Southbank

One of my favourite places in London on Sundays. Full of tourists but still nice (wasn't I the tourist myself just few years ago?)

Dalykai, kurie auga namie - Things that grow at home

Levandos

Grazgarstes

Bazilikas

Nuovargis

Meile

Vaikai

Atstumas (nebutinai geografinis)

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Lavender

Rocket

Basil

Tiredness

Love

Kids

Distance (not necesarry geographical)

Krenta - Fall

Ziedlapiai, kvieciantys vasara,

vaikai, besimokantys vaikscioti.

Taciau vaikai vel pakyla, ir eina toliau:)

Petals, inviting summer,

Kids, learning to walk.

But kids rise again, and continue.

Pleasures of the morning

To rub coconut body butter on skin
To look at milk for the coffee, rising, as it nearly starts to boil
To put fresh flowers into a clear glass vase

A year

How much does a 1 year old person know?

How much he will remember?

What does he dream of?

I love him so much...

Spring in London

I love London in Spring time...

Then people swap shopping bags to "take away" coffee cups

and lies down their business suits on the happy grass in the parks.

The earthquake in Chile

When the earth is shaken with its earthquake.

And when the earth throws out its burdens,

And man will say: "What is the matter with it?"

That Day it will declare its information (about all what happened over it of good or evil).

As your Lord has inspired it to do so.

That Day mankind will proceed in scattered groups that they may be shown their deeds.

So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom, shall see it.

And whosoever does evil equal to the weight of an atom, shall see it. (The Qur'an)

How horrible is to read it... So what about experiencing it...

Mawlid - the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad

The Messenger of God (saws) said: "The most complete in faith are those best in character and kindest to their families"
Dievo Pasiuntinys (saws) pasake: "Labiausiai isbaigtas tikejimas yra tu, kurie yra geriausio charakterio ir svelniausi savo seimoms"

The Messenger of God (saws) said: "Fulfillment is not plenty of goods; rather, it is self-fulfillment"
Dievo Pasiuntinys (saws) pasake: "Pilnatve tai ne daiktu gausa, o vidine pilnatve"

The Messenger of God (saws) said: "If a man's actions slow him down, his good name will not speed him up"
Dievo Pasiuntinys (saws) pasake: "Jei zmogaus veiksmai ji traukia atgal, jo geras vardas nepastumes jo priekin"

The Messenger of God (saws) said: "A kind word is charity"
Dievo Pasiuntinys (saws) pasake: "Geras zodis yra labdara"

The Messenger of God (saws) said: "God veils the faults of anyone who suppresses his anger"
Dievo Pasiuntinys (saws) pasake: "Dievas uzdengia ydas tu, kurie sutvardo savo pykti"

The Messenger of God (saws) said: "Never do in private what you would conceal from others in public"
Dievo Pasiuntinys (saws) pasake: "Niekada nedaryk slapcia to, ko nedarytum viesai"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8dGisCH-HA&feature=related

"The Pillow book" book

"In spring, the dawn. The sky, dyed in morning light, slowly brightens and purple clouds stretch across the mountains...

In summer, the night. I need not write of the nights lit by the moon, but of the moonless nights, the fireflies' lights crossing in the darkness. . .

In autumn, the evening. The setting sun burnishes the edges of the mountains and the birds fly home. . . . A trembling line of wild geese flies into the distance and disappears. . .

In winter, it is the early morning. Of course it is delightful when snow is falling, but even when there is a pure-white frost -- or in the freezing cold without either snow or frost -- the way the fire is hurriedly stirred up and coals carried to all the rooms seems most suited to the season...

Sei Shonagon "The Pillow book", ~1000

"The pillow book" movie

"Warm rain falling from the mountainous clouds.
Walking slowly dressed in crimson thinking of Kyoto.
Kissed by a lover in the Matsuo Tiasha garden.
Quiet water and loud water...



Love in the afternoon in imitation of history.
Love before and love after...



If God approved of His creation. He brought the painted clay-model to life. By signing His own name...
Flesh and the writing table...



Writing of love and finding it."

P. Greenaway "The Pillow book" 1996

Makan

"a Place" in arabic. A small Malaysian cafe/restaurant in Portobello road.
I never knew how Malaysian food tastes or looks like. Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Korean, Middle Eastern - it is amazing how a mixture of cultures, languages, minds and faiths can live together perfectly in a plate:)



www.makancafe.co.uk

10 menesiu - 10 months

10 ilgu trumpu menesiu, praejusiu tarsi diena, valanda, minute. Gyvenimas yra grazus:)
10 long short months that passed like a day, an hour, a minute. Life is beautiful:)



Silciausi linkejimai visoms mamoms:)
Regards to all mums:)

My Beloved Grandmother - Mano Mylima Mociute

It is her b-day today.
She would have been 93...
Siandien jos gimtadienis.
Jai butu buve 93...


The tallest one, after the show for parents


At the ballet studies




With her brazilian dance partner Tito


The front one, with her sister as a dance partner


Working


First from the left, with her 3 sisters


With my Grandad, my mum and my uncle

I love her so much:)

Beautiful Haiti

It is almost a week after the horrible day, and I know it is not much, it is the least - just my thoughts and prayers - are still with the people of the island.

I have found these photos on the internet, and I hope their authors will not get mad on me for posting them here. Thank you


By ToniS3


By Colypso


By LaurenG1219


By Encebras


By SergeC

Dideli mazi dziaugsmai - Big little joys

Vakar buvo labai laiminga diena..

Nuostabios medziagos, rastos kampineje mazyteje parduotuveleje, kur viskas sukrauta iki pat lubu, ir norint ka nors pasiekti reikia nusiauti batus ir lipti per karoliuku, virveliu, zvilganciu juosteliu ir medziagu ritiniu kalnus...

Kava "Portobello road"...

Pokalbis apie vaikus su senyva praeive gatvej...

Laiskas nuo brangios brangios drauges...

jame - knygos,

muzika,

smilakas,

nuotrauka,

siluma,

mintys,

viskas, ka mes turejome ir - tikiuosi - turesime ateity

Juk mums visiems reikia tiek nedaug, tiesa?

Grazios jums dienos:)

Pasiruosimai - Preparations

Nuo ryto kepu lietinius blynus - viena pigiausiu, paprasciausiu ir mano vaiku megstamiausiu dalyku.

Su lydytu geltonu suriu, su troskintais spinatais, su rukyta lasisa, su raudona ikra ir grietine (taip, cia jau nebelabai pigu), su bananais ir ledais, su sokoladu, su kriausiu uogiene... Su bet kuo. Nene, receptu cia nebus... Juk ir taip jus viska zinot:)


Yra burejai is kavos tirsciu. Idomu, ar yra tokiu, kurie tai daro is blynu "piesiniu" ?:))

Taip pat siandien pastu gavau savo pirmaji japoniskos medvilnes gabaliuka! Pasiruosimai, mintys, idejos, galbut eskizai... Kol kas dar nezinau, ka su juo darysiu:) Kazka.

Su penktadieniu visus, ypac Rasa!

Pusryciams - For breakfast

Mano vel pradeta gerti kava, ir ka tik is Egipto atveztas sviezias duonos paplotelis, papiruso plonumo:)

Stai ka matau, kai guledama lovoj maitinu savo mazaji

Vel - Again

Labas.

Ir vel tikiuosi rasyti. Po metu pertraukos, per kuria ivyko daug (apie tai - veliau:).

O tuo tarpu - Londone sninga, vaikai visa ryta praziurejo pro langa, o as vel pradejau gerti kava.

Ir jums geros dienos :)