I’ve made some progress with this blog’s traffic. It is surprising that I no longer live in Sarajevo and have stopped updating the blog for such a long time. Honestly, I wanted to end the blog. But forget about stopping the blog for now; it’s here to stay. I now have new objectives: My traffic [...]
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Souvenir shops
The shop I bought the sugar holder (15KM) and plate (15KM) for hanging on the wall. The prices can vary depend on the shops and their owners. Feel free to bargain. Personally I hate doing this, but some vendors tend to charge ridiculously high for tourists. At least the man in this shop was quite [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Eurovision 2006 Voting Breakdown
Is there a former-Soviet-bloc voting influence? Well, why don’t you tell me? Influential factors 1. Neighbors 2. Culture (religion, political, common language, etc) 3. Taste in music Now let start the dissection. Voters -> Votees (listed by the points they received, in descending order) BALKAN(Neighbor and Political. These countries are the ex-Yugoslavia) Croatia -> Bosnia, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Laundromat
Here is the only laundromat I found (actually my friend found) which does regular washing beside dry cleaning. In USA, laundromats are everywhere, but good luck finding such in Sarajevo. I moved into this apartment in Koševko Brdo which did not have a washing machine. So for a few months, i had to hand wash [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Burek, Bosnian pies
Burek is another popular semi-fastfood meal, second-famous after cevapi. Burek is a common term to refer the pie with meat inside. In Croatia, Burek is the same pie with cheese instead. Pie with cheese is sirnica (a bit sour), with spinach is zeljanica , with potato is krompiruša, a bit salty). Cost of each ranges [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Book binding
righCOPY Ferhadija 33 033 237 133 061 211 541- www.rightcopy.ba – rightcopy@rightcopy.ba – Open: 8 to 20 Mon to Fri, 9 to 16 on Sat, and 10 to 15 on Sun. I paid 30KM for a book with 450 pages.
Read the rest of this entry »Summer drink, Boza
It’s crunch time! I only have a few more days in Sarajevo, so my friend took me to the center for a brief tour called "Have you tried this and that?" We went to a sweet shop at the intersection between the oOld and Austrian part where she ordered me the cold drink Boza. Well [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Outbreak WWI 1914
When you hear of WWI, you will hear about the major players such as Germany, Austria, Russia, France, England, etc. But it was an incident in Sarajevo in which a nationalist Serb assassinated the heir to the Habsburg throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 that led to a chain of human nonsense called [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Tito’ Korean child
This clip is hilarious as the little Korean girl singing song about Tito. I wonder whether she is from North Korea. It was typical in communist Asian countries to sing song praising the communist leaders. In Vietnam, there were songs and poems praising Ho Chi Minh and Stalin. Gosh know who else? Such a cute [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Tito’s funeral
The song in the video is absolutely beautiful. Do you know the name of the song?  Reader comment: The song is called “Lili Marleen†and this particular recording is song by Lala Andersen. There is another version of it song by Marlene Dietrich, which was an immensely popular song among German soldiers during WWII. This [...]
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