Happy 7th anniversary / 7 godina braka

~ au

Long time ago a couple of girlfriends where discussing what we wanted of the future man. Mostly, it was that he should be tall, well trained, blond, brown, educated and so on. I remember I said that I wanted someone I can argue with. I don’t know why I said it, but I really meant it. I guess I know I am not too simple a person to live with :p Then I met a person that I could argue with.  Today it is 7 years since we married. We have had our share of  disagreements but also great moments and a wonderful daughter. Who would have thought that long ago when we first met as students:)2016-07-25 23.10.36 Nekad davno smo ja i par prijateljica diskutovale kakav treba muskarac da bude. Vecina ih je govorila hoce visokog, istreniranog, plavih ili neke ipak radije hoce smedjih ociiju. Trebao je biti skolovan, zaradjivati i.t.d. Ja se sjecam da sam rekla da hocu nekog s kim se mogu svadjati. Ne znam zasto sam to rekla ali sam to stvarno mislila. Vjerovatno zato sto znam da sam malo “teska” :p

Uglavnom sretoh tako osobu sa kojom mogu da se “posvadjam”. Vec 7 godina smo vjencani i imali smo svojih ratova a i fantasticnih momenata. Imamo i jednu prekrasnu kcerku. Ko bih rekao da ce tako biti davne godine kad smo se kao studenti sreli..:)

Up in the air / U letu

~ au

After a month and a half in Sweden, with a short trip in Iceland in between, me and Ada where again on the road…or rather up in the air.
The most important of this trip was that I have said good bye to my grandmother. I hope I will see her again, but in the bad shape she is in I do not believe I will. She is getting worse for each day and it is very depressing to see a her deteriorate. Here is one of the last pictures that I probably have with her.
Nakon mjesec i po dana u Svedskoj, sa kratkim putovanjem za Island, ja i Ada smo opet bili na putu
Najvaznije sto sam obavila ovog putovanja je da sam vidjela moju majku i da smo se mogle pozdraviti. Nadam se da cu je opet vidjeti ali tesko. Svakim danom je sve gora i gora. Deprimirajuci je gledati je kako se “raspada”. Ovo je jedna od zadnjh slika sto imam od nje. IMG-20160712-WA0007Last couple of days have been quite hard. Since I was leaving I had to clean the whole apartment. I had to sort out tons of things. I am still tired of that work but I feel quite satisfied having finally done it. I also cannot thank my family enough because they have been there to help me.
Ada suddenly got very calm while I was clearing up some things. I now know why…
Zadnjih par dana su bili dosta naporni. Posto idem morala sam citav stan ocistiti. Tako da smo tonu stvari sortirali i ocistili. Jos uvijek sam umorna od toga, ali sam zadovoljna sto smo to uradili. Ne mogu se dovoljno zahvaliti mojoj familiji sto su mi pomogli. 
Dok sam sredjivala neke stvari Ada se fino umirila…20160716_103210_resized
Here are some pics from the time we spent together with the family. / Par slika od vremena sto smo zajedno proveli. 

And finally a pic from our flight to Karlsruhe. We landed in Berlin- Tegel airport.  We were flying with a propeller airplane and I thought it was fun that during the flight I couldn´t see them but in the picture they could be seen.
I noticed there was a difference in service between Norwegian air and Air Berlin.  I definitely prefer Norwegian, except that me and Ada liked the chocolate heart we got from Air Berlin.
Isli smo preko Berlina-Tegel u Karlsruhe. Isli smo sa propeler avionom i zanimljivo mi je bilo da se ne vide u letu, ali kad se uslikaju onda se vide.
Dalje sam primjetila razliku u posluzi izmedju Norwegian Air i Air Berlin. Definitivno su prijatni iz Norwegian, osim sto se na kraju leta dobije ukusno cokoladno srce od Air Berlin. 

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What’s happening to the world ? / Sta se desava sa svijetom?

~ au

Waking up to the news om what happened to Nice made me sad. Then It made me surprised and after some thinking it made me more surprised that things like this do not happen more often.

Then in the evening there is a coup in Turkey. Following worlds happenings the last 25 years I do not believe these two incidents are by chance. I haven’t figured out exactly how they are connected, actually haven’t had time to give it a thought, but I am sure somehow they are connected. It is like watching a magician. You look at one scene but the real happening is on another spot.In-politicnothing-happens-by-accident.__quotes-by-Franklin-D.-Roosevelt-18Probudih se uz vijesti iz Nice. Rastuzila me vijest, pa me malo iznenadila, pa kad sam malo bolje razmislila onda me iznenadilo da nije ranije doslo do takvih dogadjaja.

Onda navecer cujem za “drzavni udar” (ako je to stvarno to) u Turskoj. Prateci vijesti zadnjih 25 godina prestala sam vjerovati u slucajnosti. Nije mi bas skroz jasno kakvu vezu imaju ali sam sigurna da je imaju. To je ono kao kad madjionicar prikazuje trik. Ti gledas u jednu stvar ali se stvarni dogadjaj desava negdje drugo. Tako mi djeluju Nice i Turska trenutno…

Update Stocks / Azuriranje Dionice

~ au

Half the year of 2016has passed and I am still working on the portfolio of our savings. As I already wrote previosly (old post) my goal is to have good dividends, preferrably an amount every month. When the Brexit was voted for there was a minor crash at the stock market where I took the opportunity to buy some stocks. Unfortunately I didn´t have much but I bought a couple of stocks that I have been following for some time. I bought some H&M, Investor, SEB A and Sagax Pref. I have also improved ( 1200 kr) with the dividends for the year comparing to last year (280 kr) which is motivating me a little bit. All the dividends I am reinvesting in new stocks.
My next goal when it comes to stocks is to get 10 000kr dividends per year!Presentation1
U polu vremenu od 2016. se jos uvijek bavim sa svojim porftoliom dionica. Kao sto sam u starom postu vec pisala cilj mi je da imamo dobre dividende. Po mogucnost svakog mjeseca. Kad su Britanci izglasali Brexit doslo je do manjeg histericnog pada na berzi. Tu sam iskoristila mogucnost da kupim neke dionice. Nazalost nisam imala nesto puno novca, ali sam ipak uspijela kupiti nekoliko H&M, Investor, SEB A i Sagax Pref dionica.
Poboljsala sam isto svoje dividende poredeci sa proslom godinom tako da me to isto malo motivise. Isto tako sve dividende reinvestiram u nove dionice.
Slijedeci cilj mi je da dobijem 10 000 kr dividendi godisnje!

Shallow – Vampire Diaries / Plitko – Vampire Diaries

~ au

In times like this when my grandmother is in very bad shape, I feel very reliefed that I can stay here in the city. Distance is killing when some one close is in such a bad shape that every call you get you expect the worse news. On the other hand it seems to me that I have reduced all my free time to some shallow things to do. Nothing that takes brain energy is done. When I am free in the evening I started to watch THE teenie serial Vampire Diaries. I am completely stuck with it now and would just like to finish it so I can start read or do something constructive.
On the other hand maybe this is exactly what I need in times like this. Maybe it is a system shut down to give the brain some opportunity to think and dream about some eternal life where everyone is young, looking good and happy. In any case it is a weird feelingvampire-diaries-17-so-you-think-you-re-a-vampire-diaries-fan-can-you-remember-who-said-these-memorable-quotes-jpeg-225020U vremenima poput ovih kad mi je majka jako lose, jako mi je olaksavajuce psihicki da mogu biti ovdje u gradu. Daljina je (meni) ubitacna kad je neko tako lose i kad svaki poziv koji ocekujes onaj sa najgorim vjestima. Dalje, imam osjecaj da sam u slobodno vrijeme reducirala sve aktivitete koje zahtijevaju imalo mozga. Nista sto mi je psihicki naporno ne radim. Kad sam slobodna pocnem gledati “naj djeciju” seriju Vampire Diaries. Skroz sam se navukla na nju, i jedva cekam da zavrsi da pocnem nesto konstruktivno raditi i citati.
Ali u drugu ruku je mozda upravo to sto mi treba u ovakvim vremenima. Mozda je to  neka vrsta iskljucenje sistema i odmor za mozak kad mogu sanjati o nekom vjecnom zivotu gdje su svi mladi, zdravi i lijepi… U svakom slucaju jako cudan osjecaj…

Balthazar science park for children / Balthazar park nauke za djecu

~ au

If you are close to the city Skövde I would recommend a visit to Balthazar, a science park for children. It is one of the best I have been to. The concept is fantastic. The main part is science made such to interest children of all ages. There is also a place for taking a “fika” ( coffee,  cakes and some simple dishes are served) . I find it interesting for grown ups also. Here are some pics from the times we have been there.

Ako ste u blizini Skövdea ja bih vam preporucila da odete u Balthazar. To je jedan park nauke za djecu. Jedan od boljih u kojem sam bila. Koncept im je fantastican. Glavni dio je tako uradjen da motivise i aktivira djecu i da im ucini nauku zanimljivom. Ima isto mjesto za kafenisanje. Prodaju tu i par laganih jela. Dobro je sto je ovaj park i interesantan i za odrasle. Evo par slika od ovih par puteva sto smo bili tamo. 20160708_144421

Life is strange / Cudan li je ovaj zivot

~ au

It feels strange to visit my grandmother. To see her getting worse. It feels awkward asking her how she is. Obviously, how will a person, that has always been independent,  feel knowing that she will not get better.
I wonder than if the medicine really has improved? What is the point of longer life when the person is completely bound to the bed. Of course I find that medicine has improved,  but seeing my grandmother like this still makes me wonder if it is human to prolong a persons life at any cost. For the  the beloved ones, obviously, we want our grandmother to live as long as possible, but hearing my grandmother say with tired voice “the doctors do not even allow me to die”, then I start to wonder…
After the visit I come home and see the children jump around and scream of laughter this beautiful day.
Life is truely a weird thing…abrahamlincoln137180Cudan je to osjecaj otici kod majke. Vidjeti kako je sve losija i kako polako propada. Cudan je osjecaj pitati je kako se osjeca. Mislim, kako ce se osjecati osoba koja je uvijek bila neovisna i veliki radnik a sada lezi u krevetu? Ne moze sjesti sama a kamoli da uradi nesto drugo. I najgore je sto zna da nece biti bolja. Da li je danasnja medicina onda stvarno napredovala? U sebi mislim – “naravno da jeste”. Ali kad pocnem razmisljati malo upitam se da li je stvarno  humano produzivati zivot nekome ako je ta osoba osudjena da bude u krevetu i da u biti nista ne radi bez ikakve mogucnost ka poboljsanju? Naravno mi bi htjeli da nam majka bude sto duze ziva, ali kad cujem majku kako kaze- “ovdje doktori ne daju ni umrijeti” onda se upitam… I onda dodjem kuci i vidim djecu kako veselo skacu u jednom prelijepom danu i pomislim cudan li je ovaj zivot…

Brexit

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I guess everyone got a little surprised regarding UK and Brexit. Every expert says that today will be a dramatic decrease at  the stockmarket. I have some stocks I am looking at and hope actually that these following days they will deacrese in price so that I can buy a couple of stocks on sales. Last few weeks there has been volatility which has given mi opportunity to buy a couple of H&M stocks. Hopefully, this is a good buy and that it will increase with the time. I am still keeping my strategy or idea to try to get a portfolio that is giving me dividends that I can invest again. The interest on interest effect so to say.
2016-06-27 17.01.29Some of the stocks I keep an eye on / Neke od dionica koje pratim

Mislim da su se svi malo iznenadili sto se tice Velike Britanije i Brexita. Svaki ekspert kaze da ce danas biti prilicno velik pad na berzama u Evropi. Posto imam nekoliko dionica koje pratim onda se stvarno nadam da su ti eksperti u pravu da bih mogla kupiti par dionica na snizenju.
Zadnjih par sedmica su bile dosta volatilne i dale su mi mogucnost da kupim nekoliko H&M dionica. Naravno, nadam se da je to dobra kupovina bila i da ce se vrijednost dionice povisiti i da ce ostati dobra dividenda. Jer jos uvijek je moja strategija ili ideja da probam izgraditi portfolio koji mi daje dividende koje mogu ponovo uloziti u dionice. Tako reci da iskoristim efekat kamate na kamatu.

Age / Starost

~ au

Aging and illness are terrible things. No matter how much you try to keep the hope inside you know it won´t get better. I try to convince myself how my grandmother had quite a long life but the moment I see her it doesn´t help. Even if she would have already lived for 200 years it would feel that the life is too short. Especially, when it is going towards the end. It is like a aeroplane landing. Up in the air you feel you fly slowly and when landing it feels faster and faster and suddenly you have landed and stopped. It is the same with a life.
And what does my grandmother say to me?
She tells me the chinese proverb ” A healthy man has 1000 wishes, a sick one has just one“. Remember that! majkina ruka
Starost i bolest je jedna grozna stvar. Koliko god se trudis da zadrzis nadu znas da nema nista od toga. Sebe ohrabrujes kako je ipak majka imala dug vijek ali dzaba kad je vidim kako bolesna i slaba lezi cini mi se da je i 200 godina zivjela da je vijek itekako kratak. Pogotovo kad se vijek sve priblizava kraju sve brze i brze ide. Isto kao kad avion slijece. Nekako sporo letis a u momentu kad sleces sve brzinski proleti i dok si rekao keks avion je stao. Tako isto zivot.
I sta mi kaze majka na to sve ?
Ponovi mi kinesku poslovicu ” Zdrav covjek ima 1000 zelja a bolestan samo jednu“. Zapamti to sine!

Iceland- Whale museum / Island- Muzej kitova

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Last day in Iceland with rainy gloomy and pretty cold (11 degrees) weather we decided to go to the whale museum. The plan was to watch them live but many icelanders said that it makes no sense to watch wales in Reykjavik this time of the year, because the whales wander to the north of Iceland.
The whale museum itself was nicely made, but there where all just models. Although just models they were impressing and it was interesting to read about the whales.
After the whale museum we slowly finished off our Iceland trip by nice dinner (tried a mink whale steak, it was delicious) and walk around in Reykjavik. I admit here I was quite tired after all the impressions and felt that this wonderful trip went to the end.

Zadnji dan u Islandu je bio kisnjav, tmuran i dosta hladan (oko 11 stepeni) i tako smo odlucili otici u muzej kitova. Bilo smo planirali otici gledati kitove uzivo, ali su nam islandjani rekli da nema svrhe jer su vecina kitova otplivali u sjevernije djelove drzave.
Muzej kitova je bio lijepo uradjen. Iako su sve bili samo modeli, dobili smo osjecaj za velicinu kitova i bilo je interesantno citati informacije o njima.
Nakon muzeja smo vec bili iscrpljeni od citavog putovanja i utisaka sto smo imali i nase fantasticno putovanje u Islandu smo zavrsili tako sto smo otisli na veceru (probali smo steak od mink kita- jako je ukusno) i prosetali jos malo kroz Reykjavik… IMG_3921