person is a tag correctly associated with me.

The core purpose of this blog is to allow me to write about all ideas that come to my mind, rather than only those my older blogs concerned – I naturrally think about more issues than just the island and wedding preparations.

Yet to comply with unwritten standards of blogging, I will give my new blog an angle – note that angle is broader than: topic, field ;) Common to all posts will be the fact that I will write about things I observe and find amusing, interesting or weird, another words worth mentioning. I love to observe, it’s a childhood atavism. I also frequently travel to many places, often places of different cultures and values, therefore I get to observe a fair share. But I also discover curiosities in regular daily life, without neccessarly reaching far or seeking to observe something new and curious. This is what I plan to fill the blog with:) Hence the title.

Dziś rano padło pytanie o czym będzie ten blog. Odpowiedziałam, że o wszystkim. Mimo, że blogi nie powinny być o wszystkim i o niczym, powinny być tematyczne, uderzające w zainteresowania  konkretnej grupy docelowej i konsekwentnie przedmiotowo ograniczone. Po 2 tematycznie wąskich blogach planuję zacząć blog, który nie będzie zawężony do jednej dziedziny. Moje myśli nie biegną przecież  precyzyjnie określonymi 3 torami wyłącznie. Jestem zainteresowana zbyt dużą ilością spraw, zapewne zbyt płytko, niemniej jednak, człowiek z helicopter view to właściwe zaszufladkowanie mojej osoby.

Podstawowym celem tego blogu jest odnotowywanie rozważeń na wszystkie tematy, a nie tylko tych dotyczących wyspy i ślubu.

Jednak stosując się do niepisanych zasad blogowania, nadam wspólną nić swoim postom – nić przewodnia to szersze pojęcie niż temat czy dziedzina. Moje posty będzię łączyć to, że będę pisać o tym co obserwuję i co wydaje mi się zabawne, interesujące lub dziwne, innymi słowy warte wspomnienia. Uwielbiam obserwować, to atawizm z okresu dzieciństwa. Jednocześnie dość często podróżuję, często w miejsca o innych kulturach i wartościach, przez co moje zapotrzebowanie na obserwacje jest zaspokajane w dość wysokim stopniu. Ponadto odkrywam ciekawostki w zwykłym dniu codziennym, bez koniecznego sięgania w dal czy starania sie zaobserwować coś nowego i ciekawego. Temu mam zamiar poświęcić ten blog:) Stąd tytuł.