https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/An alien observes the world. Working under cover, she (because it's female alien) has regular day job. English is not her native language(how could it be, she is an alien), but she manages. This column is search result of her observation hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/525903Is there any of you bloggers who is celebrating his/her birthday today, blowing a candles after three years? If there is I'll be the first one to send my best wishes, 'cause over here it's just a minute after midnight on a Leap year day. I've just read that in Anglo-Saxson countries, there is a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/525674Today, I was in situation to defend my friend from the criticism of her new neighbor. Again. I wonder, how the hell some people manage to make enemy of any person they meet? Trying to be as objective as I can, I had to give some credit to a lady who was complaining about Maia. She wasn't the only...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/525198Japanese scientist presented a machine which measures laugh. He also invented measuring unit for laugh, which he named "ha". When our brain sends signal for laughing, our diaphragm reacts almost immediately. By detecting a movements of diaphragm, machine can tell if somebody is laughing honestly...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/524704My son has tomorrow a basketball game with a tim which is No.1 and he was very anxious. Different things can be done to get rid of anxiety. I saw a people breath in the paper bag, use yoga or some other technics. What always worked with me, is just thinking of something else. Something...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/524436Violence was always beyond, my ability to understand. If you can't live with somebody, can't you just live beside him? Ignore him, if you don't like him. But let him live. Don't kill him. I was born in Yugoslavia ( that's how that country, doesn't exist any more, was called ), in Serbian part,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/524191This evening, after a fire was taken under control in US Embassy in Belgrade, burned body was found inside the Embassy. This was reported by two Serbian television channels. According to the report of Pink Television, police said, body was in the state that even gender can't be found before DNA...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/522525In one high school in Stockholm, school authorities decided, that this year, on a Valentine's day, flowers are not allowed in the school. Reason for such a decision is to protect those kids who won't get any flowers, from feeling rejected and miserable. We all know, how it is in high school days....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/island/522261Today, my son won for the third continual year, town's championship in a basketball for a kids of his age. As any parent would be I am proud, but this feeling is even stronger because, he is an emigrant's child. But, that's something I'll tell him when he is old enough to understand. In age of...