Things I plan to do in the next 5 years. 1. Visit Japan, Holland, India, and some icy-cold place (Alaska or Iceland). 2. See all oceans. 3. Smoke a Peace Pipe with a real Native American. 4. Have a baby 5. Figure out all those stocks, shares, bonds, dividends and investment portfolio things. 5A. Get rich. 6. Become successful (still very vague on which field though! Need to work it out). 7. Read all books from my Reading Log. 8. Get confident enough for the black ski slopes. Learn how to ski backwards. 9. Visit Canadian ski slopes in 2010 (By then a friend of mine will hopefully actually move there, so I could visit and ski!). 10. Get a tattoo. 10A. Talk myself out of getting a tattoo: I am a lady, damn it. 11. Learn how to edit digital photographs. 12. Be able to do handstands again (and splits, too). 13. Take some time off, move to a farm and live there, riding horses and looking after other farm animals. 14. Drive a 4WD with a plastic roof over some swampy road. 15. Get rid of pimples and learn how to live with wrinkles. 16. Stop being afraid of planes and flying. Fly to London from NY on one of those hypersonic planes. 17. Get a large, black, fluffy, clever dog. 18. Stop being afraid of ageing. Learn how to turn the time towards myself, not squeezing into it. 19. Get good at baking perfect eclairs, tap dancing, dealing with small kids, simple maths and physics, Spanish, singing, playing piano and learn how to ride a bicycle. 20. To see Mona Lisa, Sunflowers, David, the Thinker, the Black Square. 21. To do 31 days bikram yoga challenge. 22. Keep running this list.

When I hate the whole of humanity, I usually have my good reasons.

• Tiny fitting rooms in shops with bad lighting and no proper puffs or hooks. Which clothes do you drop on the floor in this case, your own or theirs?
• When in shops/restaurants staff speak bad English. Get a dictionary!
• People eating and talking on the phone at the same time.
• Spelling mistakes, especially if they could have been avoided. Also, typos in business emails.
• When machines and mechanisms have “me” notes on them. Do not feed me – on the printer – revolting! Give me some money – on the vending machine – terrible.
• Very kind drivers who let in everybody . Drivers who do not know how to use the indicators. Simply bad drivers.
• People who do not turn their phones off in the movies - and then answer them with "I can't talk" line
• Friends who think that they are super-star photographers. Do not stand there, your shadow's in my picture. Get out of there, you ruin my shot. Just one more, and one more, and one more. Ruins any walk.
• When they say Can I buy you lunch sometimes? I just hate it.

To be continued.

Things I enjoy most:

• dipping a hand into a bag of lentils (hello, Amelie!)
• opening champagne bottles. Drinking champagne and watching the bubbles float
• taking off the rollerblades/skies/5 inch stilettos and walking on the cold tile floor
• tearing the cellophane wrap off new CDs
• landing - on the plane
• opening tight jars (chpok!)
• taking a car through a car wash
• kissing little children
• wearing something new for the first time
• POPPING THAT BUBBLE WRAP
• waiting for a great song to download off the internet
• jumping into a freshly made bed
• reading local papers in tiny townships
• jumping into the snow after a sauna session
• eating the fresh, young snow
• catching those discreet flattery looks
• setting things on fire
• taking vodka out of a freezer

and all times favourite:

• a shot of cognac before and a cigar after.