Month: July 2020

A few years ago my family and I started setting goals for myself at the beginning of the year and I tried to achieve them during the year.

Here are a few goals I achieved:

1.   I did an aquathlon.  24. september 2017.

2.     Wrote a story.  22. june 2018.

3.     Designed a T-shirt.  10. july 2018.

4.   Did a half marathon.  14. april 2019.

The goals I hope to finish this year:

1.   Ride a mountain bike on the track through the forest Kosutnjak.
2.   Write 20 posts on my WordPress site.

Today almost everyone uses an email, for work or for personal use. This set of rules will hopefully help those who don’t know how to write an email.

1.   Write the email of the recipient or recipients of the email. Besides the “To” you can also put the email address under the “Cc” which means Carbon Copy and “Bcc” which means Blind Carbon Copy. The difference is the recipients put under the “To” have to answer the email while the Cc and Bcc only get the copy of the email and they don’t have to answer it. Bcc can’t be seen by other people who get the email, but the Cc can be seen.

2.   Write the subject. It’s usually just one sentence or a few words explaining the theme of the email. The subject is important because the computer can group emails by the subject and the recipient can see what the sender asks of him before opening the email.

3.   Write the body email. Firstly write the name of the recipient. You can also put the adjective “dear” in front of the name but that isn’t necessary. After the name put a comma and continue writing the email in the next lane. This isn’t a real rule you have to follow but I think it would help. Before you write the email you write what the email is. If you want to ask somebody something you write question or if you want to inform somebody about something you write information or if you want to give somebody a task you write task.

4.   If you want to send a link or an attachment or a photo you can use the icons at the bottom of the email.

 

None of the emails in the post are real.

In my last post I covered the protests in Serbia and how the media didn’t investigate it well and ended up covering just a tiny part of the whole story.    So that brings me to the question, can we trust the media? Can we be sure that what we hear on the news is correct?

Of course not. We can never be sure if the media is lying on purpose because it doesn’t want us to know the truth or if the media didn’t investigate the story they were covering well enough or if the media is telling the truth. But if the topic truly interests us we can always find out the truth. If the events are near you, you can go and check them out and see what is going on with your own eyes. Today the television isn’t the only source of news. A lot of people have a lot of social media and a number of people that are partaking in the events would probably be filming it or live streaming it, so if you don’t want to go personally to the event, but still want to see if the media is lying or telling the truth you can simply check that out.

What I’m trying to say is that whether the media is telling the truth or is knowingly or unknowingly lying that shouldn’t stop you from finding out the truth.

Form july 8th 2020 until july 16th 2020 people have been protesting on the streets of Serbia’s capital city Belgrade. An international television Deutsche Welle sent a reporter that didn’t have much knowledge on the topic and reported an unfinished story, so I just wanted to clear up the misunderstanding.

The protestors are protesting against the government and the president because they aren’t happy with the voting results and believe that the president mitigated the quarantine because it was the time of the year for voting and he didn’t want to reschedule it. I personally don’t think that that is true and that he mitigated the quarantine because the number if Covid-19 cases was decreasing and the strict quarantine wasn’t needed anymore, but now after the protest the numbers of Covid-19 cases has greatly increased.

In an interview with Deutsche Welle the reporter didn’t cover the story to the whole extend and ended up reporting just a tiny part, but in the second interview he explained the situation much better with a lot more detail.

The interview with a reporter reporting on Serbian protests for Deutsche Welle

The interview where the reporter admits to not reporting the full story 

There are two reasons why everybody works, has hobbies or just does actions that are needed to be done in order to survive.

1.    Survival – In order to survive you have to do a number of actions that guarantee your well being like sleeping, going to the bathroom, working to make money, to be able to pay for food, house, taxes, etc. You don’t have to love these actions and they don’t have to make you happy, but nevertheless you still have to do them.
2.    Happiness – Everybody wants to be happy, and we are happy when we do  actions we love and want to do. These actions don’t have to be necessary but we still do them because they make us happy. Happiness isn’t the same with everybody, somebody might like and be happy when watching movies and somebody when cooking. Let’s say Mark’s hobby is reading and he reads a book every three days, but he doesn’t do it because he has to, he does it because he loves reading and it makes him happy.

Of course you can’t be happy all the time. You’re going to feel as much sadness, anger, envy, fear as happiness, and that’s perfectly normal. All we have to know is how to get back in our happy mood and that is very easy – just do what you love.