Stunning vide - nature's beauty

I found a stunning video on the www.news.discovery.com website.
Beautiful nature! Fantastic video about the Yosemita National Park.
The Nature provides us with such  astounding experiences!

http://news.discovery.com/earth/time-lapse-video-yosemite-national-park-120125.html

Captain Coward of the Costa Concordia

When I read on the internet the news about the Concordia and the coward captain, I was upset. I think in the history of shipping he is the most hated person right now, with reason, in Italy definitely.

I really do not understand how the captain could have abandon his ship, left behind the passengers and the crew.
A captain is not an ordinary person, he can be in panic, he can allow himself to be in panic. He cannot risks thousands of life just to do a stupid 'salute' to someone. He should have known to be close to the mainland can causes problem. Otherwise why is there a path regulation when everybody could go whither soever they want.

We have a natural and automatically trust to people like doctor, policeman, fire-fighter  and for example captain of the ship. We trust our life in their hands. We trust when something goes wrong they always know what is the right thing to do. We think, of course, that nothing can go wrong because they do their job and always think before acting.
And when unfortunately something happens they have to be calm and determinate and the first thought has to be to safe as many life as possible.  They been educated and trained how to act in crisis. To stand there and act in favour of people. That is their job. That is why we trust them. Putting behind the thought to saving their own life and risking themselves to save others. That is the definition of hero. Like the pilot of the jet that landed on the Hudson River.

The passengers and even the crew depending on the captain. I do not know much about ship policy, but definitely there is a rule that the last person how allowed to get off the ship is the captain. And there can not be any kind of reason to do otherwise.
And that is a very lame excuse that 'I fell into a lifeboat', of course total accidentally. I read many articles how passengers, staff and crew member tried to safe people. After the captain vanished  - and even before that, according to the statements - the crew and passengers have been trying to do their best.

The captain is also a human. He is not perfect. He may makes a mistake. But the worst and the most unforgivable thing he can do is abandon his chip. There is no excuse for this.

Horses - one of people best friends

I like to take pictures in my free-time. I took this one few months ago.
I was calling him with a whistle and the horse came to me instantly. I was hiking with my friend as we saw a yard full with horses. I couldn't go by without taking some photos.

So, when I took this photo the horse was very close.
We looked into  one other eyes.

And of course I stroked  its big nose:)))

Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth

I have to admit I am a series fan. I watch more series than movies. Formerly it was reverse, but today somehow movies are not so great. I hardly find a good one and these days I am very picky.


So I watched the series Legend of the Seeker, both season and I liked it very much. So much when I found it out it was based on a novel by Terry Goodkind I had to buy the first three books.
And I wasn't disappointed. I still reading the books and I definitely will read all the books. In my opinion the series was very good adapted from the books, but the book are always better.
 
I started to read it in English, but it is available in Hungarian too.

If you like adventure story and watched the series,  I'm sure you will be a fan of the book too.

You can read it about it here (English)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Truth

You can read it about it here (Hungarian)
http://legendoftheseeker.freeblog.hu/archives/2010/01/01/Terry_Goodkind_konyvei/

Ezel

I never use to watch soap opera. Ok, I do, to be honest, but very rare and it has to be very interesting and very origin. I'm very bored when I able to foreseen what would happen or not. And don't like when writer doesn't have enough creativity but just so much to copy other series. Like I will not watch the USA version of Being Human because I watched the British version first. So I really don't watch copies.

So, I recently started to watch Ezel, a Turkish series and I was very surprised.  First, it is my first series from Turkey and this is definitely not a soap opera, secondly I hardly could wait to the next episode. 

The characters are very good created. The story line get better and better thrilling after time passed. You learn to know what happened to the characters. Why they acting like in one way or other.

I like the most that nobody is just an evil or just a good person. Everybody has a dark and a bright side. As usual,  nobody is just white or black but more grey. I mean  all people change. We act differently about situations.  We all change differently. Sometimes there are not many options to choose and you choose the wrong ones.

Ezel and Eysan - one deep, passionate and deadly love story.

As the saying keeps it: Between hate and love is very thin line.


I really advise to watch it. Very refreshing. Like a book that you can put down until you read it out.

All the episodes can be found on the Youtube. Actually I've  watched several episodes, in spite of that I didn't even understand a single Turkish words - except of the names. But sometimes you don't need words to understand.


Ezel
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezel_%28TV_series%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1534360/

Vandalism

Yesterday I've watched the News in the TV and I got upset. A few young boys went through a city and had vandalised fences and dumpsters. 
I think these days young people have to much free time and do not know what to do. I know we cannot blame just the kids. There are children whit bad background (bad parents or no parents). When parents neglect their kids or spoil them it is not a surprise that does not end well.
But - whatever problem do you have - it does not give a permission to damage or destroy something what does not belong to you.

But I do not think that the solution is putting them into penitentiary or jail. I think more useful would be let them repair the damage.

For example:
- vandalised a fence? go and build it up again whit your own hand
- vandalised an auto? go to a car firm and work 1-2 weeks without payment
- did graffiti on a wall? go and paint it as it was before
etc.
It is a better punishment, maybe they will learn about it.
Or not, but then is still be there the other option and they will not like it, for sure.