“Summer Moved On…”

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Since summer really seems to be gone, all but calendar-wise, the best thing to do is to remember great moments of the passing season (paying an homage to A-ha with the title at the same time) – so, here it is – Best Of Summer 2013 Visuals:

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Interview with HURTS (Theo Hutchcraft & Adam Anderson) – with Claudia – VOLT Festival 2013, Sopron, Hungary, July 4th

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Interview with Tony Palermo (Papa Roach) – with Claudia – VOLT Festival 2013, Sopron, Hungary, July 5th

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With Michael “Moose” Thomas (Bullet For My Valentine) – VOLT Festival 2013, Sopron, Hungary, July 6th

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In the VIP Lounge of VOLT Festival 2013, Sopron, Hungary, July 4th

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With Bazie and Jyrki69 (The 69 Eyes) at Masters Of Rock Festival 2013, Vizovice, Czech Republic, July 12

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“Before Midnight” in Munich, June 2013 – Now I not only have to do Paris tour, but a Greece tour as well!

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Munich Train Station & in my favourite club “Titty Twister” with Veldina, June 2013

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In Munich’s Café Katzentempel, August 2013

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Munich, near the Glyptothek, August 2013

The trip to the Netherlands and the gallery are under Travelogue & Gallery, respectively. The interview with HURTS is right here, the interview with Tony from Papa Roach can be found here, while you can read the report on VOLT Festival following this link. The report and gallery from MOR 2013 are all on The69Eyes.ba.
Munich is in my verses…

World Animal Day Ambassador for Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Dear readers,

some of you may know how much I 16.2.2008 8_00_13love animals. Ever since I was a baby, really, I’ve been enjoying their unconditional love and company and I’ve tried to return these wonderful gifts as much as I could (here’s me with a cat my mom saved from death when he was only six days old and left all alone).

I owe this love to my family, who’s been dedicated to helping animals for the better part of the 20th century. Even my great-grandfather, who was a Muslim priest, loved animals, especially cats, and paid extra attention to whom he would give kittens to – only people with cows and sheep, who could, therefore, provide milk and other food to the little ones (and that was about a hundred years ago at least). Looking back at the path I’ve taken in my life so far, it has been filled with animals and much effort to improve the state of their welfare here in my town and elsewhere.

with_Barky_01This was the reason why my colleague Mevlija, my uncle Hajrudin and I founded the Animal Protection Society “Warm Paw” in Velika Kladuša. Now, more than two year later, we can also look behind and marvel at what we’ve accomplished so far, with the help of like-minded people here: our colleagues, friends, volunteers. But this is just the beginning.

Yesterday I received news which brought me immense joy and now I am spreading it, proud and humbled at the same time by the honour bestowed upon me: I have become the World Animal Day Ambassador for Bosnia and Herzegovina! Here you can read the entry at the official website of the World Animal Day initiative at:

http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/ambassadors/bosnia-herzegovina/

Here’s the news on the official website of Warm Paw.

I will do everything in my power to fulfill my duties as a World Animal Day ambassador and strive further to raise awareness on animal rights. I’m so honoured by this title and happy to be a part of such extraordinary team of animal advocates around the world!

“The Only Way To Soothe My Soul…”

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za_index_1 Always fascinated with the passage of time, I marked another milestone five months ago (almost to the day, hence my writing) – as you may have seen from my revised biography, I’m a doctoral student as of November 2012! I’m currently attending the Doctoral studies in Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Croatia. It didn’t take me long to get back into this “comfortable” role (less than a year after I finished the Master studies), but I ascribe that to the general notion that rules my thoughts which is: “if you’re not going forward, you’re stagnating”. Good old Oscar Wilde would put it: “You can never be overdressed or overeducated“. So far, I’m more than impressed with the quality of the programme and I’ve gained seven new colleagues, to whom I give my best regards. Accepting this new challenge, I found myself invigorated by the overwhelming amount of new knowledge and I felt that Yeats’ fire rekindled inside! This is truly the only path for me, the only way to soothe my soul... Recently I passed two exams (collecting As again!), so basically I still got the mojo (couldn’t resist this sentence)! This is also the reason why I’m not posting as I’d like to (or as someone dear has said to me recently “your neglected website”), but I’ll find time here and there to put some new travelogues up (Bratislava and Vienna, respectively), as well as some photo galleries from journeys past (btw, the photo on the left was taken for my student report card – tried to project a bit of Princess Leia and Jesse, the clever librarian because of a bad hair day). New verses are not forgotten, only carelessly hidden inside my journals until it’s time for them to be published – speaking of, I’ve got the title of my next book down to two possible choices – exciting times! Until then, be well and enjoy my music picks of the year so far (looking forward to their summer shows!):