Finally my greatest creation is completed! What I mean is that I managed to get my habitat project done and just in time for the deadline.

               For this project we had to design a house for a specific place. It was situated in Kenmore on Loch Tay. We were also given three random clients with demands, likes and dislikes. My clients are Tina Turner, Pablo Picasso and a scientist named Brian. Quite an interesting trio they are.  Maybe my biggest influence was one of Pablo’s likes, namely cubes.

               At first my design was entirely cubical but over time I added other bits that broke up the shape a bit. However it still carries that cubical character that I wanted it to have.

I decided that the relationship of my clients would be as follows: Tina and Pablo are just old friends and Brian is Pablo’s nephew. That is why I wanted each of the individuals to have equal living space. Each one gets a bathroom, toilet with bathroom and a wardrobe. In the house there is also a studio for Pablo and a library on the second floor.

Christmas !!!

Christmas is coming. It is perhaps the happiest holiday of the year. Combined with break from school/university/work one couldn’t ask for more. But for the kids the real cherry on the top of the cake is the presents. Big ones, small ones, shiny ones, preciooouus ones. Who doesn’t like receiving presents? Well, maybe when we get older we start caring a little less about them but I will never forget how anxious to see my presents I was, when I was smaller.

 The truth is that things were different back then. We pretty much had small presents only for our birthdays and for Christmas. Now part of the joy is gone, because people get whatever they want whenever they want. Even the Christmas celebrations start earlier and last longer now. But I guess that the reason behind this is that people want everyday to be Christmas.

There is something magic about that holiday - the snow, the cold, gathering with family and relatives in our cozy homes.I just wish everybody was happy for Christmas.

"Global warming" ?

Global warming. Is it real? Maybe. Is it caused by human activity- I don’t think so.

The theory about global warming is becoming so popular that it is literally everywhere- newspaper and internet articles, magazines, tv programs, movies etc. It’s hard not to think about it when you hear of it all the time. But is this whole story just a big hoax?

We have to ask ourselves who would gain from the global warming. I would love to know the answer to this question. Maybe it is the scientists who are at the bottom of this. After all they get huge financial support for the research in that area. Also they are the ones sitting behind the theory.  Or maybe it’s the governments collecting millions in taxes and donations for fighting this “problem”. Maybe it is a way to hold up the developing countries. Maybe it is all of these things.

Al Gore used global warming to gain popularity- he was running for president after all. However his documentary “Inconvenient Truth” has some interesting facts that I’ve met in other places. One of them is that in the history of the earth there have been warm periods with high levels of CO2 emissions long before humans came to be. So how come this time we are suddenly the ones causing it? Or how can we stop global warming if it is something periodical on earth and we are not causing it. Going against nature is like peeing in the wind – things are going to get dirty.