Swiss knives....again?

Maybe some of you might think I went nuts about this tool.
But this is funny. I found it in the GHI from this week in an advertisement from Artlebedev.
This is a good idea for a Swiss gift in Switzerland or for that person who is a once in a life time or an everyday Swiss chef.

This is what I am talking about. Not a Rambo Swiss Army knife, but a Jimmy Olivier version!
Which seen closer is the following:






Good visual trick, isn't it?

Screen capture of the week!
This is what the weather was supposed to be now.
I was amazed, so warm in the middle to the end of October.
We were in Budapest this weekend and it was colder there than here.
Cool, I wish it continued like this for the entire winter. Not something I will get...Maybe in 2100..

Hungarian, a fashion language?

Nowadays or I have been watching too many films or I pay too much attention to them or some languages have become fashionable.

Fashion is really amazing or maybe the government of these countries pay film directors for their languages to be inside the movies and series?

On a period of 2 weeks we watched some films with Hungarian speech in it! Short but it is there, why not Slovakian, or Croatian or Fin?MAybe Hungarian is just more intriguing.

The first film I basically ever heard about Hungary was the "The whole nine yards" about the a dentist's neighbor and the Hungarian mafia, which was a continuation. It is pretty funny and promising nice laughs till the end.

The second of nowadays was the short lived British series "How not to live your life". In one of the episodes, a girl is waiting tables and Don decides to defend her from a complainer client who shouts with the girl because she does not speak English though she works in an English pub in England. Hilarious adventures when Eddie, the deceased grandmother's carer, admits he can speak Hungarian which he learned meanwhile taking care of an old Hungarian lady.

The third, last week, was the series created to take over Lost after it will be over next year: "Flashforward". At the begining of the episode "Black Swan", meanwhile a man's flashforward in which a bus gets into the water and people draw in it, a guy is very calm and saves the life of a girl who shouts in Hungarian "nem tudok uszni nem tudok uszni!" (I can't swim!).



The last was yesterday night when we watched the awful (I didn't really enjoy) "Drag me to hell". A frightening old lady put a jinx in the bank girl because she didn't want to give her a loan to avoid her house to be taken from her. We think the old lady was Hungarian gipsy, according to her house and according to the saying of the curse: "az ördög bújjon beléd" and some other things we couldn't understand. It was very funny. We just don't understand why the néni's (aged lady) family name was Ganush instead of being Lakatos, now that would have been more real. Also funny was that the grand-daughter of Ganush néni had a Russian accent in English!

Take care next time you deny something to a lovely glass-eyed gipsy-Hungarian lady.

still about the smoke in the air...

This weekend in Fribourg.

Saturday we went to the nice and warm city of Fribourg in the canton of Fribourg! I only knew it was founded in the 14th century and it has a famous university. IT is a beautiful middle age town, built close to a 'whole' and valey. It has a large sized cathedral (St. Nicolas, I am not sure it is catholic, but I have to search for that) and a great market on Saturday mornings besides the mairie and Hotel de ville! It has a wood bridge and you can catch a funicular. Also the bernese alps are visible. But this wasn't our case. I was frozen as usually.

St. Nicolas Cathedral's entrance


St. Nicolas view from the other side

As it was midday we went chasing besides the snow (it was 3 degrees) a restaurant! We were pretty hungry and frozen.

Arriving to the MANOR where we didn't find a MANORA, we could cross through the under passage a COOP city with a COOP restaurant. They really can make great food. As Suisse is a democratic country, the smoke side of the restaurant is the same size than the non-smoking. But I was astonished to see was that both of them had the same amount of families! Little babies, kids playing running up and down. Come on! The smoke is no good for nobody but even kids, their own kids in the game???!!!!a bit too much for me. When I commented this with the others, a family besides us also started talking within themselves about the same. that it is really a pity. At least I would take care of my kid, though he/she has a bigger risk of becoming a smoker than the kid of a family where parents don't smoke.

Well, I didnt come here to talk about this. So enjoy more pics....
Rue des épouses!Cosy little street!(I dont know its meaning though....)

The magical view of Fribourg from the cathedral tower

See you around searching for snow...by the way we found a piece of it in the Jura mountain!

Honestly? I am pro....

L'interdiction de fumer dans les lieux publics entre en vigueur le 31 octobre 2009

It means that the prohibition to smoke in public places will be valid from October 31st of the current year!

I think I mentioned this before here, but lots of people are realllllly against it. They say this law that was approved by 80% of voters on September 27th comes from a dictature and that unemployment will increase since bars and restaurants will close since people can't smoke in it.

And what about people like me and my friends who don't smoke? We have to stand the smoke in our faces in bus stations, restaurants and bars all the time. No, here they don't ask it and according to what I see on the streets, I believe that 70% of the people living in Geneva smokes!

SO, commerce involved with this will have to build structures that help removing effectively the smoke from the restaurants and public places or maybe a smoking room?

Well, I am sorry, I prefer to be healthy. Why is it sometimes so difficult to achieve!?

a new spicy cheese...

Can you see anything special about this cheese box?

You can't imagine how amazed I was when I saw the ad! I didn't think I could find this here since they are so strict most of the times!

After pepper and other spices or even jam, from now on you can find here hemp cheese! Invented by two Swisses who claim their cheese has a very special taste and a must to be discovered which took 5 years to develop.

The recipe? No, that will be kept in secret. What they remark is that the hemp in the form of essential oil is just used to give an aroma to the cheese, but the psychotropic substance, the one responsible for making you "high", is not present there. Hence, the THC or tetrahydrocannabinol won't be active.

Or anything different here?maybe a particular plant shape?

Produced in the canton of Vaud, besides the canton of Geneve, the product can already be found in some small shops. Also, they already got the rights of selling it to Russia and some other European countries, except the neighbor country France. They say that if the plant is not allowed so won't be its derivatives.

This is the ad:

I just love spiced cheese or almost any type!




Source: http://www.prince-canna.ch/2001.html

1,2,3,4, spoons of sugar sugar sugar

Nowadays publicity shocks! This is a soda advertisement i US from last month. It advises people to not drink it at list not drink everyday soft drinks like n thesoda ans their friends. But pay attention to it, what is being poured instead of soda?

If you remember back on the old days and we went to the supermarket with our parents what size of soda could we buy? I remember that 1 L was the largest you could get. In the US, it used to come in 200 mL bottles. Today, 350 mL cans are considered small and 600 mL bottles are typical. A single super-sized soda can pack as many calories as three to four regular cans of soda.

Many people may stir a teaspoon or two of sugar into their coffee, but few realize that a 600 mL bottle of soda can contain 16 ½ teaspoons of sugar. Drinking beverages loaded with sugars increases the risk of obesity and associated problems, particularly diabetes but also heart disease, stroke, arthritis and cancer.

I won't deny, I really enjoy drinking a almost cold Coke after walking a lot in the warm weather, nothing a cold juice of melon with mint wouldn't satisfy. To help, we can read the nutritional information printed in some of the meals before we buy them. Some people really do it, one might say it became fashion. For example most Brazilians actually spend some time reading it...Amazing no?

creative ideas for gifting?

Everybody has its own idea that why we have pets. Some say to release stress, some say to be loved by somebody at all, some say it is cheaper than have kids, some say to keep healthy as you have to walk and play with the dog, and so on...

Sunday, we were enjoying the last warm sun shine of the year by walking on the Parc Grange on the Eaux-vive part of the lake when I saw something amazing. There was this woman, beautiful, long hair arranged in a pony tail, Nike hat, Adidas trousers, and a NorthFace coat. In her hand she had an interesting long stick she was using to play with her small-"barkative" terrier dog.

Then I realized she is not throwing that stick, buuuuuut she uses the stick to pick up the tennis ball and throw it. Now why a stick? Isnt't it a bit without love? If you don't want to get wet, so don't go into the rain. I thought who has dogs doesn't mind those bits of "disgusting" things all dogs come with.

Browsing on the internet I found on a site what that artifact is: a shooter dog toy. And as mentioned there:
"If your dog likes to chase the ball and you've got tired arms from throwing it.... this is the answer. Place the ball in the holder and pull behind your shoulder and then release forwards. You'll find you don't have to use much force and you'll enjoying throwing the ball as much as your dog will catching it !
.... And, you don't have to bend down to pick up the ball."

I think they forgot to mention the fact that you won't need to get your hands in the saliva-soaked ball....!!!

I thought making exercises was one of the main ideas of having a pet like that...looks like (thanks God) people do have different ideas....

Fight airplanes in the sky genevois.

I know it is just a copy of the newspaper Tribune de Geneve, but I have to admit I was afraid when I saw them flying over my head in the city center.

I was there commuting from one place to the other walking fast when I listened to the sound of some powerful planes and when I look up there they were: 6 mirages....wow

When I was a kid I used to enjoy them, maybe my father's influence?...I recognized the Mirage and immediately thought: "don't say something happened right here in Geneva with all these foreigners and their organizations".

Then I unraveled it all: these old airplanes from the Swiss Army came for the 4th edition of the Geneva Classics and had to land somewhere. The machines were altogether a F/A 18, a Tiger, a Mirage (at least I was right about one of them), a Vampire Trainer and a Vernom. The last airplane was a Hunter "driven" by the astronaut Claude Nicollier.

In the video, the astronaut mentions the pilots and the passengers, I wish I were one of them...jut Cool....