a good description

nerd:
1. someone who is boring and unfashionable
2. someone who is extremely interested in computers

hits home on both fronts with me ;)

this one hit home

hilarious:

and yes, I'll probably start being more active here soon...

the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I usually don't do this kind of stuff, but I'm bored, so here goes nothing...

It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag ten people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real - nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name: borna
2. A four Letter Word: born (is that boring?)
3. A boy's Name: bob
4. A girl's Name: bernadette
5. An occupation: beatboxer
6. A color: blue
7. Something you'll wear: boxers
9. A food: biscuits
10. Something found in the bathroom: brush
11. A place: bed!
12. A reason for being late: (I wanna say bed, but that's not allowed, so...) books
13. Something you'd shout: BOOOOM! or BUUUUUFF!!! (can't make up my mind...)
14. A movie title: black adder (it's a series, but come on)
15. Something you drink: banana shake
16. A musical group: black eyed peas
17. An animal: bear
18. A street name: ben gurion
19. A type of car: bee em double-u
20. The title of a song: bumbro!

the wayfarer

I'd heard about this one a long time ago, even talked to one of my friends who helped edit it, but just never had time to watch the trailer... you should do it:


The Wayfarer (promotional trailer) from Jess Firth on Vimeo.

a happy, crazy, laughing farewell

one of the challenges of being here, and something that one simply has to get used to, is people leaving. all the time. last week I went to the airport to drop off a friend, and this week again. but this time it was different... we had fun. lots of fun.

as we reached the airport, we decided to go to McD, grab a bite, hook up his laptop and watch some football. he goes to check in, after about 30 mins I get a call from him - they're going to check through all his handluggage and carry-ons and stuff. so we pack it down, go there and while they're going through all his stuff, we're just standing talking to each other and laughing all the time. they must've thought that we're rather crazy, instead of worrying about what's going on we're just cracking up and having fun. somewhere halfways through all this checking his mom calls to make sure everything's okay, and he hands over the phone to me, having me relay what they're saying to each other. it turned quite interesting when he had to walk away to have his shoes, clothes, belt and stuff checked... I kept on talking :)

the best was yet to come though... since they were going to escort him through the security and everything, there was always a security girl with us, to make sure I didn't give him anything that they hadn't checked. so as we're going to say good bye, he wants to make sure that it's okay for us to hug and say good bye. how he asked could perhaps have been put a bit better though: he turns to the security girl and asks "are we allowed to touch each other?"

at this point, all three of us simply cracked up... I turned around and walked back a few meters, he doubled over, and the security girl was laughing quite a lot too. she gave permission, we hugged, and also asked her to take a picture of us:

as I left, I was smiling and laughing... have never had a better good bye!

me, me, me, me version 2009

I started my annual "me"-wikipedia update last year. here's today's results:

Borna, a town in Saxony, Germany - maybe I should go visit myself? :)

A part of Bahretal in the Sächsische Schweiz district, Saxony, Germany - has apparently changed owners quite a lot...

Borna disease, an infection neurological of warm-blooded animals caused by the Borna virus

Borna Bartolović, a Croatian breakdancer - this article is empty right now [no update 2009]

Borna of Croatia, a Medieval Slavic Prince of Dalmatia - wow!

A Persian word meaning "young." Can also be used as a name. - yupps, that's me

and the new entry of 2009:

The Rabha name of Channa amphibeus - apparently a rare species of snakehead

last post of 2008

it's been a bit of a slow last few months here... but if I make a post tomorrow, it means I at least made it into 2009. this is the first year in a really, really long time (at least 15+) that I've been in the same country the whole year. quite an interesting experience I must say :)

there is someone there

took this picture a while ago... I really like it, with someone praying in the corner, the focus on the flowers, though dark, and the Shrine lit up.

nice quotation

I read this quotation yesterday and really liked it. thought I'd share it here:

How can I claim to have known Thee, when the entire creation is bewildered by Thy mystery, and how can I confess not to have known Thee, when, lo, the whole universe proclaimeth Thy Presence and testifieth to Thy truth?

(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 62)

it's been almost a month...

... since I wrote something, and I actually don't miss it all that much. there's just been too much else on my mind, so writing here has not really been too much of a priority. I'll see if I'll pick it up again or not. until then, here's someone that finally made it:

;-)